Andy Croy
@andycroy.bsky.social
Labour councillor for Norreys East ward of Wokingham Town Council. Chair, Wokingham CLP.
Trying to follow real people and institutions, not ProleoftheNorth type accounts.
Trying to follow real people and institutions, not ProleoftheNorth type accounts.
Zelesnskyy just needs to make up some half-arsed prize to keep Trump on board.
Provided it is shinier than whatever Putin puts forward, it should be fine.
Provided it is shinier than whatever Putin puts forward, it should be fine.
December 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Zelesnskyy just needs to make up some half-arsed prize to keep Trump on board.
Provided it is shinier than whatever Putin puts forward, it should be fine.
Provided it is shinier than whatever Putin puts forward, it should be fine.
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Tommy Robinson gets embarrassed in Dubai.
It's so funny, he gets banged to rights.
It's so funny, he gets banged to rights.
December 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Tommy Robinson gets embarrassed in Dubai.
It's so funny, he gets banged to rights.
It's so funny, he gets banged to rights.
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The UAE has no ambiguity in law where Islamophobia is concerned and Tommy Robinson's very presence there could be a problem for him.
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/12/robi...
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/12/robi...
Robinson's Dubai trip a challenge to Emirates law | Searchlight
"You're a rat" - boxer Ty Mitchell confronts Tommy Robinson in Dubai Tommy Robinson’s visit to Dubai has attracted attention both because of ...
searchlightmagazine.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The UAE has no ambiguity in law where Islamophobia is concerned and Tommy Robinson's very presence there could be a problem for him.
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/12/robi...
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/12/robi...
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Early evidence suggests Labour’s first steps in government are reducing food bank demand, with reforms to social security, nutrition support and local safety nets pointing to a hopeful path forward.
‘Labour have a credible path to ending Britain’s dependence on food banks and have taken the first steps along it’ – LabourList
A year before the starting gun was fired on the 2024 general election campaign, Britain’s food banks had just experienced some of their busiest months…
labourlist.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Early evidence suggests Labour’s first steps in government are reducing food bank demand, with reforms to social security, nutrition support and local safety nets pointing to a hopeful path forward.
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TL;DR: Russia has decided that the UK is Russia's enemy, and there's nothing we can do to change that as long as Putin is in power. The choice is whether to be an undefeated enemy or a defeated one. That's all the choice we get.
December 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
TL;DR: Russia has decided that the UK is Russia's enemy, and there's nothing we can do to change that as long as Putin is in power. The choice is whether to be an undefeated enemy or a defeated one. That's all the choice we get.
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A third of 16-18 year olds girls say in surveys that they experienced unwanted sexual touching at school. There are several hundred rapes reported in schools every year.
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A third of 16-18 year olds girls say in surveys that they experienced unwanted sexual touching at school. There are several hundred rapes reported in schools every year.
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Russia threatening legal action and ‘damages’ for sequestration of their assets is all part of their asymmetric hybrid war.
They use Western legal systems, when they have no rule of law, just as they call for free speech while killing journalists and imprisoning protestors
They use Western legal systems, when they have no rule of law, just as they call for free speech while killing journalists and imprisoning protestors
December 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Russia threatening legal action and ‘damages’ for sequestration of their assets is all part of their asymmetric hybrid war.
They use Western legal systems, when they have no rule of law, just as they call for free speech while killing journalists and imprisoning protestors
They use Western legal systems, when they have no rule of law, just as they call for free speech while killing journalists and imprisoning protestors
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Auditors and new officials have been turning over stones at the body in charge of Teesworks. Turns out the Tees Valley Combined Authority has been lending hundreds of millions of £ to connected orgs, without loan agreements, and those orgs are now struggling to repay
as.ft.com/r/ac457745-4...
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Auditors raise red flags at public body run by Ben Houchen
[FREE TO READ] EY said errors included ‘material misstatements’ in latest setback for Conservative metro mayor Lord Houchen
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December 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Auditors and new officials have been turning over stones at the body in charge of Teesworks. Turns out the Tees Valley Combined Authority has been lending hundreds of millions of £ to connected orgs, without loan agreements, and those orgs are now struggling to repay
as.ft.com/r/ac457745-4...
as.ft.com/r/ac457745-4...
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Brilliant news! Rejoining Erasmus means that students at Reading University in my constituency will be able to benefit from the best of Europe's universities and culture without paying additional fees. (1/3)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
Erasmus live updates: Scheme to return for UK students from 2027
British students will be able to spend a year studying at EU universities without paying extra fees, and vice versa for European students.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Brilliant news! Rejoining Erasmus means that students at Reading University in my constituency will be able to benefit from the best of Europe's universities and culture without paying additional fees. (1/3)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
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Brexit was one of Russia's proudest achievements - splitting Europe and spreading misinformation.
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/putin-never-stop-export-chaos-g87brj805
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/putin-never-stop-export-chaos-g87brj805
Putin will never stop trying to export chaos
The Ukraine peace talks rest on a fallacy: that you can simply cut a deal with the Russian president and all will be well
www.thetimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Brexit was one of Russia's proudest achievements - splitting Europe and spreading misinformation.
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/putin-never-stop-export-chaos-g87brj805
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/putin-never-stop-export-chaos-g87brj805
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Turns out all the flag waving and shouting isn’t for King and Country.
Well ours anyway…
So just which country is Yaxley Lennon and his buddies in Reform working for?
Well ours anyway…
So just which country is Yaxley Lennon and his buddies in Reform working for?
December 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Turns out all the flag waving and shouting isn’t for King and Country.
Well ours anyway…
So just which country is Yaxley Lennon and his buddies in Reform working for?
Well ours anyway…
So just which country is Yaxley Lennon and his buddies in Reform working for?
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To find a point in history at which everyone who still has living descendants is the ancestor of literally everyone on earth, you have to go back no farther than a few millennia.
On how we're all much more closely related than you think.
On how we're all much more closely related than you think.
We are family: some notes on common ancestors
Danny Dyer isn't special.
jonn.substack.com
November 25, 2023 at 10:13 AM
To find a point in history at which everyone who still has living descendants is the ancestor of literally everyone on earth, you have to go back no farther than a few millennia.
On how we're all much more closely related than you think.
On how we're all much more closely related than you think.
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Please visit my new website
profgarysheffield.com
Includes articles, reviews of books old and new, and other material including my obituary of Professor Brian Bond. A work in progress, it will be updated regularly with new stuff
profgarysheffield.com
Includes articles, reviews of books old and new, and other material including my obituary of Professor Brian Bond. A work in progress, it will be updated regularly with new stuff
Professor Gary Sheffield – Military Historian and Battlefield Guide
profgarysheffield.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Please visit my new website
profgarysheffield.com
Includes articles, reviews of books old and new, and other material including my obituary of Professor Brian Bond. A work in progress, it will be updated regularly with new stuff
profgarysheffield.com
Includes articles, reviews of books old and new, and other material including my obituary of Professor Brian Bond. A work in progress, it will be updated regularly with new stuff
Anas Sarwar taking no Reform prisoners on Question Time.
Well said.
Well said.
December 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Anas Sarwar taking no Reform prisoners on Question Time.
Well said.
Well said.
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The Bank of England's Deputy Governor told me and my colleagues on the Treasury Select Committee that this budget could reduce inflation by up to 0.5%. (1/2)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Budget could knock half a percentage point off inflation, Bank chief says
Bank of England deputy governor Clare Lombardelli said inflation would be brought down by measures cutting energy prices and freezing rail fares.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The Bank of England's Deputy Governor told me and my colleagues on the Treasury Select Committee that this budget could reduce inflation by up to 0.5%. (1/2)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC Radio 4 talking about the lack of elections in Ukraine. Leaving aside Trump simply reguirgitating Putin's demands for destabalisation I would humbly suggest that the lack of democratic elections in Russia is the main problem here. To not even offer this level of balance in the story is absurd.
December 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
BBC Radio 4 talking about the lack of elections in Ukraine. Leaving aside Trump simply reguirgitating Putin's demands for destabalisation I would humbly suggest that the lack of democratic elections in Russia is the main problem here. To not even offer this level of balance in the story is absurd.
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The USA is a deteriorating power, with a Russian asset taking orders straight from Moscow. Trump would like to forge ties because of an emerging China and also he hates Europe” guess what Europe hates Trump
Ukraine tell the US to fuck off. They have no place in negotiations.
It's Russia invading Ukraine in Europe so US should focus on their own deteriorating country.
Should be Russia, Ukraine and Europe in the talks as we aren't Russian agents like Trump and his picks.
It's Russia invading Ukraine in Europe so US should focus on their own deteriorating country.
Should be Russia, Ukraine and Europe in the talks as we aren't Russian agents like Trump and his picks.
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The USA is a deteriorating power, with a Russian asset taking orders straight from Moscow. Trump would like to forge ties because of an emerging China and also he hates Europe” guess what Europe hates Trump
BBC Newsnight saying there is a 'feud' between Sadiq Khan and the orange clown. It is not a feud. It is a vicious racist racist lashing out. In no world does the clown approach Khan's level of decency or competence.
Its like saying you have feud with a poisonous snake or a turd.
Its like saying you have feud with a poisonous snake or a turd.
December 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
BBC Newsnight saying there is a 'feud' between Sadiq Khan and the orange clown. It is not a feud. It is a vicious racist racist lashing out. In no world does the clown approach Khan's level of decency or competence.
Its like saying you have feud with a poisonous snake or a turd.
Its like saying you have feud with a poisonous snake or a turd.
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I run every day for 15 minutes and if I miss a day I add 15 minutes to the next day.
This has truly been a game changer in my life.
Tomorrow I’m supposed to run for three months…
This has truly been a game changer in my life.
Tomorrow I’m supposed to run for three months…
December 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I run every day for 15 minutes and if I miss a day I add 15 minutes to the next day.
This has truly been a game changer in my life.
Tomorrow I’m supposed to run for three months…
This has truly been a game changer in my life.
Tomorrow I’m supposed to run for three months…
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The Trump-era US is reshaping global order in the same way the racoon reshaped the shelves in that liquor store.
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The Trump-era US is reshaping global order in the same way the racoon reshaped the shelves in that liquor store.
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Russian imperialist violence. Trade unionists who are determined to fight for a fairer, more equal Ukraine. Socialists who want equality. And all of them know that cannot happen when Russia is occupying Ukraine with its genocidal agenda.
But their voices are so rarely heard. Instead, the Western
But their voices are so rarely heard. Instead, the Western
December 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Russian imperialist violence. Trade unionists who are determined to fight for a fairer, more equal Ukraine. Socialists who want equality. And all of them know that cannot happen when Russia is occupying Ukraine with its genocidal agenda.
But their voices are so rarely heard. Instead, the Western
But their voices are so rarely heard. Instead, the Western
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It's also important to hear these voices when Ishchenko says that Western media prioritises middle-class liberal Ukrainians who aren't fighting. We don't: here are left wing, working class Ukrainians talking about their experience of the full-scale invasion and their future hopes.
left platforms Ischenko (and fine, he deserves to be heard) while ignoring the leftists who disagree with the STW line.
Don't ignore them. This isn't about me pushing my article, but about ensuring Ukrainian left wing voices are listened to, not spoken over.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/from-fron...
Don't ignore them. This isn't about me pushing my article, but about ensuring Ukrainian left wing voices are listened to, not spoken over.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/from-fron...
How trade unions are fighting for Ukraine's future
On the bombed roof of a college in Kharkiv, we saw how trade unions support their members in times of war
www.opendemocracy.net
December 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
It's also important to hear these voices when Ishchenko says that Western media prioritises middle-class liberal Ukrainians who aren't fighting. We don't: here are left wing, working class Ukrainians talking about their experience of the full-scale invasion and their future hopes.
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This is vile and so so wrong. GB News is the TV version of X.
Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’
It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.
Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’
It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is vile and so so wrong. GB News is the TV version of X.
Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’
It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.
Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’
It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.
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That is a lot of tweets. If you got this far you deserve a prize. Reasonable people will debate this growth strategy. But claiming there isn’t one is lazy nonsense. Higher growth matters because rising living standards are the goal, and higher investment is a key tool.
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
That is a lot of tweets. If you got this far you deserve a prize. Reasonable people will debate this growth strategy. But claiming there isn’t one is lazy nonsense. Higher growth matters because rising living standards are the goal, and higher investment is a key tool.
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But the actual reason taxes are up is 1) higher debt interest (because Tories doubled national debt and rates then rose) 2) higher public service spending (ie ending austerity)
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
But the actual reason taxes are up is 1) higher debt interest (because Tories doubled national debt and rates then rose) 2) higher public service spending (ie ending austerity)