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Pete Holdaway

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A fugitive from the other place, just getting going on here.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Happy Birthday David Attenborough! From the earliest days of television, to controller of BBC2, to bringing the wonders, beauty and fragility of the natural world to our eyes & attention - you’re a legend! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Hilarious. Some guy claiming because his family history extends back to the Crusades, he should be involved in governing the rest of us. And claims that we’ll forget history if we oust him. ALL our family histories go back that far… www.channel4.com/news/the-end...
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The end of history? Hereditary peers set to be removed from House of Lords
From the Duke of Wellington to the Earl of Caithness, they’ve been sitting on the famous red benches of the House of Lords for centuries.
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Meanwhile, on the moon...
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 11/03/2026
I still think about this a lot.
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Pete Holdaway @peteholdaway.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Well worth reading.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
There's lots you can and should criticise the BBC for. But it's our BBC - and it's important. Great to speak to CNN - Donald Trump shouldn't have his hands anywhere near our public services.
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU
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JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD
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Pete Holdaway @peteholdaway.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Supremely well put by a former Tory minister, Chair of the party, EU Commissioner and last Governor of Hong Kong, among others. This should be required listening.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Suggest you jump in on this poll. —> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...? And share…
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?” “Because that’s what they are” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference. #Newsnight
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Pete Holdaway @peteholdaway.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Shocking.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
In case you missed it .... Back in 2018, Tony Blair called for a second Brexit ref once we knew the deal. His arguments in favour of the public being asked again are as relevant today as they were back then. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Tony Blair: Brexit: What We Now Know
Tony Blair: Brexit: What We Now Know
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
So, the #BBC protected: - Jimmy Saville - Gary Glitter - Rolf Harries - Nigel Farage - Huw Edwards - etc But get rid of Gary Lineker !?!?!
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Dorothee V. Plessis @dorotheevplessis.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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Sarah Playforth @owlysarah.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Whether or not you voted Labour, this column from Byline Times is relevant.
Text of column asking for royal funds to be targeted
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Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social raises an important question about the corruption of the justice system. Why was not one farmer arrested for blocking roads & bringing the whole country to a standstill? Climate protesters are in prison, farmers aren’t, why? What happened to equality under the law?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The World Cup in 2026 should definitely be taken away from the US. ⚽️🏆 America is clearly not safe to travel to. 🇺🇸 ❌ Note that it was a joint US-Canada-Mexico bid that won… so Canada and Mexico have serious leverage here. 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 v 🇺🇸 Failing that - mass boycott will cost the US more than it earns.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Alan Sugar, "Brexit was a total absolute disaster, and anybody who says it's not is deluded" Amol Rajan, "What do you think it would take to get this country growing again?" Alan Sugar, "Go back into the European Union"
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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Southgate has expressed his concern that “callous, manipulative and toxic influencers” are taking the place of traditional father figures in society.' How cheering it is in these dark times to see a good man trying to do good www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Gareth Southgate rails against ‘callous toxic influencers’ in Dimbleby Lecture
Sir Gareth Southgate has expressed concern that ‘callous, manipulative and toxic influencers’ are taking the place of traditional father figures and contributing to mental health issues among young me...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Congratulations to the senior Tories who, having been told this for a mere 60 years, and staunchly denied it throughout, have finally twigged that it might not be a brilliant idea to have a nuclear deterrent which can be switched off by another state. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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US support to maintain UK’s nuclear arsenal is in doubt, experts say
Malcolm Rifkind joins diplomats and analysts urging focus on European cooperation to replace Trident
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Pete Holdaway @peteholdaway.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
QED
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Pete Holdaway @peteholdaway.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
"With my piece of paper I will stop WW2". "With my piece of paper I get a state visit". I bet Charles is embarrassed now.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Lord Sugar, "The biggest disaster in my lifetime was us leaving the European Union" "If I was Prime Minister, I would be coming along on my bended knees asking to be let back in" "How do we get out of it? Get back in the EU"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In my column today I argue that, unbelievably, Labour are worse on environmental issues than the Conservatives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot
Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 27/01/2025
In case you missed it: Harriet Harman, former BBC Director-General Lord Birt, and Lord Scriven have introduced an amendment to reform Parliament so that bishops can no longer claim 26 automatic reserved seats in the House of Lords. Long overdue reform! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Scrap automatic right of bishops to sit in Lords, says Harriet Harman
Former Labour MP puts forward amendment to reform bill aiming to end privilege for 26 C of E bishops
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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This week's Internet winner goes to...
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Ok, see you later then!
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 21/01/2025
BREAKING: Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords. humanists.uk/2025/01/21/h...
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Harriet Harman introduces amendment to remove bishops from the Lords
Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords. The amendme...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
In early 2020, a pandemic was spreading. The UK’s PM went on a 10 day half-term holiday during which he was uncontactable and the government went into panic mode, focusing, as Hancock related to the COVID enquiry, on buying enough body bags. 1/8
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 03/01/2025
'The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.' Great words on life and death by Cicero, Roman philosopher, born #onthisday 2131 years ago.
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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke
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Pete Holdaway @peteholdaway.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
No, but he/she would still be 1-2% Neanderthal.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?” @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
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Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market. Indeed, EU free movement was never a problem: most migration to Britain is from outside the EU. And EU free movement is conditional on finding a job or proving self-sufficiency www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"Too much of the established press remains an elite, closed club. Close to power and influencing it; while claiming to have none but playing victim when it scrutinised in the slightest. That it continues to get away with its ability to distort our society is one of the biggest scandals of our time"
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Prince Harry Takes a Stand for Us All: ‘If They’re Supposedly Policing Society, Who On Earth is Policing Them?’
The crisis and corruption in the British press is one of the biggest, ongoing scandals of our time. Byline Times tips its hat to Prince Harry
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Angela Rayner, "When we left the European Union people were promised more money into the NHS.. That living standards would be better.. And the opposite has happened" Why won't Starmer or Reeves also acknowledge that Brexit has been an absolute disaster?
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Glynnis Tucker @glynnist.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
My personal favourite: WHSmith (!) at Stansted airport a while ago
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Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Here’s Nicky Morgan talk about reform in the wake of the Church abuse scandal: www.channel4.com/news/debate-...
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Debate over bishops in Lords is ‘no surprise’ says Baroness Morgan
We spoke to the former Culture and Education Secretary, Baroness Nicky Morgan - who's now in the House of Lords.
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Steve Bray @stevebraysodem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
So farmers f’cked by Brexit… the one they were told would f’ck them but most voted for it anyway. What do you think they protest about the most? Only frigging Inheritance Tax! 🤦🤦‍♂️🤦
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Interesting that there’s wall to wall coverage of the farmer’s protest in London today (10,000 in attendance) Meanwhile the restore nature march a few months ago which saw well over 50,000 in attendance hardly got any press coverage at all 🤔
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AndrewT @andrewt500.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A message from a REAL farmer who hasn’t been brainwashed by the Tories, wealthy landowners and the right wing media👇🏽 #FarmersProtest
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Narrator voice: “Little did he know…”
Picture of Jeremy Clarkson with his 2010 quote: “Land is a better investment than any bank can offer. The govt doesn’t get any of my money when I die.”
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
One of the forms of hybrid warfare Russia is developing to use in Western nations is cyber-attacks to disable sewerage systems, flooding the rivers with shit. How, in the UK, would we detect them?
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
actually…it’s quite believable
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