SL
@sanelynch.bsky.social
@claptoncfc.co.uk fan. Data Engineer. Antifascist. Joe Root appreciator. @utaw.tech member.
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Let's make @claptoncfc.co.uk's ground accessible to all! 🐕
We are fundraising £10,000 to create flat walkways and pitch perimeter fencing from recycled scaffolding.
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/10/24/h...
We are fundraising £10,000 to create flat walkways and pitch perimeter fencing from recycled scaffolding.
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/10/24/h...
October 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Let's make @claptoncfc.co.uk's ground accessible to all! 🐕
We are fundraising £10,000 to create flat walkways and pitch perimeter fencing from recycled scaffolding.
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/10/24/h...
We are fundraising £10,000 to create flat walkways and pitch perimeter fencing from recycled scaffolding.
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/10/24/h...
Why do Starmer and Reeves keep writing to each other when they live next door to each other?
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Why do Starmer and Reeves keep writing to each other when they live next door to each other?
Look at the size of this Tory
October 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Look at the size of this Tory
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FT mag piece from me: Spent a long time looking into the Britannia hotel chain, beneficiaries of a vast amount of taxpayer money via the asylum system
on.ft.com/47HEE46
on.ft.com/47HEE46
The crumbling seaside palaces at the centre of Britain’s asylum crisis
[FREE TO READ] How one hotelier built an empire from beloved community assets — and a government struggling to cope with a surge in migration
on.ft.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
FT mag piece from me: Spent a long time looking into the Britannia hotel chain, beneficiaries of a vast amount of taxpayer money via the asylum system
on.ft.com/47HEE46
on.ft.com/47HEE46
Having a sub fielder sub in as wicketkeeper is a bit against the spirit of having a sub fielder, especially when you have another keeper who opens that you're trying to protect.
July 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Having a sub fielder sub in as wicketkeeper is a bit against the spirit of having a sub fielder, especially when you have another keeper who opens that you're trying to protect.
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All nations & nationalisms are capable of wrong turns. But the sudden craze for Blood & Soil nationalism on the ultra-English right does seem quite a turn. One with huge consequences for the right & nature of politics. And in deliberate denial of what England & Englishness have been.
June 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
All nations & nationalisms are capable of wrong turns. But the sudden craze for Blood & Soil nationalism on the ultra-English right does seem quite a turn. One with huge consequences for the right & nature of politics. And in deliberate denial of what England & Englishness have been.
WHO REMEMBERS.... the Ukraine bounce
Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
May 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
WHO REMEMBERS.... the Ukraine bounce
This is a very good article by @jonathanliew.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
May 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This is a very good article by @jonathanliew.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
This is such an amazing album. Such a rich tapestry, it improves with every listen. Quite annoying it isn't on Spotify. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LJi...
Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee (2024) Full Album HQ
YouTube video by REALISTIK
www.youtube.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This is such an amazing album. Such a rich tapestry, it improves with every listen. Quite annoying it isn't on Spotify. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LJi...
Reeves enshrined in law that the OBR has a veto over government fiscal policy 9 months ago. Not serious people.
There’s one war No 10 is ready to fight: against the OBR, impact assessments, the civil service fast stream…
Starmer’s strategists now claim to want a government so small they can drown it in the bathtub
Column in today’s Times:
www.thetimes.com/article/4665...
Starmer’s strategists now claim to want a government so small they can drown it in the bathtub
Column in today’s Times:
www.thetimes.com/article/4665...
There’s one war Labour is ready to fight
Frustrated with its inability to push through reforms, Downing Street is gearing up for an assault on Whitehall’s powers
www.thetimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Reeves enshrined in law that the OBR has a veto over government fiscal policy 9 months ago. Not serious people.
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Tony is known and loved by many at CCFC.
Please email findtony970@gmail.com if you know anything about his whereabouts 🙏🏻
Please email findtony970@gmail.com if you know anything about his whereabouts 🙏🏻
We’re looking for our friend Tony.
Tony was last seen on March 10th, 2025 in Lower Clapton, Hackney (London).
A missing person report has been filed.
If you’re reading this, here’s how you can help:
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Tony was last seen on March 10th, 2025 in Lower Clapton, Hackney (London).
A missing person report has been filed.
If you’re reading this, here’s how you can help:
- Share this post
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March 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Tony is known and loved by many at CCFC.
Please email findtony970@gmail.com if you know anything about his whereabouts 🙏🏻
Please email findtony970@gmail.com if you know anything about his whereabouts 🙏🏻
Sir Kid Starver
Keir Starmer's Government's welfare cuts will push 250,000 more people into poverty, including 50,000 children, according to the DWP's own impact assessment
March 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Sir Kid Starver
One of the great literary segues here
March 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
One of the great literary segues here
This week in the UK's managed decline, ITV are just showing Sky's coverage of the League Cup Final, not even bothering to have their own commentary.
March 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This week in the UK's managed decline, ITV are just showing Sky's coverage of the League Cup Final, not even bothering to have their own commentary.
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Congratulations here to Wes Streeting for condensing the essence of the Westminster Monoparty into just 23 seconds. Outstanding work.
March 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Congratulations here to Wes Streeting for condensing the essence of the Westminster Monoparty into just 23 seconds. Outstanding work.
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For @londonermag.bsky.social weekend slot, I wrote about @claptoncfc.co.uk and how to foment revolutionary praxis at an east London, non-league football club. It's a great story, some of which is reported from Naples. www.the-londoner.co.uk/story-of-cla...
Seizing the means of promotion
How to mount a coup at a non-league, east London football club
www.the-londoner.co.uk
March 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
For @londonermag.bsky.social weekend slot, I wrote about @claptoncfc.co.uk and how to foment revolutionary praxis at an east London, non-league football club. It's a great story, some of which is reported from Naples. www.the-londoner.co.uk/story-of-cla...
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I wonder why this story received next to no media coverage.
UK: Last week, Cavan Medlock was found by a court to have prepared a terrorist attack at Duncan Lewis, an immigration law firm, after reading an attack article in the Daily Mail about their work representing refugees.
@freemovement.bsky.social
freemovement.org.uk/court-finds-...
@freemovement.bsky.social
freemovement.org.uk/court-finds-...
Court finds neo-Nazi planned terrorist attack at immigration law firm - Free Movement
Cavan Medlock has been found by a court to have prepared a terrorist attack at Duncan Lewis, an immigration law firm, after reading an attack article in the
freemovement.org.uk
January 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I wonder why this story received next to no media coverage.
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Job vacancy: Bar manager at the Old Spotted Dog Ground, Clapton CFC's home
www.oldspotted.dog/news/new-vac...
www.oldspotted.dog/news/new-vac...
New Vacancy: Bar Manager at Old Spotted Dog Ground - The Old Spotted Dog
Location: Old Spotted Dog Ground, Forest Gate, London E7Hours: 21 hours per weekSalary: £18 per hour Contract: Initially 12 monthsReporting to: Old Spotted Dog Ground Trust (Registered Charity) About ...
www.oldspotted.dog
January 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Job vacancy: Bar manager at the Old Spotted Dog Ground, Clapton CFC's home
www.oldspotted.dog/news/new-vac...
www.oldspotted.dog/news/new-vac...
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“It’s woke transport nonsense run amok.”
The Telegraph has asked its readers to complain about potholes, and it has produced the most Telegraph set of quotes ever generated.
The Telegraph has asked its readers to complain about potholes, and it has produced the most Telegraph set of quotes ever generated.
January 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“It’s woke transport nonsense run amok.”
The Telegraph has asked its readers to complain about potholes, and it has produced the most Telegraph set of quotes ever generated.
The Telegraph has asked its readers to complain about potholes, and it has produced the most Telegraph set of quotes ever generated.
Nail on the head
Starmer’s Labour as the apogee of “not a good look” thought
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
January 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Nail on the head
Having fun being back in Wigan so far.
December 12, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Having fun being back in Wigan so far.
Atkinson the executioner.
November 29, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Atkinson the executioner.
Had several Black Friday promotional emails from Stop The War Coalition bizarrely.
November 28, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Had several Black Friday promotional emails from Stop The War Coalition bizarrely.