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BradipoWayway

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Londoner 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Fully deserving to be as completely ignored here as I was at the other place ✈️🚙🤓🍺

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h
Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.
Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 16h
Obvious... but great that ex military people with credibility are pointing it out, so that voters can take notice
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Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 21h
Fortunately we have a surplus of surgeons and no waiting lists.
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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 21h
We Europeans should not focus on Trump, who will be gone in two years. But on the United States. That country elected this man as leader. The country itself is responsible. It can no longer be treated as a reliable ally regardless of who is next elected.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick
A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Also obvious and often forgotten: underlying maths here changed. A lot of people still analyse politics of Brexit as if the split in the public is still 52/48, with leave both an overall majority and more efficiently spread, with most seats majority Leave. None of that true now
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darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
All rw discourse is now is adult newborns stumbling about slowly discovering the world for the first time aged 50. Then pointing at said thing, bursting into tears, convincing everyone else to throw a tantrum, & demanding that everyone see their deeply off putting weirdness as normal, 'or else.'
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When I say the politics will become increasingly obvious... I mean look at this. If you want to unite the left/centre and split the Tories, without a big spending committment there's no better option.
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at the restaurant inside the high end Mayfair furniture shop RH London. And it’s chaos. Warm water. Can’t mix cocktails. Run out of hamburgers. Dull food for bored oligarchs who don’t eat. Have a few quotes and a pic of a £22 baked potato. www.ft.com/content/5993...
Drift through its rooms admiring the oversized sculptures, the overstuffed seating and the passive-aggressive war on colour. I was tempted to give myself a quick nosebleed just to introduce a splash of red. While there, do take a look inside the utterly magnificent restaurant at the back of the ground floor, housed in what was once a banking hall. The cathedral-high ceilings are coated in gold leaf and dangle with giant golden chandeliers like crystal udders. There are pillars, acres of polished wood veneer and lots of soft curved seating, picked out by pools of light from dainty table lamps. Gawp at it. Gasp at it. But whatever you do, don’t book a table in it. On my recent visit, the whole operation was a bloody shambles.It starts in the second-floor cocktail bar, designed by Anouska Hempel, where the £16 Margarita comes from a bottle of pre-mix with a hand-scribbled label, and they can’t make any classic cocktails which aren’t on the list. Ask them for a Daiquiri then watch the panic flicker in their eyes. Online, the cheapest bottle of wine offered up here is a Riesling at £68. When you arrive, it turns out to be £86.Back downstairs in the restaurant a bottle of sparkling water is brought. It’s warm. We ask for ice. None comes. We ask again. None comes. Third time’s a charm. At least we get water quickly; the wait for food is interminable (if you don’t count the £56-worth of mini lobster rolls we didn’t order, that they tried to foist on us). We watch one of our dishes being offered to a nearby table. The diners look baffled. The waiter returns to the pass in the open kitchen where a row with the chef appears to ensue. He waves a ticket at her. Finally, 10 minutes later the plate comes to us. In a functioning restaurant you should be able to spot the person in charge immediately. There is no one in charge of this room. It’s chaos.Our missing dish is the cutely named “Parisian petite potato”. I wanted to see what a £22 baked potato was like. Small, is the answer, and topped with the now obligatory caviar. Honestly, there’s so much caviar washing around London at the moment, I’m convinced there’s some bloke with a lock-up in Camberwell who has got hold of a surplus that fell off the back of a knackered old sturgeon. Now he’s pushing it out to W1. Anyway, it’s a baked potato with fish eggs. I’m not sure which bit of it is Parisian but it’s definitely petite, I’ll give it that.
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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Got to say. Though we'd begun to understand online radicalisation ten years ago I'm not sure I'd have ever predicted it would have reached a stage where right-wingers were suggesting Tim Stanley should be executed.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There is a lot of perceived impunity for both toxic but lawful racism + actual crimes. A very visible policing taskforce being smart, selective about which cases to go for with rapid charges + convictions could shift the sense of impunity (The govt had been sending the opposite signal)
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Maybe it's time to admit that we have an English problem
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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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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes, I totally trust these guys who missed predicting their own revenue stream by $20bn to predict what employment will look like in ten years
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wall-to-wall praise for the policy in today’s papers but they either don’t understand it or don’t care. We’ve been here before, of course. Bexit, Boris Johnson, Truss… all bigged up by the media despite, all obviously awful.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today I think I might finally unlock economic growth by doing the same things that haven't worked for 18 years.
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions
Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Archer came and spoke to my school in the 1980s. Charm personified. Bragged at length about his many achievements and then... something bizarre happened. 1/3 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Jeffrey Archer obituary
Politician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace.
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Berks of DeFrights...or Something. @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just once. Just fucking once, I’d love a detective in a TV show to ask “can you enhance that?” about a pixellated CCTV screencap and for the guy sat at the computer to turn around and mutter “are you mental?”
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BradipoWayway @alanwayman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pleased with getting this one Name That Car — Puzzle #1008 2/5 🟥🟨 namethatcar.online
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.
Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Like the Institute of Economic Affairs were running events and writing articles advocating against football regulator last year Wonder who paid for these? 😱 iea.org.uk/films/is-a-f...
iea.org.uk
Is a football regulator necessary?
Is English football broken? Should government try to fix it? And are any of the proposals in the Fan-Led Review … Continue reading "Is a football regulator necessary?"
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”
Pete and Dud.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Commentators reading the Premier League ruling on Manchester City.
The wincing stones meme.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".
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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is very, very good.
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Múmer @mumermao.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Democrats and their supporters are kidding themselves if they think the US can quickly back out of war with Iran and the Houthis after mid-terms or even after 2028
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Since I'm not going to Liverpool this year to discuss, a short state of play on UK EU relations and the Labour Party. The very short version - they're terrified. And trying to find ways to avoid the question none of which will work.
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The British Opinion Columnists make sense when you realise they're a clique of Year 10 girls who've all decided to call Kelly From Maths a bitch and a crybaby and a virgin and a slag until she leaves school (one way or the other), except they're 55.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Your regular reminder that UK taxes are average by western standards and low on middle-earners. Labour figures, especially, should not fall into the trap of pretending that we have a “high” tax burden and that taxes are to blame for the living standards crisis. www.arguably.uk/p/the-tax-tr...
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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...
meatmanagement.com
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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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites.
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s much much harder now to be an anti racist than it is to be a racist. That’s one of the things I learned from talking to Rachel Marsh, who has been doxxed and abused for standing up to the far right. www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...
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‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm
Natasha Walter talks to Rachel Marsh, the resident of the newly ‘independent’ Oxfordshire village whose anti-racist BBC interview led to abuse, doxxing and death threats
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Picturing Erling Haaland being sold at police auction like a drug lord's speedboat.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thank God Reform is standing up for masked, knife-wielding, ex-cons. Society's most marginalised group.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026
1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Perfectly put. (The whole thread’s very good.)
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 24/09/2026
NEW – Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK ✍️ Written by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/VpxOLE5
EVs are now up to nine times cheaper per mile than diesel cars. Pence per mile. A chart shows diesel highest at around 21p, petrol at 20p, EV at price cap at 7p, and EV off peak lowest at under 2.5p. Source: Carbon Brief analysis, DESNZ, Ofgem, Zapmap. - (alt text generated by Google Gemini)
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 24/09/2026
Brexit, the Sitcom Mr Brexit no longer enjoys life as Europe’s most divorced man. Rooting for his phone amongst the discarded cans he texts his ex wife to tell her he’s willing to move back in with her but there will have to be changes. She will have to change. He stares at the phone waiting.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,
The Tories said the reduced subsistence allowance would be loaded onto pre-paid card that would not allow cash withdrawals, and would "prevent spending" on alcohol, cigarettes, or gambling.
The party is yet to detail how its proposal would work, but shadow welfare secretary Helen Whately said it would be "a version" of the pre-paid Aspen card issued to asylum seekers living in government-funded accommodation.
These cards cannot be used to make contactless, telephone or internet payments, whilst asylum seekers whose applications have failed cannot withdraw cash.
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