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@richs86.bsky.social
X refugee and occasional writer for East Anglia Bylines
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#BadenochBlueprint = Tory legacy code. Same inputs, same outputs, no version control. Stop deploying failed builds and pretending it’s innovation.
October 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#BadenochBlueprint = Tory legacy code. Same inputs, same outputs, no version control. Stop deploying failed builds and pretending it’s innovation.
All I've seen of the latest @thetrawl.bsky.social pod is the name, and I want to know who created Trussterfuck as I want to buy them a G&T
June 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
All I've seen of the latest @thetrawl.bsky.social pod is the name, and I want to know who created Trussterfuck as I want to buy them a G&T
The irony of Reform's DEI hire waning on about how DEI hires that don't exist are terrible, is palpable.
May 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The irony of Reform's DEI hire waning on about how DEI hires that don't exist are terrible, is palpable.
The really sad thing is that the mega minds at Labour HQ will see the answer as tacking further to the right.
May 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The really sad thing is that the mega minds at Labour HQ will see the answer as tacking further to the right.
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Invertebrates outnumber vertebrates 100 to 1.
From Wasp Spiders to Hornets, their wild dramas unfold in meadows near you, writes @vannabartlett.bsky.social
#EarthDay
From Wasp Spiders to Hornets, their wild dramas unfold in meadows near you, writes @vannabartlett.bsky.social
#EarthDay
Earth Day 2025: A love song to arthropods
Invertebrates outnumber vertebrates 100 to 1; from Wasp Spiders to Hornets, their wild dramas unfold in meadows near you
eastangliabylines.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Invertebrates outnumber vertebrates 100 to 1.
From Wasp Spiders to Hornets, their wild dramas unfold in meadows near you, writes @vannabartlett.bsky.social
#EarthDay
From Wasp Spiders to Hornets, their wild dramas unfold in meadows near you, writes @vannabartlett.bsky.social
#EarthDay
Soooooo, the pope died the day after meeting JD Vance.
PSA: The last time a prominent politician visited the head of a church and they died, 42 days later they were out of a job...
PSA: The last time a prominent politician visited the head of a church and they died, 42 days later they were out of a job...
April 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Soooooo, the pope died the day after meeting JD Vance.
PSA: The last time a prominent politician visited the head of a church and they died, 42 days later they were out of a job...
PSA: The last time a prominent politician visited the head of a church and they died, 42 days later they were out of a job...
Has anyone else started their week wondering:
What bandwagon is Farage going to jump on?
Which economy Trump will tank?
What market is going to crash?
Which country will be blamed for being invaded?
And how is Vance going to offend 1.4 billion people?
What bandwagon is Farage going to jump on?
Which economy Trump will tank?
What market is going to crash?
Which country will be blamed for being invaded?
And how is Vance going to offend 1.4 billion people?
April 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Has anyone else started their week wondering:
What bandwagon is Farage going to jump on?
Which economy Trump will tank?
What market is going to crash?
Which country will be blamed for being invaded?
And how is Vance going to offend 1.4 billion people?
What bandwagon is Farage going to jump on?
Which economy Trump will tank?
What market is going to crash?
Which country will be blamed for being invaded?
And how is Vance going to offend 1.4 billion people?
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Pecksniff is a worthy read this week. Excellent stuff.
Also, the Stacey Richards piece on 'The lost art of protest' is stirring stuff.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
Also, the Stacey Richards piece on 'The lost art of protest' is stirring stuff.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
Pecksniff: And the winner is… Ed Davey (or should be)
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
eastangliabylines.co.uk
April 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Pecksniff is a worthy read this week. Excellent stuff.
Also, the Stacey Richards piece on 'The lost art of protest' is stirring stuff.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
Also, the Stacey Richards piece on 'The lost art of protest' is stirring stuff.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
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A fraud team with uniforms, badges – and a striking resemblance to police.
We investigated and published the story.
Now, following public scrutiny, the council has quietly scaled it back.
J.J. Jackson reports
#TruthToPower
We investigated and published the story.
Now, following public scrutiny, the council has quietly scaled it back.
J.J. Jackson reports
#TruthToPower
How East Anglia Bylines exposed a council’s impersonation of police and triggered change
East Anglia Bylines exposed a local council fraud unit using police-style uniforms – prompting shutdowns and reforms
eastangliabylines.co.uk
April 16, 2025 at 6:06 AM
A fraud team with uniforms, badges – and a striking resemblance to police.
We investigated and published the story.
Now, following public scrutiny, the council has quietly scaled it back.
J.J. Jackson reports
#TruthToPower
We investigated and published the story.
Now, following public scrutiny, the council has quietly scaled it back.
J.J. Jackson reports
#TruthToPower
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Britain told a generation that protest was pointless, disruptive, even un-British.
Now, facing broken systems and a burning planet, that generation is starting to raise its voice.
Stacey Richards reports.
Now, facing broken systems and a burning planet, that generation is starting to raise its voice.
Stacey Richards reports.
Apathy or alienation? Finding the lost art of protest
Protest has fallen out of favour but the young are finding new ways to express their demands
eastangliabylines.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Britain told a generation that protest was pointless, disruptive, even un-British.
Now, facing broken systems and a burning planet, that generation is starting to raise its voice.
Stacey Richards reports.
Now, facing broken systems and a burning planet, that generation is starting to raise its voice.
Stacey Richards reports.
Wonderful to see the wheels coming off privatisation. It's like everything Thatcher did was shit.
April 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Wonderful to see the wheels coming off privatisation. It's like everything Thatcher did was shit.
Or, people like me could be taxed a penny in the pound more and it'll raise 6 billion a year....
March 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Or, people like me could be taxed a penny in the pound more and it'll raise 6 billion a year....
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Reform UK Ltd
Reform UK Ltd
March 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Reform UK Ltd
Reform UK Ltd
Remember when the right wing rags were lamenting the tragedy of the government not using Nigel Farage and his influence to engage Trump?
LOOOOOOOOOOOOL
LOOOOOOOOOOOOL
March 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Remember when the right wing rags were lamenting the tragedy of the government not using Nigel Farage and his influence to engage Trump?
LOOOOOOOOOOOOL
LOOOOOOOOOOOOL
On the plus side, Trump has managed to unite the UK in a way nobody has since 2016
March 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
On the plus side, Trump has managed to unite the UK in a way nobody has since 2016
Ah
BREAKING: A mass resignation rebellion has erupted at DOGE. Over 20 employees, including engineers, data scientists, and product managers, have asserted they refuse to use their expert technical skills to “dismantle critical public services.”
“We swore to serve the American people and uphold…
“We swore to serve the American people and uphold…
February 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Ah
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Truth isn’t what it used to be. Facts are under attack. But this isn’t new - it’s a playbook perfected by Big Tobacco and weaponised by the far right. How do you fight back when reality itself is being rewritten? New EAB writer Guy Chapman reports.
The new war on reality: how ‘truth’ became a weapon
Why does it feel as if our shared reality is under assault – twisted by propaganda, ideology and manufactured doubt?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Truth isn’t what it used to be. Facts are under attack. But this isn’t new - it’s a playbook perfected by Big Tobacco and weaponised by the far right. How do you fight back when reality itself is being rewritten? New EAB writer Guy Chapman reports.
He's in brackets. Lol.
February 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
He's in brackets. Lol.
Definitely wasn't a Nazi salute....
Musk today at an AfD rally: “The German people are really an ancient nation which goes back thousand of years… It's good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything” www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Elon Musk appears on video at German far right campaign event
Elon Musk made a surprise appearance during Germany's AfD (Alternative fuer Deutschland) election campaign event in Halle in eastern Germany on Saturday, speaking publicly in support of the far right party for the second time in as many weeks.
www.reuters.com
January 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Definitely wasn't a Nazi salute....
Watching the 'We want lower taxes' crowd complain that underfunded institutions failed to act on Axel Rudakubana is truly something else. Starve the system, then blame it when it collapses—chef's kiss hypocrisy
January 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Watching the 'We want lower taxes' crowd complain that underfunded institutions failed to act on Axel Rudakubana is truly something else. Starve the system, then blame it when it collapses—chef's kiss hypocrisy
Pub landlords and staff have always been able to and already are 'banning' certain topics of conversation if it offends staff. Why is it an issue now?
January 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Pub landlords and staff have always been able to and already are 'banning' certain topics of conversation if it offends staff. Why is it an issue now?
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This Bill is an important piece of legislation, addressing real and urgent issues. Conservative attempts to derail it were clearly political
Report by Stacey Richards
Report by Stacey Richards
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: progress or political posturing?
This Bill is an important piece of legislation, addressing real and urgent issues. Conservative attempts to derail it were clearly political
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This Bill is an important piece of legislation, addressing real and urgent issues. Conservative attempts to derail it were clearly political
Report by Stacey Richards
Report by Stacey Richards
I'm so invested in this....
I just asked my pharmacist if my ear was a bit blocked and he had a look and SCREAMED and told me to go to A&E immediately so off I go, gang!
January 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I'm so invested in this....
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In the light of recent debate on the issue, @peterthurlow.bsky.social exposes how child sex abuse is falsely racialised by politicians while the crimes of powerful elites remain ignored.
Child sex abuse? Forget Pakistanis, it’s a tax dodger’s crime
A former media minder for child abuse survivors takes a long, hard look at the people who mistreated them
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
In the light of recent debate on the issue, @peterthurlow.bsky.social exposes how child sex abuse is falsely racialised by politicians while the crimes of powerful elites remain ignored.