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Annie

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So far I’m just reading all the interesting posts of the people Ive followed. Helps me make sense of this complicated, difficult world and also find the joy in it. Thank you for this. I aim to return the favour soon..

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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 1h
If you haven't read Badenoch's latest pamphlet, I don't blame you, but in it she launches an attack on the minimum wage. When so many people across Britain are struggling with the cost of living, it’s so tin eared. Same old Tories. They always want working people worse off.
An excerpt from Kemi Badenoch’s pamphlet, ‘The Right Way’.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10h
Apparently "Kemi" has "fresh solutions" uniquely tailored to Britain's current problems. <excitedly prepares to take notes> Cut taxes, reward the wealthiest, punish the poor and sick, alienate our allies, deregulate big business, and privatise any remaining state function. WAAAAAAIT A MINUTE!
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 22h
ICE has been dumping photos and licence plate numbers of protesters into a Palantir database. Reminder: this is the company running our NHS health records 👀 www.wired.com/story/ice-has-been-du…
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
37,000 people arrive on small boats. 4,000,000 kids are in poverty. 4,500,000 can't get a dentists. But they will blame these vast problems on a tiny one. They think you are too stupid to know the problem, is them, the greedy billionaires.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Claremont (Blackpool): 🌹 Lab HOLD Wick and East Caithness (Highlands): 🔶 LD GAIN from Ind Amble (Northd ): 🌹 Lab GAIN from Ref Hirst (Northd.): 🌹 Lab GAIN from Ref Long Whatton & Diseworth (NW Leics.): 🌳 Con HOLD Forth and Endrick Ward (Stirling): 🌳 Con HOLD Where is Reform UK? Nowhere.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Labour was polling a little over 30% when these articles were written. It is genuinely strange that the Conservative Party is not being subjected to the same obituaries by op-ed given its frequent sub-20% polling.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Britain’s worst councillor, Sam Journet Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years bylinetimes.com/2026/10/02/r...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Picking on Byline Times sends a message to other political journalists: Be careful. Don't be too critical. We can do the same to you." @adambienkov.bsky.social speaks to LBC's @mrjamesob.bsky.social about Byline Times' ban from Conservative Party Conference.
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
File this under shocking but not surprising
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BBC re-running their headlines from 3 years ago when Sunak released 10,000 prisoners early over 6 months....oh wait, no, that went off without a media fuss. Labour are releasing up to 5,000 early over a year - due to Tory failure to build prison capacity. They only built 36 net new places a year.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Re-upping our Frontiers special issue on Public Health Autonomy and Rising Nationalism! Deadline is February - do think about contributing :-) www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
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Frontiers | Public Health Autonomy and Rising Nationalism
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the central role of public health institutions in managing large-scale emergencies, while exposing tensions between scienti...
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 30/09/2026
Six days ago I wrote the thread linked below. Times Higher Education's lack of interest in James Orr had bothered me for weeks. Today Byline Times published the investigation that explains this very British scandal at length. Corruption, racism, sycophancy & graft bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looking forward to @timeshighered.bsky.social explaining how signing agreements with organ aligned organisations was appropriate for an organisation that values truth and integrity so highly.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/09/2026
#OtD 30 Sep 1953 British communist boxer, Len Johnson, went for a drink at the Old Abbey Taphouse in Manchester, but was refused service because he was Black. Soon after, 200 people picketed the pub until the landlord agreed to stop discriminating. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1112...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“We urge the Conservative Party to explain why Byline Times journalists have been denied accreditation and to rethink its decision. Once again, the union calls on all political parties to uphold press freedom, freedom of expression and the public's right to be informed.” ✍️ NUJ responds
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NUJ responds to reports of Conservative party banning Byline Times journalists from conference
The NUJ has responded to reports that Byline Times journalists have been denied access to the Conservative Party conference.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today's @liverpoolecho.co.uk after that remarkable speech by our Scouser Prime Minister
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chris Bryant, "I have this warning for Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch. They say they'll bin the European Convention on Human Rights" "They've clearly never read the Good Friday Agreement, or maybe they don't even care about it" "I promise you this: we will not dump the ECHR, we will stand by it"
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
Grenfell fire police investigators hand files on 20 firms and 54 people to CPS
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Grenfell fire police investigators hand files on 20 firms and 54 people to CPS
Met calls move ‘milestone’ moment that paves way for ‘very best possible evidence for charging decisions’ Police investigating the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire have handed over files of evidence relating to 20 companies and 54 individuals to prosecutors. The Metropolitan police described the move as a “milestone” moment that paved the way for what it said would be “the very best possible evidence for charging decisions”. Continue reading...
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Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Breaking: the Met Police has submitted charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service resulting from its Grenfell fire investigation. The files cover 54 individuals and 20 companies and cover charges including fraud, misconduct in public office and manslaughter
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In my ongoing quest to help #SaveSquareChapelArts in Halifax, I’ve written a short poem. I do hope you like it. 🤞 If so… please repost. Thank you. x
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What Newsnight should have taken away was that it shouldn't adopt tabloid narratives unquestioningly and made the appropriate correction. What it did instead was to report the correction as if it were gossip and go "OOOOOH! THEY'RE VERY SENSITIVE!" What? To accuracy? You used to be, too, BBC.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Clear break from neoliberalism from Burnham - since the 1980s, "the wealth [Labour] created for the many was seen as an opportunity for the few." "The right talk about taking back control - they were the ones that gave it away in the first place" (referring to water, elec, care etc.)
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 29/09/2026
Last weekend, Rupert Lowe MP called on "the establishment" to stop referring to Restore Britain as “somehow ‘nazi’”. Unfortunately for Lowe, we have repeatedly exposed the neo-Nazis, fascists and ethnonationalists within the party. 🧵 hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/29/r...
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Restormtroopers: Restore Britain’s Nazi problem in pictures – HOPE not hate
Warning: this article includes offensive language and imagery Last weekend, Rupert Lowe MP, leader of Restore Britain, called on “the establishment” to stop referring to...
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Huddersfield Exposed @huddersfield.exposed · 29/09/2026
We'll soon be coming up 60 years since the local council stepped in and stopped British Rail from taking the wrecking ball to the façade of Huddersfield railway station.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Was always going to get a bit tasty up against Jeremy Hunt… Excuse my error of saying millions and not BILLIONS But my point stands… Tory critics on the sidelines want us to forget the wrecking ball they took to this country We won’t.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Miliband ‘looking at’ whether Palestine Action ban was sensible, argues mass arrests 'unintended' Foreign secretary's remarks at Labour conference come after arrests made at protest against ban on the direct action group. www.middleeasteye.net/news/miliban...
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Miliband ‘looking at’ whether Palestine Action ban was sensible, argues mass arrests 'unintended'
Foreign secretary's remarks at Labour conference come after arrests made at protest against ban on the direct action group
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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: Dale Vince plans a London-wide news site as he targets ‘rightwing bias’. He's putting cash into Camden New Journal, Islington Tribune and Westminster Extra - wants to expand Westminster edition to serve all London. Story feat. @jim.londoncentric.media www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Dale Vince plans London-wide news operation to take on ‘rightwing bias’ in the media
Green energy entrepreneur plans rescue package for the group behind the Camden New Journal, Islington Tribune and Westminster Extra
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham has a golden opportunity to transform the engine room of our economy – to make our energy market affordable, fair and stable. We need to overturn some current orthodoxy and face down vested interests – and PM Andy Burnham could be the man for the job.
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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK? Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK Other ignored issues includes IPC Guidance, Long Covid, clean air counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/why-is-dis...
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Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK?
Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 27/09/2026
In recent weeks we've added dozens of new historical stories to our Map. So why not check it out, and see what stories we have for where you live, work, and vacation? It's free, interactive, searchable, and available at map.workingclasshistory.com/
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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No way I can compete with the major poetry publishers who get collections stocked by bricks-and-mortar bookshops But I do have word of mouth and all you wonderful people here on Bluesky, pushing the numbers of readers of Whatever You Do, Just Don't far beyond the sales of the big boys. Thank you!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tom Tugendhat in Sunday Times insists on leaving the ECHR to tackle “soaring” immigration. What a miserable rat. Lying to us all. Betraying our country’s best interests. Threatening to flounce out of our human rights framework, trashing our treaties and torching our protection from abuses of power.
The Tories are planning to make the ECHR a dividing line at the next election. Last week the party announced plans to deport every foreign criminal, apart from those convicted of the most trivial offences, and said their plan for ECHR withdrawal meant only the Conservatives were equipped to take on the problem of soaring immigration. One of the problems withdrawal would create is a legal dispute over whether it breaches the Good Friday agreement, which committed the UK to fully incorporate the ECHR into Northern Ireland's justice system. Tugendhat said the issue had not yet been raised in his conversations with lawmakers in the US, adding:
"There's a lot of work to be done."
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Quick update on last weekend's work: With Coding and AI, there is no less and less true anonymity online for those who post threats of violence or rape. Instead, Accountability, Loss of Employment, Estrangement from Family, and (hopefully) Police Charges. bsky.app/profile/jdpo...
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So .. a Far Right Watch update after the weekend. An 'A' List of 37 'anonymous' far right user accounts, - the very worst offenders: All posting threats of violence, rape or death. All reported - but that's just the beginning.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Talk TV on migrants: 'culturally, I'm an ancient Roman; culturally, these people are barbarians' 😖 Truly grim. No one should be advertising on this toxic channel. What are IKEA thinking? Sign the petition: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik... #migrants #mediahate #ikea #stopfundinghate
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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anti and pro-immigration protestors and counter protesters in the Peace Gardens in Sheffield city centre. Counter protesters currently outnumber protesters by around 3 to 1.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Modi, Orban, Erdogan, Trump, Farage. They all learn from each other on how to deal with journalists, and how create their own propaganda channels. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75066/...
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Trump is trying to control the news, and Farage is desperate to follow him
Banning the media from the White House appears to have backfired, but the bigger fight for press freedom—when so much of our information is controlled by a handful of billionaires—is very much on
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You can hear his full interview, here: BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight, Blood tests in Lancashire reveal cancer-causing chemicals share.google/I2CicJIBfhhL...
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BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight, Blood tests in Lancashire reveal cancer-causing chemicals
People living near a factory have higher levels of a so-called 'forever chemical'
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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
George Osborne, British Museum Chair and Palantir's Peter Thiel are both investors in the same Defence Tech company. By coincidence, Peter Thiel was given a VIP tour of the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum before even the King or PM - Osborne-Thiel links in current @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As I lay in bed with PEM, always grateful to my colleague @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for helping bring M.E. into mainstream attention. The way people with M.E. are ignored and actively harmed by medics who have been trusted to help them is a hidden scandal. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nigel Farage Has Attacked The Government's Plans For A New Russia Misinformation Unit www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...
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Nigel Farage Has Attacked The Government's Plans For A New Russia Misinformation Unit
The Reform UK leader claimed it is “targeted directly” at his party.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1)how to create an illicit fags & booze economy run by spivs that'll deprive the Treasury of tax revenue 2)you don't get people "back to work" by making their lives impossible (note cut of a third to long-term benefits). It makes the problem worse 3)you bastards
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Blues Against Blood Cancer @bluesvbloodcancer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If someone you love needed a stem cell transplant, you’d hope a matching donor was out there. Help be that hope for someone else. 💙 Join the stem cell register today 💙 #BloodCancerAwarenessMonth #StemCellRegister
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