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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 1h

It’s propaganda to justify the killing of American Muslims.

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Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸 @alherix.bsky.social · 2h

Literally the least discriminated group in USA. And that is who Trump administration spends money and energy protecting

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 4h

Pleased Bluesky has grown into live posting on Traitors. (Hannah will still be banished by the fear of ‘officially clever people’. Shame)

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 6h

Coming on top of the axing of The World Tonight it really seems as if #BBC are determined to wreck R4. Especially depressing that Thinking Allowed will go - SFAIK it's the only programme in UK media dedicated to (mainly academic) social science research. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 5h

Approx 7.5 billion people will continue to refer to AI The Gulf of Mexico Lake Ontario The Mad Orange King And there’s not a thing the senile paedophile you elected can do about that.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 11h

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 7h

Trump. The Gulf of American Intelligence.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12h

Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 14h

Nb be aware that it’s really “What gets measured gets done or fiddled”

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 14h

There’s another option, shorter term: re-open Ebbsfleet or Ashford instead, and use Javelin trains as connections (with integrated ticketing thanks to GBR?) to join those up But there, just as in Stratford, you also need to pay border staff

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 15h

So, how is democracy and accountability going at Stormont…?

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 18h

I suspect there are reasons - they are the people judged by Trump/Hegseth/whoever as less likely to support further illegal acts to overturn or ignore your next sets of elections.

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Badenoch claims £2,700 a month from the taxpayer to rent a grade II-listed farmhouse with six bedrooms. The property sits within the highest council tax bracket, costing over £4,000 in council tax a year, which the Essex MP also claims on expenses. "Best welfare" is being an MP.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Aufgefressen” bei Reform. Genau.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What is the movie that came out before you were born that you've watched the most times?

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

She’s designing an Eschermobile.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also, innumeracy makes (some) people think a 3% death rate would be small. That would be 10 million Yanks and 2 million Brits.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I can’t spot anything that might be accurate/plausible

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is it Pork-barrel politics when it goes mainly to Horses and Cows?

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is, in fact, calculated incitement of racist conspiracies to support far-right racist parties in Europe

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Johnson strategy method: 1. Think of a phrase that will sound cool/tough for defence/health/anything 2. Think of a number that will sound like a lot. Ends. Announce The Phrase and The Number.

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Decided not to include Donald Trump's thoughts on the French school protests in my reporting, for roughly the same reason that I didn't include a quote from the guy in my neighbourhood who stands on his balcony every afternoon shouting abuse at passers-by . . . Anyway, here's the latest 👇

thelocal.fr

LATEST: French high schools to remain closed as 250,000 join protests

More than 250,000 demonstrators took to the street in France on Tuesday, as unions and teachers joined protests by high school students. Meanwhile the Prime Minister announced that high schools (lycée...

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Ashwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Re the debate on the cliff edge where tax-free childcare is lost at £100k leading to people keeping their income below this amount, it’s obvious that such cliff edges are bad as it skews decisions about work – no-one should be worse off if their earnings increase. /1 🧵

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was presuming the NI element wouldn’t change but hadn’t realised the “62%“ from 100K included the NI bit. I was throwing out the 47%(+2) from 100K, but recognise it may need to be higher depending on employee no.s in the 100-125 band vs no.s the 125+ band.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But gov dot uk has England & Wales top tax rate at 45%, Dan? (Scotland 48%) Maybe 47% on everyone over 100K wouldn’t be enough to recover the 62% from 100 to 125 but there must be a number that would

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our house had a missile defence system aka ‘fabric dome’ (thick curtains) Tbf it worked on the one occasion we suffered from ‘incoming’ blast and material.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also. He says he can’t remember who he voted for in 2024 He’s a liar.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not just banks, Dave. He did a review of a small business centre between Cirencester & Cheltenham last week.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The UK has shrunk by 22% since 1900 though…

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wonder, if the top level was moved down to 100K, how much it would have to be raised to recoup the 62% currently received on the 100-125K range, given that it would apply all the way up from 100K? 47, 48%?

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I would think the numbers affected by the simple 62% at £100K would be significantly higher, even though everyone is focusing on the childcare aspect.

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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 01/10/2026

New Reform Facebook ads targeting the over 60s: "We will protect your pension and end benefits for migrants"

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

PFLW - Popular Front for the Liberation of Wessex.

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 05/10/2026

Today we are able to see the contradiction of oil pricing as a result of the new systems created by #TheHormuzCrisis. More oil is moving and futures have eased. Yet petrol and diesel prices at the pump remain high. This is a sign of things to come in the new global systems if not fixed.

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

France has a glut of very good WWII films out at the moment, but I've been really struck by the fact that these are not really about the 1940s at all, they're about modern politics as France faces the possibility of its first far-right government since Vichy

Poster for film Notre Salut (A Man of his Time)

Poster for Part 2 of the De Gaulle film (La bataille De Gaulle, J'écris ton nom)

Poster for Part 1 of the De Gaulle film (La Bataille De Gaulle, L'age de fer)

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think there are also other, fairly immediate and pragmatic reasons, not to call a Scottish person English!

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So, was it Dutch exit border control that stopped you in Rotterdam?

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As a visitor to London I also regret the insertion of a puzzle-diagram into the process of deciding how to get from A to B. See also Northern Line(s). (And don’t give me any of your Mornington Crescent banter)

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Gold is in the bank behind her. She has to run the Tiger Tank every 4 hours or it stops working. But Healey & ‘Oddball’ Burnham will persuade her to share the loot.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Amazing! I wonder how many other ‘facts’ like this the US & MAGA world view is based on?

Outline of Texas with Europe, Canada & the entire world (&Texas again) fitted inside it.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

1930s Blackshirts 2020s Blackshorts & Blackards.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Question: How do people today know when the blackshorts are going to blockade Dover with 300 anonymous racists?

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026

Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.

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Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Marco is not comfortable with that joke

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