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Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧

@andyfree.bsky.social

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Father, husband, son, grandad, Yorkshireman, Blades 🔴⚪️⚫️⚔️, YCCC, Redsox, 🌹District Councillor, Open University alumni - sociology & economics, trade unionist, mediator, Bluesman and Tom Waits is God #FBPE

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Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · 2d

Uncanny

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Zeb Ulon @ampshade.bsky.social · 2d

also the guy who says he killed Osama bin Laden. very illustrious career!

Fox News has faced ridicule online for repeatedly interviewing masked "guests" - supposedly a "former Antifa member," an "ex-gang member, and others - who all appear to have the same build, eyes, and voice, leading viewers to suspect it's the same man each time.
Internet sleuths recently compared screenshots and suggested the mystery guest resembles Robert J. O'Neill, the former Navy SEAL who claims to have fired the kill shot on Osama bin Laden.
O'Neill, who's been a frequent Fox News contributor and commentator for years, has a long history of appearances on the network. The recurring use of masked figures resembling him has sparked fresh criticism of Fox's credibility and its penchant for sensational, poorly vetted segments.

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Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · 2d

Kids’ entertainment, then and now.

Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · 6d

Ice Nazis

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · Sep 8

Reform UK Councillor, Sam Journet has been arrested for stalking, harassment and public disorder in the council offices.

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · Sep 8

We’ve bought a house in Clacton by mistake

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · Sep 8

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

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Chinny Honk @chinnyhonk.bsky.social · Sep 6

Destined to be even more infamous than Andrew Marr's tubthumping for the Iraq war.
Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Chris Mason: Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before

The conference feels like that of a big party - but retains the insurgency vibe that the party is seeking to channel.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · Sep 7

Got to hand it to Reform. Honesty is obviously cutting through…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · Sep 5

Shite isn’t it - and such a waste of so much talent

Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · Sep 4

Maybe I’m wrong but the way that the media is manipulated nowadays to feed certain narratives is increasingly alarming.

Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · Sep 4

Interesting that Graham Linehan was arrested only a couple of days before he was due to go on trial for alleged harassment and criminal damage.

It’s almost as if some in the Met Police were keen to draw attention to Mr Linehan to ensure maximum attention and coverage of the trial.

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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷 @jastuart68.bsky.social · Sep 2

The state of America: Cyndi Lauper changes the lyrics to Girls Just Want to Have Fun to Girls Just Want Fundamental Rights.....

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Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · Sep 4

Tim Stanley spins a yarn like Farage on amphetamines you did well to survive his assault on reality.

Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · Sep 4

Morninge x

Attached is a link to my daughter’s latest substack post. It is extremely well written and quietly hilarious on the topic of her writing habits. Enjoy x open.substack.com/pub/onlymarg...

writing habits i won't quit

who needs a muse when you have crumpets and existential dread?

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Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · Aug 31

Dear women.

Nigel Farage appears to want to have control over your body.

You have been warned.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Farage’s £13,000 speech to anti-abortion extremists

Reform leader’s praise for the “grassroots army” raises questions about his stance on their extreme views

observer.co.uk

Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · Aug 31

The BBC, driven by right wingers like DG, Tim Davie, is restricting academic access to our shared social history. This is a trend which is clearly designed to assist a future right wing, populist govt to bury unhelpful facts and silence dissent. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · Aug 21

No surprise that the BBC and PM, under far right apologist DG, Tim Davie, has given prime time coverage of Lucy Connolly’s early release. Two tier BBC News coverage continues apace…

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The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social · Aug 14

Alastair goes full Malcolm Tucker over Robert Jenrick 🔥

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Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · Aug 13

A low point for the BBC, even given the numerous low points under the watch of Tory lickspittle Tim Davie.

Essentially the BBC have apologised for being accurate…

BBC apologises over Thought for the Day ‘xenophobia’ claim against Jenrick

Corporation says Krish Kandiah’s criticism of senior Tory not appropriate for faith-based radio segment

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · Aug 5

Why is the BBC now referring to Tommy Ten Names as an “activist” rather than a “far right activist”? I suspect it’s part of Tim Davie’s evidential and continuing shift to frame the far right in more positive language.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · Aug 4

“Man of the people”

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Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · Aug 4

Jenrick is such a dissembling shithouse

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Andy Freeman 🌻🟡🔵🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andyfree.bsky.social · Jul 20

At last, and the Inquiry should investigate the BBC coverage of Orgreave which I believe was intentionally edited to paint striking miners as the aggressors.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners’ strike

Move follows decades of campaigning over violent policing and collapsed prosecutions at South Yorkshire coking plant