A Northern Lad

Fixed the Question Time logo for them.

"They're only popular because they're on every TV programme" complaint from right wingers.

Media appearances per MP:

LibDems: 624
Reform: 70,732

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🚨 BREAKING: Nigel Farage has announced that Robert Jenrick will be Reform UK's Shadow Chancellor

Royal Mail isn't delivering letters to maximise profit.
English water is filled with sewage and is killing people.
UK Energy is the most expensive in the world.

All of these things are privatised and all of them are the worst ever.

And what the fuck would these ruthless criminals know about "sensitive nature"?

The left-over MAGAts prove themselves to be increasingly ignorant... such suckers and fools.

The US coup: one year on I re-publish my piece from a year ago. It's not yet over. But it's nearly there...

NEW: ‘It’s a coup’.

One year on from when DOGE entered the US treasury & Trump’s blitzkrieg on the rule of law began, I’ve republished an article I wrote then about what the headlines weren’t saying.

NB: They’re still not.
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Reform is soft on Russia. And it's stuff like this which explains why 👇🏻

Wythenshawe born journalist Chris Boffey dies. When you read obits like this you discover the talents in life. Chris clearly was someone who espoused proper journalism. Sorry for your loss of a friend @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

The sun is not far, just a warmth I cannot quite touch. These shimmering crystals hold the quiet memory of patience. Winter does not always freeze the body; sometimes, it awakens the deepest voice within. ✨

The sun is not far, just a warmth I cannot quite touch.
These shimmering crystals hold the quiet memory of patience.
Winter does not always freeze the body;
sometimes, it awakens the deepest voice within. ✨

#photography #photographie #photo #streetphoto #landscape #photographer #naturephotography

JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

Who was hoping for a very low bridge then?

I was in the House of Commons in early December when the Local Government Minister said they had no plans to cancel LEs. Then they did. And now they haven’t. More roundabouts in Labour than Milton Keynes.

Cost of living crisis laid bare as almost half of Britons ‘have £25 at end of week’ Exclusive: Majority of UK adults forced to make difficult choices, with almost two-thirds found to be cutting back on essentials like food and heating

Cost of living crisis laid bare as almost half of Britons ‘have under £25 left at end of week’.

Real average wage unchanged since 2008.

24m Britons live below minimum living standard.

Poverty doesn't provide economic growth, justice, social stability.

Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...

Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics

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Two weeks ago, Peter Mandelson told us he had no recollection of planning to buy a £2m apartment in Rio via a Panama holding company and a Brazilian company.

Yesterday we found notarised incorporation documents for the Brazilian company, with Mr Mandelson's signature.

What does this year hold for living standards?

Happily, we expect to see a welcome boost... but it will sadly be short-lived.

@louisemurphy.bsky.social explains 👇 buff.ly/siFTYAC

US Health Secretary RFJ Jr, "I'm not scared of a germ, I used to snort cocaine off of toiler seats"

(PSA: don't do drugs)

YouTube video by TheBeatles4EverHD The Beatles HD - Nowhere Man Live in Germany (Remastered)

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@dogsta.bsky.social - thanks for the follow and likes (always good to see a North Ender too!)

£1 for 18g of chocolate

For comparison the ingredients cost for this are 4.5p and the production cost is 5p.

So you are paying 10x what it cost them by the time it left the factory.

Tesco subsidised by the tax payer effectively. Paying a proportion of the real wage for Tesco employees?

Yesterday we had scumbag billionaire Jim Ratcliffe who has dodged £4bn in tax by immigrating to a tax haven, blame immigrants.

And an almost billionaire Tesco CEO on £10m who doesn't pay tax in the UK come out and say he can't afford to pay workers.

It's US v these scumbags.

Ineos in £18bn in debt. Hiding in Monaco protecting his assets from HMRC. Expects the public to fund a new MUFC statement. Making excuses not apologising.

State of affairs for the UK and the World. Statements by Starmer and Burnham have no teeth. All words and no action.

I hope not a single penny goes to Man United, Jim Ratcliffe or any other tax dodger hiding in Monaco. We need to stand up to racism and guttersnipes. They are not patriotic. No money for that new stadium.

So when Pam Bondi is asked why they don’t investigate the crimes in the Epstein files, she screams there is NO EVIDENCE THAT DONALD TRUMP COMMITTED A CRIME. You know what that means? She knows there IS evidence but won’t look for it. And folks, are hints about some of those kids getting murdered.

100% - Government, GM Mayor and FA and Premier League should double down on this. He’s ruined the club for MUFC supporters. Must be a miserable place.

Not one penny should be given to him or the club for their new stadium. To do so would endorse this racism.

Ratcliffe didn’t apologise tho. Not really.

Why are we cutting funding for research and academia when it's one of our best exports and stimulus for innovation, growth and development?

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#ResearchProfessional #Research #Academia #Funding