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Andy B

@sheffieldskate.bsky.social
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#Pompey fan born in #Basingstoke lived in #Hull lives in #Sheffield when I'm not watching the blues I'm watching the blues #Hallamfc

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Andy B @sheffieldskate.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
#Muslims #fascim #iran
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Incredible bravery at Bondi beach as a witness wrestles a gun from one of the attackers. youtu.be/SJtq75x_IWA?...
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Video shows bystander tackling and disarming one of the shooters at Sydney’s Bondi Beach
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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BNO News @bnonews.com · 14/12/2025
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
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Andy B @sheffieldskate.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Watching #England tonight and over the last few games makes you think we wasted at least 2 tournaments with whith Southgate who was actually completely shit
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Neil Allen @pn-neil-allen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Morrell was short in stature but an absolute giant in #Pompey title-winning dressing room. When he got injured, he wasn’t truly replaced in midfield, but that promotion juggernaut was never stopping. An intelligent interviewee, top guy and superb pro. Forever in Fratton folklore.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
On the money.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Charlie Kirk was killed for saying things "that used to be simple common sense," says Boris Johnson. Here's a few of those things
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Andrew Moon @mrandrewmoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Who Needs Mourinho? out tomorrow to preview a certain forthcoming match Please fire over your questions.... #Pompey
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The bigger point: stamp duty is a confusing mess. The tax shouldn't exist. The second home surcharge is daft. Why are we taxing someone who buys two £500k homes £55k (£15k + £40k), But someone who buys one £1m home £43k? Where's the logic?
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
University redundancies in recent days: Bournemouth, Cranfield, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier, UCL. And this is before the deluge that will start in the new academic year. An urgent, overwhelming danger to key national assets. Nothing will be done.
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Andrew Moon @mrandrewmoon.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
New episode of Who Needs Mourinho out early in the week so fire over any questions…. #Pompey
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Neil Allen @pn-neil-allen.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
'Bishop continues to be a talismanic presence for #Pompey and even when battered, bruised and unable to walk - like Saturday - he somehow manages to pick himself up and strike back.' My verdict on 1-1 draw at West Brom.
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West Brom 1 Pompey 1: Neil Allen's verdict - He gets knocked down, he gets up again
A hard-earned point for the Blues at West Brom, with their talismanic striker bouncing back yet again
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
The Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invasion is the reason I came back to social media. There are many heroes in that resistance, but for me it began with the crucial decision of President Zelenskyy to refuse to surrender or evacuate. ✊🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
There is *something* in this, in the sense that there are identifiable DNA haplogroups in which you can roughly tell where someone is from. So there's an identifiable west European Y-DNA group that takes in England.... and several other countries
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Michelle Moore @trebula.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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explore.org @explore.org · 17/06/2025
Puffin Party. #birds
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 17/06/2025
"Israel is doing the West a huge service — for which the Jewish state is paying in blood — that much of the West still obdurately refuses to realise" | ✍️ Melanie Phillips
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Wake up West, Iran is a threat to us all
Israel was told that Tehran’s nuclear potential was at a critical point and had no choice but to attack
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
'Tens of millions of people died as a direct result of Stalin’s policies between 1924 and his death. These policies included the forced collectivisation of agriculture, the Gulag labour camp system and the “great terror”' But 'By 2023, 63% of Russians had an overall positive view of his leadership.'
theconversation.com
Why is Stalin back in the Moscow metro?
Joseph Stalin is making a comeback in Russia.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 16/06/2025
London buses are covered in adverts urging us all to watch this for free through DAZN, a streaming service owned by the ever-curious character of Len Blavatnick (whose representatives will phone you all weekend if you dare to call him an “oligarch”), who used $1bn of Saudi cash to buy the rights.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
“Few things unite supporters of Reform like opposition to benefits for anyone other than themselves. While the removal of the Winter Fuel Allowance was cruel and callous penny-pinching, the two-child cap is, if anything, far too generous”
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Is Reform a right-wing party?
If the problem with Labour is that it believes in nothing, the problem with Reform is that it believes in everything
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Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Uncanny
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
You wish. Trouble is they also understand the (im)moral and political power of those who already own their homes and don't want anymore built where they live lest it spoil their views, lower their house prices (and/or 'the tone' of their neighbourhoods), and let in NIMBY Lib Dems. See 2010-2024.
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Simon Clarke: Conservatives understand the moral and political power of homeownership | Conservative Home
We need to face up to the hard truth that every planning rejection in a high-demand area is not just a lost home—it is a lost voter, a lost future, and a fraying thread in the Conservative social cont...
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Football Heritage @footballheritage.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🎙️ New Podcast: Bursaspor We’re joined by Uygar, Cafer and Fatih to hear the unique story of Bursaspor. From Süper Lig champions to the 3. Lig in 14 years, Bursaspor fans have had their fair share of ups and downs. Listen on your preferred platform here ⬇️ linktr.ee/footyheritage
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The Kotzer From The Zack Lagoon @zaaack.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
One of the funniest jokes in TV history big RIP
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
People apparently think they’re being clever when they tell abuse victims to leave once a relationship turns abusive. In reality they’re demonstrating they know nothing about how abuse works at either a psychological or practical level
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Keir Starmer has found Nigel Farage’s weak spot – and it is Trussonomics. Me for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-...
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Keir Starmer has found Nigel Farage’s weak spot – and it is Trussonomics
The prime minister looks as if he is being pushed around by five-MP Reform, but at least he is taking the fight to them on issues that matter to the voters, writes John Rentoul
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Sharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
SSE's annual results show that energy companies continue to profiteer from the pockets of everyday people. The cost of living crisis isn't over yet SSE is making billions and lining the pockets of their overseas shareholders. 🧵1️⃣
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Andy B @sheffieldskate.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
##libdems
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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Public spending was skashed while the rich benefitted from cheap money. "Britain became a country of wildly overpriced houses and flash cars .. while the local council is insolvent"
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
On Brexit Wars, the umpteenth sequel in a tired fantasy franchise and the possibility that, in the latest episode, reality may be fighting back .. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In the never-ending Brexit Wars saga, reality is finally fighting back | Rafael Behr
Voters can see that, in the world of Trump and Putin, Britain’s future is European. Westminster is playing catch-up, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/05/2025
Keir Starmer reads out a list of businesses that have come out in support of the UK-EU agreement, including: The CBI British Chambers of Commerce Salmon Scotland ASDA Vodafone Ryanair The British Retail Consortium
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17/05/2025
"This week, the message from the government was that I – and thousands like me – are 'low-skilled'. Tell that to the people we look after and the families who love them." It's time to recognise care work as skilled - and pay carers accordingly.
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It is time to call care workers like me skilled – and pay us properly for all we do
As the government ends a visa scheme for overseas carers to bring down ‘low-skilled’ migration, care worker and manager Wendy Evered, 60, from Leeds, asks why those doing some of society’s most…
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 16/05/2025
This is great reporting... and honestly, every single time I try to work out how something confusing works in London (and probably therefore the UK) then to misquote Super Hans, "the secret ingredient is fraud".
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Today's university making redundancies is Greenwich. Yeah, like we don't need any architects do we. This madness will run and run until someone - anyone - gets a grip. While it continues, loads of the cash down the drain used to be yours. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/greenwi...
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Greenwich architecture school faces mass job cuts as university plans 300 redundancies
EXCLUSIVE: Lecturers at Greenwich University’s architecture school have been left ‘angry and disillusioned’ by plans for a restructure that put over 300 university staff at risk, including dozens in t...
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 14/05/2025
Australia’s wage growth remains solid. But now the recovery needs to be sustained | Greg Jericho
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Australia’s wage growth remains solid. But now the recovery needs to be sustained | Greg Jericho
The government must not let up on policies which enable workers to bargain for decent pay rises * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Labor swept to victory on 3 May after a campaign dominated by concerns about the cost of living. But the latest wage and home lending data should impress upon the government that, in three years, they may not be so lucky. First the good news – wage growth remains solid. In the March quarter of this year, overall wages grew 0.9%, and for the past year wages were up 3.4%. That is a good result. We should celebrate wage growth, and not submit to the spin of business groups who preach bankruptcy and recession whenever wages rise. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
@timleunig.bsky.social (h/t @stephenkb.bsky.social) Source: timleunig.substack.com/p/internatio...
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Tom Garry @tomjgarry.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The Women's Championship 'Rising Star' award goes to Portsmouth's Sophie Quirk #WPLLawards #Pompey
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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
British property management firms are almost certainly helping Russians who own property in the UK to sidestep sanctions, a report has found "Once again, opaque corporate structures and enablers in professional services have been used to keep dirty money in UK property," said @joepowell.bsky.social
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British Property Management Firms Helping Russians Avoid Sanctions
British property management firms are almost certainly helping Russians who own property in the UK to sidestep sanctions, a new report has found.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/05/2025
We can’t just be against Trump. It’s time for a bold, progressive populism | Robert Reich
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We can’t just be against Trump. It’s time for a bold, progressive populism | Robert Reich
A populist – anti-establishment – revolution was inevitable. But it didn’t have to be a tyrannical one
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The UK-India trade deal does *not* make it cheaper and easier for a number of major companies based in the UK to employ Indian workers. That is a fundamental, elementary misconception. Visa cap stays, and you have to be seconded within an Indian company. The rest is just... lies.
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Andy B @sheffieldskate.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Fvck of #farage #reformuk #pompey #pup
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Reform’s desire to ban Ukrainian flags is a stark reminder of who Farage really is. Me for Independent Premium www.independent.co.uk/voices/refor...
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Reform’s desire to ban Ukrainian flags is a stark reminder of who Farage really is
Prohibiting ancient county flags by mistake is one thing, but imposing an intentional ban on support for Ukraine is quite another, writes John Rentoul
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Andrew Moon @mrandrewmoon.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
“Who Needs Mourinho?” #Pompey season review is out tomorrow. Please fire over your questions… We’ll be doing a contracts/transfers episode the following week so save those questions for then
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
After Zia Yusuf says only the Union Flag and St George's Cross will fly on Reform-controlled council buildings, Labour MP Mike Tapp says: "It tells you all you need to know about Nigel Farage’s Reform that their very first act is to ban the Ukrainian flag from our town halls."
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A critical point in today's post. A lot of people assume that Labour places going Reform mean Labour voters are going Reform. But it doesn't.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Let's be clear: a single person, administration and policy choice bear most of the responsibility for what's going on in universities. By dissolving any semblance of a planning or numbers system, George Osborne set in motion a process that could only and inevitably bring the HE sector to its knees.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Social democracy is about joy - enabling people to live and love a full life in technicolor and widescreen. About offering light, building up hopes for the future. The moment it is about the past, still less getting into a defensive crouch about the present, it ceases to be social democracy.
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PompeyNewsNow 🎙️ PO4cast @pompeynewsnow.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
⚽️ 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗗𝗔𝗬! ⚽️ 💙 #Pompey v Hull City 🎙️ #PO4cast preview with Kathryn Batte: linktr.ee/pompeynewsnow #EFL #HCAFC
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Somebody call the police! The cultural dimension of my political compass is eating the economic dimension!
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