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@stja.bsky.social

Solo parent of young daughter trying to make sense of UK after 15 years living and working in Hanoi. For the many (and #NUFC) Works Newcastle, lives Hexham. "...we leave here as fucking legends." - Bruno Guimarães, 2025. Geordies are black and white.

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The point is they are considered the left by the right.

05.02.2026 15:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The actual left still does.

05.02.2026 12:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes, we got that.

05.02.2026 12:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sure. But if your historical premise is built around some level of equality then you dishonestly profiteering is big news.

But Farage or Trump chasing money by whatever means is just another day.

05.02.2026 09:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I also think there's an element of Labour being abhorrent is news while the right behaving the same is business as usual.

The left is held to higher standards because they have principles.

05.02.2026 08:11 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

If Starmer & McSweeney finally go over the revelations in the Mandelson files

Their toxic immigration plans must go with them.

NO MORE politicians in the pockets of the seedy rich blaming the outcomes of their greed & corruption on immigrants!

05.02.2026 07:58 — 👍 443    🔁 123    💬 12    📌 3

If it wasn't for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

#nufc

04.02.2026 20:10 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We're 90 minutes away from Pep putting his arm around Lewis Hall as he leaves the pitch. #nufc

04.02.2026 20:08 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Huge gaps in a Man City crowd that will most likely get to celebrate reaching a final.

Success is wasted on the successful.

#nufc

04.02.2026 20:04 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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a man is drawing a triangle on a chalkboard with the word jaws on the bottom ALT: a man is drawing a triangle on a chalkboard with the word jaws on the bottom

Jamie Fucking Carragher.

#nufc

04.02.2026 20:00 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.

Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

03.02.2026 14:39 — 👍 8402    🔁 2915    💬 163    📌 145

Love the Civic Centre. Was lucky enough to work there in the press office for a year. Really enjoyed the work.

04.02.2026 10:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Billionaire’s Surrender Bezos is not trying to save The Washington Post. He’s trying to survive Donald Trump.

An ex-Washington Post staffer has said owner Jeff Bezos is trying to survive the Trump era over saving the paper. "I don’t think the layoffs have much to do with saving money," he said, adding that Amazon spent $75m promoting Melania Trump's documentary glennkessler.substack.com/p/a-billiona...

04.02.2026 09:15 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Farage rejects Polanskis request for tv debate as Gorton byelection heats up

Farage rejects Polanskis request for tv debate as Gorton byelection heats up

Gorton & Denton is between the Green Party and Reform.

And Farage knows his candidate is weak as.

Hannah Spencer for the win.

03.02.2026 20:59 — 👍 2353    🔁 638    💬 153    📌 51
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We are now facing the largest measles outbreak since the disease was eliminated from the United States over a quarter-century ago.

The science is clear: vaccines are the best way to protect against measles. The NIH Director admits it. Why won’t RFK, Jr.?

03.02.2026 21:03 — 👍 2372    🔁 602    💬 80    📌 28

Imagine monetising a death this horrific. Imagine her family seeing it. A decade on.

03.02.2026 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is bonkers. Mandelson - while he was a British Cabinet Minister - used by Epstein to lobby the US Government on behalf of JPMorgan.

03.02.2026 13:30 — 👍 176    🔁 61    💬 10    📌 3

Watch this.

03.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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The UK is a rich country built on mass poverty Record levels of very deep poverty expose the true cost of austerity, inflation and the concentration of power at the top.

Politicians tell us they can fix poverty with economic growth, or labour market reforms, or easy money.

But all of these fixes just obscure the fact that the poverty of those at the bottom is a direct consequence of the wealth of those at the top. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-uk-is-...

03.02.2026 10:53 — 👍 124    🔁 48    💬 2    📌 3

More growth is always the answer to "we're not sharing".

03.02.2026 13:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If "the Green Party has become a dustbin of climate activists, leftists leaving the Labour Party, and pro-Palestine protestors", COUNT ME IN.

That's much better than the CESSPOOL in which this ghoul has been swimming.

He names these groups as is those are bad people to be.

Unlike his pal Epstein.

03.02.2026 03:16 — 👍 253    🔁 63    💬 4    📌 2

It's advertising but it's also an SEO thing. The longer you read the more Google values it.

They want you to spend time finding what you need to know.

It's inverting the classic journalism pyramid where you put the input info as high up as possible.

03.02.2026 09:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mandelson’s Fifth Column The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.”
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

03.02.2026 07:32 — 👍 1999    🔁 929    💬 55    📌 93

The problem is now the fact that it's not local is in the 25th paragraph and the aim is to make you read it thinking it is local.

03.02.2026 07:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Having to continue existing in a system so you can pay bills & feed your kids while knowing that the same system is burning your kids future & further enriching the most depraved psychopaths who have ever lived.

Sounds like a recipe for global mental health collapse.

02.02.2026 22:42 — 👍 55    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 2

Yes.

Starmer serving Mandelson and New Labour.

New Labour and Mandelson serving the billionaires.

02.02.2026 22:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This bastion of moral virtue has opinions about the Green Party.

Just remember that as they continue to attack us.

This is who they are. Mask is off.

02.02.2026 21:56 — 👍 1329    🔁 362    💬 133    📌 58

Lets also talk about Nigel Farage appearing in the Epstein Files 43 times, lets do that too.

02.02.2026 15:58 — 👍 274    🔁 80    💬 4    📌 2
Instagram images. 3 of them videos of Zack.

Instagram images. 3 of them videos of Zack.

Questions about Mandelson, his heinous crimes and how much Starmer knew.

Dan Norris, elected as Lab MP, arrested - 2 counts of rape.

Tulip Siddiq sentenced to 4 years.

I wonder why Labour have made 3 attack videos about me in the last 24 hours?

They're done. Finished. Toast.

02.02.2026 21:12 — 👍 911    🔁 245    💬 45    📌 18
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I really can’t keep up with this. It’s like every vague suspicion of oligarch, finance and tech power come together - with Russian influence.

Yes, you’re not imagining. Only Mandelson, Lebedev, Milner and Epstein and L’Affaire Russe

02.02.2026 11:18 — 👍 414    🔁 213    💬 25    📌 17

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