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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 2h

Out of control social injustice and inequality: over-stretched public services: and the cost of living crisis are ideal source material for the irresponsible English press to churn out endless rage-bait articles with which to harvest clicks and page views for advertisers.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 2h

The media not only want the government to fail. They want the country to fail.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 8h

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 3h

The Economist is now smoking heavily from the same post-truth crack pipe as the Washington Post in the US and the Daily Telegraph in the UK.

What a humiliating, shambolic decline in journalistic standards this is to witness.

Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 9h

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 15h

I predicted exactly this last Friday, 24 Oct 👇
#KatieLam #DontBuyTheSpectator
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

That lying, traitorous bin bag of rotting pigs innards Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson wrote the wholly untrue and completely made-up story in The Times about former New York mayor Bill de Blasio, didn't he.

It's entirely Johnson's style #DontBuyTheTimes

Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 1d

WTF?

"A British newspaper of record deleted an article — billed as an exclusive interview with former New York mayor Bill de Blasio criticizing Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy for the mayoralty — after learning that the quotes were fabricated by a trickster."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

De Blasio impostor tricks newspaper into running anti-Mamdani quotes

The Times of London apologized and said someone duped its reporter by claiming to be former New York mayor Bill de Blasio and criticizing Zohran Mamdani.

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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 12h

Comes into my house and can’t even stay upright, total clown

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 12h

There's a very good reason why you no longer see light-blue three-wheeled Invacars on UK roads - they weren't safe.

Lee Anderson and the other dim-witted misfits and wingnuts in Deform UK want to turn the clock back on 50 years of progress.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invacar

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 14h

As UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Lisa Nandy should spend less time appearing on Question Time as a panellist and more time looking into why the BBC continues to give discredited hard right / far right bigots and agitators like Matthew Goodwin a platform and airtime #BBCQT

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 14h

Shot: Chaser:
#KatieLam #DontBuyTheSpectator

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 15h

I predicted exactly this last Friday, 24 Oct 👇
#KatieLam #DontBuyTheSpectator
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

14 years of increasingly right wing Conservative governments in the UK was just too much for poor right wing gob-on-a-stick Isabel Oakeshott, aka "The Home Counties' Axis Sally".

Thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.*

*No, f**k her

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

"My name is Danny Kruger and I'm campaigning on behalf of the East India Company to be your constituency MP.

"Can I ask for your vote at the next election?"
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

That lying, traitorous bin bag of rotting pigs innards Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson wrote the wholly untrue and completely made-up story in The Times about former New York mayor Bill de Blasio, didn't he.

It's entirely Johnson's style #DontBuyTheTimes

Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 1d

WTF?

"A British newspaper of record deleted an article — billed as an exclusive interview with former New York mayor Bill de Blasio criticizing Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy for the mayoralty — after learning that the quotes were fabricated by a trickster."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

De Blasio impostor tricks newspaper into running anti-Mamdani quotes

The Times of London apologized and said someone duped its reporter by claiming to be former New York mayor Bill de Blasio and criticizing Zohran Mamdani.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

"My name is Danny Kruger and I'm campaigning on behalf of the East India Company to be your constituency MP.

"Can I ask for your vote at the next election?"
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

14 years of increasingly right wing Conservative governments in the UK was just too much for poor right wing gob-on-a-stick Isabel Oakeshott, aka "The Home Counties' Axis Sally".

Thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.*

*No, f**k her

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking personally, I much prefer to be attacked by a knife-wielding maniac who was born in the UK and is white.

#PMQs

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is yet another unhinged far right tech bro arsehole who is apparently obsessed with the works of Tolkien.

Tickle Me Elon probably thinks The Lord of the Rings is the history of Europe.

Tolkien would have hated Musk and every other Silicon Valley Nazgûl wraith.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

Let's hope an MP from the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, the Green Party, or Plaid Cymru demands in today's PMQs that Keir Starmer and the Government properly respond to Musk's stupid, bare-faced hate-mongering #PMQs

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

The current editor of The Times is Paul Dacre acolyte Tony Gallagher.

Gallagher has taken a wrecking bar and a flamethrower to the so-called “paper of record”.

His stewardship has been a very obvious and humiliating train-wreck for the newspaper #DontBuyTheTimes
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing to do with London being pulled out of the European Union and the Single Market following the 2016 Brexit referendum.

Or the decades-long lack of affordable housing being built at the volume needed.

Or the cost of living crisis.

Or wage stagnation due to austerity.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2d

what the...?

"Matthew Lynn is a financial columnist and author. He writes for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator in London."

ohhhhhhhh ok. lol.

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Opinion | London’s sad decline is a warning to New Yorkers

In three terms as mayor, Sadiq Khan has crushed the economic life out of Britain’s capital.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is yet another unhinged far right tech bro arsehole who is apparently obsessed with the works of Tolkien.

Tickle Me Elon probably thinks The Lord of the Rings is the history of Europe.

Tolkien would have hated Musk and every other Silicon Valley Nazgûl wraith.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.

Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.

No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.

Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

The current editor of The Times is Paul Dacre acolyte Tony Gallagher.

Gallagher has taken a wrecking bar and a flamethrower to the so-called “paper of record”.

His stewardship has been a very obvious and humiliating train-wreck for the newspaper #DontBuyTheTimes
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 2d

When America's mad king eventually dies - and he will die, one day - he will have to be cremated or buried at sea.

Because any permanent gravesite will need 24/7 armed security to stop thousands of people whose lives have been needlessly wrecked by MAGA from vandalising it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump is met with utter silence from the troops in Japan as he lies that "grocery prices are way down"

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Waye Mason @wayemason.bsky.social · 3d

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