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Mark Lawson

@marklawsonkernow.bsky.social

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Graphic #designer in #Cornwall, UK - marklawson.design - #EV, #renewables, mad cocker spaniel #dog, #wine, volunteer youth worker, wrong side of 50. Treat others as you’d want to be treated yourself. Creative problem solver.

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Sally Luxmoore @sallyl.bsky.social · 11d

We have a Farage problem. That's it.

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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 12h

Money talks. Corruption.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17h

Fantastic comments from the audience on #bbcqt.

Politicians should take note and stop stoking division and fear.

"The vast majority of people in this country live very happily and very peacefully together." 👏

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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 17h

What an awesome mouthwatering idea!

Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 22h

IF he ever gets the top prize (highly unlikely) do they award it posthumously?

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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 23h

The Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded to María Corina Machado - the Venezuelan opposition party leader. Can’t wait for the angry invective from the desperate 🍊 one

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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 1d

But you can spell BRITAIN though I trust? 🍫

Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 1d

And the response appears to be protesting by people in blow up frog costumes, and various furries. Fight their absurdity with your own which has love and peace at heart. The media love a story with such a juxtaposition and it takes the wind out of the insane war narrative pushed by the regime

Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn’t look like a war zone to me, as Drumpf and Goebbels keep insisting. Looks like a fun city. And if you can’t take down a regime by force, do it with satire, fun, and love.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 1d

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 1d

They’re not all that bright are they

Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 1d

This is parody surely? But can’t see Gen Z warming to these oddballs.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 1d

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

After pointing out that she's an immigrant Joanna Lumley asks why we don't fix the problems that create asylum seekers and address climate change

Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 1d

While hoping this Israel Gaza peace deal sticks this time, I have little hope that Netanyahu won’t go back on it and the killing will start up again. But we shall see. Maybe it’s the start of something positive at last.

Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 2d

It’s like they’re still trying to play by the rules when the other team are making up rules and then changing them with every move. There are no rules to follow now so act accordingly

Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 2d

You just know Trump will claim credit somehow

Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 2d

Quite the understatement. It’s getting code red serious very rapidly and yet nothing really seems to be happening to finally stop it before there’s no opportunity to without lethal force.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t help but wonder if the BBC Charter needs reviewing. The biases really are becoming too obvious. Slowly boiled frog (those who pay attention to them any more of course)

Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 2d

That feeling when you’re nearing the end of a brilliant novel where you don’t want it to end but you can’t put it down so know it’ll end soon…

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 9d

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.

Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."

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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 3d

It’s what they and their kind across the world (they do it here in the UK) - project on others what they themselves are guilty of, and act offended and angry when found out and confronted. It’s like dealing with naughty children. So so tiring.