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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo | Party funding | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/... < seems predictable - more crypto-currency support for crypto-fascists. Dodgy finance for dodgier politicians.

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Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo

Party leader, Nigel Farage, says he is humbled by the contributions from cryptocurrency billionaires

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Remember the good old days, when the right were arguing vociferously against the right of folk to wear face-coverings and all-over black outfits, like the niqab and the burka?

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The hypocrisy of Reform is never more evident than in the area of free speech, which they bang on in favour of re utterances from some of their racist members, but which they deny when one of their own, Tim Montgomerie, makes constructively critical comments about Reform itself

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Who says the BBC is full of fake news? Definitely one for #BBCVerify!

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So Trump, hearing that Iran may be planning to shoot down his current plane, switches to another plane - BUT leaves his own staff and the Presidential Press Pack as decoys on the original flight! Those bone spurs are clearly still doing their thing!

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Help RITA put the BIN back in BRITAIN. #Clacton - Vote #Binface on Thursday!

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is incredibly good; both at tearing down the 'Boriswave' term (and shame on any Labour people who have used it) and pointing to the actual outcomes of the govt's irresponsible, idiotic and irredeemable immigration policies. We're fighting with a meme.

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Clacton Residents: Vote Count Binface to save taxpayers over a quarter of a million £££! That's what this bye-election is costing, and what the next one will also cost when Farage is found to have transgressed parliamentary rules. SAVE YOUR CASH - VOTE BINFACE

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Cracking night at the Eel Pie Club with the Forty Fours. A young band who really get what the 60's Mersey Sound was all about. If you get a chance to see them - don't miss it.

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Labour’s deputy leader Lucy Powell has been appointed as education secretary in a reshuffle by new prime minister Andy Burnham schoolsweek.co.uk/lucy-powell-...

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Lucy Powell appointed as education secretary

Labour's deputy leader replaces Bridget Phillipson at the Department for Education

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The US needs to realise that soccer isn't like their Superbowl and the NFL. Our football is actually exciting and entertaining in its own right, and it doesn't need musicians and razzmatazz to make a game worthwhile and watchable.

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Never seen so many muppets at a half-time break in a match. Sadly only four of them were actual Muppets. #worldcup2026

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What trite, sentimental, turgid stuff those poor teams are having to put up with before getting to play their final. Only in the US - never knowingly undersold. Coming soon no doubt - a half-hour half-time with more of the same #worldcup2026

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Read all about the Winners of the 2026 BESA Awards | BESA buff.ly/8y6gwS9 < with lists of the runners and riders....

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It's annoying that the NY Times, in keeping with the general ethos of Trump's America, now rigs the Connections categories so that only folk in the US can win

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Things that would improve social media enormously #14: Ban people who ask "Does anyone remember...?" or "Who remembers... ?"

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So the Clacton bye-election will be fought between a third-rate comedian with more money than sense, and Count Binface. The people of Clacton deserve better....

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So at least one of the candidates has actually been to Clacton...

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It has just been said that Nigel Farage intends to spend the summer campaigning in Clacton. So he'll be spending more time there now than he did while their MP! They deserve better...

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

How does #BBCNN News night have the good sense to book the well-informed and thoughtful Mohamed El+Erian and Gillian Tett, but the same team then books the disaster area that is Baroness Therese Coffey, side-kick of Liz Truss?

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

JadePuffer ransomware used AI agent to automate entire attack | Bleeping Computer buff.ly/OmXCkHA < We aren't hearing enough about this. Researchers identified the first documented case of a ransomware operation conducted entirely by a large language model (LLM) agent.

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The pardon of Ruth Ellis is long overdue in more enlightened times, despite her clear & stated intent to kill her coercive, controlling lover. But a 'conditional pardon'? What are the conditions? And can you meaningfully reverse a capital punishment after death?

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Crapita manage to screw up yet another stage of their handling of the Civil Service Pension Scheme. The incompetence of the organisations that win public sector contracts, such as Crapita, Pearsons and Group 4 show why Thatcherite-style outsourcing is such a total failure

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Things it is hard to understand about Parliament #234 Why does the Parliamentary Standards enquiry into Farage have to be suspended just because he has resigned? Especially as he intends to return. It won't change the result & it may even avoid the need for a second bye-election.

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

SATs results delayed by Pearson marking fiasco | Schools Week buff.ly/bivQbLC < Pearson called on maths markers to help get through the outstanding grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS) tests, in what was described as an “omnishambles”.

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SATs results delayed by Pearson marking fiasco

Results will now be delivered on 16 July, says exams giant, over a week later than planned

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

DfE need to stop publishing bullshit reports – MediaTaylor buff.ly/zv5wmDb < Dick takes no prisoners but raises very pertinent issues on the DfE's latest Ed Tech 'Report' data. Dodgy reports do no-one involved in ed tech any good, & it's a world full of committed passionate people deserving better

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DfE need to stop publishing bullshit reports – MediaTaylor

Over the last 10 years I have read most of the edtech ‘reports’ commissioned by the DfE. The latest, Assessment of the education technology market in England, was published in June. Commissioned from…

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Just read the latest post from an anthropogenic climate change denier, claiming that the rise in CO2 is not the cause of climate change. Checked the bio, and he claimed to be a "Philosopher, working primarily in logic". You have to laugh.... or cry!

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Goodbye Radio 4 on Long Wave - the pre-internet way of keeping up via the car radio while on holidays in France. The shipping forecast will never sound the same again.

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Built to be evaded: why Australia’s and the UK’s social media bans were broken before they began | MediaTaylor buff.ly/HblTYhZ < Australia’s eSafety Commission’s recent report states that roughly 70% of under-16s are still using the banned platforms. Useful analysis.

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

ICYMI: Revamped Ofsted inspections have left headteachers feeling 'overwhelmingly negative' about the visits with some vowing to quit the profession, an independent survey has found schoolsweek.co.uk/heads-overwhelmin…

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Heads 'overwhelmingly negative' about new Ofsted inspections

100 leaders share experience of revamped Ofsted inspections in new survey

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Remember when you used to vanity trip by checking Google to see what it knew about you? Well now you can check if you are important enough to get AI's attention! IN THE WEIGHTS: buff.ly/OEIarGw

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We turned off Microsoft's Study & Learn agent. Here is what it would take to turn it back on | Teachnology Global buff.ly/Ybor1cD < "The agent's behaviour, as shipped, is in clear violation of our assessment policy and our AI use policy." With proposals for what's needed.

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Trump's insistence that the algal bloom in the Reflecting Poll is due to vandalism seems to be true. Apparently some idiot ripped out the new filtration system installed during Obama's refurbishment of the area, and sprayed blue paint everywhere!

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Tonight was about watching "The Darkest Hour" followed by the World Cup. At least Germany only won the second.... #bornin1945

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We should all be grateful to the crypto-millionaire Christopher Harborne who gave grifter Farage that £5million. Thanks to him, Farage is now not only not seen in Clacton, he's not seen on the BBC, or indeed anywhere at all where he may be asked questions. Money well spent....

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

So this is the BBC’s neat way to watch overnight World Cup highlights with no spoilers… bbc.co.uk/nospoilers This will take you to a World Cup highlights page on BBC iPlayer, which will have highlights for every match without telling you who has won.

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World Cup Highlights - BBC iPlayer

Watch TV programmes from the World Cup Highlights collection on BBC iPlayer.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Screen use by children aged 5-16: call for evidence - Department for Education - Citizen Space buff.ly/CXp1NX5 < call for evidence seeking evidence to inform the development of new parental guidance resources on screen use for children and young people aged 5-16.

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Schools 'expected' to use government route to buy MIS | Schools Week buff.ly/xWvmPnO < this has been a mess since the LA procurements of the 90s - let's hope this resolves it. But you have to smile at the claim that 'Bromcom litiginous' is unfair and defamatory!

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Tony Parkin @tonyparkin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A reminder, we're celebrating 20 years of #TeachMeet with a cross-border UK/Irish online Teachmeet 3rd July, 8 to 9.30pm. Sign up for the Zoom here: us06web.zoom.us/meet... Sign up to give a talk here: docs.google.com/form... PLEASE SHARE! #teachmeetukie #teachmeet20 #tmbett

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Here’s a decade of Trump promising no new wars. I guess this all comes as news to the @nytimes.com.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

DfE pupil data is out today and shows that the number of private school pupils has dropped 5.6% since VAT was introduced. Not 25% like the independent schools council predicted. Or the 50% we saw in some right-wing papers. 5.6%.

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