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John Richards
@erp-monkey.bsky.social
Escaped Space-Karen’s cesspit! 🙌🏼
Stockport based.
Old lefty but young at heart
Despise Boris Johnson with every cell of my body 🤮🤬
European 🇪🇺
MCFC fan ⚽️
Slave to a Cockerpoo 🐕‍🦺
😂
Me: “we already have two fantastic dogs, we don’t need any more pets.”

My wife: “you’re right.”

Me: “plus we just got new rugs…”

My wife: “okay”

Me: “and I can’t be home all day to house train a puppy.”

My wife: “I understand”

Me: “so it is NOT gonna happen.”



BlueSky, meet Martha.
June 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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EPIC response.
June 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
So very very true!

So social media has broken even Elon Musk. I’m forced to ask: U OK hun? | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
So social media has broken even Elon Musk. I’m forced to ask: U OK hun? | Marina Hyde
In his spat with Trump, the man who literally owns X has been hoist by his own platform. Guys, no one is safe!, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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June 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
💥 Reform UK says it's a £350m scandal.
🧐 It's actually… a spreadsheet.

Before you light the torches, maybe check what a framework is first?

The Bear explains their rookie error ⤵️
Exposed: Reform UK doesn’t know how government spending works
Reform UK just confused a procurement framework with a spending scandal – and revealed they don’t understand government
eastangliabylines.co.uk
June 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Literally pissing myself !!!
June 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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June 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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😂🫡
June 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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June 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Boss move for Ramaphosa would be to offer Musk political asylum.
June 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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It’s magic.. 😂
May 31, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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It doesn’t have to be like this – says a North East economist with ambitions to change the world
In Hexham, 70 gather to hear Maeve Cohen reimagine economics - where people, not profits, shape our future
@northeastbylines.co.uk

northeastbylines.co.uk/business/eco...
It doesn’t have to be like this – says a North East economist with ambitions to change the world
In Hexham, 70 gather to hear Maeve Cohen reimagine economics - where people, not profits, shape our future
northeastbylines.co.uk
May 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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The value of Simon Jenkins is that whatever topic he picks he is 100% certain to be wrong on.

Whether this is a service a newspaper should pay for is, however, questionable.
The top image:
The Guardian, July 2016
The article:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The bottom image:
The Guardian, May 2025
The article:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
May 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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And the winners of the Paul Foot Award for investigative and campaigning journalism 2025 are... Patrick Butler and Josh Halliday of The Guardian.

#PaulFootAward2025

www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-aw...
May 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Well deserved!
We're delighted to see Patrick Butler and @joshhalliday.bsky.social‬ honoured and recognised for the contribution these @theguardian.com journalists made to uncovering and sharing the Carer's Allowance scandal.

#paulfootawards #carersallowance #socialcare
Guardian’s Patrick Butler and Josh Halliday win Paul Foot award
May 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Patrick Butler and Josh Halliday of The Guardian have won the Paul Foot Award for their "enraging and heartbreaking" investigation into the carer's allowance scandal www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-aw...
The Paul Foot Award | Private Eye
The Paul Foot Award is an award given for investigative or campaigning journalism, set up in memory of revered journalist Paul Foot, who died in 2004.
www.private-eye.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Ouch!!

Robbie Williams: Radical Honesty review – ‘Tone deaf, self-important, incredibly bad art’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Robbie Williams: Radical Honesty review – ‘Tone deaf, self-important, incredibly bad art’
The former Take That singer’s show features line drawings filled with therapy speak, greeting-card banter and meaningless affirmations. Can this really be presented as art?
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Good to see Reform have no shortage of candidates in the local elections.
April 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
As much as I detest the US Oompaloompah,this article distills his approach down and identifies what he is all about.

Did Trump’s tariffs kill economic populism? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Did Trump’s tariffs kill economic populism?
Lasting damage has been done not only to Trump’s political credibility but to globalisation as a system
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
There’s a word to describe this man - and it rhymes with ‘hunt’

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Michael Gove gets peerage in Rishi Sunak's resignation honours list
The veteran former cabinet minister is among several Conservative figures to be given peerages.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Good morning, a trio of tulips basking in the sunshine ☀️

Have a good Friday 😊
April 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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April 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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April 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM