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Noel

@noelgl.bsky.social

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TV cameraman long time. Instinctively a photographer. Accident in 2010, right leg trans tibual amputation 2011. Up and at it again now. I was once winched out of a Coastguard helicopter onto a lifeboat, in a force 9 gale. That’s how daft I am. #BHAFC

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 17h

Tonight’s #BBCNews story about new biometric information demanded of Brits traveling to the EU, due entirely to #Brexit, did not mention Brexit. Bad journalism or BBC policy ??

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 1d

A woman from Venezuela.
The Nobel Committee is trolling Trump.
#NobelPeacePrize

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Nobel Peace Prize goes to María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader | CNN

The winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize was revealed at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Follow for live updates

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 1d

Sending a parcel to Northern Ireland from the UK now requires a customs declaration.
Name, address, contents and value documented and affixed to the package. Just so you can post some cosmetics to a family member. How Farage has the audacity to stand for public office is beyond me.
#RejectReform

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 1d

Just another day in Psychoville.

Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe if Trump hadn’t created a Department of War, blown up boats off Venezuela without due process, sent troops into perfectly stable US cities, given Putin the red carpet treatment and claimed to end wars that still go on, he might have been considered for the Nobel Peace Prize…
#Gaza

Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 2d

This is exactly what Tice and Farage are advocating to happen in the channel. Well, it’s not deterring anybody in Tunisia, and would #Reform voters volunteer to do the sinking ??

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 2d

I remember Thatcher dismissing an Oxford degree in Ancient Norse Languages, because it sounded too academic. An indication of how little regard the Tories have for the value of learning.

Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 3d

Does she elaborate as to which degrees she approves of ?

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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 7d

Very pertinent questions from Mike here. What exactly is Europe going to do about the political figures on that flotilla kidnapped by Israel in international waters?

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 7d

The naval blockade by Israel faltered as a boat got through and Gazans got to haul a bounty of fish.

Imagine if the flotilla had been twice the size? Now what is Israel going to do with the European MPs & MEPs that it has kidnapped and jailed? The EU *must* respond.

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 6d

She’s toxic, so I hope so

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Jeff Sawyer @jeffstuff.bsky.social · 8d

A great piece by Ian Dunt in today's i newspaper, in the UK.

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 8d

Johnson’s legacy is plain for all to see. Destroy the credibility of the Tories then hand over to an even dumber leader, to conceal your failures. The long term electoral damage to the Tory party is completely down to him.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 9d

Here's Farage saying that he would 'pick up a rifle' - www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 9d

We need to make it clear that migrants are being housed in “buildings formerly used as hotels” NOT “hotels”.
Make this distinction at every opportunity Zoe, and I think it will help straighten out the narrative.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10d

Nigel Farage on Nathan Gill, "Our leader in Wales. An honest, decent, honourable man. Who has been loyal to me and the party at all times"

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 9d

And hitching their trailer to Trump is gonna backfire massively, just in time for the next election.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10d

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10d

“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country”

Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.

Differing political definitions of patriotism

3 of the 6 letters (4th quoted in the post) criticising Phillips 😊

Sir, Melanie Phillips expresses a very specific and slightly odd definition of patriotism as "love for the Crown, the armed forces and the common law, and attachment to faith, family and flag" ("Sorry Keir, you don't understand patriotism",
, comment, Sep 30). Perhaps that is why she concludes that Nigel Farage offers “the only patriotic force on the horizon". Personally, I regard
someone who had a very direct hand in diminishing the United Kingdom's
GDP by 4 per cent — as a direct result of our leaving the European Union — as confirming Samuel
Johnson's much-quoted remark that
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". Acts rather than words
still count for some of us.
Shaun Leavey
Sherborne, Dorset

Sir, Over thousands of years these islands have been invaded and occupied by various tribes, who, at any given moment, represented some kind of "Englishness".
"In 300 years'
time there might well be another kind of "Englishness", doubtless defending itself from the incursion of escapees from another foreign disaster, and claiming a threat to its purity". We were never pure, and attempts such as the present one to somehow freeze a manufactured notion of "Englishness" are doomed to failure.
Jerry Stuart
London SEI

Sir, There is a fundamental flaw in Melanie Phillips's article. She talks of British patriotism as "attachment to faith, family and flag".
°. She doesn't
indicate which faith she is referring to, but presumably means the Christian faith as the traditional faith in Britain. However, the faith of Jesus of Nazareth shares much more common ground with the values she seems to dismiss - decency, reasonableness and compassion - than it does with the militarism and flag-waving she seems to endorse. I surely cannot be the only person getting worried when the Christian faith is conscripted into the support of strident nationalism.
The Rev Paul Dowling

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 10d

First question arising from Hegseth’s masterpiece this afternoon…Can the Commander in Chief be a fatty ?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11d

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 12d

Victor Hovland celebrates !
#TeamEurope #RyderCup

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 12d

Someone should think about making America great again.
#RyderCup #Europe

Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 12d

Hey lads, the on site scoreboards at the #RyderCup seem to have been turned to monochrome on the blue side.
They’re terrified.
#Europe

Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 13d

Hey lads…
#RyderCup #Europe

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 13d

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