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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

In September, China's combustion vehicle (ICE) sales dropped to just a third of the market for the first time Battery electric vehicles are getting close to half of the market (47.3%), while Plug-ins added another 19.7%. Only 5 years from >90% to 33% ICE.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don't hear any offers to pay back their share of the £830m from clubs that sold top price players to Manchester City. Not a word. The global industry needs to thank the Emirates for pumping such huge sums into the game.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Carney makes Trump look like the complete amateur he's proven himself to be.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Infantino's interference in the 'red card' process at Trump's behest was simple corruption. If the fans think the game can be 'fixed' so easily, there's no game left to play. No jeopardy, no entertainment.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The annihilation of the Tory party following in Manchester would have seemed inconceivable only a few years ago. With Reform discredited, too, the right-wing press is just screaming into an empty hole.

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Colin Burt @cdburt4.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The moment World football died…

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Realities 🌐 @insuret.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The more that I listen to Senator Ossoff, the more I like him.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

AI's problem is that it only ever regurgitates. Humans are excited by novelty, innovation, and originality

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I am suffering explosive rage after 7 attempts this week to contact Stockport Hyundai re; a quote for replacing a damaged wing mirror. On each occasion I have been disconnected, cut off mid-sentence, redirected to an incomprehensible message or put in a holding queue. Disgraceful business conduct.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Kier Starmer was elected to run this country. Rupert Murdock was not. His right-wing media screaming for Starmer to resign are an affront to democracy. Without exception.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It's amazing. The scattered remnants of the Tory Party think that an 'Apology Tour' will repair the damage done by their criminally inept cabinet of hedge fund gamblers, who destroyed this country's integrity. V.I.P fraud, Baroness Mone, ennobling illegitimate offspring....the works. Not a chance.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I dread to think what Trump might do when he loses his mandate in November. Invade Canada, invade Greenland, attack NATO, relocate Isreal to Nevada....change the constitution to make himself Ruler....who knows? The man has been hopelessly out of his depth from day one.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 30/03/2026

Yeah, that’s… pretty bad!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Petrolheads are seen as just another group of hobbyists. In truth, they're a danger to society. The accidents they cause, the pollution and noise are just part of it. There's also an associated politics: toxic, selfish, macho, climate-denying, often far-right. For their "fun", everyone suffers.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Trumps remarks on the death of the Ex-FBI chief (whom he'd fired after a prodigious successful career), were the most tasteless and undignified uttering from an American president in my long lifetime.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Remember the FIFA Peace Prize? Valueless then. Embarrassing now.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Having a plumber (with four rescue greyhounds) as an MP send the clearest possible message to Westminster. The electorate are sick of entitlement, corruption, self-enrichment, personal ambition and privilege from those granted power and influence by the populace. Westminster I'd stuffed!

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

In the torrent of outrage about Andrew's 'treachery' I've not seen one mention of the principle of a suspect being innocent until proven guilty. The evidence we've seen is conclusive, of course. Have a corrupt royal on top of a corrupt Tory party is tough to stomach. Integrity is left with judges.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Manchester Airport has introduced a punitive system at Terminal 2 whereby you are fined £100 (quick pay £40) for 'Failure to park in a designated area'. I was in the 'drop off' forecourt for THREE MINUTES to unload my wife and daughter. At no point was the car parked, (i.e. unattended). Outrageous

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/01/2026

The party that’s “transforming British politics”… into a re-run of the worst government in living memory?

Pie chart graphic entitled “Reforming the old band?” Reform’s MPs are divided into two slices, of which the larger (5/8) comprises former Tory MPs Danny Kruger, Andrew Rosindell, Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman and Lee Anderson. The other three are also annotated with their affiliation to the Conservative party: Nigel Farage was a Tory for 14 years, Richard Tice is a former donor, and Sarah Pochin was a Tory councillor until 2022.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

By glibbly dismissing the sacrifice of his military allies' casualties, Trump, long assessed as incompetent, ignorant and egotistical, has finally defined himself. Worthless.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Trump gives the distinct impression of a confused and poorly educated geriatric, stumbling his way through his declining years, desperately improvising to cover his ignorance.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Dear Donald, If someone with a medical qualification decides, for whatever reason, to give you their qualification certificate and credentials, that does not make you qualified to practice medicine. Peace be without you.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Kendrick was right about one thing. The Tory Party has suffered irreversible damage at the hands of Johnson and his corrupt cronies. A political Titanic, destined for the deep.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

A seasonal message for whoever parked in Market Street and decided that having tidy car is more important than the rest us living in a habitable environment. May you be permanently trapped in your miserable, selfish, psychologically squalid life.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

POTUS's on-line attack on the late Bob Reiner is the clearest evidence yet that Trump's incandescent ego has completely barbeqyed his temporal lobes. Reiner being one of Trump's many detractors doesn't excuse this gross, abhorrent tirade.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

No good deed, thanks to the vicious propaganda campaigns of the billionaire media, now goes unpunished. They hate it when anyone tries to make life better for vulnerable people. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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UK charities face ‘culture of fear’ as threats and violence surge

Exclusive: Charity Commission chief condemns public hostility towards staff helping women and refugees and at places of worship

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Every time the Chancellor mentions another billion pounds, think £18.88 out of your pocket each year. That's £0.36p a week. Then tell me you'll notice it. An extra £10 billion for the NHS will cost you £3.60 a week. The price of a cup of coffee.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Posting on x-crutiating is still like opening the cat-flap in a sewage storm, apparently, according to three journos on BBC this a.m.

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This was a story from just last week.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Trump becomes more of a laughingstock with every social media post. BBC News' credibility remains intact. Johnson's puppet has gone, good.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's family have bestowed high honours on numerous pop celebrities who have openly admitted engaging in sexual activity with underage 'groupies'. Geldhof, et all. Should they join him in disgrace?

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Andrew Windsor's grave mistakes took place at a time when pop stars openly boasted about their hotel rooms being littered with under-age 'groupies'. No action was taken by the authorities. Young Andrew clearly considered himself a celebrity (of a kind) and thought the 'blind eye' applied to him.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

It's difficult to avoid the conclusion that Fergie and Andrew were on Epstein's payroll for years.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This is the Royal equivalent of the amputation of a gangrenous limb to stop the rest of The Firm getting infected. An act of self-preservation. If it was integrity, then they'd have booted Andrew out years ago. They didn't. www.ft.com/content/a7d6...

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King Charles strips Andrew of prince title and ejects him from mansion

Royal subject to ‘censures deemed necessary’ in sharp change of tone by Buckingham Palace

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The grouse on the royal estates must be sighing a sigh of relief this morning. One less brainless eco-vandal dragging his sorry bunch of shooting mates around our scorched moorlands to use living creatures as targets. Or is that too much to hope for?

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

How apt. Trump has left the Statue of Liberty standing while demolishing a significant part of The White House. By their deeds ye shall know them.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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Contact your supermarket today to tell them to call out Red Tractor, and pave the way for robust environmental standards on their products.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 18/10/2025

US spy-tech giant Palantir is moving into our NHS to handle patient data, the same company with a troubling record of surveillance and deportations. Our Tech and Data Lead, Duncan, spoke at Hackney Town Hall as Homerton Hospital considers adopting Palantir software. What do you think?

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 29/09/2025

We’d very much like to know more about this, from Rachel Reeves today 👀

While we were kept apart from our loved ones and feared for our families, the Conservatives partied in Downing Street and dished out contracts to their friends and to their donors.

We are still paying the bill for their waste and their cronyism.

So I’m pleased to tell you that, thanks to our covid corruption commissioner, almost £400 million has now been recovered for taxpayers that had been lost to covid fraud.

And we will continue that fight to recover more from those PPE contracts which failed to deliver.

But we won’t stop there.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Personally, I couldn't give a toot if the ground opened up and swallowed Eurovision and all its works. I know it matters to those involved but would the world be a worse place without out it? Hours of derivative, processed, synthetic noise delivered by a string of narcissists.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

A local election leaflet from the Conservative Party candidate has landed on our doormat, full of parochial promises about parks, bins and potholes. The ghosts of integrity, honesty and responsibility are still patrolling our patch, unaware that they are lingering figments of their own imagination.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Badendock leads the remnants of what had been proven to be the most appallingly corrupt party in British political history. For her to stand in judgement on Raynor's conveyancing mistake is laughable.

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Rick Blears @rickblears.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

South Africa's wealthiest woman is taking her £500m out of the UK to avoid tax. This will affect the economy to the same degree as working families using two fewer packets of bog roll per year. Bog off, woman.

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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

A peacock showing off its art.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Going to have to Update The Stephen King Book Collection.....

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