Kevin Chapman
@chappersbrum.bsky.social
Gaffer.Tea Drinker. #StrokeSurvivor thanks to Ward C21 New Cross Hospital Wolverhampton. #NHS @avwfc-official.bsky.social fan.
Views my own.
Views my own.
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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“The world of 2026 is entirely different from 2016, the old red lines no longer make sense and Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford” @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
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Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
“The world of 2026 is entirely different from 2016, the old red lines no longer make sense and Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford” @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
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Pre going right wing mad The Telegraph used to do good investigative journalism. It was the paper to expose the MP expenses scandal. The merger with the Mail might bring back that serous journalism, leaving the Mail to be the Daily Fartage for those who can now read more than The Sun.
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Pre going right wing mad The Telegraph used to do good investigative journalism. It was the paper to expose the MP expenses scandal. The merger with the Mail might bring back that serous journalism, leaving the Mail to be the Daily Fartage for those who can now read more than The Sun.
Reckless Cricket from England overall. Batters will ensure we lose series. Why Zack Crawley was on the plane down under is beyond me.
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Reckless Cricket from England overall. Batters will ensure we lose series. Why Zack Crawley was on the plane down under is beyond me.
England need a wicket quickly. The game is running away from them.
November 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
England need a wicket quickly. The game is running away from them.
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Former Ukip MEP and ex-leader of Reform in Wales Nathan Gill has been jailed for 10.5 years for taking bribes for pro-Russian statements
This story is from when he pleaded guilty, and today prosecutors gave more detail about how Gill was tasking other Ukip MEPs
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...
This story is from when he pleaded guilty, and today prosecutors gave more detail about how Gill was tasking other Ukip MEPs
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...
U.K. Politician Admits Making Pro-Russia Statements in Return for Bribes
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Former Ukip MEP and ex-leader of Reform in Wales Nathan Gill has been jailed for 10.5 years for taking bribes for pro-Russian statements
This story is from when he pleaded guilty, and today prosecutors gave more detail about how Gill was tasking other Ukip MEPs
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...
This story is from when he pleaded guilty, and today prosecutors gave more detail about how Gill was tasking other Ukip MEPs
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...
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Well, that's aged like rancid Surströmming wrapped in a durian nappy and shoved down a festival toilet in a gastroenteritis outbreak.
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Well, that's aged like rancid Surströmming wrapped in a durian nappy and shoved down a festival toilet in a gastroenteritis outbreak.
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The UK Covid-19 Inquiry confirms what our communities have lived for years: the government’s pandemic response wasn’t just a failure - it was a historic abandonment. “Too little, too late” doesn’t capture the scale of the harm. /1
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry confirms what our communities have lived for years: the government’s pandemic response wasn’t just a failure - it was a historic abandonment. “Too little, too late” doesn’t capture the scale of the harm. /1
UK Covid Inquiry: 23,000 deaths could have been prevented if the March 2020 lockdown had been imposed just one week earlier. In other words, the interests of the Cheltenham Festival and Jockey Club run by one Dido Harding were placed higher than care homes, hospitals and schools.
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
UK Covid Inquiry: 23,000 deaths could have been prevented if the March 2020 lockdown had been imposed just one week earlier. In other words, the interests of the Cheltenham Festival and Jockey Club run by one Dido Harding were placed higher than care homes, hospitals and schools.
The UK Covid inquiry report should be an end to the careers on public life of Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, Nicola Sturgeon, Chris Whitty and Matt Hancock. All of whom have caused incalculable suffering across the United Kingdom.
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The UK Covid inquiry report should be an end to the careers on public life of Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, Nicola Sturgeon, Chris Whitty and Matt Hancock. All of whom have caused incalculable suffering across the United Kingdom.
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'We can't keep saying no to development when we've got a housing crisis'
Housing Secretary Steve Reed speaks to #BBCBreakfast about plans to build homes on land close to railway stations in England
Housing Secretary Steve Reed speaks to #BBCBreakfast about plans to build homes on land close to railway stations in England
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
'We can't keep saying no to development when we've got a housing crisis'
Housing Secretary Steve Reed speaks to #BBCBreakfast about plans to build homes on land close to railway stations in England
Housing Secretary Steve Reed speaks to #BBCBreakfast about plans to build homes on land close to railway stations in England
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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood ended her statement in the Commons today with a much more 'balancer' tone - emphasising unity > division, control + safe routes for asylum - than either her party conference speech, or the media messages Friday night to Monday
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Shabana Mahmood MP on X: "Fix what is broken. Unite what is divided. A Greater Britain. Not a Littler England. https://t.co/vWYMPHXTZt" / X
Fix what is broken. Unite what is divided. A Greater Britain. Not a Littler England. https://t.co/vWYMPHXTZt
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November 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood ended her statement in the Commons today with a much more 'balancer' tone - emphasising unity > division, control + safe routes for asylum - than either her party conference speech, or the media messages Friday night to Monday
x.com/ShabanaMahmo...
x.com/ShabanaMahmo...
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In September, Reform said they would make welfare limited to UK citizens only. Then told journalists that would not apply to EU nationals with settled status, protected by the UK-EU withdrawal treaty, then said they could "negotiate" on that with the EU.
Now say they are reneging on the treaty
Now say they are reneging on the treaty
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
In September, Reform said they would make welfare limited to UK citizens only. Then told journalists that would not apply to EU nationals with settled status, protected by the UK-EU withdrawal treaty, then said they could "negotiate" on that with the EU.
Now say they are reneging on the treaty
Now say they are reneging on the treaty
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Looks like #Birmingham could have piles of rubbish on the streets again just before Chrirstmas. Is anyone even trying to sort this out? #BinStrikes
BBC News - Birmingham agency bin staff to strike over bullying - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Birmingham agency bin staff to strike over bullying - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Birmingham agency bin staff to strike over bullying
Unite say the staff are not crossing picket lines, due to intimidation at the council's refuse section.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Looks like #Birmingham could have piles of rubbish on the streets again just before Chrirstmas. Is anyone even trying to sort this out? #BinStrikes
BBC News - Birmingham agency bin staff to strike over bullying - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Birmingham agency bin staff to strike over bullying - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shabana Mahmood will be on a “chicken run” to a safer West Midlands seat sooner rather than later. The local difficulties of the never ending Birmingham bin strike will see to that.
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Shabana Mahmood will be on a “chicken run” to a safer West Midlands seat sooner rather than later. The local difficulties of the never ending Birmingham bin strike will see to that.
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No 10 says Starmer has been told by Downing Street staff that none of them briefed against Streeting - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
No 10 says Starmer has been told by Downing Street staff that none of them briefed against Streeting - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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🔴 Labour MP Graham Stringer signed an open letter drafted by a far-right group attacking the government.
He's also been hanging out with Farage's anti-abortion advisors and is still a director of the UK's leading climate science denial group - run by a Tory peer.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
He's also been hanging out with Farage's anti-abortion advisors and is still a director of the UK's leading climate science denial group - run by a Tory peer.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
The Labour MP Rubbing Shoulders With the Far-Right
Labour is facing pressure after one of its MPs joined forces with a far-right group in attacking the party, DeSmog can reveal. Over recent months, Graham Stringer – who has been the MP for Blackley, M...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🔴 Labour MP Graham Stringer signed an open letter drafted by a far-right group attacking the government.
He's also been hanging out with Farage's anti-abortion advisors and is still a director of the UK's leading climate science denial group - run by a Tory peer.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
He's also been hanging out with Farage's anti-abortion advisors and is still a director of the UK's leading climate science denial group - run by a Tory peer.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
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"These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him" is quite a sentence.
He has asked us to repeat his denials, and while it is a fact that he does continue those denials, the King does not believe them [and nor does anybody else]
He has asked us to repeat his denials, and while it is a fact that he does continue those denials, the King does not believe them [and nor does anybody else]
October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him" is quite a sentence.
He has asked us to repeat his denials, and while it is a fact that he does continue those denials, the King does not believe them [and nor does anybody else]
He has asked us to repeat his denials, and while it is a fact that he does continue those denials, the King does not believe them [and nor does anybody else]
Lucy Powell is the new Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. So who is leaving the Cabinet tent to stop her pissing in?
October 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Lucy Powell is the new Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. So who is leaving the Cabinet tent to stop her pissing in?
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Exclusive: No10 chief of staff Morgan McSweeney addressed a meeting of Labour peers on Wednesday night. It did not go well, for him or Keir Starmer.
The HuffPost UK weekend political read 👇
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/end-of...
The HuffPost UK weekend political read 👇
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End Of The Keir Show: How Senior Labour Figures Now Believe Starmer Is Already Toast
Will the embattled PM even make it to the New Year in No.10?
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Exclusive: No10 chief of staff Morgan McSweeney addressed a meeting of Labour peers on Wednesday night. It did not go well, for him or Keir Starmer.
The HuffPost UK weekend political read 👇
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/end-of...
The HuffPost UK weekend political read 👇
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/end-of...
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🔴 Reform Council Asks Opposition for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short
Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s struggling flagship Kent administration is now reaching out to other parties, after failing to identify the millions of pounds in savings they promised
Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s struggling flagship Kent administration is now reaching out to other parties, after failing to identify the millions of pounds in savings they promised
Reform Council Asks Opposition for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short
Exclusive: Nigel Farage's struggling flagship Kent administration is now reaching out to other parties, after failing to identify the millions of pounds in savings they promised
bylinetimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🔴 Reform Council Asks Opposition for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short
Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s struggling flagship Kent administration is now reaching out to other parties, after failing to identify the millions of pounds in savings they promised
Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s struggling flagship Kent administration is now reaching out to other parties, after failing to identify the millions of pounds in savings they promised
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Meanwhile, Reform controlled Worcestershire County Council, who had their DOGE team visit to cut 'wasteful spending', want to put up Council Tax by 10% www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Worcestershire County Council considering 10% tax rise
The county council is asking people for opinions on large tax rises next year to cover deficits.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Meanwhile, Reform controlled Worcestershire County Council, who had their DOGE team visit to cut 'wasteful spending', want to put up Council Tax by 10% www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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So maybe Birmingham’s “PC Plod” was correct to cancel the away supporters……
…..sorry #FreeGearKeir
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
…..sorry #FreeGearKeir
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Research reveals racist chants on rise in Israeli football – with Maccabi Tel Aviv the worst offenders
Kick It Out Israel found 367 instances in the 2024-25 season – of those, 118 were observed in stands containing Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters
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October 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
So maybe Birmingham’s “PC Plod” was correct to cancel the away supporters……
…..sorry #FreeGearKeir
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
…..sorry #FreeGearKeir
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Kemi Badenoch did nothing to tackle grooming gangs or CSE in her role as minister for Women and Equalities when she was in government. The hypocrisy and her attempts to make political capital out of this difficult issue is repulsive.
October 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Kemi Badenoch did nothing to tackle grooming gangs or CSE in her role as minister for Women and Equalities when she was in government. The hypocrisy and her attempts to make political capital out of this difficult issue is repulsive.