Simon Young 🇬🇧

Simon Young 🇬🇧

@simonsubrosa.bsky.social

Escaped Twitter 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 🇻🇪 🇬🇧 British. Born in North London but lived most of my life in and around Leeds in Yorkshire. Christian, accountant, occasional cyclist, likes ska music and interested in history and politics.

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Alex Andreou
@sturdyalex.bsky.social

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

Simon Young 🇬🇧
@simonsubrosa.bsky.social

That is a bit of a Red Flag! 🚩

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Six Flags said it would add seat belts to some of its roller coaster rides after the death of a man at its theme park in Georgia this month.

washingtonpost.comSix Flags to add seat belts to some roller coasters after death in GeorgiaThe company said it was taking additional measures after Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, 42, died after falling from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia.

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Dr Ian McCormick
@wokestudies.bsky.social

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"Mosley was imprisoned and his party was outlawed in 1940 after the outbreak of the Second World War. Though he was released in 1943, Mosley was confined to political irrelevancy for the duration of his career, finally moving to France in 1951."

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Dr Ian McCormick
@wokestudies.bsky.social

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"Oswald Mosley was a former Conservative, Independent and Labour MP, whose sympathies with the Fascist leaders of central Europe, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, led to him and his extreme views" secretlibraryleeds.net/2019/06/14/o...

secretlibraryleeds.netOswald Mosley and Leeds – The Battle of Holbeck Moor 27th September 1936sign up to our heritage newsletter donate to leeds libraries This week Josh Flint uses the collection in the Local and Family History Department to examine Oswald Mosley and Fascism in Leeds during…

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Dr Ian McCormick
@wokestudies.bsky.social

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"With horse-mounted police forces shielding the fascists, Mosley climbed on top of a van and attempted to give a speech, but was quickly drowned out by protesters who had surrounded the van, singing the socialist song 'The Red Flag' repeatedly."

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Dr Ian McCormick
@wokestudies.bsky.social

Battle of Holbeck Moor, Leeds (1936): 30,000 anti-fascists with red flags and trade union banners turfed out Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts, who'd wanted to foment hatred against Jewish immigrant workers in the area. #racism #history #Fascism #antisemitism #Yorkshire #England #nationalism

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Purchase with Purpose
@purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social

⚠️ Google quietly changes privacy policy so your Gmail and Photos could be used in targeted ads The more valuable your information becomes, the more they will abuse it. We need to stop using their services.

dexerto.comGoogle quietly changes privacy policy so your Gmail and Photos could be used in targeted ads - DexertoGoogle has updated its privacy policy to allow personal information from Gmail, Google Photos, and Drive to potentially be used for targeted advertising.
Simon Young 🇬🇧
@simonsubrosa.bsky.social

UK restarts large-calibre weapon manufacturing after 20 years in defence push - Reuters Well done the thick economics of Trump and MAGA! I’d rather have a UK subsidiary of a German company make weapons in the UK than buy US military equipment apple.news/An4b9jVd1RLa...

apple.newsUK restarts large-calibre weapon manufacturing after 20 years in defence push — ReutersBritain said on Thursday it has started to manufacture large-calibre weapons for the ​first time in two decades, as part ‌of a plan to quickly boost domestic defence capacity due to a growing security...

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Jules⚖️📨
@northjules.bsky.social

Imagine tapping the screen for your chosen candidate and watching the machine switch your vote to Marsha Blackburn. Voters in Tennessee are sounding the alarm. Check your review screen carefully before you cast your ballot so your voice is actually heard. #TrumpsCrimesOnYourDime #Pinks ⭐️

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Farrukh
@implausibleblog.bsky.social

BBC News report that "President Trump must give evidence in an interview under oath by the end of the year, as part of his $10 billion defamation case against the BBC"

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CNN
@cnn.com

Judge warns Trump his $10B lawsuit against the BBC could be tossed over a fight for records and insists the president must sit for a deposition. https://cnn.it/4kbvT8o