Michael
@mikeyh71.bsky.social
Scottish (expat - living in England).
Views: Green; support environmental protections and rewilding; expect equality and fairness for all; despise greed and corruption in all its forms.
Interests: hiking/walking, skiing, natural history, cookery, & family.
Views: Green; support environmental protections and rewilding; expect equality and fairness for all; despise greed and corruption in all its forms.
Interests: hiking/walking, skiing, natural history, cookery, & family.
Well done to the Scottish rugby team. Great result today against England (🏴31 - 🏴20). 👏👏👏
@scottishrugby.bsky.social
Here's the highlights...
youtu.be/qf-34_-feq0?...
@scottishrugby.bsky.social
Here's the highlights...
youtu.be/qf-34_-feq0?...
scottishrugby.bsky.social
scottishrugby.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Well done to the Scottish rugby team. Great result today against England (🏴31 - 🏴20). 👏👏👏
@scottishrugby.bsky.social
Here's the highlights...
youtu.be/qf-34_-feq0?...
@scottishrugby.bsky.social
Here's the highlights...
youtu.be/qf-34_-feq0?...
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The Dublin Agreement was a huge deterrent. People knew if they arrived in UK & had claimed elsewhere, approved or denied, they would immediately be returned. Now that data sharing is no longer an automatic right. The UK lost access to several shared mechanisms when it left the EU
February 14, 2026 at 1:20 PM
The Dublin Agreement was a huge deterrent. People knew if they arrived in UK & had claimed elsewhere, approved or denied, they would immediately be returned. Now that data sharing is no longer an automatic right. The UK lost access to several shared mechanisms when it left the EU
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Ex-UKIP Reform & Tories won't tell you
the "boat people" influx STARTED because of Brexit
They now want to curb UK freedoms allowing
more exploitation by the millionaires who fund them
"Reform are constantly pushing to scrap ECHR ..."
www.facebook.com/groups/19585...
the "boat people" influx STARTED because of Brexit
They now want to curb UK freedoms allowing
more exploitation by the millionaires who fund them
"Reform are constantly pushing to scrap ECHR ..."
www.facebook.com/groups/19585...
February 14, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Ex-UKIP Reform & Tories won't tell you
the "boat people" influx STARTED because of Brexit
They now want to curb UK freedoms allowing
more exploitation by the millionaires who fund them
"Reform are constantly pushing to scrap ECHR ..."
www.facebook.com/groups/19585...
the "boat people" influx STARTED because of Brexit
They now want to curb UK freedoms allowing
more exploitation by the millionaires who fund them
"Reform are constantly pushing to scrap ECHR ..."
www.facebook.com/groups/19585...
Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
First Past the Post means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament. Add your name now to demand a fairer voting system
It only takes 30 seconds
action.electoral-reform.org.uk
February 14, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 13, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Meet Hannah Spencer - Green MP candidate for Gorton and Denton, and the only vote to stop Reform.
February 10, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Meet Hannah Spencer - Green MP candidate for Gorton and Denton, and the only vote to stop Reform.
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So it’s Greens versus Reform
Hope versus Hate
A brilliant local candidate who loves her community
Versus a full time grifter bussed in from London
It’s not hard
#VoteGreen
Hope versus Hate
A brilliant local candidate who loves her community
Versus a full time grifter bussed in from London
It’s not hard
#VoteGreen
Meet Hannah Spencer - Green MP candidate for Gorton and Denton, and the only vote to stop Reform.
February 11, 2026 at 7:17 PM
So it’s Greens versus Reform
Hope versus Hate
A brilliant local candidate who loves her community
Versus a full time grifter bussed in from London
It’s not hard
#VoteGreen
Hope versus Hate
A brilliant local candidate who loves her community
Versus a full time grifter bussed in from London
It’s not hard
#VoteGreen
Enough is enough. The House of Lords is a rolling scandal - sign @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds.
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/186062/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/186062/...
It’s outrageous that we can't kick out Lords. Sign now to demand an elected second chamber
It takes 30 seconds
action.electoral-reform.org.uk
February 11, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Enough is enough. The House of Lords is a rolling scandal - sign @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds.
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/186062/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/186062/...
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The govt is refusing to commit to an inquiry into the MOD's contracts with US-based spy tech giant Palantir despite the web of shady connections between Mandelson, Epstein, and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel - this absolutely stinks.
February 10, 2026 at 7:03 PM
The govt is refusing to commit to an inquiry into the MOD's contracts with US-based spy tech giant Palantir despite the web of shady connections between Mandelson, Epstein, and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel - this absolutely stinks.
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A £240m defence contract without tender.
Their fingerprints all over our health care data.
A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.
Everything around Palantir stinks.
www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
Their fingerprints all over our health care data.
A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.
Everything around Palantir stinks.
www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
Zack Polanski pressures Wes Streeting over Palantir after Mandelson texts released
ZACK Polanski has piled fresh pressure on Wes Streeting over Palantir’s NHS contracts after the Health Secretary’s newly-released text messages…
www.thenational.scot
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM
A £240m defence contract without tender.
Their fingerprints all over our health care data.
A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.
Everything around Palantir stinks.
www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
Their fingerprints all over our health care data.
A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.
Everything around Palantir stinks.
www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
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Reform UK approached Bangor University to ask whether Sarah Pochin (Reform MP) could come to debate. They said no, and this is the response they get
Reform would behave exactly as Donald Trump. Don't agree with them, and they will penalise, threaten, defund, and cancel you. They are proto fascists.
Reform would behave exactly as Donald Trump. Don't agree with them, and they will penalise, threaten, defund, and cancel you. They are proto fascists.
February 10, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Reform UK approached Bangor University to ask whether Sarah Pochin (Reform MP) could come to debate. They said no, and this is the response they get
Reform would behave exactly as Donald Trump. Don't agree with them, and they will penalise, threaten, defund, and cancel you. They are proto fascists.
Reform would behave exactly as Donald Trump. Don't agree with them, and they will penalise, threaten, defund, and cancel you. They are proto fascists.
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So glad to see George Cottrell being named in parliament yesterday. He was Farage’s head of fundraising when he convicted of an offence related to money laundering & is still close to & funding Farage. Crypto is an urgent democratic threat to the UK
I am deeply suspicious of parties which court cryptocurrency donations, given the potential for money laundering, by organised criminal gangs and malign foreign governments.
Yesterday in Parliament, I rang the alarm bell at Farage's continuing closeness to wire fraud convict George Cottrell.
Yesterday in Parliament, I rang the alarm bell at Farage's continuing closeness to wire fraud convict George Cottrell.
February 10, 2026 at 1:48 PM
So glad to see George Cottrell being named in parliament yesterday. He was Farage’s head of fundraising when he convicted of an offence related to money laundering & is still close to & funding Farage. Crypto is an urgent democratic threat to the UK
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Can the Greens escape Labour's fatal trap? youtu.be/e7oKv3K48qM?...
Can the Greens escape Labour's fatal trap?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
February 8, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Can the Greens escape Labour's fatal trap? youtu.be/e7oKv3K48qM?...
Enough is enough. The House of Lords is a rolling scandal - sign @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds.
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/186062/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/186062/...
It’s outrageous that we can't kick out Lords. Sign now to demand an elected second chamber
It takes 30 seconds
action.electoral-reform.org.uk
February 8, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Enough is enough. The House of Lords is a rolling scandal - sign @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds.
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/186062/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/186062/...
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So, bosses of failing privatised water companies continue to pay themselves millions in bonuses despite illegally dumping toxic water and failing to provide reliable water supplies to residents. Also despite rules saying they shouldn’t! Privatisation has failed!
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Water bosses in England exploiting bonus loophole face crackdown
Exclusive: Ministers to act after last year’s legislation ‘outwitted’ by failing firms paying millions to executives
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:01 AM
So, bosses of failing privatised water companies continue to pay themselves millions in bonuses despite illegally dumping toxic water and failing to provide reliable water supplies to residents. Also despite rules saying they shouldn’t! Privatisation has failed!
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Beware of conservative US "think tanks".
How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025
Unraveling a $130 million web of climate denial, political extremism, and Trump campaign ties.
desmog.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Beware of conservative US "think tanks".
How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
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Interesting graph...
“The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…”
That was last year. I can only imagine where the US reputation is now.
The fastest destruction of a nation’s reputation in history?
That was last year. I can only imagine where the US reputation is now.
The fastest destruction of a nation’s reputation in history?
According to this ranking, Canada’s reputation has improved since 2024. We are now the 2nd most reputable country in the world.
The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…
The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…
February 6, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Interesting graph...
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Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks.
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Post-Brexit, Epstein told Thiel: "Brexit is just the beginning" – eyeing crypto deregulation via right-populism. 7/12
February 4, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks.
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
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“Mandelson’s involvement with the US tech company Palantir must be exposed to full public transparency…Palantir…has UK government contracts worth more than £500m. Global Counsel, a lobbying company Mandelson co-founded and part-owns, also works for Palantir.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn
Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:06 PM
“Mandelson’s involvement with the US tech company Palantir must be exposed to full public transparency…Palantir…has UK government contracts worth more than £500m. Global Counsel, a lobbying company Mandelson co-founded and part-owns, also works for Palantir.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Heimscheißer - what a most marvelous German word. The English translation? 'Home pooper' - someone who can only poo 💩 at home. 😂
February 4, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Heimscheißer - what a most marvelous German word. The English translation? 'Home pooper' - someone who can only poo 💩 at home. 😂
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I wonder how many in Congress grasp just how serious this is.
February 2, 2026 at 9:52 PM
I wonder how many in Congress grasp just how serious this is.
I see Farage is keeping good company in the Epstein files.
February 2, 2026 at 9:52 PM
I see Farage is keeping good company in the Epstein files.
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Let's talk about who funds Reform.
Let's talk about how disastrous Brexit has been.
Let's talk about why Gorton & Denton must vote Green & stop Reform.
Why so quiet, Nigel Farage?
Let's talk about how disastrous Brexit has been.
Let's talk about why Gorton & Denton must vote Green & stop Reform.
Why so quiet, Nigel Farage?
February 2, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Let's talk about who funds Reform.
Let's talk about how disastrous Brexit has been.
Let's talk about why Gorton & Denton must vote Green & stop Reform.
Why so quiet, Nigel Farage?
Let's talk about how disastrous Brexit has been.
Let's talk about why Gorton & Denton must vote Green & stop Reform.
Why so quiet, Nigel Farage?