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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 12h

The cartoon is by Tim Sanders one of the best known of the UK’s political cartoonists. His cartoons have appeared in Socialist Worker, the Independent, Private Eye and no doubt elsewhere. Som…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 11h

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Tory populist Jenrick owns £1.1m Grade 1 listed mansion in Herefordshire with an imperial history

SInce 2009 the current front runner in the (undeclared) Tory leadership race Robert Jenrick has owned an historic mansion in Eye, Herefordshire about 3 miles from Leominster. The house is Grade 1 l…

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Brewdog announces more job cuts: solidarity with Brewdog workers

Brewdog plan to cut more jobs at their Scottish HQ, based on a leaked memo from their CEO. Despite often promising a public listing Brewdog remain a private concern, effectively owned by private eq…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 9h

Temperance has a long history in the UK labour movement (& an important one). However if @theguardian.com is going to continue publicising media releases from temperance groups it needs to stop writing about & advertising alcohol
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One in three UK workers have called in sick after work drinks, survey finds

IPPR report warns of ‘productivity crisis’ and says many firms out of step with gen Z shift away from alcohol

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 9h

ICE & the long history of protest using food....

K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 15h

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Protests used to involve throwing rotten fruit & eggs at the police. Now its offering donuts

E.P Thompson in the Making of the English Working Class records that when a perjurer was placed in the pillory in the 1790s the London crowd pelted him with eggs. Yet when a political radical suffe…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 9h

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Brewdog announces more job cuts: solidarity with Brewdog workers

Brewdog plan to cut more jobs at their Scottish HQ, based on a leaked memo from their CEO. Despite often promising a public listing Brewdog remain a private concern, effectively owned by private eq…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 10h

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 10h

the extra mature Gouda is a much richer cheese with caramel notes.

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 11h

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Tory populist Jenrick owns £1.1m Grade 1 listed mansion in Herefordshire with an imperial history

SInce 2009 the current front runner in the (undeclared) Tory leadership race Robert Jenrick has owned an historic mansion in Eye, Herefordshire about 3 miles from Leominster. The house is Grade 1 l…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 12h

Dessert. Fig, extra mature Gouda, Marmite oat cake..

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 12h

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Jenrick & the far right

The cartoon is by Tim Sanders one of the best known of the UK’s political cartoonists. His cartoons have appeared in Socialist Worker, the Independent, Private Eye and no doubt elsewhere. Som…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 23h

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Tories in Manchester Day 3. Everybody knows this is nowhere

Tuesday morning. Shadow Minister Chris Philp is addressing a half empty main hall

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 21h

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Tory Conference: how to win the youth vote(8% of under 30s voted Tory in 2024)

Social Market Foundation The Midland Hotel, Chester Suite How can the Conservatives win the youth vote? Allie Jennings (Thinks Insight and Strategy, Director); Gareth Davies MP (The Conservative Pa…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 14h

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MCC President on County Cricket, The Hundred & J K Galbraith

New President of the MCC Ed Smith quoted in the Times (6th Oct) on JK Galbraith on forecasters ‘those who don’t know & those who don’t know they don’t know’. He is…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 15h

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Protests used to involve throwing rotten fruit & eggs at the police. Now its offering donuts

E.P Thompson in the Making of the English Working Class records that when a perjurer was placed in the pillory in the 1790s the London crowd pelted him with eggs. Yet when a political radical suffe…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 16h

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Socialist History Seminar 6th Oct, Geoff Brown, a People’s History of the Anti Nazi League. Recording

Monday 6th October 5.30pm Geoff Brown, a People’s History of the Anti-Nazi League A People’s History of the Anti Nazi League Recording Apologies that the sound quality is not quite at the usua…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 17h

William Cobbett's Freeborn Englishman of the 1820s & 30s saw Governments dictating what could be protested about & when as Un-British. Its no different in 2025
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Historically the Government telling people what they can & cannot protest about is UnBritish

Historically the Government telling people what they can and cannot protest about is UnBritish Both Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood’s have called peaceful protests on Palestine ‘UnBritish’. Given …

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 21h

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Historically the Government telling people what they can & cannot protest about is UnBritish

Historically the Government telling people what they can and cannot protest about is UnBritish Both Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood’s have called peaceful protests on Palestine ‘UnBritish’. Given …

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 21h

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Tory Conference: how to win the youth vote(8% of under 30s voted Tory in 2024)

Social Market Foundation The Midland Hotel, Chester Suite How can the Conservatives win the youth vote? Allie Jennings (Thinks Insight and Strategy, Director); Gareth Davies MP (The Conservative Pa…

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 23h

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Tories in Manchester Day 3. Everybody knows this is nowhere

Tuesday morning. Shadow Minister Chris Philp is addressing a half empty main hall

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 1d

Judging by the language Jenrick is using at the Tory Conference he is making a leadership bid not for the Tories or Reform but a new British Union of Fascists