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Alyson Jane

@alysonjane11.bsky.social
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Retired I.T. Professional, homemaker, mum. She/her. Reader, walker, grower of herbs. Won't stop learning 'til I'm dead!

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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
On this occasion I do in fact have to support this kind of silliness
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Havoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
If American history was taught correctly.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
While Boris Johnson was mayor of London there were 72,000 knife attacks, 16,000 gun crime offences, and at least 62,000 racially motivated violent crimes. But apparently, those didn't count.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
One thing Sadiq Khan isn't doing as Mayor is giving £100,000 of public money to someone he's shagging behind his wife's back under the guise of 'IT lessons'.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Bridget Phillipson slapping down the racist hypocrite Rupert Lowe in the House of Commons just now
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Really curious as to how the politics of “what if we had a global economic shock and it was really clear that it was caused by one person, really clearly and obviously” plays out in democracies, but I could have lived with finding out at say, the age of 90 not today.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Almost all of the questions the Today programme put to Nigel Farage this morning were with a right wing framing. Even the question on his plan to import ICE to the UK was about whether it would cost too much
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Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
One detail I hadn't realised about parliament finishing today - today is the last day a hereditary peer will ever sit in the House of Lords.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Now.. very slowly for those at the back… Who wins when states go to war and when politicians promote fossil fuels over renewables and push to scrap Net Zero? Because it isn’t us. Our bills don’t go down. Our planet doesn’t get prioritised. Our futures don’t get safer. (Sky News)
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Oil giant BP announces huge rise in profits in first results since Iran war
"Exceptional" oil trading contributed to the more than doubling of profits, BP said.
Sarah Taaffe-Maguire

Business and economics reporter


• Tuesday 28 April 2026 08:13, UK bp
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Yes, but what to do? Seriously. One man is effectively holding the world economy to the ransom of however his demented mind works. I struggle to think of any reasonable historical parallel. And he has built a governing system to insulate himself from pressures.
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️
Terry and Rhianna Pratchett dressed up for the launch of Dodger in 2012.
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧 Someone on Threads asked what life was like under a Reform led council. Here’s a few replies. The media is hellbent on ensuring YOU will have this! Low turnout,split vote and here’s your future! GET OUT AND VOTE! #reform #farage
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PoliticalNash @politicalnash.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
UK Ed Davey and the Liberal Democrats use words to describe trump, words familiar because they were previous used to describe Hitler. @TheLastWord #TrumpEpicFailure #TrumpCrimeSyndicate #DV1 #ProudBlue
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The fact that Jared Kushner derives nearly all his income from the Saudi government while he purports to be negotiating issues of acute interest to the Saudi government allegedly on behalf of the US is simply swept under the rug by US mainstream media.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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What's the evidence that Trump has gone mad?
Podcast Episode · James O'Brien Daily · 20 April · 56min
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
It’s not that these people still exist. That’s just biology. It’s that they are still being paid to shit in their own hands & start clapping.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I also missed this. My apologies. Follow Adam!
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Trump comparing himself to Jesus while Vance tries to lecture the actual Pope on matters theological proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the ‘Christian’ element of their support is, morally & doctrinally, about as Christian as a hula hoop. Their conduct is literally unconscionable.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Ah. The cards. David Davis appears to have lent his magic Brexit pack to Donald Trump.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 13/04/2026
1/8 The UK energy headlines are about to get loud again. Before that happens, here’s a simple explanation of how the systems actually work, that I created for my students a while ago and have updated to 2026. It explains why the risk is often misunderstood. #UK #Energy #EnergySecurity
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing
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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
What a fantastic start to my US trip! Thank you, Brookline, you were stellar. I loved meeting you all, and introducing No Friend to This House. Next stop: Cleveland!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
You know you have the best gal pals when one of them will carry you on her back like she carries the weight of her invisible labour: effortlessly, and while dicking about playing a stupid game. #internationalwomensday
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Peter Thiel has called Greta Thunberg the Antichrist. I think there's a bit of projecting going on. What do you think?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
There's a whole thing going down on the right wing X-sphere where vloggers go and stand outside mosques... try to provoke worshippers... and then claim they have been "assaulted" - despite the people on the footage appearing to be entirely reasonable and just asking them to go home.
l've just been attacked by a gang
of Muslims outside of East London
Mosque in Whitechapel.


During the time of Ramadan, and after
a Christian preacher was antagonised
by Muslims, I decided to do some
interviews and debate outside of
East London Mosque. Immediately
afterwards, a gang of men surrounded
me and threatened to mug me
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Nazi supporting paper says what?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Nobody chooses to get born into monarchy, and for many royals it's miserable. A true gilded cage. Over and above the overwhelming case for a republic on democratic and constitutional grounds, there's that Andrew, however, is the very worst product of the system. Grasping, entitled, nasty, stupid.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
They noticed!
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Fifteen US deportees shipped to Cameroon skirting judicial orders now locked inside a “secret” detention site in Yaoundé, no visitors, no freedom. Journalists who tried to report on it? Arrested. One allegedly slapped. #Immigration #HumanRights #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AFULK_FA8TOC...
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U.S. Immigration Deportees Held in Secret African Detention Facility — The Wall Street Journal
Lawyers say sending migrants to Cameroon skirted judicial orders
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The Daily Mail have made a desperate attack on Green Candidate Hannah Spencer. Among the evil things she did, going to the US 12 years ago, and going to Spain 10 years ago. I think those revelations will... Make people laugh at the ridiculous Daily Mail.
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Anyone with daughters at UK schools will know this is nonsense. When Badenoch's own daughters get older, and if she listens to their experience, (and if she's capable of self-reflection) she'll be very embarrassed by this racist rubbish. (Also, does she not realise that 11 year-old boys grow up?)
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A third of 16-18 year olds girls say in surveys that they experienced unwanted sexual touching at school. There are several hundred rapes reported in schools every year.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Well well well - the desperation of cruel people trying to make us believe they just have “legitimate concerns” has sure been illuminating - while the grotesque misogyny of power remains , they obsessively bully those who fail to hate trans people
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The very same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...
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The Farage Apologists
The same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This little boy was 9, Farage was 17. The epitome of a school bully.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Farage arrives in Scotland today, and it should make our collective stomach heave that this repulsive, dangerous extremist has crossed the border. Amid scapegoating schoolkids and allegations of antisemitism anyone who supports this man is morally in the gutter My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
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"Farage in Falkirk? It should make our stomachs heave to have him in Scotland"
Nigel Farage’s Falkirk visit sparks outrage, with many Scots saying his presence north of the border should make “our stomachs heave”.
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The owner of Reform UK ltd - Farage, has accepted £9m from Thailand resident Harborne. Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations: "He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?" Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Great from @roberthutton.co.uk on the Truss clown-car, as she repeatedly drives it into the wall of shame. This time with her own YouTube show. Most of us would have tired of the indelible humiliation by now. Not Liz. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/408...
Liz Truss is back to tell her story on YouTube - but there's a twist
After her political career ended in humiliation, Truss's new series is about affirmation
5th December 2025 4:50 pm

'Liz Truss is far from the only politician to try a move to TV', writes Rob Hutton (Image: The Liz Truss Show/YouTube)
"They tried to silence her. They failed." The trailer for the newest thriller to hit our screens doesn't disappoint. It's a tagline that conjures images of Sigourney Weaver or Angelina Jolie, locked and loaded and out for justice. So who is 2025's heroine, staring down the camera as she sets out on a quest for revenge? Get ready... for former prime minister Liz Truss. "It's time to fight for the West," Truss, still speaking very much like someone who might be spraying bullets around in the final act, told X (formerly Twitter) as she announced her newest venture, a YouTube show.  
But the whole show promises to rest on Truss's galactic levels of un-self-awareness. "The problem we've got in Britain," she told Solomon, is that "we have a ruling elite who just don't like their own country." There's no better way for a former prime minister to make the point than to slag the rest of us off for the benefit of Americans. 

Truss may need money. Although she can claim back up to £115,000 a year for costs associated with her public duties as a former prime minister, this isn't the same as a salary, and having lost her seat in Parliament, she no longer gets paid as an MP.

But what she needs more is affirmation. We are all the heroes of our own narratives. Truss's political career ended in failure and humiliation at a level unmatched in modern British history. For her to still be the hero, this disaster must have been the work of some pretty special villains.

"I'm going to expose the truth about what happened to me and who was behind it," Truss promised Solomon. The rest of us know what happened, of course, but one woman can never face it. This will be her story.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
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TravisTAGR @travistagr.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Alex Phillips and Matt Goodwin. Good, honest, unbiased, rational debate 🤪
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 06/12/2025
“Don’t replace the culture war with class war” is such a fun way of saying, “Please don’t unionize, I just bought a yacht that parks inside another yacht.”
Culture war or class war?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers. Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
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The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Imagine the reaction to allegations that Corbyn had made hissing gas noises to Jewish kids as a schoolboy - and then if he had responded to those allegations by shouting 'Bernard Manning!' at the journalists
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage. Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar. Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
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The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
If you look at the ridiculous case studies they dredged up & the desperate attempts to hang Reeves for ‘lying’ about the rationale behind a policy she *did not introduce*, you might work out why right-wing media is straining *not* to talk about the finer detail of her (unremarkable) budget.
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.
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