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teacher, cat person, never a tory

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 8h
'Schools should consider changing start and finish times, reordering holidays and moving exams from the summer months in an effort to adapt to the UK’s increasingly severe heatwaves, according to the leader of the country’s biggest education union.'
theguardian.com
Retrofit schools and consider moving exams to beat extreme heat, says teaching union leader
NEU’s Daniel Kebede says earlier start times and longer summer breaks may be needed to help pupils and teachers
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11h
In the least surprising news of the century, vast majority of racist flag shaggers who go about brandishing crosses and saying that we're a Christian country... don't pray, or go to church or read the Bible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21h
Ridiculous person Ridiculous party Ridiculous people Watch
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 15h
No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All authoritarian cults resemble one another. All democracies are democratic in their own particular way.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
All 3 do not recognize the ICC.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
More Reform attacks on RNLI, mean more donations to volunteer heroes, faster Reform falls in polls "Tice, Oakshott (his GF) and Farage attacking the charities that save lives.Tice and Oakshot from the safety of their tax haven in Dubai where they avoid paying tax on their earnings" via Barry James
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is truly grotesque. It is barbaric enough that the state still kills its citizens; inviting spectators just adds an additional layer of cruelty. Or should I be grateful that Hegseth isn't having him torn in half by teams of horses, or mutilated and lynched?
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today, selling a £1m house and moving to a £400,000 flat won’t change your children’s IHT. The estate is the same size. Under the Tory proposal, the £1m house was exempt from IHT, but the £600,000 you released is fully subject to IHT. Your house move caused £240,000 IHT.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 09/10/2026
So are Ofcom just going to sit back and let US techbros live stream an execution to the UK in December? What does Burnham have to say about it?
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Couples with £1 million and a family home will be able to avoid contributing anything to the collective good of their children’s and grandchildren’s country says Kemi Badenoch. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
theguardian.com
Couples would be able to leave £1m and family home exempt from inheritance tax under Tories, says Badenoch – UK politics live
Conservative leader says proposed measures would halve the number of families paying inheritance tax
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Motonormativity: They tell us to wear hi-viz. They tell us to have lights. They tell us to be seen. They discipline our children. They tell us 'road safety is a shared responsibility'. Meanwhile, in #motordom: - Marco Te Brömmelstroet Cc: @tomflood.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When people say the Conservatives play politics on easy mode this is what it means
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just five giant conglomerates now control 90 percent of the media. The reason this is so dangerous might not be what you think.
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Travis from his porch 🌻 @freeulysses.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
why in the hell is the POTUS calling a brutal dictator to sing him happy birthday? THIS IS NOT NORMAL
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A £6bn tax cut that creates a perverse incentive for older people to *upsize* is not a good policy - www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit makes no economic sense
The Tory leader’s proposal to slash the tax would shovel £6bn of taxpayer money to the already-wealthy
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏
theguardian.com
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Your regular reminder that a couple can already pass down a £1m property to their kids/grandkids (pass your home to spouse tax free; they get your £325k tax-free allowance - so £650k; you each get £175k "main residence allowance" if you pass to a direct relative - so £350k - total £1m).
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 06/10/2026
#VanityFair
Vanity fair cover with Sam Altman stealing everything
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Jeremy Nicholls @jeremynicholls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Robin Ince got the tone right. bsky.app/profile/robi...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For policy reasons relating to Europe, immigrants and economics Harold Macmillan Anthony Eden Ted Heath Benjamin Disraeli William Gladstone David Cameron Alec Douglas-Home and Winston Churchill wouldn't have been allowed in your cabinet, you feckless wazzock www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch
The Tory leader seeks to echo Margaret Thatcher as she sets out her guiding political principles.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
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Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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JF @12qp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks to our fossil fuel overlords, the weather we’re used to no longer exists.
euronews.com
Showers and storms across Spain this weekend, floods kill 102-year-old woman
A 102-year-old woman has died and about 90 people were rescued in Madrigueras, Albacete, after floods dumped 142 l/m². Rain will persist, with a new storm possible in the west on Sunday. #EuropeNews
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
truly the worst of the worst....
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 03/10/2026
“We don’t want the tech billionaires' post-human reality. We want this world. The soil between our toes.” Rachel Millward on choosing a future built for people, not billionaires.
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JF @12qp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why does she keep getting publicity for her idiocy and ignorance? We should ignore stupid people
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
French President Emmanuel Macron on the UK rejoining the EU: “If the British want to take a first step in this direction, I think it is very good news both for their country and for Europeans.”
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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JF @12qp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The press boycott didn't last long then
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Faragists rely on the narrative of "men on boats" creating a de facto Fifth Column in the UK to feed their agenda and to stir up hostility and to win votes and ultimately power. Suckers fall for it. Media boosts it. We've been here so many times before and you'd think we'd all wise up but hey ho
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
I think the story of our era will be of a political class that were not only not up to the times they faced, but often wilfully blind to them.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage honks his mouth off about ongoing police investigations, when told not to. His Welsh leader is in prison for taking bribes from Russia. He whips up riots. He’s in bed with Trump, foreign money, crooks and crypto billionaires…. A massive problem with national security is Farage himself.
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'We have a massive problem with national security': Farage challenged on Fairford speculation
Reform UK leader told his social media followers the five men arrested after an RAF Fairford situation were "Iranian nationals". Sky's Rob Powell spoke to him after it was confirmed the men arrested are British nationals.
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🇬🇧🇨🇦 @richard-breakfast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Burnham: we must help young people into work and sort out the care system. Tory/Reform: blah blah immigrants blah stop the boats blah blah cut tax blah blah cut benefits blah blah crypto blah 🥱🥱😴😴😴😴
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Newspapers: We're going to have to pay for Burnham's social care plans! Also newspapers: Social care costs took all my savings! We're already paying for social care, just less fairly and probably less efficiently. #R4Today
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If she was wearing a balaclava and called migrant men sex offenders she's probably be given an AAA pass
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The sheer stupidity of Brexit: We made it harder and more expensive for high quality, fully traceable British food to reach our largest market, while creating a porous border through which illegal, rancid and potentially diseased meat can enter Britain. meatmanagement.com/opinion/brex...
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Brexit’s veterinary border theatre: when control becomes the risk
There comes a point when regulation ceases to protect the consumer and becomes an industry in its own right. Post-Brexit veterinary border controls risk crossing that line, says AIMS's Jason Aldiss.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reform UK leaders are ALL ex-Tories ... meme via Angel Stroyan
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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JF @12qp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Need the link please
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absofreakinlutely 💯% True......
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