Yorkshire Paddy
@yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social
Ulster Rugby, Cycling
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If you’re tired of explaining yourself and the misreporting of the Peggie tribunal to your lazy and ignorant friends save your energy and send them this.
open.substack.com/pub/ajustsoc...
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When the Law Said No: How Gender Critical Arguments Failed in Court
A plain English guide to what the Peggie judgment actually decided
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If you’re tired of explaining yourself and the misreporting of the Peggie tribunal to your lazy and ignorant friends save your energy and send them this.
open.substack.com/pub/ajustsoc...
open.substack.com/pub/ajustsoc...
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Here is Pete Hegseth, on several occasions in 2016, lauding the military "ethos" that means they will refuse to follow unlawful orders - which he reckons is treason, now that they are his orders - because "there have to be consequences for abject war crimes".
Deserves to go viral.
Deserves to go viral.
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Here is Pete Hegseth, on several occasions in 2016, lauding the military "ethos" that means they will refuse to follow unlawful orders - which he reckons is treason, now that they are his orders - because "there have to be consequences for abject war crimes".
Deserves to go viral.
Deserves to go viral.
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This story more than any other disgusts me.
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground:
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This story more than any other disgusts me.
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
Yinka was a little 9 year old boy
Farage was a swaggering bully aged 17
We all knew those bullies at school and in this case teenager Farage was a racist bully too
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Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
December 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year
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Good to know that as an architect with a masters degree working in a practice that specialises social housing I’m considered a ‘taker’ because I don’t earn above £50k… but It’s ok, we don’t have a housing crisis or anything. Why do I bother paying so much £££ in visa fees to be treated like this.
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Good to know that as an architect with a masters degree working in a practice that specialises social housing I’m considered a ‘taker’ because I don’t earn above £50k… but It’s ok, we don’t have a housing crisis or anything. Why do I bother paying so much £££ in visa fees to be treated like this.
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Welcome to the second Origin Story episode of the week as @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social conclude the story of the New Left. Listen to Part Two: Children of the Revolution here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#originstory #thenewleft #Gramsci #politics #podcast #history
#originstory #thenewleft #Gramsci #politics #podcast #history
December 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Welcome to the second Origin Story episode of the week as @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social conclude the story of the New Left. Listen to Part Two: Children of the Revolution here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#originstory #thenewleft #Gramsci #politics #podcast #history
#originstory #thenewleft #Gramsci #politics #podcast #history
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All of this stuff is in the Crick biography and has been reported much longer than that. Farage's career should never have progressed out of the gutter
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
All of this stuff is in the Crick biography and has been reported much longer than that. Farage's career should never have progressed out of the gutter
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Hi @sturdyalex.bsky.social I just listened to the latest (excellent) Quiet Riot podcast and heard you pleading with the government to put down the Ming Vase. I wondered if you had seen this (also excellent) blog post?
@warringfictions.bsky.social
@quietriotpod.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/warr...
@warringfictions.bsky.social
@quietriotpod.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/warr...
1/ I have written a paper/ 4-part blog series called ‘Putting Down the Vase’. It is about populism, trust, and how Labour can stop Reform. The central argument is that, in a climate of low trust, risk-aversion at the centre must be overcome.
The full paper can be read here: shorturl.at/jJ8nu
The full paper can be read here: shorturl.at/jJ8nu
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Hi @sturdyalex.bsky.social I just listened to the latest (excellent) Quiet Riot podcast and heard you pleading with the government to put down the Ming Vase. I wondered if you had seen this (also excellent) blog post?
@warringfictions.bsky.social
@quietriotpod.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/warr...
@warringfictions.bsky.social
@quietriotpod.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/warr...
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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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Farage has now boycotted the BBC - THREE times - in a little over a year...
Including his latest today.
Why, therefore, is Zia Yusuf on ##bbcqt tonight?
Including his latest today.
Why, therefore, is Zia Yusuf on ##bbcqt tonight?
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Farage has now boycotted the BBC - THREE times - in a little over a year...
Including his latest today.
Why, therefore, is Zia Yusuf on ##bbcqt tonight?
Including his latest today.
Why, therefore, is Zia Yusuf on ##bbcqt tonight?
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Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
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Breaking: it turns out that I’ve been pronouncing “synecdoche” wrong for most of my adult life, or at least I would have done had I ever *said* it rather than merely thinking it – although to be honest I’ve rarely thought it either. Anyway, I would have got away with it but I thought I’d come clean
December 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Breaking: it turns out that I’ve been pronouncing “synecdoche” wrong for most of my adult life, or at least I would have done had I ever *said* it rather than merely thinking it – although to be honest I’ve rarely thought it either. Anyway, I would have got away with it but I thought I’d come clean
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It’s not. You can go on with your love affair. It’s what we say to small ones. 🥳🙋🏻♀️
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It’s not. You can go on with your love affair. It’s what we say to small ones. 🥳🙋🏻♀️
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Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?
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if you genuinely want to argue that the Equality Act, when introduced, intended to make unlawful an approach to trans inclusion that has existed *since the 1970s*, I absolutely cannot take you seriously
December 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
if you genuinely want to argue that the Equality Act, when introduced, intended to make unlawful an approach to trans inclusion that has existed *since the 1970s*, I absolutely cannot take you seriously
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Like, for example, what does the US Department of Defense use as a literal example of a "clearly illegal order?"
Why, it's firing upon shipwrecked sailors! JFC
Why, it's firing upon shipwrecked sailors! JFC
December 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Like, for example, what does the US Department of Defense use as a literal example of a "clearly illegal order?"
Why, it's firing upon shipwrecked sailors! JFC
Why, it's firing upon shipwrecked sailors! JFC
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Dems release a video reminding troops of their responsibility to disobey illegal orders.
They’re called seditionists.
WaPo breaks the news that Hegseth said to kill survivors of a boat strike.
WH: “It wasn’t him! It was Admiral Bradley!”
This is why you disobey illegal orders
They’re called seditionists.
WaPo breaks the news that Hegseth said to kill survivors of a boat strike.
WH: “It wasn’t him! It was Admiral Bradley!”
This is why you disobey illegal orders
December 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Dems release a video reminding troops of their responsibility to disobey illegal orders.
They’re called seditionists.
WaPo breaks the news that Hegseth said to kill survivors of a boat strike.
WH: “It wasn’t him! It was Admiral Bradley!”
This is why you disobey illegal orders
They’re called seditionists.
WaPo breaks the news that Hegseth said to kill survivors of a boat strike.
WH: “It wasn’t him! It was Admiral Bradley!”
This is why you disobey illegal orders
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I have not been informed or educated and I definitely haven't been entertained.
December 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I have not been informed or educated and I definitely haven't been entertained.
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As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this.
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this.
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
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Consistently, @quietriotpod.bsky.social is the best podcast in the known universe, but they've surpassed even those heights this week with an episode that features a cameo from Bertie, my plastic bottle collecting best friend. You can listen below 👇 and if it made you grin, please share it.
December 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Consistently, @quietriotpod.bsky.social is the best podcast in the known universe, but they've surpassed even those heights this week with an episode that features a cameo from Bertie, my plastic bottle collecting best friend. You can listen below 👇 and if it made you grin, please share it.
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Two more Conservative MP rejects hop over to Reform UK. Jonathan Gullis and Lia Nici.
More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise. ~AA
uk.news.yahoo.com/former-tory-...
More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise. ~AA
uk.news.yahoo.com/former-tory-...
Former Tory MP Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform UK
He joins Daniel Jellyman
uk.news.yahoo.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Two more Conservative MP rejects hop over to Reform UK. Jonathan Gullis and Lia Nici.
More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise. ~AA
uk.news.yahoo.com/former-tory-...
More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise. ~AA
uk.news.yahoo.com/former-tory-...
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In which Pakistan born Ben Habib supports some bigot who wants to ban people born in Pakistan from sitting in our parliament.
The increasingly ludicrous Ben Habib Is arguing that Lucy White's attack on Nus Ghani being an MP is not racist
Ben Habib is now ludicrously supporting a call to ban Ben Habib from parliament!
Ben Habib is now ludicrously supporting a call to ban Ben Habib from parliament!
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
In which Pakistan born Ben Habib supports some bigot who wants to ban people born in Pakistan from sitting in our parliament.