@andymidwin
Interested in politics, music, philosophy, travel, disability rights, education and rejoining EU. Taught for 30 years, examiner for A level and then a consultant. Co-author of Aspiration, Resilience and Awareness. A resource book for teaching careers.
PSA: Before this "dislike" thing gets out of hand, because I've seen some very big accounts misinforming people, here's what it actually is.
It's a private option that lets you see less of topics you're not interested in on certain feeds. That's it.
It's not a downvote, thumbs down, etc.
He didn't "misspeak". He lied. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Last November Farage told Sky News:
“I’ve just exchanged contracts on the house that I’ll be living there in – is that good enough?… *I’ve bought a house in Clacton* What more do you want me to do?”
Oh, I dunno Nigel.
Tell the truth?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage returns from his “talking down Britain tour” in the US to address party faithful today.
there’s a tweet for every occasion
You pathetic little shit rag…
Mamdani’s dad a professor, his mum a filmmaker
Have the Mail EVER referred to Trump or our own homegrown Johnson this way, despite being the most hideously privileged over promoted nepo-babies?
The greta video
Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%
etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
“We are united against this sort of gutter politics”
🟡 Senior SNP MP @petewishart.bsky.social says Reform UK advert targeting Anas Sarwar is ‘racist‘
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The Observer was sold out of the Guardian Media Group (owned by the Scott Trust) a few weeks ago. It's now owned - like most UK media - by a billionaire-backed consortium.
And hey presto - a puff piece for the Kinder, Küche, Kirche women of Reform!
Emails released to Byline Times reveal how David Cameron helped his old Etonian school friend get to the front of the queue for COVID contracts
Correspondence reveals how senior Tories leveraged their connections at the start of the pandemic
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/01/d...
This is good. And entirely of a piece with where we’ve ended up on the show.
Thames Water has its final legal appeal to allow its £3bn loan tomorrow (at 10% interest that billpayers will pay)
If it gets it, it goes bankrupt in 6 months anyway, and you will have to pay it all
If it doesn't it goes bankrupt tomorrow
RT if Thames Water needs to die
If Trump/Vance meeting with Zelenskyy wasn’t a calculated set-up, why was Russian state media there?
www.thedailybeast.com/msnbcs-rache...
BBC obsesses on Rachel Reeves but not Reforms James McMurdock whose CV doesn’t add up👇🏼
He says he worked at at Lehmans (it had gone bust when he claimed to be there)
He claims he dealt with Corporate Loans -they require FCA Reg but I couldn’t find him..
His bizs went bust
@adambienkov.bsky.social
I teach a class called "Politics of the Internet," and one thing I end up talking about is internet adages. The list I cover:
Godwin's Law
Poe's Law
The Streisand Effect
Don't feed the trolls
The Rule of Goats
Any big ones I missed? Things along those lines I should add?
Grok claims Churchill and Cameron attended inaugurations
No UK PM has ever attended a US presidential inauguration.
One reason the ill informed might be insisting otherwise is Musk's Grok... which is wrong.
Starmer slaps down Musk and points the finger at Badenoch
The PM’s response to the far right billionaire was overdue… but near-perfect
@theneweuropean.bsky.social
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/starmer-slap...
The Conservative party accuses Keir Starmer of refusing to take child abuse seriously.
In other news, here's former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson complaining about £60 million being "spaffed up the wall" investigating historic child abuse cases
“The Conservative Party leader’s refusal to criticise the X owner’s dangerous misinformation campaign against the UK should exclude her from ever returning to high office” @adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/06/k...
Q: At what point did Kemi Badenoch’s Tories decide that Alexis Jay's exhaustive, 460-page report on child sexual abuse, published in October 2022, was inadequate?
A: When they decided they wanted to curry favour with Elon Musk.
by @stephenkb.bsky.social
If you think more privitisation is good for the NHS.
Ask yourself, why hasn't it helped with water? Or energy? Or transport? Or in fact anything ever?
Rivers full of sewage, energy bills through the roof whilst record profits are recorded and disrupted expensive travel. Let this be a warning.
Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get £60,000 a year for driving a train.
But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets £30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK.
Or the £250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.
Love your children?
And your grandchildren?
Do you love your friends and family?
The countryside? Wildlife?
Then DON’T vote Reform.
They are trying to kill the planet as fast as possible
Omg @uklabour.bsky.social what is wrong with you?
Imagine Bill Gates was offering to give you millions. How wrong would that be? VERY wrong. I would expect ppl to go mad.
NO foreign billionaire should be trying to buy a govt.
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity
Lambs resist calls to close slaughterhouse
🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/l...
Laura Kuenssberg: "We'll never know whether the Rwanda plan would have worked"
After it ran for over two years, cost £700m and resulted in 3 volunteers being paid to leave.
