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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · Nov 20

Dear all, the #SocialistCircle feed is up & running!

Give it a like if you're already using it.
Let me know how you find it, whether it's easy to access, whether it refreshes regularly, etc. 🍻

If you're a lefty & you want to join & contribute to the feed, post your handle below & I'll add you in.

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 1h

Kevin Maguire has a job on #GMB. That gives you the measure of the man.
No doubt he tells himself otherwise, but he plays his role in the deliberate manufacture of consent that GMB is designed to produce.

Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 10h

Funny that, isn't it.
#ReformRussianBribes

Graph of regularity of Nigel Farage appearing on TV panels against time.

Graph shows a stonking great plummet straight after Nathan Gill admits taking Russian bribes.

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 11h

We need a
#RoyalEpsteinInquiry

Republic @republiccampaign.bsky.social · 22h

Andrew has lied about his relationship with Epstein again and again. Charles and William have conspired to protect Andrew for over a decade. We need a Royal Epstein Inquiry NOW. #AbolishTheMonarchy #Epstein

Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 11h

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 11h

Margaret Thatcher would have been 100 tomorrow.

But she's DEAD.

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 11h

And yet nobody is in jail...
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
#TheCovidContracts

Russell Scott @russellscott1.bsky.social · 12h

The Sheer Scale of the ‘VIP Lane’ PPE Scandal Has Still Not Been Revealed 5 Years On

Evidence suggests that at 20+ more politically-connected suppliers received contracts worth £1B

I reported on this for @bylinetimes.bsky.social in April: bylinetimes.com/2025/04/16/c...

See also Viplanebook.com

The Sheer Scale of the COVID 'VIP Lane' PPE Scandal Has Still Not Been Revealed Five Years On

New evidence published by the COVID Inquiry suggests that at least 20 more politically-connected suppliers received contracts worth £1 billion

bylinetimes.com

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 11h

“we'll play some more soon”
🤮

He's lying.
He's been lying from the word go.

#EpsteinFiles
#HRHNonceAndrew

The Independent @the-independent.com · 13h

Duke of York also reportedly told paedophile friend ‘we'll play some more soon’ in email sent three months after date he insisted he had severed contact with disgraced financier

Andrew told Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ day after Virginia Guiffre photo emerged

www.independent.co.uk

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 12h

#Trump
"a̶MEr̶i̶c̶a̶ first"

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

“America First.”

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 12h

Has anyone seen Omen III: The Final Conflict...?

Just asking.

Picture of Barron Damien Trump, raising his fist in the air to herald the Apocalypse.

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 12h

Remind me again, Bridget - did you lose the whip over the two-child benefit cap?

Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 12h

Not as quiet as it's gone from Labour on membership figures...

😜

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 20h

And of course, it's even better if you can do this in a country/region with lots of key resources like oil, gas & rare earth minerals

Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 20h

Modern warfare modus operandi:
1. Bomb everything = profit for military industrial complex
2. Flatten entire infrastructure & then 'rebuild' = profit for crony construction companies
3. Install compliant government & dish out lucrative contracts = profit for crony utilities & service companies

Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 21h

#socialistsunday

No intl journalists were allowed into gaza because israel didnt wsnt the world to see this (picture of totally destroyed city)
Almost every school hospital and mosque reduced to dust. And the journalists who stayed? Targetted for telling the truth. Gaza looks like the aftermath of the apocalypse

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22h

Private equity wrecked UK high street, says Iceland Foods boss

PE model - low wages, cut staff/investment, high debt, profiteering, tax abuse.

PE devoured Debenhams, Maplin, Byron Burger, Cath Kidson, Comet, Flybe, Poundworld, Toys R Us.

Controls care homes, vets, supermarkets.
archive.ph/tJVkV

Private equity has wrecked the high street, says Iceland boss

Richard Walker says private buyers take out costs and fail to invest then sell to the highest bidder in a cycle that makes retailers steadily worse

www.thetimes.com

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 21h

#TrevorPhillips
Here you go Bridget, I'll tee it up for you, and then you knock it out of the park.

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 22h

It would be good to ask why Starmer is pushing so hard on Digital ID, a particularly unwelcome policy?

Could It be he is in hock to data tech billionaires, so will force it through whatever the consequences?

apple.news/AfI4MHADHRw-...

‘Voters will go to Reform’: Labour anger as Starmer pushes on with digital ID — The i Paper

Controversies over the collapse of the China spies trial, a brutal tax-raising budget and reforms to special educational needs also loom for the PM

apple.news

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New Popular Front ❌👑 @ouaisouaisdubuffet.bsky.social · 22h

The whole world is watching. And we are not alone. Keep going.

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 22h

Solidarity from "across the pond" in the UK

Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 23h

The Portland Frog Chorus
#WeAllStandTogether

Scene from the animated video to The Frog Chorus: We All Stand Together

"BOMB"
"BOMB"
"BOMB"
"I-YI-ICE"

Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 22h

"Nobody is above the law"

Except the King.
160 times.

#AbolishTheMonarchy

Republic @republiccampaign.bsky.social · 2d

Why should the monarchy be able to opt-out of laws when they want to? #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 22h

There's no such thing as Twitter any more.

And nobody should be supporting Elon Musk's poisonous X platform.

#eXodus

Batman slapping Robin meme.

Robin: "I'm gonna use X to shitpost against Musk and that will..."
— SLAP! —
Batman: "He's laughing at you!"

Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 22h

#AbolishTheMonarchy
#EpsteinFiles
#HRHNonceAndrew

Picture of Andrew.
"What other reason do you need?"
#AbolishTheMonarchy

Disclaimer:
There are, in fact, hundreds of other reasons to abolish the monarchy.

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Republic @republiccampaign.bsky.social · 22h

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 22h

#BritCard
#DigitalID

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

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Official government announcements do not name any providers yet.
That said, Oracle is frequently speculated to be a strong contender due to its deep existing ties to UK government IT infrastructure:

Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 22h

#BritCard
#DigitalID

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 23h

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

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