Paul Fletcher
@paulfletcher.bsky.social
Working hard to get the Tories out, especially in Hexham. Now all four Northumberland constituencies have Labour MPs we just need to deal with the county council...
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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This is what you get when you vote Reform UK in to councils…
Reform councillors in Kent condemned for spending thousands on political assistants
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#ReformHypocrisy
Reform councillors in Kent condemned for spending thousands on political assistants
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#ReformHypocrisy
Reform councillors in Kent condemned for spending thousands on political assistants
Party that pledged to cut waste and save money faces criticism after pushing through vote to employ advisers
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
This is what you get when you vote Reform UK in to councils…
Reform councillors in Kent condemned for spending thousands on political assistants
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#ReformHypocrisy
Reform councillors in Kent condemned for spending thousands on political assistants
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#ReformHypocrisy
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NEW: Labour just announced the biggest change in planning policy in 80 years.
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
Labour are finally taking the housing shortage seriously
Is the new National Planning Policy Framework Labour’s biggest pro-growth move?
www.samdumitriu.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
NEW: Labour just announced the biggest change in planning policy in 80 years.
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
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🚨NEW - My latest piece for The New Yorker.
Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim
A New Yorker Profile
mrhenrymorris.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🚨NEW - My latest piece for The New Yorker.
Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage: Canterbury Pilgrim
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...
Great concert last weekend. Free to watch online. theglasshouseicm.org/whats-on/moz...
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 | The Glasshouse
theglasshouseicm.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Great concert last weekend. Free to watch online. theglasshouseicm.org/whats-on/moz...
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If I have to be next to the thing in order to use it, making it wireless and controlled by an app is not in fact what I want.
October 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
If I have to be next to the thing in order to use it, making it wireless and controlled by an app is not in fact what I want.
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Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com
Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election
Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...
www.desmog.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com
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Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
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Would be nice to send this article to all the generals and admirals gathering at Quantico next week to hear from Pete Hegseth….
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
www.chosun.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Would be nice to send this article to all the generals and admirals gathering at Quantico next week to hear from Pete Hegseth….
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
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The house is brimful of Americans with varying degrees of disagreeableness.
September 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The house is brimful of Americans with varying degrees of disagreeableness.
Morning
September 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Morning
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26th August 2025 07.06
August 26, 2025 at 6:11 AM
26th August 2025 07.06
I have a previous @marcuschown.bsky.social book be good to increase my collection. I suppose I could just buy it.
Did you know? If the Sun were crushed down to make a black hole, it would be only 6 kilometres across. Each week for 5 weeks I’m giving away a signed copy of my pbk A CRACK IN EVERYTHING to a randomly chosen UK person re-posting this (3 of 5) blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... @headofzeus.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I have a previous @marcuschown.bsky.social book be good to increase my collection. I suppose I could just buy it.
@lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social please note Helen121 knows she has been hacked and has changed passwords, please unblock her she misses you already
July 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
@lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social please note Helen121 knows she has been hacked and has changed passwords, please unblock her she misses you already
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
I've just done this
June 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I've just done this
Well it was pretty obvious that Musk's main aim would be to steal as much data as possible but it doesn't make it any less scary.
HOLY SHIT. You need to read this in its entirety. Way too much to even begin to summarize but it's really, REALLY bad. It's just one agency, NLRB, but it's likely happening at others. We are under attack, seemingly from the inside. What's happening here should put folks in prison
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Well it was pretty obvious that Musk's main aim would be to steal as much data as possible but it doesn't make it any less scary.
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8th April 2025 06.23
April 8, 2025 at 5:29 AM
8th April 2025 06.23
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Hundreds rallied against the fascism of the Trump regime and its authoritarian allies in Trafalgar Square #handsoff #indivisiblelondon #handsofflondon #handsoff !
April 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Hundreds rallied against the fascism of the Trump regime and its authoritarian allies in Trafalgar Square #handsoff #indivisiblelondon #handsofflondon #handsoff !
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Quick reminder: Le Pen wasn't found guilty because the French courts hate democracy. She was found guilty because she broke the fucking law.
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April 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Quick reminder: Le Pen wasn't found guilty because the French courts hate democracy. She was found guilty because she broke the fucking law.
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This. But also, even left leaning publications use framing that supports the far right narrative. Why is the headline in the Guardian "election ban" instead of "criminals and fraudsters are not allowed public office"?
there's apparently now a view in every right-leaning British publication that nothing ought to be done about the far right, ever - they should be able to say whatever they want and do whatever they want, yet remain untouchable, and it's becoming increasingly hard not to parse it as outright support
April 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This. But also, even left leaning publications use framing that supports the far right narrative. Why is the headline in the Guardian "election ban" instead of "criminals and fraudsters are not allowed public office"?
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WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.
The results tell us a lot!
Extracts below... 🧵
The results tell us a lot!
Extracts below... 🧵
April 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.
The results tell us a lot!
Extracts below... 🧵
The results tell us a lot!
Extracts below... 🧵
J'aime La France
March 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
J'aime La France
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Spotted in a Brooklyn doorway by a friend this afternoon.
Epic.
Epic.
March 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Spotted in a Brooklyn doorway by a friend this afternoon.
Epic.
Epic.