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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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Empowering people with news and information about a dangerous and confusing world. Everything is Connected. Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA https://substack.com/@chadbourn Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Dec 21
The theme for this feed is Everything is Connected.

The posts cover news and politics from all over the world, things that I think it’s worth paying attention to but which may not always get priority in other media.

Even if it happens 5000 miles away it can still roll up on your doorstep.
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Best ever title credits.
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Going to be wall to wall horror from here on out.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1h
4000 people have signed up to sue poultry producers.
River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit
Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.
www.bbc.com
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h
Gold has surged to a record high of $4000 an ounce over fears about Trump’s tariffs and the US government shutdown.
Gold surges past record $4,000 an ounce as uncertainty fuels rally
Analysts point to delays in the reporting of economic data due to the US government shutdown as one reason for the rise.
www.bbc.com
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h
Morning Bluesky.
A blurry photo of a man walking down a dark corridor towards the light. Check your pockets
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h
Don’t think so. It’s not in their DNA, and there are plenty of voters closer to home to pick off.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h
It’s not about predicting the election, it’s a snapshot of how people are thinking right now. And we can see a pretty epic disillusionment with Labour and the Tories which sets off a whole stream of other important questions.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h
The Losers’ Circular Firing Squad. It’ll be in America soon.
Robert Jenrick Mocks Liz Truss In Brutal Tory Conference Jibe At Former Party Leader
The shadow justice secretary took aim at his one-time colleague.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h
World turned upside down.
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I can see that happening.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23h
Everything is changing.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23h
Keep it up, Musk. Split that vote.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23h
The electoral system now treats the Tories like it once treated the Lib Dems, Curtice added.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23h
Psephologist Sir John Curtice told a Demos-sponsored event at the Conservative Party conference fringe that the Lib Dems “will almost undoubtedly win more seats” than the Tories at the next GE.

“The LD vote is now more geographically concentrated than your vote.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23h
New YouGov Westminster poll:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23h
How the Far Right Project 2025 is going to be brought to the UK through the Reform Trojan horse.
Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)
A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.
open.substack.com
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
Morning Bluesky.
A sign says WELCOME TO CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
Stolen phones. Should have made that clearer.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
It’s always worse to have insider knowledge. Ignorance is bliss.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm.

Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
It’s crazy. But back then we all thought Russia was a serious country.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
Hmmm.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
Massive number of Ukrainian drones now heading towards Moscow.

#explodey
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
It’s been crazy in London. Have your phone out, they’ll whizz by you on a bike and snatch it out of your hands. This is a big deal here.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
Trump says he’s made a decision on sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine — he just needs details on how they’ll be used. Two weeks?
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