Mike Taylor
@miketaylor9.bsky.social
Vegan father to 3 great feminists. Strong social values. Many years working for charities.
Sometimes write short stories:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0F1FRMTZQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
Sometimes write short stories:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0F1FRMTZQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
Expert on BBC News says Trump's #Ukraine peace plan is basically Putin's wish list.
It's not a 'peace deal’, it's a surrender to Russia that Europe cannot accept.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
It's not a 'peace deal’, it's a surrender to Russia that Europe cannot accept.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
Ukraine war live: Zelensky to speak with Trump after US ‘approves peace deal’
Ukraine would need to give up long-range missiles and slash its military force by half under terms of deal, officials say
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Expert on BBC News says Trump's #Ukraine peace plan is basically Putin's wish list.
It's not a 'peace deal’, it's a surrender to Russia that Europe cannot accept.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
It's not a 'peace deal’, it's a surrender to Russia that Europe cannot accept.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
The UK’s response to the coronavirus pandemic was “too little, too late”, with a "toxic and chaotic culture” at the heart of Number 10.
This was literally Vote Leave in power, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings totally out of their depth.
#CovidInquiry
#bbcpm
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
This was literally Vote Leave in power, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings totally out of their depth.
#CovidInquiry
#bbcpm
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Covid inquiry latest: UK’s pandemic response ‘too little, too late’, says chair
Damning report finds more than 20,000 lives could have been spared over spring and summer 2020 had restrictions started just seven days earlier
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The UK’s response to the coronavirus pandemic was “too little, too late”, with a "toxic and chaotic culture” at the heart of Number 10.
This was literally Vote Leave in power, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings totally out of their depth.
#CovidInquiry
#bbcpm
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
This was literally Vote Leave in power, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings totally out of their depth.
#CovidInquiry
#bbcpm
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
In BBC sitcom Mammoth, the brilliant Mike Bubbins plays Tony Mammoth, a 70s Welsh PE teacher who is cryogenically frozen in an avalanche in 1979. Cue culture clashes and gaffs delivered with fondness and real humour.
Really looking forward to series 2 next month.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Really looking forward to series 2 next month.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘I’m not in costume, these are my real clothes!’ Comic Mike Bubbins on his retro TV success
The former 70s-loving PE teacher has found cult acclaim with his sitcom Mammoth, about a time-travelling 70s PE teacher. The parallels don’t end there, he says, but some things from that era are best ...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
In BBC sitcom Mammoth, the brilliant Mike Bubbins plays Tony Mammoth, a 70s Welsh PE teacher who is cryogenically frozen in an avalanche in 1979. Cue culture clashes and gaffs delivered with fondness and real humour.
Really looking forward to series 2 next month.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Really looking forward to series 2 next month.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis.
Will our political leaders and media elite ever be honest about the need for people from abroad?
#r4today
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Will our political leaders and media elite ever be honest about the need for people from abroad?
#r4today
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis.
Will our political leaders and media elite ever be honest about the need for people from abroad?
#r4today
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Will our political leaders and media elite ever be honest about the need for people from abroad?
#r4today
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Good to hear Andy Burnham comment on Shabana Mahmood's cruel plans for refugees, noting the difficulty of implementing them and that they would hinder integration.
#r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#r4today
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Refugee in Shropshire shares concern over asylum proposals
Andrew Kueth has lived in Shrewsbury since 2021, after fleeing South Sudan in 2013.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Good to hear Andy Burnham comment on Shabana Mahmood's cruel plans for refugees, noting the difficulty of implementing them and that they would hinder integration.
#r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
'The Movement'. Farage's partner Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
'The Movement'. Farage's partner Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
bylinetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein
'The Movement'. Farage's partner Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
'The Movement'. Farage's partner Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
Labour MP Clive Lewis hints he would give up his seat for Andy Burnham to challenge Keir Starmer's leadership.
Ironically, Lewis is well worth keeping in parliament but Starmer's lost and we must avoid the nightmare of Nigel Farage as PM.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Ironically, Lewis is well worth keeping in parliament but Starmer's lost and we must avoid the nightmare of Nigel Farage as PM.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Labour MP hints he would give up seat for Andy Burnham to mount leadership challenge
It comes amid reports that MPs on the left of the party are pushing on with preparations for a potential leadership race
www.independent.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Labour MP Clive Lewis hints he would give up his seat for Andy Burnham to challenge Keir Starmer's leadership.
Ironically, Lewis is well worth keeping in parliament but Starmer's lost and we must avoid the nightmare of Nigel Farage as PM.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Ironically, Lewis is well worth keeping in parliament but Starmer's lost and we must avoid the nightmare of Nigel Farage as PM.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Defence secretary John Healey says there's a Russian spy ship on the edge of UK waters directing lasers at RAF pilots.
Putin's been undermining and attacking Britain and Europe for years.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Putin's been undermining and attacking Britain and Europe for years.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Britain lacks a plan to defend itself from military attack, MPs warn
At least 13 sites across the UK have been identified for new factories to make munitions and military explosives
www.independent.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Defence secretary John Healey says there's a Russian spy ship on the edge of UK waters directing lasers at RAF pilots.
Putin's been undermining and attacking Britain and Europe for years.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Putin's been undermining and attacking Britain and Europe for years.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
You can tell a lot about someone from the company they keep.
Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer have moved even further towards Farage and Reform. The Express and other appalling, dishonest and divisive people are thrilled.
Then again, it's a huge recruitment drive for the Green Party.
Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer have moved even further towards Farage and Reform. The Express and other appalling, dishonest and divisive people are thrilled.
Then again, it's a huge recruitment drive for the Green Party.
So far today Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been showered with praise by - checks notes - Far Right agitator Tommy Robinson, leader of the Conservatives Kemi Badenoch, the Daily Express and GB News.
November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
You can tell a lot about someone from the company they keep.
Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer have moved even further towards Farage and Reform. The Express and other appalling, dishonest and divisive people are thrilled.
Then again, it's a huge recruitment drive for the Green Party.
Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer have moved even further towards Farage and Reform. The Express and other appalling, dishonest and divisive people are thrilled.
Then again, it's a huge recruitment drive for the Green Party.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's Asylum Plan 'Conflates Control With Cruelty'.
Starmer won't tell the truth about immigration, won't defend human rights and won't stand up to Britain's far right media elite.
People didn't vote Labour to get Reform UK.
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Starmer won't tell the truth about immigration, won't defend human rights and won't stand up to Britain's far right media elite.
People didn't vote Labour to get Reform UK.
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Mahmood's Asylum Plan 'Conflates Control With Cruelty'
Migration experts condemn Home Secretary's refugee plans, saying the policy 'doesn't account for the reality of human experience', in conversation with Adrian Goldberg for the Byline Podcast
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's Asylum Plan 'Conflates Control With Cruelty'.
Starmer won't tell the truth about immigration, won't defend human rights and won't stand up to Britain's far right media elite.
People didn't vote Labour to get Reform UK.
open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...
Starmer won't tell the truth about immigration, won't defend human rights and won't stand up to Britain's far right media elite.
People didn't vote Labour to get Reform UK.
open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Water company United Utilities enjoys 131% rise in profits after bills go up £112.
UU has 205+ criminal convictions.
Loses over 175bn litres of water to leaks. In 2024 dumped sewage 450,778 hours in rivers//akes. No exec prosecuted/fined
Rewarded with higher price and profit.
archive.ph/7aP8O
UU has 205+ criminal convictions.
Loses over 175bn litres of water to leaks. In 2024 dumped sewage 450,778 hours in rivers//akes. No exec prosecuted/fined
Rewarded with higher price and profit.
archive.ph/7aP8O
Water company enjoys 131% rise in profits after bills go up £112
United Utilities, whose executives are barred from receiving bonuses because of pollution record, will pay out most of the increase in dividends
www.thetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Water company United Utilities enjoys 131% rise in profits after bills go up £112.
UU has 205+ criminal convictions.
Loses over 175bn litres of water to leaks. In 2024 dumped sewage 450,778 hours in rivers//akes. No exec prosecuted/fined
Rewarded with higher price and profit.
archive.ph/7aP8O
UU has 205+ criminal convictions.
Loses over 175bn litres of water to leaks. In 2024 dumped sewage 450,778 hours in rivers//akes. No exec prosecuted/fined
Rewarded with higher price and profit.
archive.ph/7aP8O
Tommy Robinson regards Labour as having been converted to his far right, nationalist cause.
That's where Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and Shabana Mahmood have taken the party.
That's where Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and Shabana Mahmood have taken the party.
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Tommy Robinson regards Labour as having been converted to his far right, nationalist cause.
That's where Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and Shabana Mahmood have taken the party.
That's where Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and Shabana Mahmood have taken the party.
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood vows to end the UK’s ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers, deliberately playing to the Tories, Reform and GB News.
But none of them will start to back Labour, while progressive people abandon the party ever more quickly.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
But none of them will start to back Labour, while progressive people abandon the party ever more quickly.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Home secretary vows to end UK’s ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers - live updates
Refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently under radical asylum reforms
www.independent.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood vows to end the UK’s ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers, deliberately playing to the Tories, Reform and GB News.
But none of them will start to back Labour, while progressive people abandon the party ever more quickly.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
But none of them will start to back Labour, while progressive people abandon the party ever more quickly.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Marjorie Taylor Greene, once a loyal ally of Donald Trump, has been deemed a “traitor” by him for supporting the release of the #EpsteinFiles.
We can guess why Trump's desperate for them not to come out.
#TrumpEpsteinPedoFiles
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
We can guess why Trump's desperate for them not to come out.
#TrumpEpsteinPedoFiles
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
US President blasts ally Marjorie Taylor Greene as MAGA rift deepens - live
Trump called Greene – who is expected to vote next week on a proposal to force the government to release more Epstein files – a ‘ranting lunatic’
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene, once a loyal ally of Donald Trump, has been deemed a “traitor” by him for supporting the release of the #EpsteinFiles.
We can guess why Trump's desperate for them not to come out.
#TrumpEpsteinPedoFiles
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
We can guess why Trump's desperate for them not to come out.
#TrumpEpsteinPedoFiles
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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November 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
Trump says he will sue BBC for between $1 billion and $5 billion despite apology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president told reporters on Air Force One that he will take legal action against the broadcaster and will call Sir Keir Starmer over the weekend.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
Shabana Mahmood is now seen by many as the leader of Blue Labour, the reactionary clique at the centre of the government. She wants to make life harder not just for new but previous refugees in the UK.
This Reform-lite Labour only drives voters away.
This Reform-lite Labour only drives voters away.
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Shabana Mahmood is now seen by many as the leader of Blue Labour, the reactionary clique at the centre of the government. She wants to make life harder not just for new but previous refugees in the UK.
This Reform-lite Labour only drives voters away.
This Reform-lite Labour only drives voters away.
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When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
The convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein served as an adviser to the former Trump official and Maga influencer Steve Bannon during an August 2018 media campaign to defend Trump and his agenda.
They're all linked.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
They're all linked.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon during 2018 pro-Trump media campaign
Text messages released by US House show convicted sex offender coaching Maga influencer on political messaging
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein served as an adviser to the former Trump official and Maga influencer Steve Bannon during an August 2018 media campaign to defend Trump and his agenda.
They're all linked.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
They're all linked.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Keir Starmer is under pressure from Labour MPs to sack Morgan McSweeney, his controversial chief of staff, after back-firing attempts to see off leadership rivals.
It's McSweeney who encourages the Reform-lite approach driving away so many Labour voters.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
It's McSweeney who encourages the Reform-lite approach driving away so many Labour voters.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Starmer aide is ‘toast’ as botched briefing ends in ‘epic own goal’
PM declines to back his right hand man after ‘epic own goal’ over coup plot rumours
www.independent.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Keir Starmer is under pressure from Labour MPs to sack Morgan McSweeney, his controversial chief of staff, after back-firing attempts to see off leadership rivals.
It's McSweeney who encourages the Reform-lite approach driving away so many Labour voters.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
It's McSweeney who encourages the Reform-lite approach driving away so many Labour voters.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
In newly released emails, Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump “spent hours at my house” with a victim of sex trafficking, and that Trump “knew about the girls…”
How is he still President?
#EpsteinTrumpCoverUp
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
How is he still President?
#EpsteinTrumpCoverUp
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump-Epstein email bombshells: From ‘hours’ spent with a victim to blackmail
‘That dog that hasn’t barked is trump,’ Epstein wrote to associate Ghislaine Maxwell in 2011
www.independent.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
In newly released emails, Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump “spent hours at my house” with a victim of sex trafficking, and that Trump “knew about the girls…”
How is he still President?
#EpsteinTrumpCoverUp
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
How is he still President?
#EpsteinTrumpCoverUp
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
Houchen’s deprivation failure exposed – official
Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
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Since the Paris Agreement, five oil and gas giants have caused $5 trillion in climate damage — while UK fossil fuel tax breaks still total £2.7 billion a year.
Small and medium-sized businesses want to act. Government policy must help them, not big polluters.
#COP30 #ClimateJustice
Small and medium-sized businesses want to act. Government policy must help them, not big polluters.
#COP30 #ClimateJustice
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Since the Paris Agreement, five oil and gas giants have caused $5 trillion in climate damage — while UK fossil fuel tax breaks still total £2.7 billion a year.
Small and medium-sized businesses want to act. Government policy must help them, not big polluters.
#COP30 #ClimateJustice
Small and medium-sized businesses want to act. Government policy must help them, not big polluters.
#COP30 #ClimateJustice