Mr A
@andysaccount.bsky.social
British. Lived all over. Now in Manchester. Lots of adventures. An enemy of authoritarianism. Has a whimsical view of the 1920s: absinthe, jazz and art: not the misogyny, poverty, colonialism and racism: all fixed in my head.
We need greater transparency on the actors behind recent cyber attacks; malign foreign influence in British politics; and widespread manipulation on social media. The British public need to know that scale of this activity and who is behind it or linked to it.
September 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
We need greater transparency on the actors behind recent cyber attacks; malign foreign influence in British politics; and widespread manipulation on social media. The British public need to know that scale of this activity and who is behind it or linked to it.
I hear Qatar has taken an estimated GBP 343 million in dividends from Welsh water in the last decade.
I’m sure people in Flintshire without water right now will appreciate that.
I’m sure people in Flintshire without water right now will appreciate that.
August 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I hear Qatar has taken an estimated GBP 343 million in dividends from Welsh water in the last decade.
I’m sure people in Flintshire without water right now will appreciate that.
I’m sure people in Flintshire without water right now will appreciate that.
Perhaps all the right wing eejits who kept posting about London being unsafe were worried about Yaxley-Lennon after all.
July 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Perhaps all the right wing eejits who kept posting about London being unsafe were worried about Yaxley-Lennon after all.
Would it be churlish of me to say that golf is a dull game played by men and women lacking adventure in their lives?
April 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Would it be churlish of me to say that golf is a dull game played by men and women lacking adventure in their lives?
It feels like the Labour Government lost its virginity yesterday. Went back on decades of neo-liberal orthodoxy and did something about a dying sector.
Now it needs a good outfit and to head out to pick up more industries : water first, then Leccy and gas.
Now it needs a good outfit and to head out to pick up more industries : water first, then Leccy and gas.
April 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
It feels like the Labour Government lost its virginity yesterday. Went back on decades of neo-liberal orthodoxy and did something about a dying sector.
Now it needs a good outfit and to head out to pick up more industries : water first, then Leccy and gas.
Now it needs a good outfit and to head out to pick up more industries : water first, then Leccy and gas.
My timeline suggests that the university sector union(s?) are taking advantage of a crisis in one industry to call for more attention to theirs.
It does need attention. But undermining working class livelihoods will deliver little in terms of results for you.
The sector is ripe for reform.
It does need attention. But undermining working class livelihoods will deliver little in terms of results for you.
The sector is ripe for reform.
April 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
My timeline suggests that the university sector union(s?) are taking advantage of a crisis in one industry to call for more attention to theirs.
It does need attention. But undermining working class livelihoods will deliver little in terms of results for you.
The sector is ripe for reform.
It does need attention. But undermining working class livelihoods will deliver little in terms of results for you.
The sector is ripe for reform.
I see Mandelson has gone off-piste already. Any other Ambassador would be recalled and fired for undermining government policy.
March 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I see Mandelson has gone off-piste already. Any other Ambassador would be recalled and fired for undermining government policy.
Some serious people are undermining their seriousness by suggesting that current US policy is driven by a strategy to cleave Russia from China.
Bullshit: current US policy is driven by greed, malfeasance and corruption.
Bullshit: current US policy is driven by greed, malfeasance and corruption.
March 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Some serious people are undermining their seriousness by suggesting that current US policy is driven by a strategy to cleave Russia from China.
Bullshit: current US policy is driven by greed, malfeasance and corruption.
Bullshit: current US policy is driven by greed, malfeasance and corruption.
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BREAKING: UK PM Starmer has spoken to Zelenskyy & backed him after the attack from Trump.
“The PM expressed his support for President Zelenskyy as Ukraine’s democratically elected leader & said it was perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during war time as the UK did during World War II."
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“The PM expressed his support for President Zelenskyy as Ukraine’s democratically elected leader & said it was perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during war time as the UK did during World War II."
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February 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
BREAKING: UK PM Starmer has spoken to Zelenskyy & backed him after the attack from Trump.
“The PM expressed his support for President Zelenskyy as Ukraine’s democratically elected leader & said it was perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during war time as the UK did during World War II."
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“The PM expressed his support for President Zelenskyy as Ukraine’s democratically elected leader & said it was perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during war time as the UK did during World War II."
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The US and the backdated ask for Ukrainian mineral rights: makes me think that NATO countries that participated in Afghan and Iraq should claim Texas, given that we did so in response to an attack on the US.
February 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The US and the backdated ask for Ukrainian mineral rights: makes me think that NATO countries that participated in Afghan and Iraq should claim Texas, given that we did so in response to an attack on the US.
All this talk about rule of law reminds me of one of my fave political pictures.
February 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
All this talk about rule of law reminds me of one of my fave political pictures.
The thing about bridges is that they are frequently rode/driven/walked all over.
February 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The thing about bridges is that they are frequently rode/driven/walked all over.
Does the superbowl announcer sound the same when ordering McDonalds?
February 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Does the superbowl announcer sound the same when ordering McDonalds?
Wales: deserve that bs for voting for brexit.
January 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Wales: deserve that bs for voting for brexit.
Anybody connected with Sheikh Hasina’s corrupt, human rights abusing regime should be nowhere near the Labour Party, never mind Government. She should resign as MP too.
January 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Anybody connected with Sheikh Hasina’s corrupt, human rights abusing regime should be nowhere near the Labour Party, never mind Government. She should resign as MP too.
We suffer from an awful mixture of snobbery and jealousy. Not helped by a large number of journalists coming from public school backgrounds and influencing wider culture.
We have to break this cycle.
We have to break this cycle.
It does seem to me like whenever a minister of state is working class (or even lower middle class), their credentials are endlessly questioned, while if they are upper middle class, it doesn't matter if they are wildly unqualified for the job, no one raises an eyebrow.
December 31, 2024 at 8:55 AM
We suffer from an awful mixture of snobbery and jealousy. Not helped by a large number of journalists coming from public school backgrounds and influencing wider culture.
We have to break this cycle.
We have to break this cycle.
What a bizarre tweet by a supposed historian, not weighing expert evidence and making biased, unevidenced assumptions about motivation.
December 29, 2024 at 6:19 PM
What a bizarre tweet by a supposed historian, not weighing expert evidence and making biased, unevidenced assumptions about motivation.
Yes. I hope the Government can disown these comments and consider the position of whatever muppet spoke: Banning foreign political OR POLICY related donations (including pass throughs) is clearly in the interests of the British People. Sucking up to foreign rich donors is clearly not.
Can’t stop thinking about how totally crazy this line is from Labour
‘We promised new laws on money in politics in our manifesto but now we’re not going to do it because Nigel Farage could make political cap out of it (while Reform receives tens of millions in actual capital)’
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‘We promised new laws on money in politics in our manifesto but now we’re not going to do it because Nigel Farage could make political cap out of it (while Reform receives tens of millions in actual capital)’
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This mess is *entirely* of Labour’s own making
In opposition they promised to end sleaze and tighten money in politics.
They could have laid out plans for this as soon as they got into office
Instead they prevaricated. And this is the outcome. So depressing
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
In opposition they promised to end sleaze and tighten money in politics.
They could have laid out plans for this as soon as they got into office
Instead they prevaricated. And this is the outcome. So depressing
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Yes. I hope the Government can disown these comments and consider the position of whatever muppet spoke: Banning foreign political OR POLICY related donations (including pass throughs) is clearly in the interests of the British People. Sucking up to foreign rich donors is clearly not.
McCartney at the O2: incredible gig from our finest person.
December 18, 2024 at 11:03 PM
McCartney at the O2: incredible gig from our finest person.
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Obesity robs our kids of the best possible start in life, sets them up for a lifetime of health problems, and costs the NHS billions.
This Government is taking action now to end the targeting of junk food ads at kids, across both TV and online.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/gove...
This Government is taking action now to end the targeting of junk food ads at kids, across both TV and online.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/gove...
Junk food ad ban ‘will prevent an estimated 20,000 cases of childhood obesity’
The Government confirmed the laying of secondary legislation for the ban on Tuesday.
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Obesity robs our kids of the best possible start in life, sets them up for a lifetime of health problems, and costs the NHS billions.
This Government is taking action now to end the targeting of junk food ads at kids, across both TV and online.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/gove...
This Government is taking action now to end the targeting of junk food ads at kids, across both TV and online.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/gove...
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@catinthehat.bsky.social pointed out on X that symptomatic patients in NHS hospitals
*do not get tested for C19*
unless it will change management, specifically treatment of the case.
Which is negligent.
C19 testing should be done to cohort and isolate cases.
*do not get tested for C19*
unless it will change management, specifically treatment of the case.
Which is negligent.
C19 testing should be done to cohort and isolate cases.
December 3, 2024 at 7:17 AM
@catinthehat.bsky.social pointed out on X that symptomatic patients in NHS hospitals
*do not get tested for C19*
unless it will change management, specifically treatment of the case.
Which is negligent.
C19 testing should be done to cohort and isolate cases.
*do not get tested for C19*
unless it will change management, specifically treatment of the case.
Which is negligent.
C19 testing should be done to cohort and isolate cases.