Ben Johnson
@sillythirdman.bsky.social
Professional Yorkshireman, Beatles nerd, anti-fascist, Roger Moore apologist .
@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social Hi Caitlin. Ages ago you posted some art prints I think you'd bought of The Beatles Rooftop gig. I think this might have been on Twitter. Can you please tell me the name of the artist? Many thanks.
September 21, 2026 at 6:45 PM
@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social Hi Caitlin. Ages ago you posted some art prints I think you'd bought of The Beatles Rooftop gig. I think this might have been on Twitter. Can you please tell me the name of the artist? Many thanks.
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If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.
July 18, 2026 at 7:33 AM
If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.
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May 22, 2026 at 11:51 AM
This bloody club...#lufc
April 5, 2026 at 6:37 PM
This bloody club...#lufc
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For all of you concerned about your holidays 🙄
March 1, 2026 at 10:36 PM
For all of you concerned about your holidays 🙄
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As the price of natural gas spikes across Europe for the fourth time in the last five years remember those extremely clever people in Reform and the Conservatives who want to abandon renewable energy and rely even more on gas 🤡 🤡
March 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
As the price of natural gas spikes across Europe for the fourth time in the last five years remember those extremely clever people in Reform and the Conservatives who want to abandon renewable energy and rely even more on gas 🤡 🤡
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Reacting to Labour's devastating loss to the Green Party in Gorton and Denton, Keir Starmer claims that only Labour can unite communities. I agree. He convinced Muslims to vote for a white working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish man.
February 27, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Reacting to Labour's devastating loss to the Green Party in Gorton and Denton, Keir Starmer claims that only Labour can unite communities. I agree. He convinced Muslims to vote for a white working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish man.
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
news.sky.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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William Shakespeare wrote this speech 400 years ago about people in London wishing that immigrants go back to where they came from, performed by Sir Ian McKellen on the Stephen Colbert show:
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM
William Shakespeare wrote this speech 400 years ago about people in London wishing that immigrants go back to where they came from, performed by Sir Ian McKellen on the Stephen Colbert show:
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February 7, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Just a word of thanks to our fantastic media. Despite my racist bullying at school, having a senior colleague imprisoned for being a traitor, breaking the MP’s Code Of Conduct 17 times, my dodgy house purchase and even being in the Epstein Files, nobody is demanding I resign!
February 6, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Just a word of thanks to our fantastic media. Despite my racist bullying at school, having a senior colleague imprisoned for being a traitor, breaking the MP’s Code Of Conduct 17 times, my dodgy house purchase and even being in the Epstein Files, nobody is demanding I resign!
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Postie brought a leaflet from Reform UK today, in Glasgow. Incl a 2nd Class postage paid envelop. If you get one, remember to post the envelop back to them, empty or perhaps with a special message. Every envelop returned will cost them 85p. If every Glasgow household does that, cost will be £250K 😂
December 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Postie brought a leaflet from Reform UK today, in Glasgow. Incl a 2nd Class postage paid envelop. If you get one, remember to post the envelop back to them, empty or perhaps with a special message. Every envelop returned will cost them 85p. If every Glasgow household does that, cost will be £250K 😂
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These "I'm not a racist but..." types need half an hour listening to this lass, who should be made President of South Yorkshire.
August 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
These "I'm not a racist but..." types need half an hour listening to this lass, who should be made President of South Yorkshire.
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I am begging, begging Labour to look at the last five decades and realise that catering to the far right has never, ever won their votes or succeeded at making Labour “look tough” on immigration.
Even at Blair’s peak, he was attacked for being weak on it.
Please. Just. Stop.
Even at Blair’s peak, he was attacked for being weak on it.
Please. Just. Stop.
Asked about the far right protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers, Labour minister James Murray tells Sky News that it's "absolutely right for people to protest about this"
July 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I am begging, begging Labour to look at the last five decades and realise that catering to the far right has never, ever won their votes or succeeded at making Labour “look tough” on immigration.
Even at Blair’s peak, he was attacked for being weak on it.
Please. Just. Stop.
Even at Blair’s peak, he was attacked for being weak on it.
Please. Just. Stop.
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You wouldn’t vacation in Dachau in 1935. Don’t vacation in Florida in 2025.
We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
July 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
You wouldn’t vacation in Dachau in 1935. Don’t vacation in Florida in 2025.
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💊The NHS is battling "medieval" levels of untreated illness in some of Britain's poorest communities – at a cost to the health service of about £50bn a year, or the same as the defence budget.
My big read from Barrow, Blackpool, Burnley and Blackburn:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My big read from Barrow, Blackpool, Burnley and Blackburn:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
June 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
💊The NHS is battling "medieval" levels of untreated illness in some of Britain's poorest communities – at a cost to the health service of about £50bn a year, or the same as the defence budget.
My big read from Barrow, Blackpool, Burnley and Blackburn:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My big read from Barrow, Blackpool, Burnley and Blackburn:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Time and again, those with the broadest shoulders contribute the least, while the most vulnerable are asked to tighten already-unbearable belts. Sunak pays a lower effective tax rate than a nurse. That should prompt reform at the top, not punishment at the bottom.
June 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Time and again, those with the broadest shoulders contribute the least, while the most vulnerable are asked to tighten already-unbearable belts. Sunak pays a lower effective tax rate than a nurse. That should prompt reform at the top, not punishment at the bottom.
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The BBC has confirmed it won’t air its documentary on Gaza’s medics. I know some of the journalists involved and they’re absolutely excellent. This statement is mealy-mouthed; you can’t “both sides” the facts on the ground of a genocide, and there’s a clear public interest in documenting those facts
June 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The BBC has confirmed it won’t air its documentary on Gaza’s medics. I know some of the journalists involved and they’re absolutely excellent. This statement is mealy-mouthed; you can’t “both sides” the facts on the ground of a genocide, and there’s a clear public interest in documenting those facts
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Join a union, now
The UK's largest trade union saw its membership jump by 200% in the 10 local authorities won by Reform at last month's local elections
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Union memberships surge in Reform-controlled councils
The development comes after Nigel Farage warned council staff working on diversity or climate change initiatives to "seek alternative careers" - comments some critics have dismissed as political postu...
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June 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Join a union, now
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Since becoming an MP, Nigel Farage has managed to fit in nine trips to the US, has held down twelve jobs, which earned him nearly £1million, but has been too busy to hold any surgeries for people in Clacton who actually voted for him.
June 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Since becoming an MP, Nigel Farage has managed to fit in nine trips to the US, has held down twelve jobs, which earned him nearly £1million, but has been too busy to hold any surgeries for people in Clacton who actually voted for him.
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Brexit was a referendum on whether the UK should leave the European Union.
The UK has left the European Union. Referendum fulfilled.
If the people bleating about "Brexit Betrayal" wanted the Referendum to enshrine their pet policy preferences, they should have included them in the question.
The UK has left the European Union. Referendum fulfilled.
If the people bleating about "Brexit Betrayal" wanted the Referendum to enshrine their pet policy preferences, they should have included them in the question.
May 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Brexit was a referendum on whether the UK should leave the European Union.
The UK has left the European Union. Referendum fulfilled.
If the people bleating about "Brexit Betrayal" wanted the Referendum to enshrine their pet policy preferences, they should have included them in the question.
The UK has left the European Union. Referendum fulfilled.
If the people bleating about "Brexit Betrayal" wanted the Referendum to enshrine their pet policy preferences, they should have included them in the question.
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Tell Reform voters about this as often as you can. Farage's agenda is exactly the same as Trump's - he'll just be better at dressing it up.
‘Resolute 1850’: Reform UK Ltd’s MAGA plan to turn Britain into Little America
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/res...
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‘Resolute 1850’: Reform UK Ltd’s MAGA plan to turn Britain into Little America
Right-wing US interests are pushing a plan to bend the UK to their will, ‘DOGE’-style – in Farage’s Reform UK they have an eager little helper
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
May 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Tell Reform voters about this as often as you can. Farage's agenda is exactly the same as Trump's - he'll just be better at dressing it up.
