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Paul Sanderson

@paulproject111.bsky.social
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In my life…politics, football (LFC) and whatever interests me. FRSA. Personal views.

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The Anfield Wrap @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'The reason Jürgen Klopp builds a team that takes 110 from 114 and wins a European Cup and World Club Cup during that time span...is because they were trying to beat a team that had cheated to the tune of £900m...' ✍️ @knoxharrington.bsky.social column… 👉 Read here: mailchi.mp/theanfieldwr...
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don't believe the Europeans when they say the UK is no longer interesting, a priority etc etc Every senior EU official I've met today in Brussels has spent 20 mins talking about @andyburnham.bsky.social speech. The EU is paying attention and interested - even if it pretends otherwise
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The most hard-hitting language, which surely means Manchester City must face the hardest-hitting sanctions Expulsion, and the independent football regulator looking at a forced sale Given the stridency, can normal football business even go on? www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Man City’s staggering rule-breaking has left the Premier League with only one option
Found guilty on all but one of more than 100 charges, the club’s behaviour casts doubt over an entire era of football. How, Miguel Delaney asks, can they be allowed to remain in the top flight?
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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Never thought I’d hear the Old Roan get a shout out from a British Prime Minister. He could have mentioned Kenny K’s Butchers on the parade though.
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Neil Atkinson @knoxharrington.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Manchester City supporters (and the people of Manchester) should be furious. Because the first people who have had the piss taken out of them is them. Even now the City statement takes the piss. You are meant to back this pile of bullshit, it says. You are meant to back it unquestionably.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...
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Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment
It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
There can only be one option on the table. Full EU membership. 💷 £92bn for our economy. 📈 £43bn extra exports each and every year. ⬆️ Growth in every postcode, region, and nation of the UK. 🇬🇧 628/632 constituencies in favour. 🗳️ Stops Farage getting to No10. It really is a no brainer.
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Burnham vows to seek new ‘long-term’ relationship with EU in emotional Labour conference speech
PM also confirms plan to end pensions triple lock to pay for national care service and pledges to put electoral reform i
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
City have until 2 October to appeal One conclusion from the decision reads: "that certain of those factual witnesses had given evidence at the hearing that they knew to be untrue and so had been dishonest."
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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I remember the deep disappointment of losing titles to Manchester City by slim margins. We’ll always have that disappointment as #LFC fans but added to it is knowing we never got to celebrate those either.
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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Manchester City guilty of all charges, the Premier League confirm. www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...
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Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Burnham speech: firstly, it was a vision. We've not had a national vision for two decades at least. If he can persuade the country on fixing the EU relationship, political reform, establishing a new care system and his theory of growth holds then he will be a transformational Prime Minister.
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On the speech itself, the first half was a long way off hard truths. Very comfort zone. Even the anthem. But then the second half was emotionally charged for obvious reasons and an argument: on the union, the triple lock, PR and the EU. None of these are politically easy. This had much more punch.
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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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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham is like Tony Blair at his best here. Very impressed so far.
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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Trish Keenan would have been 58 today. Everyone go listen to some Broadcast.
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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the best shows on TV. Excited to see the new series.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Liverpool
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dad tosses his giggling son onto the bed, and the family German Shepherd refuses to be left out of the fun.
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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just went to the Co-op to get some fruit. It’s late September and all the apples were from South Africa and New Zealand.
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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Agile Octopus electricity tariff generally brings savings by using our batteries to buy when it’s cheaper to use when expensive. But tomorrow is properly expensive at tea time. Batteries will be full before then thankfully.
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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wedding Chorus from In Windsor Forest by Ralph Vaughan Williams has become one of my favourite pieces of his and I'd never heard it until a few months ago. Massively under-rated or was I just not aware of it?
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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wirtz is clearly a good player but it isn’t working for him at the moment. He doesn’t read his team mates and they don’t read him, and positionally he always seems in the wrong place. He needs time on the training ground working with the coaches and team mates to make it work.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Virtually always the reply is “I would prefer EU membership but think more would be happy with SM/CU” I think we’ve got into a bad habit of trying to second guess what other people would be happy with and then choosing that, rather than simply stating what we think is the best outcome.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026
Leave and Remain voters alike realise that Brexit has been a failure. It's time to talk about EU membership.
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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Enough is enough. It is time for change” Manchester United’s Muslim Supporters’ Club calls out Jim Ratcliffe. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Manchester United Muslim fans group calls on co-owner Jim Ratcliffe to quit
Supporters’ club says billionaire should stand down after ‘completely unacceptable’ comments on the UK and empire
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.
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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good win #LFC
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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Was at Manchester PsychFest yesterday. Enjoyed Gwenno, found Angine de Poitrine got on my nerves, adored Stereolab and enjoyed discovering new music to me from The Dharma Chain
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We will come to regret being weak against these people for a very long time
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Louise Begley @louisebegley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Isak ⚽️⚽️ Gakpo 🅰️🅰️ Clean sheet 🙌 Araujo solid 👊 Munoz rapid⚡️ Barcola debut 🪄 Lovely first win for Andoni’s Reds!👏👏👏👏
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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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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Manchester City, still awaiting a verdict on charges they broke Premier League rules for a decade, have equalled the British transfer record by signing Enzo Fernandez for 125m pounds. They've now spent more than 300m pounds on three new midfielders this window. Man City deny wrongdoing.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 01/09/2026
Summer 2026 is provisionally the UK’s warmest summer on record with the season’s mean temperature made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change. Here, we delve into the numbers 🧵
Mean temperature for 2026 in the UK. The map shows widely above average temperature, particularly in the south. Rainfall amounts in summer 2026 in the UK compared to average. The maps shows widely dry conditions, though the west of Scotland is slightly wetter than averageSunshine duration in summer 2026 compared to average. The map shows widely sunny conditions in the season, with the south of the country particularly sunny.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/08/2026
Cockroaches Feeling Very Optimistic About Future Of Planet theonion.com/cockroaches-feeling-ve…
Cockroaches Feeling Very Optimistic About Future Of Planet
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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Nyoni made a difference when he came on and should start at DM. Araujo is a good passer and Muñoz is a hero #LFC
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is so terrifying. Will this finally motivate us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is very good, but also terrifying. We need to act now. youtu.be/4Auf0KdZ6S0?...
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Earth is Warming Everywhere Except Here
YouTube video by New Scientist
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm sure this will be on the front of the Daily Mail
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...
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The 30,000-mile fish finger
There’s a good chance the cod on your child’s plate has been around the world and back. Not that you’d learn any of that from the label...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/
A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.
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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Should we buy good squad players rather than Barcola? I think so increasingly #LFC
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Writing a kids song about collective action and not bowing to defeat then releasing it during peak Thatcherism, "We All Stand Together" is a song of quiet revolution.
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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Should we bother with this season as many seem to think Arsenal have won it already? I tend to think it is still all to play for #LFC
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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Just checked my #LFC season ticket waiting list position and gone up 212 places. If same number each year might get one at some point when I’m in my 80s in 30-odd years. Been on it well over 20 years already. We are the forgotten supporters who are always lowest priority for club and fans alike.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The momentum of this issue is in the wrong direction. The line should be: We're roasting, we're exposed to wildfires, we're experiencing drought, and these nutters aren't prepared to keep British people safe.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/08/2026
Melania Trump Discovered To Be Russian Listening Device
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Melania Trump Discovered To Be Russian Listening Device
WASHINGTON—In what is being described as a major breach of White House security protocol, the National Security Agency reportedly uncovered evidence Friday that first lady Melania Trump was a Russian ...
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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Paul Sanderson @paulproject111.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
True patriots turn up to the count to show deference to the democratic mandate the voters have given them.
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