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punkacademic
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Jonathan Hall, it should also be noted, gave a significant speech at Policy Exchange months before the proscription where he raised the prospect of increasing the police and security service's role in counter-subversion.

He also said this ⬇️
Excerpt from Jonathan Hall's speech at Policy Exchange, which reads as follows: "If I was a foreign intelligence officer, of course I would ensure that the UK hated itself and its history," he says in the speech. "That the very definition of woman should be put into question, and that masculinity would be presented as toxic. "That white people should be ashamed and non-white people aggrieved. I would promote antisemitism within politics. "My intention would be to cause both immediate and long-term damage to the national security of the UK by exploiting the freedom and openness of the UK by providing funds, exploiting social media, and entryism." Pro-Russia groups find ideological affinity with "lone actors" by posing as "protectors of Christian civilisation" and position Russia as a "true defender of crumbling Western civilisation," he says.
September 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I love cats. I love our cat specifically, but also cats in general. The evil, cynical, adorable, little furbeasts.
Smudge the tabby cat getting chin rubs.
September 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Sky have already got me...
Mike looking his usual self at the Everton match
August 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Weirdly emotional about the first 'proper' game tomorrow. I am a proper Goodison holdout though. Bringing a bit of the old Everton to the new tomorrow.
Commemorative Everton shirt for the 1985 European Cup Winners Cup win in Rotterdam. Blue EFC badge on a yellow background
August 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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She promptly went to sleep on my gut. So that was nice.

Smudge does what she wants.
Smudge, a tabby cat that does whats he wants, getting a stroke.
August 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Anyway, to everyone who's able to go this weekend, hope you have a great day and #UTFT
punkacademic in a wheelchair with Everton shorts having just played basketball
August 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Just because.
Chloe Kelly in her Everton days.
July 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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How she feels right now must be how utopia is
Smudge, a very beautiful tabby cat, is blissed out by chin rubs
July 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Monbiot today: 'No one can be trusted with power. Any government will oppress its people if not constantly and inventively challenged. And the task becomes ever more urgent as new technologies of surveillance and control are developed.'

Proudhon, 1851:
Extract from Proudhon's General Revolution in the Nineteenth Century which reads: 'To be governed is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so…. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.'
July 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Silent assassin imho.
Smudge the tabby cat looking like she is innocently asleep but secretly preparing to feast on my remains. Or not.
July 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Smudge has only appeared once on BlueSky. Thus this is her second appearance.
A particularly content and sleepy tabby cat with front paws crossed and eyes closed lying on a duvet dreaming of foods
March 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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The pitch and players at Goodison Park after Everton's equaliser in the last-ever Merseyside derby to be played there.
February 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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She always makes me happy, even when things are really bad. Though she was in a mood at this point :)
A tabby cat sat on an armchair, staring at the camera
January 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Could be missing something here, but Labour weren't in power in 1955. In fact, they weren't in power from the 1951 defeat until 1964. So why pick 1955?
Text from a Sky News story saying "Household disposable income, or living standards, will be the worst under any Labour government since 1955 when inflation is factored in, the Resolution Foundation said."
October 31, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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Lovely weekend in the lakes
September 18, 2023 at 6:37 PM