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John Foot
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Historian specialised in contemporary Italy - has published books on Italian football, radical psychiatry (Franco Basaglia), Fascism. Book on the Red Brigades out in 2025. John-foot.com

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John Mackintosh Foot is an English academic historian specialising in Italy.

Source: Wikipedia
Political science 38%
Sociology 32%
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 13h
Rachel Maddow: “The Trump economy is not going great. Whatever the opposite is of great, that's how it's going — in just the first month of this year, 2026, the total number of layoffs in this country was more than 108,000 — that's more layoffs in any January since 2009, since the Great Recession”

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h
Paul Dacre says claims Mail broke law to target Doreen Lawrence ‘bitterly wounding’
Paul Dacre says claims Mail broke law to target Doreen Lawrence ‘bitterly wounding’
Ex-editor of Daily Mail tells high court he is appalled by allegations about its journalists by Stephen Lawrence’s mother and others Paul Dacre, the long-time editor of the Daily Mail, has said it was “bitterly wounding” to face allegations that his journalists used criminal tactics to target the mother of a murdered teenager whose case he had championed. Giving evidence in the high court, Dacre, who edited the paper from 1992 to 2018, said the “grave and sometimes preposterous” claims from Doreen Lawrence and six other claimants had “astonished, appalled and – in the small hours of the night – reduced me to rage”. Continue reading...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16h
Peter Mandelson's official role in Gordon Brown's government was actually not that far away from his unauthorised dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. This week's column digs up some inconvenient truths and suggests the problem is much deeper than we're told.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There is a lot of convenient amnesia about Peter Mandelson’s New Labour days. Let’s jog some memories | George Monbiot
Yes, he betrayed the national interest in his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein – but also in his sanctioned role as enabler of corporate power, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 22h
The Chinese will abolish ice hockey is the new batshit claim by the .... President of the USA.

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 23h
Robert Jenrick is lying.

Reform UK have spent, to date, almost £1.5 MILLION with Harding Print Solutions.

They are NOT a local Manchester printer.

They are Reform's go-to print company and have been for a long time.

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Dr. Bucky Isotope, PhD, BOFA @buckyisotope.bsky.social · 1d
ONLY 364 MORE DAYS UNTIL THE DALLAS COWBOYS AREN’T IN THE SUPER BOWL AGAIN

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
Home Affairs questions today: the government believes that "the permanence of refugee status in this country is clearly a pull factor, and we are therefore making it temporary".

(The government's reform proposal is to eventually grant settlement after a long period of triennial reviews)

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 1d
Megyn Kelly just shouting “FOOTBALL IS OURS” at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d
How extraordinarily fortunate for Wes Streeting that the only text messages he sent Peter Mandelson just happened to be exactly the sort of things other Labour MPs want to hear from a potential leadership candidate

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d
It's hard to pick the one maddest element of British politics, but the tradition of committee room table-banging noise assessment before a leader is destroyed surely has to be in the running.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 1d
Sheer coincidence all those tweets at the same time.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 1d
'He changed the Labour Party' - yes, making it much worse.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 1d
USA. 2026.
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Baltimore Maryland:

ICE forces women detainees to wear diapers—compare them to "goats locked in a cage."
'I saw people lying in feces, throwing up, and sleeping in urine," said whistleblower.
Overcrowded on the floor like "pictures that I saw in school of how they brought slaves over from Africa."

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 1d
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The conditions in these ICE detention facilities are actually worse than in CECOT El Salvador. It's hard to understand how this barbarism can be normalised and tolerated in what is supposed to be a law governed democracy.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d
Jeremy Kyle is "interviewing" Reform UK MPs at their Birmingham rally.

He's presenting his appearance as impartial journalism and claims that he's not "getting political" but he's there as Reform UK's event host, and it's Reform UK - not his employer, TalkTV - that's broadcasting the event.

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Trumps.A.moron @trumpsamoron.bsky.social · 1d
Baltimore Maryland:

ICE forces women detainees to wear diapers—compare them to "goats locked in a cage."
'I saw people lying in feces, throwing up, and sleeping in urine," said whistleblower.
Overcrowded on the floor like "pictures that I saw in school of how they brought slaves over from Africa."

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 1d
Gary Neville desperate for City to win.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 1d
The only thing that drove McSweeney was to defeat the Labour left, which he was very good at. Once in power, they had nothing to give but supposed 'competence' and 'honesty' - but that fell apart very quickly with the freebie row, and now has collapsed totally with Mandelson. Nowhere to go.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 1d
Badenoch thinks she is a world-beater but she is up against self-destructive clowns. Same illusion shared by Starmer etc when they had Johnson and Truss to deal with.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 1d
'Nobody understands a word this guy is saying' (Trump) - 60 million people in the US speak Spanish. 600 million in the world.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1d
We didn't just tell you Starmer would implode in office.

We told you WHY it would implode in office.

Next time - listen to us! 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/i-warned-y...
I warned you Starmer would implode in office
I don't care if this sounds smug. I predicted what should have been obvious
www.owenjones.news

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 2d
Something magnificent about Kemi Badenoch's self-confidence, and her claim that the Mandelson affair is entirely down to her asking questions at PMQs. Like a toddler who thinks their plastic steering wheel is controlling the car.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 2d
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d
Whoa! Longtime conservative columnist, professional Dem hater, and spittle-flecked Obama/Biden critic Andrew McCarthy has a new piece in National Review ... absolutely taking Trump to task for corruption. Openly acknowledging it's far worse than anything Biden was even accused of.
The Sordid Story of Trump, the Trump–Witkoff Family Business, and the UAE | National Review
Even if crypto makes your head hurt, you’re going to be hearing a lot about this in the months to come.
www.nationalreview.com

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Page Six @pagesix.com · 2d
Green Day avoids making political statement during Super Bowl 2026 opening performance
Green Day avoids making political statement during Super Bowl 2026 opening performance
A rocking start to the Super Bowl.
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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 2d
Morgan McSweeney the electoral genius who took Labour to the heady heights of millions of votes fewer than in previous elections.

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Richard Hall @richhall80.bsky.social · 2d
Some #Italia90 nostalgia to end the weekend on 🇮🇹

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 2d
Everything the administration says is a lie. Believe none of them.

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 2d
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Morgan McSweeney. Electoral myths & realities
Morgan McSweeney & electoral myths The extract below is from a Guardian article assessing the electoral impact of Morgan McSweeney. The 174 seat landslide in July 2024 was indeed welcome in the…
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d
The Times calls Keir Starmer's decision to hire Peter Mandelson an "egregious error" which deserves an "inquiry into the appointment process."

Not included is any demand for an inquiry into their own appointment of him, long after his post-conviction relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was exposed