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Richard Osborne

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Almost retired bookseller. Likes books, bikes and people who make the world better. Sometimes anti social, always anti fascist

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Richard Osborne @raosbo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Wondering how it feels to be Carole Cadwalladr right now. Ten years uncovering Russian interference and largely ignored by MSM. Now it's all over the news and she still doesn't get a mention. And Reform still given a free pass.
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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And she says ppl claiming PIP to get to work is too much. Scrounging Tories.
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Chris Thompson @mrchrist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The only justification for such an amount is if she was to spend it having therapy.
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pammmmmmm.bsky.social @pammmmmmm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you are not a disabled person who had to suffer the transition from DLA to PIP brought on by the Liberal Democrats Tory coalition, you cannot speak with any authority about the Liberal Democrats. They want us to forget. Never.
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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is one well out of order Reform Party Ltd jerk off. If you’re a woman whose thinking of voting for this please think again.
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Gail @hotfootgail.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What an absolute disappointment that the ex-deputy leader of the Labour Party and a sitting member of the House of Lords, thinks it right to work for Palantir.
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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Why exactly are crypto billionaires so attracted to the Reform party?
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Pete Lowe 🌹 @petelowe-exx.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Jim Prescott @jimprescott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Indeed the charter is absolutely clear. From the BBC's own site: "There is no requirement to give all views equal weight – false equivalence does not achieve impartiality and should be avoided...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lifeboat museum forced to close after abuse from thugs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Poole Old Lifeboat Museum shuts after protesters target volunteers
The museum in Poole says it will remain closed until until the anti-migrant protests stop.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...
climateuncensored.com
There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
👍👍 Equity argument (clip) is hugely important, and leads to further question: "if a rich nation like the UK cannot take the first step of differentiated fossil phase-out, who will?" #Burnham's decision sends signal to entire world NO kickstarts phase out YES is F-off to Paris, ICJ, Santa Marta
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Truly disgusting social media post from one of Brexit's most influential backers.
Arron Banks 

Going through Heathrow today, there wasn't one
white face in security or airport services. The
Home office is staffed by the type of people we
are trying to keep out! What hope?
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This remarkable view was captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover from Gale Crater on Mars. Unlike Earth, where sunsets often glow with shades of red, orange, and gold, a Martian sunset can produce a striking blue glow around the setting Sun.
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Richard Osborne @raosbo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Section 137 of the Highways Act 1980: Penalty for wilful obstruction (1)If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence . Just saying...
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Richard Osborne @raosbo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Always remember that violence is and always has been central to the appeal of fascism. The protesters yesterday will have been disappointed there was no ruck. They will do it again, and there will be violence. It cannot go unpunished.
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Jockyfox @jockyfox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Has Burnham got the 🎾🎾 @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Richard Osborne @raosbo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 An undercover investigation shown on Channel 4 exposed Reform figures allegedly breaking the law over foreign funding. Now demand a full criminal investigation. Sign the petition. 🔥 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Sign the petition to hold politicians to account
Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.
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Richard Osborne @raosbo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Has James Orr resigned yet? From both his jobs?
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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It is important that Ed Davey is drawing attention to this and roundly condemning it. But how does the son of two Sri Lankan born immigrants reason himself into holding this position in the first place?
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Richard Osborne @raosbo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here's a question I'd really like answered. Organised crime costs the country billions while getting much less media and political coverage than the welfare bill. Why are we so complacent about it while being so willing to demonise the most vulnerable?
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.
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Richard Osborne @raosbo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The huge outpouring of love here for Dolly should be a lesson for the purveyors of division and hate, the rogue billionaire class, the grifting politicians. When you're gone, what will be remembered is kindness and humour. If you didn't have those you'll be soon forgotten.
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Corey Boyle @coreyboyle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A cycling city isn’t really about bikes. It’s a fairer city, built around people instead of cars. Part one of three for the Edinburgh Inquirer, starting with the issues facing a car dependent capital. @spokes.org.uk @wwctrustscot.bsky.social @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @cyclingscotland.bsky.social
edinburghinquirer.co.uk
Even ‘the world’s worst cycle lane’ works
Corey Boyle on turning Edinburgh into a cycling city
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Jules McHamish @julesmchamish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This👇
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Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026
Witness the police state a succession of governments from Thatcher’s, still more Blair’s, onwards has turned us into. That Greenstein should ever have been on trial should terrify us all. That he escaped years of imprisonment only owing to a jury, such as Starmer was about to abolish, should too.
greghadfield.medium.com
Tony Greenstein: The most important half-hour of my life
Below is the text of the closing speech Tony Greenstein prepared for the end of his trial at Kingston Crown Court.
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Daniel McElroy @danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
She is just the funniest frontline politician in ages. I really wish we could have a normal election campaign of Burnham vs Badenoch without Reform, she’d look fucking MENTAL.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Seeing as it's GCSE results day, this is what I looked like when I picked up mine. No I don't understand either.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here‘s the real story from @nafeez.bsky.social The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
bylinetimes.com
The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This article by the investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr is really terrific. What each of us can do in the face of bullying and harassment counts for many aspects of life (and in academia as well as many other areas, I suspect). I urge you to read it and share it.
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Cat Ballou @squarahj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Signed. Maybe they can start by following up on this? bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
bylinetimes.com
The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 18/08/2026
Another must-read investigation from @bylinetimes.bsky.social and @nafeez.bsky.social. Open racists were behind the campaign against Jason Arday, and this piece has the receipts.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In 1987 the poet Benjamin Zephaniah was considered for a visiting fellowship at Cambridge. Here's how Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper approached that particular story.
Would You Let This Man Near Your Daughter On Friday, he is expected to
become a Cambridge don.
Just what are his qualities which
have appealed to Trinity College?
He is black. He is a Rastafarian.
He has tasted approved schools and
Borstals.
And, oh yes, he is a poet. Here is
PODI(SON


an example of the standard of his
work:
The day dat 1 met Lady Di 1,
What happy no I tell a lie.
I had a pain in my belly, I
Would not f..t near Royalty.
Is this "really the kind of man
parents would wish to have teaching
their sons and daughters?
Prefer
Our guess is that they would
prefer their offspring to start work
in a hairdresser's.
From his pleture, Mr Zephaniah
himself could do with a good
shampoo and set.
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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
[Claire Lehmann] added that, after Jason Arday’s death, she “sent Nathan Cofnas a private message asking whether he was alright”. This piece joins a lot of dots like real journalism should.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
So Richard Tice, should farmers just "enjoy" low crop yields? Should the thousands who've died from the heatwaves just "enjoy" their premature deaths? What about the families whose homes have burned down in the wildfires? Charlatans with their heads in the sand. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat
Deputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to halt global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave
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Ben Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There's a big market for smug, second-rate intellects among our chattering classes. Yuval Harari. Jordan Peterson. Malcolm Gladwell. Heck, JD Vance v 1.0.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.
Sorry Zack Polanski this long hot summer is not the apocalypse - it's like a gloriously long holiday in France
..with village green cricket thrown in good measure
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Just to note, Toby Young and James Orr’s Free Speech Union paid the legal bills for this guy who plans to be a future ‘Professor of Eugenics and Race Science’ after ‘the revolution’ Young himself supported ‘progressive eugenics’. They’re not even hiding their fact free racism
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Missed Stock saying autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia are ‘intellectual disabilities’ (???) making people ‘unsuited’ for academia. Okay, what. But did she ever talk to any of her colleagues, or did she sprint to her car after her lectures on how we know what a text means by asking the author?
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Richard Osborne @raosbo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Can I ask this of any passing journos. When you next interview any of them( but especially Tice) just go in hard on climate change. Really hard. It's time.
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Womble1958 @wimblewomble1958.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is just dreadful - Farage whines on about being the victim of a witch hunt, but in truth THIS was a witch hunt…. ⬇️😒 The right wing media won’t accept any responsibility for this, they’ll just carry on bleating about “woke” and all the usual shite… #JasonArday #Arday
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Dr Emily Elizabeth Hoyle @emilyehoyle.substack.com · 14/08/2026
The heartbreaking loss of Jason Arday feels stark on the same day Nigel Farage lied about a credible threat at the declaration. The way these two figures have been treated by the press in the so-called culture wars not only exposes how racism functions but how one sided this war is.
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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Nice touch from the Lib Dems.
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Roger Silson #FBPE @rogsilson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I don't know why people haven't picked up on Farage saying, last night, that he's been active in politics for 33 years, having previously said he wasn't active in politics when he received a £5m donation from a known political donor.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As I keep saying, this should read "Musk FRS".
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“The right moment in time” might be in the middle of another heatwave in the hottest year of the hottest decade of the hottest century.
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