Steve Jackson
@stja.bsky.social
Solo parent of young daughter trying to make sense of UK after 15 years living and working in Hanoi. For the many (and #NUFC)
Works Newcastle, lives Hexham.
"...we leave here as fucking legends." - Bruno Guimarães, 2025.
Geordies are black and white.
Works Newcastle, lives Hexham.
"...we leave here as fucking legends." - Bruno Guimarães, 2025.
Geordies are black and white.
Pinned
Steve Jackson
@stja.bsky.social
· Jan 9
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a fence that says " a closer look " on it
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a fence that says " a closer look " on it
media.tenor.com
Glad I was able to add this GIF to BlueSky. It shouldn't ever be forgotten.
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No one will be surprised at just how trumpian this sounds
This is pretty menacing.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
February 10, 2026 at 10:24 PM
No one will be surprised at just how trumpian this sounds
If #NUFC were to ditch Eddie we'd end up with this year's Thomas Frank.
In every situation ask yourself - what would Spurs do? Then do the opposite.
In every situation ask yourself - what would Spurs do? Then do the opposite.
🚨 Thomas Frank: “I'm convinced I will still be in charge against Arsenal I'm 1000% sure that I should be the man in charge”. “I'm convinced about it. I understand the question and easy to point to me but it's about the whole club”.
February 10, 2026 at 10:37 PM
If #NUFC were to ditch Eddie we'd end up with this year's Thomas Frank.
In every situation ask yourself - what would Spurs do? Then do the opposite.
In every situation ask yourself - what would Spurs do? Then do the opposite.
The Spurs defender between Thiaw and the ball trying to stop Thiaw getting to the ball...is peak 2026.
Blocking instead of just kicking the ball away.
#nufc
Blocking instead of just kicking the ball away.
#nufc
February 10, 2026 at 8:32 PM
The Spurs defender between Thiaw and the ball trying to stop Thiaw getting to the ball...is peak 2026.
Blocking instead of just kicking the ball away.
#nufc
Blocking instead of just kicking the ball away.
#nufc
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Also, I know the channel I used to speak to Wes on, and it wasn't WhatsApp. Will he swear an oath that he's disclosed all his private communications? Not just those on WhatsApp?
February 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Also, I know the channel I used to speak to Wes on, and it wasn't WhatsApp. Will he swear an oath that he's disclosed all his private communications? Not just those on WhatsApp?
Unfollowed Mia Farrow for sharing her Wordle.
No exceptions. 😶
No exceptions. 😶
February 10, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Unfollowed Mia Farrow for sharing her Wordle.
No exceptions. 😶
No exceptions. 😶
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What's the odds, eh?
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
February 10, 2026 at 2:54 PM
What's the odds, eh?
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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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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Said in such a matter-of-fact blasé fashion but massively fucked up, no?
February 10, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Said in such a matter-of-fact blasé fashion but massively fucked up, no?
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These guys really think they’re in House of Cards or something. It’s just so embarrassing. None of them are fit to be PM.
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
February 9, 2026 at 7:57 PM
These guys really think they’re in House of Cards or something. It’s just so embarrassing. None of them are fit to be PM.
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Hard to see how anyone could argue with this. And the line that McSweeney made Labour electable is absurd.
Labour would have won just as big - probably bigger - with a more radical manifesto.
And would be much more popular now if it had more boldly addressed poverty and crumbling public services.
Labour would have won just as big - probably bigger - with a more radical manifesto.
And would be much more popular now if it had more boldly addressed poverty and crumbling public services.
Morgan McSweeney and his downfall reveal what the Starmer project always was.
A project defined by kneeling before wealth, seeking power for its own sake, ridding Labour of any principle or morality.
It is an irredeemably corrupt project which was always doomed.
A project defined by kneeling before wealth, seeking power for its own sake, ridding Labour of any principle or morality.
It is an irredeemably corrupt project which was always doomed.
February 9, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Hard to see how anyone could argue with this. And the line that McSweeney made Labour electable is absurd.
Labour would have won just as big - probably bigger - with a more radical manifesto.
And would be much more popular now if it had more boldly addressed poverty and crumbling public services.
Labour would have won just as big - probably bigger - with a more radical manifesto.
And would be much more popular now if it had more boldly addressed poverty and crumbling public services.
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So glad a debate is finally happening. This goes to the heart of the security of our democratic system. I’ve taken part in court cases against successive governments for their failure to investigate hostile state interference in UK elections - ministers’ lack of curiosity is truly shocking 👇
Today MPs will debate Russian interference in our politics and democracy.
This is why a full inquiry is still necessary 👉 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/britain-st...
This is why a full inquiry is still necessary 👉 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/britain-st...
Britain still hasn't looked
A democracy that won’t investigate its own weaknesses - is a weak democracy. Let’s make sure Parliament doesn’t look away again.
citizensreunited.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:50 AM
So glad a debate is finally happening. This goes to the heart of the security of our democratic system. I’ve taken part in court cases against successive governments for their failure to investigate hostile state interference in UK elections - ministers’ lack of curiosity is truly shocking 👇
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The Daily Telegraph currently owned by a private equity vehicle RedBird IMI - based in the UAE and led by Italian American Gerry Cardinale and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.
Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.
February 8, 2026 at 9:34 AM
The Daily Telegraph currently owned by a private equity vehicle RedBird IMI - based in the UAE and led by Italian American Gerry Cardinale and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.
Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.
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British historian Sir Antony Beevor told Sky News that "the Americans are being played".
He says Putin is manipulating the White House and views Trump as a “useful idiot” -- advancing Moscow’s goals, especially on Ukraine.
He says Putin is manipulating the White House and views Trump as a “useful idiot” -- advancing Moscow’s goals, especially on Ukraine.
February 8, 2026 at 11:48 AM
British historian Sir Antony Beevor told Sky News that "the Americans are being played".
He says Putin is manipulating the White House and views Trump as a “useful idiot” -- advancing Moscow’s goals, especially on Ukraine.
He says Putin is manipulating the White House and views Trump as a “useful idiot” -- advancing Moscow’s goals, especially on Ukraine.
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A Labour MP tells The House’s Sienna Rodgers McSweeney’s resignation will mean “full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism”.
Which sounds good to me, but is also very telling of the beliefs of the faction McSweeney championed.
Which sounds good to me, but is also very telling of the beliefs of the faction McSweeney championed.
February 8, 2026 at 6:10 PM
A Labour MP tells The House’s Sienna Rodgers McSweeney’s resignation will mean “full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism”.
Which sounds good to me, but is also very telling of the beliefs of the faction McSweeney championed.
Which sounds good to me, but is also very telling of the beliefs of the faction McSweeney championed.
I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't share this.
February 8, 2026 at 9:16 PM
I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't share this.
Now can we go back to shirt pulling being illegal? As opposed to it being illegal but you can do it a bit.
It's not like handball or even a challenge. There's no point whereby someone pulls a shirt and it's accidental.
"Yes, but is it enough of a shirt pull?"
F*ck off.
It's not like handball or even a challenge. There's no point whereby someone pulls a shirt and it's accidental.
"Yes, but is it enough of a shirt pull?"
F*ck off.
February 8, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Now can we go back to shirt pulling being illegal? As opposed to it being illegal but you can do it a bit.
It's not like handball or even a challenge. There's no point whereby someone pulls a shirt and it's accidental.
"Yes, but is it enough of a shirt pull?"
F*ck off.
It's not like handball or even a challenge. There's no point whereby someone pulls a shirt and it's accidental.
"Yes, but is it enough of a shirt pull?"
F*ck off.
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February 7, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Thought: the school P (good) and S (bad) points live-to-the-app system makes every day as stressful as your football team playing (without being able to watch) while you also have to work.
February 8, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Thought: the school P (good) and S (bad) points live-to-the-app system makes every day as stressful as your football team playing (without being able to watch) while you also have to work.
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"chairty" fuck Reach PLC
Call for Peter Mandelson to 'hand it back or give to chairty'
Former North East MP Peter Mandelson should return payoff says cabinet minister
Former North East MP Peter Mandelson should return payoff says cabinet minister
www.chroniclelive.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 3:09 PM
"chairty" fuck Reach PLC
Micah Richards and Jamie Carragher punditing together.
A clear sign that the apocalypse is coming.
And I'm ready for it.
End it all. End it now.
A clear sign that the apocalypse is coming.
And I'm ready for it.
End it all. End it now.
February 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Micah Richards and Jamie Carragher punditing together.
A clear sign that the apocalypse is coming.
And I'm ready for it.
End it all. End it now.
A clear sign that the apocalypse is coming.
And I'm ready for it.
End it all. End it now.
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Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
February 8, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
No one should be allowed to do this after a musician dies.
February 8, 2026 at 11:32 AM
No one should be allowed to do this after a musician dies.