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Gordon Howell

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Films, history, photography and exploring new places. British and European. Retired Civil Servant from Doncaster, now resident in Gozo, Malta. #FBPE

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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

21.02.2026 11:37 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

She was totally out of her depth when she was in Government and she is out of her depth as a pundit.

10.02.2026 10:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The judge said Shipley’s actions were “a blatant piece of dishonesty”. Coincidentally, that sums up Brexit in a nutshell.

31.12.2025 18:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reform is just the Tories rebranded.

11.12.2025 13:28 — 👍 189    🔁 62    💬 26    📌 1
Post image Nigel Farage warns
British last to the party
in coronavirus advice to
wear facemasks

Nigel Farage warns British last to the party in coronavirus advice to wear facemasks

Post image Nigel Farage believes
wearing face masks to
stop coronavirus spread
"a price worth paying"

Nigel Farage believes wearing face masks to stop coronavirus spread "a price worth paying"

Farage says, "I didn't wear them (masks) last time, and I won't wear them this time" and dismisses mask mandates as "rubbish".

Here's Farage in 2020.

Man's a dangerous idiot.

11.12.2025 12:25 — 👍 642    🔁 246    💬 51    📌 20

Their editorial priorities have been dubious at best for some time. Personally I blame Gibb and McAndrew. Get rid of those two and we can get back to responsible news reporting on the BBC.

19.11.2025 13:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's bad enough that they did this on yesterday's 10'o clock news. To be still leading on the same sport story 15 hours later is just bonkers!

19.11.2025 13:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.

If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.

01.08.2025 12:46 — 👍 1537    🔁 910    💬 28    📌 13

I follow on Threads, FB, IG and Bluesky. I also follow on Twitter but I don't check my feed very often. My engagement on IG fell off a cliff ages ago, so my preferred options are now Bluesky and Threads.

29.07.2025 19:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, central London "rife with gangs" she said. Utter nonsense and I could see which way that interview was going from the start. I am disappointed because I used to respect her as a newsreader.

25.06.2025 07:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We can rely on the lazy feckless Telegraph to talk utter nonsense.

12.06.2025 09:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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02.01.2025 13:13 — 👍 16812    🔁 2966    💬 437    📌 162

Democracy is the election of the unscrupulous few by the incompetent many.

02.01.2025 13:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We have allowed trash like Farage, who hates ordinary people, into our politics. Democracy is their target. Any guesses why?

21.12.2024 10:44 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Valletta sunset

17.12.2024 17:07 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bacon, sausage, toast and marmalade - I make that 2s 8d. Less than 15p!

05.12.2024 22:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It is 1870. You've spent the night at Fenton's Hotel on St James Street. Now you can slip next door to no 66 and enjoy an electric bath. Personally I feel this sounds a little risky - but Nurse Alice (certificated) and her 8 assistants are there to cure you. Would you go in?

28.11.2024 14:33 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0
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Fishermen left feeling 'betrayed' by Brexit 'Brexit was sold to our fishermen as a golden opportunity, yet the truth is that many fishermen have experienced the complete opposite'

The liars, of course, have all moved on to new cons & deceptions. The fishing industry can't. A vaguely honest media would be holding Farage & the rest to account for this instead of promoting a meaningless petition...
www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...

27.11.2024 09:07 — 👍 5854    🔁 1793    💬 340    📌 82
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For all those anarchists who believe it’s the other way round…

YOU ARE WRONG

🤣

23.11.2024 10:59 — 👍 99    🔁 26    💬 24    📌 3
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With new figures showing that more than one in three children in the UK are now living in poverty, with deprivation hitting a record high, it's good to see the Times focusing on the people who are really struggling

20.11.2024 10:29 — 👍 3143    🔁 871    💬 162    📌 63

Until we get the prequel! 🤔

17.11.2024 16:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

15.11.2024 17:17 — 👍 103079    🔁 27328    💬 911    📌 2935
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Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.

They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.

Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .

Thank you.

15.11.2024 13:08 — 👍 65362    🔁 6650    💬 592    📌 266

Absolutely! Personally, I don't waste my time debating face to face with people who are ignorant and intolerant. I would not do that on social media either.

16.11.2024 22:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have started collecting names for #FBPE Starter Packs and Top 500/1000 follower league and will do daily follow back posts.

Like and/or Repost in you would like to be added.

This is be opt-in only.

13.11.2024 06:04 — 👍 1526    🔁 923    💬 397    📌 22
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If you are anti-Brexit and pro EU and want to find some extra followers.

RT and reply to this post and add each other.

No fun speaking to yourself.

15.11.2024 12:25 — 👍 2494    🔁 1686    💬 616    📌 96

In the late 90s & early 2000s we in the UK received (very roughly) 80,000 asylum applications per year.
Mainly people escaping Balkan wars.

Today in these “unprecedented” times of “invasion” by small boat… we receive pretty much the exact same numbers.

Had you been taken in?
I wouldn’t blame you.

16.11.2024 07:14 — 👍 1867    🔁 602    💬 59    📌 10