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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 16h
Today is the 117th consecutive day somewhere in the UK has recorded a temperature of 20°C or higher. The 11th of June was the last time we didn't reach this threshold. Fresher air comes in on Wednesday allowing temperatures to fall, and likely to stay just below 20°C.
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 20h
Hearing this earlier, by someone who died in 2001, has turned me fully into a “culture is stuck” guy
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Jack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
‘Next stop, the gas chamber’: London bus adverts to be removed www.jewishnews.co.uk/next-stop-ga...
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‘Next stop, the gas chamber’: London bus adverts to be removed - Jewish News
EXCLUSIVE: TfL acts after Jewish passengers criticise vegan group’s campaign targeting methods used to slaughter pigs
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not my circus, it’s owned by a holding company based in the British Virgin Islands, and the monkeys are technically self employed
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Don't really understand why they keep trying to make international club matches a thing, what happens if Mumbai Indians, MI Cape Town, MI Emirates, MI New York and MI London all qualify? Would be farcical www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/o...
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ICC delays plans for World Club Championship after ‘Big Three’ object
The ICC will not introduce a World Club Championship or more international multilateral tournaments until 2031 at the earliest after resistance from England, Australia and India
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is brilliant. Ever wondered where Core Group Negativr are now? How many of the Cabinet voted against triggering A50? Which Lib Dem MPs have Labour as their closest challenger? It’s all here!
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wow, the Prime Minister* has called a snap election* * of Spain * in Spain
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well done England, the crowd’s 13
Michael Owen about to humiliate a 13 year old
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
[First thing] AND [connected second thing], in this economy??!?
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy Lincolnshire Day (yes! Today!) to all from England’s greatest county.
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If there’s no monoculture why am I hearing about this song every single day
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 "We will say more in due course but we can confirm... that we believe Iran to have played a part," he told the BBC
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UK believes Iran involved in RAF Fairford incident, Burnham says
The prime minister's comments come days after the suspects were released on the 'strictest possible bail conditions'.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Liquid Bluesky
National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk 
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shabana, did you know Indonesia is at a crossroads?
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This Morning tackling the big issues of the moment
DOES LIKING BISCUITS MAKE YOU OLD?
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Angela Eagle gets a round of applause for saying she’s a “46 time conference delegate”
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A good list
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To return to this website’s favourite theme…why are they setting it in the 1990s. Why make the production more difficult for yourself for incidental background lore you can easily jettison
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Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 29/09/2026
Do you like Scotch food, Liz? I know a little place we can go.
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S01E05 Scotch Mist 26 February 2004
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can’t believe I missed the Sugababes at one of the corporate parties at labour conference tonight. The real Sugababes too, Mutya, Keisha and Siobhan
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's crisis comms and then there's crisis comms. Fair play to the City admin for just posting through it I suppose.
19:07 BST

Manchester City

Manchester City have just posted on X.

"Vote for your September Goal of the Month".
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Culture, Media and Sport secretary Lisa Nandy tells BBC News the Man City investigation must be concluded "swiftly", with the club having indicated they will appeal their guilty verdict. She says speed is needed to "uphold the integrity of the game"
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A modern plague in football is capping up "Club" or, even worse, "Football Club" in club statements
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sources telling me the prime minister will NOT address the England hunk shortage in his keynote speech to Labour conference tomorrow
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting says "all lines of inquiry" are being kept open around events near RAF Fairford this weekend. Asked about the five men who have been released on bail he says they're under "stringent" bail conditions.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On my growing gloom about books
spectator.com
The real reason kids are giving up reading
Even popular books are getting shorter and easier to read: their sentences are shorter, their paragraphs are shorter
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 28/09/2026
London's Waterloo Bridge faces closure within three years without urgent repairs, deepening concerns over the UK capital's crumbling river crossings. Read more: bloom.bg/4xRZaZ9 📷️: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If it was *just* the UK election related pages and MP biographies and the cricket section it’d still be the best website on the internet
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
all those security barriers and then they just let these things. they can jump barriers now. i made an undignified noise.
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Merseyside Police making arrests of protestors outside Labour conference in Liverpool. Dozens of protestors displaying placards in support of proscribed group Palestine Action
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ed Miliband does not deny that he was the first cabinet minister to advise Keir Starmer to go – Sienna Rodgers www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Please don't duplicate a point if somebody has already made it" says the conference chair. This may be a futile hope.
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Words to live by
Roadside sign saying “phone down eyes up, stay alert”
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Labour conference slogan is "Hope Again"
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why does Liverpool have so many place names in common with London? Vauxhall, Islington, Kensington, Wapping...
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A spokesperson said “this is the last thing we wanted to happen”
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ornstein dropping a Friday bombshell here www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...
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Manchester City found guilty on almost all Premier League charges relating to financial breaches (Gift Article)
City were charged by the Premier League in February 2023.
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good pubs…central Liverpool…discuss
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
BBC ‘risks entering inescapable doom spiral’ as further cuts hit TV and radio
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BBC ‘risks entering inescapable doom spiral’ as further cuts hit TV and radio
Warning from union comes as corporation cuts local specialist correspondent roles as part of plan to save £500m The BBC has been warned it risks entering a “doom spiral” of endless cuts and weaker public support for its services, as insiders anticipate the imminent closure of some TV and radio services. Morale at the corporation is said to be extremely low as a series of cuts are slowly revealed to staff. In the latest announcement, the BBC said it would be reducing the number of local specialist correspondent roles. Continue reading...
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Greatest opening track to an album ever and it’s not even close
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/09/2026
Everyone, stop what you are doing. I've discovered there is a politician called Teresa May running for city council in British Columbia. And this is from one of her campaign videos. Never have two people with the same name had such different vibes.
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Again...how is this a thing that exists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvW_...
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You Can See Everything | Official Trailer HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TWENTY TWO HOURS in the air. Very much not for me, thanks www.ft.com/content/276f...
ft.com
Qantas pushes ahead with new ultra-long flights despite high fuel prices
Chief executive Vanessa Hudson says Australian airline is confident demand for nonstop services is strong
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Albion. Blighty. Britannia. Many people are calling it those things.
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
MP Recall 🏛️ I named 11/649 current MPs in five minutes. ⬜ 1/11 IND 🟥🟦 5/5 DUP 🟢🟡 2/2 SDLP 🟨🟩 1/1 APNI 🟦🟥 1/1 TUV 🟦⬜ 1/1 UUP Can you beat me? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mprecall/
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MP Recall — How many MPs can you remember?
Name as many current UK MPs as you can in five minutes.
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Got Davey on the TVs but Lula at the UN on my headphones. Was briefly confused by the lengthy digression on the fight against organised crime in Manaus, Amazonas state before I realised
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Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 22/09/2026
Other times I copied the plots from dead authors
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Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 21/09/2026
Have you ever been to Scotland, Dag?
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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