Andrew
@aomwales.bsky.social
Londoner, Welsh, European, Tropical Gardener, Cat Daddy, Athiest 🌈🏳️🌈
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Nigel Farage and the Reform Party’s Taliban Tax means sending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money to an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought and died to defeat.
August 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Nigel Farage and the Reform Party’s Taliban Tax means sending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money to an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought and died to defeat.
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Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations
Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!)
Epping: 100-150
London: 20
Birmingham: 30
Stevenage: 30-50
Norwich: ? anything of any scale
Manchester: ? anything of any scale
Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!)
Epping: 100-150
London: 20
Birmingham: 30
Stevenage: 30-50
Norwich: ? anything of any scale
Manchester: ? anything of any scale
Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
August 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations
Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!)
Epping: 100-150
London: 20
Birmingham: 30
Stevenage: 30-50
Norwich: ? anything of any scale
Manchester: ? anything of any scale
Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!)
Epping: 100-150
London: 20
Birmingham: 30
Stevenage: 30-50
Norwich: ? anything of any scale
Manchester: ? anything of any scale
Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
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"CROWDS wave flags" according to the Daily Mail caption of this picture
August 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"CROWDS wave flags" according to the Daily Mail caption of this picture
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It's 9pm .. and yet again BBCNews is once again leading the news agenda with a story about refugees - when there is no new 'news' on refugees... None whatsoever.
The BBC news is completely in thrall to the far right.
what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
August 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It's 9pm .. and yet again BBCNews is once again leading the news agenda with a story about refugees - when there is no new 'news' on refugees... None whatsoever.
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I’m sorry but no. Protests and demos with dozens or low hundreds of attendees are not especially newsworthy. I’ve seen larger turnouts at a Warhammer event.
August 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I’m sorry but no. Protests and demos with dozens or low hundreds of attendees are not especially newsworthy. I’ve seen larger turnouts at a Warhammer event.
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Call me old fashioned, but I think it might be best if the news media went back to reporting things that have happened, if significant, rather than reporting on the 8am news that something significant *might* happen later that day, then finding what actually happens is not really that significant.
August 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Call me old fashioned, but I think it might be best if the news media went back to reporting things that have happened, if significant, rather than reporting on the 8am news that something significant *might* happen later that day, then finding what actually happens is not really that significant.
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This is untrue humanists.uk/2025/07/15/r...
Religious revival claims fatally undermined by contradictory data
In April, a Bible Society report based on YouGov polling claimed that ‘the Church is in a period of rapid growth’. But it subsequently came to light that other YouGov results show the opposite, and no...
humanists.uk
August 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is untrue humanists.uk/2025/07/15/r...
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Britain has a corruption problem.
"MPs [with 2nd jobs] ask significantly more parliamentary questions. The avg Tory MP asks a median of 2 Qs a year, but this rises to 19 when holding a second job. The largest increase was with those working in the for-profit 'knowledge sector' (avg. 26 questions)"
"MPs [with 2nd jobs] ask significantly more parliamentary questions. The avg Tory MP asks a median of 2 Qs a year, but this rises to 19 when holding a second job. The largest increase was with those working in the for-profit 'knowledge sector' (avg. 26 questions)"
WhoFundsThem: Literature Review
Summary of existing research and polling on MPs interests
research.mysociety.org
July 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Britain has a corruption problem.
"MPs [with 2nd jobs] ask significantly more parliamentary questions. The avg Tory MP asks a median of 2 Qs a year, but this rises to 19 when holding a second job. The largest increase was with those working in the for-profit 'knowledge sector' (avg. 26 questions)"
"MPs [with 2nd jobs] ask significantly more parliamentary questions. The avg Tory MP asks a median of 2 Qs a year, but this rises to 19 when holding a second job. The largest increase was with those working in the for-profit 'knowledge sector' (avg. 26 questions)"
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If you are still critical of Labour's plans on Palestine, here are two facts:
1) the plans yesterday were welcomed by the President of the Palestinian Authority, the Head of State of Palestine.
2) Lammy got applause at the UN announcing the plans.
So you know better than many key world leaders?
1) the plans yesterday were welcomed by the President of the Palestinian Authority, the Head of State of Palestine.
2) Lammy got applause at the UN announcing the plans.
So you know better than many key world leaders?
July 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
If you are still critical of Labour's plans on Palestine, here are two facts:
1) the plans yesterday were welcomed by the President of the Palestinian Authority, the Head of State of Palestine.
2) Lammy got applause at the UN announcing the plans.
So you know better than many key world leaders?
1) the plans yesterday were welcomed by the President of the Palestinian Authority, the Head of State of Palestine.
2) Lammy got applause at the UN announcing the plans.
So you know better than many key world leaders?
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What do we think?🤔
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
🧵
1/13
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
🧵
1/13
June 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
What do we think?🤔
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
🧵
1/13
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
🧵
1/13
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Reality check.
Thank you, Financial Times.
Thank you, Financial Times.
February 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Reality check.
Thank you, Financial Times.
Thank you, Financial Times.
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Building luxury homes for millionaires is good for poor people (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/yimby
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/yimby
Building luxury homes for millionaires is good for poor people
Yes In My Back Yard!
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
February 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Building luxury homes for millionaires is good for poor people (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/yimby
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/yimby
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Please consider sharing.
February 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Please consider sharing.
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Almost everything you hear about the Government is filtered through the framing of the British press.
But what is already clear after six months of Keir Starmer’s administration is that they don’t treat all governments equally...
My latest in an occasional series:
But what is already clear after six months of Keir Starmer’s administration is that they don’t treat all governments equally...
My latest in an occasional series:
Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Almost everything you hear about the Government is filtered through the framing of the British press.
But what is already clear after six months of Keir Starmer’s administration is that they don’t treat all governments equally...
My latest in an occasional series:
But what is already clear after six months of Keir Starmer’s administration is that they don’t treat all governments equally...
My latest in an occasional series:
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I think this is an important point: having some moderation (for abuse/threats/blatant lying) is not a left/right issue. Such rules are the commonplace of any public meeting or debating society. Tory, liberal, or social democrat, you wouldn’t go to a meeting where threats and abuse were permitted.
It is a pivot to the right, in a way, but I think this framing misleads, as it does for somewhat different reasons with X. Unless you regard allowing abusive language towards women, LGBTQIA+, etc, as “conservative,” there’s not much driving people away that’s intrinsically right/left.
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Meta’s pivot to the right sparks boycotts and a user exodus www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
January 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I think this is an important point: having some moderation (for abuse/threats/blatant lying) is not a left/right issue. Such rules are the commonplace of any public meeting or debating society. Tory, liberal, or social democrat, you wouldn’t go to a meeting where threats and abuse were permitted.
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Thinking about starting a Gen X "Shit Old Days" group. For reasons unknown, been having flashbacks to 80s comprehensive school, and honestly I think most people have memory-holed just how racist, homophobic, misogynist and violent everything was. Also: DOGSHIT EVERWHERE (cc @tudoracid.bsky.social)
January 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Thinking about starting a Gen X "Shit Old Days" group. For reasons unknown, been having flashbacks to 80s comprehensive school, and honestly I think most people have memory-holed just how racist, homophobic, misogynist and violent everything was. Also: DOGSHIT EVERWHERE (cc @tudoracid.bsky.social)
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Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵
November 25, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵
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Since Nigel Farage has just sided with Russia again, and said “the idea Ukraine is going to win, frankly, is for the birds,” it’s time to re-ask those five questions he’s never asked about his support for Vladimir Putin 1/6
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...
The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform once more during this general election campaign, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never conf...
bylinetimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Since Nigel Farage has just sided with Russia again, and said “the idea Ukraine is going to win, frankly, is for the birds,” it’s time to re-ask those five questions he’s never asked about his support for Vladimir Putin 1/6
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...
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All three statements are true at the same time
November 13, 2024 at 1:48 PM
All three statements are true at the same time