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Alan Stedman

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You will find me around the middle of the room. Outward looking because if you are not you get isolated and stop learning NHS for many years before retiring. Read a lot, listen a lot. Dovestones Reservoir ⬆️ I don't have access to DMs so don't bother!

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Mickey Dolenz spent a weekend being driven around Canterbury in my car

A friend asked to borrow the car whilst I was away playing Basketball but didn't tell me what she was using it for

05.03.2026 12:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Probably right

They may though have underestimated the damage she is doing to the brand atm. Three more years of this and they'll be lucky to get 50 seats

Like Labour they really haven't cottoned on how pissed of the centre ground voters are with them

05.03.2026 11:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Possible but I don't remember it. Could have easily passed me by

05.03.2026 11:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's how you score your goals innit

05.03.2026 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh didums, resorting to GIFs to besmirch is so last year

You really aren't covering yourself in glory here

05.03.2026 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can read a table you can't read a post

05.03.2026 11:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well pal you know yourself best then

Now off you trot

05.03.2026 11:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

👍🏼

05.03.2026 11:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

She's on a mission

Reminds me so much of a former Tory HS who had a thing about migrants

05.03.2026 11:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rosendale Road or nearby?

Left S. London 35 years ago after happy years schooling and growing up there

05.03.2026 11:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.

05.03.2026 08:22 — 👍 522    🔁 213    💬 18    📌 7
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Badenoch gives a borderline disgraceful performance at PMQs on Iran | John Crace At times like this you have to thank your lucky stars that the opposition leader is not in Downing Street

Definitely worth a read

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

05.03.2026 11:23 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

So all that matters is scoring a goal

Well that's a very blinkered view of the influence football has on millions of youngsters looking up to their football icons

Kim, have you learnt the latest judo hold to throw an opponent to the floor? It helps you win, so let's go do it!

05.03.2026 08:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Sign the Petition Katie Hopkins is not welcome in Wimborne!

The groundswell of anger against Katie Hopkins touring Britain like she's just some normal celebrity grows.

Well done to local people in Dorset who aren't taking it lying down.

www.change.org/p/katie-hopk...

05.03.2026 08:12 — 👍 842    🔁 315    💬 52    📌 9

Yes but I would because saying it's only football is completely missing the point. Millions watch it

Do you have children, do they watch football, do they copy their stars?

"In dreams begins responsibility"

WB Yeats

05.03.2026 08:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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EU scrambles to defend Spain from Trump’s embargo menace President Donald Trump’s threat to cut all ties with Spain after it opposed his war on Iran again puts the bloc’s unity to the test.

🚨🚨Symbolically important that EU countries and EU institutions shore up support for #spain in the context of fear of trade retaliation from the #Trump regime. This should be self-evident but unity of EU here is under pressure. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

05.03.2026 07:19 — 👍 195    🔁 82    💬 7    📌 6
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Hegseth Brags About “Death and Destruction” Raining Down in Iran Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held a shocking press conference on day five of the war on Iran.

Incredibly disturbing. A cabal of radicalised, white supremacist, Christian fundamentalist MAGA ‘clerics’ has been casting around for legitimate reasons for this war on their Iranian counterparts but it boils down to the satisfaction of smiting perceived enemies.

newrepublic.com/post/207334/...

05.03.2026 07:37 — 👍 43    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 4

Family of two appear to be renting on our road or living with parents, both with big Black Mercedes and both park at least half way onto the pavement. They have a baby but it always goes out in the car!

It serves no purpose whatsoever as they are more likely to get scratched on the pavement side!

05.03.2026 08:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

By all means, but winning at all costs is not a pretty sight

There's a big man on the world stage with that attitude

And fine you might not care if people like you, but someday that might well come back to bite you. It's about time statistically 1913 happened again

05.03.2026 07:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm not surprised by the hubris post GandD as there is a side to some of these Labour Ministers that was always a tad discomforting

I am surprised, slightly, by the size of the JCB that they are using to dig themselves in further

So as many of us said (😉), McSweeney was only part of the problem

05.03.2026 07:21 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So basically Marshall is paying some current MPs, retainers from his own pocket via a media company portal. And at the same helping some former MPs with their mortgages

Who'd have thought?

05.03.2026 07:10 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😂😂😂😂😂

05.03.2026 07:01 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

There seems to be an arrogance that is really quite unpalatable and is I suspect the reason so many 'progressives' are abandoning them

The inability to listen to what you are being told and adjust is a trait good honest hard working people at all levels of society intensely dislike

05.03.2026 06:59 — 👍 26    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sounds like mine except it's always, chocolate, chocolate!

05.03.2026 06:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Take a bow, @privateeyenews.bsky.social.

04.03.2026 23:00 — 👍 498    🔁 110    💬 6    📌 3

Pete, Pete, all that planning mate

Were you spending too much time listening back to your own speeches and preening or maybe too much time on that Christian zealot stuff?

All that intelligence gathering and you could have asked Mr Zelensky for some pointers

Not really up to this are we?

05.03.2026 06:53 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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a man with a mustache is making a silly face Alt: a man with a mustache is gently nodding his head and making a face that says, 'Oh yes!'

"Vulture" capitalism

05.03.2026 06:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is this night Arsenal's 'villains' became Premier League victors? Was this the evening the villains of the Premier League title race became victors? BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty assesses the ramifications of a big night in Brighton.

Anyone else remember the chant, "Boring, Boring, Arsenal" from the 1980/90s?

Not a Liverpool fan but under Klopp you watched the games because you knew you were going to be entertained

Win by turning the game into a wrestling match at corners is not entertaining

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

05.03.2026 06:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

👍🏼

04.03.2026 20:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sounds like 1990s Management Consultant language to me...which company can out language another?

04.03.2026 19:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0