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Mary Corcoran
@marycorcoran.bsky.social
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Economic Migrant from beyond the pale. ‘Elitist’: I function from the neck up. Book reader (& writer). The day job is Criminologist, but I’m really a student of justice’.

MAGA Elbow fails to find MAGA Arse!

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · Mar 7
TweedleDumb & TweedleSly
#streetart

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 7h
Perhaps you should put #epstein into every policy bulletin to grab attention?

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 7h
Nice work, Warren, but let’s face it, it’s not half as much fun as calling for heads to roll. That’s what real #journalism is nowadays.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 12h
Take a lot to unravel outsourced contracts.Gov’t liable for huge costs if contracts are broken ‘unreasonably’ (in law). Yes, it’s skewed to favour profit; regulation can’t make up for bad commissioning; yes, there are ways to counteract bad contracting which politicians scared to use. Privatisation.

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Dr Gráinne Nic An tSaoi @justgronya.bsky.social · 12h
The Epstein Files contain everything women have known and told you about men since the dawn of civilisation.

But yeah. Carry on pretending that systemic misogyny can be fixed by releasing the files.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 12h
"Mediterranean dockworkers mobilise across 21 ports in unprecedented anti-war strike"
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Mediterranean dockworkers mobilise across 21 ports in unprecedented anti-war strike
DOCKWORKERS in 21 ports throughout the Mediterranean will mobilise for an international demonstration on February 6 to protest against rearmament and in solidarity with Palestine.The joint day of acti...
morningstaronline.co.uk

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 12h
"Mediterranean dockworkers shut down over 20 ports in solidarity with Palestine
Strikers stated that this mobilization is just the start, cautioning that ‘today it’s the ports, tomorrow it will be the entire logistics sector’"
via Seyed Mohammad Marandi

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d

@carolcadwallader We live in a paedophilic culture.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d
Russia’s full-scale invasion began 4 years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the 5th. And, for civilians, the worst. Russia launches missiles and drones at energy infrastructure to force Ukrainians to endure the freezing cold. Here's how you can help
snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-u...
The Long Ukrainian Winter
How You Can Help
snyder.substack.com

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
Interestingly, this seems to be on par with Sky, possibly ITV C4. I can’t find GB rates. Worryingly, there’s a huge pay gap in all outlets between general reporter and the ‘big names’, & between local & national media.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 1d
The news coverage is currently terrible but 'eye watering' is a ridiculous description when you consider what that money actually buys you. It’s amazing value and if we lose it, we'll come to profoundly regret it.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
Theocratic evil reigns in many countries all over the globe. The aim is to destroy the people to save their ‘purity’. Religion+Patriarchy=destruction. #iran

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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TrudyUnoWho @trudyunowho.bsky.social · 1d
@europeanpowell - Another thing on my mind is how much Mandelson, Thiel, Bannon etc involved I pushing the U.K. Free Zones - where they have unlimited power removing right from citizens living within the areas

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d
Why Nigel Farage’s reaction to the Epstein and Mandelson scandal has been deeply hypocritical, and how his own connections to the story are much closer than he now admits

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage’s Epstein Hypocrisy
The Reform leader's own connections to the Jeffrey Epstein story are far deeper than he now pretends
www.adambienkov.co.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d
Link to the contract award notice: www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/08387...
MOD Palantir Enterprise Agreement - Find a Tender
www.find-tender.service.gov.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d
That £240m contract Palantir won after Peter Mandelson took Keir Starmer to visit them? Government asserts "there were robust processes in place to ensure that government contracts are awarded fairly and transparently" but the award notice says it was a "directed award", ie without any competition.
One Whitehall official said there were robust processes in place to ensure that government contracts are awarded fairly and transparently.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
The Left is always Rigt!

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
Apologies are for Centrist cowards. Never back down, dig in deeper, black is always white.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
You horrid Centrist. Please take your reasonableness away before I have to cancel you.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
That’s happening now with Cabinet/PLP. You stray from your original criticism of #Harman who justiably said that there’s a glaring gendered logic in appointing Mandelson. He was already part of the misogynist culture around MAGA/Broligarchy. That’s not a ‘gender war’, & Harman isn’t the baddie.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
They’ve all gone to the #Greens. Their problem now. Good luck. 😉

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
Agree that Cabinet responsibility should hold (but that has been severely degraded over decades). That’s separate from the decision made by the exclusionary cabal - dominated by McSweeney - around Starmer. The whole government will be forced to take the hit because of lack of diversity of thinking.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
I heard Harman as critical of the boys’ club culture in Starmer’s immediate circle, which entrenched group think. Look at the staggering lack of awareness of the risks Mandelson posed. He was appointed warts and all because he was a fit for the vile culture around Trump. Would women do the same?

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
Getting rid of Sue Gray (whose experience would have headed off unnecessary & poorly thought out policy decisions), nope, nothing gendered to see here….

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d
Trump, Putin, Xi, Modi, Netanyahu, Erdogan… all those women screwing the world up.

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benjits.bsky.social @benjits.bsky.social · 1d
World: Properly investigate all those in the records of an international pedophile ring and punish them. Nobody is above the law!

Media: let’s make Keir Starmer resign!

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Suzanne Brown @suzannebrown.bsky.social · 1d
If only Starmer listened to Gordon Brown a bit more and the likes of Morgan McSweeney a lot less. #r4today

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
You may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump.

This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d
Lots of things are beginning to make sense now. Given Mandelson’s role in the People’s Vote, and his proximity to Epstein and his MAGA/Russian ties, no wonder they dismissed @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on Cambridge Analytica/Vote Leave and our joint investigation into Russian interference

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
Anyone actually having a Friday night here, or are we all going to be perpetually miserable? Take a break; don’t believe everything you think!🤔

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 2d
Two pints and a curry for me!