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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 2h
I'd be rather more sympathetic if he hadn't been actively canvassing for the Tories as recently as last year. I am struggling to see how being a parliamentary researcher makes anyone suitable for his current role.
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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 2h
Let's not forget that Newsquest/Archant seem to be in thrall to flagshagging bigots because of the pageviews/BLT comments they bring in. I note that the editor publishing stuff such as this has gone from being part of the centrist-dad New European to hitting out at Starmer today.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 6h
On what would have been Margaret Thatcher's 100th birthday, a reminder of what this awesome woman said at her funeral.
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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 6h
If they're delivering this in NR2 - a district in which they have no hope of any success - what must it be like in their target areas?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d
BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d
British journalism has been through a shameful era – bending the knee to Downing Street.

Can it ever recover its dignity? Peter Thurlow wonders.
How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight
We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d
Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu speak to the backbench Labour MP to understand why the Government is focusing on how to ‘stop the boats' rather than fixing people's everyday lives
Clive Lewis MP: ‘I Never Thought I’d Hear Myself Say I Think My Party is Making this Country Weaker in Preparation for an Authoritarian-Right Government’
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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 1d
"Zoe Webber and her merry band of LinkedIn boys" totally sums up the faceless club regime. What other club would have chosen to appoint a Tory MP's caseworker as "Head of Supporter Engagement" and then added "and Public Affairs" to his job title? NCFC's PR is now operating at a Gerald Ratner level.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 2d
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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 2d
Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, it's still early June 2016.
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Andy Mitchell @andymitchellmedia.bsky.social · 2d
Ahead of Scotland v Belarus, a look back at the equivalent match in 1997 which was played in very strange circumstances - a bewildering start to my time as team press officer: www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...
'Please call the game off' - seven days that shook Scottish football
by Andy Mitchell This is the story of an extraordinary week in 1997 when events unrelated to football conspired to make the Scottish Football Association and its boss vilified throughout the UK.  ...
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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 2d
"Mel Stride is a name more suited to a haulage contractor from Biggleswade than shadow chancellor of the exchequer. He wears the avuncular expression of a man promoting a brand of cigarettes."
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Mr Pecksniff's Diary @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social · 2d
* Kemi Badenoch (NW Essex) shrugs off 14 years of Tory chaos at conference – where even the party’s chocolate can’t spell “Britain”.
* Mel Stride plays to an empty hall.
* The One Nation caucus quietly dies, taking 200 years of pragmatism with it.

Pecksniff writes his weekly diary
Pecksniff: Badenoch brazens out the Tories’ 14 years of failure
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d
After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

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England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter
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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 3d
Happisburgh.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d
What qualifies Kate Middleton to co author with Prof Robert Waldinger from Harvard Medical School on the subject of screentime and smartphones?

Her degree is in art history and her career was spent working for a clothing company.

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Kate warns too much screen time damages family life
The Princess of Wales says that smartphones and digital devices are causing an
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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 4d
Clegg legitimised Cameron, giving him five safe, unchallenged years in No 10, to the point when he thought he was infallible and would win the 2016 referendum easily. You can directly link Brexit and all the ills which followed to Clegg's dream of enjoying ministerial perks. The man's a total fraud.
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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 4d
As things currently stand:
Three Norfolk councils - Reform wins two
Two - Reform wins at least one
One - Reform wins
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Luistertips @luistertips.com · 7d
Recommendation for @richards7370.bsky.social's debut album challenge:

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John Foxx - Metamatic

#5debutalbums8084
Underpass
YouTube video by John Foxx - Topic
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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 4d
I'd follow that up with In It For The Money.
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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 5d
Clegg legitimised Cameron, giving him five safe, unchallenged years in No 10, to the point when he thought he was infallible and would win the 2016 referendum easily. You can directly link Brexit and all the ills which followed to Clegg's dream of enjoying ministerial perks. The man's a total fraud.
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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 5d
Have to say @stevocook.bsky.social here has probably written the best thing I've ever read on MFW.
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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 5d
Yet another day of Newsquest's Eastern Daily Press running stories subliminally promoting Rupert Lowe rather than asking him any difficult questions. It's all just jolly japes to them, but this is what happens when you sacrifice your local news credibility in a bid to attract the bigot audience.
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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 6d
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Norfolk MP joins local flaggers up ladders after spending £500 on St George's Crosses
Rupert Lowe, the Great Yarmouth MP, has spent £500 on 164 St George's Crosses which he is helping to fix to lampposts throughout the town.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 6d
This is who Robert Jenrick is.
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Minister Robert Jenrick ordered painting over of child asylum unit murals - BBC News
Robert Jenrick is reported to have considered the cartoon images in the Dover centre too welcoming.
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Steve Gedge @stevegedge.bsky.social · 6d
"[Rupert] is a really down-to-earth guy. Although he has a very posh voice, people can still relate to him, he is really humble and funny."
How does this man have the intellectual capability to run his own business?
Yet more bigoted right-wing clickbait from Newsquest.
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