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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs

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Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back

Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/10/2026

Dear Trump voters, You wanted mass deportations. Well, hundreds of thousands of people have been deported. NOW WHAT? • Did you get that job they supposedly took from you? • Did grocery prices drop? • Is rent cheaper? • Did your health insurance premiums drop? #TrumpsAbuseOfPower 🧵

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Have to be clear just how dangerous this is. If it continues, it effectively removes constitutional rights from an entire class of people. Imagine you had to fear that if you criticize the regime, any error on paperwork filled out by your family decades ago could be used to strip your citizenship.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/10/2026

One distinctive feature of Trump's second term is that it's become impossible to differentiate when he's being stupid and when he's being mendacious. But on this it hardly even matters—his conduct on Ukraine in the last week alone would be grounds for impeachment in any functioning political system.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

‘We don’t have the money for that’ says the former Chancellor who cut NI twice when we couldn’t afford it for purely political reasons.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yeah, they're currently very silent on the Oxford academic standing trial for possessing indecent child images But then she's shared their platforms, spoken at their events, written for their publications... Funny how the Free Speech Union have nothing to say about the vanishing media coverage?

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/10/2026

"The social media engagement on posts from Reform UK figures appears to have dropped in the wake of Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres," according to The London Economics.

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Federal authorities investigating Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar have seized her phone and issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas, including to some of her relatives, as part of an inquiry into her immigration paperwork. Washington DC’s US attorney has als... TAT: [Suppressing dissent]

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Ilhan Omar’s phone seized and relatives subpoenaed in criminal inquiry, source says

Federal authorities issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas in inquiry into potential immigration fraud

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/10/2026

Rafael Behr dismantles Reform UK's asylum 'plan' in less than 90 seconds, exposing how the party blames immigration for the problems the UK is facing. "It's not actually a policy for the UK to function as a country."

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Boris Johnson’s claims about asking whether Russia interfered in Brexit are misleading. He didn’t ask for any formal assessment and nor did he receive a categorical response. Anyone printing a notorious liar’s disingenuous comments is engaged in deliberate obfuscation.

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Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

For those who question how far the Overton Window has moved, Jacob Rees-Mogg is now the voice of reason.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

More sensible comments from Rees-Mogg. "I think Restore has left the bounds of normal political debate with its ethnonationalism. I don't think that's where the British public is" "The British public does not want to shoot people in the Channel" x.com/DailyTPodcas...

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The Daily T (@DailyTPodcast) on X

'Restore has left the bounds of normal political debate' On today's Daily T, @CamillaTominey and @Jacob_Rees_Mogg are joined by David Davis, the former Brexit secretary to discuss Andy Burnham’s comments over Russian interference with the vote – and the PM’s subsequent backtracking. They also disc…

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Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We don’t want to win as much as we want others to lose. Depressing.

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Gah. Stop this nonsense. FOM is a benefit. Stop framing it as a negative. Also, FOM is one of the four freedoms. Without it, you can’t be in the EU and can’t even be in the single market. This isn’t difficult.

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Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yet look where short term thinking has got us.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“Another US president would be pressuring Russia to stop slaughtering innocents. Trump is instead giving them the means to kill more.” Me on Trump’s darkest turn yet against Ukraine. as.ft.com/r/0f7ee7f8-3...

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Why Trump is going for Zelenskyy’s jugular

No matter how much America’s allies urge the president to back Ukraine, he cannot forgive its leader for showing up his dealmaking impotence

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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Two most important facts: 1) since Trump became President, attacks on Ukraine have grown substantially in volume and scale. 2) Since Trump became President the US has committed zero (yes, zero) new dollars to support Ukraine.

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Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child and ordered chocolate ice cream: but when I became a man, I put away childish things, and ordered vanilla. 1 Corinthians. 13:11

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 09/10/2026

Wow. Donald Trump is giving money to Putin’s war machine so he can keep killing innocent Ukrainians and attacking democracies across Europe. The UK must lead a coalition of the willing that stands up and says no.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🤔Heads we lose, tails Putin wins. Every time. Must be a coincidence!

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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Even Trump is not so thick he cannot see what this is: Russian fuel feeds the war effort; Ukraine strikes refineries to stop that and impair Russia. Trump has made a clear choice here: side with the invader and tie the defender's hands. Shameful.

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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We've seen Trump do some shitty things to Ukraine since taking office (Oval Office incident; Alaska summit; Patriot U-turn) but today he's chosen to do a diesel deal with Putin that plays to Russia's economic/warchest advantage and restricts Ukraine's ability to defend itself.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An announcement. There will be plenty of time to reflect on what we've achieved, and on the fantastic colleagues who have helped us achieve it. But for now, sad news ukandeu.ac.uk/announcement... 1/2

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What these guys did was bigger than Brexit. They showed how you could produce work of an academic quality and distribute it through the media, to improve the standard of national debate. I wish more organisations would learn from what was accomplished here.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Polanski's excuse for not having voted on the "Zionism is Racism" motion appears to have been that he had to leave conference to go campaign in Holborn & St Pancras. But the Green Party explicitly offered an option allowing members to register to vote online. He could have voted from London.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is absolutely damning. A must-read.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is a bad IHT cut. For the same money we could increase the nil rate band to £900k/person, or alternatively cut the rate from 40% to 17.5%. Either would be simpler, fairer, and not distort the housing market.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today, selling a £1m house and moving to a £400,000 flat won’t change your children’s IHT. The estate is the same size. Under the Tory proposal, the £1m house was exempt from IHT, but the £600,000 you released is fully subject to IHT. Your house move caused £240,000 IHT.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Obviously laughable. But a reminder of how these people would behave in power: Financially benefiting the journalists and pollsters who do their bidding, legally pursuing those who do not.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NEW - Kemi Badeoch says there will be no inheritance tax to pay ever on a family home. Interested to know how this affects the housing market. Asset-rich pensioners just got a huge (extra) incentive not to downsize.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you. The prime directive of the Conservative Party is to get and hold power. The idea that it would risk throwing away the opportunity merely because it involved an albeit uncomfortable arrangement with another right-wing party is clearly for the birds.

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Kemi Badenoch: I'd rather have another election than do a deal with Reform UK

The Conservative Party leader also pledged to cut the cost of hiring 21 to 24 year olds.

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Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Her self-confidence exists in a symbiotic relationship with the opinion pages of the Telegraph, cocooned from reality. Must be awful and amazing in equal measure to be so impervious to the world of facts.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The thing is, this isn't some gotcha memory test about "what precise amount of money will this cost/raise" of the type beloved by interviewers in election campaigns. It's the most basic question imaginable - "how will this thing work?" She has no idea.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Day god-knows-what of an endless stream of responses on here side-stepping the motion, or justifying it, or equivocating over it, rather than standing up for the anti-racist values people supposedly hold.

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Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

💯 Got halfway through Season 2 and simply couldn’t continue

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Daniel @deargodwhaat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I feel like someone along the line should have noticed this

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