Mike McLean
mike99.bsky.social
Mike McLean
@mike99.bsky.social
Happy to be here.
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Make this go viral.

Labour MP Louise Haigh.
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets.

It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.
January 7, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Of course. Because Reform was never about the interests of the people.
Nigel Farage confirms that Reform UK will vote *against* the bill to lift the two child cap, keeping hundreds of thousands of children in poverty.
January 7, 2026 at 2:08 PM
There we were, all hoping that 2026 was going to be a better year. When it suddenly became clear that we are hurtling towards WW3 with the USA on, at best, its own side, and at worst, on the other side.
January 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Nothing speaks so clearly of a species’ decline and possible extinction, than the realisation that this is its most powerful male.
checking in on the president:
January 7, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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My niece in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, has made a snow dalek that's featured in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. #proudaunt
January 5, 2026 at 7:50 AM
RIP John Robertson. Our best player.
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The podcast is honestly the best I’ve ever listened to. It is like a ten part spy thriller; only not fiction, but real life, with British voters the victims, and too many British politicians choosing to turn a blind eye. Each episode is better than the last, devastating in conclusions. MUST HEAR.
I only recently listened to this extraordinary 10 part podcast - Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring by @peterjukes.bsky.social and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social . It’s gripping, chilling, and deeply disturbing. The facts of Russian intrusion into UK politics laid bare, in horrifying fashion.
Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social spell out what needs to happen - the same demand we’ve made for years.

We need a real, independent inquiry 🧵

🎧 Hear the full story: the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg...
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Farage has now boycotted the BBC - THREE times - in a little over a year...

Including his latest today.

Why, therefore, is Zia Yusuf on ##bbcqt tonight?
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this.

All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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🧵A legal scholar finds the killing by special forces of survivors in the Navy attack on an alleged drug boat to be a war crime and murder.

"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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🤷🏼
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Consign the Conservatives to the dustbin. This should be their epitaph.
So... this just happened.

archive.ph/2025.11.29-1...
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Cool video ☺️Flock of starlings catching their breath on a Dutch fishing boat during crossing of the North Sea
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Tory MPs now protesting about anti-protest laws which they themselves brought in..
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.

Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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This really was excellent questioning by Gareth Lewis, BBC Wales’s political editor.

And what stands out is how unusual it is to get such forensic questioning nowadays.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

1h16 on today's Today programme: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Labour condemns Nigel Farage after he ducks calls for probe into potential Reform UK links to Russia – UK politics live
Farage says he will not carry out a wider investigation after last week’s sentencing of former Reform UK leader in Wales, Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in.

Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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OK, so what about releasing the report Johnson suppressed and then getting MI5 to carry out a wider and deeper investigation into Russian interference in the UK, including the Brexit referendum?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage’s views on Russia likely to be further tested after jailing of Nathan Gill
It would be expedient for Reform to take Labour’s advice and disavow ‘Putin talking points’
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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BREAKING: Documents reviewed by @bylinetimes.bsky.social
show Jeffrey Epstein received real-time internal White House info in 2019 from Trump's inner circle - while working with Steve Bannon to rebuild his public image by filming on Epstein's private island bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/j...
Jeffrey Epstein Had Access to Trump's Inner Circle, While Working With Steve Bannon
Emails and text messages reveal Jeffrey Epstein had a direct line into Donald Trump’s inner circle while Bannon worked to rehabilitate him in the hours before his arrest
bylinetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Quality Street is a sign of everything in British Supermarkets like Tesco. Over the years you get less and less, while paying more and more.
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM