Steve McClean
@stevemcclean1.bsky.social
Maths teacher in South Yorkshire, among other things. Totally here for the echo chamber
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Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
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Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.
October 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.
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Both my grandfathers fought in the war and my grandmothers served too. Their parents would all have been deported under Reform's policies.
This one is particularly good. “How dare you call our policies racist, some of our voters may have had parents who fought in the war”
October 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Both my grandfathers fought in the war and my grandmothers served too. Their parents would all have been deported under Reform's policies.
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Members of my family were tortured and killed in the Holocaust because countries like Britain said it wasn't their problem. Everyone said never again. And here we are. It's sickening beyond belief.
August 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Members of my family were tortured and killed in the Holocaust because countries like Britain said it wasn't their problem. Everyone said never again. And here we are. It's sickening beyond belief.
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1. A story. Please read.
Reposts hugely appreciated on this. You'll see why in a bit.
I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 4. My parents worked there as doctors. While we were there we were very close to a couple called Christine and Mike Miles.
Reposts hugely appreciated on this. You'll see why in a bit.
I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 4. My parents worked there as doctors. While we were there we were very close to a couple called Christine and Mike Miles.
June 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
1. A story. Please read.
Reposts hugely appreciated on this. You'll see why in a bit.
I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 4. My parents worked there as doctors. While we were there we were very close to a couple called Christine and Mike Miles.
Reposts hugely appreciated on this. You'll see why in a bit.
I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 4. My parents worked there as doctors. While we were there we were very close to a couple called Christine and Mike Miles.
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Today we are closer to the year 2050 than the year 2000 🤯
June 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Today we are closer to the year 2050 than the year 2000 🤯
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Your friendly reminder. Don't leave it until after you are rudely awakened Monday morning!
May 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Your friendly reminder. Don't leave it until after you are rudely awakened Monday morning!
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Well now I've seen it and that's definitely what's happened. Again. Incredibly aggressive language in the PM foreword and speech for a set of changes that will *at most* reduce net migration by an additional 100k to somewhere between 250-300k.
Need to see the actual white paper tomorrow but my sense is the rhetoric is a lot tougher than the actual changes to the system. And therein lies the problem.
May 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Well now I've seen it and that's definitely what's happened. Again. Incredibly aggressive language in the PM foreword and speech for a set of changes that will *at most* reduce net migration by an additional 100k to somewhere between 250-300k.
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Private Eye, spot on as usual...
May 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Private Eye, spot on as usual...
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Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.
March 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.
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Please lecture us more about free speech in Europe.
March 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Please lecture us more about free speech in Europe.
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FA Cup quarter-finals (+ last time they won FA cup)
Fulham (never) v Crystal Palace (never)
Bournemouth (never) v Man City (2023)
Preston North End (1938) v Aston Villa (1957)
Brighton & Hove Albion (never) v Nottingham Forest (1959)
So at least one [up to 3] semi-finalists who've never won it
Fulham (never) v Crystal Palace (never)
Bournemouth (never) v Man City (2023)
Preston North End (1938) v Aston Villa (1957)
Brighton & Hove Albion (never) v Nottingham Forest (1959)
So at least one [up to 3] semi-finalists who've never won it
March 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
FA Cup quarter-finals (+ last time they won FA cup)
Fulham (never) v Crystal Palace (never)
Bournemouth (never) v Man City (2023)
Preston North End (1938) v Aston Villa (1957)
Brighton & Hove Albion (never) v Nottingham Forest (1959)
So at least one [up to 3] semi-finalists who've never won it
Fulham (never) v Crystal Palace (never)
Bournemouth (never) v Man City (2023)
Preston North End (1938) v Aston Villa (1957)
Brighton & Hove Albion (never) v Nottingham Forest (1959)
So at least one [up to 3] semi-finalists who've never won it
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Perfect, just perfect. 👏 @mortenmorland.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Perfect, just perfect. 👏 @mortenmorland.bsky.social
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Also the collective GDP of the EU + UK + Norway is around $24 trillion compared to $2 trillion for Russia. We have vastly more resources if we choose to use them.
🇵🇱🇪🇺 "The paradox is that 500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans for help to protect them from 140 million Russians," — Tusk
❗️"We must rely on ourselves, fully aware of our own potential and believing that we are a world power," he said.
❗️"We must rely on ourselves, fully aware of our own potential and believing that we are a world power," he said.
March 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Also the collective GDP of the EU + UK + Norway is around $24 trillion compared to $2 trillion for Russia. We have vastly more resources if we choose to use them.
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something I keep thinking about is that when I was in the US before the election I spoke to a lot of voters, mostly just chatting on the street in various states, and what I'd not really expected was how apathetic so many of them were, were maybe going to vote for Trump? maybe not? eh, who knows
February 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
something I keep thinking about is that when I was in the US before the election I spoke to a lot of voters, mostly just chatting on the street in various states, and what I'd not really expected was how apathetic so many of them were, were maybe going to vote for Trump? maybe not? eh, who knows
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I keep reading that Zelensky shouldn't have risen to the bait.
The man is human. He's seen tens of thousands of Ukrainians murdered, their cities blown apart & their children stolen.
He was sitting by a man who's looting his country's minerals & praising Putin.
And for 40 minutes, he held it in.
The man is human. He's seen tens of thousands of Ukrainians murdered, their cities blown apart & their children stolen.
He was sitting by a man who's looting his country's minerals & praising Putin.
And for 40 minutes, he held it in.
February 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I keep reading that Zelensky shouldn't have risen to the bait.
The man is human. He's seen tens of thousands of Ukrainians murdered, their cities blown apart & their children stolen.
He was sitting by a man who's looting his country's minerals & praising Putin.
And for 40 minutes, he held it in.
The man is human. He's seen tens of thousands of Ukrainians murdered, their cities blown apart & their children stolen.
He was sitting by a man who's looting his country's minerals & praising Putin.
And for 40 minutes, he held it in.
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This would be the same Robert Jenrick that said during the Tory leadership campaign:
"If I was an American citizen I would be voting for Donald Trump".
"If I was an American citizen I would be voting for Donald Trump".
Shadow justice sec Robert Jenrick on the other website: “sickened by that degrading spectacle…to think the bust of Winston Churchill was in the same room”
February 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This would be the same Robert Jenrick that said during the Tory leadership campaign:
"If I was an American citizen I would be voting for Donald Trump".
"If I was an American citizen I would be voting for Donald Trump".
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No-one who has, or has ever had any input into UK foreign, defence or security policy believes or has ever believed this. Kemi Badenoch can't stop hallucinating straw men, surrendering to foreign lawyers, presumably while taking the knee.
February 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
No-one who has, or has ever had any input into UK foreign, defence or security policy believes or has ever believed this. Kemi Badenoch can't stop hallucinating straw men, surrendering to foreign lawyers, presumably while taking the knee.
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The aid cut is so depressing. I know it's politically popular but it's going to cause an enormous amount of harm.
It's deeply frustrating that we've never found a way of explaining why it matters to UK voters even though it really does.
It's deeply frustrating that we've never found a way of explaining why it matters to UK voters even though it really does.
February 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The aid cut is so depressing. I know it's politically popular but it's going to cause an enormous amount of harm.
It's deeply frustrating that we've never found a way of explaining why it matters to UK voters even though it really does.
It's deeply frustrating that we've never found a way of explaining why it matters to UK voters even though it really does.
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The US just voted alongside Russia, Belarus and North Korea against a UN resolution to support Ukraine.
This is a wake-up call for all those cheerleading Trump in our country.
This is a wake-up call for all those cheerleading Trump in our country.
February 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The US just voted alongside Russia, Belarus and North Korea against a UN resolution to support Ukraine.
This is a wake-up call for all those cheerleading Trump in our country.
This is a wake-up call for all those cheerleading Trump in our country.
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On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz I wanted to share this quote from Prime Levi:
"Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it....
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"Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it....
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January 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz I wanted to share this quote from Prime Levi:
"Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it....
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"Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it....
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If he has the guts to go after him, I think Musk is a political opportunity for Starmer. Standing up to an American billionaire who is trying to intervene in Britain on behalf of the far right has to be popular? There will be a diplomatic price to pay. But probably manageable.
January 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
If he has the guts to go after him, I think Musk is a political opportunity for Starmer. Standing up to an American billionaire who is trying to intervene in Britain on behalf of the far right has to be popular? There will be a diplomatic price to pay. But probably manageable.
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When you've been deputy PM of a G7 nation but consider being Zuckerberg's little helper "the adventure of a lifetime".
"I came to this view as the men from security packed the contents of my desk into boxes and escorted me from the premises."
January 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
When you've been deputy PM of a G7 nation but consider being Zuckerberg's little helper "the adventure of a lifetime".
Thought-provoking thread...
A little less than two years ago, I deleted my Twitter account (before it was cool). I thought it could make sense share what I've learnt from going cold turkey, as many here may be in a similar situation of having to give up what, for better of for worse, had been a big part of our online lives. 🧵
November 24, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Thought-provoking thread...