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Alex Vijatov

@alexvv.bsky.social
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Chess playing, hill walking, history nerd, NUFC fan trying to navigate his way through the scorched Mordor landscape of post Brexit Britain.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This mindset is the least we deserve from a leader. Of course it has to be turned into action. But this kind of ambition and love for the country, this kind of personal but positive vision is what takes people with you. How feeble-minded Farage and Badenoch seem. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Photo of Burnham waving to the audience in front of HOPE AGAIN backdrop Burnham was not going to die wondering. He knew he might be delivering one of the longest suicide notes in history, but he did it anyway. Because he couldn't not do it. Better to go down remaining true to his principles than being slowly airbrushed out of history like the previous six prime ministers. Failures all. Andy was prepared to burn through all his political capital right there in Liverpool, right then. Not just for his own legacy but for a country he wanted to rebuild. It was the only way he could look himself in the mirror.
Honour his parents.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
England as good as anybody in the world for midfield and forwards. Defensively we are Faroe Islands
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Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I hate these minutes applause at football matches because some people can't STFU for 60 seconds.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No amount of money can buy you popularity. For every person who likes Farage, there are 2 or 3 who really loathe him. The number against him might even go up, the richer he gets. He simply cannot make people like him. And we will not change our minds. We’ll do whatever we can to make him fail.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And now it’s children calling for the deaths of refugees… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
European EV sales surged more than 50% year-on-year last month, as buyers turned away from petrol cars because of soaring fuel prices. EVs now make up almost a third of sales on the continent (h/t Semafor) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EV Sales Are Booming in Europe With Gasoline at $10 a Gallon
After years of broadly unsuccessful efforts to wean drivers off combustion engines, sales of electric vehicles are surging in Europe thanks to the jump in fuel prices stoked by geopolitical upheaval.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's Rupert Lowe MP's payments from X Corp over the past year. This man is making serious cash from Musk's platform. Payments surged over the summer, during UK 'unrest', and when Musk was frantically re-sharing Lowe's posts... Bleak, lucrative work if you can get it.
Line chart plotting 21 payments from X Corp to Rupert Lowe MP, as declared in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. The x-axis runs from 3 September 2025 to 16 September 2026; the y-axis shows the value of each fortnightly payment in pounds, from zero to £12,000.

Payments run between roughly £1,100 and £2,200 through late 2025, rise gradually through spring 2026 to around £3,000–£3,800, then jump sharply to £11,724.97 on 10 June 2026 and £10,265.50 in July. From there they fall in five consecutive steps — £4,412.76, £3,126.35, £2,885.36, £2,542.04 — to £2,413.89 on 16 September 2026, a fall of 79% from the June peak.

Two things worth carrying with the graphic whichever version you use.

The July point is marked with an asterisk because the register gives its received date as 7 August 2026 while recording it as registered on 15 July. Plotted it at the likelier 7 July.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 24/09/2026
Yesterday, Lennon said he was detained under counter-terrorism powers and questioned about his views on Russia. Given his record, you can see why Russia might have come up.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If these people were not so very dangerously stupid this would be very funny indeed. Jaymey McIvor of Reform insisting people from Chingford and Woodford are claiming asylum in Ongar.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thank you for this, @privateeyenews.bsky.social Farage needs ridiculing far more. It’s a form of scrutiny he can’t cope with and one he so richly - yes pun intended - deserves.
TV HIGHLIGHTS
72 Up
The award-winning documentary series continues, charting the progress of one posh little boy, Nigel, over the years.
The last time we saw him was over a week ago in 36
Up when he had been given £36 million out of the blue.
In the latest instalment Nigel is given another £36 million, making the total donation a jaw-dropping £72 million.
This is a life changing moment for the former prep school boy who was recorded in the first episode singing the Horst Wessel song and coming up with charming but embarrassing comments about admiring Hitler.
As the clock moves forward
to 72 Up, viewers now see a completely different Nigel from the one we have come to know so well over the years
- from Europe-hating MEP to Brexit-promoting campaigner to the triumphant bin-defeating statesman of today. It's been a roller-coaster ride for Nigel
- and indeed the viewer - and this remarkable series ends with a poignant and moving climax in a Clacton oyster bar, where the older but no wiser Nigel faces the prospect of being Prime Minister and/or going to jail after criminal proceedings.
EYE VERDICT: "Boring, boring, Boring! Nothing to see here
- put a sock in it, love." 

(Insert photo of him slurping up oysters)
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is interesting. Telegraph suddenly behaving very carefully after the Reform scandal
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Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Burnham replied: "I think that legislation dates to an era where football was very different. I wonder whether he has considered if the alcohol ban has contributed to the improvement. Maybe people can just cope without a drink for 2 hours. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Burnham brands ban on football fans drinking alcohol in stands as 'discrimination'
The prime minister opposes the law - in place since 1985 - and believes there is a case to remove it.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don't feel sorry for her exactly but I do feel a kind of sorrow for her. Not sure I've ever witnessed someone debase themself like this in the name of ideology.
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Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is this government for real FFS?!! If you need a gold plated confirmation that you made the right decision. It's that Trump thinks you got it badly wrong Please be more Canada ukgov www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK to review Chagos Islands deal over lack of US support, Streeting tells BBC
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has confirmed the review after Donald Trump told Andy Burnham the deal was "terrible".
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jim Ratcliffe and James Dyson - plenty of representation with bugger all taxation.
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Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Which area would you like to see Burnham find common ground with Trump? a) Child rape b) Corruption c) State sponsored murder d) Suppression of democracy e) Gratitude for availability of Adult Pampers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Andy Burnham expects to find 'common ground' with Trump in first meeting
In New York, the prime minister will also deliver a speech to the UN General Assembly expected to be focused on AI.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Dan Thomas has been doing a brilliant job,” Nige continued. “I’m sorry for his personal difficulties.” Yeah, Dan. Great bloke. Brilliant Reform leader….just unfortunate he’s been arrested on suspicion of assault and coercive control.” Crace - Reform’s nemesis. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Another day, another Reform Wales leader. Grumpy Nige seems to miss the old one | John Crace
At a low-key event, Helen Jenner replaces Dan Thomas, who was arrested on suspicion of assault and gets warm words from Farage
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There was, in fact, a legal framework governing slavery, hence the need for changes in the law to make it illegal. It was not some private hobby like knitting or stamp collecting.
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Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have mixed feelings at best at the thought of my country's leader searching for common ground with Donald Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Andy Burnham expects to find 'common ground' with Trump in first meeting
In New York, the prime minister will also deliver a speech to the UN General Assembly expected to be focused on AI.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The guilty men of the 21st century. Semafor: "Chevron said it plans to dramatically increase its oil drilling next year — its budget is set to jump more than 50% compared to 2025." Not just fiddling while Rome burns - they're rushing to pour more petrol on the fire.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths Leader of Kent County Council dismisses recent surge of wildfires and heat deaths as a "scare" and suggests… bylinetimes.com/2026/09/21/reform-c…
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Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths
Leader of Kent County Council dismisses recent surge of wildfires and heat deaths as a "scare" and suggests the world is merely emerging from a "mini ice age"
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Can't believe I made it to 79. I mean, holy cow!
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mr Tommo’s local vicar in front of his church ‘Are Blessid Laydee and All Are Souls.’
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good news corner. Semafor reports that a US district court has ruled that the Trump administration must reinstate a $7 billion grant program that funded solar panel installations for middle- and low-income families.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Public meeting: taking back control of our water There is a meeting on 23 September between 6 and 7:45 pm at Gosforth Civic Theatre which aims to explore whether a cooperative or mutual model for water is actually feasible northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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Public meeting: taking back control of our water
There is a meeting on 23 September between 6 and 7:45 pm at Gosforth Civic Theatre which aims to explore whether a cooperative or mutual model for water is actually feasible
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jacob Rees-Mogg has put out a video about how everyone needs to "grow up" and put childhood things behind them and show a bit more backbone and be prepared to do things fir themselves. That's Jacob Rees-Mogg who as an adult ... quite literally went canvassing with his nanny.
Rees mogg and and an AI image of a man in a bowler hat
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Dear Ed. You're not the victim here. Your starting point should be realising that. www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/deva...
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Devastated Ed Sheeran claims his own family ‘abandoned’ him amid Gaza row
‘I'm feeling all of my friends and family and people I know abandon me,’ said Sheeran
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Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ed Davey calling for a 10p cut on fuel duty. No fuck it! Just keep reminding people that this is the fault of Donald Trump and that his fan boy and disciple Farage has pledged his future to the fossil fuel industry.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago.
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Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Be honest, who had noted his absence? Who cares if someone who doesn't want to pay their fair taxes here, pisses off to live on a F1 race track? 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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Save America Movement @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This administration would be so funny if it wasn’t so historically embarrassing and destructive. America deserves serious leaders.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks
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Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: p...
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God @thegodshow.com · 17/09/2026
I haven't seen someone get this much dumber between seasons since Homer Simpson.
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Ed Sheeran to represent Piddington at Eurovision
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Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The people of Piddington vote for independence as a protest against worries of swarms of men of unknown origin converging on their village. Outcome: Swarms of men, their identities hidden by balaclavas, converge on Piddington.
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Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A poll for the Piddington refugees Did you vote for A) Brexit? B) Tories in 2019 GE? Both these actions contributed massively to the current refugee situation. If you voted yes to either, maybe have the humility to STFU.
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Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The over the top reaction of the Piddington residents should not gloss over the fact that this was a really badly thought out policy in the first place.
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Honestly who are these people that feel they can decide over someone’s right to their own life. Forcing people to go through abject pain in their final months and years of life is abhorrent
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yuuuuup…
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If your idea of patriotism is calling any member of the RNLI, an entirely voluntary organisation whose crews daily risk their lives to save others, a traitor, then you are beyond hope of redemption.
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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The protest outside the Daily Mail office is really kicking off.
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 09/09/2026
Shin Fein?
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TensegrityFan🐝🍯 @tensegrityfan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kneeo N a z i s !
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Political Satirical @politicalsatirical.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You may need to sit down and prepare yourself for this one. DRINKS DOWN WARNING Swallow first…
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