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Steve S

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Old Lutonian, retired pharmacist, botanist, pizzaiolo

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Ken Murphy is Tesco’s UK CEO and the highest paid supermarket boss. He pays himself £10,800,000 a year, but is registered to pay tax in the Republic of Ireland. Yet he complains that 'costs' are too high so he can't afford to pay his workers.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Sorry but why the fuck would you *not* want to recreate 2006?Pre-financial crash, pre-austerity, pre-Brexit, pre-inflation. Britain's economically healthy, decent public services, largely competent government, fairly amiable political disputes. What kind of person prefers this period to that?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
REFORM - leading in the polls - charges prospective candidates £125 to apply to run as an MP - before selecting a GB News host who is a colleague of the party leader and one of his MPs to run instead. You'd honestly think this was newsworthy. But apparently not.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This perfectly demonstrates the pernicious nature of BBC two-sidism. It almost always benefits the side with the most power. In this case that's the side which is murdering peaceful protesters in the street, on camera, and then lying about it
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
What does this even mean? I know she's piggybacking the post that mad bastard in the White House did but what, in this context, does this even mean? Is she going to introduce penguins into London? Is she going to make London warmer? Who made those footprints? Mountains near Tower Bridge? What?
Useful* idiot Laila Cunningham has a mayoral campaign poster featuring snow and a penguin. Nope, no idea.
*For a given value of 'useful'.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
Alex Pretti’s Sig handgun has history of accidentally firing — offering possible clue to why Border agent shot him
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Clear impartial analysis. Well worth 1 minute 46 of your time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
bbc.co.uk
Unpicking the second Minneapolis shooting frame by frame
BBC Verify has analysed footage of the shooting from multiple angles, piecing together a detailed picture of what happened.
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 22/01/2026
Please watch PM Carney's speech. Powerful, and in my view as a political scholar, 100% accurate. We must stop living within the lie. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fV5f...
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Canadian PM Mark Carney Declares the End of US Empire and Old Global Rules at WEF 2026 | AC1G
YouTube video by DRM News
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Donald Trump said the Spanish Flu in 1919 ended WW1. And this probably isn't even the stupidest thing he has said today.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu can't sign the Gaza Board of Peace agreement in Davos because Switzerland have said they will arrest him if he enters the country. It is a Board of War Criminals.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/01/2026
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 11/01/2026
“Six months in, they’ve handed a contract to a firm with 10 serious pollution incidents, whose licence is under public inquiry, and whose owner openly supports the local party. If this is Reform’s ‘new politics’, it looks remarkably like the old politics.” goodlaw.social/kip5
goodlaw.social
Reform council that promised cuts delivers payday for party backer
Reform councils have increased spending and handed out a £30,000 contract to a company owned by a party supporter which was involved with 10 serious pollution incidents in 2024.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11/01/2026
With the growing outrage about the government being a tyranny because they’re considering shutting down X, which recently started producing non-consensual sexual images of women and children not as a bug, but as a feature, it’s worth asking - why? What do they gain from X? I think I know why.
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They Say They "Protect Women and Children". X Paid Them Nearly £68,000
Four MPs. 691 hours. A platform facilitating abuse. And a silence that tells you everything.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Suella Braverman’s parents emigrated (those horrible economic migrants not from a war zone she hates). She went to Cambridge for free and didn’t collect £27k debt like everyone else. Scrounger. She used the Erasmus scheme to study in France. Which she has blocked. Horrible.
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
“…USA is a place that people fear… don’t trust … it’s no longer a destination… it’s a place to be AVOIDED.”
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal. Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military. Pure, mindless, barbarism. www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
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Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders
A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.
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Drew Abides @drewabides.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Impeach and remove. Indict and convict.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I wonder which British newspaper is the most dishonest. The Mail seems too editorially thick to win that prize. It howls out its hypocrisy with its absurd headlines. My vote would be for The Times. A deeply sly operation that uses its ‘paper of record’ reputation as cover for its far right agenda.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Excellent unraveling of bullshit
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
But his retirement plans are now in “disarray” and “ruined” cos he’s going to have to find an additional £208.33 per month? He has £2-4 million in savings/investments but claims he is not “cash-rich” and his house was his only “pension” Seriously @Telegraph, where do you find these people?🤣🤣🙄 9/9
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Badenoch's response was like having the snidest Richard Littlejohn Daily Mail piece, read out by a foghorn.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics: "Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?" Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This is the remarkable video on which six US senators/representatives with service backgrounds emphasise that those serving should not follow unlawful orders. What they are doing is stating what the oaths provide. This should not be remarkable, but it is. www.youtube.com/shorts/Fk9Gh...
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community...
YouTube video by Sen. Elissa Slotkin
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
“Nobody at the BBC is sweating about displeasing Zack Polanski or the Guardian or even the current prime minister.” Very good on the deeply cynical and dangerous right wing manoeuvres to compromise and ultimately destroy the BBC. “Because everything is stupid” www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...
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The BBC is the biggest prize in the information war – and the right may be about to destroy it
The corporation is always under attack. But this time it has been sabotaged by conservative ideologues deep within its heart. Is it time for the culture secretary to step in? By Dorian Lynskey
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/11/2025
"By a whopping two-to-one margin, voters now favor the pre-Brexit immigration system to the one that has taken shape since leaving the EU." Even among Reform UK voters, more wish they could go back to pre-2021 migration rules! ~AA www.politico.eu/article/labo...
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Brits are pining for the pre-Brexit migration system
The idea was that leaving the bloc would give the U.K. back “control” of its borders and create a fairer system. But the widespread perception is it didn’t turn out that way.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 01/11/2025
Finally, someone talking about the fuel poverty that matters
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Matt Goodwin has more chips on his shoulder than a carpenter caught in a frites spillage. The very essence of dull, unoriginal, utterly inconsequential little man. You can only pity the boneheads who hero worship such an absolute nonentity. #bbcqt
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
As much as anything else, why would any country work with us or trade with us if we just routinely ignored international law? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK would let ministers ignore international law, Kruger says
Party’s efficiency chief says he would cut civil service and close six government offices – most of which are already closing
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Never mind that he got this from a public report about the agents called to the location AFTER the riot had started. Not knowing that you'd been President for almost four years on that date, and Biden would not be inaugurated for another two weeks, even by Trump standards, is SKETCHY AF.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Very, very nasty. And this is a GB News Contributor.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Horrible migrants are killing Europe, says horrible migrant arriving in Europe
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Nope. Not a "high intelligence, highly educated, high integrity person" - he's self-styled posh and entitled and like all self-styled posh and entitled people rather fucking dull with it.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Is anyone seriously saying the average 16 and 17 year old is less capable of making a rational decision than these Brexit voters?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Donald Trump "Epstein Files could destroy people." "No they would put peadophiles in jail where they belong, and why are you so sweaty and desperate not to release them?"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Can someone please ask Karoline Leavitt why the Director of White House Personnel refuses to say what country he is from and refuses to complete paperwork for a background check? Can you also ask if “Sergio Gor” is the name on his birth certificate. Seems kinda important.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/06/2025
seen some people complaining that this is a political stunt and lemme say if this was the kind of political stunt more politicians were doing on a regular basis we wouldn't be where we are today dude is actually putting himself on the line here, fuck off with that shit
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Kemi Badenoch has forced us into calling for a national inquiry into grooming gangs. She did this by not mentioning a national inquiry once while she was Minister for Women and Equality for a government that went 14 years without calling for an inquiry.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Israel has declared the Madleen (With Greta Thunberg on) a security threat, it is jamming their electronic systems and circling them with combat drones. If it blows them up Israel will surely declare it an 'accident' but it will be their most blatant War Crime yet.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Wetherspoons. Musk and Trump, stripped to the waist, brawling. Farage rings one of his other backers for advice. Tice is dismayed. Putin bowls in. 30p Lee accosts Zia Yusuf.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
ICC please archive this War Crime announcement for use in court.
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Reminder that this country had an insurrection on Jan 6 and Trump refused to send in the National Guard.
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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Just want to add my voice to the increasing wave of disquiet that any uninteresting change in one minority extremist party 'reform' gets headline coverage by BBC news who don't even have an account on here because they think it might be 'too left leaning.' For pities sake. I'll post this on Threads
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 07/06/2025
I’m extremely chuffed by just how well the below article has done - who knew public procurement frameworks could be so popular! Thanks to @bylinesnetwork.co.uk and @eastangliabylines.co.uk for sharing it so far and wide, and for all the lovely comments and DMs.
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Bear Hats Off GIF
Alt: Bear Hats Off GIF
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Good to see Richard Tice back on TV. It's about time Laura Kuenssberg did her bit to normalise Reform policies by platforming a party with only 5 MPs almost every week.
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