Reposted by Steve GedgeER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 5hWidespread Europhobia ... and longstanding. 1992. Boris (the other one) Yeltsin was still Pdt of Russia - with other issues on his hands than laying the ground for a future Brexit.But s/b was. "Delors plan to rule Europe" by a certain Telegraph columnist 🤮🤮🤮 writing for a baying, Europe-hating mob. 042
Reposted by Steve GedgeJames Aithie 🏴 @jamesaithie.bsky.social · 2h"Her name was Lola, she was a... oh no she wasn't actually" 🎶 021
Reposted by Steve GedgeRichard Balls @musicbiographer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I’ve been taking part in quite a few events this year. If you would like me to book me to speak at your bookshop, venue or event, send me a message. #bookshops #musicbooks #writing #biography 041
Reposted by Steve GedgeMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 6hNEW | On disappearing stories… MICHAEL GOVE, LOLA SALEM, AND A SUDDEN SILENCE Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...brokenbottleboy.substack.comMichael Gove, Lola Salem, and a sudden silenceWhy did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor? 18252146
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 14hMore clickbait for the hard-of-thinking, bigoted-old-git market! John O'Connell, TPA chief executive, said: "Ministers need to make work pay and reduce barriers to entry for young people wanting to enter the workplace." Which costs money that the TPA doesn't want spent. archive.is/3DKiA#select...archive.is 010
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 14hThe death of balanced, researched local journalism part 194... Yet again Newsquest is happy to use a handout from the TaxPayers' Alliance to reveal - shock, horror, that Great Yarmouth is a deprived area. 330
Reposted by Steve GedgePress Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 15hThe Telegraph is reportedly looking at proposals to make between 50 and 100 journalists redundant, possibly before Christmas www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...theguardian.comTelegraph owner poised to make newsroom job cuts in investment promise U-turnExclusive: German media group Axel Springer said to be planning between 50 and 100 editorial redundancies 055
Reposted by Steve GedgeAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I mean her party is polling on average 18% in the polls. She's 'set' for a general election at Xmas in the same way I'm set for winning a grand slam tennis tournament next week 1271389222
Reposted by Steve GedgeMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Suella Braverman selling 106 copies of her book after all that publicity is so delicious. 1221472307
Reposted by Steve GedgeEuan @euan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026imagining what the second headline would be if she had so much been in the same room once with a left-wing politician 26917
Reposted by Steve GedgeChris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/20261. The independent Taskforce — commissioned by NHS England, backed by government — concluded ADHD is under-diagnosed, under-recognised and under-treated in the UK. Not over. The press has reported the reverse of the finding www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...thetimes.comADHD label ‘risks lifelong harm to children’ as diagnoses surgeLandmark government review warns of a ‘tipping point’ as figures show the proportion of youngsters with an autism diagnosis has risen 40-fold 8559217
Reposted by Steve GedgeAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Here's a thing you won't hear on UK media, fanning itself at the idea of a far right gov't in France: “With the exception of de Gaulle in 1965, no one who was ahead the year before a presidential election, went on to win it. This doesn't mean it can't happen, of course, but it's worth remembering.” 58427
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The BBC is cutting every Reithian-like production to pay for the likes of podcasts on the Spice Girls by Strictly alumni and Daily Mail-lite website lifestyle crap. Axe the BBC's public service aspect and it's impossible to justify its public funding if it's just going to churn out celebrity fluff. 011
Reposted by Steve GedgeAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If you’re reading today’s papers and thinking, did I watch a different Badenoch speech, may I recommend our sanity-restoring review? “The same people who could not build a railtrack from London to Manchester for £100bn, will build the Kemi Death Star for 10bn. It’s so ludicrous as to be offensive.” 1232899
Reposted by Steve Gedgethattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026No comment necessary. 11610
Reposted by Steve GedgeClive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Former Labour Deputy Leader Lord Thomas Watson, now Senior VP at Palantir UK, wrote to me defending their public contracts. Instead of trading letters, I’ve challenged him to an open, public debate. He can defend Palantir’s ethos; I’ll argue for public accountability. Will you accept, Tom? 621029341
Reposted by Steve GedgeMichael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"This Morning" researcher awaits P45... 5151
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Telegraph copies word for word what Reform tell them and bills it an "exclusive". Pathetic! Mr Jukes insisted “he simply invented circumstances for the purposes of not derailing the conversation” and that it was “foolish, loose talk” on his behalf, which he regrets. archive.is/MsUsy#select...archive.is 000
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is the trouble with having a leader who was a minister during the austerity coalition years - he's in no real position to be able to talk about Tory finances. 110
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026An internal investigation! Well that's all right then... 100
Reposted by Steve GedgeAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Coogan, leader of Reform’s Huntingdonshire group, was arrested on suspicion of false statements in his nomination papers; police said enquiries were ongoing on 5 Oct 2026." via Reform Watch 48054
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026In contrast to the toe-curlingly sycophantic story on BBC News this evening! 093
Reposted by Steve GedgeMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...brokenbottleboy.substack.comHere lies Jeffrey ArcherThe death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. 28366154
Reposted by Steve GedgeEast Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 06/10/2026Two days before Norfolk County Council appointed its committee chairs, Ben Goldsborough MP had written to Reform group leader David Bick urging him to withdraw the whip from Karl Catchpole. Catchpole was subsequently made a select committee chair.eastangliabylines.co.ukReform leader says removing whip from Norfolk councillor would be ‘a waste of my time’Concerns about Karl Catchpole’s social media posts were raised with Reform before his election and subsequent committee appointment 056
Reposted by Steve GedgeSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Sophy Ridge: "We can talk now to Lord John McDonnell.." @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social : "I hope you didn't call me Lord John McDonnell then.." "I did, I'm sorry.. would you accept it if you were offered it?" "Of course not. I want to abolish the House of Lords" 1019046
Reposted by Steve GedgeSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera" 1231459371
Reposted by Steve GedgeJohn Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It is quite painful I must say. I saw it on Friday booked for 4.30. Queue #1 took about 15 minutes (to enter the exhibition space). Queue #2 (to the stairs down to the display) took far longer, maybe +45 minutes; queue #3 (parallel to the tapestry) another +20. I was in front of it by 5.45.theguardian.comMary Beard suggests ‘tweaks’ to British Museum’s handling of queues to see Bayeux tapestryClassicist and museum trustee visited the line after people complained of waiting for hours, with some turned away 5278
Reposted by Steve GedgeNick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026City’s slick public relations machine has helped sell us the comfortable delusion that whatever is happening somewhere over *there* isn’t happening *here*. As this case is finally revealing in full, the UAE’s abuse of power is happening right on our doorstep. josimarfootball.com/2026/10/05/m...josimarfootball.comMob Rule - josimarfootball.comManchester City is run by, and in the interests of, the United Arab Emirates, a state whose appetite for conflict and violence is matched by its contempt for rules and norms. By Nick McGeehan, the dir... 195
Reposted by Steve GedgeAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 05/10/2026WHAT? The Daily Mail not checking their facts on a story about going to the khazi? That’s taking the pi…falmouthpacket.co.ukPenzance council sets record straight after Daily Mail's costly toilet mistakeA claim that Penzance has the UK's most expensive public toilets has been branded "a load of nonsense" after the Daily Mail mistakenly reported visitors pay an average of 40p. 1293
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Oh dear! Couldn't happen to a more repugnant organisation.., 000
Reposted by Steve GedgeChris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026At some point you just have to ask 'why does my license fee pay for this sort of chaff?' 1221399269
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"What we clearly need here is a discreet bit of dobbing in. There must be readers who work at Norfolk County Council, or who have other means of peering at what might have been swept under the carpet." Absolutely! 021
Reposted by Steve GedgeRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026'The Right Way' was also the hackneyed slogan adopted by the weak Conservative leader on the first British 'House of Cards'. Chief Whip Francis Urquhart took the pi$$ out of it. 35512
Reposted by Steve GedgeEast Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 03/10/2026Children with SEND may be particularly vulnerable when restrictive intervention leads to exclusion. Norfolk parent Kerrie Langdon argues local authorities should automatically be told when the two occur as part of the same incident.eastangliabylines.co.ukLetter: When restraint and exclusion are part of the same incidentLetter to the editor 073
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'm in my mid 60s and must say that between May 1, 1997 and September 11, 2001 was as good as it got politically. (Not that I felt this then; Blair was obsessed with being re-elected and could have overseen radical changes!) Everything else since 1979 has been eroding our rights/quality of life. 000
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026End of the FA Cup road for Mulbarton after five rounds. Upped their game in the second half but higher status eventually told as Gloucester ran out 2-1 winners. A record attendance of 1,002. 010
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026HT Mulbarton 0 Gloucester 1. Very little for a big home crowd to get excited about after the visitors took a fourth-minute lead. 000
Reposted by Steve GedgeSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ben Walker of Ukip in Holborn & St Pancras. Quite a contest between Restore v Ukip as to which is running furthest & hardest to the right in this byelection 4227
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Must be time for a "fiscal black hole" or "a burden on our grandchildren" revival. 020
Reposted by Steve GedgeHenry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 02/10/2026Intrigued to see the Conservative conference will feature a speech on "press freedom" next week while they ban lobby journalists such as @josiahmortimer.bsky.social from attending their conference. 14315126
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yes, 5p pieces substituted for 1DM coins, helped towards Interrail trips. 090
Reposted by Steve GedgePeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Supplementary Vote is not ‘electoral reform’ 3585
Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Absolutely - and we've still got Andi Peters' All New Top of the Pops plus the BBC2 Sunday-evening programmes to come. It can only get much, much worse! 000
Reposted by Steve GedgeLady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026SNP demand £200m Grangemouth funding as 377 jobs put at risk www.thenational.scot/news/2660294...thenational.scotSNP demand promised £200m for Grangemouth as hundreds of jobs at riskTHE SNP have demanded the UK Government urgently deliver £200 million of promised investment for Grangemouth after almost 400 more jobs were put at risk. 13518
Reposted by Steve GedgeMike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026BBC re-running their headlines from 3 years ago when Sunak released 10,000 prisoners early over 6 months....oh wait, no, that went off without a media fuss. Labour are releasing up to 5,000 early over a year - due to Tory failure to build prison capacity. They only built 36 net new places a year. 23559240
Reposted by Steve GedgeJohnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Another fine historically verifiable Beatles photo has come to light. 9221
Reposted by Steve GedgeNick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This feels like it could be a very big deal. And one would assume HMRC's investigatory powers, which are pretty significant, could reveal further instances of similar behaviour. 181
