@clivesmum.bsky.social
Proud Mum of actor/streamer Jaxon Valentine and statistics guru Alex. Gamer, book reader, jigsaw fiend and geocacher - when real life allows 😍
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Let's all hope.
January 1, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Let's all hope.
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Plaques commemorating Black WWII soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands —Newsweek
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Plaques commemorating Black WWII soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands —Newsweek
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I’m so upset with our govt. A 3 line whip (😮) to stop a brick being put into new buildings. Please don’t let the swifts die
Swifts have declined 70% since 1994.
They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites.
A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings.
The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it.
Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.
They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites.
A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings.
The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it.
Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I’m so upset with our govt. A 3 line whip (😮) to stop a brick being put into new buildings. Please don’t let the swifts die
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X is designed to radicalise people.
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
X is designed to radicalise people.
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Beware unclear O2 messaging!
When it notifies you about its hike on its airtime price hike - you've a RIGHT to leave penalty free within 30 days of notification.
CONTD
When it notifies you about its hike on its airtime price hike - you've a RIGHT to leave penalty free within 30 days of notification.
CONTD
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Beware unclear O2 messaging!
When it notifies you about its hike on its airtime price hike - you've a RIGHT to leave penalty free within 30 days of notification.
CONTD
When it notifies you about its hike on its airtime price hike - you've a RIGHT to leave penalty free within 30 days of notification.
CONTD
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May the odds be ever in your favor
November 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
May the odds be ever in your favor
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Just came across the “bean soup theory” & feel resonance.
Someone shared a bean soup recipe online & people commented ‘I don’t like beans’ & ‘can I substitute the beans’.
It’s now become a byword for individualism & the self-centred internet. Not everything is about you.
Bean soup 🥣
Someone shared a bean soup recipe online & people commented ‘I don’t like beans’ & ‘can I substitute the beans’.
It’s now become a byword for individualism & the self-centred internet. Not everything is about you.
Bean soup 🥣
November 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Just came across the “bean soup theory” & feel resonance.
Someone shared a bean soup recipe online & people commented ‘I don’t like beans’ & ‘can I substitute the beans’.
It’s now become a byword for individualism & the self-centred internet. Not everything is about you.
Bean soup 🥣
Someone shared a bean soup recipe online & people commented ‘I don’t like beans’ & ‘can I substitute the beans’.
It’s now become a byword for individualism & the self-centred internet. Not everything is about you.
Bean soup 🥣
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Happy #Halloween! A few years ago, midwives at the Royal Oldham Hospital in Lancashire created "dilation pumpkins" - and I don't think I've ever seen anything scarier in my life.* 😂😩
*Posted with apologies to anyone who is pregnant.
*Posted with apologies to anyone who is pregnant.
October 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Happy #Halloween! A few years ago, midwives at the Royal Oldham Hospital in Lancashire created "dilation pumpkins" - and I don't think I've ever seen anything scarier in my life.* 😂😩
*Posted with apologies to anyone who is pregnant.
*Posted with apologies to anyone who is pregnant.
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If you haven’t been on Twitter in a few years, you don’t understand how bad it is, how much it is cooking our elites’ brains, and how thoroughly it has socially integrated American elites with anonymous neo-Nazis. It’s far worse than you think
October 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
If you haven’t been on Twitter in a few years, you don’t understand how bad it is, how much it is cooking our elites’ brains, and how thoroughly it has socially integrated American elites with anonymous neo-Nazis. It’s far worse than you think
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Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads.
These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.
These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.
October 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads.
These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.
These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.
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Worth a read: articulate rage at the state of us after 15 years’ austerity.
There is an alternative!
What’s suggested in this piece is very congruent with @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the Green Party🍃
#MakeHopeNormal
#BackZack
#TeamGreen
There is an alternative!
What’s suggested in this piece is very congruent with @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the Green Party🍃
#MakeHopeNormal
#BackZack
#TeamGreen
October 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Worth a read: articulate rage at the state of us after 15 years’ austerity.
There is an alternative!
What’s suggested in this piece is very congruent with @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the Green Party🍃
#MakeHopeNormal
#BackZack
#TeamGreen
There is an alternative!
What’s suggested in this piece is very congruent with @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the Green Party🍃
#MakeHopeNormal
#BackZack
#TeamGreen
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I've officially reached the point in my career where I can hear budget cuts as a background soundtrack to my life.
This mid-week post is half-primal scream, half-essay and almost entirely about the national delusion that we can keep "doing more with less."
Welcome to the edge - there's snacks.
This mid-week post is half-primal scream, half-essay and almost entirely about the national delusion that we can keep "doing more with less."
Welcome to the edge - there's snacks.
The Ceaseless Snip-Snip-Snip of a Dying State
Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse - and somehow still expecting growth to show up as well.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I've officially reached the point in my career where I can hear budget cuts as a background soundtrack to my life.
This mid-week post is half-primal scream, half-essay and almost entirely about the national delusion that we can keep "doing more with less."
Welcome to the edge - there's snacks.
This mid-week post is half-primal scream, half-essay and almost entirely about the national delusion that we can keep "doing more with less."
Welcome to the edge - there's snacks.
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The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show
bylinetimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
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If you want Disney to know how you feel about its shameful decision, there’s a petition going around. I’d love to see the number of signers grow to the point that executives at Disney lose a great deal of sleep. Together, let us remind them that our voices will not be silenced.
Sign Petition: The Trump Administration Censoring Jimmy Kimmel Has Grave Implications for the Future of Free Speech and Democracy
On the evening of Wednesday, September 17, 2025, Disney-owned network ABC announced that it had suspended Jimmy Kimmel's (12385 signatures on petition)
www.thepetitionsite.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
If you want Disney to know how you feel about its shameful decision, there’s a petition going around. I’d love to see the number of signers grow to the point that executives at Disney lose a great deal of sleep. Together, let us remind them that our voices will not be silenced.
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You're gonna absolutely HATE this, but I did a thing about immigration being not just an inevitability, but a necessity, without which we are absolutely screwed. And I have the maths to prove it.
My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
Russell Jones's Week Moment: Do the Maths, Nigel
The media's obsession with Farage's monomaniacal immigration demands ignores the truth that we actually need more immigration, not less, argues Russell Jones
www.bylinesupplement.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
You're gonna absolutely HATE this, but I did a thing about immigration being not just an inevitability, but a necessity, without which we are absolutely screwed. And I have the maths to prove it.
My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
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At the risk of sounding like a government spokesperson, I wonder if we're too gloomy. NHS waiting times are falling, as are net migration numbers. Growth hasn't been fast, but it's improved. Real wages are growing. Inflation is a bit sticky, but much reduced.
September 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
At the risk of sounding like a government spokesperson, I wonder if we're too gloomy. NHS waiting times are falling, as are net migration numbers. Growth hasn't been fast, but it's improved. Real wages are growing. Inflation is a bit sticky, but much reduced.
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Can’t recommend this piece highly enough. Perfectly lays out the time bomb that’s coming our way and which no-one is talking about…
Migrants aren’t bankrupting the country - it’s your Nan*.
How an ageing demographic in the UK has been known about, and ignored, for years, and why migrants aren’t to blame.
*It’s also not really your Nan.
How an ageing demographic in the UK has been known about, and ignored, for years, and why migrants aren’t to blame.
*It’s also not really your Nan.
Nan’s Not Bankrupting Britain (But Politicians Might Be)
Pensions, productivity, and the myth of the migrant “drain.”
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
September 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Can’t recommend this piece highly enough. Perfectly lays out the time bomb that’s coming our way and which no-one is talking about…
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The greatest gift you can give is your time.
September 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The greatest gift you can give is your time.
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Why are the right wing only screaming about the first?
September 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Why are the right wing only screaming about the first?
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Headed up by no other than the snake oil salesman Farage the Brexshit mouthpiece.
August 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Headed up by no other than the snake oil salesman Farage the Brexshit mouthpiece.
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A word on immigration. Don't prejudge this, just listen to the data, and then consider what the solution is.
The UK has a falling birth rate. This means that - unless things change - each generation will be 25% smaller than the one before.
The UK has a falling birth rate. This means that - unless things change - each generation will be 25% smaller than the one before.
August 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
A word on immigration. Don't prejudge this, just listen to the data, and then consider what the solution is.
The UK has a falling birth rate. This means that - unless things change - each generation will be 25% smaller than the one before.
The UK has a falling birth rate. This means that - unless things change - each generation will be 25% smaller than the one before.
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Israel double tap strike. It murders journalists then sends a drone in to kill the paramedics trying to retrieve their bodies.
A war crime, broadcast live and sponsored by the US and Europe.
🚨Boycott EVERY news channel that doesn’t show this footage today🚨
A war crime, broadcast live and sponsored by the US and Europe.
🚨Boycott EVERY news channel that doesn’t show this footage today🚨
August 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Israel double tap strike. It murders journalists then sends a drone in to kill the paramedics trying to retrieve their bodies.
A war crime, broadcast live and sponsored by the US and Europe.
🚨Boycott EVERY news channel that doesn’t show this footage today🚨
A war crime, broadcast live and sponsored by the US and Europe.
🚨Boycott EVERY news channel that doesn’t show this footage today🚨
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It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.
August 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.
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This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper.
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August 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper.
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