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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Author of 'A Murder in Auschwitz'. Currently looking for an agent for my new novel, 'Merle'. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Auschwitz-J-C-Stephenson/dp/1491060913 Inventor of the chip omelette. 🚫 Be aware, DMs may result in a block.

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · Aug 10

stephensonbooks.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/f...

FREE Chapter 1

Auschwitz, 24th July 1943 MANFRED Meyer stood in line. His eyes darted from left to right as he tried to take in as much about this place as possible without standing out. Or perhaps it was fear …

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3h

"They need us more than we need them"

EU Council @consilium.europa.eu · 11h

Today, the entry/exit system gets underway.

This new digital border system will streamline travel, enhance security, and improve the efficiency of border controls for non-EU nationals entering or exiting the EU.

Full implementation is planned for 10 April 2026.

More info → link.europa.eu/mnYbcy

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 1d

It's not like Floyd needs a large sunbeam. 😉

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 1d

I know this is an oft used phrase, but I literally wouldn't give Farage the steam aff ma pish.
I hope this has cleared up any dubiety.

Gary Gilligan #FBPE #KTTO @garygilligan.bsky.social · 1d

www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Reform, Farage and Tice: it’s all about the money

The leaders of the hard right party are raking it in. Do any of them have any time left over for the boring stuff in life – like representing their constituents?

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 1d

A classic.

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 1d

This is why it is so windy in Scotland, all these wind farms producing all this wind!

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 1d

If I could live in a land of perpetual Autumn I would.

JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 1d

Baby Boxes in the US are VERY different to what they are in the rest of the world.

time.com/7299476/baby...

Why Baby Boxes Are Suddenly Everywhere

Devices to help parents anonymously surrender an infant are spreading across the U.S., stirring emotions and debate.

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Allan Hailstone @allhails.bsky.social · 1d

East Berlin, 9 September 1959. I post photographs taken on my Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing). #Berlin #DDR #GDR

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 1d

I've just bought it on Amazon. Very much looking forward to reading it, and looking at those fascinating pictures. Will help with my research on a novel I am writing.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 2d

this high quality gag came from someone who is also here but as he hasn’t posted it himself I assume he doesn’t want to be tagged to share in the glory

Farage is being interviewed. He says “I WAS ABOUT 14 AND IT WAS OVER THE PHOTO OF EVA BRAUN”. The interviewer says “ERM... I ASKED YOU ABOUT THE WEST BANK”

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Ika @ikaferrergotic.bsky.social · 1d

David Hamilton, the most humble man I've ever met, has been Scotland's greatest humanitarian for over three decades. And sometimes, he should hear it from someone.

On air tonight at 9pm CET / 8pm Glasgow.

| #Scotland #Ukraine #Bosnia
| @da.vidh.scot

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 1d

The left have finally reclaimed the frog from the far-right!

hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 1d

obsessed with the antifascist frogs in Portland, I hope they continue to multiply 🙏

Person in frog costume with poster saying 'frogs together strong'

JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 2d

Very good. Cheesy, but very good.

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 2d

I think I should have won the Nobel Peace Prize. There have been numerous times over the past year when I wanted to punch someone in the face. And haven't.

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 2d

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 2d

More money in your pocket, more opportunities, fewer emissions.

I’m proud we introduced free bus travel for young people under 22 - and as of today, over 250 million free journeys have been made across Scotland.

Together with scrapping peak rail fares, we’re making your commutes cheaper.

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel Piece Prize.

JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 2d

There was a man on Radio 4 yesterday who proudly described himself as being 'Blue Labour', and when asked what that meant, he said - and I kid you not - he said, "It means we are Labour with a small 'c'."
🙄

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 3d

Maleficent!

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 4d

Excellent. In the parents’ spare room tonight, and just discovered both bedside tables are stuffed with copies of every memorial service/funeral they have ever been to.
They’re in their mid-eighties.

Sleep well between the Drawers of Death.

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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 3d

📷 View of the City of #Aleppo from the Castle, Syria, 1898

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 3d

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 3d

Mass deportations and Trump-style ICE snatch squads: British politicians are in a race to the bottom on race. They disgrace the country

My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

'It feels like British politics has become some grotesque carnival'

Policies from Farage and Badenoch for mass deportations and ICE-style removal squads are the antithesis of everything Britain stands for, our Writer…

www.heraldscotland.com

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 4d

Just chillin' on da couch.

JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 4d

Look at this beautiful beast.