Mark
@baldycooty.bsky.social
Train Driver, supports Chelsea FC.
Lives in East Sussex. Knows nothing!
Lives in East Sussex. Knows nothing!
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Since the "out with foreigners, up with the flag, who cares about foreign wars, let‘s focus on OUR NATION“-school of thought is gaining so much traction in the UK media these days, may I refer you to this map from the 25 Strategic Defence Review.
You think you can pull the drawbridge up?
Good luck.
You think you can pull the drawbridge up?
Good luck.
August 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Since the "out with foreigners, up with the flag, who cares about foreign wars, let‘s focus on OUR NATION“-school of thought is gaining so much traction in the UK media these days, may I refer you to this map from the 25 Strategic Defence Review.
You think you can pull the drawbridge up?
Good luck.
You think you can pull the drawbridge up?
Good luck.
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Nigel Farage and Reform have consistently voted against the Employment Rights Bill which introduces key worker protections like statutory sick pay from day one and a ban on zero-hours contracts - is that a party you would want to trust with your human rights?
On Tuesday Nigel Farage will publish his proposals for mass deportations, Prison camps, leaving the European Convention on Human Rights & scrapping the Human Rights Act, quitting the Refugee Convention and the UN Convention against Torture - is that a country we want?
youtu.be/-UvfvAYytZY?...
youtu.be/-UvfvAYytZY?...
Farage proposes mass deportations, Prison camps & leaving the ECHR - is that a country we want?
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
August 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Nigel Farage and Reform have consistently voted against the Employment Rights Bill which introduces key worker protections like statutory sick pay from day one and a ban on zero-hours contracts - is that a party you would want to trust with your human rights?
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Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
August 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
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MY NEW POLITICAL PAPERBACK OUT NOW!
It’s time to talk about politics, because politics affects EVERYTHING. From your health, education and job security to your safety, home, and family’s future, every decision counts.
It’s time to talk about politics, because politics affects EVERYTHING. From your health, education and job security to your safety, home, and family’s future, every decision counts.
July 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
MY NEW POLITICAL PAPERBACK OUT NOW!
It’s time to talk about politics, because politics affects EVERYTHING. From your health, education and job security to your safety, home, and family’s future, every decision counts.
It’s time to talk about politics, because politics affects EVERYTHING. From your health, education and job security to your safety, home, and family’s future, every decision counts.
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In this week's Private Eye.
July 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
In this week's Private Eye.
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Marie Don't Be A Big Sap And Cry Every Time You Stumble Upon This Speech Challenge
[difficulty: impossible]
[difficulty: impossible]
Hugh Muir recalls the response of London Mayor Ken Livingstone to 7/7 from Singapore. I agree that, despite his flaws & failings at other times, that this was an important message
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
July 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Marie Don't Be A Big Sap And Cry Every Time You Stumble Upon This Speech Challenge
[difficulty: impossible]
[difficulty: impossible]
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Tonight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social has a special report on - you guessed it - small boats.
And I will be on representing the “policies that drown people are bad, actually” position.
Watch out for me 😌
And I will be on representing the “policies that drown people are bad, actually” position.
Watch out for me 😌
July 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Tonight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social has a special report on - you guessed it - small boats.
And I will be on representing the “policies that drown people are bad, actually” position.
Watch out for me 😌
And I will be on representing the “policies that drown people are bad, actually” position.
Watch out for me 😌
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Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.
July 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.
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Journalist Rachel Shabi, who is Jewish, weighs in at LBC on the fallout of Bob Vylan’s controversial performance. #GazaGenocide
June 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Journalist Rachel Shabi, who is Jewish, weighs in at LBC on the fallout of Bob Vylan’s controversial performance. #GazaGenocide
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A Glastonbury chant caused a national meltdown, but the Bear’s incisive analysis reveals the real story.
Don't miss this insightful dive into Britain's moral panic.
Don't miss this insightful dive into Britain's moral panic.
Who decides what’s ‘hate speech’ and what’s dissent?
A single Glastonbury chant shattered the illusion of free speech, exposing Britain's fragile moral panic machine
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July 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
A Glastonbury chant caused a national meltdown, but the Bear’s incisive analysis reveals the real story.
Don't miss this insightful dive into Britain's moral panic.
Don't miss this insightful dive into Britain's moral panic.
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Fascinating piece on (another) unseen health timebomb, which also helps explain a lot about both pressures on A&E and arguably on sickness benefits www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Britain in 2025: sick man of Europe battling untreated illness crisis
As poverty deepens across Britain, the Guardian visited some of the hardest-hit places where leaders are aiming to shift healthcare from hospitals to communities
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Fascinating piece on (another) unseen health timebomb, which also helps explain a lot about both pressures on A&E and arguably on sickness benefits www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Happy story in newspaper shock
June 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Happy story in newspaper shock
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Here’s another poem from ‘You Took the Last Bus Home’, and one of my more enigmatic offerings: it’s called ‘Frisbee’.
June 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Here’s another poem from ‘You Took the Last Bus Home’, and one of my more enigmatic offerings: it’s called ‘Frisbee’.
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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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You'd think 7 big, manly policemen, four on horseback, would be able to control a single woman without having to shoot her point blank with a "non-lethal round," but apparently not...
June 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
You'd think 7 big, manly policemen, four on horseback, would be able to control a single woman without having to shoot her point blank with a "non-lethal round," but apparently not...
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Men often ask me what they can do to help support women’s rights.
Signing this, to once and for all decriminalise abortion, would be a solid start.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
Signing this, to once and for all decriminalise abortion, would be a solid start.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
Decriminalise abortion and make it a protected human right.
Women’s rights are under threat from the far right.
Nigel Farage just called our current abortion provisions “utterly ludicrous” – and others in power are paying attention.
A vote in Parliament could ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
June 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Men often ask me what they can do to help support women’s rights.
Signing this, to once and for all decriminalise abortion, would be a solid start.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
Signing this, to once and for all decriminalise abortion, would be a solid start.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS.
Please read and share this thread.
Please read and share this thread.
May 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM
So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS.
Please read and share this thread.
Please read and share this thread.
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Like others, I understand why they released the fact that the perpetrator of the horrendous Liverpool attack was a white British man.
But it is a bad sign of where our country of at.
Nationality or ethnicity are not the causes of crime & should not be our first concern #r4today
But it is a bad sign of where our country of at.
Nationality or ethnicity are not the causes of crime & should not be our first concern #r4today
May 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Like others, I understand why they released the fact that the perpetrator of the horrendous Liverpool attack was a white British man.
But it is a bad sign of where our country of at.
Nationality or ethnicity are not the causes of crime & should not be our first concern #r4today
But it is a bad sign of where our country of at.
Nationality or ethnicity are not the causes of crime & should not be our first concern #r4today
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The UK-EU summit agreement covers the following 12 areas:
1. Sanitary & Phytosanitary
2. Energy cooperation
3. Emissions trading
4. Steel
5. Law enforcement & judicial cooperation
6. Irregular migration
7. Defence, security & development
8. Fisheries
9. Youth & educational mobility
1/16
1. Sanitary & Phytosanitary
2. Energy cooperation
3. Emissions trading
4. Steel
5. Law enforcement & judicial cooperation
6. Irregular migration
7. Defence, security & development
8. Fisheries
9. Youth & educational mobility
1/16
May 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The UK-EU summit agreement covers the following 12 areas:
1. Sanitary & Phytosanitary
2. Energy cooperation
3. Emissions trading
4. Steel
5. Law enforcement & judicial cooperation
6. Irregular migration
7. Defence, security & development
8. Fisheries
9. Youth & educational mobility
1/16
1. Sanitary & Phytosanitary
2. Energy cooperation
3. Emissions trading
4. Steel
5. Law enforcement & judicial cooperation
6. Irregular migration
7. Defence, security & development
8. Fisheries
9. Youth & educational mobility
1/16
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Pilot Whale
You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay!
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You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay!
www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...
May 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Pilot Whale
You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay!
www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...
You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay!
www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...
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So clever. For Monty Python fans everywhere. 😂
And thank you, Green Frog Labs. 🐸
And thank you, Green Frog Labs. 🐸
May 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
So clever. For Monty Python fans everywhere. 😂
And thank you, Green Frog Labs. 🐸
And thank you, Green Frog Labs. 🐸
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Left: Wes Streeting talking about recruiting 1,500 more GPs
Right: Sky News reporting that GPs 'working as Uber drivers' because they can't find jobs
We have unemployed GPs who can't get jobs as Labour haven't fixed the GP contract which restricts funding to hire more GPs but has funding for PAs
Right: Sky News reporting that GPs 'working as Uber drivers' because they can't find jobs
We have unemployed GPs who can't get jobs as Labour haven't fixed the GP contract which restricts funding to hire more GPs but has funding for PAs
May 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Left: Wes Streeting talking about recruiting 1,500 more GPs
Right: Sky News reporting that GPs 'working as Uber drivers' because they can't find jobs
We have unemployed GPs who can't get jobs as Labour haven't fixed the GP contract which restricts funding to hire more GPs but has funding for PAs
Right: Sky News reporting that GPs 'working as Uber drivers' because they can't find jobs
We have unemployed GPs who can't get jobs as Labour haven't fixed the GP contract which restricts funding to hire more GPs but has funding for PAs
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At a time when the criminal justice system is closer than ever to complete collapse, those electronic books people have made the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller #StoriesOfTheLawAndHowIt’sBroken a Kindle Monthly Deal - an absurd 99p.
Read. Learn. Get freaking furious.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B075...
Read. Learn. Get freaking furious.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B075...
May 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
At a time when the criminal justice system is closer than ever to complete collapse, those electronic books people have made the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller #StoriesOfTheLawAndHowIt’sBroken a Kindle Monthly Deal - an absurd 99p.
Read. Learn. Get freaking furious.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B075...
Read. Learn. Get freaking furious.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B075...
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Christ alive.
We’re all doomed.
We’re all doomed.
April 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Christ alive.
We’re all doomed.
We’re all doomed.
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“To forget is guilt”: 80 years on, we remember the Durham Light Infantry’s role in the relief of Bergen-Belsen
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The DLI in Belsen 80 years ago
“To forget is guilt”: 80 years on, we remember the Durham Light Infantry’s role in the relief of Bergen-Belsen
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April 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
“To forget is guilt”: 80 years on, we remember the Durham Light Infantry’s role in the relief of Bergen-Belsen
@northeastbylines.co.uk
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