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Mike Harding

@churchcat.bsky.social

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Curmudgeon, poet, writer, ex stand-up comic, European, playwright, woke lefty Grauniad reader, Irish trad mandolin player and blues harp playing anarchist and agnostic. Also happen to be a recovering Catholic. Website www.mikeharding.co.uk

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

We should celebrate Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s birthday by gatecrashing a wedding, finding a group of three guests, detaining one of them, then discoursing at length about our exploits in the Doldrums. Anyone up for it?

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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 5d

DM me your postal addy and i’ll send you Specky 4 Eyes my book of short stories.

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 5d

"We're paying £200bn to shareholders in privatised utilities. Could go to investing in infrastructure. We need to admit privatisation is a failed experiment & end it."

Wiki puts the annual budget of the UK govt at around £1.230tn.

So that's, what, a FIFTH of it? Straight to the rich?

#bbcqt

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 6d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me

• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked

• She was filmed while stripped naked

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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 7d

Probably the best review I’ve ever had. Many thanks.

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 8d

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8d

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 10d

I applaud what Dahl says. Absolutely. But how many books did Trump read? How many novels or books of poetry were on Adolph’s shelf? They got on. Sadly.

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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 13d

Christ on a bike! The wilful flaunting of principles and the strident ignorance of Trump’s devotees is terrifying. These people must be removed from power for the sake of democracy and the world.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13d

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 13d

The simple answer is Fascism

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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 21d

Yes. Its a great song. We have a terrific version by Judy Collins. Theres a Lincoln statue in Mancs to commemorate the cotton workers support in the US civil war. Also Engels salvaged from a Ukraine scrap yard i think.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 25d

Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles.

Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.

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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · Sep 22

This MUST be investigated.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Sep 22

I have defended the BBC again and again.

No more.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Sep 22

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA