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@ahertfordlibdem.bsky.social
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A LibDem in Hertford. Tweets represent personal views. May tweet things of local import or local LibDem news. Sometime cog in local machine.

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 20h
Man City UPDATE FT are reporting all premier league clubs use one of the "Big 4" auditing companies (Deloitte, EY, KPMG & PwC) for their accounts. Except one. None of the major auditing firms would touch one club so, since 2007, they had to use a much smaller auditor. That club is...Man City.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 13/10/2026
The US midterms are 3 weeks away and election misinformation is already spreading. As of Oct. 13, NewsGuard has debunked 25 viral false claims about the midterms, appearing across 268 websites and accounts. www.newsguardtech.com/special-repo...
Tracking 25 false claims across 268 websites and accounts
As of Oct. 13, 2026, NewsGuard had identified and debunked 25 false claims about the midterms that have gone viral on social media platforms. 

Tracking each claim instance by instance, our analysts have confirmed 365 individual appearances of these claims online across 11 platforms, more than 212 distinct social accounts, 56 websites, and 24 segments on national cable news. 

Eleven of the 25 claims centered on supposed election fraud, a particularly pernicious category of false narratives since such claims could undermine confidence in the results of the elections and in democracy itself.
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Susan Murray MP @mpsusanmurray.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Reform and the Conservatives would tear up the human rights protections Winston Churchill championed.
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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 20h
Good versus Evil.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 20h
🔴 Reform UK’s Richard Tice’s Property Firm Pays £800,000 in Dividends Despite Falling Profits Quidnet REIT, which Nigel Farage’s Deputy controls, made a pre-tax loss in 2025, but still paid shareholders more than three times its adjusted earnings bylinetimes.com/2026/10/15/r...
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Reform UK's Richard Tice’s Property Firm Pays £800,000 in Dividends Despite Falling Profits
Quidnet REIT, which Nigel Farage's Deputy controls, made a pre-tax loss in 2025, but still paid shareholders more than three times its adjusted earnings
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Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social · 20h
Corruption, much? CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Sometimes you need to give the English a little more time to get over things.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
1/ Russian warbloggers are applauding the Trump Administration for the apparent crippling of Starlink in Ukraine. Terminals now reportedly no longer work at speeds of higher than 60-70 km/h (37 to 44 mph), effectively disabling many Ukrainian drones. ⬇️
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“Another US president would be pressuring Russia to stop slaughtering innocents. Trump is instead giving them the means to kill more.” Me on Trump’s darkest turn yet against Ukraine. as.ft.com/r/0f7ee7f8-3...
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Why Trump is going for Zelenskyy’s jugular
No matter how much America’s allies urge the president to back Ukraine, he cannot forgive its leader for showing up his dealmaking impotence
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
‘Culturally British by my standards’ is one of the most chilling phrases uttered in British politics. Entirely unsurprising to me who it’s from.
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1/ The arrest in Montenegro of Russia's leading warblogger, Mikhail Zvinchuk, is causing shock in Russia. He and his wife potentially face 15 years' imprisonment if they are extradited to the US after an operation said to have involved the US National Security Agency. ⬇️
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 09/10/2026
The layout for the execution in the US has been released by the state department
A plan showing the positions of cameras, marksmen and Pete Hegseth's personal wanking shed
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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Illustration from today’s @theguardian.com to accompany piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the government’s Prepare campaign, which gives the public advice on how to avoid disasters whilst policies that lead us closer to crisis are given the green light www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In Broadview 6 case, Judge Perry suggested the government was being "truthy" in their statements about directions they had from Main DOJ. 😂
Is it your position that statement is true, or is it your position that statement is truthy because there are privileged communications of this nature? MR. WHALEN: Our position is that is true when tied back to the opening of the paragraph where it says, no one -- excuse me -- There was no communications about influence or interference by anyone outside the USAO. And so this statement is true as it relates to precharging decisions, Your Honor. THE COURT: But possibly untrue as it relates to things that happened after the decision was made?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026
what a grim and mean little quote
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Trump administration will go down as one of the most cruel and murderous in modern history. #Kenya bsky.app/profile/prop...
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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: A US trade judge approved class-action status for a legal fight over $166B+ in refunds for President Trump’s global tariffs, finding that it was necessary to make sure tens of thousands of importers, esp. small businesses, aren't shut out of getting money back buff.ly/Q1faoU8
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Reform have conducted an independent inquiry and announced they won the Holborn and St Pancras byelection.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Looks like we have entered the "bread and circuses" phase of the decline of the American empire. - Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tom Watson on phone hacking "Consumer boycotts do impact [and] it's up to the public to decide whether they want to put up with that kind of nonsense" www.abc.net.au/pm/archive/a... So it's legitimate for the public to want boycotts when it's The Sun, but "mob rule" when it's Palantir.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There we have it. Reform officially ditches its pledge - or rather, its 2024 "contract" with voters - to back proportional representation. A clear breach of contract... Via Politico:
In other Reform news: Second-in-command Richard Tice finally admitted that now the voting system Farage has long railed against could help him win a general election, the party no longer wants to scrap it. Farage used to want first-past-the-post replaced with a form of proportional representation.

Here’s the line: “In order to rescue the country from the gravity of the chaos that we face, actually a proper majority is needed from a right of center, conviction-led Reform government,” Tice told Times Radio this morning. Asked whether that meant Reform no longer wants electoral reform, he said: “Yes, because the crisis is so great.”
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As predicted, Google's Matt Brittin is aiming to complete the death by a 1000 cuts plan initiated by the appointment of a raft of Tories who have been leading the BBC since Cameron's premiership. bsky.app/profile/zefr...
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sorry at what point do the government feel the need to do something about BBC funding, or are they just going to watch it be salami-sliced to extinction?
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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No comment necessary.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The plan may be to try a plausible deniability approach. Kassam is an ethnic minority blogger, very close to Farage for decades, pushing the terms "anchor baby", "Nigerian fraud" about Badenoch. He is in the inner circle, according to Farage, with no official role, as Dan Hodges has observed.
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When it comes to the reason Donald Trump wants to discredit the BBC, maybe we've all been looking in the wrong direction. #Panorama #Epstein #CSA #r4today
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seriously… how can a party that insists on scrapping all progress with the EU, binning NetZero and leaving the ECHR, so that it can abuse its power without accountability… how can that party claim “the soul of the nation”. The ruin - maybe. The soul - definitely not.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
UPDATE: After deciding this weekend to block Politico from riding on Air Force One, White House staffers called numerous outlets to ask one to fill the primary print slot for the out-of-town pool rotation. Each of those outlets declined to step in. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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White House blocks Politico from Air Force One trip, cannot secure replacement
President Donald Trump will travel without a primary print pool reporter for the first time in recent memory.
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh. This is a real thing.
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Daisy Cooper MP 🔶 @libdemdaisy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🧵 The Conservatives' rejection of closer ties with Europe has cemented their position as a pointless anti-growth anti-business party. Our @libdems.org.uk plan to Get Britain Growing Again will turbo-charge our economy, starting with a new Growth and Defence Partnership with Europe.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 04/10/2026
10 years on from Brexit, Europe is back on people’s minds. London St Pancras is Britain’s gateway to Europe, Patrick Stillman sets out the Lib Dem plan to rebuild ties with Europe and boost growth.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...
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Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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ahertfordlibdem.bsky.social @ahertfordlibdem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Ally Tibbitt @allytibbitt.me · 05/10/2026
So the Conservatives are now presenting leaving the Aarhus Convention as "levelling the playing field" - when in fact it will remove the rights of citizens to access environmental information and challenge environmentally damaging developments. So... in fact giving developers more power.
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Vikki Slade MP @vikkislademp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Agreed. Many green party members are there because they are passionate environmentalists - they would be at home with the party of 🌎Climate & Nature Bill ☀️Sunshine Bill 🦦UNESCO Chalk Streams Bill And a party where our support for Palestine, alongside a secure Israel has been unwavering 🕊️
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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... It's high time the UK decided what it wants. That means realistic expectations, no cherry-picking, no exceptionalism & a complete understanding of what is feasible within EU rules. We must also decide what we are prepared to pay for the many benefits.
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Ball in UK’s court: EU ambassador says Brussels will be ‘ready to engage‘ after country decides what it wants
Jukka Salovaara, who served in London during Cool Britannia era, will be ‘very close’ to negotiations as Burnham government resets relations with EU
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Luke Taylor MP @luketaylorld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The motion passed at Green Party Conf' actively undermines a 2-state solution, and does not address the rising threats of Islamophobia and Antisemitism here in the UK. This is a divisive motion that pours fuel on the fire of tensions in the UK, and will leave many British Jews feeling less safe.
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Sean Carroll @seanedmund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In all my years working in tech-adjacent roles I don't think I've seen a bigger disconnect between Founders and their product/users than the AI bros.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 29/09/2026
"More than 100 Jewish settlers went on the rampage in a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank on Monday night, torching buildings and cars, stoning Israeli security forces and preventing the return of a Palestinian family displaced by previous settler attacks." www.ft.com/content/4f56...
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More than 100 Israelis go on rampage in Palestinian town
Jewish settlers blocked roads, set tyres ablaze and prevented the return of a Palestinian family in latest surge of violence in occupied West Bank
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Between 2019 and 2025, export volumes slumped 31 per cent as Brexit added border checks and trade complexity, pushing up costs for businesses” … and threatening our food security. Why TF would *anyone* want this for our businesses and our country? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Brexit and Donald Trump’s tariffs push UK’s food and drink trade deficit to £21bn
In the first half of 2026, the sector’s export volumes fell 11.7% to hit their third-lowest level on record
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