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@btown85.bsky.social

Berlin based Yorkshireman with a love for Leeds United, Rugby League and Cricket. And a (liberal yoghurt knitting) opinion on everything. A politics addict in recovery.

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Today Leeds followed our forebears who kicked Oswald Moseley and his Facists out of the city at the Battle of Holbeck Moor and stood up to racism, the far right and said loud and clear”Refugees are welcome here”. This is Leeds

11.10.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 818    πŸ” 193    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 4

That airport is an absolute head fuck. Especially in the middle of the night

11.10.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Definitely the league champions now!! What a performance. Up the treble winning robins

11.10.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Absolute belter of a present my mate just gave me πŸ‘Œ

11.10.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Barcelona doing their more than a club nonsense. Awful awful club.

09.10.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Because he was Chelsea, but nothing beyond that.

09.10.2025 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also hate myself for saying it though but Lampard seems to have learnt and not been afraid to go into trickier situations. He’s doing brilliantly at Coventry

09.10.2025 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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YOU CAN PUT IT IN THE WIN COLUMN! The #Flames storm all the way back to win it in a shootout!

09.10.2025 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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β€œYou described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

β€œBecause that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

07.10.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2117    πŸ” 699    πŸ’¬ 124    πŸ“Œ 163

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

07.10.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1206    πŸ” 315    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 4
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Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

07.10.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 247    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 42

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living β€œparallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

07.10.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1841    πŸ” 413    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 29

Erm…

β€œLeeds’ growing relationship with Inter could also help facilitate the deal. Following their pre-season clash at Elland Road, the Yorkshire club signed Noah Okafor for Β£18 millionβ€”a transfer that showcased mutual respect between the two sides.”

07.10.2025 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UEFA can talk around the houses as much as they like here about opposition, but they’ve now just created a legal precedent

06.10.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1

The Opposition and the party that’s leading in the polls literally have policies more extreme than the BNP 20 years ago

06.10.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 213    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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β€œBe careful who you hate, it could be someone you love.”
πŸ“FK BodΓΈ/Glimt, Norway

04.10.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 348    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?

05.10.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 925    πŸ” 219    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 11
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The Board of Deputies’ response to the Israeli government inviting Tommy Robinson to visit

04.10.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 376    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 8
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Was on a tour of the Vatican during the game. We equalised as we were in the Sistine chapel. Turns it wasn’t a sign from god. I remain an atheist

04.10.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, didn’t realise he’d dropped so far. Funny how Bielsa had a blind spot for certain players

04.10.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nigel Farage: what are schoolboy racism claims – and why have they resurfaced? David Lammy has clarified remarks that the Reform leader β€˜flirted with Hitler Youth’. Here is the background to the row

You might want to debate whether Nigel Farage was a racist or not, but there is absolutely no debate possible about the question whether he was an absolute wanker.

01.10.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Not sure they did a great job of keeping it secret over the last 30+ years…

01.10.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

UK shale has an annoying tendency to to be under Lancashire, where people live, rather than North Dakota, where they don't.

01.10.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 106    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

30.09.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2198    πŸ” 738    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 25

The basic racial implications of Farage's policy are clear. He has pledged a mass deportation programme, including those with legal status. He will not deport Europeans and has said so. He refuses to give the same assurances to those from Commonwealth.

01.10.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 338    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 1

People often claim it's a mistake to call far-right figures racist. But it's extremely telling how much they hate being called racist. Farage doesn't welcome it. He is afraid of it. And he has benefited from people's reticence about using it to describe his policies.

01.10.2025 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 956    πŸ” 248    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 17

I never fancied her anyway

30.09.2025 06:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It wasn’t a try, no. Massive error. And it’s just incompetence. Christ, the rfl can’t manage the competition right, there is no way they manager a conspiracy! And saints fans all reckoned leeds got everything for years when they were winning!

29.09.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And the game was defined by all 13 players in amber and blue defending like under 10s on the last tackle of the game…

29.09.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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