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michaelburl.bsky.social @michaelburl.bsky.social · 21h

Rather than blowing up Trinidadian fishermen, Trump might want to drop a bomb on this place? Extraordinary book.

michaelburl.bsky.social @michaelburl.bsky.social · 1d

Military homes to be renovated in £9bn government plan

And guess who privatised the estate and watched it run down. Clue: 2022.

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michaelburl.bsky.social @michaelburl.bsky.social · 2d

Dead centre.

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michaelburl.bsky.social @michaelburl.bsky.social · 2d

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The crumbling seaside palaces at the centre of Britain’s asylum crisis

How one hotelier built an empire from beloved community assets — and a government struggling to cope with a surge in migration

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 2d

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michaelburl.bsky.social @michaelburl.bsky.social · 2d

Here in Vauxhall we've had fireworks for a fortnight and its still a week to Guy Fawkes night.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

Compare and contrast.
Absentee MP -v- his constituency.
Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood.
He really couldn’t give a shit.
He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream.
(iPaper & BBC)

Jaywick named most deprived area - again

A seaside neighbourhood in Essex, part of the parliamentary constituency represented by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, has once again been named the most deprived in England.
The latest official data showed that an area of the coastal village of Jaywick, close to the town of Clac-ton-on-Sea in the local authority of Tendring, has been classed the most deprived neighbourhood for the fourth time.
Areas of Blackpool again make up most of the rest of the top 10, along with new appearances for neighbour-hoods in Hastings and Rotherham.

Yesterday's data, published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), presented relative levels of deprivation in areas or neighbourhoods of England in 2025.
The data highlighted "the scale of the challenge" but does not "reflect the progress made since 2019 or the strength of the people who call Jay-wick Sands home"
, the Tendring
District Council website said.
MHCLG said Middlesbrough, Birmingham, Hartlepool, Kingston upon Hull and Manchester had the highest proportions of neighbour-hoods among the most deprived in England.

Farage earns more than £1m a year for non-MP work
GETTY IMAGES - photo of the grifter
Damian Grammaticas >
Political correspondent
17 August 2024
Nigel Farage has revealed he is earning well over a £1m a year from work he does outside parliament, in addition to his job as an MP.
It is thought his outside income is significantly higher than that of any other member of parliament.

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michaelburl.bsky.social @michaelburl.bsky.social · 2d

So much for Britain's 'paper of record'. www.france24.com/en/americas/...

Tale of two Bills: UK paper mistakes NY wine importer for ex-mayor de Blasio

British newspaper the Times of London apologised for mistaking former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio with a wine importer with a near-identical name. The exclusive article about his thoughts on De...

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michaelburl.bsky.social @michaelburl.bsky.social · 3d

President Xi did not seem very keen about Trump’s gushing effusions. Could hardly bear to look at the orange bastard.

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michaelburl.bsky.social @michaelburl.bsky.social · 4d

Good piece

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 4d

This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 4d

Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.bsky.social · 4d

Think today is a good day to repost this wee gem. Labour will need to get a move on if they want to match the Tories scandals.

List of all tge Tory scandals from 2011 to 2023

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

So why does the BBC label the academic and economist Faiza Shaheen an "activist" but refuse to do the same for the former academic, turned anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin?

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michaelburl.bsky.social @michaelburl.bsky.social · 4d

Who actual prefers G&Ts at £30 a go in 5 Hertford Street. It’s all fake.

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michaelburl.bsky.social @michaelburl.bsky.social · 4d

The puffed up hawks of Little Britain’s China ‘Research’ Group and their scribblers on the Telegraph and Times will love tomorrow’s Trump-Xi meeting. Not.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 4d

Genuinely brilliant from Private Eye.

Private Eye article headlined "Minority representation on TV causes outrage" with body text commenting that Reform MPs are only 0.7% of the house of commons and yet are over-represented on the BBC all the time.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 5d

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says

The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

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michaelburl.bsky.social @michaelburl.bsky.social · 5d

My late friend John Rohl suffered from it. The historian of the Kaiserreich.

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michaelburl.bsky.social @michaelburl.bsky.social · 5d

Red flags over RedBird: the spymaster, Beijing’s banker and The Telegraph. The former newspaper continues to smear future owners. It was bankrupted by crooked owners and as they say beggars can’t be choosers. It keeps writing about itself which is not a good look.

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michaelburl.bsky.social @michaelburl.bsky.social · 5d

Darren Jones is a really class act judging by his appearance at the NSS joint committee where various blowhards tried it in led by ghastly Gavin Williamson, the noted fireplace salesman.