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ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 49m

Ahead, though never above…

ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 5h

And the 2025 Understatement of the Year Award goes to…..

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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 13h

The UK is made up of 4 countries, with very different people, with very different political landscapes.

Your use of the term “Brits” is igjorant is this regard when you are basically painting the people as all being the same.

Scotland has a left wing government with progressive policies.

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ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 17h

Where is Starmer’s Home Secretary now? Or is the extreme right wing exempt from their latest crack downs on freedom of speech?

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ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 17h

They never change….

enuffsaysv.bsky.social @enuffsaysv.bsky.social · 20d

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ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 17h

Has Streeting got the JCVI to go native and give him the savings he demands while ignoring patient safety? Do bears….? Is the Pope a Catholic? etc. etc.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 1d

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @bbcdomc.bsky.social
@bbcstever.bsky.social

Anyone think that at some point the BBC has to start doing its job? Or do we have to stop paying the taxes BBC relies before the crude and bigoted reporting ceases?

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 1d

Reform voter escaped from the home? Racists abound with reform..

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Former Labour MP Ruth Kelly appointed as Chair of Thames Freeport.
Blackrock 80% stakes in 3🇬🇧freeports, inc Thames Freeport
Kelly’s post-MP career blur the line between public service & private gain, potentially aligning Thames Freeport’s with BlackRock's interests
open.substack.com/pub/european...

The Corporate Coup Eroding UK Sovereignty Through Freeports, SEZs and AI Growth Zones

Welcome to "Zone Fever": the bipartisan Ponzi scheme turning Britain's ports, factories, and public services into corporate feeding grounds.

open.substack.com

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ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 1d

Real humanity on display. The emotions shown by both parties are truly powerful…. 😃

Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 1d

“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was announced to the world.

ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤪 my goodness these extremists will insist on hanging on to the coattails of the worst of UK racists and degenerates. Dear Lewis has a long history of living in fantasy land, and shows no sign of stopping😉

ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 1d

Instructive to see how readily the @wsj.com is able to resort to egregious lies to support a man currently starting deadly wars with USA citizens in his desperate attempts to get a Nobel peace prize. Trad media are now owned by Trump, and cannot be trusted….

ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 1d

Reform are buying cooperation and collaboration, it really is that simple….

ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 1d

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social well?

Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

WHY is this happening @labouruk.bsky.social ?
Why are you putting shareholders and CEO’s above the health of the population?
You have a huge majority! You are squandering it.
You should be unequivocally backing Clive Lewis’s @labourlewis.bsky.social bill !!

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills

www.theguardian.com

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

In @thetimes.com letters page today

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ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 1d

yes that’s twice now. Will stop and take a pic next time! My other bugbear is HDA on A roads where the self-steering bit packs up as soon as the continuous white line disappears from the lh verge!!! Given roads aren’t maintained and lines not repainted it’s like a lottery, a dangerous one.

soo.as

ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone see how many times the ‘independent’ chair and antiques roadshow star, moved to protect Reform?

ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 1d

A very serious matter, tho’ when my ev told me yesterday that the speed limit for the B Road I was on was 100mph, I did laugh. A long way to go before an accurate and reliable system is delivered.

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ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 1d

Not at all shoddy, unlike the treatment of tens of thousands of vulnerable people refused vaccines by Labour…

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ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 1d

MY GP, in refusing told me to pay to go private. Labour is gambling with peoples lives, betting that most who contract and/or die from Covid will do so at home, so no hospital costs and £££ saved by drastically cutting the number of vaccinations given to the immunocompromised. Labour don’t care…

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 1d

Getting my jab today, but thanks to Wes Streeting, I have to pay for it (£90)… Many other 65-69s and immunocompromised ppl will not be able to afford it.

@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 2d

Latest England COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy up.
COVID-19 positive tests up.
COVID-19 deaths up.
COVID-19 cases up.
Data source @ukhsa.bsky.social
Why?
Limited vaccine eligibility, waning immunity, lower priority by leaders, mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces. Scant use of face coverings.

Latest England COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy up.
COVID-19 deaths up.
COVID-19 positive tests up.
COVID-19 cases up.
Data source @ukhsa.bsky.social
Why?
Limited vaccine eligibility, waning immunity, lower priority by leaders, mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces. Scant use of face coverings.

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ListeredMichael @listedgrade2.bsky.social · 1d

First world problems eh😉

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