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Neil Scott Gordon
@drneilscottgordon.bsky.social
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Retired Forensic Psychotherapist following 40 years of working in and around the NHS in Scotland & England. I am originally from Kyle of Lochalsh a village in the Western Highlands beside the Isle of Skye.
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Neil Scott Gordon @drneilscottgordon.bsky.social · Nov 12
I am migrating from the cesspit that x has become, interested in humane and compassionate politics and mental health/ psychotherapy issues. Hoping to follow some thoughtful and critically reflective individuals while wishing to avoid conspiracy theorists and those who demean others.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10h
👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 20h
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19h
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d
There's always been a fight over the true story of America. I believe deeply in the story that says we’re all created equal, and that if we can treat each other with decency and respect, all of us will be better off.

I talk about this and more on the final episode of WTF with Marc Maron. Watch now:
My Conversation with Marc Maron | WTF Podcast
YouTube video by Barack Obama
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Katharine Kite @katharinekite.bsky.social · 3d
I say again - subscribe @bylinetimes.bsky.social

subscribe.bylinetimes.com
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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 4d
With Farage’s former colleague Nathan Gill guilty of taking money from Russia to promote its propaganda Sam looks at the wider connections between the radical right and Russia. (£/free trial), samf.substack.com/p/russia-and...
Russia and the rise of the radical right
Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4d
“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs
What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?
www.thenerve.news
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God @thegodpodcast.com · 5d
When Obama was president the right wing acted like masked government agents were coming to kidnap them and take all their rights away.

Then Republicans get elected and actually do that shit for real.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 5d
Miriam Margolyes is just a warrior woman. That's the post.

She said it all.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d
Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 6d
The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 6d
Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d
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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 5d
Barney Ronay in today's Guardian Sport
Describes Farage as

"A campy and theatrical nihilist, posing as a real person, who does need to be challenged and who is a deeply cynical threat to public discourse and uses fear and division to manipulate people into voting for him"

Word
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d
Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 6d
Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.
Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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Bradley Wall @bwallarthur.bsky.social · 6d
It's staggering that the people who sold us brexit were taking bribes from the Russian state and this isn't a huge national conversation
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7d
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6d
Bad people can thrive in their lifetimes, but history will (almost) always catch up with them eventually.

Trump can preen and pout and posture all he likes, but his only reward will be eventual ignimony.

In the meantime, every well-deserved slap in his face should be treasured.

#NobelPeacePrize
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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 6d
It’s hard to award the Nobel Peace Prize to a guy that maybe brokered a temporary peace deal after he ordered 500 tons of nutrient rich biscuits destroyed instead of saving the lives of desperate, starving babies.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6d
Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela
Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.
www.theatlantic.com
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6d
Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Why María Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize
The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.
www.theatlantic.com
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 6d
Farage is saying all teachers are Marxists. They're not. They just teach that we should care for one another. But that offends his fascist instincts. The result is he is turning on a profession that teaches about compassion and empathy - because he loathes it. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness
According to The Guardian, Nigel Farage, speaking at an event at a private Christian college in Michigan, USA, has accused teachers in the UK of “poisoning our kids” and predicted that they would go o...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6d
Donald Trump is a loser.
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to María Corina Machado
Win for Venezuela’s main opposition leader dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6d
Polanski expertly dismantling the "rich people will move if we tax them" narrative, while Denham nimbly demonstrates how very patriotic such people are.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 6d
Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.

Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6d
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)
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