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🚫 NO CATS 🚫 Retired news, editorial & PR photographer. Anglo-French Guardian Reading Tofu Eating Wokerati. Pro-EU. Atheist, anti-monarchist and recluse. Struggling with PPMS. Currently in Northampton.

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Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · Nov 15

... and then there came a knock on the door of Donald Trump's apartment at Mar-a-Lago...

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 3h

❗️🇱🇻Latvia orders over 800 🇷🇺Russians who failed language exam to leave country by mid-October — Politico

Latvian authorities have ordered 841 Russian citizens who failed to prove their Latvian language skills to leave the country by October 13. If they do not do so on their own, they will be deported

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 7h

The budget pain is not bad luck. It is Brexit’s bill.
A weaker pound, slower growth, higher borrowing costs, all made in the referendum.
So when you pay more tax, remember who sold the dream.
The architect of this austerity the creator of this scenario , the maker of these taxes…was Nigel Farage.

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 6h

Labour’s #Brexit dilemma - the only way is to go into the next election with a manifesto promise to seek to #RejoinEU - no more referenda! The Greens, LibDems, SNP & Plaid should also all have this on their manifestos next time presenting a united front against REFUK & any remaining Tory Party.

Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 16h

And, to spell it out, the only credible answer to that would mean turning British politics upside down again with another Referendum, which isn't, politically, an option. So there's an impasse.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · 3h

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Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · 3h

Track 06 of Play List 24 in my music folder

Man of the World

YouTube video by Fleetwood Mac - Topic

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16h

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16h

It's quite simple.

Very rich people are blaming immigrants and disabled people, for stealing all the money (exactly as Adolf Hitler did).

Because they are stealing all the money.

This trick is literally hundreds of years old, and it is the only one they have.

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Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · 17h

I know I am 🤣 🤣 🤣

In my defence, though, until a few years ago I was still photographing (and reviewing) up and coming acts at places like Dingwalls, O2 Islington, Scala as well as small, dingy pubs.

Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · 17h

I too cannot fathom why she is so popular. Above average performer amongst the current crop, but not worthy of the level of the adulation she currently receives. Mind you, I grew up on (in terms of female artists) Joni Mitchel, Carly Simon, Carole King, etc.

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Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · 18h

Maybe they will, maybe they won't... my point is that NOW is far too early to start making the claims @lewisgoodall.com was making in his o/p

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Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · 21h

[Think Mutley from The Wacky Races]

❝Snazza frazza rashin' fashin' María Corina Machado❞

Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · 21h

No idea what "-s" means... so I'll be blocking you at some point. Next time use actual words!

Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · 23h

"Trump has secured what no other world leader could: a Gaza ceasefire deal."

A bit premature to say that, isn't it?

Given how often Trump goes back on his word, given how often Israel has broken ceasefires, UN resolutions, etc., let's revisit this "historic achievement" in a few months time!

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch, "I want to stop people with ADHD getting Motability cars."

Well you don't need to, because nobody gets a Motability Car for ADHD.

You need mobility issues, which some people with ADHD also have.

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Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · 1d

Easily overlooked given everything else that's going on!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Hind Rajab should have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

A 5 year old trapped in a car and shot 355 times by Israel while they murdered the Paramedics who tried to help her.

This sacrifice should have ended Israel and the war.

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Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · 1d

Track 05 of Play List 24 in my music folder

Genesis - Afterglow

YouTube video by moonlitknight009

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

In these photos of Farage, Nathan Gill and Cottrell, it's interesting that Gill has got a friendly hand on Cottrell's shoulder.

Cottrell is a convicted fraudster who is an expert in criminal money-laundering. Why was the Russian asset so friendly with the money-launderer?

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Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · 1d

❝Deport ALL Norwegians NOW and impose 2500% tariffs on gravlax!!!❞

Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · 1d

❝... and Donald Trump didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize, which was nice!❞

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Bob Singleton 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 @bobsingleton1959.bsky.social · 1d

There's always next year... by which time he'll have no doubt stopped 23 wars! 😉

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