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Richard Bleasdale
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Past lives: travel agent, cartographer, teacher, museum educator and trade union rep. Now an artist. Love archaeology, science, history and art/maps. Climate emergency. PNE.
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That renowned and respected lover of truth and journalistic integrity.... THE KREMLIN.... has stepped up to defend Trump in his battle against the BBC.

SO that's Farage, Netanyahu, Putin, and Boris Johnson...
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The old police station, Blyth. Oil on paper.
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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My goodness, they’ve even got the boxy acoustics on the narration. This is remarkable
October 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Great to speak at the @energy-uk.org.uk conference just now, about the tenuous relationship between many media headlines & reality

Here's a taster

#eukconf25
October 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Nathan Gill who went from UKIP ⏩ Brexit Party ⏩ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements?

Photo collage
➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill
October 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Yup.
if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future
October 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Kilpeck Church door. One of my door series.Oil on paper
October 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.
September 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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UK and EU reportedly negotiating British return to Erasmus programme
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
UK students get chance to study in Europe from January 2027 under new Erasmus deal
The EU is pushing for a rapid agreement for Britain to rejoin the student exchange scheme
inews.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Reform’s plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis of official statistics and forecasts suggests

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/24/f...
Farage’s Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK’s Mass Deportation Plan
Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis of official statistics a...
bylinetimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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It’s to my eternal bemusement how something that once so terrified the world can now be shrugged off so easily without championing the sheer scientific brilliance to achieve it. It should be a constant reminder to stand against the anti science anti vax approach so many have
September 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Castle Street, Edgeley, Stockport. Oil on paper.
September 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files

A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.

It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?
Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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September 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.

The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.

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September 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This is important if you want to know what Reform UK is planning and who they are working with.

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/res...
‘Resolute 1850’: Reform UK Ltd’s MAGA plan to turn Britain into Little America
Right-wing US interests are pushing a plan to bend the UK to their will, ‘DOGE’-style – in Farage’s Reform UK they have an eager little helper
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Over on the hell hole that is twitter fossil fuel lobby groups are in a frenzy over a Gaurdian article abiout a temporary arctic sea ice extent loss pause. Maybe someone should teach them about how ice spreads as it thins or the global situation zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...
August 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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The normalisation of racist hate and the fearmongering about "foreign paedophiles" by the mainstream media and politicians has allowed Tommy Robinson and his moronic followers to set the agenda...

So now a doting grandad is too terrified to leave his home

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
C/O Northumberland _adventures. Bamburgh Castle in the evening light.
August 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM