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Peter Gates

@petergates.bsky.social
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Mathematics education, educational researcher, into social justice, equity, social research methodology,quant & qual. Now genealogical researcher. Socialist. Narrowboat owner. Father #EduSky. #Genealogy. See petergates3.com/family-history-stor…

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 20/08/2026
The toxic air our children were breathing was stunting their lungs. For too many young Londoners, that was the reality before the ULEZ. New independent findings show their lung health has improved significantly in Central London. That’s the difference cleaner air can make.
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Introducing Ulez was my hardest decision as mayor of London – but now we know its astonishing impact | Sadiq Khan
Critics said I was attacking motorists. It’s more important for me that the city’s children are no longer breathing dangerous levels of pollution, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @ljrycroftsmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Research shouldn’t be stuck in journals and books. My latest funded project, Tappy Math(s), explores how we can take high-quality mathematics education research and turn it into practical, engaging resources for families and educators. Resources coming soon! #ResearchImpact #KnowledgeMobilisation
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Yesterday I repeatedly said I was the most attacked MP in the UK. Which is true if you don't count the two who were killed, or those attacked with a sword or who had their offices set on fire and if you only count 'attacks' with milkshakes or eggs.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Let’s not fudge why Starmer is in this mess. Yes, he didn’t have political instinct. Yes, the public is much less patient and more critical. But Starmer was also - to use his own phase - morally bankrupt on key issues of the day, from Gaza, disability benefits, to immigration.
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Peter Gates @petergates.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Fuhrage’s stormtroopers were out again I see. If you haven’t read the history of the rise of the Nazi party now would be a good time. Last time millions died. It’s happening again.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Meet the real Robert Makerfield Reform’s star candidate against Andy Burnham before he scrubbed his X & FB a/cs 🥴
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Rick Stengel @rickstengel.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Can reporters stop using the word deal? It’s an agreement, a settlement, a treaty, an understanding, an MOU etc. Using the word deal is accepting his simple-minded TV game-show framing and contributes to the bogus drama he is trying to create.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Antisemitism and Jewish safety is not some abstract concept for me. In fact, in the last 6 weeks alone 2 people have been arrested in relation to antisemitic actions towards me and yesterday the Times newspaper published a vile antisemitic cartoon.."
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/05/2026
‘This is just disarray’: alarm inside Pentagon after Hegseth staff purges
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‘This is just disarray’: alarm inside Pentagon after Hegseth staff purges
Insiders portray defense secretary as increasingly isolated after officers with impeccable reputations forced out
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Dr Negrin's Victory Pills @dr-negrin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
It was an old friend of his. Doesn't sound like an antisemitic terrorist attack to me, more like someone with severe mental health problems (though they're only white, aren't they?) Unless his friend was trying to stop him committing the antisemitic attack?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Starmer and Mahmood rightly raise concern about the attack on the two Jewish men, but why are they silent over the attack on the Muslim man a coupe of hours earlier? Is this really the integrity Labour voters hoped for after 14 years of Conservative chaos? As it looks to be more of the same
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves” It’s so obvious, it hurts. www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...
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Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...
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Peter Lacey 🇺🇦 @ecarda1.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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‘Exam-obsessed’ schools leave pupils unready for work, Alan Milburn says
Former minister leading review into young people and work cites survey showing most teachers decry lack of ‘soft skills’
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Peter Gates @petergates.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
It started with City Academoes - and finishes up with Alcatraz
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David Livingston @1greenmantle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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Croydon For Europe @croydonforeurope.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Anyone else get this rubbish in the post yesterday? These grifters will charge you £5 to attend a “special public meeting” to hear Farage lie about how he didn’t break Britain. Same thing happening in Leeds on Tuesday. This flyer contains no mention of his greatest achievement: Brexit. Funny that.
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Peter Gates @petergates.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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KD50s @annadickie56.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
youtu.be/m70Y4SVUMS8 As Ed Davey has said to US cable TV, ‘At least our politicians can wear their own shoes…’
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Trump's Favorite Shoes - Florsheim Shoes
YouTube video by Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies
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This Podcast Will Kill You @tpwky.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
In this week's Book Club episode, Erin Welsh sat down with Dr Steven Mithen to talk about how the heck we can even talk to each other! In his latest book, The Language Puzzle, he details the evolution of language, from the earliest sounds and gestures to the multitude of languages we use today.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Spain has banned the USA from using its military bases. THIS is what everyone should have done.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Every time Nigel Farage's parties have lost an election he has blamed it on "cheating" by ethnic minorities and every time he receives huge amounts of media attention for doing so. The only problem? No evidence of cheating is ever found bylinetimes.com/2026/03/02/n...
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Nigel Farage's Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections
The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party's election defeats on "cheating" by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The Epstein survivors make it very clear that they have not exonerated Trump, despite the GOP’s bogus claims. There is no amount of GOP spin that will make this go away and we won’t let it. Keep talking about it. DJT is guilty. He is a serial sexual predator and he needs to be held accountable.
“Our president has been credibly accused of sexually assaulting a child, and his DOJ is hiding those accusations from the public. It is an outrage and a disgrace. Shame on them."

 ~ Dan Goldman ~
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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I’m not an expert but this seems suggestive of either an anxiety disorder or internalised prejudice/expectation bias …what it definitely isn’t is evidence of London being unsafe
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Good morning, Jim Ratcliffe. Two things: one, pay your taxes; two, kiss my ass: www.politico.eu/article/manc... #jimratcliffe #manchesterunited
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Manchester United owner praises Farage during anti-migration diatribe
Prime Minister Keir Starmer criticized businessman Jim Ratcliffe’s claims that Britain has been “colonized by immigrants.”
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Janey Llou (Jane to my friends) @janeyllou.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
If Jim Ratcliffe paid his taxes Marcus Rashford wouldn’t have to feed hungry children.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
It makes you wonder whether the whole ‘war on woke’ over the last few years was waged just so that men like Ratcliffe could be disgustingly racist again without any accountability. PM tells Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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PM tells Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants'
Sir Keir Starmer said comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner were
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Lots of not too unsubtle hints from Burnham at his Resolution Foundation speech today...."recent events have drawn a heavy line under a political culture that was too close to wealth and power, and too distant from the people we’re talking about today.”
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Peter Gates @petergates.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I bet David Attenborough, Bill Bailey and Hamsa Yassim are not in the Epstein files.
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Catriona Agg @catrionaagg.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Two regular hexagons inside a rectangle. What fraction of the rectangle is shaded? I found this #geometrypuzzle in my sketchbook - I drew it last June, but I’m pretty sure I never got round to posting it. Better late than never!
A rectangle with one diagonal drawn in. A regular hexagon sits on the left below the diagonal, with one side vertical against the side of the rectangle, one sloping side lying along the diagonal, and a vertex touching the base of the rectangle. A second regular hexagon sits above the diagonal on the right so that the design has rotational symmetry. Everything inside the rectangle but outside the hexagons is shaded blue.
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Peter Gates @petergates.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
It would be quite ironic if Mandelson was responsible for bringing down a labour PM who wasn’t Jeremy Corbyn
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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Imagine being a barrister, a KC no less , and being surprised that someone lied to you 🤦‍♀️
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
" ... All Parliamentary Friends group should be suspended. Being Friend to Israel now is equal to be friend with genocide and murders committed by Israel forces. Disband Friends of Israel Parliamentary Groups NOW!!" via Halit Ece
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Lincolnshire climate leadership reversed Lincolnshire goes from national leader to climate change blocker despite the science not changing and local impacts getting worse centralbylines.co.uk/news/environ...
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Lincolnshire climate leadership reversed
Lincolnshire goes from national leader to climate change blocker despite the science not changing and local impacts getting worse
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Precisely this. Errors of judgement happen, but dishonesty is a character trait. Countries have millions of honest people to choose leaders from. There is no need or reason to rely on people who’ve shown themselves to be dishonest. Once and out.
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Peter Gates @petergates.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If you were unsure of just how dysfunctional the USA was, just look at their electrical sockets and plugs. Jeez what a health and safety disaster.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Donald Trump's grandparents were German speaking Bavarians.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Maccabi Tel Aviv fans arming themselves with steel bars from a construction site before going on a rampage in Amsterdam. This is why they were banned in the UK.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
We can clearly see from the New York Times analysis that both Trump and Vance are lying. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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Education Minnesota @educationmn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Paul Dix @pauldixbehaviour.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I am sure the fella who flattened the grass will sort out the problems with schools that celebrate a culture of fear.
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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
For the first time since the referendum we go into a new year with genuine hope that we can move closer to the day we rejoin the European Union🇪🇺 #TenYearsAfter #TYA
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Peter Gates @petergates.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
@norriemacqueen.bsky.social have you ever lived in Beira.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Brexit. “An act of pure economic sabotage and vandalism.” www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2564170...
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Brexit 'an act of pure economic sabotage and vandalism'
FIVE years since Brexit and a British Chancellor has finally called out Brexit for what it is.
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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This is clearly an intricate international conspiracy. The big question now is whether the democratic free west has sufficient cohesion left to deal with it. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
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Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
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Peter Gates @petergates.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
5 wins for Xi. FA for Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Five key takeaways from Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping
From tariffs to rare earths, Chinese and US presidents ‘make outstanding group of decisions’ at crunch trade talks
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Peter Gates @petergates.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
About two hours ago I asked ChatGPT if there was a social class influence on deaths from pneumonia and bronchitis in East London in the 19th Century as I was interested in how many of my ancestors had died from respiratory diseases. Two hours later it has pushed me into pulling my data together …
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Starmer is outraged that fascists who assaulted Muslims in Amsterdam, tore down Palestinian flags and chanted ‘Death to Arabs’ and ‘No children left in Gaza’ don’t get to do exactly the same in Birmingham… www.cbsnews.com/news/maccabi...
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U.K. leader calls local ban on Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans "the wrong decision"
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says Birmingham authorities were wrong to ban fans of Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team.
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Peter Gates @petergates.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Isn’t it interesting how in the space of a few hours the entire British establishment and press now stands fully behind violent football hooligans just because they happen to be Israelis. Talk about 2 Tier Policing
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