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Ex-journalist, Mancunian, fan of life on two wheels

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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater... Cheshire Police are appealing for help in finding missing 14-year-old Amelia Mason from Wimslow. Amelia was last seen on Thursday night, September 10
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Urgent police appeal to find missing girl with links to Manchester
Amelia was last seen on Thursday night, September 10
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They spontaneously turned up all dressed in black, wearing masks at the same time.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Steve the Muppet Wrangler @beardog63.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Any dog can be a guide dog if you don't care where you're going.
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Stonehenge under snow, 1947 by Bill Brandt. This is easily the best photo of Stonehenge that I have ever seen.
Black and white photo of Stonehenge surrounded by snow
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
First the power cut, now this. Can't catch a break
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
👏 Well played by the Herald subs
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
One of the defining features of the populist right is self-pity and victimhood. Always has been.
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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Parisian Man Smoking - 1906 botfrens.com/collections/173/conten…
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Thoughts and Prayers with the journos on liveblog duty at the GMCA Mayoral count, which they have dutifully filled for hours with precisely nothing happening.
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCZc... Raising one for Glen this evening
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Glen Hansard - The Parting Glass - 3/16/2012 - Stage On Sixth
YouTube video by Paste Magazine
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
If you have a fourth "heatwave" and it's not August yet, isn't that just Summer?
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Bez Dancing Energetically
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/07/2026
Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse
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Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse
Exclusive: Hampshire police data reveals 22 of 37 detained had been accused or convicted of intimate partner violence Most people arrested during violent protests after the sentencing of Henry Nowak’s murderer had previously been reported to the police for domestic abuse, the Guardian can disclose. Data released by Hampshire police under freedom of information laws shows that 22 of 37 people (59%) detained in Southampton after Vickrum Digwa was jailed for life have also been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence. Continue reading...
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It didn't "go rogue". It did what it was instructed to do. In a sophisticated way but nonetheless we have to stop assigning human agency to AI systems. Everything that happened here was as a result of human designed and instructed systems.
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Reports from Calais suggest numbers in informal camps are still high, but evictions by the CRS have increased. So, one potential reason for this *could* be that people are just so tired and stressed by the constant moving and dispossession that they cannot try to cross.
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
just thinking about the person who is live-following the reshuffle but also needs this
who is ed miliband on bbc
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Tate brothers arrested in US after more charges laid against them in UK
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Tate brothers arrested in US after more charges laid against them in UK
The new charges announced on Saturday include rape and sex trafficking.
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Well it appears to have gone rather quiet on here all of a sudden
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Grande Bretagne retains the knitting ashes
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A level-headed one at that
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
36. First man to do it. Quite incredible. Remained a legend of the game, from Barbados to Notts
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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Wider implications - previously, if a reader could get the context of headline/pics from reading the whole article, then essentially publishers were fine. Judges here seem to question that - we skim headlines and pics without getting to the fifth paragraph. An interesting development in media law.
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 14/07/2026
Phil lost the game in the headline 2-0 and was fired the next week
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/07/2026
Woman charged with aggravated arson over moorland fire in Greater Manchester
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Woman charged with aggravated arson over moorland fire in Greater Manchester
Shania Care-Slede, 20, arrested over incident at Dovestone reservoir on Saturday in which fireworks were launched A woman has been charged with arson in connection with a major moorland wildfire, as large parts of Manchester were covered with smoke. Shania Care-Slede, 20, from Hyde, was arrested on Monday by Greater Manchester police in Oldham. She has been charged with aggravated arson, being reckless as to whether life was endangered, and dangerous driving. Firefighters have declared a major incident near Dovestone reservoir, Greenfield, where fireworks were launched before a large moorland fire broke out on Saturday evening. Continue reading...
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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ouch...
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I'm sure sunburn stings more...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Trump's DOJ is threatening to arrest and imprison Oregon's Secretary of State on the basis of false claims about supposed widespread voting by non-citizens.
Secretary of State Tobias Read & X.com
@ORSecretaryRead
Yesterday, I received a letter from the U.S.
Department of Justice stating that the federal government was ready to prosecute and imprison me and other elections officials and renewing their attempts to unlawfully meddle in Oregon elections. Here's my response:
The U.S. DOJ is knocking on our door again with more threats and no evidence to back up their fever dreams about non-existent voter fraud.
Oregon elections are secure, accurate, and fair.
These are facts backed up by decades of work by local elections officials who follow the law.
I'm not intimidated by political threats or manufactured controversy. My priority is making sure Oregonians can continue to hold government accountable, free from any interference by politicians in Washington D.C.
We've beaten back every illegal executive order and lawsuit so far. We're ready to do it again, as many times as it takes.
If the President actually wanted to strengthen our elections, there are better places to start: adequately funding election administration, restoring the federal election cybersecurity program he cut, and expanding access to vote-by-mail, paper ballot elections - just to name a few.
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I think if I was tasked with writing a definition of incitement, and let's all be thankful I've not been, this would be very useful.
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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
fascinatingly* the French news is translating "Count Binface" as « le Compte Tête-de-Poubelle » rather than « Visage-de-Poubelle) which is, in fairness, more accurate (his entire head is a bin, not just his face) typical British media not asking the important underlying questions * ta gueule
Screenshot from Le Parisien. A photo of Count Binface, a man in a sort of black Darth Vader suit but with a silvery grey cape and a bin on his head with eye slit and mouthhole. 

Headline:

Législative partielle au Royaume-Uni : qui est le « Comte Tête-de-poubelle », principal adversaire de Nigel Farage ?

Subheader: Ce candidat fantaisiste devrait être l’un des seuls à disputer le siège de Clacton-on-Sea au leader de Reform UK, pris dans un scandale. Les autres partis boycottent le scrutin.
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My mum's riding 300 miles in July! Tour de Essex *they're calling it! She's raising money for @cancerresearchuk.org If you have a few quid she'd appreciate it loads *Me anyway
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I don't think I'd be as annoyed about the hydration breaks if they could only have orange quarters and they had to be delivered by Mike Bubbins in full Mammoth get up
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Incredible - @garyparkinson.bsky.social you'll appreciate this
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
That is some horseshit. Could easily have broken an ankle, it was a red any day of the week
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I think @cjayanetti.bsky.social's point on this is most relevant. It is bloody hard to get this kind of story over the line.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This Sunday times story about Farage is properly extraordinary Confirms so much of what I - and many others - have been hearing for a long time and begs *massive* questions about Farage’s finances, rule breeches and more www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
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Deke Fanboy (welcome back lad!) @sjbrewer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
As Bellingham was leaving the stadium, he stopped when a reporter mentioned Venezuela and shared a message: “A lot of love and support to everyone in Venezuela.”
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
For a long time the complaint from people like Goodwin was, 'Migrants and refugees need to integrate properly into British life'. We're now well past that and into the open racism stage.
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Well. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...
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Raise the Colours Oxfordshire leader to stand trial over 'indecent child images'
A leading figure in the Oxfordshire's Raise the Colours movement is due to stand trial accused of making indecent child images.
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The opposite works better - at least if you're Dutch, and called Tim Krul. Which I admit is a small pool.
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
#GERPAR
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Jonah Hill: So Excited!
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Well this is stressful now. Come on Paraguay!
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Interesting (to me at least) aside that I haven't seen picked up elsewhere: #Burnham chose to make his 'first leadership speech' in the exact same room that #Polanski, Hannah Spencer and the #GreenParty used to launch their Workers' Charter in May - the People's History Museum Pump House.
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
There's something life-affirming about hearing a 'Hydration Break' in a New York summer downpour being roundly booed. Lovely stuff.
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
En fait maintenant, il s'appelle Colín le chenille
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ᴄᴀʟᴜᴍ ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴛ @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
But Captain, it'snbkbjyujesusitshotfucjk
Tintin and the Captain are too hot
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This simply strengthens my case that Philly is the US *equivalent of Manchester. That is a proper downpour. *Positive, I love 'em both. V much enjoy the people of Philadelphia, no nonsense, made me feel at home there on several visits.
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patricvk @patricvk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Not sad, personally, but very very frustrated
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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
BBC Reporters commenting how the helicopter coverage of Burnham arriving in London makes it like a Prime Minister going to the Palace, almost as if they don't understand who put the helicopter there in the first place
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Surely the worst crime committed by the leader of a UK political party. Horrendous.
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