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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 3d

I don't need a poppy, Flag or 'royal' for me to respect those that gave everything in past wars.
We are the only European country that obsessively looks back to past wars and we were not occupied.
Can we please look to the future a bit more.

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Prince George joins the King and Princess of Wales at Festival of Remembrance

The event took place at the Royal Albert Hall

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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 4d

Possum looked into the mirror and scared itself.

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 5d

For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.

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Emma Wilkinson @emmajourno.bsky.social · 5d

This investigation from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social is absolutely staggering. It is very common in Sheffield (I live in this bit) to have a leasehold, often with hundreds of years left on and pennies in ground rent. This is extortion pure and simple. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived

Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says

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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 9d

Surely the way to deal with people like Matt Goodwin is to declare them not British.And when they say that actually they were born here just tell them that sorry it takes more than a piece of paper.

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · 11d

🙏 Big big thank you to everyone who bought a copy of my book about WW2 London Blitz ambulance driver and diarist June Spencer. This morning I sent all the revenue from sales in Sept and Oct to medical charities working in Gaza and Ukraine

Book cover for Under Fire: the Blitz diaries of a volunteer ambulance driver showing a young woman in civil defence uniform (great coat and hat), with the rubble from a destroyed building behind her and a map of streets in Chelsea, London

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 13d

Translated from the Express: "Our remaining readers must be given special treatment in the budget, while all non-OAP welfare should be cut."

Express front page tomorrow: "OAPs must be given a "fair deal" in budget"

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pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social · 14d

#OnThisDay in London riotous history, 1795: king George III attacked by angry crowds protesting war against France and poverty, and demanding political reform
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Today in London riotous history, 1795: king George III attacked by angry crowds.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 21d

This is my feeling too.

John Lewis @lewisdb.bsky.social · 21d

I'll never be able to vote for a party that doesn't want the UK in NATO and I'm not alone. By a long way.

The Greens have work to do.

I love what I'm hearing but this is a non negotiable for me and millions like me.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 22d

One of the first things I remembered.59 years ago

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you. Its a good question,, I don't have an immediate answer. Its a subject that I might go back to

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 23d

211 years ago
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Killed by beer – the Meux brewery flood of 1814

At about 5.30 pm on Monday October 17th 1814, a clerk inspected the huge vat of Porter- a strong black beer- at Meux’s Brewery, near the Tottenham Court Road in London. A large iron hoop supporting…

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Sun-headed Deity of Tamgaly @oscarfranklin.bsky.social · 26d

The Cabernet in the coal mine.

Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 26d

A good year for English wine is a demonstration of climate crisis.

#r4today

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 26d

My new local

LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 28d

Pub Research Trip - A wander around Market Harborough, Friday 17.10.
All welcome, meeting in the Cherry Tree around 1200.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · Oct 13

Margaret Thatcher is *not* 100 today.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · Oct 13

Dead people cannot be congratulated on their birthday.

Does that make me a bad person?

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · Oct 8

If you are happy with these British citizens displaying their flag ( its not the wrong way round- hold on there, keyboard pedants-its meant to be viewed from outside) then I agree with you.
If you like flags normally but can't be doing with this, then you a bigot or racist.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · Oct 8

I voted for Lucy Powell in the end. Starmer needs to feel less rather than more comfortable.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · Oct 8

What's going wrong with Lewis Goodall?

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Steve Pickthall @stevepickthall.bsky.social · Oct 8

Badenoch’s speech is nothing but handouts for people who have plenty.

They haven’t reflected on defeat at all.

Same old Tories.

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · Oct 7

They told the public that “wasteful bureaucrats” were the problem, that “efficiency” was the cure, and that Farage-style common sense would restore pride and solvency. They sold a dream of managerial populism, ruthless, dynamic, patriotic, and now face the dull reality.. Read More 👇

Refuk in Kent County Council: Shop Window of Delusion

Local Refuk

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · Oct 7

I don't think Robert Jenrick realises that the people clapping along to him when he talks about Handsworth would clap along if he said the same about Stamford Hill. I'd hope that would give him pause for thought.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · Oct 6

Just like Kent.. a county I am moving from next week to... Leicestershire

Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · Oct 6

Reform council leader: Whatever they charge, it will be a hundred times to the benefit of the authority.

Liberal England replies: That gurgling sound you can hear is public money disappearing down the drain.

Reform In Leicestershire still think they can find millions of pounds of wasteful council spending

Around the country, councils run by Reform UK are beginning to come to terms with the fact that there is little wasteful spending left to cu...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · Oct 6

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · Oct 6

It doesn't matter what Mel Stride says

I canvassed the streets of Ramsgate and Broadstairs for a year before the election in order to say this with confidence.