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Joseph Healy

@verde1957.bsky.social
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Strategy Officer Transform Party. Retired UNITE member and active pensioner in Southwark Pensioners Dubliner Covid activist and veteran queer activist Hates Fascists, transphobes and anti vaxxers

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Fransglobal @fransglobal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Riding the DART train along Killiney Bay, Dublin 🇮🇪
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When what we call in Dublin "the bleedin' obvious" solutions are staring you straight in the face but idelogy, corruption & bribery blind you from seeing them
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That thug sabotaging rescue efforts, racist riots, flags on lampposts, pink ladies wanting to burn down hotels, doxxing charity workers, ICE-style deportation plans, threats to scrap the Equality Act and leave the ECHR… “legitimate concerns” No. A tornado of hate and prejudice set off by Farage.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 23/09/2026
Macron positions himself as Trump's opposite in last UN speech
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Macron positions himself as Trump's opposite in last UN speech
The French president delivered a forceful defense of multilateralism and international law in the face of 'a new age of barbarism.' His remarks contrasted starkly with those made hours earlier by the American leader.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rebuilding our relationship with the EU “is the cheapest way to boost the economy, the fastest way to unite Europe in the face of security threats and the best way to get leverage on a global system that no longer has an American anchor.” So obvious it hurts. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Brexit has left Britain ‘impotent – a bobbing cork in the sea,’ says David Miliband
Exclusive: Former foreign secretary adds to mounting pressure for a new UK deal with EU to repair Brexit damage
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LordSteveyPofStoke @lordsteveyp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

OSWALD MOSELY  NIGEL FARAGE
THE SAME STORY, SEPARATED BY 80 YEARS... WEALTHY FAMILY, PUBLIC SCHOOL
EX-TORY, PART OF THE ESTABLISHMENT
POPS UP DURING A RECESSION CAUSED BY BANKERS 
FORMS NATIONALIST AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL PARTY 
CLAIMS TO SPEAK FOR THE MAN IN THE STREET
BLAMES MINORITIES AT THE BOTTOM FOR THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY PEOPLE AT THE TOP
Anti-
REFORM
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
While waiting for Trump to enter the signing of the US-Denmark-Greenland agreement at the UN, they chose “Send in the Clowns” as the background music. Yes, it’s real.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
"A brand new CNN poll shows President Trump at an all time low in his approval rating... look at his net approval rating now with pure independents - it's negative 71 points! I mean, these are the deep depths of the ocean. You never see numbers like these. An 86 point shift away from the president!"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I had a massive bust-up over North Sea gas and oil with Lord Jackson on Politics Live today. "It shocks me to the core that sopmeone so ignorant, so ill-informed, sits in the House of Lords." I just wish I could figure out how to clip it. From 20'47" www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Two - Politics Live, 23/09/2026
The big political issues of the day.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Large part of the UK press has been on the wrong side of history, fuelling hatred, social divisions, supporting authoritarianism. Their support for the current Blackshirts has a history (see below) as they continue to support the far-right stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8672...
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today is #ADayWithHIV. Our visibility, as people living with HIV, challenges the ignorance and fear that results in stigma. On 22 Sept every year those of us who feel able to do so share something about our lives. So this is me, shamelessly HIV+. Oh yeah, and the ‘tache has gone… for now.
Me, working out this morning in pink vest, with a smile and a shaved lip.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pathetic Weak Sauce
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The US was warned that arming Islamist extremists would end in disaster. They did it anyway.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Iraq war forever associated Western power with the very things it claimed to prevent: Lawlessness. Violence. Chaos.
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Joseph Healy @verde1957.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just booked my #flujab & #RSV jab for early October. Unfortunately #vaccines only available after Oct 1st so with a #Covidwave and increasing numbers of #influenza cases I will have to be very careful in Dublin over the weekend and early next week #Maskup on transport etc 😷💉
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rich owners/editors of FT call for cut to the state pension. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich. State pension is less than 50% of the minimum wage. 2m pensioners in poverty. 110,000 a year die in fuel poverty. Low pension today = low pension for future retirees archive.ph/UZ9rn
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Britain’s unsustainable pensions lock
It would be better to link state retirement benefits to earnings growth
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Those calling for state pension cut are silent on their tax perks. Gross tax relief on pension contributions £83.9bn. 14% went to 1.1m additional rate tax payers. 57% to 6.6m higher rate (40%) payers. 29% went to 30.4m basic rate (20%) payers. Equalizing it at 20% for all leaves £14.5bn spare.
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rory Stewart interviewed by Michael Gove makes the old argument that people who use private education and private healthcare are “paying quite a lot into the state and taking very little back”. It’s horseshit. But he sounds posh so people will pretend he’s very smart.
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Joseph Healy @verde1957.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Appalling misrepresentation last night on @BBCNewsnight by @vickyspratt Housing Correspondent of i paper of the campaign in #Bermondsey by St James's estate against eviction by landlord. Nothing to do with HMOS for #migrants The campaign is multiracial & opposed to #Farright Not like #Piddington
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
😷 How did a medical mask go from public health protection to public order issue? One designation this summer covered 10 council wards for short march. The restriction applied to people who were not involved or near it. My piece for @netpol.org: netpol.org/2026/09/15/w...
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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ivanna Khrapko, Vice President of the State Employees Union of Ukraine with Andrea Egan, General Secretary of UNISON - at TUC Congress in Brighton. NUM motion on the Zaporizhzhia 15 and reaffirming UK unions' solidarity with Ukraine: ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2026/08/31/f...
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So Danny Tommo seems like a nice guy www.thepoke.com/2026/09/13/f...
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Far right activist Danny Thomas harassed a man on the street for not seeming to support his ‘Stop the Boats’ protest, and now people are calling on the police to step in
Almost a week on from his involvement in a balaclava-d protest in Dover, far right activist Danny Thomas is apparently taking his campaign to the streets of Portsmouth – to harass strangers for not op...
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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Pennsylvania doctors urge children, adults to vaccinate against flu, COVID-19 and RSV as federal guidance remains thin. whyy.org/articles/vac...
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Pennsylvania doctors urge people to vaccinate as flu, COVID-19 season approaches
The beginning of the fall and winter respiratory illness season approaches as health experts deal with ongoing measles outbreaks.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's not AI that could kill us all. It's capitalism New column! 👇 zeteo.uk/p/it-could-k...
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Department of You Couldn't Make This Stuff Up is on fire today 👀
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
No, this is not a joke. UK Lawyers for Israel are trying to proscribe *Médecins Sans Frontières*. That’d mean they’d be treated as terrorists. On the same legal footing as ISIS. Membership would mean 14 years in prison. This is what we’re dealing with
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Romayne Phoenix @romaynephoenix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#Water #Scotland substack.com/@warehamphot...
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Ian Clark (@warehamphotographer)
Unlike England, Scotland chose to retain public ownership of Scottish Water after Thatcher gave the family silver away. Between 2002 and 2019, the company invested 35% more per household than the priv...
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14/09/2026
Nothing says “America First” like having Moscow sponsor the open bar.
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 14/09/2026
Turkish police raid gay bars and LGBTQ+ homes in ‘family values’ crackdown
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Turkish police raid gay bars and LGBTQ+ homes in 'family values' crackdown
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The Reviews Hub @thereviewshub.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#THEATRE #REVIEW Mammy's House @gatehouse.london 'isn’t afraid to be brutal, to be honest and speak the truth of a lost generation, whilst making us laugh along the way' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ thereviewshub.com/mammys-house... #London
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Mammy’s House– Upstairs at The Gatehouse, London - The Reviews Hub
Writer: Amy Clarke Director: Brian Brady An Irish mother named Sally tiptoes downstairs after her first night spent in bed with another woman whilst a young queer 20-something lies sick on the sofa be...
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Upstairs at the Gatehouse @gatehouse.london · 07/09/2026
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "It’s a tale of queer joy, queer humiliation and ultimately queer love that glitters (quite literally) through all, despite the AIDS crisis which looms throughout the narrative action" - @thereviewshub Now playing: MAMMY'S HOUSE 🎟️ nowshow.ing/mammyshouse
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Upstairs at the Gatehouse @gatehouse.london · 05/09/2026
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Clarke and Murphy have created a powerful and unforgettable piece, and this production delivers their story to perfection." Now playing: MAMMY'S HOUSE 🎟️ nowshow.ing/mammyshouse
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Upstairs at the Gatehouse @gatehouse.london · 04/09/2026
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "MAMMY'S HOUSE is a reminder of how important community is and why we must remember the past." - @thenewcurrent Don't miss this piece of new, Queer, Irish theatre 🏠️ 🎟️ Book now: nowshow.ing/mammyshouse
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British Theatre Guide @britishtheatreguide.info · 06/09/2026
Theatre review: Mammy's House from Spoon, Fork, Knife Productions at Upstairs at the Gatehouse www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/mamm...
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Theatre review: Mammy's House from Spoon, Fork, Knife Productions at Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Theatre review of Mammy's House (Amy Clarke & Derek Murphy) from Spoon, Fork, Knife Productions at Upstairs at the Gatehouse - reviewer: Thomas Magill
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Monday.....
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Joseph Healy @verde1957.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I was ill all weekend so unable to attend the post show panel yesterday discussing the play "Mammy's House" at @gatehouse.london as a survivor and someone who contributed to the play and its hinterland about #AIDS and how thousands of Irish gay men were rejected by the state and died in London 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏥
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Protesters clash with police, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Portsmouth after the arrival of a small boat carrying migrants. It is mob rule. Private armies, masked and dressed in black roam the streets, blocking roads, attacking police. Whatever happened to the rule of law and order?
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Hundreds of protesters gather in Portsmouth after small boat arrival - as 'thuggish' behaviour condemned
A "substantial crowd" of demonstrators gathered chanting "stop the boats" and "send them back", with items thrown at police, Sky correspondent Barnaby Papadopoulos says. Watch his report from the scen...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If the American people don’t overwhelmingly reject and repudiate what is happening with this govt, Republican Congress, and Supreme Court this November, then this Republic is doomed. We can survive a criminal regime for a short term, but we can’t survive an ignorant populace.
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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If hundreds of masked men turned up outside a Reform rally where Nigel Farage was speaking just to register their 'concern' I have little doubt that the majority of the UK right-wing media would explode in anger. But they appear pretty sanguine about the current mobs at the coast. #r4today
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faewings @faewings.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Imagine not getting dementia because you got the shingles vaccine!😊💖Studies have proven this! Studies show cardiovascular disease and cerebrovascular disease are lowered risks after the shingles vaccine too! (That's heart attacks and strokes are also a lower risk after the shingles vaccine!)👏😊🌺
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At the same time as banning myself and other journalists from their conference this week, this is who Reform laid out the red carpet for www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Raise the Colours leader given access to Reform UK conference while on bail
Ryan Bridge, arrested this year on suspicion of religiously and racially aggravated harassment, says party invited him
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Today my mom and I got our seasonal flu and COVID vaccines. I was able to get the Moderna mRNA vaccine against *flu*, which substantially outperformed traditional flu shots in its phase III trial. We are in a golden age for vaccine development, if not deployment…
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Efficacy and Safety of an mRNA Seasonal Influenza Vaccine in Adults | NEJM
Seasonal influenza causes substantial illness and death in adults 50 years of age or older, even with current vaccines. An investigational messenger RNA (mRNA)–based vaccine called mRNA-1010 encode...
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Apparently Dick Lice believes we have a "hard socialist government"...🤣 The delusion of these people is off the scale. No attempt to justify their own racism, misogyny or dislike of democracy. The success of the far right in Germany -of all places- should be an awful warning! x.com/TiceRichard/...
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Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 (@TiceRichard) on X
🚨The small-boat invasion has hit Portsmouth. 
The ONLY way to stop the boats is to vote Reform.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Kuenssberg's been telling him off this morning and it's quite satisfying. Just forget the part where she just wants the polite respectable Tories to have a clear run at government without those mouthy Reform upstarts in the way. PS Love his cunty little Reform blue suit, haha fckn nerd.
Kuenssberg interviewing testy little Nigel
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Jeffrey Ⓥ @liftforever67.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#NationalReadABookDay 📚 #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
FUKUYAMA: Everybody was surprised by the toughness of Ukrainians. We’re now in 5th year of the war, and they’re doing things to Russia that nobody expected. Everybody had assumed, “Russia is much bigger country and inevitably going to win.” It’s not clear that’s going to happen.
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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 06/09/2026
Reform members were allowed to vote at conference. The problem is that their votes have “only advisory force”, while the power remains with Farage and the Party Board. For a party built around taking back control from remote elites, Reform is remarkably careful about who actually gets to exercise it
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Reform Members Can Vote. They Cannot Decide
Reform sells itself as a revolt against the political establishment. Its own constitution reveals a rather more controlled democracy.
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Kasey Jones @nikitairoh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 07/09/2026
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The £100 Billion Saving That Lasted Three Days
Reform went to Birmingham promising to save more than £100 billion in its first 100 days. By Sunday it was £80 billion. Even that number does not quite add up.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Vaccines really are amazing scientific accomplishments. The shingles vaccines reduces risk of heart disease. The HPV vaccine has made cervical cancer virtually obsolete. We’re close to an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer. Science for the win! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Does the shingles vaccine cut heart-disease risk? Mounting evidence suggests a link
Large study finds that people who received the ‘recombinant’ vaccine for the viral condition had a lower risk of cardiovascular problems.
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