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Sean Madden

@seanmadd.bsky.social

PhD Candidate at Birmingham Law School. PGTA. TWAIL, Postcolonialism, Human Rights, Climate Change, and Global Agribusiness. Warwick LLM. Eco-Socialist. Vegan🌱. Books, music, travel, AVFC. He/him.

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This club, man. Unreal.

#AVFC

06.12.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

*average use

04.12.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When energy companies can legitimately 'smooth' your monthly bills to the extent you're required to pay double your monthly average, there's no way nationalisation can be more expensive for the taxpayer.

04.12.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So obviously not a corner that Brighton were guaranteed to score.

03.12.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The fact that anyone who was part of that Tory government feels confident to speak out on economic issues, and can do so without being laughed out of the Serious Journalism room, is largely what's wrong with the British political system.

03.12.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To be fair, I'm not sure that guy was a great bellwether...

01.12.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Loads of people who've run the country into the ground over the last decade and a half, and loads of others who've just made money from it. Truly anti-establishment.

01.12.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We've just had a decade of ideologically motivated, unnecessary austerity that's only served to destroy the social fabric while enriching the wealthiest, followed by Boris Johnson.

Any moralising on Rachel Reeves' motivations by either the Tories or the press rings, at best, pretty hollow.

01.12.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The biggest impediment to emergency vehicles is the endless proliferation of private cars, not the mechanisms designed to ameliorate this.

01.12.2025 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A controversial opinion in the UK: having a standard emails job then sitting in a house you bought for a song and watching it rise exponentially in value due to political choices that have nothing to do with you is not it fact β€œworking very hard to get what you have”

29.11.2025 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 766    πŸ” 127    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 5

Wonder if she had an issue with a PM born in New York.

28.11.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The super-rich doubled their wealth in the wake of the crash and subsequent austerity, so it makes absolute sense that they bear the burden of redressing that balance and rebuilding public services.

The problem is Reeves' budget doesn't do that, and won't win over the right-wing press regardless.

28.11.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*Kemi reading the bible*

"suffer little children"

well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it

28.11.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 607    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2

If you're gonna constantly platform billionaires with vested interests on shows like Question Time, it's surely only fair to, at some point, give panel space to the people on minimum wage creating their profits.

27.11.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It should be obvious, but every tax change has winners and losers, including some cases on the edge that appear to be anomalous. The idea of a perfect and perfectly fair tax is impossible. The question is whether and if so how you treat those who lose (and to a lesser extent those who win). 1/3

27.11.2025 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Did I just see Manuel Neuer walk past the living room window?

26.11.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fortunately, as he's on his phone while idling on the pavement he didn't notice you.

26.11.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But in condemning racism he might.

26.11.2025 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hence "even if..."

25.11.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’―

25.11.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Even if he wanted to, Farage couldn't condemn racism without a lot of his base considering it 'woke'.

25.11.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

After today's Sunday Mirror exposΓ© about Ryan Bridge, Simon Murphy is unsurprisingly being attacked by Raise the Colours who accuse him of "talking shi*t about our movement". Thank you to Simon for exposing these people for who they really are.

23.11.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And then for Nmecha to be inactive despite being on Emi and then scoring the goal? Smacks of home pressure.

23.11.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We're missing Onana and haven't shown up yet but, christ, the fact your arm can apparently play someone on is absurd.

23.11.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The only positive from that half is it's only 1-0 despite Villa still being asleep.

23.11.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Green Climate Fund needed $100bil pa in '09, and at COP30, $120bil for adaptation and mitigation by '35 is supposed to be a success?

A deal that appeases petrostates and omits fossils is beyond worthless - without even thinking about agribusiness. Another wasted year and we've run out of years.

22.11.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The intellectualisation of people like Kruger is infuriating. This interview repeatedly shows his views are inconsistent, ignorant, and detached from reality while presented as thoughtful. The privilege of the white, middle-class Etonian.

22.11.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This rhetoric underpins every dismissive and hostile attitude to cyclists and cycling infrastructure: only drivers are legitimate road users.

21.11.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's literally just 'thoughts and prayers'. Obscene and insulting.

21.11.2025 08:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like a broken record but honestly, what is the point of Ofgem? A captured 'regulator' for a broken, privatised system.

21.11.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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