Alastair McKinlay
@almckin.bsky.social
Retired Head Teacher interested in Current Affairs, Music, Sport the great outdoors and trying to stay healthy.
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Starmer is against restoring Freedom of Movement.
Please repost if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.
We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
Please repost if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.
We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
May 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Starmer is against restoring Freedom of Movement.
Please repost if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.
We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
Please repost if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.
We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
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Grifter in chief.
Embarrassing. Nauseating
Embarrassing. Nauseating
March 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Grifter in chief.
Embarrassing. Nauseating
Embarrassing. Nauseating
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
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John Bolton, former Trump adviser, warns that Trump and Vance siding with Russia in this war is a catastrophic mistake for US national security.
February 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
John Bolton, former Trump adviser, warns that Trump and Vance siding with Russia in this war is a catastrophic mistake for US national security.
Today’s disgusting display from Trump and Vance ganging up and bullying the President of a country literally fighting for its very survival is completely abhorrent. America is in a very low place right now.
February 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Today’s disgusting display from Trump and Vance ganging up and bullying the President of a country literally fighting for its very survival is completely abhorrent. America is in a very low place right now.
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Badenoch didn’t demand Tory PMs increase Defence spending when she was in Govt👇🏼
Instead she let it shrink over 14 years to lower level than the previous Labour Govt..
But now all of a sudden, she wakes up, as an expert and can write a letter demanding Labour fix her mess
Pathetic hypocrite❗️🙄
Instead she let it shrink over 14 years to lower level than the previous Labour Govt..
But now all of a sudden, she wakes up, as an expert and can write a letter demanding Labour fix her mess
Pathetic hypocrite❗️🙄
February 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Badenoch didn’t demand Tory PMs increase Defence spending when she was in Govt👇🏼
Instead she let it shrink over 14 years to lower level than the previous Labour Govt..
But now all of a sudden, she wakes up, as an expert and can write a letter demanding Labour fix her mess
Pathetic hypocrite❗️🙄
Instead she let it shrink over 14 years to lower level than the previous Labour Govt..
But now all of a sudden, she wakes up, as an expert and can write a letter demanding Labour fix her mess
Pathetic hypocrite❗️🙄
Scary worrying times.
Bowing to the Butcher: Trump Grovels to Putin and Promises to Abandon Ukraine
No American leader has ever pledged loyalty to a foreign dictator — until now…
No American leader has ever pledged loyalty to a foreign dictator — until now…
Bowing to the Butcher: Trump Grovels to Putin and Promises to Abandon Ukraine
No American leader has ever pledged loyalty to a foreign dictator — until now…
hartmannreport.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Scary worrying times.
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Even a system that calls itself a democracy can become an oligarchy if power becomes concentrated in the hands of a few very wealthy people.
What is Oligarchy? | Robert Reich
Robert Reich explains why American democracy has become a oligarchy.Watch More: 10 Ways to Save American Democracy ►► https://youtu.be/3OUbWJrbzog
www.youtube.com
December 28, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Even a system that calls itself a democracy can become an oligarchy if power becomes concentrated in the hands of a few very wealthy people.
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The combined net worth of America's twelve wealthiest people just passed $2 TRILLION.
12 people. $2 trillion.
The bottom half of America collectively holds $3.5 trillion.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
12 people. $2 trillion.
The bottom half of America collectively holds $3.5 trillion.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
America's 12 richest men now worth a combined $2 trillion
Their net worth is less than $2 trillion short of the wealth of the bottom half of the U.S.
www.newsweek.com
December 8, 2024 at 6:12 PM
The combined net worth of America's twelve wealthiest people just passed $2 TRILLION.
12 people. $2 trillion.
The bottom half of America collectively holds $3.5 trillion.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
12 people. $2 trillion.
The bottom half of America collectively holds $3.5 trillion.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
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Couldn’t agree more.
Why is the government not capable wiping the floor with Nigel Farage every single day like this? Alastair Campbell effortlessly destroys him over his Brexit legacy which by almost every economic and financial measure has been disastrous for the country
December 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Couldn’t agree more.
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR. I think he’s talking absolute boll****. What about you?
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR. I think he’s talking absolute boll****. What about you?
Couldn’t agree more.
“Just three companies, News Corp (Murdoch family), Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT, Viscount Rothermere) and Reach plc, control over 80% of daily newspaper circulation…”
We need a free press - ie free from the billionaires.
We need a free press - ie free from the billionaires.
We need a free press
It’s vital for democracy that we receive verifiable information that is not manipulated or controlled
sussexbylines.co.uk
December 4, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Couldn’t agree more.
Excellent article from @neilmackay.bsky.social
Well worth a read.
Well worth a read.
War, poverty, mass migration, populism and climate change: how capitalism created an omni-crisis … and how we fix it
I talk to some of the smartest minds on the planet about where it all went wrong and why capitalism must be reformed before it’s too late www.heraldscotland.com/news/2476296...
I talk to some of the smartest minds on the planet about where it all went wrong and why capitalism must be reformed before it’s too late www.heraldscotland.com/news/2476296...
December 1, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Excellent article from @neilmackay.bsky.social
Well worth a read.
Well worth a read.
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Man who told The Times in 2021 that he’d only bought his £4.25m farm to avoid paying inheritance tax to lead protest against inheritance tax 😂🤣😂 www.thesun.co.uk/news/3179317...
Clarkson defies docs to lead 20,000 farmers protesting against 'tractor tax'
JEREMY Clarkson will defy health fears to join up to 20,000 farmers protesting in Westminster over the hated “tractor tax”. The Clarkson’s Farm star, 64 — recovering after a life-saving heart op — …
www.thesun.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Man who told The Times in 2021 that he’d only bought his £4.25m farm to avoid paying inheritance tax to lead protest against inheritance tax 😂🤣😂 www.thesun.co.uk/news/3179317...
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Stop pretending it doesn't exist, guys.
It's not going away.
It's not going away.
November 18, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Stop pretending it doesn't exist, guys.
It's not going away.
It's not going away.
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Victoria Derbyshire nails Jeremy Clarkson over his Inheritance Tax scam.
Hilarious to watch him squirm.
Hilarious to watch him squirm.
November 19, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Victoria Derbyshire nails Jeremy Clarkson over his Inheritance Tax scam.
Hilarious to watch him squirm.
Hilarious to watch him squirm.
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Mr Melville, opponent of "echo chambers" and fan of listening to "different opinions", blocked me after I pointed out that he had falsely claimed that a photo of a concert crowd in Moscow 30 years ago was of an anti lockdown demo in Paris in 2020.
November 16, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Mr Melville, opponent of "echo chambers" and fan of listening to "different opinions", blocked me after I pointed out that he had falsely claimed that a photo of a concert crowd in Moscow 30 years ago was of an anti lockdown demo in Paris in 2020.
I am really enjoying the @bsky echo chamber. So refreshing.
Step 1: Elon takes over Twitter, unbans and amplifies the worst white nationalist posters, methodically turns it into a right wing echo chamber.
Step 2: Users who aren’t white nationalists or MAGA extremists leave for Bluesky en masse.
Step 3: op-ed columnists fret, “is Bluesky an echo chamber?”
Step 2: Users who aren’t white nationalists or MAGA extremists leave for Bluesky en masse.
Step 3: op-ed columnists fret, “is Bluesky an echo chamber?”
November 16, 2024 at 8:32 PM
I am really enjoying the @bsky echo chamber. So refreshing.