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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 4h

Now this is what take back control looks like. And Manchester has created a data and logistics health stack that doesn't rely on Palantir and superior to it. No reason why this can't happen across all UK public services. For security. And frankly decency. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Andy Burnham searches for UK alternative to Palantir

Prime minister’s ‘buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/09/2026

Proper "source: I made it up" stuff, on the social network the government still seems determined to use through dozens of official and unofficial channels.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Blimey. Baroness Margaret Hodge - the Govt anti-corruption champion, on the £72m donations to Reform recently: "I think it came from the Russians." She's speaking at a Fabian event on donation caps

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I think the story of our era will be of a political class that were not only not up to the times they faced, but often wilfully blind to them.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can’t wait for Mick Herron to bring together the Danny Tommo A-plot and the RAF Fairford B-plot in an unexpected but satisfying way.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This keeps happening. Public debate on tax is increasingly driven by reports from consultancies commissioned by lobbyists. These reports rarely disclose their methodology. They never disclose the terms under which they were written.

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Tim Picton @timpicton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know I am a sado, but I have waiting for this leak for almost two years! One q to emerge from the files so far is, how did a certain Cottrell-linked accountant go bankrupt and only a few years later manage to sell a £3.7m property to fund an offshore crypto casino? Answers on a postcard etc…

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This thing needs to end. Nobody wants to give feedback on a sandwich, a cup of coffee, some rawl plugs, whatever. It’s bad customer service to be bombarded with these emails.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/09/2026

If Elon Musk and half the Tesla C-Suite were currently in jail because Grok spent weeks generating CSAM-on-demand while they memed about it, Altman and the rest might be a bit more cautious about letting their little robots commit share price friendly press releasable crimes.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The reoccurring theme of recent news is ‘company/individual commits a crime. There is no obvious consequence’. Doesn’t feel ideal.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 23/09/2026

when did people start going completely mad? We have utter batshit nonsense like this from Braverman, we have Trump completely out of control in the US, we have "Danny Tommo" trying to kill RNLI volunteers, we have maniacs flat-out denying vaccines are good. Did the pandemic cook everyone's brains?

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Will the government be announcing its new National Centre for Information Defence on X or

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23/09/2026

am having to force myself to live in a state of at least partial denial because I find the currenty situation so deeply nauseating that constant knowledge of it would probably have a significant impact on my day-to-day

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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is having a real impact locally. I'm trying to convince Piddington to stop inviting Tommo for tea and biscuits and turns out it's incredibly hard to convince someone that something is dangerous and beyond the pale when the government clearly doesn't think so.

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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As I’ve said before, if a government doesn’t think it can win the argument on “violent, murderous thugs are bad, actually.” then it’s finished, both electorally and morally

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I mean, for the millionth time, if the UK home office can proscribe pro Palestine activists for criminal damage, why can it not proscribe this fake cockney guy’s organised street fascism movement? The lack of action looks, at worst, like endorsement.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is what happens when you chicken out from enforcing the rule of law.

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I mean, at this point, it's fairly unambiguously paramilitarism. You've got a non-state actor using violence to further political objectives. It's flagrantly in breach of democratic principles several times over. Inaction would be the most ultimate failure of a democratic government.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“I am not done with her”. The language of a gangster. It’s a disgrace. Our legal system facilitates it, and the Government won’t act.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 22/09/2026

Any UK politician who pledges tax cuts is either a complete idiot or presumes that the electorate are.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's enormously depressing to see the Lib Dems loyally falling in behind the collective fantasy of our times: that you can cut taxes, rebuild public services & solve the massive problems confronting the public finances by pulling some magic lever marked "increased growth". This is just not serious.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One vaguely serious party.... it's all I ask for.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For me, "doing better" for the Lib Dems means doing more with the MPs they already have. The key question here is "why should you want a large bloc of Lib Dem MPs"? When there are 72 of them, & liberal-democracy is in crisis, they have both an opportunity & an obligation to give a better answer.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 20/09/2026

I generally defend the BBC but I'm really not sure why they're out in front leading the PR campaign for this bitter man's vindictive book. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Earl Spencer tells BBC Harry and Meghan's media treatment echoes what happened to Diana

Princess Diana's brother says she was "really brought low by all that criticism" and he saw her in "tears of despair".

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 20/09/2026

UK politics won't be cleaned up until we start going after the organ grinders not their idiot monkeys www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge

Exclusive: A total £179m has been donated by wealthy individuals since 2019, research reveals

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

a powerful case for appointing a secretary of state specialising in media and culture

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Funny how nobody ever talks about the “legitimate concerns” people have about the extreme concentration of wealth among a small number of billionaires.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The only thing I would disagree with here is that the UK is not helpless - it is a choice not to fight back against Musk. It is the wrong choice.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

This is true. But also, sometimes you just have to stand up for stuff even if you don't know the effect it will have.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My rather dark musing on this is that the two link: social norms were, in part, enforced by the threat of violence and as violence receeds so do the norms. I *really* hope this isnt the case

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is the international oligarchical alliance in action, using its control of the US state to ensure our public sphere remains under the grip of Big Tech, which can in turn skew the political playing field in favour of its far-right allies

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

No, youre Piddington the village of cunts

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The hiring and then briefing against Chris Wormald, akin to going to Steaks Inc, ordering the T-Bone and going 'wait, there's beef in this?' and then being bizarrely, aggressively rude to the waiting staff to the point you end up up with a £860k fine. (Paid for by all of us)

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hard to shake the impression that the overriding sentiment in Tories and Labour to the Reform donations was envy rather than concern about our democratic system….

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cones @coneshotline.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

nandy pulled off the scam of the year lol like imagine pleading for your job all ooh you don’t understand i was blocked from doing what i wanted to do and then going back to snoring in a hammock

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I thought Keir Starmer was bad, and that having a Principal with even a vague sense of direction would help, but the more time goes on the more convinced I become that the Labour Party is fundamentally incapable of doing the basic bits of preserving a state, even to their own detriment.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The ability of the richest & most powerful men in the world to position themselves against "the elite" - a category that excludes the world's richest man, its biggest media magnates, the UK's richest party & the biggest donors in UK history - may be the most effective lie in modern political history

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is long beyond time to do something about this toxic and ungoverned social media culture. Under-16s are not the problem - the algorithmic rewarding of grift and extremism is poisoning our societies. Let's call it clicktremism.

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 11/09/2026

Yep. The path from "fed up with experts" to "I do my own research" to "SAVE US FROM SATAN'S TRAFFIC LIGHTS!" is reliably straight.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is completely right to treat the far right mobs roaming our streets as a national security issue. Government has been far too complacent about this for over two years now. This is interlinked with failures to regulate social media platforms and the collapse of domestic policing and intelligence.

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Tim Dowse @timdowse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Many congratulations to @lindycameron.bsky.social on her appointment as the new Permanent Under-Secretary at the FCDO!

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