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David Kirk Beedon

@rev-doc.bsky.social

Retired Anglican priest and former prison chaplain. Post-doctoral theological researcher with an interdisciplinary interest in transformative penal pastoral practices.

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Straight out of the Trump playbook. Farage is a wannabe Donnie Orange.

28.02.2026 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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● Typical cost of a Business Class flight to Maldives is Β£3,100 - Β£3,200+ return

● 2 of those minimum so Β£6,400+

● Accommodation minimum of Β£250-Β£350 per night. Farage demands finer things in life though so can exceed Β£1,000

● Gross household average salary Gorton & Denton Β£653 per week

23.02.2026 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1167    πŸ” 514    πŸ’¬ 110    πŸ“Œ 20
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Sympathy from across the pond for all non-MAGA US folk. We too once had a clown in charge.

23.02.2026 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely love this track. For me, the best TH track amongst many fabulous recordings. Great video performance - DB is such a quirky and creative artist.

22.02.2026 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Turns out there’s an economic cost to everyone hating us.

20.02.2026 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 19396    πŸ” 6219    πŸ’¬ 1376    πŸ“Œ 540
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β€˜Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, β€˜If it can happen to me, i...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

21.02.2026 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2288    πŸ” 947    πŸ’¬ 130    πŸ“Œ 118
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Secret prison documents show government plan to tackle IPP scandal will fail Exclusive: Damning projections reveal the government’s action plan to progress IPP prisoners is a β€˜failure’, which will leave at least 500 prisoners languishing without release 18 years after the sent...

So, as predicted, the IPP action plan will fail and this cruel sentence’s injustices will continue. Shameful.

19.02.2026 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prison windows and X-ray scanners not being fixed amid drug crisis – watchdog Prison governors have reported not having enough money to fix broken security equipment.

"Crucial prison security systems are being left unrepaired for months if not years allowing illicit drugs to flood into jails..."

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/national-audit-office-nao-geoffrey-cliftonbrown-gareth-davies-prison-governors-association-b1269508.html

07.02.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œIt undermines their credibility to go to other countries and complain about arbitrary detention when they are arbitrarily detaining these people.”

Dr Muin Boase:

Takes complaint of the British gov’s detention of IPPs to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention #IPPScandal

03.02.2026 05:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Farage was wrong about Brexit 🚨

Starmer: β€œAs far as Nigel Farage is concerned, let us remind ourselves that he said if we left the EU it would be Β£350 million a week for the NHS - that didn’t happen."

https://www.itv.com/news/2026-02-01/starmer-nigel-farage-was-wrong-about-brexit

02.02.2026 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 632    πŸ” 182    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 5
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Five IPP prisoners to be referred to Court of Appeal New IPP sentences were scrapped in 2012, but remain in place for around 2,800 people.

Five men serving IPP sentences have been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, BBC Newsnight has been told.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89q3keee79o

31.01.2026 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜It’s not right that we continue subjecting them to preventable detention’

Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd and Andrea Coomber CE of the Howard League @thehowardleague speak to Trapped Ep 19: A Failed Experiment on the #IPPScandal.

πŸŽ§πŸ‘‡ Listen now

πŸ”— podfollow.com/1689277181

31.01.2026 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Contact Congress today!

The tide is turning. Which means now is the time to push harder than ever.

Tell your Representatives we want Noem GONE!
#ICEOffOurStreets

29.01.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 9559    πŸ” 2777    πŸ’¬ 458    πŸ“Œ 123
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β€˜Trump manufacturing a crisis to make Americans afraid to vote in the midterms’ | The News Agents Donald Trump lost the 2020 election – and has never let it go. This week, the FBI seized ballots from Georgia, a state he claims he won. Is his ego still bruised, or is this part of a far more…

Donald Trump has always claimed he won Georgia in the 2020 election - which he lost.

The FBI has now seized the ballots, and commissioner Mo Ivory says she has "no confidence" they won't be tampered with so Trump finally gets the result he wants

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/trum...

29.01.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

Paging @iaindale.bsky.social x

28.01.2026 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 750    πŸ” 229    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 4

Ground rent cap is good news (though peppercorn would be better straight away). Also welcome is promised abolition of new leasehold properties. Better still would be the outright abolition of leasehold altogether, a feudal anachronism virtually unique to England and Wales.

27.01.2026 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 806    πŸ” 145    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 16
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Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows Exclusive: Campaigners say β€˜menacing vehicles’ are putting children at risk owing to their large front blind zones

A country of small roads, limited parking and congestion charges. This makes no sense.πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

27.01.2026 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

soft power update

27.01.2026 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

An excellent, if disturbing, article on the moral and political corruption of a powerful element of US Christianity.

25.01.2026 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Death of Neoliberal Globalisation was Written into its DNA Liberals need to learn the right lessons from its collapse.

open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
The end of history ended at the start

24.01.2026 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Prisons are unlikely to improve until they are properly staffed and those in custody have decent time out of their cells every day with purposeful activity..."

A former governor writes to the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/19/the-inside-track-on-curbing-uk-prison-violence

25.01.2026 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Astonishing that, almost 14 years on from this failed judicial experiment being abolished, so many people are still greatly impacted by this cruel sentence. History will judge & future generations will be shocked at the callous indifference towards the IPP issue shown by many in authority.

24.01.2026 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Big backtrack from Trump tonight

24.01.2026 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 243    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 152    πŸ“Œ 37
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β€˜It’s a living nightmare’

#IPPScandal Campaigners Cherrie Nichol and Mandy Outlaw speak on Trapped Ep 22: Arbitrary Detention

πŸ”Ž Listen now on Acast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

πŸ”— podfollow.com/1689277181

23.01.2026 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Makes my flesh creep’: MPs across political spectrum condemn Trump’s claims about Nato troops – UK politics live Labour, Tory and Lib Dem MPs among those criticising US president over claim Nato troops stayed away from frontline in Afghanistan

β€˜Frankly Trump makes my flesh creep and my stomach turn. Where are his advisors? Where is his nurse? Where is his sense of shame?’ Great quote πŸ˜‚

23.01.2026 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The inside track on curbing UK prison violence | Letters Letters: Readers respond to an article by a former prison officer on how the system perpetuates violence and share their own stories

β€œuntil we build prisons around rehabilitation rather than simply containment…fund education & meaningful activity…staff prisons with properly trained officers who can actually see the people they’re responsible for – we are choosing to perpetuate…the violence and recidivism we claim to oppose”.

22.01.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures!

The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed.

Let’s keep going!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

22.01.2026 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 604    πŸ” 367    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 16
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🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is now closing on 77,000 signatures! Let’s get it to the 100,000 needed!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

21.01.2026 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 331    πŸ” 228    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 15
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β€˜Give them an end date’

Retired High Court Judge Sir John Saunders speaks on the #IPPScandal on β€˜Trapped: The IPP Prisoner Scandal’ Episode 21: Totalitarian State’.

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πŸ”— podfollow.com/1689277181

20.01.2026 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1