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Ben Leeves

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Sound Designer @JungleIsSound Grassroots Football coaching in between with Welling Academy and Glebe FC #wildcats

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Ben Leeves @bleeves.bsky.social · Sep 8

The full US antivax juggernaut is coming this way. Lie after lie, but don’t worry, as no one reads the actual facts. But please do below…

Full Fact @fullfact.org · Sep 8

At the Reform UK conference, Dr Aseem Malhotra made a number of claims about Covid vaccines, some of which were misleading or simply not backed by any credible evidence.

We’ve fact checked a few of his claims 👇

Covid vaccine claims at the Reform UK conference: fact checked – Full Fact

A cardiologist called Dr Aseem Malhotra, who we have fact checked before, made unevidenced and misleading claims at the event in Birmingham.

fullfact.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

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Paul Hayward @paulhayward.bsky.social · Jul 20

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · Jun 26

We Boomers have a relentless desire to destroy the UK despite getting more from this country than any other generation before or since.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Jun 26

Not that I’m pointing the finger or anything, but this voting intention from YouGov:

Among People with Jobs:

LAB: 27%
RFM: 24%
LDM: 16%
CON: 15%
GRN: 12%

Among the Retired:

RFM: 36%
CON: 28%
LDM: 14%
LAB: 13%
GRN: 4%

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Jun 26

Someone needs to set up a pro-joy, pro-success pressure group, that goes around telling people who write this stuff to get a better job and go out and do enjoyable things.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · Jun 26

Yes, yes, this is very much the consensus view across the globe. This is one of the many reasons that Glastonbury tickets are so easy to buy.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · Jun 23

Alex Cox talking on wandering the shelves of a video store and finding films worth watching with Moviedrome as a guide.

The BBC canned Moviedrome for being 'too didactic'.

Didactic is in the BBC's charter - educate and entertain.

More didacticism.

www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/a...

Alex Cox on the legacy of Moviedrome, the BBC’s essential cult film slot

Broadcasting a weekly diet of transgressive, iconoclastic cinema into British living rooms, the BBC’s Moviedrome series turned a generation of viewers into adventurous cinephiles. How did it come abou...

www.bfi.org.uk

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Ben Leeves @bleeves.bsky.social · Apr 26

Proud of my girls #EverestBaseCamp today.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · Apr 13

An adaptation of Hogarth’s ‘an election entertainment’ from his ‘humours of an election series 1755.

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Ben Leeves @bleeves.bsky.social · Mar 8

Top studio set up Fred 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Ben Leeves @bleeves.bsky.social · Feb 20

Loving the extra History for each course. Very jealous of trying it all!

Ben Leeves @bleeves.bsky.social · Dec 3

Turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks!
After years of studying coaching it was time to put it to a little test. Just the beginning #grassroots #coaching #uefaC

Ben Leeves @bleeves.bsky.social · Nov 15

Weekend sessions planned: Counter attacking from midfield.
#grassroots #coaching

Ben Leeves @bleeves.bsky.social · Nov 13

Looking for football (soccer) coaching communities that have moved over. #grassroots #footballcoaching #soccercoaching

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Ben Leeves @bleeves.bsky.social · Nov 12

Moving over, leaving Elon’s and Trump’s plaything