@heystayhumbleyeah.bsky.social
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A lot of Paddies I know in the UK (this one included) are listening to this sort of thing and wondering about our status in Britain
Which would have *huge* implications for N Ireland if ever it with became a political football
Which would have *huge* implications for N Ireland if ever it with became a political football
Lam hears "settled status" and "guaranteed by withdrawal treaty" as up for grabs:understood to be temporary "provisional arrangements" which can be transitional and unsettled if and when you want to
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
October 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A lot of Paddies I know in the UK (this one included) are listening to this sort of thing and wondering about our status in Britain
Which would have *huge* implications for N Ireland if ever it with became a political football
Which would have *huge* implications for N Ireland if ever it with became a political football
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Would *really* recommend listening to New York Times' Jane Bradley talking about Farage and US, and Russian influence, on Democracy for Sale this week
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5p0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5p0...
October 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Would *really* recommend listening to New York Times' Jane Bradley talking about Farage and US, and Russian influence, on Democracy for Sale this week
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5p0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5p0...
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⚽ Next Men's First Team match ⚽
CCFC bidding for a fifth win in a row against tough opponents.
📍 Parsloes Park, Dagenham
🚇 Becontree
🎟️ £7 | Seniors £3 | Kids £3
☕ Cafe
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/10/15/m...
CCFC bidding for a fifth win in a row against tough opponents.
📍 Parsloes Park, Dagenham
🚇 Becontree
🎟️ £7 | Seniors £3 | Kids £3
☕ Cafe
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/10/15/m...
October 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
⚽ Next Men's First Team match ⚽
CCFC bidding for a fifth win in a row against tough opponents.
📍 Parsloes Park, Dagenham
🚇 Becontree
🎟️ £7 | Seniors £3 | Kids £3
☕ Cafe
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/10/15/m...
CCFC bidding for a fifth win in a row against tough opponents.
📍 Parsloes Park, Dagenham
🚇 Becontree
🎟️ £7 | Seniors £3 | Kids £3
☕ Cafe
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/10/15/m...
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I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.
www.londoncentric.media
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
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Meanwhile, one of the people spied on is taking legal action to try to force the inquiry to let him give evidence. Dave Smith is the pre-eminent authority on how construction firms illegally kept thousands of people out of work with the help of #spycops.
www.hazards.org/blacklistblo...
www.hazards.org/blacklistblo...
Spycops inquiry chair faces legal challenge by blacklisted union activist
Legal papers applying for a Judicial Review have been submitted against the chair of the undercover policing inquiry by blacklisted union activist Dave Smith. The application, to be decided on by a…
www.hazards.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Meanwhile, one of the people spied on is taking legal action to try to force the inquiry to let him give evidence. Dave Smith is the pre-eminent authority on how construction firms illegally kept thousands of people out of work with the help of #spycops.
www.hazards.org/blacklistblo...
www.hazards.org/blacklistblo...
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Former #spycops boss takes legal action to avoid the public inquiry. Officer HN86 ran the secret unit when it spied on numerous racial justice campaigns including that of Stephen Lawrence's family, & faces allegations of making extremely racist statements.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Ex-officer accused of racism takes legal action to avoid facing spycops inquiry
Whistleblower testified that man known as HN86 gathered information to undermine Lawrence family campaign
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Former #spycops boss takes legal action to avoid the public inquiry. Officer HN86 ran the secret unit when it spied on numerous racial justice campaigns including that of Stephen Lawrence's family, & faces allegations of making extremely racist statements.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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From End Deportations Belfast:
'Those [2300 hate crime] incidents should be treated as a road map for the Department of Justice to take action according to its legal obligations: countering extremism, tackling hate speech and incitement, preventing terrorism ... It simply decided to look away.'
'Those [2300 hate crime] incidents should be treated as a road map for the Department of Justice to take action according to its legal obligations: countering extremism, tackling hate speech and incitement, preventing terrorism ... It simply decided to look away.'
Laws, what laws? The myth of justice in the north of Ireland: 2300 hate crimes and counting.
This week, the Belfast Telegraph reports a staggering 2,300 hate crimes reported to the PSNI over the last year. Inaction from the Executive showcases a pattern of shoulder-shrugging the dire conse…
enddeportationsbelfast.wordpress.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
From End Deportations Belfast:
'Those [2300 hate crime] incidents should be treated as a road map for the Department of Justice to take action according to its legal obligations: countering extremism, tackling hate speech and incitement, preventing terrorism ... It simply decided to look away.'
'Those [2300 hate crime] incidents should be treated as a road map for the Department of Justice to take action according to its legal obligations: countering extremism, tackling hate speech and incitement, preventing terrorism ... It simply decided to look away.'
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🔥 The days of bailiffs & debt collectors sitting around at conferences, enjoying a buffet, & discussing how to line their pockets at our expense are over.
You turn up at our door, we’ll turn up at yours.
🔗 Join the fight for a Bailiff Free Britain: acorntheunion.org.uk/bailiffs/
You turn up at our door, we’ll turn up at yours.
🔗 Join the fight for a Bailiff Free Britain: acorntheunion.org.uk/bailiffs/
October 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
🔥 The days of bailiffs & debt collectors sitting around at conferences, enjoying a buffet, & discussing how to line their pockets at our expense are over.
You turn up at our door, we’ll turn up at yours.
🔗 Join the fight for a Bailiff Free Britain: acorntheunion.org.uk/bailiffs/
You turn up at our door, we’ll turn up at yours.
🔗 Join the fight for a Bailiff Free Britain: acorntheunion.org.uk/bailiffs/
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How a Democracy for Sale story about US Christian Right funding prompted a @nytimes.com investigation into the links between Nigel Farage, Reform UK and the Alliance Defending Freedom.
So good to speak to the peerless Jane Bradley:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...
So good to speak to the peerless Jane Bradley:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage and the foreign influence threat
How US anti-abortionists are supporting Reform, and why we need to talk about Russian influence, with the New York Times’ Jane Bradley.
democracyforsale.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
How a Democracy for Sale story about US Christian Right funding prompted a @nytimes.com investigation into the links between Nigel Farage, Reform UK and the Alliance Defending Freedom.
So good to speak to the peerless Jane Bradley:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...
So good to speak to the peerless Jane Bradley:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...
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According to one of our crew involved in preparing it, today's opening statements by Netpol co-founder Newham Monitoring Project is a damning condemnation of police racism and the Inquiry's abject failure to understand it
The Undercover Policing Inquiry returns today, 13th Oct 10am, starting with 3 days of opening statements, online only. This will be 3rd Tranche of hearings, which will look at deployments of Special Demonstration Squad officers from 1993 until that unit was closed in 2007 youtube.com/@undercoverp...
Undercover Policing Inquiry
The Official YouTube account of the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Please email info@ucpi.org.uk to contact the Inquiry.
youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
According to one of our crew involved in preparing it, today's opening statements by Netpol co-founder Newham Monitoring Project is a damning condemnation of police racism and the Inquiry's abject failure to understand it
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Uefa is bending over so far backwards to accommodate MCOs that it is now in a position to break the world limbo dancing record.
MCOs along with private equity ownership are the two factors that most threaten the future of club football.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
MCOs along with private equity ownership are the two factors that most threaten the future of club football.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Uefa plans to relax multiclub ownership declaration rules after Crystal Palace furore
Uefa is planning to give clubs more time to resolve potential multiclub ownership issues next season
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Uefa is bending over so far backwards to accommodate MCOs that it is now in a position to break the world limbo dancing record.
MCOs along with private equity ownership are the two factors that most threaten the future of club football.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
MCOs along with private equity ownership are the two factors that most threaten the future of club football.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Dear UK Government: Unfreeze housing benefit to lift 200,000 adults and children out of poverty and prevent homelessness.
We and 40+ organisations have come together to call on the Chancellor to boost housing benefit in the November Budget. bit.ly/3IVkFoy
We and 40+ organisations have come together to call on the Chancellor to boost housing benefit in the November Budget. bit.ly/3IVkFoy
October 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Dear UK Government: Unfreeze housing benefit to lift 200,000 adults and children out of poverty and prevent homelessness.
We and 40+ organisations have come together to call on the Chancellor to boost housing benefit in the November Budget. bit.ly/3IVkFoy
We and 40+ organisations have come together to call on the Chancellor to boost housing benefit in the November Budget. bit.ly/3IVkFoy
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It's Renters' Rights Awareness Week! Every day we have a webinar, covering topics like upcoming changes to evictions, disrepair, deposits and even how you claim back rent.
We're also running a prize draw to win some amazing books about housing - don't miss out! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rentersrig...
We're also running a prize draw to win some amazing books about housing - don't miss out! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rentersrig...
Help us fight for a better deal for renters
When you're a renter, knowledge is power. We're giving away the latest books about housing to promote and fund our renters rights webinars
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It's Renters' Rights Awareness Week! Every day we have a webinar, covering topics like upcoming changes to evictions, disrepair, deposits and even how you claim back rent.
We're also running a prize draw to win some amazing books about housing - don't miss out! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rentersrig...
We're also running a prize draw to win some amazing books about housing - don't miss out! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rentersrig...
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As the latest hearings of the Uninquisitive Publicity Campaign for Secret Policing (@ucpinquiry) get underway, a reminder that it wasn’t just #spycops targeting activists and campaigners. Police employed informers - including this paedophile:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists
Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
As the latest hearings of the Uninquisitive Publicity Campaign for Secret Policing (@ucpinquiry) get underway, a reminder that it wasn’t just #spycops targeting activists and campaigners. Police employed informers - including this paedophile:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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⚽ Next Men's First Team match ⚽
First game at the OSD for a month vs @hoddesdontownfc.bsky.social
📍 @oldspotteddog.bsky.social, E7 9NP
🚇 Forest Gate, Wanstead Park + 5 other stations nearby
🎟️ £5 | pay what you can concessions | free U13s
🍻 Bar, Caribbean food
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/10/08/m...
First game at the OSD for a month vs @hoddesdontownfc.bsky.social
📍 @oldspotteddog.bsky.social, E7 9NP
🚇 Forest Gate, Wanstead Park + 5 other stations nearby
🎟️ £5 | pay what you can concessions | free U13s
🍻 Bar, Caribbean food
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/10/08/m...
October 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
⚽ Next Men's First Team match ⚽
First game at the OSD for a month vs @hoddesdontownfc.bsky.social
📍 @oldspotteddog.bsky.social, E7 9NP
🚇 Forest Gate, Wanstead Park + 5 other stations nearby
🎟️ £5 | pay what you can concessions | free U13s
🍻 Bar, Caribbean food
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/10/08/m...
First game at the OSD for a month vs @hoddesdontownfc.bsky.social
📍 @oldspotteddog.bsky.social, E7 9NP
🚇 Forest Gate, Wanstead Park + 5 other stations nearby
🎟️ £5 | pay what you can concessions | free U13s
🍻 Bar, Caribbean food
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/10/08/m...