Trevor McCarthy
@mrtrevmccarthy.bsky.social
Independent consultant: mainly alcohol & other drugs issues. Failing to retire gracefully.
If there's still anyone using Twitter, please post this.
Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4h agoLiar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
In a world filled with Israeli apologists - be more Gavin Bazunu. Also remember for tomorrow. Whatever you say, say nothing - about the match.
Two tier policing. Victoria Thomas Bowen, who chucked a milkshake at Farage, was given a 13-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months; had to pay him £150 compensation; had to complete 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £450 in court costs. It was nowhere near the level of violence of this assault.
Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d agoMan given conditional caution after Reform UK assault www.dudleynews.co.uk/news/2657192...
@labourlewis.bsky.social has written for @theguardian.com on Palantir, politicians and officials taking paid roles in the private sector and if I’ve understood correctly, something about closing Tom Watson’s integrity gap, so thanks for that mental image … www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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👀 What explains the response of Irish sports players, musicians & wider society to the plight of Palestinian people is the visceral depth of 🇮🇪 cultural memory; the response to stories of colonisation and particularly of people literally being starved It’s empathy✊🏻🇵🇸 www.nytimes.com/athletic/762...
Explained: Why two Republic of Ireland vs Israel matches have become so controversial
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“English” is an “ethnicity” in the same way that being right handed is music and speaking with short vowel sounds is maths. Yorkshire is godliness, obviously.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3d ago"Other countries have no qualms in limiting who can be part of their citizenry and use ethnicity and culture as criteria" says Braverman, of Reform. She wants to do that for English (a non-citizenship identity). To do it for citizenship too is a Restore argument that could exclude her
👀 Be grateful for small mercies … At least he’s not waving a cardboard sign … www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Happy Mabon/autumn equinox! This is a time of balance and reflection. The Harvest full moon will be here in a few days 🧡
👀👂🏻 This is an under-appreciated series - well worth a try 👍🏻
Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌕@chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d agoA friend put me onto this a while back, saying they thought it’d be my sort of thing. It is indeed my sort of thing. If you enjoy dark-fantasy-folk-horror I reckon it will be your sort of thing, too.
Really happy that our paper "‘You don’t want to be sat on a sticky seat’: a Q-methodological foraging analysis of pub consumer choice" is now published in the Journal of Marketing Management @jmmnews.bsky.social First 50 eprints are available free - www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PX8ZR...
‘You don’t want to be sat on a sticky seat’: a Q-methodological foraging analysis of pub consumer choice
This study investigates how consumers trade-off between various features when making pub choices, a previously underexplored area. Uniquely we apply foraging theory as a multi-level, ecologically b...
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👀✊🏻I’ve been looking forward to this concert for my whole life …
Jon Henley@jonhenley.bsky.social · last wk.Well how very French. In the flat (now a museum) of 19th century philosopher Auguste Comte, father of positivism, a voucher issued by a Paris theatre to disappointed ticket holders on February 24th 1848 after the evening's performance was "cancelled due to revolution"
👀 George Osborne got found out … Not for the first time … www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
George Osborne ‘thought Peter Thiel’s Bayeux tapestry visit would be secret’
British Museum chair tells Big Brue festival he thought no one would find out about the private viewing
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my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
Ooh Arrr! What’s that there on my shoulder? Etc … (It’s 🦜💩)
Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌕@chronicleflask.katday.com · last wk.Hey. Hey, everyone. Do you know what day it is? It’s Talk Like A Pirate day! Arrrrrrrr! 🦜
👀 Hmmm Wonder how Independent Piddington’s police and security services will manage the influx of far-right well-wishers from what are now, foreign parts … www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Unease in ‘newly independent’ Piddington as world media and Danny Tommo descend
As villagers take stock following symbolic vote, some fear far-right weaponisation of asylum dispute and influx of ‘masked people like in Dover’
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👀 The latest example of a US data crime syndicate employing a former elected UK politician, not remotely because of What they know but Who they know … Making the category error of forgetting that the people they know, by definition, know them … www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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👀 This is an observation offered the spirit of comradeship … Perhaps Labour would feel under less financial pressure if they hadn’t recently purged the membership of people who agreed politically with the first version of Keir Starmer … www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour holds No 10 drinks party for donors amid growing calls for donations cap
Labour has also increased fundraising from members in response to Reform’s £72m donations from crypto billionaires
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Odd that McLaren’s website seems to think their carbon hub is actually in, ahem, Rotherham … they do add ‘Sheffield area’
Chris Read@christophe-read.bsky.social · last wk.Hundreds of new high value manufacturing jobs created? That’ll be Sheffield. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland.
Hildur Knútsdóttir@hildur.bsky.social · 3y agoMy favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace. It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · 2w agoUCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY
For household applicants and utility bills, it would be so useful if the norm was to have a household account rather than having an item/warranty/monthly payment be tied to one person in a household. Similar to when you leave parent/carer details for a child and there are spaces for multiple ppl
👀 those fine folk @tufac.bsky.social are now raising money for the #RNLI by selling t-shirts 👍🏻👏🏻
TUFAC@tufac.bsky.social · 2w agoBut this tshirt and help us aid the #RNLI. Fuck the nonce bonnets
