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Dr Simon Perkins #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌻🌊

@simonperkins.bsky.social

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🇪🇺 🇳🇿 Pākehā living in the largest British region of *Europe* #FBPPR, #FBPE
I'm an academic and my research centres on 'affective economies' i.e. http://trigg.gr/ I've been on Twitter since 2007 i.e. https://twitter.com/SimonPerkins
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Dr Simon Perkins #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌻🌊 @simonperkins.bsky.social · a day
WWII resistance fighter Jean Lafaurie: "'They may have changed the way they talk to better deceive people, but the basis of the movement is still the same. Marine Le Pen has shown her ties with Putin. France is really in danger, but so is the whole of Europe at the moment', he said."
Avatar Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · a day
‘We’ve been there’: French Resistance fighters speak out against rule by the far right www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
‘We’ve been there’: French Resistance fighters speak out against rule by the far rightwww.france24.com In the run-up to the second round of legislative elections in France, former members of the resistance to Nazi rule are voicing their concerns over the possibility of a far-right government taking pow...
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Dr Simon Perkins #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌻🌊 @simonperkins.bsky.social · 2 days
"The wreckers, destroyers, bullies, incompetents, cronies and crass self-servers are gone. The Tory reign of error is over; ... Torn down by the people’s revenge, they were felled by their own hubris."
Avatar Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 2 days
“Celebrate: we have waited so long for this routing of the Tories. An unbearably rare moment of pure political joy. This is a moment to savour the worst of Tory sour breath being sucked out of politics…” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Celebrate: we have waited so long for this routing of the Tories. An unbearably rare moment of pure political joy | Polly Toynbeewww.theguardian.com Out with the scoundrels. There will be time to think about the massive tasks ahead for Labour, but – for now – marvel at what they have done, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Dr Simon Perkins #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌻🌊 @simonperkins.bsky.social · 8 days
"Boris Johnson’s government played fast and loose with the rule of law... Britain’s standing was diminished in the eyes of its allies. ... All too often since 2010, the Conservative party has prioritised management of its fractious party politics over sound governing of Britain."
Avatar The Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 8 days
Weird and more than a little disturbing that I’ve turned into the FT editorial view of politics. t.co/ZwLJYLS7mU
Britain needs a fresh startt.co The Conservatives have run out of road. Labour must be given a chance to govern
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Dr Simon Perkins #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌻🌊 @simonperkins.bsky.social · 12 days
"at least 1.57 billion items of PPE provided by the NHS supplier, Full Support Healthcare, will never be used, despite being manufactured to the proper standard. ... in 2021 the co-directors, Sarah Stoute, 50, and her husband Richard, 53, based the business offshore in Jersey for privacy reasons."
Avatar Cornish Skipper #FBPE🇪🇺🔶🌹 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 13 days
“Government lost £1.4bn on PPE contract…Afterwards, Mrs Stoute and her husband bought a £30m seafront villa in Barbados; a yacht; a £6m house in the south of England and an international equestrian centre in Bedfordshire.” #ToriesCorruptToTheCore www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government lost £1.4bn on PPE contract with Full Support Healthcarewww.bbc.co.uk The government's deal with Full Support Healthcare was one of the most wasteful of the pandemic.
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Dr Simon Perkins #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌻🌊 @simonperkins.bsky.social · 14 days
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Avatar Unofficial Guardian (World) Bot @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social · 14 days
Play it Safe: Sydney Opera House short film wins Grand Prix award at Cannes Lions festival
Play it Safe: Sydney Opera House short film wins Grand Prix award at Cannes Lions festivalwww.theguardian.com Judges say four-minute piece featuring Tim Minchin is ‘a celebration of the creative spirit, of brave ideas and taking huge risks in the face of critics’
'No one likes a show-off': Tim Minchin leads satirical clip for Sydney Opera House's 50thwww.youtube.com Also featuring Jimmy Barnes, Ziggy Ramo, Courtney Act, William Barton and John Bell as well as archival footage, the video is 'an ironic salute to the bold, ...
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Dr Simon Perkins #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌻🌊 @simonperkins.bsky.social · 17 days
"Anderson said the perception that same-sex sexual behaviour was rare in animals had fed into a narrative that it was 'unnatural' in humans." www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
Avatar Rachel F @bibli0rach.bsky.social · 18 days
Happy Pride!
Animal homosexual behaviour under-reported by scientists, survey showswww.theguardian.com Study finds same-sex sexual behaviour in primates and other mammals widely observed but seldom published
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Dr Simon Perkins #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌻🌊 @simonperkins.bsky.social · 18 days
I saw this epic bit of trolling yesterday, which I reckon is worth sharing. It's by Gary Peterson i.e. www.thepoke.com/2024/05/09/1... This is the source: twitter.com/GaryPeterson...
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Westie @westie1.bsky.social · 24 days
Don’t take the General Election result for granted. Vote for the candidate in your constituency who’s favourite to defeat your local scumbag Tory. #GTFTO #TacticalVote #VoteTactically tacticalvote.co.uk
Unite Against The Toriestacticalvote.co.uk Tactical Voting Can Stop The Tories
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Dixie @dixie.bsky.social · 1 mo
Led By Donkeys - NEW Narration by Carol Vorderman MUST WATCH 📽️
Tufton & the Tories 💰www.youtube.com REVEALED: the campaigners who dreamed up the contents of Liz Truss’s mini-budget have given the Conservative Party £35m(Location: 55 Tufton St. Collaboration...
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NylaNox FBPE @nylanox.bsky.social · 1 mo
Calling far right extremism 'populism' minimizes and even legitimizes it. theconversation.com/the-word-pop...
The word ‘populism’ is a gift to the far right – four reasons why we should stop using ittheconversation.com Extremists benefit when we use euphemisms that confer on them an air of legitimacy.
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Dr Simon Perkins #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌻🌊 @simonperkins.bsky.social · 1 mo
"the frog-faced moron-herder"
Avatar NewsThump @newsthump.bsky.social · 1 mo
NEWS! Müller unveils new 'Farage Frais' range of throwing yoghurts to hurl at politicians
Müller unveils new ‘Farage Frais’ range of throwing yoghurts to hurl at politiciansnewsthump.com Yoghurt giant Müller has jumped on the ‘hurling viscous dairy products at politicians’ trend with its new “Farage Frais” line of dinky little yoghurt things.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.bsky.social · 1 mo
FACTCHECK: Almost everything Reform Party and its leader Richard Tice say about climate and energy is wrong On BBC Breakfast, Tice blamed volcanoes for warming And Reform's manifesto packed 30 false or misleading statements into 500-words on energy/env theguardian.com/environment/...
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Mike M @mikem51.bsky.social · 1 mo
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Dr Simon Perkins #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌻🌊 @simonperkins.bsky.social · 1 mo
Charities should be run for public benefit and must abide by charity law. We call on you to carry out your duties and launch an investigation into the Global Warming Policy Foundation and the Institute of Economic Affairs for their apparent breaches in charity law. goodlawproject.org/petition/hel...
Avatar Claire_H #FBPE @fbpech.bsky.social · 4 mo
goodlawproject.org/petition/hel...
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Linc Conard #StandwithUkraine 🇺🇦 💙💙✌️✌️💙💙 @lincconard.bsky.social · 2 mo
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/65...
Petition: Use Proportional Representation for UK General Electionspetition.parliament.uk Introduce legislation that will replace First-Past-The-Post with Proportional Representation when deciding the outcome of General Elections.
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Glenn @glennvotesblue.bsky.social · 2 mo
www.thepetitionsite.com/164/365/325/...
petition: Impeach Samuel Alito for endorsing Trump’s election steal conspiracy!www.thepetitionsite.com In a truly stunning development, the nation has learned that in the wake of the 2020 election, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito (817 signatures on petition)
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Joe Daziel @joedalziel.bsky.social · 2 mo
So this guy's lived and worked in the UK for decades and by all accounts is a model citizen making a real contribution to the country. But the Home Office want to deport him or force stupid levels of costs on a man in his seventies. 🤦‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...
Wirral ‘local legend’ refused indefinite leave to remain by Home Officewww.theguardian.com Nelson Shardey, 74, has lived in the UK since 1977 and ran a Merseyside newsagent for 31 years
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Sriram (ஸ்ரீராம்) @drkhe.bsky.social · 2 mo
"For Trump’s electoral base of older, White rural voters, the prospect of non-Whites acquiring power to challenge their status as embodiments of American identity amounts to an existential menace that may justify radical action." Read for free via this gift link: wapo.st/3K2mm0h
Opinion | How America tried and failed to stay Whitewapo.st 100 years ago the U.S. tried to limit immigration to White Europeans. Instead, diversity triumphed.
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Liz Webster @lizwebster.bsky.social · 2 mo
Britain 🇬🇧Can’t Afford To Keep #Brexit, It’s A costly Misadventure Which Only Benefits A Few! Britain 🇬🇧Can’t Afford To Keep #Brexit! @AdamPosen has been proved totally right ✅ youtu.be/debmPppJ7WA
Britain 🇬🇧Can’t Afford To Keep #Brexit, It’s A costly Misadventure Which Only Benefits A Few!youtu.be Britain continues on with delivering #Brexit self sanctioning measures which impoverishes more people every day. Brexit is working to destroy our #foodsecurity leaving Britain weak and poor and reliant on world markets for food. Adam Posen, former Bank of England policy maker, has been proved absolutely right as have all the people who warned against doing Brexit. #britishfarming #farmersprotest #britishfood #britain #foodie #costoflivingcrisis #food
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Isaac Land @coastalhistory.bsky.social · 2 mo
Quietly noted in this obituary: He was the son of a miner, and got his acting education at Manchester Polytechnic. Arts and humanities programs at accessible schools in non-metropolitan locations change lives.🎥📺 www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/o...
Bernard Hill, Actor in ‘Titanic’ and ‘Lord of the Rings,’ Dies at 79www.nytimes.com With a stout frame, bushy whiskers and a weathered visage, he embodied men of authority facing down danger with weary stoicism.
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 2 mo
We’re 56 signatures away from the first 3000 people speaking up!😮Will you be one of the first 3000 adding your name?📣💙🚀 We’re really concerned about what some Tory MPs are telling their constituents about NHS privatisation🚨 Add your name and pls share! bit.ly/ltr2rishi
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Dr Simon Perkins #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌻🌊 @simonperkins.bsky.social · 3 mo
Clifford Brown and Max Roach's "George's Dilemma" is still one of my favourite jazz tracks... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJty... what incredible precision!
Clifford Brown - George's Dilemmawww.youtube.com Track No.5 from Clifford Brown's album
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Dr Simon Perkins #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌻🌊 @simonperkins.bsky.social · 3 mo
I'm not a massive Killing Joke fan but I've always loved this one of theirs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnpw... Plus, I wasn't aware that their guitarist - Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker - died so young: www.theguardian.com/music/2023/n...
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood (Official Video)www.youtube.com Official video of Killing Joke performing Love Like Blood from the album No Way Out But Forward Go. Buy It Here: http://smarturl.it/cgqcjm Like Killing Joke...
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Rúnar Berg 🌲 @rokksula.bsky.social · 3 mo
al Jazeera’s statement: aje.io/kwvlol?updat...
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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.bsky.social · 3 mo
Rishi Sunak’s premiership has been defined by chaos. Since he took over in October 2022, his Government’s permanent state of disarray has cost taxpayers £8,200,000,000 and resulted in 314 wasted days. Here’s the full breakdown of the cost of chaos #SunaksCostOfChaos costofchaos.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR0i…
costofchaos.co.uk Since he took over in October 2022, his Government’s permanent state of disarray has cost taxpayers £8,200,000,000 and resulted in 314 wasted days. Here’s the full breakdown of the cost of chaos.
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 3 mo
In case you're wondering why Trump remains a hero to the race-obsessed far right, exhibit #947: "Trump allies want to dramatically change the government's interpretation of Civil Rights-era laws to focus on "anti-white racism" rather than discrimination against people of color."
Exclusive: Trump allies plot anti-racism protections — for white peoplewww.axios.com Trump's Justice Department would push to eliminate or upend programs designed counter the racism that has favored whites.
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Dr Simon Perkins #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌻🌊 @simonperkins.bsky.social · 3 mo
"Brexit catalyzed some of the worst tendencies in British politics ...leaving it ill prepared for the pandemic and the twin economic shocks of the war in Ukraine and the forty-nine-day experimental premiership of Liz Truss." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Avatar Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3 mo
British right wing press won’t tell us this, but we all know it. We all see it. Sunak and his grubby band of grifters might insist they have a plan and it’s working.. but it really isn’t. Not for us. We’re exhausted by them. We loathe them. They’re done. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?www.newyorker.com Living standards have fallen. The country is exhausted by constant drama. But the U.K. can’t move on from the Tories without facing up to the damage that has occurred.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 4 mo
"A separate post-Brexit regulation system allows the UK to become a dumping ground for the chemicals that Europe rules unsafe "New findings on forever chemicals, pesticides, & microplastics in soil show why we should apply the precautionary principle" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain is becoming a toxic chemical dumping ground – yet another benefit of Brexit | George Monbiotwww.theguardian.com Perhaps our government imagines bulldog spirit will protect us from the dangerous substances that Europe rules unsafe, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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↙️↙️↙️ @2damntrans.bsky.social · 4 mo
www.change.org/p/stop-liz-t...
Sign the Petitionwww.change.org At the point of creating this petition, I was given the option over whether this was in relation to LGBT Rights or Human Rights.. Initially I automatically clicked the 1st, however when I thought abou...
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Dr Simon Perkins #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌻🌊 @simonperkins.bsky.social · 4 mo
After watching the Orson Welles documentary "They'll Love Me When I'm Dead" (2018) I noted that they used a section of Yes's "Heart of the Sunrise" (1971): www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5XW..., which also features in Vincent Gallo's "Buffalo 66" (1998). What a track (especially this instrumental buildup)
Heart of the Sunrise (2008 Remaster)www.youtube.com Provided to YouTube by Rhino/ElektraHeart of the Sunrise (2008 Remaster) · YesFragile℗ 1972 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA Inte...