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Kary Backhouse

@karybackhouse.bsky.social

Owned and managed by a chocolate Labrador we can often be found out and about exploring our lovely corner of the NW. Since retiring I’m intent on travelling and seeing as many places as possible.

103 Followers  |  88 Following  |  3 Posts  |  Joined: 04.12.2024  |  1.8409

Latest posts by karybackhouse.bsky.social on Bluesky

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Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

This is a huge story.

Don't let him get away with it.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

05.09.2025 07:43 — 👍 4192    🔁 2355    💬 366    📌 173
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Canada is a country of the rule of law. Canada is a country of democracy. Canada will never kiss that gangster’s ring.

20.03.2025 18:44 — 👍 20728    🔁 4282    💬 436    📌 292

Sounds like a plan @patmillsuk.bsky.social 👏

18.03.2025 10:08 — 👍 684    🔁 189    💬 12    📌 3
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Outside the American Embassy in London....
London rocks......✊🏼

18.03.2025 12:14 — 👍 16846    🔁 3601    💬 360    📌 199
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Boycott Airbnb! They’re DOGE!

18.03.2025 12:25 — 👍 17641    🔁 8240    💬 700    📌 532
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Charlie Sykes

Siri: could you remind me what the seven deadly sins were?

19.03.2025 04:24 — 👍 106    🔁 42    💬 8    📌 0
🚨 No one should spend 12 yrs in jail for stealing a mobile phone! It’s unthinkable! #IPPscandal
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic 🚨 No one should spend 12 yrs in jail for stealing a mobile phone! It’s unthinkable! #IPPscandal

If you are not yet familiar with the shocking #IPPscandal, one of the most cruel & monumental injustices of the past half-century, please watch this update. Let’s not wait for the next ITV drama to end this injustice

youtu.be/nkBs2D0Wz_g?...

16.03.2025 08:21 — 👍 337    🔁 126    💬 8    📌 3
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No one ever said they were creative.

12.03.2025 19:30 — 👍 32738    🔁 12190    💬 884    📌 788

It’s interesting, please keep sharing.

12.03.2025 07:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This talented, brave young man has been fighting his corner for equal funding for deaf athletes for some years now. The Tory gov wouldn’t listen &, seemingly, neither will this one.
Their actions border on cruelty.
PLEASE could all you good people give him a follow. It would lift him enormously. 🙏🏻

09.03.2025 22:44 — 👍 195    🔁 90    💬 25    📌 1
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Don’t know what I said or did but I’ve just gathered a boatload of American followers.
My deepest sympathies for the state you presently find yourselves in.
If it helps, the antics of Tango and Cash affect us all… unfortunately.
Welcome to my corner of BlueSky. There are beers in the fridge. 👍

10.03.2025 17:19 — 👍 1000    🔁 63    💬 108    📌 7
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How Elon Musk Muscled His Way Into the FAA The billionaire overseeing a wide-ranging government efficiency effort is offering his own SpaceX technology as the future of flight-safety inside the Federal Aviation Administration

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... They’re not even hiding the corruption now - UK businesses need to be wary of doing business in the US now regulation and rule of law is being eroded

05.03.2025 16:06 — 👍 299    🔁 51    💬 6    📌 3
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'The United States is Your Enemy' A conversation about fascism as Europe faces the darkness in the west

NEW: "America is your enemy," I interviewed Jason Stanley for this week's newsletter & podcast. A Yale professor, who's a leading expert in fascism. We're normalizing what's happening & we urgently need to stop. Please read/listen/share. 🙏
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-united...

03.03.2025 08:06 — 👍 1792    🔁 772    💬 47    📌 46
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The pandering to Trump must end — it only encourages his tyranny Never again can we allow the bully in the White House to isolate one of our friends as he did Ukraine

“The pandering to Trump must end — it only encourages his tyranny” Wow - at last a Times columnist calls out Trump appeasement for what it is. Well done Matthew Syed

www.thetimes.com/article/5d18...

02.03.2025 06:41 — 👍 929    🔁 139    💬 22    📌 5
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I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

28.02.2025 19:00 — 👍 49227    🔁 10915    💬 1836    📌 659
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This is the only flag I’m flying today. For Janey. #Trumpisacunt Let’s make it trend.

20.01.2025 08:29 — 👍 15462    🔁 4057    💬 356    📌 247
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Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏

06.01.2025 13:48 — 👍 7708    🔁 2141    💬 216    📌 119
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So, you want to give ultimate judicial authority to simpletons like you and Farage?
Fuck you, I'll take my chances with people who aren't forced to resign within seven weeks of taking office.

05.01.2025 02:34 — 👍 1166    🔁 188    💬 67    📌 12
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people & institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job..I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning.. “Democracy dies in darkness” 👏
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

05.01.2025 06:52 — 👍 2002    🔁 566    💬 38    📌 10

Listening to Farage on Kuensberg and support his friend and the right to free speech on that other platform!
I’m so glad I’ve left.

05.01.2025 09:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
🚨 No one should spend 12 yrs in jail for stealing a mobile phone! It’s unthinkable! #IPPscandal
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic 🚨 No one should spend 12 yrs in jail for stealing a mobile phone! It’s unthinkable! #IPPscandal

Let’s make 2025 the year we finally end one of the most shocking, cruel & monumental injustices of the past half-century - the #IPPscandal

Lord Woodley’s Bill has passed its 2nd Reading. Will Keir Starmer give the Bill government time for a full & proper Committee Stage?

youtu.be/nkBs2D0Wz_g?...

23.12.2024 09:36 — 👍 739    🔁 265    💬 13    📌 8

Today’s long read, @grepsul’s brilliantly exposes how you’ve been had not once, not twice but repeatedly.

19.12.2024 16:26 — 👍 50    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 0
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I appear to have woken up in North Korea.

13.12.2024 23:02 — 👍 510    🔁 79    💬 35    📌 9
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Thames Water boss defends bonuses as sewage spills soar - BBC News The company saw a 40% increase in pollution incidents in the first half of the year as its debts continued to swell.

Levels of Thames Water’s sewage dumping has jumped 40% in just 6 months, bills expected to go up 59% next week and fat cat bosses share a £770,000 reward.

Now what was all that bullsh*t about banning bonuses. What else were you expecting?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

11.12.2024 08:51 — 👍 111    🔁 48    💬 3    📌 3
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This should worry us all. Reform UK's new Treasurer has revealed he spoke to Elon Musk this morning following suggestions the tech tycoon could make a multi-million-pound donation to Nigel Farage's party

10.12.2024 18:36 — 👍 653    🔁 239    💬 83    📌 20
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Meet Barney

05.12.2024 12:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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