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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 9h

The slithering back to even vaguely positive or optimistic analyses of Trump’s second term after the abominations of January 6th cleared the way for today’s abject betrayal of the Ukrainian people. It’s astonishing how many public figures on both sides of the Atlantic are complicit in the crime.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

the haters said i couldn't do it.a nd they were correct, great call from the hateers

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Musk says he didn’t cut services to thwart Ukrainian self-defense, the US govt did. A senior US official says the Trump White House had nothing to do with that, implying Musk did it. A problem is they’re both serial liars, Putin sympathizers, and anti-democracy, so who knows.

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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And I can’t help feeling so much of this is driven by a political culture shaped by atomised social media that no longer views the country as a collective with a social contract and mutual obligations but a kind of woke construct designed to fleece us

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW The diabolical defending of Manchester City Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk (Prospect paywall is down currently.) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... #MCFC

What can explain such an aggressive and counterproductive approach? To an extent the answer may be in the facts and the evidence. Perhaps the view was that the only chance of getting out of this was to be unhelpful as well as robust. In respect of an earlier dispute with Uefa, an internal communication at the club apparently said “Uefa doesn't respond to anything other than aggression”. Maybe the view was taken that this would work here too. Maybe the club still thinks it will work in the end, with the league being pushed into settlement on appeal or at the doors of the High Court.

But this does not offer a total explanation. What may work with Uefa may not work with other adversaries. The structure of the league’s investigation and the disciplinary approach meant that aggression would not only be unhelpful, but would count heavily against the club. An appeal on the law or procedure at the High Court in this sort of case only has a remote chance of success. It can be assumed the club was warned of all this.

There is a phrase in football punditry that “the defending is diabolical”. Here diabolical is, of course, a synonym for dreadful. But in its more literal sense, diabolical means bedevilled with wrongful purpose. And the strategy adopted by Manchester City in contesting this matter is also in this sense diabolical. The club will have known that it was unlikely to work, and that it would make things harder, but the club decided to do it anyway.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have now slowly re-read the ruling, and it is even more damning than at first reading. The ruling pretty much sets out Manchester City was fraudulent on a systemic long-term basis. Not just mere non-compliance, but ‘concealments’ and ‘disguises’. Also some MCFC witnesses were ‘dishonest’.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apparently we've gone from "no, trust us, AI doesn't give you CEO brain" to "actually it's good that it gives you CEO brain"?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Art of the Deal is buying fertilizer from a Putin-aligned repressive dictator and paying to ship it 6,000 miles from his landlocked and sanctioned country so you can teach Canada a lesson.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Surely he has to resign again to let the people of Clacton prejudge the resukt of the police investigation? It’s much more serious than the investigation he resigned over last time…

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/09/2026

almost word for word

Screenshot of tweet from @InternetHippo:

New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"I have will happily accept breezy reassurances about legality with no follow-up questions or even thought. Please make me prime minister."

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 31/08/2026

Conservative policy: - Demand criminals get long sentences - Don't build prisons to house them - Oppose early release of prisoners - Cut prisons budgets so that fewer people are rehabilitated 👍

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You accuse our president, the “grab them by the pussy” guy, adjudicated rapist, sharer of wonderful secrets with the world’s most notorious pedophile sex trafficker, who openly fantasized about dating his own daughter, of untoward intentions wrt his young female aide?? How very dare, etc.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Given that driving without insurance is not an imprisonable offence, these 220 people should probably think about appealing.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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