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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 2m

"Ding, Dong, the ..." 🎵🎶

A remixed song from the Wizard of Oz marked the passing

David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 3h

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2h

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change"

"All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern"

"I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened"

"And I get more scared every single day"

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 16m

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 5m

Same, a long-felt position of mine.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 33m

I’m utterly sick of the Royal Family and their greed.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 3h

Crown Estate’s property managers reject claims by environmental group of exploiting a monopoly to charge hefty fees for seabed leases amid talk of legal action ⬇️

King’s estate is ‘milking bill payers on wind’, says Greenpeace

Crown Estate’s property managers reject claims by environmental group of exploiting a monopoly to charge hefty fees for seabed leases amid talk of legal action

www.thetimes.com

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 54m

It certainly wasn't Leif Ericsson / Erikson, even if the orange tries to rewrite history in runes (and ruins).

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3h

Respect to those who got here first.

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Fiona Wallace @fiionawallace.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage.
Dodges any accountability for Brexit.
Plays fast and loose with the Clacton House saga.
Talks of nothing but immigration.
Downplays the Nathan Gill story.
Did f*ck all as an MEP; even worse as an MP
Nigel Farage is a con man.
#NigelFarage

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The Quarter Guy @thequarterguy.bsky.social · 8h

Reminder that it's Indigenous People's Day.
Columbus didn't discover jack.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3h

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 1h

And they have to travel to a face-to-face interview by public transport. Failure to provide tickets attracts sanctions.

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Pat Blair @patblair.bsky.social · 7h

HMRC will claw back from pensioners' who have incomee over £35,000 the £300 fuel allowance from DWP. Why can't HMRC similarly claw back rule-breaking ministers' severance money? If it can be done with pensioners, why not ministers?

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Tim Durrant @timdurrant.bsky.social · 11h

This is all part of the launch of the new Ethics and Integrity Commission, which was announced earlier in the year and is going live today - we'll be keeping an eye on it as it gets set up and takes over from the Committee on Standards in Public Life

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 1h

One could just call these the Johnson Protocol

Tim Durrant @timdurrant.bsky.social · 11h

We have an updated ministerial code! The new code makes clear that ministers "are expected" to pay back any severance payment if they quickly get a new ministerial job or are found to have broken the rules on post-government jobs

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Ministerial Code

Ministerial Code setting out the standards of conduct expected of ministers and how they discharge their duties.

www.gov.uk

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2h

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, don't forget that she called Osama bin Laden a freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela a terrorist, General Pinochet a friend. And Jimmy Savile 'Sir'.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 1h

"Waiting for the Anti-Christ". 😄

I DO remember a neighbour naming theirs "TV Licence Detector".

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4h

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 2h

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 2h

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..." www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2h

400 Americans have more wealth than all 70m in the UK.

The richest 0.1% of the UK have more money than poorest 50% of UK.

Do you see how it works, do you understand how ridiculously rich the richest have become.

The richest 0.1% are 42x richer than in 1970, you got 12%.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 1h

The lives of other presidents ...

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 1h

Another one bites the dust

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

It seems that Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has fled the country on a French military aircraft just hours before a planned address after the Gen Z revolt and rumours of a coup. He’s believed to be heading to Dubai.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 1h

Yup, can rattle off my childhood number from 50 years ago but no other ones.

Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 1h

A Bentley Bentaygo worth £175-250k, a bag of cash above limits for entering Spain, and details about "vulnerable girls" on his phone. Yeah, nothing to see bar a GoFundMe lifestyle, with billionaire backing to interfere in UK politics.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6h

Claims he's just a regular journalist doing his journalising on behalf of the silent millions... checks out for me..

Tommy Robinson
stopped at border driving
Bentley with thousands in
cash'
Far-Right activist insulted police
officers after being arrested for
refusing to give them pin to his
phone, court hears

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 1h

But he was a journalism "fellow" funded by a rightwing Zionist billionaire, just like Katie Hopkins and Laura Loomer. How could he not be legit?

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 5h

Oof, even worse.

I hear "peace through strength" and the orange's praise for Netanyahu's "good use" of US weapons (including ones that the orange wasn't familiar with) and quail at the detail that remains to be resolved between a hard right government and shattered Gazans. ☹️

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