Adrian Hallam.
@adrianhallam.bsky.social
AKA Leisure Garfunkel. #NFFC. Dysgwr Cymraeg.
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"He wanted the deportations of people born in Britain to be “as voluntary as possible”. So not "voluntary" then.
Labour and Reform are essentially aligned on anti-immigration. The only difference being that Labour claims its xenophobic cruelty is "progressive".
archive.today/6jlRL
Labour and Reform are essentially aligned on anti-immigration. The only difference being that Labour claims its xenophobic cruelty is "progressive".
archive.today/6jlRL
December 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
"He wanted the deportations of people born in Britain to be “as voluntary as possible”. So not "voluntary" then.
Labour and Reform are essentially aligned on anti-immigration. The only difference being that Labour claims its xenophobic cruelty is "progressive".
archive.today/6jlRL
Labour and Reform are essentially aligned on anti-immigration. The only difference being that Labour claims its xenophobic cruelty is "progressive".
archive.today/6jlRL
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I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
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Millionaire Tory frontbencher Robert Jenrick billed the taxpayer £24,587.67 in rent expenses in 2024/25 for his constituency home in Newark, Notts
His monthly claim is 77% higher than the average privately rented four-bed home in the Newark and Sherwood local authority area
His monthly claim is 77% higher than the average privately rented four-bed home in the Newark and Sherwood local authority area
Revealed: MPs rack up huge rent expenses while pushing through cuts to benefits
MPs are allowed to rent a second home, but while they are simultaneously cutting benefits for the vulnerable, the cost feels hard to swallow.
www.bigissue.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Millionaire Tory frontbencher Robert Jenrick billed the taxpayer £24,587.67 in rent expenses in 2024/25 for his constituency home in Newark, Notts
His monthly claim is 77% higher than the average privately rented four-bed home in the Newark and Sherwood local authority area
His monthly claim is 77% higher than the average privately rented four-bed home in the Newark and Sherwood local authority area
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Pete’s Eats, north Wales’ famous climbers’ cafe, reopens its doors
Pete’s Eats, north Wales’ famous climbers’ cafe, reopens its doors
This Eryri refuge for hillwalkers and climbers has been reborn, breathing new life into the once-struggling mountain village of Llanberis
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Pete’s Eats, north Wales’ famous climbers’ cafe, reopens its doors
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Basking in the glory of recent wins against Malmo and Liverpool, it's the latest from our own Julie Pritchard covering the last month at Nottingham Forest... #nottinghamforest #nottinghamforestfc
leftlion.co.uk/features/202...
leftlion.co.uk/features/202...
Left Brian: November 2025 - Three Bald Musketeers
Our Forest columnist Julie Pritchard, the creator of the classic nineties 'Brian' fanzine, seems delighted by the new dawn at Forest under Dyche, Woan and Stone...
leftlion.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Basking in the glory of recent wins against Malmo and Liverpool, it's the latest from our own Julie Pritchard covering the last month at Nottingham Forest... #nottinghamforest #nottinghamforestfc
leftlion.co.uk/features/202...
leftlion.co.uk/features/202...
Local Government reorganisation isn't always the most exciting subject, but sometimes it reveals some fundamental truths:
BBC News - County council backs surprise plan for 'One Derbyshire' - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - County council backs surprise plan for 'One Derbyshire' - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Local Government reorganisation isn't always the most exciting subject, but sometimes it reveals some fundamental truths:
BBC News - County council backs surprise plan for 'One Derbyshire' - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - County council backs surprise plan for 'One Derbyshire' - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A few days ago in Nottingham, residents hung hand-painted signs reading “we are kind” and “we are welcoming”.
When a loud minority is trying to divide us, ordinary people up and down the UK are showing what our country really stands for. Compassion, kindness, and community 🧡
When a loud minority is trying to divide us, ordinary people up and down the UK are showing what our country really stands for. Compassion, kindness, and community 🧡
October 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
A few days ago in Nottingham, residents hung hand-painted signs reading “we are kind” and “we are welcoming”.
When a loud minority is trying to divide us, ordinary people up and down the UK are showing what our country really stands for. Compassion, kindness, and community 🧡
When a loud minority is trying to divide us, ordinary people up and down the UK are showing what our country really stands for. Compassion, kindness, and community 🧡
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🚨These cuts are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England.
Please help spread the word and support @asgsfprotest.bsky.social
by signing their open letter
asgsfprotest.com/add-your-sig...
Please help spread the word and support @asgsfprotest.bsky.social
by signing their open letter
asgsfprotest.com/add-your-sig...
October 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
🚨These cuts are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England.
Please help spread the word and support @asgsfprotest.bsky.social
by signing their open letter
asgsfprotest.com/add-your-sig...
Please help spread the word and support @asgsfprotest.bsky.social
by signing their open letter
asgsfprotest.com/add-your-sig...
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Above all, the police approach in that decade culminated in the unlawful killing of 96 people and decades of cover-up.
Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Above all, the police approach in that decade culminated in the unlawful killing of 96 people and decades of cover-up.
If you see this, post a bridge.
(A Transporter Bridge)
(A Transporter Bridge)
September 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If you see this, post a bridge.
(A Transporter Bridge)
(A Transporter Bridge)
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It is the same social phenomenon as "people who write for the Express read the Guardian". Everyone wants cachet from the liberal intelligentsia. It's specifically bluesky users they want to be read by. Talking to the audience they get on Twitter is killing them.
If you want to be on X, go ahead, no one's stopping you. Free country. You can read The Mail or watch rage-inducing videos on YouTube. Do what you like.
September 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It is the same social phenomenon as "people who write for the Express read the Guardian". Everyone wants cachet from the liberal intelligentsia. It's specifically bluesky users they want to be read by. Talking to the audience they get on Twitter is killing them.
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The first person in the West to know about the death of Stalin was Johnny Cash.
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
August 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The first person in the West to know about the death of Stalin was Johnny Cash.
Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (selling my wife to a passing sailor after too many bowls of rum-laced porridge, only to remarry 20 years later, when I'm the mayor of a Dorset market town).
Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (hiring her as a governess after locking my current wife in the attic).
Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (seduced by an immortal count after he saw a photograph of an employee’s fiancée)
July 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (selling my wife to a passing sailor after too many bowls of rum-laced porridge, only to remarry 20 years later, when I'm the mayor of a Dorset market town).
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'As the day drew to a close, the message was clear: Windrush Day is a time to honour history, but more importantly, to build a future where equality, diversity, and inclusion are lived realities – on and off the pitch' - The Voice's report from Nottingham
www.voice-online.co.uk/windrush/202...
www.voice-online.co.uk/windrush/202...
'Past, Present and Possibilities': Windrush legacy celebrated - Voice Online
THE Windrush legacy was celebrated by the recent ‘Past, Present and Possibilities’ conference held at...
www.voice-online.co.uk
June 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
'As the day drew to a close, the message was clear: Windrush Day is a time to honour history, but more importantly, to build a future where equality, diversity, and inclusion are lived realities – on and off the pitch' - The Voice's report from Nottingham
www.voice-online.co.uk/windrush/202...
www.voice-online.co.uk/windrush/202...
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Ukrainian security from Russian assault is by far the most vital European "national" security concern.
That we aren't prepared to enforce red lines vs Russia is carte blanche for them to undermine security and stability especially by meddling in our politics and (social) media.
That we aren't prepared to enforce red lines vs Russia is carte blanche for them to undermine security and stability especially by meddling in our politics and (social) media.
Hello all, just released my free weekend update. It’s partly an appeal not to stop focussing on Ukraine with the Israel (US)-Iran air war raging. Ukraine is still fighting hard, Putin has restated his maximalist demands, Ukraine has viable strategic options… open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #138: Do Not Forget About Ukraine
Putin Restates Maximalist Demands; A Ukrainian Victory Strategy; The Russian Summer Offensive: The Real Center Of Gravity?
open.substack.com
June 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Ukrainian security from Russian assault is by far the most vital European "national" security concern.
That we aren't prepared to enforce red lines vs Russia is carte blanche for them to undermine security and stability especially by meddling in our politics and (social) media.
That we aren't prepared to enforce red lines vs Russia is carte blanche for them to undermine security and stability especially by meddling in our politics and (social) media.
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All I want to hear out of Democrats is that we had a deal and no bomb. Then Trump tore it up and he is now putting American lives in danger.
That’s it.
That’s it.
June 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
All I want to hear out of Democrats is that we had a deal and no bomb. Then Trump tore it up and he is now putting American lives in danger.
That’s it.
That’s it.
Using food to show you where I grew up
June 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Using food to show you where I grew up