DI Woodentop
@pcavfc.bsky.social
A serving police officer, passionate about policing, politics and where they overlap.
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Interesting background on Paul Doyle, who drove his car into the Liverpool parade www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Interesting background on Paul Doyle, who drove his car into the Liverpool parade www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
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For all the talk of Andrew Tate and Adolescence, I wrote about the more dangerous phenomenon we’re all choosing to ignore: the radicalisation of middle aged men
For the @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...
For the @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...
December 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
For all the talk of Andrew Tate and Adolescence, I wrote about the more dangerous phenomenon we’re all choosing to ignore: the radicalisation of middle aged men
For the @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...
For the @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...
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Today is a good day to be a Labour member.
Labour can be proud of the strategy it has announced today. Now they must get on to deliver it. To realise the potential of all children. @emmaburnell.bsky.social on the government's Child Poverty Strategy
‘The Child Poverty Strategy shows why a Labour government matters’ – LabourList
This is an adapted version of my analysis from the LabourList email this morning. To receive our email every weekday morning please subscribe here. Yesterday I…
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December 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Today is a good day to be a Labour member.
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Finally someone says it.
Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat"
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
"Today we have 46,000 a year"
"And do you know why?"
"Brexit"
"Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage"
*audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
December 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Finally someone says it.
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Shame Jonathan Gullis joined Reform. He had a bright future in standing next to a pub fruit machine telling you what buttons to press.
December 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Shame Jonathan Gullis joined Reform. He had a bright future in standing next to a pub fruit machine telling you what buttons to press.
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Wow.
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
September 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Wow.
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Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1
September 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1
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Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
September 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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I’ll repeat: we currently have 7,448 life prisoners. That’s all the prisoners still alive who have ever been given a life sentence.
Farage’s “policy” is to almost double that number inside 12 months. And then, inevitably, double it again. And again.
I repeat: at what cost?
Farage’s “policy” is to almost double that number inside 12 months. And then, inevitably, double it again. And again.
I repeat: at what cost?
July 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I’ll repeat: we currently have 7,448 life prisoners. That’s all the prisoners still alive who have ever been given a life sentence.
Farage’s “policy” is to almost double that number inside 12 months. And then, inevitably, double it again. And again.
I repeat: at what cost?
Farage’s “policy” is to almost double that number inside 12 months. And then, inevitably, double it again. And again.
I repeat: at what cost?
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Perhaps we need an intermediate form of proscribing for organisations that have no intention of abiding by the law, with lesser sanctions, to deal with non-terrorist dickheads. I'm open to that. But no one gets a free pass for serious illegality just because they think their cause is just.
3/3
3/3
July 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Perhaps we need an intermediate form of proscribing for organisations that have no intention of abiding by the law, with lesser sanctions, to deal with non-terrorist dickheads. I'm open to that. But no one gets a free pass for serious illegality just because they think their cause is just.
3/3
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I know they call themselves Christian, but they obviously are not based on their actions!
July 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I know they call themselves Christian, but they obviously are not based on their actions!
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Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics.
This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.
This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.
June 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics.
This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.
This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.
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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉
June 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉
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Strange how all the people over here who were enthusiastic about Musk and DOGE now all seem to have other things they want to talk about.
"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.
prospect.org
May 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Strange how all the people over here who were enthusiastic about Musk and DOGE now all seem to have other things they want to talk about.
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I think about this comic at least once a week
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I think about this comic at least once a week
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In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.
April 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.
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By @mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social - not the only people linking the ancient to the current... A x
March 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
By @mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social - not the only people linking the ancient to the current... A x
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Inauguration Day.
January 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Inauguration Day.
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This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often
December 10, 2024 at 12:57 PM
This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often
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Actionable notes.
December 11, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Actionable notes.
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🚨 MAJOR NEW POLL: Keir Starmer has a mandate to be bolder on Europe. Our new poll with @yougov.co.uk proves it.
*Twice as many* voters think the Prime Minister should prioritise trade with the EU over trade with the USA. 🧵 1/
*Twice as many* voters think the Prime Minister should prioritise trade with the EU over trade with the USA. 🧵 1/
New poll: Europe is public’s priority in face of Trump tariffs
As the UK faces new trade tariffs from President-elect Trump and prepares for the review of the Brexit deal, an important new poll shows twice as many voters think the UK should prioritise increasing…
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December 6, 2024 at 7:22 AM
🚨 MAJOR NEW POLL: Keir Starmer has a mandate to be bolder on Europe. Our new poll with @yougov.co.uk proves it.
*Twice as many* voters think the Prime Minister should prioritise trade with the EU over trade with the USA. 🧵 1/
*Twice as many* voters think the Prime Minister should prioritise trade with the EU over trade with the USA. 🧵 1/