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ShropshireGreenMan
@shropshiregreenman.bsky.social
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Retired manager, now seller of old stuff. Living in Shropshire with a Welsh dragon. Formerly Shropshire Green Man on Twitter. Once a Tory voter but never going back there. Now politically homeless but left leaning.

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shropshiregreenman.bsky.social
Apparently, today is Blue Monday, the saddest and most depressing day of the year, so I'm sharing a picture of a pair of boobies to cheer everyone up, because who doesn't love boobies?
January 19, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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bookjawns.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 2:48 AM
shropshiregreenman.bsky.social
Wow...a £40m monument to promote Christianity. I wonder whst Jesus would have made of it? 🤔

news.sky.com/video/work-s...
Work starts on UK's largest Christian landmark
More than double the height of the Angel of the North, the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer will contain one million bricks, each linked to a story of answered prayer accessible through smartphones.
news.sky.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
“Reform UK…A party that promised to be ‘different’ seems instead to be collecting ex-Tories like Panini stickers, except instead of legends you’re mostly getting the ones that never made the starting team”

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
Reform’s poll numbers are slipping because Yorkshire folk are not daft - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: David Ingham, Ripon.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
shropshiregreenman.bsky.social
Some dogs just appreciate the spirit of Christmas more than others...
December 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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tokarski.bsky.social
Facebook, Instagram, X are simply banned in Russia. No US outrage about free speech there—yet the EU is the target. That contrast says a lot.
December 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
shropshiregreenman.bsky.social
Very impressed with these miniature Christmas trees being sold on Tesco's fruit and veg department today. 😏

Merry Christmas everyone!
December 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
FINANCIAL TIMES I was amused - and saddened - to read the latest instalment of the Brexiters' excuses for the poor performance over recent years of the UK economy and the UK's politics. In "Implementation of Brexit became a business fiasco" (Markets Insight, December 19), Paul Marshall acknowledges the cost of the UK's decision to leave the EU. But rather than acknowledge that his analysis was wrong - cutting ties with your biggest trading partner is never a good idea - Marshall blames bad implementation, and the fact that the EU didn't cut the UK some slack. Implementation of Brexit by the UK has indeed been poor, but that's a direct consequence of the political crisis that everyone should have expected following such a major decision on the back of one simple 52/48 referendum vote at the conclusion of a mind-bogglingly uninformed debate by both sides. That includes the Brexiters' naive insistence that the EU would bend to UK demands and grant it all sorts of privileges not enjoyed by others. So, the roughly 8 per cent of GDP loss in UK output since the Brexit decision in 2016 is easily explained by three perfectly predictable factors: it was a bad economic decision; it has split UK society politically; and the EU27 has moved on. It's time for those who led the UK down this disastrous path to stand up and acknowledge their wrong analysis and naive understanding of Europe. Until that happens, how can one even hope that the UK will begin to heal? Erik Fossing Nielsen Senior Adviser, Independent Economics (a London-based economics advisory firm); Former Chief Economist, UniCredit, and Former Chief European Economist, Goldman Sachs, Berlin, Germany
December 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
shropshiregreenman.bsky.social
After a brief foray into using Threads, I've been watching it go the same way as the other platforms, with its level of algorithmic control, so I'm back here again!
darrigomelanie.bsky.social Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · Dec 19
The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies.

They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.

Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
December 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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t-rexit.bsky.social
Hey Labour!
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Donald Trump destroyed public service broadcasting in the US - it's little surprise Nigel Farage wants to do the same thing here.

Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
shropshiregreenman.bsky.social
Wow...Shabana Mahmood was very impressive this morning. Left that interview with Laura Kuenssberg in her pocket!
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
shropshiregreenman.bsky.social
This is very good news. Can anybody even name theirs, which political party they represent and what they are supposed to do?

I thought not!

BBC News - Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales
The government says it will save £100m over this Parliament and less than 20% of voters can name their PCC.
www.bbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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centristmum.bsky.social
This does feel like key information tbh. Wonder why budding tyrant Donald Trump would want to muzzle a trusted independent news source 🤔
johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · Nov 11
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
shropshiregreenman.bsky.social
Wow...old data but not much has changed. Let's see that factored into the BBC Royal Charter review!
bladeofthes.bsky.social BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · Nov 10
You might have thought Question Time was biased.

But you never realised how much.

UKIP never even had a single MP.
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
shropshiregreenman.bsky.social
Wow...huge!

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit - BBC News
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit
Deborah Turness, the CEO of news, says “mistakes have been made”.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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marklemley.bsky.social
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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politicsintheuk.bsky.social
Between 2010–2024, 860 prisoners were accidentally released under the Conservatives. Yet the first and second accidental releases under Labour are getting more headlines than all 860 Tory f***-ups combined.
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
shropshiregreenman.bsky.social
Americans in Colorado have just explicitly voted to tax higher earners to fund school meals for all kids in the state. Imagine if democracy was as clear and functional as this in the UK...
lucky7deb.bsky.social Lucky7Deb @lucky7deb.bsky.social · Nov 5
This is how it looked on the ballot.
Clear and easy to understand.
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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stevefm20.bsky.social
Yep
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
shropshiregreenman.bsky.social
Is he building the ballroom crooked?

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
How Trump is remaking the White House in his own image - BBC News
How Trump is remaking the White House in his own image - BBC News
A visual guide to Donald Trump's unprecedented transformation of the presidential residence.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage gets an easy ride from the media. They give him as much airtime as he wants but never hold him to account for the damage he’s done.

So much of what’s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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politicsastar.bsky.social
Sophy Ridge recognises the danger to democracy of right wing politicians like Nigel Farage presenting their own shows on GB News because that avoids proper Qs & scrutiny.

So why doesn’t OFCOM, which repeatedly fails to act?

#skynews #GBNews #bbclaurak

inews.co.uk/news/media/s...
Sophy Ridge: Why politicians like Nigel Farage shouldn't be TV presenters
Sky News's morning host says politicians should get off GB News and face proper grilling
inews.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM