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Dominic Newbould
@ndominic.bsky.social
· Nov 23
While I wheel around in Bluesky, finding my feet (or wings), I’m going to post pictures and comments on my life in Hanoi…
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New Swingometer! The Gorton and Denton By-election: A tale of Two Manchesters
open.substack.com/pub/swingome...
open.substack.com/pub/swingome...
The Gorton and Denton by-election: a tale of two Manchesters?
Unpopular incumbent + fragmented opposition + unusual seat = unpredictable contest
open.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:21 PM
New Swingometer! The Gorton and Denton By-election: A tale of Two Manchesters
open.substack.com/pub/swingome...
open.substack.com/pub/swingome...
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January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
All those doom and gloom merchants should listen to this interview with Keir Starmer. He’s human, he’s normal, and he’s making progress…
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
Show 387. Keir Starmer - Live
Podcast Episode · Matt Forde's Political Party · 27/01/2026 · 1h 18m
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January 28, 2026 at 3:16 PM
All those doom and gloom merchants should listen to this interview with Keir Starmer. He’s human, he’s normal, and he’s making progress…
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
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44% of the population of Denton and Gorton are ethnic minority, the majority of them born in the UK.
Reform's candidate says those people aren't British and are liable for deportation.
It's a bold electoral strategy: vote for me and I'll throw you into the sea.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform's candidate says those people aren't British and are liable for deportation.
It's a bold electoral strategy: vote for me and I'll throw you into the sea.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform byelection candidate refuses to disown claim that people born in UK not necessarily British
Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, said UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:36 PM
44% of the population of Denton and Gorton are ethnic minority, the majority of them born in the UK.
Reform's candidate says those people aren't British and are liable for deportation.
It's a bold electoral strategy: vote for me and I'll throw you into the sea.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform's candidate says those people aren't British and are liable for deportation.
It's a bold electoral strategy: vote for me and I'll throw you into the sea.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Don’t always believe what The Man From the Beeb asserts about this Storm in a ☕️
Well said @sturdyalex.bsky.social
Well said @sturdyalex.bsky.social
Being blocked seems to me optimal for Burnham. He gets to "would have easily won" without actually having to contest the seat, establishes himself as the contender Starmer fears most and, if Labour lose, gets "Keir would rather hurt the party by losing a seat, than have a rival win it" as a bonus.
January 26, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Don’t always believe what The Man From the Beeb asserts about this Storm in a ☕️
Well said @sturdyalex.bsky.social
Well said @sturdyalex.bsky.social
Whatever you think of communism, the October Revolution was a momentous event that shook the world. It initiated a new era for mankind – of struggle for freedom, equality and social justice, especially the movement for national liberation in colonial countries around the world, including Vietnam🇻🇳
November 8, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Whatever you think of communism, the October Revolution was a momentous event that shook the world. It initiated a new era for mankind – of struggle for freedom, equality and social justice, especially the movement for national liberation in colonial countries around the world, including Vietnam🇻🇳
How close we come, in every UK election, to jettisoning our rights, privileges, and freedoms – which have taken so long to win in the first place…
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
How close we come, in every UK election, to jettisoning our rights, privileges, and freedoms – which have taken so long to win in the first place…
Trump is still preposterous. He is still callous. And he is just as vain and attention seeking as ever.
Above all, his version of how the world works is utterly wrong.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Above all, his version of how the world works is utterly wrong.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
To the vatniks, campists, fascists and self-described "pragmatists" saying "maybe Trump has got a point":
There is one nation and one nation alone that should decide the terms for peace in Ukraine.
Ukraine.
There is one nation and one nation alone that should decide the terms for peace in Ukraine.
Ukraine.
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Trump is still preposterous. He is still callous. And he is just as vain and attention seeking as ever.
Above all, his version of how the world works is utterly wrong.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Above all, his version of how the world works is utterly wrong.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Bleakly beautiful
December 14, 2024 at 5:42 AM
Bleakly beautiful
Always a sorrowful sight in Hanoi – a child’s solitary shoe…
December 14, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Always a sorrowful sight in Hanoi – a child’s solitary shoe…
Anthony Powell’s mesmerising series-saga, A Dance to the Music of Time is the English response to Proust.
As soon as I read the description of Widmerpool – “so wet you could shoot snipe off him”, I was hooked and netted.
Essential reading, too, if you want insights into the decline of empire
As soon as I read the description of Widmerpool – “so wet you could shoot snipe off him”, I was hooked and netted.
Essential reading, too, if you want insights into the decline of empire
December 14, 2024 at 3:39 AM
Anthony Powell’s mesmerising series-saga, A Dance to the Music of Time is the English response to Proust.
As soon as I read the description of Widmerpool – “so wet you could shoot snipe off him”, I was hooked and netted.
Essential reading, too, if you want insights into the decline of empire
As soon as I read the description of Widmerpool – “so wet you could shoot snipe off him”, I was hooked and netted.
Essential reading, too, if you want insights into the decline of empire
Would you like me to recommend more books?
I have many to choose from
☺️📚📚📚🥰
I have many to choose from
☺️📚📚📚🥰
December 13, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Would you like me to recommend more books?
I have many to choose from
☺️📚📚📚🥰
I have many to choose from
☺️📚📚📚🥰
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
BONUS BOOK 21 ☺️📚
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
BONUS BOOK 21 ☺️📚
December 13, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
BONUS BOOK 21 ☺️📚
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
BONUS BOOK 21 ☺️📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 20
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 20
December 11, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 20
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 19
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 19
December 11, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 19
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 19
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 18
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 18
December 10, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 18
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 18
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 17
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 17
December 9, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 17
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 17
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 16
A trilogy…
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 16
A trilogy…
December 9, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 16
A trilogy…
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 16
A trilogy…
December 9, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 15
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 15
December 8, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 15
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 15
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 14
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 14
December 8, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 14
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 14
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 13
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 13
December 8, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 13
One book per day for 20 days in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
DAY 13
Hundreds of public libraries have been closed. The cause? Tory austerity policies since 2010, which squeezed local council funding.
Turning the clock back 14 years is nigh on impossible…so what can be done?
We have food kitchens.
Maybe book kitchens are the only answer (but short term, I hope).
Turning the clock back 14 years is nigh on impossible…so what can be done?
We have food kitchens.
Maybe book kitchens are the only answer (but short term, I hope).
December 7, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Hundreds of public libraries have been closed. The cause? Tory austerity policies since 2010, which squeezed local council funding.
Turning the clock back 14 years is nigh on impossible…so what can be done?
We have food kitchens.
Maybe book kitchens are the only answer (but short term, I hope).
Turning the clock back 14 years is nigh on impossible…so what can be done?
We have food kitchens.
Maybe book kitchens are the only answer (but short term, I hope).