Martyn Brunt
@skybluebrunty.bsky.social
Former Team GB swimmer and triathlete, and one time runner for England (literally one time). Greenway builder, hedgehog fosterer, wild gardener, ageing punk, book author, and if I can't bring my dogs, I'm not coming. PUSB.
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Video 2026 Winter Olympics: Ukaleq Slettemark, the Greenlandic athlete who stands up to Donald Trump
Video 2026 Winter Olympics: Ukaleq Slettemark, the Greenlandic athlete who stands up to Donald Trump
The 24-year-old biathlete, who has taken a strong stance against the US president's comments about Greenland, is competing for the Danish team at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
www.lemonde.fr
February 11, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Video 2026 Winter Olympics: Ukaleq Slettemark, the Greenlandic athlete who stands up to Donald Trump
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It’s Leslie Nielsen’s birthday & this is still the greatest gag in the history of comedy.
February 11, 2026 at 7:44 AM
It’s Leslie Nielsen’s birthday & this is still the greatest gag in the history of comedy.
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+ as an MP, representing British interests, John Redwood knew Brexit would damage the economy, but promoted it anyway
While telling his clients to get their money out of the UK pronto
He should have been locked up for treason
Theresa May gave him a knighthood
@francescoppola.bsky.social in 2017
While telling his clients to get their money out of the UK pronto
He should have been locked up for treason
Theresa May gave him a knighthood
@francescoppola.bsky.social in 2017
British Lawmaker Advises Investors To Take Their Money Out Of The UK
John Redwood, investment manager and British lawmaker, advises investors to remove their money from the UK and invest it in more successful economies, including the EU. But his advice doesn't end ther...
www.forbes.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:54 AM
+ as an MP, representing British interests, John Redwood knew Brexit would damage the economy, but promoted it anyway
While telling his clients to get their money out of the UK pronto
He should have been locked up for treason
Theresa May gave him a knighthood
@francescoppola.bsky.social in 2017
While telling his clients to get their money out of the UK pronto
He should have been locked up for treason
Theresa May gave him a knighthood
@francescoppola.bsky.social in 2017
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Reform by-election candidate Matt Goodwin, who has spent years talking about free speech and all that crap chickened out of a hustings today.
As you can see - ALL the other candidates turned up
As you can see - ALL the other candidates turned up
February 11, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Reform by-election candidate Matt Goodwin, who has spent years talking about free speech and all that crap chickened out of a hustings today.
As you can see - ALL the other candidates turned up
As you can see - ALL the other candidates turned up
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FT exclusive
A senior Labour MP has urged Companies House to investigate the ownership of a design company that donated £200,000 to Reform UK last year and has links with Iranian-born billionaire Sasan Ghandehari.
www.ft.com/content/84b5...
A senior Labour MP has urged Companies House to investigate the ownership of a design company that donated £200,000 to Reform UK last year and has links with Iranian-born billionaire Sasan Ghandehari.
www.ft.com/content/84b5...
Companies House should probe origins of £200,000 gift to Reform, senior MP says
Liam Byrne’s intervention comes after London-based company is linked to Iranian-born billionaire Sasan Ghandehari
www.ft.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:17 AM
FT exclusive
A senior Labour MP has urged Companies House to investigate the ownership of a design company that donated £200,000 to Reform UK last year and has links with Iranian-born billionaire Sasan Ghandehari.
www.ft.com/content/84b5...
A senior Labour MP has urged Companies House to investigate the ownership of a design company that donated £200,000 to Reform UK last year and has links with Iranian-born billionaire Sasan Ghandehari.
www.ft.com/content/84b5...
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The first boat in the Gallows Reach section in over 70 years! 😃
Let's press on and get the full size ones there.
📷 photo by Andrew T.
#Lichfield #WeDigCanals
Let's press on and get the full size ones there.
📷 photo by Andrew T.
#Lichfield #WeDigCanals
February 11, 2026 at 9:12 AM
The first boat in the Gallows Reach section in over 70 years! 😃
Let's press on and get the full size ones there.
📷 photo by Andrew T.
#Lichfield #WeDigCanals
Let's press on and get the full size ones there.
📷 photo by Andrew T.
#Lichfield #WeDigCanals
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Please just for today say a prayer for the BBC’s Chris Mason.🙏🏻
This brave & much loved Conservative stormtrooper has fought tooth & nail to bring down a Labour Govt
It didn’t quite work out Chris but you will join the long list of Tory heroes such as Boris & Maggie!
Hero! 😢
This brave & much loved Conservative stormtrooper has fought tooth & nail to bring down a Labour Govt
It didn’t quite work out Chris but you will join the long list of Tory heroes such as Boris & Maggie!
Hero! 😢
February 11, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Please just for today say a prayer for the BBC’s Chris Mason.🙏🏻
This brave & much loved Conservative stormtrooper has fought tooth & nail to bring down a Labour Govt
It didn’t quite work out Chris but you will join the long list of Tory heroes such as Boris & Maggie!
Hero! 😢
This brave & much loved Conservative stormtrooper has fought tooth & nail to bring down a Labour Govt
It didn’t quite work out Chris but you will join the long list of Tory heroes such as Boris & Maggie!
Hero! 😢
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Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔬 🌱 🧪
As a female-led charity, we're proud to work with many incredible women, including scientists, ecologists and hedgehog advocates all over the world - today we're celebrating them all 🙌
#womeninstem #womeninscience #wildlifewednesday
As a female-led charity, we're proud to work with many incredible women, including scientists, ecologists and hedgehog advocates all over the world - today we're celebrating them all 🙌
#womeninstem #womeninscience #wildlifewednesday
February 11, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔬 🌱 🧪
As a female-led charity, we're proud to work with many incredible women, including scientists, ecologists and hedgehog advocates all over the world - today we're celebrating them all 🙌
#womeninstem #womeninscience #wildlifewednesday
As a female-led charity, we're proud to work with many incredible women, including scientists, ecologists and hedgehog advocates all over the world - today we're celebrating them all 🙌
#womeninstem #womeninscience #wildlifewednesday
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One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…
Ex Tory MP John Redwood has been made a peer, as Lord Redwood on 31 January, and was formally introduced in the Lords on Tuesday
February 11, 2026 at 8:34 AM
One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…
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Well this is a very touching local news story.
Leicester Cathedral reveals sign language wedding held in 1576
Cathedral bosses believe the signed service could have been one of the first in England.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 9:59 AM
@quietriotpod.bsky.social Another grin and share it
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OOFF! Just seen a preview of Dirty Business (Ch4 factual drama) on the sewage scandal. This will start a conflagration. Tears and fury. Could it spark a Post Office-style reckoning? I think it could. Watch it later this month. Kudos to the heroes Ash Smith and Peter Hammond from WASP
February 10, 2026 at 1:13 PM
OOFF! Just seen a preview of Dirty Business (Ch4 factual drama) on the sewage scandal. This will start a conflagration. Tears and fury. Could it spark a Post Office-style reckoning? I think it could. Watch it later this month. Kudos to the heroes Ash Smith and Peter Hammond from WASP
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Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, after more than 100,000 people signed petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, after more than 100,000 people signed petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate
Nigel Farage's party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, after more than 100,000 people signed petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, after more than 100,000 people signed petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
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Left: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home
Right: Nigel Farage's Reform UK advertising a job which is working form home
Right: Nigel Farage's Reform UK advertising a job which is working form home
February 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Left: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home
Right: Nigel Farage's Reform UK advertising a job which is working form home
Right: Nigel Farage's Reform UK advertising a job which is working form home
The best thing you will see all day/week/year/ever.
February 10, 2026 at 7:16 PM
The best thing you will see all day/week/year/ever.
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I changed the audio
February 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I changed the audio
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Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
February 10, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
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🔴Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate
Nigel Farage's party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:19 PM
🔴Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
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Maybe sit this one out, Nige
February 4, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Maybe sit this one out, Nige
Post a pic of your favourite fictional band
February 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Post a pic of your favourite fictional band
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February 10, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.
February 10, 2026 at 11:40 AM
No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.
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Reform is threatening Bangor University over a student society’s decision. The society isn’t Bangor University—but this is a neat preview of how a Reform government would work: public money for supporters only. Trump-style politics, UK edition.
Authoritarian reflex is already working just fine.👇
Authoritarian reflex is already working just fine.👇
February 10, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Reform is threatening Bangor University over a student society’s decision. The society isn’t Bangor University—but this is a neat preview of how a Reform government would work: public money for supporters only. Trump-style politics, UK edition.
Authoritarian reflex is already working just fine.👇
Authoritarian reflex is already working just fine.👇
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Reform UK made low council tax a political priority.
Now they are breaking their promises.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/09/reform-worcestershire-council-tax-england-largest-rise
Now they are breaking their promises.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/09/reform-worcestershire-council-tax-england-largest-rise
Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax rise
Cap-busting tax hike will be embarrassing for the party, which has made low council tax a priority
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Reform UK made low council tax a political priority.
Now they are breaking their promises.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/09/reform-worcestershire-council-tax-england-largest-rise
Now they are breaking their promises.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/09/reform-worcestershire-council-tax-england-largest-rise
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Reform banned journalists they dislike from covering their party conference and then Nigel Farage dissembled about it to Congress, so I think we’ve heard quite enough faux free speech bollocks out of them, tbh.
This is pretty menacing.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
February 10, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Reform banned journalists they dislike from covering their party conference and then Nigel Farage dissembled about it to Congress, so I think we’ve heard quite enough faux free speech bollocks out of them, tbh.
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Please take 2 seconds to send a letter to your MP on this issue: protectthewild.org.uk/endhuntingnow/
February 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Please take 2 seconds to send a letter to your MP on this issue: protectthewild.org.uk/endhuntingnow/