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Simon O’Hana

@soh1956.bsky.social
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Bibliophile, civil engineer, football fan (Athletic Bilbao, Manchester United, and Dorking Wanderers)

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3h
Every Right Wing Goverment ever.
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I listened to the interview and concluded Robinson was an arrogant entitled prick, full of his self-importance and rude in the extreme. BBC increasingly loosing balance, objectivity and influence
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/10/2026
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 10/10/2026
"The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage of Badenoch ... and the utterly dismissive coverage of Polanski, who has significantly improved his party’s standing over the past year, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK" www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/why-the-ho...
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Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this is disgusting, the Trump goon show descends into new depths of barbarous depravity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley
A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration’s complete moral vacuity
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
fuck these people www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Top bosses at Goldman Sachs to share bonus pot worth up to $500m
Eye-watering sum, to be split between 20 bankers, is one of the biggest payouts in the bank’s history
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 08/10/2026
Please submit your small ideas for fixing Britain to the Small-Ideas.org website. It’s a new charitable initiative I’ve set up to try and make sure life’s potholes don’t get ignored. Working with two charities and a cross party panel to turn your ideas into policy then try and make it happen.
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
can we get rid of noisy motorbikes on the roads please. one inconsiderate person causing a nuisance to hundreds, sometimes thousands
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
brilliant. this is not the first time the common people have bested greedy big business. see Bimblebox vs Warratah Coal
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
como una cabra
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Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today, we've published a new report with @compulsoryvoting.bsky.social. In it, we make the case that compulsory voting could help to address the political inequality caused by extreme economic inequality. 🔗 Read the full report here: fairnessfoundation.com/the-missing-...
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is key: “a foreign entity tried to subvert English football, … took this country’s greatest cultural mode, and all the passion and all the feeling, all the sorrow and all the joy, all the love it has entailed, and tried to twist it for its own political ends” www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Let there be blanks instead of Manchester City’s name on trophies: there was no honour there | Jonathan Wilson
The spaces can stand as a memorial to these lost years both as a rebuke to an era of greed but also a tribute to the Premier League’s hunt for justice
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I just supported this case! www.crowdjustice.com/case/fightin...
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UK Government scraps chemical safety laws - so we're going to court
George Monbiot, Georgia Elliott-Smith and Steve Hyndside are Fighting Dirty, using the law to stop harmful pollution in its tracks. Find out more and follow our work at https://fightingdirty.org/
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wonderful Party Political Broadcast by the Green Party, made me cry and made me remember why our party is so important and why I’ve put in so much time campaigning for @zackpolanski.bsky.social in Holborn & St Pancras. Join me here this weekend and next week, let’s get another Green MP…
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Green Party Political Broadcast | Protecting Our Children’s Future
YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The difficult task of supporting it through mine closure is nothing to the task of adapting to catastrophic global heating.”
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 01/10/2026
The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina Woods
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The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina Woods
There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair? The Independent Planning Commission’s published reasons for approving the largest coalmine in New South Wales history in the context of mounting death, disaster and despair brought on by global heating reads like a hostage statement. In its decision, the commission accepts that the extension of the Hunter Valley Operations’ mine for a further 19 years – resulting 809m tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution – will materially worsen global warming. The panel members cite CSIRO’s finding that climate change is having a growing effect on the lives and livelihoods of all Australians and that the severity of that impact “will depend on the speed at which global greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced”. They reject the idea that keeping HVO’s coal in the ground would make no difference to global warming. Continue reading...
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
my favourite cartoonist www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … the Manchester City verdict and Nations League tensions
Our cartoonist on the Premier League’s ruling finally being revealed and Israel v Republic of Ireland
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this is a good idea www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Switzerland’s love of referendums keeps the far right at bay | Joseph de Weck
Brexit gave direct democracy a bad name. But the Swiss approach could be what Europe needs now, says Guardian Europe contributor Joseph de Weck
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Watch our full conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGE9...
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Are Fascists Driving Us Towards the "End Times"? (In Conversation w/ Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein)
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“What was once a site only accessible to a few hundred golf club members is now open to everyone.” I’ve always hated golf courses for their elitist, exclusive nature, that and ‘golf’, yawn 🥱 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’
National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
what a disappointment; who can you trust? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
unfit to be even associated with the great Manchester United, what a prick
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Robert De Niro: “I want my country back.” So do millions of Americans. A country where free speech matters, the press isn’t the enemy, and no president is above the law. Fight for it. VOTE BLUE. Every race. Every ballot. 🔵 🇺🇸 #USDemocracy #RisingBlue youtube.com/shorts/kseTb...
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Robert De Niro: “I Want My Country Back” 😳 #RobertDeNiro #Trump #Shorts
YouTube video by Lamont Tyson
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Our message to global leaders: we need solar power everywhere by the decade’s end | Open letter
As the UN gathers, signatories from Bernie Sanders to Yeb Saño issue an open letter calling for clean power for all
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
what a prize twat he’s turned out to be www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … Jim Ratcliffe lamenting the decline of once-mighty empires
Our cartoonist on Manchester United’s billionaire joint-owner showing a startling lack of self-awareness
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 19/09/2026
'Facism thrives when you let it.' Portsmouth RNLI temporarily suspended services after volunteers received abuse following an anti-migration protest. @mrjamesob.bsky.social says it's one of the most 'disgusting' stories he's heard throughout his career.
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
shame on him www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Zack stood wth a big sign saying green party zack
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Sign the Petition
Save Weston Big Wood from development
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
i like this www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘Four Ways of Looking at a Hoopoe’
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This case has far reaching and serious implications for each and every one of us. And we need you all to help us crowdfund.
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
thought this for years, decades www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or conscience. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists
Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
get in Ed! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Ed Miliband has overturned decades of Foreign Office inertia on illegal Israeli settlements
Foreign secretary ends UK’s feigned helplessness with sanctions and condemnation of ‘ethnic cleansing’
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 08/09/2026
🛁 TIME TO COME CLEAN Ministers and officials have been muddying the waters over taking public control of Thames Water – it’s time to set the record straight ⬇️ goodlaw.social/swoe
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Thames Water: Ofwat must correct the government’s legal errors | Good Law Project
Ministers and officials have been muddying the waters over taking public control of Thames Water – it’s time to set the record straight
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Extinction Rebellion London Actions MoM (Movement of Movements) @xrlondonactions.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🚨 EMERGENCY DEMO: STOP JACKDAW Fossil Free London organised this amazing action 👏 ❤️ Today at Parliament Square. Messages were: • Tipping points ahead; stop Jackdaw gas * Keep it in the ground * More gas = more deaths * Stop the drilling, stop the killing * Fossil fuels? Andy Don't Burn'em
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
a classic fascist ploy used by dictators everywhere. see Franco and basque, catalan, galician and more up to 1975 in Spain
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The politicians are finally back in Westminster today. If you don’t want Andy Burnham to advance NHS privatisation (like Starmer was doing 🚨), hit the like button and share this. Let’s see what everyone thinks… 🌟
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
read some good news www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot
Critically endangered New Zealand bird enjoys record breeding season triggered by mass fruiting of native tree, pushing its numbers to 325
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“The first task must be to stop making the crisis worse. The countries that benefited most from decades of fossil fuel-driven growth have a particular responsibility to cut emissions rapidly.” ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION PRIME MINISTER BURNHAM?! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis | Sunil Acharya
Nepalis and Tibetans must not pay the price – with their lives, livelihoods and money meant for education and health – for global heating caused by wealthy states, says Kathmandu-based climate policy ...
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Simon O’Hana @soh1956.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Dolly Parton was the polar opposite of our bullying president | Robert Reich
Terrified of being seen as a loser, Donald Trump is nonsensically lashing out – even against our old friend Canada
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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Eurasian Scops Owl (Otus scops): 21cm (8.3in). This small owl is aka the European scops owl or just scops owl. This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl. Beautiful photo taken by Luca Vignati in Italy #scopsowl #nature
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When I saw this on a wheel cover, I thought it was a spoof. But the Chelsea Truck Co is real. It trades in "iconic urban 4x4s". "Iconic" seems to mean huge. What the hell is an "urban 4x4"? What's it for, apart from driving over pedestrians and cyclists? Why is it legal? www.chelseatruckcompany.com
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Bespoke Defenders to G-Wagons & Alloy Wheels | Chelsea Truck Company
Chelsea Truck Company creates bespoke, handcrafted automotive design for Defenders, G-Wagons, Jeeps and luxury vehicles. Discover custom interiors, body kits, alloy wheels and exclusive styling packag...
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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 28/08/2026
Scientists have found evidence of a long-hidden link between an ancient buried ash layer in Scandinavia and a concealed supervolcano in eastern England, changing our understanding of England’s geological past. 🌋 www.bgs.ac.uk/news/secrets...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’
Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti
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