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Richard Crookes

@richardcrookes.bsky.social
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Retired teacher, previously NHS. Interests include science, politics, films and breathing fresh air. Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. #FBPE #FBNHS #FBClimate

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Spoooooky Twat 👻 @speccytwat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Is this the one where they’re blissfully happy together, then have an argument in a coffee shop and go their separate ways…? #ThisIsNotARomCom 🤨
Footie match on the telly, with the teams’ scorecard noted as “COM 0-0 ROM”…

Yeah. It’s that bloody tenuous. Soz.
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Lizzy Price @lizzyjprice.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No way would these 2 stories not have been linked were it not for the power of the right wing press & Gove within it.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @nicolefilippone.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
4 facts about autism and ADHD that you probably didn't know... 1. According to research, up to 80% of children with an autism diagnosis also meet the criteria for ADHD and up to 50% of children with an ADHD diagnosis also meet the criteria for autism, BUT...
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.
ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says report, as author warns of rise in mental ill health
Summary
• An official review in England finds there is a risk of people being over-diagnosed with
ADHD and autism - three key findings from the report
• As well as neurodevelopmental conditions, the review looks at mental ill health, particularly in younger people. Our health correspondent explains the difference
• It was commissioned earlier this year after Wes Streeting, then the health secretary, said there was an "over-diagnosis" of mental health conditions
• Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, review chair Prof Peter Fonagy said Streeting was "with respect, completely wrong"
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cable Street 1936-2026: Not Then Not Now roughtradebooks.com/products/cab...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Millward says billionaires hoard power, divide us and sell a bleak future—but collective action can reclaim our world, communities and democracy.
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Dr. Courtney Gibbons (she/her/xlookup) @courtneygibbons.phd · 22/09/2026
Two people died. "Experts stress the meningitis vaccine currently being offered to more than a million young people starting university protects against it.' Vaccines save lives.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Struck by the number of British shows. For instance, I had no idea the Americans watched Peep Show.
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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Neo-liberals ran away with it and went f*ck it!” Most people accept some level of inequality. But when does it go too far? @iandunt.bsky.social  and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social  discuss Rawls, inequality and neoliberalism. ➡️ linktr.ee/originstorypodcast
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our Danny Who art in prison Racist be thy name Thy balaclava come Thy will be done In ports as it is on dinghies Give us this day Our daily funding & forgive us our racism as we intimidate those who speak against us & lead us all into aggravation But deliver us from being civil. 🙏
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why does the UK press continue to treat Trump like a normal politician when he is demonstrably wicked and insane inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My contribution to ‘Paste, Present, Future’ project, celebrating 35 years of @bigissueuk. Signed, numbered versions of available at Big Issue shop. Lots of other pieces from amazing artists, 25% of sales going to Big Issue. Massive thank you to @grow_up_art_ 👇👇 www.bigissueshop.com/collection/p...
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have formed a patriotic vigilante force in the village. We are The Gussage Patriot Guard. Naturally we disguise our identity. At the snap of a custard cream we can be mobilised to: Quote the bible Urinate in public Set up funding pages Eat spicy foods Spit Chant in cockney. 🇬🇧
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
While rightwing media nods approvingly at the prejudiced outcry in Piddington, a RNLI station has to close because of white British thuggery and threats. This is where the constantly toxic obsession with immigration leads. To racist, flag-wielding vigilantism that ruins this country for everyone.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It was one of the great joys of my recent life to know Bonnie Greer. A truly remarkable person who radiated such wisdom and intellect. And when she spoke the audience was rapt. A kind, generous, passionate and very funny human. Thank you for giving us you Bonnie. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77
The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform supporters seem to be delighted at multiple £36m bungs from crypto billionaires and exceedingly angry about ten quid donations to the RNLI
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Harborne calls his latest bung to Farage a “philanthropic gift to the country”. Philanthropy isn’t funding racists and climate deniers. Or funnelling cash into deregulation and removal of our rights so tax-avoiding billionaires can profiteer from the chaos. That’s just corruption. We don’t want it.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Public Order Act 1936 makes it illegal to wear political uniforms. Indeed, the legislation was designed specifically to prohibit Blackshirts. Just saying.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I was around in the 1970s. I don't recall even the most rightwing Tory politicians downplaying National Front marches as some kind of justifiable expression of popular discontent.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Left: Nigel Farage, "It was great (you picked up the tab for the poll), it worked, boom.. For a modest investment.. Amazing" Right: Nigel Farage to Laura Kuenssberg, "I frankly wasn't listening.. I was just there to say hello"
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@BronzeHammer
Well, I'd like to see ol Nigel Farage wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
*Farage wriggles his way out of the jam easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
11:34 PM - 1 Oct 2016

(The image has been edited to remove all references to Donald Trump with Nigel Farage instead)
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations Undercover footage reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. Lolz
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Margaret Thatcher did not 'regenerate the British economy'. She devastated the UK's industrial base, put three million people on the dole and plunged entire communities into the kind of poverty they still haven't recovered from four decades later.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
How an educated, intelligent, super smart and likeable woman, discusses one of the world’s biggest cultural events. Compared with the opinion of a woman, whose only major achievement is, being the sister of a shit former Prime Minister. (Her position in life is what real DEI looks like)
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As I board the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, I’m reminded yet again of three things about the EU: 1) You don’t sacrifice any of your national identity or culture by being part of the EU. Estonia remains Estonia. Finland remains Finland 2) Schengen is great. 3) Brexit was and is shit.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Also @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found… www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-a...
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Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death
Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found
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El Squigg @psychicsquirrel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Why isn’t there a total moratorium on all reporting on Reform until after the multiple investigations into their finances have been completed? Free propaganda for potentially corrupt liars should be banned. It might make them think twice before breaking rules and taking the piss out of all of us.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“The public overestimate how many minority ethnic people are killers, as well as how many foreign national offenders there are, a new study has found.” - could it have to do with the fact that 96% of people writing for the press are white? 1/2 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Public in England and Wales wrongly think most killers are minority ethnic
Research from King’s College London finds that Reform voters’ perceptions were furthest from the truth
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/08/2026
Well said, Count Binface 👏
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Margaret Hodge: “We need to urgently reform our laws to stop rich people using their wealth to close down legitimate scrutiny” Tice reacts to questions by intimidating journalists and seeking to expose their sources. Reform are just all really shitty people. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Richard Tice accused of ‘nasty tactics’ over legal threat to the Guardian
Reform deputy leader condemned for seeking disclosure of documents that could reveal reporter’s sources
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
stop thinking right now
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Global warming is a "hoax." But it's killing everyone.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Brexit: the unforgivably selfish arseholery of those who lied about what it really meant for the country while dodging the cost, hassle and restrictions they inflicted on everyone else. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Sir James Dyson says Brexit was worth it – even if it’s made people poorer
Britain’s fourth-wealthiest man has argued it is better to be ‘independent’ than tied to the EU
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Kate @katenorthnorfolk.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I agree with #EdDavey: “The facts don’t lie. The BBC is fuelling Reform’s rise by plastering Farage across our screens without providing the proper scrutiny the public deserves. We need the BBC to live up to its promise of accurate and impartial coverage that represents the whole of the UK...”
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.
EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS

POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR

by Our Apocalypse Staff
HELENA HANDCART

THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode.
It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services,
not to
mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed).
Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This alone should be enough of a reason to back Europe www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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England’s swimming waters five times more likely to be polluted than in EU, research finds
Experts warn country is in danger of becoming ‘dirty man of Europe’ as it falls to bottom of bathing water leaderboard
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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Classic example of being blinded by hate. What a way to live....
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 05/08/2025
"How much does it cost for fascism? "How much do the taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?" Republican Rep Flood was EVISCERATED at his town hall today in Nebraska. Every. Damn. Word.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
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🦋 C.G., PhD 🐸 (🪖"Prima" AKA "Battle" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Be the human you hope someone will be to you in your time of need...PERIOD!!! #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #BlueSkyVets #Voices4Victory
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