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Alison

@alicemerray.bsky.social
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Knitter, reader, swimmer & walker. Avid podcast listener (often on the walks!) But mostly layabout. Loves to sing. Atheist. Will never be persuaded that empathy is bad. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 12h
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sorry to be a (Conservative) party pooper, but
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The Keminaissance is a myth. The Tories are still like a weird uncle.
Badenoch’s increasing tendency towards being ‘extremely online’ has led the party to paint itself into an ‘anti-woke’ corner that, to the majority of Brits who do not spend much time online…
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 18h
"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14h
This week, the Prime Minister said that "all the options" for our future relationship with Europe are on the table. EU membership is the only option that makes sense. Write to your MP and ask them to attend the debate in Parliament on rejoining the EU.
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Tell your MP: 628 constituencies want EU membership. Only 4 don't. - Best for Britain
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 21h
Oh look, another award for London. Someone might want to pass this on to Reform’s mayoral candidate, Laila Cunningham. Perhaps she could dial back the relentless shitting on the city I live in by, say, 5%.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 15h
I am English by Suella Braverman's definition and I say you are English if you were born in England or have made your home here. So that includes you, Sue Ellen.
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facendacrowd @facendacrowd1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"No fatties, no beardos, no weirdos." Pete Hegseth Secretary of War
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Frank N Beans 🫘 @beansnfrank.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If the head thief in the oval can steal us blind, why wouldn't everyone else? This world is being run by a crime syndicate.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 17h
Richard Tice is trying to use Anne Widdecombe's death to stop legitimate scrutiny of Nigel Farage's £5m donation. Surprise!
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15h
‘Rupert Lowe, who set up the far-right party Restore Britain after falling out with Farage, earns about as much from posting about mass deportations and rape gangs on Elon Musk’s X as he does from being an MP.’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on party fundraising. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: Funding Reform
British politics has long been complacent about the power of big money. The relatively low price of access to...
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 19h
Good luck and love to your family Cal. We hope you find the excitement in new shores and Australia holds you well. Cis people, let’s say and do more than we have so far.
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 15h
Every cis person needs to read and understand this.These decisions aren’t taken lightly. Our Labour government is effectively making political refugees of trans ppl and their families who flee and seek safety overseas. It’s shameful. They can stick their dignity and respect where the sun don’t shine
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Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social · 14h
A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein | The Masked Lesbian Psyop on Podbean www.podbean.com/ea/dir-cpcry...
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The Masked Lesbian Psyop
The Boston Globe’s biggest story in 2002 was an earth-shattering expose of child abuse within the Catholic Church. The Boston Globe’s biggest story in 2026 was an earth-shattering expose of a dysfunct...
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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rapey man defends the rapists.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dear Siri… Who’s more dangerous?Undocumented immigrants or frat boys? 
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Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#CelebrityTraitors
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Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Love Ross Kemp's approach tbh. This is a horrible scenario. ##CelebrityTraitors
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Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I would have haggised out before even getting in!
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Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
See Passport to Pimlico is on BBC2 tomorrow morning, 3rd October 10.35am. Can't imagine how that got scheduled.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
GB News exists only to drive the UK further right and radicalise the elderly and unwary, who get sucked in with 1980s daytime TV stars and nostalgia, and drip fed fear, anger, hate to make them xenophobic enough to vote for a man like Nigel Farage who serves only himself and his rotten backers.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do people really not get quite how pernicious this ethno-nationalism is? I mean, this is *evil* stuff.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Burnham has called for proportional representation. SV is absolutely not a proportional representation system. It is not clear if Burnham knows this but it is pretty certain that those appointed to an electoral reform commission charged with considering a move to PR will know this.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In short: Fuck that, and fuck them. iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What a week. We've seen the news agenda rescued from the grip of the far-right. We've seen astonishing levels of competence in government communication. And we've seen the outline of a radical policy programme. It's a v.exciting time to be involved in politics iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...
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Some disparate thoughts on a historic speech
For the first time in two years, we freed ourselves from the far-right’s strangle-hold over the news agenda.
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Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Recruit James & murder Amol #Traitors
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Ross is completely paranoid! #Traitors
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every single person who has said trans people are a danger to women and girls is put here defending gang rapists.
Matt Walsh (rape apologist) tweets "You can perfectly understand the case of the Cornell 7. and the reaction to it, once you understand that feminists fundamentally reject the idea that women can ever be truly responsible for any wrong doing of any kind. Which is why, when there's a disgusting drug ano alcohol fueled orgy where everyone involved is inebriated. the woman is somehow automatically the victim and the men are somehow automatically responsible. On normal logic, that makes no sense. If alcohol removes consent then the drunk men have iust as valid a claim to being raped as the drunk woman. But feminists aren't using normal logic. They're using feminist logic. Which, again. starts with the presupposition that women by definition cannot truly be at fault at all for anything ever. That is simply a brute fact of the universe, in their view. They don't have to defend it, and don't. and can't."
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Bard Of The Revolution @dndnerd69.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So far this year, men around the world have been convicted (not accused, CONVICTED) of SA'ing: Babies Toddlers Young girls Young boys Young women Old women Dead women Trans women Strangers Their own wives Dogs Goats An orangutan Koi fish Tell me again we don’t have a fucking problem?!
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Allison O'D @ally888.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I will be unsurprised if, at some point in the future, we find out that the experts who designed the exhibition indicated the comfortable visitor numbers and someone higher up overruled them. What an embarassment.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Again, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job.
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm happy to stand in for the press cowardice: bsky.app/profile/aida... It's likely the first time when transphobia was put to numbers, and it came entirely unwanted, unasked and women spoke firmly "FUCK OFF WITH THAT".
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour banned trans women from its women's conference floor ~200 turned up to a hall that used to hold 1,000 Unison, Usdaw and every affiliated union stayed away over that one issue Labour's own ballot sheet: zero union votes on 4 of 6 motions. No mandate angryaida.substack.com/p/its-offici...
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It's official: Labour's transphobia has no mandate from women across the UK
Labour held its women's conference, barred trans women from the hall, and women across the country stayed away.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026
As a side note to this: The best thing that Andy Burnham’s Labour Party can do right now is reach out to both Ed Davey and Zack Polanski. Whether he needs them for a coalition after the next GE or not, now is the time to get both the Lib Dems and Greens on board - especially around care.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026
As ever, one speech will not fix all. Labour needs to take a good hard look at itself on the issues of immigration, their approach to welfare and their poor treatment of especially Trans people.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Keeping in mind that the American Government has a somewhat unfortunate tendency to lie, deceive and distort, I’m not sure this is the win that Jenrick thinks it is. Also, Fairford. Imaging having an immigrant have to correct you on your spelling.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Since you ask Nige, yes, you are missing something. Presumably deliberately... The Fairford men are *suspected* of offences. Your idiot mate Tommy Danno, or whatever he calls himself, was imbecilic enough to actually film himself committing a criminal act! Clear enough for you? 🤣
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026
Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender New Times executive who was head of engineering at NYT games, was murdered by his in laws over the weekend. This follows years of allegations that the in laws were abusive to him over his gender identity. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...
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New York Times executive killed by his elderly in-laws, police say | CNN
A couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with th...
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2026
Oh bsky.app/profile/ecmc...
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Jansen Mann @hellojansen.com · 28/09/2026
Ooops www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/raf-fairford...
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RAF Fairford suspects were 'just thieves syphoning fuel', sources
The RAF Fairford suspects were 'just thieves syphoning fuel', according to sources. A Ministry of Defence source told Wiltshire 999s...
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026
The Fairford incident is dominating the news cycle - and the right-wing. Over the past 48 hours we’ve seen speculation, insinuation and implication attempt turn a serious story about security into one about immigration. This is a long one. Make some tea.
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A Dissection: The Fairford Fannywobble
How the right-wing commentariat turned an ongoing investigation into a migrant story before the facts were known.
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