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Patrick Andrews

@patrickandrews.bsky.social
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Online teacher of English. Lover of literature and languages. Coventry City fan #PUSB. Tends to the left politically but not dogmatic.

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James Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 2h
Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 44m
No civilised country has the death penalty.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 6h
Of *course* the ‘AI boom’ will make us poorer. It’s a ‘boom’ created by tech bros for tech bros, and they’re pretty much the worst human beings on the planet. How could it possibly do anything else?
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 15h
This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23h
A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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markofbattersea @markofbattersea.bsky.social · 15h
#Newsnight Hungary just voted out Viktor Orbán. As you watch Andrew Neil, just remember that the BBC used that man as some kind of 'balanced' journalist for over 20 years. The man is about as balanced as a banana on a mango.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is really good work. The level of detail they’ve managed to uncover about who invested and how they benefited is extraordinary
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Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga
An uncomfortable history, but part of Britain's story. David Olusoga reveals the fullest picture yet of the British traders who trafficked millions of Africans into slavery.
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Patrick Andrews @patrickandrews.bsky.social · 20h
USA is a barbaric country.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 20h
I've been blocked from attending Conservative Party conference. Just a few weeks after Badenoch blasted Reform for doing the same thing... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Evening, #Ofcom. A British politician is advertising, in advance, that his "full verdict" on the Prime Minister's speech today will be given in his own programme, which carries his name, on GB News tonight. Aren't News channels supposed to show due impartiality? 🤮 x.com/Nigel_Farage...
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Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) on X
I will give my full verdict on Andy Burnham’s speech LIVE on GB News at 7PM tonight.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 29/09/2026
Morocco appoints its first woman prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
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Morocco appoints its first woman prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
Nearly a week after her party, the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), won the parliamentary elections, the mayor of Marrakech was named Morocco's prime minister on September 29.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There was a chance here to look more grown up and it is entirely unsurprising that Badenoch did not take it.
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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And in his previous UKIP version of Farage Party, they were staunch defenders of the £. But now they promote crypto instead.
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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tennessee planing to execute a woman who killed someone when she was 18 and she’s been on death row for 30 years? Very fucking normal country
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.
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Patrick Andrews @patrickandrews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Think a double lock of the pension - inflation or average wage increase-would be reasonable but if inflation was low, the increase might be very small in terms of extra money
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham is coming for your pension! By... er... increasing it by slightly less. Whereas Reform will scrap it completely.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sadly there was a climate & nature shaped hole at the heart of Burnham’s speech. Nothing on the benefits of nature restoration & same old words on a “pragmatic” approach to N Sea drilling. There’s nothing pragmatic about pouring fuel on a scorching earth - he should rule out Rosebank & Jackdaw now
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"I left Britain because of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods" said nobody genuinely ever. The Telegraph scours the globe for anyone of notable net worth who recently moved and asking them for a list of pet peeves out of which they pick the one that serves the Telegraph "capital flight" narrative best.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“What’s causing sky high diesel prices?” “The war with Iran” “Who did that?” <<silence>> Meanwhile, the far right opposition treks to Washington for photo ops with the guy who did it
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are really good reasons *not* to do it, but both this Labour government and the last are hamstrung by the inability to just clearly state 'Donald Trump is bad and has bad consequences'.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The British public has had enough of the Brexit lies www.politico.eu/article/the-...
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Brits want to get closer to the EU — and even Farage’s voters agree
As Labour grandees discuss reversing Brexit, Public First results show 70% of voters would welcome tighter ties with the European Union.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Labour to repeal Thatcher's "ideological ban" of public ownership on water companies. This is a BIG announcement.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Water is a symbol of what has gone wrong with Britain" - Burnham
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Shar A @sharal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TAX THE FUCKING RICH
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "Homes, water, energy, transport, care, broken up and sold off." "The British right talk about taking back control. Never let them forget they are the ones. That gave it away in the first place."
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s the opposite of ‘grown up politics’.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My opinion: the proscription of Palestine Action was done almost entirely for political reasons, to sound tough on the issue, without really thinking the consequences through. Another example of Labour thinking like an opposition, not like a government.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
potentially landslide-winning compromise position: reverse Brexit, jail Steve Bray
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everyone knows it wasn’t sensible. This is about managing internal Labour politics.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why might that be, Telegraph?
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Someone from Reform & their shrill harridan who live as tax free exiles in Dubai have been entertained by the wife of a former minister of state of a country hostile to the UK and he failed to declare it to Parliament he's elected to sit in? You couldn’t make this up" via We loathe Reform UK Ltd
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
meanwhile, over on X, Andrew Neil's cognitive decline continues apace..
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Liam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
International students have little impact of GDP? Interesting take thepienews.com/internationa...
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Every 10 international students generate £1m for UK economy
International students represent a major economic benefit to the UK, generating billions during their time in the country, a new report has found.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 28/09/2026
So why does "how will we pay for it?" never get raised as an objection against immigration policy?
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The golden age of Soviet air travel... An Aeroflot-branded folding knife, fork, and bottle opener 🗃️
colour photo of a folding knife, fork and bottle opener with "Aeroflot" written in Cyrillic on the handle
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also under current proposals they won't be allowed to be social care workers after 2028. Ministers still don't seem to understand their own plan.
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Larry Houston @larrytoons54.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Norway just made gasoline cars almost disappear from its roads and most people have no idea how fast it happened 🚗⚡ Between January and August 2026 electric vehicles made up 97.8 percent of all new cars sold. 📚 Sources: OFV Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council, Reuters, CleanTechnica
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🦋❄️🍁Baron🍁❄️🦋 @baron333.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And Norway has more oil than Venezuela
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Still think this is a good idea, tbh - I’m still shocked by the number of empty flats in the new builds around Vauxhall that were purchased as investments. Those flats would be perfect for young people starting out - and would do far more for the country than a nice big return on investment.
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Nick @nick07.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 28. Ruby Ruby My Dear: Thelonious Monk
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Thelonious Monk Quartet - Ruby, My Dear
Thelonious Monk Quartet featuring John Coltrane - Ruby, My Dear (1957) Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor sax), Thelonious Monk (piano), Wilbur Ware (bass), Shadow Wilson (drums) from the album 'THELONIOUS MONK WITH JOHN COLTRANE' (Jazzland Records)
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Shari2112 @shari2112.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Grandma Orc @esoorc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OMG, now its rabies?? www.vet.cornell.edu/about-us/new...
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Two confirmed cases of rabies in a New York beef herd
In September 2026, over the course of three weeks, three adult Angus beef cattle in a herd of 114 animals developed severe acute neurologic signs and died. Clinical signs included excessive salivation...
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