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Mike Bailey
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20th century art, surrealism; Georgian antiques, porcelain and silver; cats; Europe; Woke; pro Palestine & two states; taxing wealth not work; climate change action; reentering CU & SM then EU; pro multiculturalism & immigration. Anti fascist, anti racism
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Sexy pen found in Sicily is Greek. apple.news/A5n13KPcgSea...
Archaeologists Find an Unusual 2,500-Year-Old Stylus in Sicily — ARTnews
The ancient Greek tool may have had a ritual as well as a utilitarian purpose
apple.news
RFK Jr’ disinformation and misdirection is the best argument for euthanasia that I can think of
RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-helps-babies-to-sweat-out-toxins/
February 17, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Not nice to Tice, putting Yousef out to pasture, giving Zahawi and Braverman a wide berth, Farage shackles his future to Jenrick in the hope they can mske music together. youtu.be/e5hXtGkzZ9k?...
February 17, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Kinnock claims the government works with the rule of law over the council elections u-turn. So why are they appealing the high court ruling on the proscription of Palestine Action being illegal? apple.news/AVTCWZ6-RRNe...
LBC host Nick Ferrari clash as Tories slammed with brutal three-word insult — The Mirror
Stephen Kinnock, a government minister, admitted the decision to abandon plans to postpone local elections for councils in May was
apple.news
February 17, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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Please sign and repost this petition to stop hospital car parking charges
🚨When we go to hospital, it’s rarely for something easy. But patients and their families are being immediately met with fees just to park their cars. And these charges are going up!

I’ve just signed the petition to Scrap hospital parking charges now

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/parking-...
Scrap hospital parking charges now!
Need to visit the hospital? Patients, families and NHS staff are being met with rising fees just to park their cars. Join me and sign this petition from 38 Degrees to demand these unfair charges are s...
act.38degrees.org.uk
February 16, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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More post McSweeney outspokenness from number ten? Starmer takes on the techbro platforms on behalf of children’s safety online. More of this please and oh, McSweeney, you won’t be missed, neither you nor crooked Mandelson.
February 16, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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A vote for Matt Goodwin and Reform is a wasted vote. Negative campaigning, just scare slurs against the leaders of the other parties not even the candidates standing against him. What an insult to voters.
Hi #Gorton & #Denton, #Manchester. Here’s Reform UK candidate Matt Goodwin oozing charisma as he rides a bus around part of an industrial estate that has no people shouting like Alan Partridge.

#GortonandDentonByElection
February 16, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Inequality and the way the rich weaponise immigration to distract and create an enemy that’s not them isn’t rocket science. It doesn’t have to be when people are too downtrodden and pissed off to think clearly. Farage and Badenoch are pushing on an open door. The Greens want to shut it.
Faiza Shaheen and Zack Polanski on tax avoidance, inequality and where the far right intersect
February 16, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Will police interview David Stern, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s fixer who called Epstein boss and referred to young women as p (code for pussy?)? Stern appears more than 7000 times in the latest Epstein file dump, he appears to have been pumping for Andrew MW. apple.news/AeBuXpi_aReK...
Andrew met model on China trip as 'fixer' sent photos to Epstein — LBC
One of Andrew's aides sent photos of the former Prince with a model to Jeffrey Epstein, while the royal was on a taxpayer-funded trip to China.
apple.news
February 16, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Let’s see if Simonds survives a close look at LabourTogether paying £30,000 to have journalists investigated? Starmer lifting stones now McSweeney is off the scene
Keir Starmer orders investigation into claim Labour think tank paid for report on journalists
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
February 16, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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Farage won’t debate Polanski one to one because he is out classed, out of his depth, out of his league and it would be a knockout. Farage’s arrogant know it all bluster won’t work because you can’t talk down to Polanski and you can’t intimidate or trigger him to put him off his stride.
Reform are always obsessively challenging others to debates.

But my invitation to debate Nigel Farage - leader to leader - still hasn’t been taken up.

What are they running from?

The Green Party will stop Reform.

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February 16, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Simonds has to go. Labour Together is discredited according to everything published so far. With Mandelson and McSweeney gone Simonds is left to carry the can, he was in charge, after all.
Cabinet Office looking into Keir Starmer-linked thinktank after it investigated journalists

Liz Kendall says officials will be ‘establishing the facts’ about report that made false claims about journalists

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cabinet Office looking into Starmer-linked thinktank after it investigated journalists
Liz Kendall says officials will be ‘establishing the facts’ about report that made false claims about journalists
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Reposted by Mike Bailey
I hope the Greens get the vote out for Hannah, that’s what will count. It’s the number of people who are positively inspired to make the effort to get out and show their support on the day.
This is a great message of unity, hope and community – and as someone who had a relative hurt in the Manchester attack, I can only say it's very moving to hear it stated so simply and eloquently.
#HopeNotHate
“If you’ve lived in Greater Manchester all your life like I have, or you came here yesterday — if you’re part of our community and you’re mucking in, you’re one of us.”

Our candidate for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, rejects the demonisation of immigrants and calls for politics that unite.
February 16, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Rouble railroad rumbled, money from Putin via Orban to Goodwin raises questions Farage might prefer not to answer. What’s new?
February 16, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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Refreshing endorsements for the Green leader from the rainbow crowd. As far apart from Goodwin’s misogynistic eugenics as it’s possible to be. At last we have an alternative to the no win choice between sane old same old with Starmer and something much worse from Farage.
February 17, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Snow joke today
February 17, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Refreshing endorsements for the Green leader from the rainbow crowd. As far apart from Goodwin’s misogynistic eugenics as it’s possible to be. At last we have an alternative to the no win choice between sane old same old with Starmer and something much worse from Farage.
February 17, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Rouble railroad rumbled, money from Putin via Orban to Goodwin raises questions Farage might prefer not to answer. What’s new?
February 16, 2026 at 8:08 PM
I hope the Greens get the vote out for Hannah, that’s what will count. It’s the number of people who are positively inspired to make the effort to get out and show their support on the day.
This is a great message of unity, hope and community – and as someone who had a relative hurt in the Manchester attack, I can only say it's very moving to hear it stated so simply and eloquently.
#HopeNotHate
“If you’ve lived in Greater Manchester all your life like I have, or you came here yesterday — if you’re part of our community and you’re mucking in, you’re one of us.”

Our candidate for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, rejects the demonisation of immigrants and calls for politics that unite.
February 16, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Simonds has to go. Labour Together is discredited according to everything published so far. With Mandelson and McSweeney gone Simonds is left to carry the can, he was in charge, after all.
Cabinet Office looking into Keir Starmer-linked thinktank after it investigated journalists

Liz Kendall says officials will be ‘establishing the facts’ about report that made false claims about journalists

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cabinet Office looking into Starmer-linked thinktank after it investigated journalists
Liz Kendall says officials will be ‘establishing the facts’ about report that made false claims about journalists
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Farage won’t debate Polanski one to one because he is out classed, out of his depth, out of his league and it would be a knockout. Farage’s arrogant know it all bluster won’t work because you can’t talk down to Polanski and you can’t intimidate or trigger him to put him off his stride.
Reform are always obsessively challenging others to debates.

But my invitation to debate Nigel Farage - leader to leader - still hasn’t been taken up.

What are they running from?

The Green Party will stop Reform.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
February 16, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Let’s see if Simonds survives a close look at LabourTogether paying £30,000 to have journalists investigated? Starmer lifting stones now McSweeney is off the scene
Keir Starmer orders investigation into claim Labour think tank paid for report on journalists
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
February 16, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Will police interview David Stern, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s fixer who called Epstein boss and referred to young women as p (code for pussy?)? Stern appears more than 7000 times in the latest Epstein file dump, he appears to have been pumping for Andrew MW. apple.news/AeBuXpi_aReK...
Andrew met model on China trip as 'fixer' sent photos to Epstein — LBC
One of Andrew's aides sent photos of the former Prince with a model to Jeffrey Epstein, while the royal was on a taxpayer-funded trip to China.
apple.news
February 16, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Inequality and the way the rich weaponise immigration to distract and create an enemy that’s not them isn’t rocket science. It doesn’t have to be when people are too downtrodden and pissed off to think clearly. Farage and Badenoch are pushing on an open door. The Greens want to shut it.
Faiza Shaheen and Zack Polanski on tax avoidance, inequality and where the far right intersect
February 16, 2026 at 1:24 PM
A vote for Matt Goodwin and Reform is a wasted vote. Negative campaigning, just scare slurs against the leaders of the other parties not even the candidates standing against him. What an insult to voters.
Hi #Gorton & #Denton, #Manchester. Here’s Reform UK candidate Matt Goodwin oozing charisma as he rides a bus around part of an industrial estate that has no people shouting like Alan Partridge.

#GortonandDentonByElection
February 16, 2026 at 1:00 PM
More post McSweeney outspokenness from number ten? Starmer takes on the techbro platforms on behalf of children’s safety online. More of this please and oh, McSweeney, you won’t be missed, neither you nor crooked Mandelson.
February 16, 2026 at 8:44 AM