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Patrick Kinsella

@paddykinsella.bsky.social

Writer, on the lookout for hidden trails, adventure tales & good ales. Gutter-based stargazer. Drum basher. Taekwondo try hard. Fan of books, bands, bikes, boats, boards, beaches, beers. Anti-fascist always. Antisocial when hungry. Political southpaw.⚒️

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It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

06.10.2025 20:40 — 👍 13515    🔁 5344    💬 253    📌 194
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Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

07.10.2025 06:51 — 👍 302    🔁 146    💬 6    📌 7
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What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

04.10.2025 20:33 — 👍 2777    🔁 754    💬 26    📌 25
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EPSTEIN FILES: @aoc.bsky.social explains why Republicans won’t bring the U.S. House back into session 👇

03.10.2025 20:50 — 👍 6422    🔁 2498    💬 138    📌 83

Fuck this shit👇. Prosecute the polluters and renationalise the industry now.

03.10.2025 06:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nathan Gill’s treachery puts him in same league as the “Cambridge Five” Reform’s Russia connections may endanger our security – time for a public inquiry

Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security.

It’s time for a public inquiry.

01.10.2025 05:20 — 👍 1019    🔁 450    💬 34    📌 10

Maybe Sir Keir Starmer should stop banging on about immigration, and start focusing on why 1 in 4 British kids are growing up in poverty...

26.09.2025 17:24 — 👍 188    🔁 47    💬 9    📌 1

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting

Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

26.09.2025 17:26 — 👍 580    🔁 384    💬 28    📌 13
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New statue on National Mall celebrates ‘long-lasting bond’ between Trump and Epstein — The Guardian Bronze statue by an anonymous creator shows the two men frolicking and holding hands with a foot kicked back in joy

Like a Banksy in bronze - well played anonymous artist extraordinaire 🫡

apple.news/AtC7DLuAHRmy...

24.09.2025 06:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
US: homicide rate per million - 68 people
London - homicide rate per million - 9.8

Pics of Trump and Khan

US: homicide rate per million - 68 people London - homicide rate per million - 9.8 Pics of Trump and Khan

Sadiq Khan's team on Trump's comments about London crime

The homicide rate in the US is seven times that of London

23.09.2025 19:18 — 👍 545    🔁 235    💬 14    📌 11

Ah for fuck’s sake Canada - cop on to yourself…

20.09.2025 08:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Elon Musk issues chilling ‘fight back or you die’ message at Tommy Robinson rally — The Independent Elon Musk addressed Tommy Robinson's 'unite the kingdom' rally in London via video link, advocating for a change of government and the dissolution of Parliament.

Just a foreign billionaire funding fascists and calling for the take down of British government here…
apple.news/A8FMEqX-YTuK...

14.09.2025 09:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Petition: Require all MPs to publish their tax returns by law I think this would help ensure transparency, and should include information for the public to see on how much money MPs earn, where their income comes from, and whether they pay the correct amount of ...

There’s only 20 something days left on this and it hasn’t had the traction it deserves! 🔽

09.09.2025 05:14 — 👍 125    🔁 136    💬 24    📌 35

Keeping Mandelson would mean Number 10 thinks not following a recommendation to take specialist tax advice is a resigning matter, but believing the world’s most notorious paedophile over his victims and lying about your post-conviction contact with him isn’t.

That’s…not a sustainable position.

11.09.2025 08:48 — 👍 551    🔁 149    💬 30    📌 18
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Gotta love London!💙

11.09.2025 08:16 — 👍 43    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1

If our prime minister is welcoming people like Israeli president Isaac Herzog into 10 Downing Street he might as well have a doormat saying “Human Rights" and invite visitors to wipe their feet on it.

10.09.2025 16:22 — 👍 33    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0
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The new Secretry of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government - attacking Farage for having no plan and calling out his treacherous behaviour in the US! While also highlighting a few things Labour ARE doing to help us.

10.09.2025 07:15 — 👍 237    🔁 84    💬 15    📌 12

Why not actually answer the question posed though - why do Farage and Reform hate renewables so much? Perhaps because he and the party are bankrolled by billionaires who make their murky money from shanking the planet by burning fossil fuels?

10.09.2025 08:04 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I am not an expert, but why is a British MP even allowed to live in Dubai?

09.09.2025 05:37 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Reform UK would axe any high-speed northern rail schemes, says Richard Tice Deputy leader tells firms considering bidding for contracts to ‘not bother’ as party would spend on what ‘country needs more’

Why does Richard Taliban Tice hate trains? If he doesn't want to travel by train, that's his business. But why, when he lives in Dubai, does Tice want to prevent other people having better transport?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

09.09.2025 05:33 — 👍 54    🔁 12    💬 11    📌 2

saw a tiktok of a girl on her first day of law school, which she felt compelled to attend after surviving the shooting at sandy hook

they are that old and we’ve done nothing

08.09.2025 17:55 — 👍 205    🔁 44    💬 2    📌 3

If you know anyone who has to keep a phone secret, and can safely let them know, it is going to be really, really, important that they know to make sure those phones are switched off, or on airplane mode, before the alert goes through at 3pm.

07.09.2025 07:05 — 👍 83    🔁 69    💬 2    📌 6

Or, journalists could start doing their job a bit better and tell the truth about how it was Farage and binfire of Brexit that started the boats in the first fucking place, and he is very last person with any realistic answers to any of Britain’s problems.

07.09.2025 09:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.

And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

07.09.2025 05:37 — 👍 3276    🔁 1313    💬 146    📌 209

I would rather slowly iron my own bollocks while sipping on a mug of bleach. Fucking hell.

06.09.2025 21:33 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0
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Rayner resigned.

Your move Farage.

05.09.2025 21:30 — 👍 1198    🔁 502    💬 62    📌 16
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'Hypocrite' Nigel Farage didn't pay £44k stamp duty then blasted Angela Rayner Last year Nigel Farage announced he had bought a house in Clacton, Essex, but in fact it was his partner Laure Ferrari, 46, who shelled out almost £900,000 for the property

"Farage has given two contradictory versions of the purchase. One that he bought it and the other that his girlfriend owns it. If the second is correct then he has ­engineered a massive saving on stamp duty, larger than the one that forced Angela Rayner to resign." www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

06.09.2025 06:26 — 👍 2095    🔁 1033    💬 104    📌 60
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Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.

Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.

That, right there, is the problem.

05.09.2025 13:40 — 👍 3778    🔁 1707    💬 117    📌 65

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