Andrea Purdie
@andreapurdie.bsky.social
Typographer, LFC supporter, love watching football and pub quizzes.
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
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I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?
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These 4 bits of dialogue, one comic monologue, one serious monologue, and two back and forths, all on the same subject - mortality - immaculate writing
November 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
These 4 bits of dialogue, one comic monologue, one serious monologue, and two back and forths, all on the same subject - mortality - immaculate writing
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
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Klopp was a master of manipulating emotion: acknowledging, amplifying and directing emotion towards winning. Not his only skill (he was underrated in terms of tactical setup and sports science) but a v important part of his genius as a manager. By the time he left he was emotionally burned out! 1/..
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Klopp was a master of manipulating emotion: acknowledging, amplifying and directing emotion towards winning. Not his only skill (he was underrated in terms of tactical setup and sports science) but a v important part of his genius as a manager. By the time he left he was emotionally burned out! 1/..
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Using Golden Ticket to describe people who have fled war and destitution to legally seek asylum. An internationally recognized legal right that the UK is treaty bound to recognize is pure cruelty and evil. It is the language of Nazis, of deportations, of camps and life unworthy of life. Evil.
Home secretary vows to end UK’s ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers - live updates
Home secretary vows to end UK’s ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers - live updates
Home secretary vows to end UK’s ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers - live updates
www.independent.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Using Golden Ticket to describe people who have fled war and destitution to legally seek asylum. An internationally recognized legal right that the UK is treaty bound to recognize is pure cruelty and evil. It is the language of Nazis, of deportations, of camps and life unworthy of life. Evil.
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Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
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Have to say I find the proposals to take away the route to permanent settlement of refugees both shocking and repulsive. It's code for 'whatever you do and contribute you can never become one of us so we won't allow you to try.' Racism, pure and simple.
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Have to say I find the proposals to take away the route to permanent settlement of refugees both shocking and repulsive. It's code for 'whatever you do and contribute you can never become one of us so we won't allow you to try.' Racism, pure and simple.
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🎥 Political editor @jamesrball.com breaks down The New World's exclusive that Michael Prescott - author of the dossier into the BBC - himself doctored Trump quotes in the report. It's an extraordinary revelation that calls into question Prescott’s journalistic judgement
Read now 👉 buff.ly/lRs7cws
Read now 👉 buff.ly/lRs7cws
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🎥 Political editor @jamesrball.com breaks down The New World's exclusive that Michael Prescott - author of the dossier into the BBC - himself doctored Trump quotes in the report. It's an extraordinary revelation that calls into question Prescott’s journalistic judgement
Read now 👉 buff.ly/lRs7cws
Read now 👉 buff.ly/lRs7cws
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Reflecting on yesterday’s game, City outplayed us, no question, and they deserved the win, Liverpool have balanced and intensity issues. I’m really not bothered by the winning and losing, treat those two imposters just the same, but I have very grave concerns around the officiating. #LFC #YNWA
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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I hear there’s an argument going on in the UK right now about whether or not Donald Trump incited the crowds to violence around January 6th. Apparently the BBC in a documentary showed edits of his speech that misrepresented what he said.
November 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I hear there’s an argument going on in the UK right now about whether or not Donald Trump incited the crowds to violence around January 6th. Apparently the BBC in a documentary showed edits of his speech that misrepresented what he said.
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Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.
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Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
x.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
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Why can I remember no Labour politician making this point, this well?
Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything.
This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.
Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything.
This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.
October 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Why can I remember no Labour politician making this point, this well?
Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything.
This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.
Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything.
This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.
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Quality article by @andrewduffeu.bsky.social on a royal commission on Brexit.
Essentially there are two chapters to this.
The first is addressing the effect of Brexit on the UK.
The major issue is the lack of an established truth that Brexit was a mistake in public and across WM.
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Essentially there are two chapters to this.
The first is addressing the effect of Brexit on the UK.
The major issue is the lack of an established truth that Brexit was a mistake in public and across WM.
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October 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Quality article by @andrewduffeu.bsky.social on a royal commission on Brexit.
Essentially there are two chapters to this.
The first is addressing the effect of Brexit on the UK.
The major issue is the lack of an established truth that Brexit was a mistake in public and across WM.
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Essentially there are two chapters to this.
The first is addressing the effect of Brexit on the UK.
The major issue is the lack of an established truth that Brexit was a mistake in public and across WM.
🧵
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"Lots done. Lots more to do."
As Parliament is set to return tomorrow, here is a video the Labour government have put out to show us some of the things they have achieved in the first year.
And it's a LOOOOOOONG list.
As Parliament is set to return tomorrow, here is a video the Labour government have put out to show us some of the things they have achieved in the first year.
And it's a LOOOOOOONG list.
October 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"Lots done. Lots more to do."
As Parliament is set to return tomorrow, here is a video the Labour government have put out to show us some of the things they have achieved in the first year.
And it's a LOOOOOOONG list.
As Parliament is set to return tomorrow, here is a video the Labour government have put out to show us some of the things they have achieved in the first year.
And it's a LOOOOOOONG list.
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We're launched! In my newsletter this week, I write about our new female-founded media collective
@thenerve.news,
the fuck you energy that's fuelling it & why the mainstream media's laundering of Tony Blair is *exactly* why you need to read it 👊👊👊
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-nerve
@thenerve.news,
the fuck you energy that's fuelling it & why the mainstream media's laundering of Tony Blair is *exactly* why you need to read it 👊👊👊
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-nerve
The Nerve
We've got it. Do you?
broligarchy.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We're launched! In my newsletter this week, I write about our new female-founded media collective
@thenerve.news,
the fuck you energy that's fuelling it & why the mainstream media's laundering of Tony Blair is *exactly* why you need to read it 👊👊👊
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-nerve
@thenerve.news,
the fuck you energy that's fuelling it & why the mainstream media's laundering of Tony Blair is *exactly* why you need to read it 👊👊👊
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-nerve
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social doubt you'll notice, or have time, but I liked your article in today's Guardian, and thought this idea might be of interest. Hope you (or your team) can see it. Contact me for a free version if you can't.
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Russell Jones's Week Moment: The Only Way is Norway
The UK is now the second most miserable country in the world. It's time we learnt some lessons on building a happier society from our Nordic neighbours, says Russell Jones
open.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social doubt you'll notice, or have time, but I liked your article in today's Guardian, and thought this idea might be of interest. Hope you (or your team) can see it. Contact me for a free version if you can't.
open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...
open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...
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Please RT this so Donald Trump sees.
September 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Please RT this so Donald Trump sees.
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My dissertation made this point. Technology is in the hands of two movements (Christian Nationalism and TESCREAL) who are both guided by apocalyptic eschatology. These are people for whom everything is a battle for the final end. Which *they want*. Law, policy, regulations, and you are in their way.
I can't believe this is real. Literally Thiel is saying the antichrist is anyone who wants to regulate technology.
September 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
My dissertation made this point. Technology is in the hands of two movements (Christian Nationalism and TESCREAL) who are both guided by apocalyptic eschatology. These are people for whom everything is a battle for the final end. Which *they want*. Law, policy, regulations, and you are in their way.
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Farage reckons kicking legal migrants out of the country will save "£234bn".
So I did the sums, taking into account % of immigrants vs natives who are working, paying tax, claiming benefits, average salaries etc.
If Farage is right about immigrants, then natives would cost Britain £1.92 trillion.
So I did the sums, taking into account % of immigrants vs natives who are working, paying tax, claiming benefits, average salaries etc.
If Farage is right about immigrants, then natives would cost Britain £1.92 trillion.
September 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Farage reckons kicking legal migrants out of the country will save "£234bn".
So I did the sums, taking into account % of immigrants vs natives who are working, paying tax, claiming benefits, average salaries etc.
If Farage is right about immigrants, then natives would cost Britain £1.92 trillion.
So I did the sums, taking into account % of immigrants vs natives who are working, paying tax, claiming benefits, average salaries etc.
If Farage is right about immigrants, then natives would cost Britain £1.92 trillion.
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The most heartbreakingly powerful piece I’ve ever read on Substack. Please, please read and share. And look after your family, friends, neighbours and colleagues for whom England is becoming frightening.
@sturdyalex.bsky.social 👇
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@sturdyalex.bsky.social 👇
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My place or yours? - Flags and the far right from someone who looks different to you
By Alex Andreou
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September 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The most heartbreakingly powerful piece I’ve ever read on Substack. Please, please read and share. And look after your family, friends, neighbours and colleagues for whom England is becoming frightening.
@sturdyalex.bsky.social 👇
open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...
@sturdyalex.bsky.social 👇
open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.