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Peter Furmedge

@peterfurmedge.bsky.social
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[Posts in a personal capacity] "There has to be something bigger than winning or losing because, sometimes in a football match, the result can be an imposter, there has to be a legacy." (Xavi)

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 7h
The Jarrow Crusade, in which 200 unemployed men marched to London calling for government intervention to restore jobs, began on this day 1936. Unsuccessful at the time, but helped to shape postwar attitudes to employment and social justice.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h
Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 17h
Keep reading…… #BookSky
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Eelectoralism: where three years with a massive majority is just seen as the lead time to another general election.
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leftwingmusicfrank.bsky.social @leftwingmusicfrank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Goodnight Everyone youtu.be/SKyhYtmwVyU?...
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John Prine - Caravan of Fools - The Tree of Forgiveness
YouTube video by Oh Boy Records
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 04/10/2025
#OtD 4 Oct 1936 the Battle of Cable St took place when Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists tried to march through East London. They were met by over 100k local workers who fought the blackshirts and the police protecting them, stopping the march workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A crowdfunder to raise money for the UK Supreme Court challenge to the ban on Palestine Action has been blocked as a result of US sanctions
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Palestine Action crowdfunder for Supreme Court challenge blocked by US sanctions
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GND Media @gndmedia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
**NEW EPISODE** First episode from @wccalliance.bsky.social , with @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social & @ketanjoshi.co 'How A.I affects Education & the Climate Sector' Give it a like and share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BufB...
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WCCA & Ketan Joshi
YouTube video by GND Media
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That money will be swallowed up by "compensation" claims off the other clubs - including the ones whose supporters don't think they're in a cartel that's bent the game out of shape for decades.
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some sort of 11th Division Cup football today.
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Woolfinder General @brianwoolfinder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Arf
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 02/10/2026
#OtD 2 Oct 2019 workers at the Bootle and Seaforth Royal Mail depot walked out on wildcat strike in solidarity with a Muslim colleague after a manager made Islamophobic comments to them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9230...
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Liverpool Irish Festival @livirishfest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🕯️ Join us at St Luke’s Bombed Out Church for a service marking the Great Hunger of 1845–1852 and its legacy in Liverpool and beyond. There will be speeches, performances, a minute’s silence and shared singing. 🗓 1pm, 25 Oct 🎟 Free, donations welcome #LIF2026
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kick Palantir out of the UK.
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We have to let their footy team win or they won't build empty tower blocks?
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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Philip "Phil" Oakey. Born OTD in 1955, Hinkley, Leicestershire. His father's job with the GPO saw the family move to Coventry, Leeds & Solihull, before arriving in Sheffield when Oakey was 14 www.youtube.com/watch?v=myzr...
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The Human League Being Boiled 1978
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Liverpool Irish Festival @livirishfest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🕯️ Join Liverpool Irish Festival for our annual An Gorta Mór Vigil. Starting at Clarence Dock, where Irish Famine migrants arrived, we’ll walk to the Great Hunger Commemoration Memorial at St Luke’s. 🗓 10am, Sun 25 Oct 🎟 Free, donations welcome #LIF2026 #LivIrishFest #IAmHere #AnGortaMor
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Suspects arrested, questioned and bailed. Consequently, Trump looks like the dickhead he is. Our Andy casts doubt with new talk of an "Iranian link". An Iranian duly gets nicked. Government by vibes, footwear and throwing toffee at Trump.
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Grant McPhee @grantmcphee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I thought I'd bring together Parts 1–16 of 50 Years of The Pool of Life into one place. The series charts Mathew Street’s evolution from 1961 to 1983, encompassing Eric’s, punk, Jung, Illuminatus! and all manner of strangeness. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/pool-of-li...
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Pool of Life at 50 / Parts 1 - 16
This brings together Parts 1–16 of 50 Years of The Pool of Life in one place.
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
42 years ago today 'Red Roses for Me' is the debut studio album by the London-based folk /celtic punk band The Pogues, released on this day in 1984 #punk #punks #punkrock #CelticPunk #ThePogues #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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The Shipbuilders @theshipbuilders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We're playing this on Saturday. We've just had a practice and I don't mind saying, not only is it the best we've ever sounded, but we're the best band in the world right now. Every band should believe that about themselves and right now, it's as true as the sky is blue. Get in.
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In "Petropopulism" we explained how the UAE is turning its attention to Reform and the far-right, and how similar UAE meddling in multiple countries has undermined democracy and the rule of law, and led to it fuelling bloody conflict in Libya and a genocide in Sudan. fairsq.org/petropopulis...
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Petropopulism: FairSquare publishes new report on UAE links to Reform UK and the far-right
A new report from FairSquare highlights the extensive links between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the UK’s Reform party and the far-right, and calls for the UAE to be added to the “Enhanced Tier”...
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In "Easy Cities to Buy" we charted how Tony Blair sold the idea of UAE investment in Manchester and a whole bunch of pliant political leaders welcomed the UAE with open arms, and allowed them to buy up cheap land and buy off criticism fairsq.org/easy-cities-...
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Lack of civic leadership has enabled Manchester and Newcastle sportswashing projects
FairSquare report provides further evidence of the harms of state ownership of football clubs A new report published today finds that political leaders in Manchester and Newcastle have not only declin...
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A UK government that dabbles with Palantir and Peter Thiel is either very naive or has malevolent intent.
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 30/09/2026
It would take 6 million years for an Amazon worker to earn Jeff Bezos' wealth.
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stargirl1620.bsky.social @stargirl1620.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Remember Wes Streetings big speech on our relationship with Trump's America? "We have the closest alliance of any two nations on earth we will always stand together against those who hate our freedom and those who wish us harm." Trump's mates are billionaires or authoritarian genocidal killers.
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kick Palantir out of the UK. Kick Tom Watson out of the Lords.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Govt minister Josh MacAlister claims unemployed young people are paid with PIP to be out of work. Except PIP isn't an out of work benefit, plenty of people who receive PIP are in work & PIP enables them to do that. Josh knows this. What hes doing is whipping up anger towards disabled people.
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sandhills after the "fanzone" revamp.
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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Mckechnie/Cash - Friday 12th September 2003 hearthis.at/josephmckech... This all vinyl Johnny Cash mix was recorded the day The Man In Black died. At the time I gave the mix out on CD, here it is again. #johnnycash #columbo
Image from  the episode of Columbo where the killer is played by Johnny Cash.

Cash is sat at the back of the room with a guitar, Columbo is in the foreground speaking on the phone, text reads "That's what he said, just to watch him die."

Mckechnie/Cash - Friday 12th September 2003

https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/johnny-cash-friday-12th-september-2003/

This all vinyl Johnny Cash mix was recorded the day The Man In Black died.
At the time I gave the mix out on CD, here it is again.

#johnnycash
#columbo
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Lee caluan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @leecaluan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How much do the tax breaks and subsidies to ratcliffe or bezos or TATA group cost us. It's always funny that the media never mentions how much tax money we give the rich but are very quick to mention how much it costs to stop people dying of poverty.
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In Bryant's world, "peace" means the acquiescence of a community to its own subjugation. "Why won't you just allow British supremacists to celebrate violence against your people?" "For peace".
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Weasel words. They knew what would happen because they legislated for it to happen, in spite of protests about what everyone knew would happen.
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Vocnorth @vocnorth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How is Trump going to explain this one? The "terrorists" that he said the CIA had been tracking that wanted to do "big damage".... Turns out there's no bombs, no threat, they'd just been stealing petrol and now they've all been released on bail. Trump and Farage are idiots 😂😂
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georgiosmasman.bsky.social @georgiosmasman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the most exciting bands of the era. Their powerful sound of #punk & #dub is unique. Also a powerful force within Britain's Rock Against Racism movement. #TheRuts #punkrock #punk #punks
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Liverpool Irish Festival @livirishfest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🕊️ This Thursday, Greg Quiery launches The Lost Streets of Scotland Road, exploring the streets, characters and stories of Liverpool’s Irish community. 📍 Vauxhall Neighbourhood Council 🗓 6pm, 24 Sept 🎟 Free, booking required
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MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"A second container of diesel is unaccounted for."
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump got the CIA onto the red diesel graft. Its a bit like how they got Al Capone, but different.
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Clapton CFC @claptoncfc.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Cable Street 90 events in East London including at the Old Spotted Dog Ground 👇️ www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/09/27/c...
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Amnesty International USA @amnesty-usa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our latest report documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE and other federal agencies. Based on our findings, we're calling for ICE to be abolished, immediately. bit.ly/4iNlmzH
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Amnesty International Calls for ICE to Be Abolished After Documenting Widespread Human Rights Violations in Anti-Immigrant Operations
New report documents a chilling pattern of human rights violations across the U.S. intended to instill fear within migrant, asylum seeker and refugee communities.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The residents of Garvaghy Road and their supporters spent another day in high spirits today. With plenty of food and hot drinks and of course some amazing live music. They settle in for another night of peaceful dissent. Fair play to them all, they're legends ✊
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The Gentleman Ultra @gentlemanultra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An epic new long read from the @gentlemanultra.bsky.social VERONA 90 MUSIC. FASHION. FOOTBALL. gentlemanultra.com/2026/09/28/v...
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VERONA '90 -
On and off the pitch, 1990 marked a turning point in Verona. In this exclusive Gentleman Ultra Long Read, Richard Hough, author of Verona Campione, the Miracle of 85, explores how shifts in fashion, m...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 28/09/2026
#OtD 28 Sep 1997 dockworkers in Oakland, CA, picketed the Neptune Jade ship in solidarity with Liverpool dockers in the UK. The ship had been loaded by scab labour, attempting to run a global blockade. Despite court action, the ship didn't unload stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1260...
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"inspired by the classic gansey" shop.rnli.org/products/rnl...
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RNLI + Finisterre Men’s Polperro Jumper, Oat
Shop the RNLI x Finisterre Polperro jumper, a traditional gansey knit in oat. Relaxed fit, wool blend, sizes S–2XL. Support lifesaving.
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Chris @silverybeams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m generally anti Christmas until December other than Aldi stollen bites but the promo email for this was most welcome today shop.rnli.org/pages/christ...
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Christmas | RNLI Shop
We have the perfect lifesaving gifts for you and your crew. Order them online at shop.RNLI.org and help us to save lives for another 200 years.
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As Labour finally manages to talk openly about neoliberalism failing, they move us seamlessly into an authoritarian tech oligarch era. www.middleeasteye.net/news/labour-...
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Labour conference blocks motion to cancel Palantir contract over Israeli army links
Palantir has a £330m contract to process the UK's National Health Service data
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Clapton CFC @claptoncfc.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Clapton Community Football Club prepare to mark Cable Street anniversary - Article from North East Londoner. www.nelondoner.co.uk/sport/280920...
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Clapton Community Football Club prepare to mark Cable Street anniversary
Forest Gate-based Clapton Community Football Club will commemorate the anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street this weekend, marking 90 years since a piece of East London folklore.
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chris Bryant speaking to his British audience, doing that British thing of framing the issue as troublesome Catholics rather than what it actually is, British rule in part of Ireland and all that emanates from it.
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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Probably asking too much to expect certain scousers of Irish descent to see the news today, notice where they are in the British "patriot" pecking order and what those flags they've starting waving would mean to their grandparents and great grandparents.
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