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Andy E

@andyerak.bsky.social

Curmudgeonly europhile, copy-editor correcting AI's nonsense, anti-narcissist, grudging admirer of the Estonian success story. No DMs, ta.

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Listen to 'Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring', with Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Jukes, Sergei Cristo & special guests - The Citizens A thriller featuring Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Jukes and Sergei Cristo that exposes an alleged secret spy ring operating at the very heart of the British establishment. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Ama...

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social did the excellent the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg... podcast about Russian influence in British politics. I've not been able to finish it yet as it makes me incandescent with rage that a foreign power is basically able to operate openly like this

08.10.2025 08:13 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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On the anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street, let us remember that the Daily Mail was cheering on Fascists then and continues that proud tradition today.

04.10.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 513    πŸ” 204    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 6

Why don't people think hang on a mi ute Farage and co, you told us Brexit would mean we could control our borders, migrants wouldn't come, we would be rich with trade deals, money would flood in to the NHS. At the very best that clearly wasnt though through. At worse lies.

08.10.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"What has the ECHR ever done for us?" πŸ€”
[SOUND ON πŸ”Š]

07.06.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 441    πŸ” 263    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 28

I see that most of the "OMG Javier Milei has performed an economic miracle in Argentina OMG I Heart Maggie" crowd - predictably, since it did the same with Lis Truss - has switched to "tEh PrObLeM iS MiLEi wOz NoT fRee mArKet eNouGh".

How many times must these utter fools fail before they get it?

08.10.2025 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 755    πŸ” 145    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 4

@itvnews.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social ???

08.10.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Orban and Farage – Putin's pet toad with his pet frog.

Farage says they are fighting for the nation state. Indeed, they are, they are fighting for Russia.

07.10.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

A reminder that this week the Conservatives announced they want a β€œBritish ICE”

08.10.2025 05:39 β€” πŸ‘ 183    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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The Russian Federation attacked Chernihiv region again last night, there were wounded.

In Nizhyn, there was a hit on an energy facility, more than 4,500 people are without power. Ukrzaliznytsia reports delays, route changes, and cancellations of several trains on the Nizhyn direction.

08.10.2025 05:54 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone in the UK should be made to spend the day with an Asylum Seeker. Find out why they're here.

I've already done this. 'They' are not monsters. They're not here to rape your wife and kids.

It's something that only deeply racist morons can hold onto.

We need to enlighten the unenlightened.

07.10.2025 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Robert Jenrick holds up a judges wig like a puppet during his speech to the Conservative Party Conference.

Robert Jenrick holds up a judges wig like a puppet during his speech to the Conservative Party Conference.

We have an independent judiciary in this country. Robert Jenrick wants puppet judges.

The Conservative Party once believed in the rule of law and our shared British values - no longer.

07.10.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 784    πŸ” 233    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 23

He's repulsive, isn't he?
And what's with that veering between RP vowel sounds and flat ones?

07.10.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.

The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.

The Greens say enough is enough.

07.10.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1819    πŸ” 514    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 29

Jenrick has gone from forgettable nobody to frothing-BNP-styled dickhead. Why does this corrupt little man get to strut around the media blowing his racist dog-whistle?
He should be shamed and shunned out of political existence. We all despise the Tory party for a reason. He’s one of those reasons.

07.10.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 728    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 4

Surely Humanism demands respect for the victims on both sides. Hamas are barbarians. Netanyahu is a barbarian. Both of them glory in slaughter. The Hamas attacks were a hideous crime designed to provoke a response. But that response morphed into genocide. On both sides, the victims are the innocents

07.10.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

07.10.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3341    πŸ” 1823    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 79
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If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

07.10.2025 06:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1564    πŸ” 545    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 34
Vintage sepia-toned photograph of a woman wearing a bowler hat and a tailored coat, standing among leafy bushes.

Vintage sepia-toned photograph of a woman wearing a bowler hat and a tailored coat, standing among leafy bushes.

7 October 1889 | A Czech Jewish woman, Anna FreundovΓ‘, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 15 December 1943. She was registered in the family camp for Jews from #Theresienstadt. She did not survive.

06.10.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 375    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

Look at who wants us to leave the ECHR. If it’s right wing extremists you know that the majority of the people in this country won’t benefit.
Wake up for Christ’s sake and stop sleepwalking towards your own demise.

06.10.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 268    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3

So now, under British law, you can be prosecuted as a terrorist for peacefully disagreeing with Government legislation.

This is Keith Starmer's Britain, 2025.

06.10.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Nick Candy, the treasurer of reform, so someone who is really good with money and being responsible with it, has been conned and is seeking to get Β£145 million back

Nick Candy, the treasurer of reform, so someone who is really good with money and being responsible with it, has been conned and is seeking to get Β£145 million back

Rumours circulate that Reform Treasurer Nick Candy was heard to say

β€œI can’t believe it.. Igor the Nigerian Prince seemed so nice.. he called me his friend in his emails and specially chose me to help him get his money out of Nigeria with a short term loan from me!

Honestly I feel betrayed”!
πŸ˜‚πŸ€£

06.10.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

06.10.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2971    πŸ” 1306    πŸ’¬ 153    πŸ“Œ 85

Absolutely spot on!πŸ€”πŸ‘πŸ‘βœŠ
#LoveNotHateπŸ«ΆπŸ»πŸ•ŠοΈ

06.10.2025 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

People being carted off into police vans for carrying placards

The government has stoked up so much more trouble than it was trying to solve.

We used to be shocked when they did this in Russia?

See how authoritarianism can move so quickly.

Such a terrible move from this government.

#PA

04.10.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 184    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1

Leaving the ECHR would hand Putin a huge victory.

Those who advocate doing so are colluding with an enemy of our country.

They are traitors.

04.10.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2
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ICE agents dragged naked children out of homes in Chicago: Neighbors Two residents reported witnessing federal immigration agents forcibly removing unclothed children from apartments during the raid.

Source 5: www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-d...

04.10.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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How ICE is becoming a secret police force under the Trump administration The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement meets most criteria that have defined secret police forces in authoritarian regimes. And the worst may be yet to come.

Source 2: theconversation.com/how-ice-is-b...

04.10.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The mysterious disappearance of hundreds of immigrants detained at Alligator Alcatraz Lawyers and family members report that they have been unable to locate the inmates at the infamous Florida prison after they disappeared from the ICE database

Source 3: english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-...

04.10.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The case for calling Florida’s β€˜Alligator Alcatraz' a concentration camp This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

And for those who still do not understand what is happening in the US, please pay more attention. None of it is benign in any way and some of the greatest cheerleaders of it all are published regularly in The Telegraph, The Times and The Spectator.

Source 1: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

04.10.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

So last hurrah or not, this is what the leader of the Conservative Party is inspired by and proposes for the UK.

Together with the proposal to leave the ECHR, it is what the completely deranged normalisation of far right anti-immigration approaches has now led to in the UK.

04.10.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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