Mark Spell 🌈
@litespell.bsky.social
🌈 lgbt+, liberal, Irreligious, British, European, Human-Rights, anti-fascist, Kindness-Empathy-Equality
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The five departures mean Reform now has 23 seats on Cornwall council, having previously held 28, compared with the Liberal Democrats’ 26.
The Lib Dems now lead the coalition that runs the council
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The Lib Dems now lead the coalition that runs the council
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
When reality bites: the rapid rise and chaotic fall of Reform UK in Cornwall
Resignations, suspensions and infighting lead to party losing crown of highest number of seats in the county
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The five departures mean Reform now has 23 seats on Cornwall council, having previously held 28, compared with the Liberal Democrats’ 26.
The Lib Dems now lead the coalition that runs the council
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The Lib Dems now lead the coalition that runs the council
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Wow! Sharing! My kind of town!
The worlds first book town 📚
The town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales 🏴 completely dedicated to books and has 26 bookshops but only 2000 residents! That’s one bookshop per 77 people! #Travel #SaturdayVibes #saturdayfun
The town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales 🏴 completely dedicated to books and has 26 bookshops but only 2000 residents! That’s one bookshop per 77 people! #Travel #SaturdayVibes #saturdayfun
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Wow! Sharing! My kind of town!
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#Musk is possibly the 2nd most dangerous person in the world after Putin; possibly (after a 1 Trillion paycheck) the 2nd richest person in the world, after Putin; and possibly, the 2nd person in the world to own a country... after Putin
Elon Musk makes himself far-right fixture after White House departure
The Tesla CEO once hinted he was done with politics – but he’s been leaning further into the international far right
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 AM
#Musk is possibly the 2nd most dangerous person in the world after Putin; possibly (after a 1 Trillion paycheck) the 2nd richest person in the world, after Putin; and possibly, the 2nd person in the world to own a country... after Putin
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"It's almost as if X seeks to divide us, divide us as a country, divide us into the extremes and that is deeply unhealthy and wrong, frankly," Ed Davey said.
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
"It's almost as if X seeks to divide us, divide us as a country, divide us into the extremes and that is deeply unhealthy and wrong, frankly," Ed Davey said.
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Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments
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November 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This thick twat believes aliens are actually Demons 😕 This is the sort of christo-nationalist insanity that people in America vote for. And.. let's not forget the 'space lasers', fired by Bankers, that she says started california wild fires. 🤣😂
Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons
Georgia Republican lawmaker also claims she didn’t know Rothschild family, of her ‘space laser’ theory, was Jewish
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This thick twat believes aliens are actually Demons 😕 This is the sort of christo-nationalist insanity that people in America vote for. And.. let's not forget the 'space lasers', fired by Bankers, that she says started california wild fires. 🤣😂
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The voices of liberals have been ignored today because of the vague threat from transphobes. I joined a party that stands up for its lgbt members and I’m prepared to leave one that doesn’t. Where is your comment on this transphobic and totally arbitrary rule change today?
October 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The voices of liberals have been ignored today because of the vague threat from transphobes. I joined a party that stands up for its lgbt members and I’m prepared to leave one that doesn’t. Where is your comment on this transphobic and totally arbitrary rule change today?
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I’m an atheist.
I was taught responsibility, compassion and have a moral compass without belief in some all-powerful, all-knowing entity.
Knowing right from wrong and behaving humanely doesn’t take religion.
What the GOP and Administration are doing is overtly cruel and brutal. 😞
I was taught responsibility, compassion and have a moral compass without belief in some all-powerful, all-knowing entity.
Knowing right from wrong and behaving humanely doesn’t take religion.
What the GOP and Administration are doing is overtly cruel and brutal. 😞
November 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I’m an atheist.
I was taught responsibility, compassion and have a moral compass without belief in some all-powerful, all-knowing entity.
Knowing right from wrong and behaving humanely doesn’t take religion.
What the GOP and Administration are doing is overtly cruel and brutal. 😞
I was taught responsibility, compassion and have a moral compass without belief in some all-powerful, all-knowing entity.
Knowing right from wrong and behaving humanely doesn’t take religion.
What the GOP and Administration are doing is overtly cruel and brutal. 😞
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This pretty well sums up this racist “Smoke & Mirrors” political party….
November 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This pretty well sums up this racist “Smoke & Mirrors” political party….
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Oakeshott used to live in this street in Charlbury in the Cotswolds.
You couldn't get a more genteel place – a very long way from immigration or deprivation or anything else she'd object to.
You couldn't get a more genteel place – a very long way from immigration or deprivation or anything else she'd object to.
October 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Oakeshott used to live in this street in Charlbury in the Cotswolds.
You couldn't get a more genteel place – a very long way from immigration or deprivation or anything else she'd object to.
You couldn't get a more genteel place – a very long way from immigration or deprivation or anything else she'd object to.
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It's a vertical video so I'm not sure if Bsky will show it correctly. If not, check it out on Youtube: youtube.com/shorts/eEYsf...
#astronomy #astrophotography #space #timelapse
#astronomy #astrophotography #space #timelapse
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
It's a vertical video so I'm not sure if Bsky will show it correctly. If not, check it out on Youtube: youtube.com/shorts/eEYsf...
#astronomy #astrophotography #space #timelapse
#astronomy #astrophotography #space #timelapse
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These young, hot blue stars formed only about 100 million years ago. They are called The Pleiades! They are visible with the naked eye and are located around 440 light years away! #astronomy #universe #Astrophotography #star @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
These young, hot blue stars formed only about 100 million years ago. They are called The Pleiades! They are visible with the naked eye and are located around 440 light years away! #astronomy #universe #Astrophotography #star @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
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If they're going to break the manifesto they might as well do something useful and announce that the UK will be rejoining the EU ASAP.
Starmer's idiotic red lines painted Reeves into an annual £40bn black hole from the start.
They've admitted it now, so why not bite the bullet and correct it?
Starmer's idiotic red lines painted Reeves into an annual £40bn black hole from the start.
They've admitted it now, so why not bite the bullet and correct it?
There was a time Starmer/Reeves could made the argument to raise income taxes and VAT. There was even a moment they could have made the argument to break their manifesto pledge. It’s far too late. Now it would spell disaster for them and for politics. My latest👇
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Starmer and Reeves would destroy themselves with a manifesto break
There was a moment they could have broken their word. It's long gone.
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM
If they're going to break the manifesto they might as well do something useful and announce that the UK will be rejoining the EU ASAP.
Starmer's idiotic red lines painted Reeves into an annual £40bn black hole from the start.
They've admitted it now, so why not bite the bullet and correct it?
Starmer's idiotic red lines painted Reeves into an annual £40bn black hole from the start.
They've admitted it now, so why not bite the bullet and correct it?
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Please ignore the nonsense that comes out of Labour ministers who oppose the introduction of a four-day working week.
Trials have shown them to be remarkably successful. They boost both worker wellbeing and productivity.
I’m glad that the Lib Dems in local government are leading the way on this! 🔶
Trials have shown them to be remarkably successful. They boost both worker wellbeing and productivity.
I’m glad that the Lib Dems in local government are leading the way on this! 🔶
October 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Please ignore the nonsense that comes out of Labour ministers who oppose the introduction of a four-day working week.
Trials have shown them to be remarkably successful. They boost both worker wellbeing and productivity.
I’m glad that the Lib Dems in local government are leading the way on this! 🔶
Trials have shown them to be remarkably successful. They boost both worker wellbeing and productivity.
I’m glad that the Lib Dems in local government are leading the way on this! 🔶
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Looking like the election in the Netherlands has taken an interesting turn if the first exit poll is anything to go by.
The Far Right’s Geert Wilders has already conceded.
The Far Right’s Geert Wilders has already conceded.
Dutch centrist liberals under Jetten head for shock election win, exit poll says
Rob Jetten's D66 party celebrates, two years after his party languished in fifth place in the last vote.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Looking like the election in the Netherlands has taken an interesting turn if the first exit poll is anything to go by.
The Far Right’s Geert Wilders has already conceded.
The Far Right’s Geert Wilders has already conceded.
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Whether you’re a Tory, Lib Dem or Labour supporter you have to take your hat off to Michael Heseltine. A rare breed of politician and a man of integrity - a true servant. If only there were more like him today.
The Tory peer has said he wants to 'expose Farage and Reform for what they are'
October 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Whether you’re a Tory, Lib Dem or Labour supporter you have to take your hat off to Michael Heseltine. A rare breed of politician and a man of integrity - a true servant. If only there were more like him today.
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The only way to take note of anything Kruger has to say…
through the medium of @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
“He is presented…as a man with experience of govt. In reality he has none”
Exposing Reform’s racist, Trump-styled tyranny for the ruinous idiocy it really is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
through the medium of @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
“He is presented…as a man with experience of govt. In reality he has none”
Exposing Reform’s racist, Trump-styled tyranny for the ruinous idiocy it really is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform wheels out Danny Kruger, the ‘brains’ of Nigel Farage’s operation | John Crace
A man with no experience of government is to prepare the party … to govern. What could possibly go wrong?
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The only way to take note of anything Kruger has to say…
through the medium of @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
“He is presented…as a man with experience of govt. In reality he has none”
Exposing Reform’s racist, Trump-styled tyranny for the ruinous idiocy it really is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
through the medium of @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
“He is presented…as a man with experience of govt. In reality he has none”
Exposing Reform’s racist, Trump-styled tyranny for the ruinous idiocy it really is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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This is why the left can't have nice things. For ONCE can we please have a political figure who endorses radical wealth redistribution but doesn't have the old "West=Bad let's cut Putin some slack" mental affliction?
Green Party Leader Zack Polanski wants the UK to leave NATO.
This is a completely irresponsible position to take & would only strengthen Putin's hand in his illegal war against Ukraine.
#GreenParty
This is a completely irresponsible position to take & would only strengthen Putin's hand in his illegal war against Ukraine.
#GreenParty
October 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is why the left can't have nice things. For ONCE can we please have a political figure who endorses radical wealth redistribution but doesn't have the old "West=Bad let's cut Putin some slack" mental affliction?
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Are you a 🔶 @libdems.org.uk member? If so, you get a vote in the party's internal elections, but it's a long ballot. Our recommendations on how to vote are here - some excellent candidates standing. 👇
Candidates for 2025 Internal Elections
LGBT+ Lib Dems and allies standing in the triennial internal party elections
lgbt.libdems.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Been saying this for ages
Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle...
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
"On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.”
Absolutely. Please get on with it.
October 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Been saying this for ages
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Opinion | This is an industry of grievance and division, a machine designed to spread hate, which now operates across the British right – from respectable print outlets to wild-eyed online fascists. Don’t let them fool you
🖋️ @iandunt.bsky.social
Read more: trib.al/4B3mnUk
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Read more: trib.al/4B3mnUk
October 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Opinion | This is an industry of grievance and division, a machine designed to spread hate, which now operates across the British right – from respectable print outlets to wild-eyed online fascists. Don’t let them fool you
🖋️ @iandunt.bsky.social
Read more: trib.al/4B3mnUk
🖋️ @iandunt.bsky.social
Read more: trib.al/4B3mnUk