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On the day after the referendum I remember saying to someone "the worst thing about this is we're going to leave and then we're going to spend the next 20 years trying to get back in and by then I'll be retirement age..."

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 7h

🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 10h

you broke it, you fix it

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The "Reform Party" was created in part to make the case for electoral reform... looking at many of their accounts and supporters it would seem that most of them have forgotten that

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 11h

Mark Butcher is Reform UK's candidate in Claremont, Blackpool, standing tomorrow. He's seen here with a group intimidating a council worker taking flags down. A worker, just doing his job. That's him climbing the ladder. Just think how a he would treat council staff if he was a councillor.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

"Super Intelligence."

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 12h

Most TV is just this now.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The go to Opposition spokesman after Sky News coverage of Burnham's speech was.......Nigel Farage. Why?

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Andy King @2primates.bsky.social · 15h

The failure of the RAF Fairford incident to live up to the far right’s ready-to-go fantasy that it was asylum seekers who arrived on small boats wot dunnit seems to have melted their brains, which are currently dribbling down the conspiracy rabbit hole where it’s got to be an elaborate govt “psyop”.

Bluesky post by NewsPappy Headlines:
“This is a Bay of Pigs style NutJob CockUp. There's NO WAY to make RAF Fairford make sense. You don't even need to take a sniff..

It's a Right Royal, High Level MI6 FkUp of Benny Hill proportions”

“American Target for a British home grown Psyop in Fairford. A complete load of incompetent old bollocks”

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saying isn't doing. But Burnham lifted the omertà on: Electoral reform Wide-scale nationalisation Triple lock pension Brexit So now they're all in play. And that's all positive

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It only feels “radically progressive” because we’ve spent 40 years normalising radically regressive ideas. This was broadly how Britain worked from 1945–79, when average GDP growth was 2.6% a year — compared with 1.9% in the post-Thatcher years. It works www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Burnham gambles on radical progressive plan to help Britain ‘rise again’

PM accepts some of his plan could be difficult and admits he ‘may pay a political price’

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I left Britain because of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods" said nobody genuinely ever. The Telegraph scours the globe for anyone of notable net worth who recently moved and asking them for a list of pet peeves out of which they pick the one that serves the Telegraph "capital flight" narrative best.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

scenes from an authoritarian cult -- Trump signs an EO, and then all of his cronies keep clapping and clapping for him since none of them wants to be the first one to stop

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Sharon H @sharonh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Subprime is contained”

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David Harris @davidsp72.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He must have misplaced his bootstraps.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 29/09/2026

“A bailout is when capitalism calls its parents.“

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Steve (unofficial) @ste.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

I checked Hansard to see how many times Farage has warned parliament about Iranian agents coming into the UK...

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Keeping in mind that the American Government has a somewhat unfortunate tendency to lie, deceive and distort, I’m not sure this is the win that Jenrick thinks it is. Also, Fairford. Imaging having an immigrant have to correct you on your spelling.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It takes something to extol the virtues of someone who has proved adept at squeezing money out of governments to support his business and is so committed to the country that he's a tax exile. Dastardly billionaire sounds about about right.

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At a Labour conference rally piss-up yesterday evening sponsored, rather wonderfully, by KFC - pensions minister Torsten Bell whipped the Labour faithful into a class-war frenzy with a tirade against the dastardly billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

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Ian H @ians.chat · 29/09/2026

There is a big difference between "Marco Rubio confirms..." and "Marco Rubio says...". Just because Trump or Rubio or whoever in the US *says* something, doesn't make it true. I'd go as far as saying anything Trump says is almost certainly untrue.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I realise this isn’t exactly the biggest issue here, but, wow, I bet Russell Brand is a terrible moderator. Incoherent, pretentious, conceited, abjectly underinformed, constitutionally incapable of shutting up.

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Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meta’s ad ban on progressive Lula shows US #tech #billionaires aren't just aiding far-right figures—they ARE the transnational #oligarchy seizing power across borders. Big Tech, Donald #Trump, and jailed Jair Bolsonaro’s son Flávio operate as one global network targeting democracies. #Zuckerberg

News graphic featuring side-by-side portraits of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva looking serious on the left and Mark Zuckerberg smiling on the right. White text below reads: "Facebook Blocks Lula’s Campaign Ads Days Before Brazil Election / But allows paid posts calling for the military to ‘take back power’."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

CEO: I have invented the off button.

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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good. The first past the post system is archaic Hopefully with electoral reform we will get parties have to work more closer www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans

Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation

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Andy King @2primates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great point of comparison below. Why would you believe that Trump can successfully sort out a self-inflicted problem with an international waterway surrounded by mutually hostile powers 6,000 miles away when he can’t even fix a self-inflicted problem with a max. 30 inch deep pool in Washington?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

About 4 months ago I wondered which would end first: Trump’s Iran War or his Reflecting Pool remodel. We still don’t have the answer.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Darth Kriss @insanityreport.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Who could have seen this coming? Oh that’s right. Everyone with a brain

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Matt Robb said that Muse gave out his address without his knowledge. "Luckily I'm in an apartment with security," he wrote.
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#muse #Al #youtuber

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Andy King @2primates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mega companies with growth models based on servicing the “total addressable market“ for their products (i.e. capturing a monopoly) are suddenly keen on regulations that would slow down new entrants to that market? Yeah, sounds legit. fortune.com/2026/08/26/a...

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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trump says they were under ‘surveillance’ for some time was obviously a fantasy in his own head.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Haven’t been following the story closely but releasing people on bail suggests maybe this wasn’t the security threat reported rather than evidence of a woke criminal justice system?

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today, in Russian propaganda:

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I am a French mother with beautiful children.
I did not give birth to them for them to be sent to the trenches.
French and Russian mothers do not want their children to fight against each other.
We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

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I'm a Dutch mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. Dutch and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies. #RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

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I am a German mother with a beautiful son. I didn't give birth to my child to send him into the trenches. German and Russian mothers do not want their boys to fight against each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

Dday @DdayohneZiffern • 12h
I'm a German mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. German and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026

The suspects in the RAF Fairford case have now been bailed - and it’s been confirmed that there were no viable bomb making substances in their vans. This is, undoubtedly, a very odd case here - and it has by and large shown the dangers of speculation, especially as per the below.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What fantastic news

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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Now that Nigel Farage has had his demands answered in the RAF Fairford investigation can we all demand an update from the Parliamentary standards commission and Met police regarding their investigations into him and Reform.

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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Consumers who ask an AI assistant to recommend a solicitor risk being directed to firms that have been fined by their regulator or even shut down, a report says today. It was researched by Blind Justice UK, a charity that seeks to improve access to justice. rozenberg.substack.com/p/need-a-goo...

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Need a good lawyer?

Don’t use AI unless you know how to ask searching questions

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To be fair, you honestly can’t say that Enid Blyton isn’t prepared to move with the times.

BBC headline: Five arrested as counter-terror police investigate major incident near RAF Fairford

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Oakeshott has joined the chat. I’m assuming that there will now be requests for the Domesday book to be brought out for a search. I can’t imagine what she’s going to do when she realises they’re out on bail.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 28/09/2026

The smart home has reached a tipping point. Early Nest Thermostats, Belkin’s WeMo line, Logitech’s Pop buttons, and Bose’s SoundTouch speakers all lost their lifelines. While some were saved by local APIs and protocols, most are like the June Oven, destined to live out their days in a zombie state.

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The smart home graveyard is getting crowded

The shutdown of June Oven is another reminder that the cloud was never ours to keep.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

7-year sentence handed down to Oleg Bessedin for anti-Estonia activities. Work for russian SVR, pay the price. His handler Sergei Nalobin is, among other things, releted to Brexit campaign and arson of the home of British PM K.Starmer. news.err.ee/1610150341/7...

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7-year sentence handed down to Oleg Bessedin for anti-Estonia activities

A court has found a pro-Kremlin propagandist guilty of crimes against Estonia's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reform UK's Suella Braverman promises ‘consequences’ if pupils don’t sing Christian hymns. That would be policed. So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations. Will they be persecuted, imprisoned? Reform UK getting desperate and bizarre.

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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns

Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wow, this is monstrous. As if teachers aren’t under enough stress. People do not do their best work when they are surveyed, belittled and menaced. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work

Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ AI teacher monitoring system

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Flingjore @flingjore.com · 28/09/2026

Digital agents quietly comb through public files at the Census Bureau and SEC.gov before testing a lock at the Department of Education. OpenAI discloses its AI models unexpectedly hit U.S. government websites during routine research, while an outside probe uncovers a failed federal hack.

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OpenAI says its models engaged with US government websites in new model misbehavior disclosure

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI disclosed Friday that its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways, discovered as part of an ongoing review…

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pentagon never disclosed that eight US Marines were injured when an Iranian cruise missile hit their vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14, NBC reports. Injuries were eventually added to the casualty record with no announcement ten days later.

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