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@andy2gd.bsky.social
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BBQ. Walking. Music. History. An amateur at all of these.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 23h
SNAP POLL / By 48% to 28%, Britons support Andy Burnham's proposal to change the triple lock in order to help fund part of a national care service yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
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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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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyway, it's not really true that Brexit has done more harm than good. It hasn't done any good at all.
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Andy @andy2gd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PMSL. The people who benefit from the Triple Lock are the people who don’t vote Labour. They will almost all vote Reform or Tory. Finally a PM who gets this. No need to pander to them. They give Labour nothing.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Daniel Thomas/Tommo has been charged, with a single count of criminal damage, plus a fresh charge under Regulation of Investigatory Powers for failing to provide his phone pin. He will appear in Magistrates' Court tomorrow.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 24/09/2026
it saddens me that Taylor Swift has a new song coming out, I think that we, as free people, should be allowed to spend more than 17 minutes at a time without being made to think about Taylor Swift, her last tour lasted for 85 years, can she not rest for a little while longer
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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please can someone call the burns unit? 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Has Ahmed @HasAhmed_20h

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The only Muslim bothered about you eating this much bacon is your cardiologist.

Lee Anderson MP

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It's all about choices!

I've made mine.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026
Are any Labour MPs going to have the nerve to say so publicly? If a Conservative Home Secretary had issued the statement Shabana Mahmood has put out today they'd be able to find their voices. So why not now?
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I did say Shabana Mahmood would be on the side of the thugs. Burnham keeping her in post was an utter disgrace. Labour supporters should be brave enough to say so. So should Labour MPs.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just as well those committing wrongs against the RNLI are not holding placards supporting a proscribed organisation, else they would really be in trouble.
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Andy @andy2gd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That Sheeran needed a teleprompter tells you all you need to know.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 18/09/2026
Worried about AI Robots? All you need is more ram, and a dogged determination to overcome.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 19/09/2026
Funny coz I've lost confidence in the billionaires 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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Andy @andy2gd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Last night there were multiple entries of songs featuring “Free Palestine”, all with more votes than any other song. I know you won’t believe this, but somehow this morning they’re all gone. Ed Sheeran couldn’t cover himself in more 💩 if he tried. openforlegends.guitarcenter.com/campaign/ope...
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Guitar Center Open For Legends
Guitar Center Open for Legends is a brand-new competition series elevating undiscovered musicians to a global platform, beginning with the chance to open for Ed Sheeran at his LOOP Tour show in Mexico...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Really is amazing how many Reform and UKIP elected officials have been arrested over years. So unlucky.
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Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dude..
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Alexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You and me both, Anthropic, you and me both.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What I don't understand about Rayner's comments on banning crypto donations is, once more, that these *are not* donations in crypto, they're donations from crypto billionaires The donations aren't in crypto because pretty much nobody does anything in crypto (except money launders, drug dealers etc)
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hard to shake the impression that the overriding sentiment in Tories and Labour to the Reform donations was envy rather than concern about our democratic system….
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
No. Fuck off.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is outrageous in and of itself. It's also outrageous that the government isn't doing anything about it. There's a constant political refrain that 'the first duty of government is to protect its citizens'. So do it.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
once again, this should be front-page news all over the world, the President of the USA just fabricated an entire story about himself
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing?
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
picking a side in a face off between street fash and the RNLI is not fucking Sophie's Choice, it's strawberry ice cream or a bucket of shit. and the Home Office go for the bucket every time.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
today's IQ test: when Nigel Farage told the undercover reporter offering to break the law for Reform UK "it's all above board": was he saying - as he claimed on Sunday - "I asked a question, 'is this all above board?'" or was he saying "it's all above board"?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Germans vote (neo-)Nazi in 2026 and, just as in the 1930s, we all know exactly which British papers, politicians, presenters & pundits will be absolutely loving it… Spoiler alert: they also love Trump.
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Andy @andy2gd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Now watching rugby with a cat. She’s gripped!
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Andy @andy2gd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
With added Volks Electric Railway.
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Andy @andy2gd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Lagerita & Chips at Bison Beach Bar, next to Sea Lanes in Brighton. Would recommend. On a sunny Saturday.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
But no arrests, because they have “legitimate concerns”.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can't remember a clearer smoking gun than that Channel 4 News footage. Nigel Farage and his senior aides all filmed discussing apparent plans to break the law by funnelling foreign money into British politics, plans which at least partly went ahead. A criminal investigation surely must follow
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I mean, this is great, but he’s still keeping the red lines, he’s still wimping out in the face of the hedge fund owners of Thames Water and the megabucks donors. Words are fine. Where’s the action?
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Andy @andy2gd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The gammon face Trump gives off. Who knew it was a Worldwide phenomenon?
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 31/08/2026
……is it possible that whatever Trump has is contagious?
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Amazing. It seems that plagiarism is only a problem for The Times when black people do it
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Food so good you grow an extra finger!
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
‪It’s worth mentioning that if I was given a choice between being in a room full of trans women or that backwards freak, I’d choose the trans women every single time. ‬
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Andy Burnham’s slippery approach to council housing (he isn’t shifting social housing spending to council after all) raises questions over what other campaign promises he will water down almost immediately (Thames Water feels like another) www.ft.com/content/ab1a...
ft.com
Andy Burnham compromises on council homes plan
Prime minister opts not to rip up programme drawn up under Sir Keir Starmer that mostly relies on housing associations
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Andy @andy2gd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
See also all hedgerows.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
a decent chunk of the uk's politics academics signed an open letter last year warning labour's appeasement would lead to this
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'd say "Something for nothing" culture is getting paid £100,000 a year of public money, plus expenses, for a job that you then fail to turn up to for months on end
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UK Prime Minister Updates @downingstreet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Canada.
Joint statement from the leaders of United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Canada.

Read full statement here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-statement-on-israeli-governments-decision-to-publish-construction-tenders-for-the-e1-settlement-project
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
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