Andrew Riddlestone
@ariddlestone.bsky.social
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That’s so yesterday’s news. They’ve just announced they’re going to take down the flags and replace them with ads. No, really.
www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...
www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...
Reform's £16k Union Jacks across Notts could be replaced with ads
The 164 flag banners will be used as 'advertising spaces' and will be paid for by 'businesses and partners'
www.nottinghampost.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
That’s so yesterday’s news. They’ve just announced they’re going to take down the flags and replace them with ads. No, really.
www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...
www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...
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Our latest polling shows concerns about immigration are manufactured
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Polling shows immigration concern ‘manufactured’, say campaigners
A YouGov poll found only 26% of people said immigration and asylum was one of the three most important issues facing their community.
www.standard.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Our latest polling shows concerns about immigration are manufactured
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".
September 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".
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Britain has been multicultural for the last 2000 years. That's why we have the Roman alphabet, a Middle East religion, Arabic numerals, a Syrian patron saint, an aristocracy with French ancestry and a German royal family.
August 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Britain has been multicultural for the last 2000 years. That's why we have the Roman alphabet, a Middle East religion, Arabic numerals, a Syrian patron saint, an aristocracy with French ancestry and a German royal family.
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I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
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Did a new one
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Did a new one
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Based on the figures quoted by this Murdoch shitrag to drum-up anti-immigrant sentiment, foreign-born residents (and citizens!) are 15.5% less likely to be criminals, and 28% less likely to be sex offenders.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.
August 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Based on the figures quoted by this Murdoch shitrag to drum-up anti-immigrant sentiment, foreign-born residents (and citizens!) are 15.5% less likely to be criminals, and 28% less likely to be sex offenders.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
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Parliament and Hansard have removed “We are all Palestine Action” from my speech on Wednesday 2 July 2025 — despite me saying it.
This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record.
This is not how a democracy behaves.
We will not be silenced.
This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record.
This is not how a democracy behaves.
We will not be silenced.
July 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Parliament and Hansard have removed “We are all Palestine Action” from my speech on Wednesday 2 July 2025 — despite me saying it.
This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record.
This is not how a democracy behaves.
We will not be silenced.
This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record.
This is not how a democracy behaves.
We will not be silenced.
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A reminder that poverty is expensive to the state. More illness. More anti social behaviour. More unemployment. Less spending. Less attainment. And it's a cycle
There's never a way when poor people need money. There is always a way when it's for failing businesses or weapons
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Ministers privately ruling out scrapping two-child benefits cap
Sources says government is ‘not going to find a way’ to ditch cap despite predictions that child poverty levels will soar
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
A reminder that poverty is expensive to the state. More illness. More anti social behaviour. More unemployment. Less spending. Less attainment. And it's a cycle
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This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...
defector.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
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A thread fact checking Trump's claims about Ukraine, which appears to have come directly from the Putin propaganda agency.
1/8
1/8
February 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A thread fact checking Trump's claims about Ukraine, which appears to have come directly from the Putin propaganda agency.
1/8
1/8
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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?”
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
english.elpais.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?”
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Well shit.
February 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Well shit.
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I literally can’t believe that we’re hearing the case being made for austerity again.
After it destroyed growth, destroyed communities, trashed public services & gave us all this far right backlash to deal with.
These smug rich men still saying Reeves should make the case for more cuts🤦♀️ #r4today
After it destroyed growth, destroyed communities, trashed public services & gave us all this far right backlash to deal with.
These smug rich men still saying Reeves should make the case for more cuts🤦♀️ #r4today
January 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I literally can’t believe that we’re hearing the case being made for austerity again.
After it destroyed growth, destroyed communities, trashed public services & gave us all this far right backlash to deal with.
These smug rich men still saying Reeves should make the case for more cuts🤦♀️ #r4today
After it destroyed growth, destroyed communities, trashed public services & gave us all this far right backlash to deal with.
These smug rich men still saying Reeves should make the case for more cuts🤦♀️ #r4today
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The new centre ground of our migration debate is going to be between Nigel Farage & Tommy Robinson if the media gets its way.
Labour needs, desperately, to get a grip on the narrative & stop chasing the tails of the far & further right. #r4today
Labour needs, desperately, to get a grip on the narrative & stop chasing the tails of the far & further right. #r4today
January 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The new centre ground of our migration debate is going to be between Nigel Farage & Tommy Robinson if the media gets its way.
Labour needs, desperately, to get a grip on the narrative & stop chasing the tails of the far & further right. #r4today
Labour needs, desperately, to get a grip on the narrative & stop chasing the tails of the far & further right. #r4today
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The ONLY solution is safe routes. Make the gangs unnecessary. And invest instead in faster processing.
The Home Office accepts that its policies to “smash the gangs” results in people taking flimsier & more overcrowded dinghies across the Channel.
This is why at least 77 people have drowned. A third are children. #r4today www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
This is why at least 77 people have drowned. A third are children. #r4today www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Names and faces of people who died in Channel during deadliest year on record
Heartbreaking photos show men, women and children who died this year trying to reach the UK in small boats as MPs are urged to reflect on the tragedies and stop it happening again
www.mirror.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The ONLY solution is safe routes. Make the gangs unnecessary. And invest instead in faster processing.
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"The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes and we must."
-- Jimmy Carter, 2002, Nobel speech
R.I.P
-- Jimmy Carter, 2002, Nobel speech
R.I.P
December 29, 2024 at 10:25 PM
"The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes and we must."
-- Jimmy Carter, 2002, Nobel speech
R.I.P
-- Jimmy Carter, 2002, Nobel speech
R.I.P
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New video! 👀
GBNews has a brand new presenter to fill the gap in their anti-migrant coverage!
His name is Matthew Goodwin & luckily enough he knows HOW TO STOP AN INVASION!
Is this the solution at last? I looked into it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...
GBNews has a brand new presenter to fill the gap in their anti-migrant coverage!
His name is Matthew Goodwin & luckily enough he knows HOW TO STOP AN INVASION!
Is this the solution at last? I looked into it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...
GBNews’ new man SOLVES the small boats crisis
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
www.youtube.com
December 28, 2024 at 11:08 AM
New video! 👀
GBNews has a brand new presenter to fill the gap in their anti-migrant coverage!
His name is Matthew Goodwin & luckily enough he knows HOW TO STOP AN INVASION!
Is this the solution at last? I looked into it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...
GBNews has a brand new presenter to fill the gap in their anti-migrant coverage!
His name is Matthew Goodwin & luckily enough he knows HOW TO STOP AN INVASION!
Is this the solution at last? I looked into it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...
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This #InternationalMigrantsDay, we teamed up with @zoejardiniere.bsky.social to call for a fairer asylum system.
Share this video & let people in power know we need real solutions – not fearmongering 💛
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtgz...
#HumanRights #PaidPartnership #RefugeesWelcome
Share this video & let people in power know we need real solutions – not fearmongering 💛
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtgz...
#HumanRights #PaidPartnership #RefugeesWelcome
It's time to have a serious conversation about migration.
YouTube video by Amnesty International UK
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:12 PM
This #InternationalMigrantsDay, we teamed up with @zoejardiniere.bsky.social to call for a fairer asylum system.
Share this video & let people in power know we need real solutions – not fearmongering 💛
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtgz...
#HumanRights #PaidPartnership #RefugeesWelcome
Share this video & let people in power know we need real solutions – not fearmongering 💛
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtgz...
#HumanRights #PaidPartnership #RefugeesWelcome
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The public services YOU'VE lost in the past 14 years...
This is the numbered list Keir Starmer should be talking about today
We won't feel rich as a country until we get back what's been stolen
weownit.org.uk/blog/destruc...
This is the numbered list Keir Starmer should be talking about today
We won't feel rich as a country until we get back what's been stolen
weownit.org.uk/blog/destruc...
The destruction of the last 14 years, in numbers
This is the reality of austerity. Since 2010, government cuts to public services mean the UK has become a broken country. Our public buildings and spaces have been sold off, our children have fewer pl...
weownit.org.uk
December 5, 2024 at 8:48 AM
The public services YOU'VE lost in the past 14 years...
This is the numbered list Keir Starmer should be talking about today
We won't feel rich as a country until we get back what's been stolen
weownit.org.uk/blog/destruc...
This is the numbered list Keir Starmer should be talking about today
We won't feel rich as a country until we get back what's been stolen
weownit.org.uk/blog/destruc...
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This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons.
A thread…🧵
A thread…🧵
November 21, 2024 at 10:15 PM
This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons.
A thread…🧵
A thread…🧵