Trevor McCarthy
@mrtrevmccarthy.bsky.social
Independent consultant: mainly alcohol & other drugs issues. Failing to retire gracefully.
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🦆POLITICAL THEORY🦆 If it looks like a 🦆 Swims like a 🦆and Quacks like a 🦆 It’s probably a 🦆 The far out people who know you’re even further out than them, tell you they actually draw the line at voting for 🦆🦆 What next? Make the 🦆an adviser www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Badenoch gives former neo-Nazi advisory role after he withdraws as Tory candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, who was convicted of harassing Jewish MP, says Badenoch has asked him to work with party’s culture and integration commission
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👀🇵🇸 If UK Charities have been funnelling money to help finance illegal settlements that looks more like terrorism than UK citizens holding up cardboard signs supporting activists who, amongst other things, oppose illegal settlements … www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Charity Commission to investigate donations to illegal Israeli settlements
Official action by regulator for England and Wales comes after formal complaint made by Labour MP about the funds
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The choice was never to lockdown or not because the system was never capable to withstand a non-lockdown scenario. The choice was only WHEN to lockdown. The earlier the better and shorter, which didn't happen. Also 'expertise' was largely ignored on those decisions. www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journal...
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The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 7d ago“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.
They absolutely cannot claim they didn’t know. There was a whole thing with the chief whip four months ago. In three months the same people will be yelling about poppies before standing sombrely at the cenotaph.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d agoFormer neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
The Bin in the White Suit. @CountBinface #binface #ClactonOnSea #farage
The Odyssey So: ☑️ Have read the 📕 ☑️ Have listened to @nataliehaynes.bsky.social on the 📻 ☑️ Have seen Christopher Nolan’s 🎥 Now fully qualified to do a review … 🥁🥁🥁 Well … It’s a bit blokey
New article: David Lloyd recalls his time as keyboardist in the 1980s #HMHB (subscription but not payment required). www.livpost.co.uk/i-was-nt-a-t...
I Was(n’t) a Teenage Pop Star
My time as a Half Man Half Biscuit
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👿 Pact between forces of evil still a work in progress … www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Restore leader accuses Farage of ‘outright lying’ over pact offer but says his party ‘remains open’ – UK politics live
Rupert Lowe says no talks have taken place after the Reform UK leader said he was ‘open to conversation’ on some sort of electoral deal
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.@theguardian.com has covered our report on Westminster's drinking culture. The research found alcohol remains deeply embedded in parliamentary life, with many MPs and staff questioning whether that reflects a modern workplace. Read the article 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘MPs have had their stomachs pumped’: concerns over ‘alcohol-soaked’ culture in Westminster
Alcohol is embedded in profession where long hours, loneliness and lobbying are the norm, report finds
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East Sussex County Council leader Andy Woolley reported a cafe owner + a Labour MP for criticising a decision made by the council he leads claims to have been attacked online and accused them of inciting hate and potential violence What’ll he do if investigative journalists look into his affairs?
Winny 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽🇵🇸@winny3001.bsky.social · 6d agoThe Grumpy Cook website has a ‘Pay It Forward’ scheme where you can pay for a range of meals for people who may be struggling. These range from a small breakfast through to a family pack lunch and also including a child’s meal. The prices are suggested and start at £2.00. grumpycook.co.uk/shop/
Just about to send of this month's newsletter, with news, occasional recipes, work in progress, and this week, the chance to win a signed copy of my upcoming book. Not signed up yet? Do it here! www.joanne-harris.co.uk
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👀 🇵🇸🇮🇱💭 Many people - not least in governments - still believe in the Behavioural Economics concept of “Nudge” … Perhaps we could gently encourage our governments to stop supplying arms, ammunition and spare parts to 🇮🇱 to assist decision making … Just a 💭 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Trump says ‘complete disarmament’ of Hamas agreed in Gaza but Israel yet to accept
US president hails breakthrough, but Israeli far-right minister says ‘only solution’ is ‘encouraging emigration and destroying Hamas’
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✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton
If anyone has reached out to these chancers and actually got a response, please let me know?
Beth Cato@bethcato.bsky.social · last wk.Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com
Human relationships are a good thing in medicine, and vital if Primary Care is going to work. Holding risks is an important part of healthcare, and getting the balance right may vary from one person to another. From @helensalisbury.bsky.social in the @bmj.com. #MedSky www.bmj.com/content/393/...
👀✍🏼 Sentence completion exercise with an exciting variant … “Zack Polanski is just fundamentally too …………………………… to be the leader etc …”
Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · last wk.Zack Polanski is just fundamentally too online to be the leader of a political party.
👀 The endless list of things Chris Philp manages to be effortlessly wrong about continues … www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Tory MP accuses French navy of firing ‘warning’ shots near him in Channel
Chris Philp says shots were ‘deliberate intimidation’ while he filmed interview on small boats crisis but France says it was training exercise
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Lacks awareness Starmer & Co ejected anyone left of Tom Watson Corbyn attempted wider representation: the Blair faction had a tantrum, refusing to serve, preferring committee roles instead, etc Labour works best as a broad atheist church The right is toxic www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham brings members of Socialist Campaign Group into government
The appointment of three ministerial aides marks the first time members of Labour’s most leftwing faction have held government positions
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Seems like a good time for a re-read of The Truth… “The world is made up of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. This is a fact well known even to Corporal Nobbs. It’s also wrong. There’s a fifth element, and generally it’s called Surprise.” —Terry Pratchett
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
No one should go to a Pride event and not come home. We're sending our love and solidarity to everyone at Berlin Pride.
Police hunt for suspect after one killed and 16 injured in attack at Berlin Pride
Authorities ask for help finding 21-year-old, identified only as Abdul B, after van ramming in German capital
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🚨👀 Any suggestion that, for example, Reform UK Party Limited & / or the lovely ⚫️ Richard Tice ⚫️ Nigel Farage ⚫️ Fiona & George Cottrell are in any way implicated in dodgy political party funding is … subject to active Police investigation So that’s a relief www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Police investigate payments to Reform UK first revealed by The Guardian
Scotland Yard is looking at two £250,000 donations to the party by Britain Means Business before the 2024 election
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