Michelle
@fuzzydog68.bsky.social
UK Social worker. Did some telly in a previous life. I bloody love dancing. I block people who have zero biogs
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I only recently listened to this extraordinary 10 part podcast - Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring by @peterjukes.bsky.social and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social . It’s gripping, chilling, and deeply disturbing. The facts of Russian intrusion into UK politics laid bare, in horrifying fashion.
Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social spell out what needs to happen - the same demand we’ve made for years.
We need a real, independent inquiry 🧵
🎧 Hear the full story: the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg...
We need a real, independent inquiry 🧵
🎧 Hear the full story: the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg...
December 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I only recently listened to this extraordinary 10 part podcast - Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring by @peterjukes.bsky.social and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social . It’s gripping, chilling, and deeply disturbing. The facts of Russian intrusion into UK politics laid bare, in horrifying fashion.
NF..
I think anyone who ever thought NF was anything other than an establishment figure needs their head examined.
December 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
NF..
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I don't think we were meant to have all the music, all the time tbh
December 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I don't think we were meant to have all the music, all the time tbh
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Senior MPs including Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and Darren Jones are claiming tens of thousands of pounds a year in taxpayer-funded rent expenses while either calling for or implementing benefit cuts on the poorest
By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
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Revealed: MPs rack up huge rent expenses while pushing through cuts to benefits
MPs are allowed to rent a second home, but while they are simultaneously cutting benefits for the vulnerable, the cost feels hard to swallow.
www.bigissue.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Senior MPs including Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and Darren Jones are claiming tens of thousands of pounds a year in taxpayer-funded rent expenses while either calling for or implementing benefit cuts on the poorest
By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
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Labour 2024 (33%) has nearly half of its voters considering Greens/LibDems; about 15% of electorate say Labour/Green considerers. Lab/LDem similar
< 1/10 (about 3% of electorate are Labour voters attracted by Reform
Labour could get back 1/4 who voted Green 2024 but only 1/50 of Reform 2024 voters
< 1/10 (about 3% of electorate are Labour voters attracted by Reform
Labour could get back 1/4 who voted Green 2024 but only 1/50 of Reform 2024 voters
November 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Labour 2024 (33%) has nearly half of its voters considering Greens/LibDems; about 15% of electorate say Labour/Green considerers. Lab/LDem similar
< 1/10 (about 3% of electorate are Labour voters attracted by Reform
Labour could get back 1/4 who voted Green 2024 but only 1/50 of Reform 2024 voters
< 1/10 (about 3% of electorate are Labour voters attracted by Reform
Labour could get back 1/4 who voted Green 2024 but only 1/50 of Reform 2024 voters
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The reason why the ECHR matters in under two minutes from the society of labour lawyers …
"The reason why the reactionary right hate the ECHR is because it gives ordinary citizens the right against the secretive and authoritarian state that they want."
–George Peretz KC, Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers, speaking at our conference rally.
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–George Peretz KC, Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers, speaking at our conference rally.
@georgeperetzkc.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The reason why the ECHR matters in under two minutes from the society of labour lawyers …
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November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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love this time of year where stores distill gender options down to “assigned perfume and diamonds at birth” or “assigned whiskey and multipurpose knives at birth” for gift giving purposes
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
love this time of year where stores distill gender options down to “assigned perfume and diamonds at birth” or “assigned whiskey and multipurpose knives at birth” for gift giving purposes
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
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I just don't get this obsession from the (far) Right with being pure English. Surely I can be patriotic and love my country (difficult as that is, at times) despite being a good old mix and surely as an island that has been invaded many times over the centuries, that is what we all are.
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I just don't get this obsession from the (far) Right with being pure English. Surely I can be patriotic and love my country (difficult as that is, at times) despite being a good old mix and surely as an island that has been invaded many times over the centuries, that is what we all are.
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
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Important Reform/Lowe/Robinson supporters know it’s an Algerian, Muslim immigrant Samir Zitouni, who saved lives armed with just a frying pan putting himself between a British knifeman & train passengers
He was stabbed in the head & neck saving a girl..
Yet racists will still hate him ❗️
He was stabbed in the head & neck saving a girl..
Yet racists will still hate him ❗️
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Important Reform/Lowe/Robinson supporters know it’s an Algerian, Muslim immigrant Samir Zitouni, who saved lives armed with just a frying pan putting himself between a British knifeman & train passengers
He was stabbed in the head & neck saving a girl..
Yet racists will still hate him ❗️
He was stabbed in the head & neck saving a girl..
Yet racists will still hate him ❗️
Bloody immigrants...
November 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Bloody immigrants...
I have a potential rock star career ahead of me. I'm just not that fussed about it to be honest
Yesterday I saw someone say most people have a novel in them but they elect not to write it and I've decided that's true in the same way that I personally have a marathon in me I'm just electing not to run it.
October 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I have a potential rock star career ahead of me. I'm just not that fussed about it to be honest
Mon dieu!
Touché
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Mon dieu!
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We all know that the UK could have a well-funded university system without heaping debt on the heads of students, if politicians wanted it to.
That's the only thing to say, really. Every dysfunction is a choice. A choice made by politicians, not by lecturers or students.
That's the only thing to say, really. Every dysfunction is a choice. A choice made by politicians, not by lecturers or students.
October 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We all know that the UK could have a well-funded university system without heaping debt on the heads of students, if politicians wanted it to.
That's the only thing to say, really. Every dysfunction is a choice. A choice made by politicians, not by lecturers or students.
That's the only thing to say, really. Every dysfunction is a choice. A choice made by politicians, not by lecturers or students.
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Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
October 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
Agree. Great reminder that celebs are just ordinary people who we happen to know from the telly
What #CelebrityTraitors has proved to me so far (having watched three seasons of the non-celebrity kind)
Celebrities aren't smarter than ordinary people, are more likely to move as a pack and enjoy being traitors too much
Celebrities aren't smarter than ordinary people, are more likely to move as a pack and enjoy being traitors too much
October 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Agree. Great reminder that celebs are just ordinary people who we happen to know from the telly
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October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
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My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
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Big "Hurrah for the blackshirts!" moment for the Express.
October 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Big "Hurrah for the blackshirts!" moment for the Express.
I agree
if I drink three glasses of wine and I eat a large cheesteak and I get home to find the lift in my building isn't working then there should be someone I ought to be able to sue, in a court of law
October 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I agree
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This.
Zack Polanski’s response to the Manchester terror attack has been a masterclass in mature statesmanship.
Soulful, human, eloquent, empathetic, nuanced, confident and focused on healing.
And bold. It has shone in contrast to so much weaponising or ill thought through commentary.
Thank you Zack. 💪
Soulful, human, eloquent, empathetic, nuanced, confident and focused on healing.
And bold. It has shone in contrast to so much weaponising or ill thought through commentary.
Thank you Zack. 💪
October 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This.
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Farage’s main sponsors, tobacco companies Philip Morris International and Japan Tobacco International, are recognized international sponsors of the war against Ukraine center-life.org/en/news/pmi-...
PMI and JTI lead the way in revenue in Russia, sponsoring the war against Ukraine | Громадська організація "ЖИТТЯ"
The tobacco companies Philip Morris International and Japan Tobacco International, which are recognized international sponsors of the war against Ukraine, received the largest revenue in Russia among ...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Farage’s main sponsors, tobacco companies Philip Morris International and Japan Tobacco International, are recognized international sponsors of the war against Ukraine center-life.org/en/news/pmi-...