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Steve Ingamells
@steveingamells.bsky.social
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Allegedly human, occasionally grumpy, seasoned cynic.
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A new law could give millions of us better rights at work, but corporate lobbyists & politicians are trying to gut it. Tell the Government: protect workers, not profits!
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UK Government: Keep your promise to protect workers
Zero hours contracts, unfair ‘fire and rehire’, waiting months or even years to be able to access benefits – the world of work in our country is weighted against actual workers. It’s billionaire bosse...
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September 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.
English Roundabouts   They’re making the roundabouts great again by painting the flag of St George to keep our circular road systems safe from the dark, satanic hordes. What do they want? Patriotic junctions! When do they want them? Before it’s too late. Good old-fashioned English roundabouts, as decreed by Alfred the Great. Behold the sacred intersection, this blessed plot, this septic isle. English roundabouts for English people, draped in red and white and bile. St George is cross, as well he may be – whipped-up hate, he’s seen before. Give way to the right, the road signs rage, and the far right most of all. Brian Bilston
September 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Brilliant reporting by the galway advertiser. Absolutely perfect www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Visitors stage anti-migrant march in Galway
Galway city centre was especially busy last Saturday, with racegoers, summer tourists and the unusual addition of a march by far-right agitators, met by an anti-fascist counter demonstration, causing ...
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August 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Whenever I take my elderly mum to the supermarket, I make a point of always parking in one of the parent and child parking spaces. No one has ever dared challenge me.
June 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets

What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn

Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf
June 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.”
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
Decriminalise abortion and make it a protected human right.
Women’s rights are under threat from the far right. Nigel Farage just called our current abortion provisions “utterly ludicrous” – and others in power are paying attention. A vote in Parliament could ...
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June 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
May 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop employers covering up abuse
Hey! Do you remember the Harvey Weinstein case? Non Disclosure Agreements silenced victims of abuse - and it's not just happening in Hollywood. They're used in the UK to cover up all kinds of miscondu...
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April 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Day 59 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Someone's happy today
February 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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rentouljohn.bsky.social
From the podcast: how I would nix the Tories if I were Keir Starmer, by George Osborne
February 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan...

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The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan
To America where Elon Musk, the world’s most economically wealthy and spiritually impoverished man, is staging a coup.
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February 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ho...
Hold Fujitsu to account for Post Office scandal
The firm at the heart of the Post Office scandal continues to be handed numerous government contracts paid for by millions of taxpayers money despite its role in the Post Office Horizon Scandal. It’s ...
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February 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
I tried to write a love poem but stupidly left Autocorrect on. :-(
Love Poem, written in haste (with Autocorrect left on) O brave new worm that has you in it, my Darjeeling, my one true love – you make the Starbucks twinkle and shin down from the Sky Sports above. For your beautician is like no other - how it sets my heart on fir! You stir up my emoticons. You fill me with dessert. To gazebo upon your lovely Facebook, your petty mouse I’d love to kiss, your Bluetooth eyes like limpet pools – it makes me feel such blisters. Love is in the airing cupboard, it’s all a roundabout, it’s everywhere – so be Minecraft tonight, my angle, just say the wordle and I’ll be there. Brian Bilge Pump
January 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I just deactivated my account over on the nazi-saluting asshole's site. The logout webpage just kept reloading over and over again. Looked like a bit of a tantrum!
January 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Elon Musk: Butt out of UK politics
Elon Musk does not represent the views of British people. So I've signed the open letter telling him to butt out of UK politics. Agree? Sign & share it far & wide across social media so he sees & know...
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January 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are in a fox-height pit of snow, standing up to their eyes. Both of them are holding shovels. Green: You know what's my favourite thing about snow? Blue: What? The foxes begin to dig deeper into the hole, shoveling snow over their shoulders. Green: It's the only problem that will go away if you just ignore it for long enough. You can just shovel it all up in a pile somewhere, and wait. The foxes stop digging. The hole is now so deep that only the tips of their ears and shovels are showing. Blue: I think we have found the roof of my car. Green: Sweet.
January 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Why did they call it Big Pharma and not The Pilluminati
December 11, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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The only reason Nigel Farage has not yet jumped on the Elgin Marbles bandwagon is that he can’t quite bring himself to object to sending something foreign back where it came from.
December 3, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Today’s poem is called ‘How to Avoid Mixing Your Metaphors’.
How to Avoid Mixing Your Metaphors   It’s not rocket surgery. First, get all your ducks on the same page. After all, you can’t make an omelette without breaking stride.   Be sure to watch what you write with a fine-tuned comb. Check and re-check until the cows turn blue. It’s as easy as falling off a piece of cake.   Don’t worry about opening up a whole hill of beans: you can always burn that bridge when you come to it, if you follow where I’m coming from.   Concentrate! Keep your door closed and your enemies closer. Finally, don’t take the moral high horse: if the metaphor fits, walk a mile in it. Brian Bilston
December 2, 2024 at 9:07 AM
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The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books. (with apologies to @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social and @harkaway.bsky.social)
Title: The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - Available in all good bookshops. Description - December 1st to 23rd: open the door to watch Gerorge Smiley reluctantly uncover a conspiracy as he wanders around the damp, dilapidated London of the seventies. (images of six of the doors, showing a stick figure os Smiley going about his business in shades of browny-gray) December 24th: Having solved the mystery and written his resignation letter, Smiley eats Christmas dinner alone. (image of Smiley at a table with a letter, unappetising portion of food and glass of wine, in browny-gray)
November 30, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Today’s poem is called ‘Lines Written While Waiting for a Train at a Provincial Railway Station’.
Lines Written While Waiting for a Train at a Provincial Railway Station   If I could have my time over, I would do it all differently and not treat each precious moment with such disregard and flippancy.   I would use my time effectively, I would think ahead and plan. I would reserve my stores of energy, and take charge when I can.   But it’s too late in the journey for regret, too late to repent – because there’s not a plug socket in sight, and my battery’s on one per ce
November 28, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Today’s poem is called ‘She’d Dance’.
She’d Dance   She’d dance like no one was watching although she liked to think he was. The kitchen was her grand ballroom; her partner was a mop.   She’d foxtrot among the pots and pans, she’d paso doble to the sink, and as she swept across the floor, her mind danced, too. She’d think   of how he’d held her in his arms at the Locarno and the Ritz - whirling, waltzing, a world apart - in the years before the kids,   and longer still before the shadow the doctor spotted on his lungs. How dazzlingly they had danced! How dizzyingly she had spun!   Her neighbours saw her sometimes, shuffling bent-backed to the shops. But at home, she’d dance like no one was watching although she liked to think he was. Brian Bilston
November 21, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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The only plausible explanation.
November 20, 2024 at 1:24 AM