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Catriona Shepard
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Gardener. European. Loathe Brexit.
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The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
View from a roof…
#valleyhops
#brisbane
#storm
October 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.
September 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
@restispoliticsus.bsky.social I’ve been a founding member since the excellent Musk series, I subscribed through Apple.

But I’m confused about benefits other than access? How to ask questions for example? In your next promo could you please give details of the different ways of being a member? 🙏
September 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
@restispolitics.bsky.social
Do you have comparative data on how much coverage this has been given by the mainstream print and broadcast media in the UK? And relative to the Angela Rayner story? youtu.be/reQaq3ArAak
Nigel Farage absolutely destroyed by Democrat Congressman in Committee Hearing
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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September 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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August 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
Great Yarmouth to Host Britain’s Biggest White Power Concert in Years – HOPE not hate
Great Yarmouth is set to host the largest white power music gig held in the UK for at least 10 years, HOPE not hate can...
hopenothate.org.uk
August 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
July 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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And I'm one of those who's been using what little influence I have to argue against progressives writing off the Labour government (e.g. my most recent @bylinetimes.bsky.social column, below). But if, as it seems with this, they're really going down the Glasman 'Blue Labour' route then, sorry, no.
May 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Arthur Daley's Brexit. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog, with analysis of what Trump's Tariffs do and don't tell us about Brexit itself, and how the 'choice' they give the UK is to duck and dive whilst the real decisions are made by others: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/arth...
April 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Simply excellent.
So proud of Bylines Network and our 10 citizen journalism publications! 🙌

With mainstream media broken, citizens themselves grabbing the mechanisms of professional journalism is a powerful way to change the whole dynamic.

Please support —> bylinesnetwork.co.uk/donate/

(See my Insta for full vid)
April 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK

Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
March 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I notice some references to Nazi Germany in relation to this and ofc I understand why. But I increasingly think those comparisons are unnecessary. The specifics of what *is* happening here & now are damning enough. Anyone unpersuaded of that isn't likely to be by references to what it is *like*.
"Fun videos". FFS. There's something not just sickening but sick about such casual cruelty.
Leavitt: "We are encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport to maybe save themselves from being in one of these fun videos."
March 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Wes needs to be sat down in front of “A Man for All Seasons”

youtu.be/PDBiLT3LASk?...
A Man for All Seasons - The Devil Speech
YouTube video by dniete97
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March 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
March 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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The new global divide makes Brexit an anomaly. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog on the choices facing the UK, what they show about the realities of sovereignty, how they're already changing domestic politics, and what they mean for Brexit:

chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
March 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Canada’s next prime minister fights back against Trump threats 👏

www.channel4.com/news/canadas...
Canada’s next prime minister fights back against Trump threats
He's already helped steer Canada, then Britain through economic crises. Mark Carney has vowed to win the trade war the US President is waging on Canada.
www.channel4.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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America is going very dark very quickly.
February 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House.

Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...
Ukraine War: The New Trump & Putin Axis Explained
YouTube video by The News Agents
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February 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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🚨 NEW RESEARCH: This is what the Government's been missing in its plan for growth.A boost to UK GDP of up to 2.2%.How can they get it?With deep alignment with the EU on goods & services. Which would be firmly within Starmer’s Brexit ‘red lines’. 1/6
www.thetimes.com/article/8423...
Research claims EU deal will fuel growth — and Labour is listening
A report says Britain can mend some of the economic damage of Brexit without crossing the red lines set by Keir Starmer
www.thetimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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January 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM