Patrick Kinsella
@paddykinsella.bsky.social
Writer, on the lookout for hidden trails, adventure tales & good ales. Gutter-based stargazer. Drum basher. Taekwondo try hard. Fan of books, bands, bikes, boats, boards, beaches, beers. Anti-fascist always. Antisocial when hungry. Political southpaw.⚒️
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i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
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Will someone ever put that on a fucking bus, with Farage’s gurning face next to it, and drive it up and down the country?
Brexit costs the government around £90bn.
Without Brexit we could have tax cuts and spending increases. We would have hope & optimism, not gloom & despair.
Brexit harms the British people, especially the poor & vulnerable. No politician can support Brexit and claim to care for ordinary people.
Without Brexit we could have tax cuts and spending increases. We would have hope & optimism, not gloom & despair.
Brexit harms the British people, especially the poor & vulnerable. No politician can support Brexit and claim to care for ordinary people.
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Will someone ever put that on a fucking bus, with Farage’s gurning face next to it, and drive it up and down the country?
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Just been reading a piece in the Examiner about billionaires moving into Kinsale & building helipads against the objections of the locals and one of them's James Dyson, and wasn't he very very Brexit? I wonder why he and his helipad are moving to an EU country?
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Just been reading a piece in the Examiner about billionaires moving into Kinsale & building helipads against the objections of the locals and one of them's James Dyson, and wasn't he very very Brexit? I wonder why he and his helipad are moving to an EU country?
And why - the likes of Miller never bother to consider- are their homelands so fucking broken in the first place? Centuries of imperial exploitation and nefarious political interference from the West.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
And why - the likes of Miller never bother to consider- are their homelands so fucking broken in the first place? Centuries of imperial exploitation and nefarious political interference from the West.
Hmmmmm
“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn…”
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Hmmmmm
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Trump is in crisis, MAGA base turning on him over links with Jeffrey Epstein & the whole country is feeling his total failure to get the cost of living under control.
His response? Get the headlines back where he wants them - ramping up the extreme racist scapegoating #r4today
His response? Get the headlines back where he wants them - ramping up the extreme racist scapegoating #r4today
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Trump is in crisis, MAGA base turning on him over links with Jeffrey Epstein & the whole country is feeling his total failure to get the cost of living under control.
His response? Get the headlines back where he wants them - ramping up the extreme racist scapegoating #r4today
His response? Get the headlines back where he wants them - ramping up the extreme racist scapegoating #r4today
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'Donald Trump is a hateful piece of shit' is an opinion. 'Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt American President' is a statement of observable fact. The BBC's censoring of Bregman's Reith Lecture is a concession to oligarchy's assault on the very notion of truth.
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
'Donald Trump is a hateful piece of shit' is an opinion. 'Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt American President' is a statement of observable fact. The BBC's censoring of Bregman's Reith Lecture is a concession to oligarchy's assault on the very notion of truth.
This is huge👇
This is evidence of real time demolition of the BBC by an aggressive foreign power, aided and abetted by politically motivated players within the organisation.
This is evidence of real time demolition of the BBC by an aggressive foreign power, aided and abetted by politically motivated players within the organisation.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This is huge👇
This is evidence of real time demolition of the BBC by an aggressive foreign power, aided and abetted by politically motivated players within the organisation.
This is evidence of real time demolition of the BBC by an aggressive foreign power, aided and abetted by politically motivated players within the organisation.
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Remember when Musk lied about the reason he bought Twitter was to get rid of the Bots and trolls?
bsky.app/profile/carn...
bsky.app/profile/carn...
Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Remember when Musk lied about the reason he bought Twitter was to get rid of the Bots and trolls?
bsky.app/profile/carn...
bsky.app/profile/carn...
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Brexit.
Ten years have passed. Arguments raged. Our economic issues were due to global shocks.
But no, new data shows UK falling behind 33 comparable countries.
We took back control - straight into a self inflicted economic slowdown.
Ten years have passed. Arguments raged. Our economic issues were due to global shocks.
But no, new data shows UK falling behind 33 comparable countries.
We took back control - straight into a self inflicted economic slowdown.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Brexit.
Ten years have passed. Arguments raged. Our economic issues were due to global shocks.
But no, new data shows UK falling behind 33 comparable countries.
We took back control - straight into a self inflicted economic slowdown.
Ten years have passed. Arguments raged. Our economic issues were due to global shocks.
But no, new data shows UK falling behind 33 comparable countries.
We took back control - straight into a self inflicted economic slowdown.
Fair play to this lot - the existence of billionaires is an abhorrence and the argument that a wealth tax will discourage innovation is the biggest load of bollocks I’ve ever heard.
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Millionaires call on Rachel Reeves to tax them more in the autumn budget
The Patriotic Millionaires UK group has urged chancellor Rachel Reeves to implement a wealth tax in the upcoming autumn budget.
www.bigissue.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Fair play to this lot - the existence of billionaires is an abhorrence and the argument that a wealth tax will discourage innovation is the biggest load of bollocks I’ve ever heard.
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
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Our kids are watching.
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Our kids are watching.
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Today I’ll be doing the first proper day of photography for the Outsiders project since 2022, focusing on long term street homelessness and tent encampments. The situation is much worse than it was and the exhibition must reflect that. Nobody should be sleeping rough in a country as wealthy as ours.
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Today I’ll be doing the first proper day of photography for the Outsiders project since 2022, focusing on long term street homelessness and tent encampments. The situation is much worse than it was and the exhibition must reflect that. Nobody should be sleeping rough in a country as wealthy as ours.
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For those who refuse to take a win that Republicans passed the Epstein Bill with unanimous consent (save for 1 lone R) you’re missing how MASSIVE this is.
The minority party just put the majority party on their heels. Forcing them, the DOJ, & the Reality TV Fascist to acquiesce to THEIR demands. 🧵
The minority party just put the majority party on their heels. Forcing them, the DOJ, & the Reality TV Fascist to acquiesce to THEIR demands. 🧵
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
For those who refuse to take a win that Republicans passed the Epstein Bill with unanimous consent (save for 1 lone R) you’re missing how MASSIVE this is.
The minority party just put the majority party on their heels. Forcing them, the DOJ, & the Reality TV Fascist to acquiesce to THEIR demands. 🧵
The minority party just put the majority party on their heels. Forcing them, the DOJ, & the Reality TV Fascist to acquiesce to THEIR demands. 🧵
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We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood.
Meanwhile in Denmark:
Meanwhile in Denmark:
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood.
Meanwhile in Denmark:
Meanwhile in Denmark:
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Today’s episode of “there is a better way.” Helsinki went a full year without a car-related fatality. For the 90th million time, we ask-why not here? Why can’t we have the healthy, safe, secure, efficient, civilized goods others have: schools free of mass shootings, safe sidewalks, health care…
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Today’s episode of “there is a better way.” Helsinki went a full year without a car-related fatality. For the 90th million time, we ask-why not here? Why can’t we have the healthy, safe, secure, efficient, civilized goods others have: schools free of mass shootings, safe sidewalks, health care…
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A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Hard to imagine a worse direction Labour could lurch in, from the current path it has been bumbling along for the last year, but one that has Wes Streeting’s name on it is definitely the most ridiculous route possible.
November 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Hard to imagine a worse direction Labour could lurch in, from the current path it has been bumbling along for the last year, but one that has Wes Streeting’s name on it is definitely the most ridiculous route possible.
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Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country.
Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
Reform Council in Chaos as It Prepares to Slash Scrutiny Committees Following Wave of Councillor Suspensions
EXCLUSIVE: Reform's flagship Kent administration is planning to shut down multiple council committees as it struggles to fill posts after suspending nine of its own councillors
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country.
Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
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Nothing to do with the Trump row all to do with Reform being a shit Show of bigoted Chaos
November 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Nothing to do with the Trump row all to do with Reform being a shit Show of bigoted Chaos
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Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."