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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have something else out in @novaramedia.com about Jenrick and the far right migrant hotels crisis.

Britain’s Elites Care Much More About Migrant Hotels Than the Public Does | Novara Media

The race rioters who burned out a car at the end of my street in Middlesbrough last summer were outnumbered the very next day by locals who came out to sweep up the glass, writes Phil McDuff.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 5m

What evidence do you have that there is any serious thinking happening anywhere here? I mean real evidence, not "well surely the people running things can't be vacuous assholes promoted vastly beyond their competence?"

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 22m

Tell me you don't have a clue about economic growth without... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 46m

Thank you

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 12h

A certain bloc of people on here love to say Dearborn in place of sand n*****

Alder Cheems @aldercheems.bsky.social · 1d

Searching for "dearborn" in a profile always brings up the most deranged shit

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9h

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h

It’s fun to recall that the entire point of this exercise was to create a crushing, rock-solid electoral bloc of Sensible Moderates, bullied libs and Reasonable Tories, and that everyone agreed this was obviously the best thing to do because you win from the centre. And

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2h

If Trump, who has put in zero effort and done it through hacks, can get here simply by yelling and being impatient, it's yet another reminder that Biden's steadfast support for the first 16 months of killing was a choice he made to disastrous consequences abroad and at home.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 2h

What the fuck are you on about?

Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 2h

I wish more people had met her :(

Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 2h

She was such a curious and inquisitive dog!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

I think Dems can and should do better than people who are abusive to their staff members

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8h

It was only a matter of time before these stories started to come out
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

The former member of Congress, who is now running for California governor, also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

It may very well finally change, especially in the US, but the last two years have demonstrated that in both America and Germany the multi-partisan consensus is that Israel ought to have free rein to do as it pleases and for as long as it pleases. Cursory disagreement on how to present it at best.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

After two years it is no question in my mind that there is essentially no red line for the US or Germany.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you. I hope I did enough.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 4h

She was my dog. She didn't start off that way, she only came to me late. But for eight years she was my best friend in the whole world. I loved her so much.

Jingles sat next to me on the couch, cuddled up, looking at me. She is fluffy.

JJ resting her head on my shoulder. I'm laid down on the couch, leaning towards her. She has put her head in the crook of my neck and curled up.

JJ with her head on my shoulder again. This time she is more sprawled out.

JJ sat cuddled up with me. She's looking up towards me while I look at the camera.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 4h

She also loved to travel. She loved to go to a place. She loved to leave and go to a new destination. She was an explorer. She could walk for hours. Even at the end when she had hip problems and was slow, she never stopped wanting to walk.

JJ on the bus in York. She was a good public transport dog and loved to look out of the windows.

JJ looking out of a bus or train window, I can't remember. She's sat on my lap with my arm around her.

JJ in the back of a car, with her paw up on my shoulder. She loved to be in a car. She would always want to drive. When she knew we were getting close to a destination, she would whine and bother us to get there quicker. She would always be so excited to get to a place she knew and loved.

JJ at the beach. She hated wearing anything except her collar but towards the end I started getting paranoid about visibility and made her wear this hi vis harness. She never wanted to put it on but always ended up not caring once it was on. The little walk routine of her running away when I got it out. In this photo she is frolicking on a cold beach in Northumberland. We had just been on a family holiday and gone on lots of walks. She had struggled with the hard wood floors in the Airbnb but that never bothered her - it just meant she had to get her butler (me) to lift her up the stairs.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 4h

I've had the awful realisation that I moved in here with JJ. This house has always been the house she lives in with me. I've never known it without her. It's never not been hers too.

JJ when she was younger and could still jump up on the bed. She would come and cuddle with me under the covers. In this photo she is nestled up beside me in bed, my arm is around her and she has her head on my shoulder. In later life I got various ramps and steps but she was always very suspicious of them.

Jingles the year we had a big snowy whiteout. She has her face caked in snow and is looking up at the camera with her usual "what?" expression.

JJ curled up asleep in a duvet on the bedroom floor. This very quickly became her regular bed. I just pushed it into the corner, and my old duvets would be where she slept on a night. She was not a sleep in the same bed dog, she wanted her space, but she was definitely a sleep in the same room dog. Not necessarily cuddly, unless she was in the mood, but always close by.

JJ more recently. On the pink blanket. What's jumping out in these photos is how little I've changed the house. It's just never been a priority. Always a "one day I'll get round to it" project. Having a dog with a tendency to throw up meant I never really saw the need to replace the ratty old carpet, because why bother. The couches are still comfortable. The blankets are hers. Why get rid? Why do anything different? And now there's going to be the biggest difference in the world.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 4h

And when some company that's about to be bought out by private equity needs an anti union company man who thinks getting those KPI targets is the secret to happiness, you'll be right there on the shelf for them to pick up and slot into a job. Attaboy!

Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 4h

Good for you buddy!

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 5h

Dogshit fake school for easily led dipshits who think they're much smarter than they are, and one of the principal causes of the accelerated collapse.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 5h

Sure does buddy!

Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 5h

Business school, ok. I have a theory about business school which all the evidence I've got so far supports, and you're contributing to that evidence base quite nicely here.

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I do not have a cold @septicshockingpink.bsky.social · 5h

watched the Kneecap movie and it pisses me off how in England you have this naked contempt for education and art and the young while Ireland is having a great cultural moment. all this wank about defending heritage and 'englishness' but hostility to English degrees, every museum under attack, fucked

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•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler• @seizethememez.bsky.social · 1d

They sell us individualism because we can't defeat them alone.

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 10h

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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