Kevin
@k1east.bsky.social
Vegetarian. Travel. Football (Celtic mainly). Music - indie, punk, post-punk. Politics - left of centre/Scottish Independence. Environment. Pro EU rejoin for UK.
One from a batch I bought recently from Fuzz Club. All of the new to my ears - this one of two that I get by The Men. Punk rock New York style - it's a good record. I am listening to the next one now - wouldn't have minded seeing these live in a club.
January 13, 2026 at 3:16 PM
One from a batch I bought recently from Fuzz Club. All of the new to my ears - this one of two that I get by The Men. Punk rock New York style - it's a good record. I am listening to the next one now - wouldn't have minded seeing these live in a club.
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Between 2012-2020 the Government sold off student loan debt to Private Companies, the interest rates are now usually double inflation or more.
Also the level and amount you repay goes up and up and up as thresholds will be frozen forever.
Also the level and amount you repay goes up and up and up as thresholds will be frozen forever.
January 13, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Between 2012-2020 the Government sold off student loan debt to Private Companies, the interest rates are now usually double inflation or more.
Also the level and amount you repay goes up and up and up as thresholds will be frozen forever.
Also the level and amount you repay goes up and up and up as thresholds will be frozen forever.
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This can’t go on. UK news shows have got to start calling Nigel Farage out on this ridiculous bull****. Please start doing your job - for all our sakes
If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it.
We cannot allow him & others to rewrite history.
youtu.be/vL7_mwSNMvc?...
We cannot allow him & others to rewrite history.
youtu.be/vL7_mwSNMvc?...
When are UK News Shows going to start calling out Nigel Farage and his completely rubbished claims?
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 7:19 AM
This can’t go on. UK news shows have got to start calling Nigel Farage out on this ridiculous bull****. Please start doing your job - for all our sakes
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Call it “mutual” and suddenly people get it.
‘Mutual free movement’ for UK and EU citizens supported by 84% of Brits, in stunning new poll
Omnisis poll suggests opposition to free movement was based on lack of awareness and the UK government failing to enforce the rules
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Call it “mutual” and suddenly people get it.
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Why should billionaires be able to pass on billions tax free?
December 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Why should billionaires be able to pass on billions tax free?
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In case you’re worried about how he’ll cope, here’s a picture of his house.
December 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
In case you’re worried about how he’ll cope, here’s a picture of his house.
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Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
December 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
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The Rezillos: The Old Grey Whistle Test (26/09/1978)
youtu.be/DjM_uXecZoU?...
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December 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The Rezillos: The Old Grey Whistle Test (26/09/1978)
youtu.be/DjM_uXecZoU?...
@garycrowleyonair.bsky.social
@punkandnewwave.bsky.social
@carolinebinnie.bsky.social
@grantmcphee.bsky.social
@neilcooper.bsky.social
@creepingbent.bsky.social
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Universal Credit per child is £292.81 per month.
Meaning with JUST 35 children (all have to be under 18), you could get £140,000 a year.
Must be loads of families doing this...
Meaning with JUST 35 children (all have to be under 18), you could get £140,000 a year.
Must be loads of families doing this...
The benefit cap is £22,020 for a couple and just £14,753 for a single person.
December 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Universal Credit per child is £292.81 per month.
Meaning with JUST 35 children (all have to be under 18), you could get £140,000 a year.
Must be loads of families doing this...
Meaning with JUST 35 children (all have to be under 18), you could get £140,000 a year.
Must be loads of families doing this...
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Sergei Cristo. Of the bombshell podcast series Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring. Always worth listening to and reading what Sergei has to say and add, as much as @peterjukes.bsky.social at Byline Times, and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social now at @thenerve.news (formerly with the Guardian/Observer).
🔴Nathan Gill Sentenced: What He Was Really Doing for the Kremlin
Reform UK’s former leader in Wales was in the centre of Putin’s preparations to attack Ukraine, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
Reform UK’s former leader in Wales was in the centre of Putin’s preparations to attack Ukraine, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
Nathan Gill Sentenced: What He Was Really Doing for the Kremlin
Reform UK's former leader in Wales was in the centre of Putin’s preparations to attack Ukraine, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Sergei Cristo. Of the bombshell podcast series Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring. Always worth listening to and reading what Sergei has to say and add, as much as @peterjukes.bsky.social at Byline Times, and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social now at @thenerve.news (formerly with the Guardian/Observer).
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After another week of banging on about immigration, Keir Starmer's ratings fall to their lowest ever level.
At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?
At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
After another week of banging on about immigration, Keir Starmer's ratings fall to their lowest ever level.
At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?
At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?
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In 2023-24 HMRC issued 456 penalties to wealthy individuals for £5.8m, 25 prosecuted.
Tax scams designed by accountants, lawyers; five prosecutions in 2023-2024.
Govt taking powers to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts; mainly poor, old, sick. Nothing equivalent on tax abuse industry.
Tax scams designed by accountants, lawyers; five prosecutions in 2023-2024.
Govt taking powers to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts; mainly poor, old, sick. Nothing equivalent on tax abuse industry.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
In 2023-24 HMRC issued 456 penalties to wealthy individuals for £5.8m, 25 prosecuted.
Tax scams designed by accountants, lawyers; five prosecutions in 2023-2024.
Govt taking powers to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts; mainly poor, old, sick. Nothing equivalent on tax abuse industry.
Tax scams designed by accountants, lawyers; five prosecutions in 2023-2024.
Govt taking powers to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts; mainly poor, old, sick. Nothing equivalent on tax abuse industry.
Oasis were tremendous in Melbourne last night.
November 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Oasis were tremendous in Melbourne last night.
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Cost of Privatization,
Thames Water wants to pollute UK rivers with illegal sewage dumping until 2040, pay no fines, law already permits some sewage dumping.
Will still want profits, pay megabucks to execs, dividends and fleece customers.
Public ownership is the only way out.
Thames Water wants to pollute UK rivers with illegal sewage dumping until 2040, pay no fines, law already permits some sewage dumping.
Will still want profits, pay megabucks to execs, dividends and fleece customers.
Public ownership is the only way out.
Thames Water wants permission to pollute Britain's rivers until 2040. No, seriously
Thames Water – Britain's largest water utility – has asked the industry regulator to exempt it from some pollution requirements.
www.bigissue.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Cost of Privatization,
Thames Water wants to pollute UK rivers with illegal sewage dumping until 2040, pay no fines, law already permits some sewage dumping.
Will still want profits, pay megabucks to execs, dividends and fleece customers.
Public ownership is the only way out.
Thames Water wants to pollute UK rivers with illegal sewage dumping until 2040, pay no fines, law already permits some sewage dumping.
Will still want profits, pay megabucks to execs, dividends and fleece customers.
Public ownership is the only way out.
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Portobello, Edinburgh.
October 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Portobello, Edinburgh.
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Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
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UK big four banks on course to pocket annual profits of more than £45bn.
Bank branches vanishing. Profits from high charges, low interest rates on savings, scandals, speculation.
Govt must levy windfall taxes on banks.
Bank branches vanishing. Profits from high charges, low interest rates on savings, scandals, speculation.
Govt must levy windfall taxes on banks.
British banks to land £45bn profit bonanza
Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest will report results for the third quarter over the next few days, with HSBC releasing figures the following week.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
UK big four banks on course to pocket annual profits of more than £45bn.
Bank branches vanishing. Profits from high charges, low interest rates on savings, scandals, speculation.
Govt must levy windfall taxes on banks.
Bank branches vanishing. Profits from high charges, low interest rates on savings, scandals, speculation.
Govt must levy windfall taxes on banks.
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No major bank has yet committed to stop funding new oil and gas fields or coal capacity.
They are appeasing Trump, stock markets and shareholders. Exec pay rockets as the environment harmed.
Claims of social responsibility are a PR hype.
They are appeasing Trump, stock markets and shareholders. Exec pay rockets as the environment harmed.
Claims of social responsibility are a PR hype.
No major banks have yet committed to stop funding new oil, gas and coal, research finds
‘The objectives of the Paris agreement are slipping further out of reach,’ say researchers from LSE
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No major bank has yet committed to stop funding new oil and gas fields or coal capacity.
They are appeasing Trump, stock markets and shareholders. Exec pay rockets as the environment harmed.
Claims of social responsibility are a PR hype.
They are appeasing Trump, stock markets and shareholders. Exec pay rockets as the environment harmed.
Claims of social responsibility are a PR hype.
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More good news today, if true - Labour will bring a little more fairness to the tax system by ending the tax loophole of Limited Liability Partnerships - favoured by doctors, accountants and lawyers.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
More good news today, if true - Labour will bring a little more fairness to the tax system by ending the tax loophole of Limited Liability Partnerships - favoured by doctors, accountants and lawyers.
buff.ly/zYullPl
buff.ly/zYullPl
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#RecipeOfTheDay is Bara Brith, that wonderful Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, which I recommend eating so thickly spread with butter you can see your teeth marks in it when you take a bite (what the Danes refer to as tandsmør)! www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...
Bara Brith
I have a particular fondness for Bara Brith, the traditional Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread. My late sister Thomasina lived and worked in Wales, and my first taste of it came courtesy of her next door...
www.nigella.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#RecipeOfTheDay is Bara Brith, that wonderful Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, which I recommend eating so thickly spread with butter you can see your teeth marks in it when you take a bite (what the Danes refer to as tandsmør)! www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...
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Headline grabbing controversy is what's feeding the Reform interest; they have nothing to offer except more hate and division. Will you be voting for this? 🤔🤷♂️
September 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Headline grabbing controversy is what's feeding the Reform interest; they have nothing to offer except more hate and division. Will you be voting for this? 🤔🤷♂️
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Reform is a (bad) mood and not a political party in the traditional sense.
Its followers don't care about facts. They care about their beliefs.
No amount of fact checking will work and their critics need to adjust to that.
You cannot defeat delusion with reason.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Its followers don't care about facts. They care about their beliefs.
No amount of fact checking will work and their critics need to adjust to that.
You cannot defeat delusion with reason.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Keir Starmer blasts Nigel Farage over 'unrealistic' plans that 'foster division'
Keir Starmer's press secretary said Nigel Farage had no interest in fixing the problems gripping Britain with its proposals to scrap the main route to British citizenship for migrants
www.mirror.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reform is a (bad) mood and not a political party in the traditional sense.
Its followers don't care about facts. They care about their beliefs.
No amount of fact checking will work and their critics need to adjust to that.
You cannot defeat delusion with reason.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Its followers don't care about facts. They care about their beliefs.
No amount of fact checking will work and their critics need to adjust to that.
You cannot defeat delusion with reason.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Glasgow always outnumbers racists and I’ve never been prouder of my city 🥹
September 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Glasgow always outnumbers racists and I’ve never been prouder of my city 🥹
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The One Show came to Forest Green (Rovers) this weekend to talk about football as medicine. Tune in tonight at 7pm to see it…:)
September 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The One Show came to Forest Green (Rovers) this weekend to talk about football as medicine. Tune in tonight at 7pm to see it…:)