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Love bikes, coffee, books & movies (particularly Sci-Fi). Proud European, Quiet Rioter, HATE Brexit, the rise of the far right & the normalisation of racism. Sto imparando italiano.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1h
Nigel Farage is a sitting MP and the leader of a political party. Why does he have his own GB News show? Sign our petition to Ofcom ⬇️ bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2h
Wall-to-wall praise for the policy in today’s papers but they either don’t understand it or don’t care. We’ve been here before, of course. Bexit, Boris Johnson, Truss… all bigged up by the media despite, all obviously awful.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8h
That 'Keminaissance' in full
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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 12h
Another dose of having to listen to a conference speech filled with nothing. God she’s an air head. The big takeaway? Despite all the bravado they’re still stuck on 18%, 8 points lower than when she took over. But sure, wave your flags & hold your Maggie handbags high…
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 13h
🔹 KEMI-DETACHED 🔹 New show: 🍸 Badenoch goes back to the 80s 🤷‍♀️ But to whom will it appeal? ⏰ Timely god less America With @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @pimlicat.bsky.social ! 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
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Kemi-detached
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 8 October · 1hr 4min
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 07/10/2026
I just met Liz Truss.
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just the world needs, a car that’s too long to park. And fuck me its ugly! Perfect for the millionaire cybertruck owner with zero taste. Good job Jaguar 👏👏👏
theguardian.com
Jaguar targets young Americans with Type 01 EV – but it’s too long for UK parking spaces
Latest model is launching in New York to target rich US buyers – and is more than 5.2 metres long and 2 metres wide
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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
50,000 prison places. £10bn on an Iron Dome/Britannia Shield/Load of Bollocks. Blah blah blah. But Kemi’s a genius & the BBC trot it out 🙄
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
Labour hits near two-year opinion poll high, while support for Reform UK falls 👀
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
🎯 @pimlicat.bsky.social: "Half-baked calls to enter a customs union or join the single market won’t bring the economic heft to avoid further decline or the political payoff to prevent Nigel Farage’s Reform UK gaining power. "The choice Burnham must face is whether to go big – or go nowhere at all."
eu.boell.org
Could the UK really return to the EU? | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union
Britain’s new prime minister has said that Brexit was a mistake and Britain should have a much closer relationship with
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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So today on BlueSky it’s all Trump & Tories is it? Don’t think I’ll bother thanks.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Conservatives: We will spent £10bn over ten years on missile defence for the UK. Conservatives: As part of our commitment to spend 3% of GDP on defence by 2030. Conservatives: While we are out of power until some time in 2029. BBC: And we will just read it all out. #R4Today
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not a single care.. 😊
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And here’s the link you need to write to your MP:‬ ‪https://www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-attend-eu-debate‬
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🔥 On Mon Oct 12th, MPs will debate the UK applying to join the EU. The responsible govt minister will respond. This is not a vote - but it’s the first time since the Burnham speech on “options” that we’ll see where the MPs actually stand. #Rejoin #EU #AndyBurnham #UKpolitics #Brexit
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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jeffrey Arsehole. Perfetto! 👌
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Apparently "Kemi" has "fresh solutions" uniquely tailored to Britain's current problems. <excitedly prepares to take notes> Cut taxes, reward the wealthiest, punish the poor and sick, alienate our allies, deregulate big business, and privatise any remaining state function. WAAAAAAIT A MINUTE!
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can you imagine the derisory coverage and outright mockery if any other party with single-digit MPs decided to "declare a General Election" and go on a bus tour? Yet when this outlandish nonsense comes from Farage, it is treated as somehow brilliant. "Subscribe to continue..." No thanks. I'm good.
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Reform leader to begin in Yorkshire next week where party sees ‘many Cabinet scalps to be had’ in Labour heartlands

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Nigel Farage campaigning in Southend-on-Sea for the local election in May
Nigel Farage campaigning in Southend-on-Sea for the local elections in May Credit: Geoff Pugh for The Telegraph
Nigel Farage is to “fire the starting gun” on Reform UK’s general election campaign with a nationwide tour beginning next week, The Telegraph can reveal…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
Ofcom rules say broadcasters cannot use politicians as newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in any news programmes. So why is Nigel Farage allowed to host his own primetime show on GB News? Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action ⬇️
bestforbritain.org
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
Reform UK is using the Trump handbook ⬇️ "The ban essentially means that Reform UK, through withdrawn engagement, cannot be questioned on their statements and actions. I can continue reporting and attending meetings, but I am not allowed to scrutinise elected officials wearing turquoise rosettes."
thetimes.com
Reform blacklisted me for doing my job as a local reporter
Eddie Bisknell, a local democracy reporter for Reform-led Derbyshire county council was told it would no longer engage w
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
More than 2,500 people have already emailed Apple and Google to demand that Reform UK's app be removed. Let's flood their inboxes so they can't ignore us ⬇️
bestforbritain.org
Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
"Politics should be about expanding opportunity, not narrowing it. "That means being honest when policies are not delivering for working people. And having the confidence to revisit decisions when the evidence changes. On Europe, that moment has arrived."
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
🚨 Nigel Farage was interviewed for half an hour last month over money from a crypto-billionaire.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The door has - finally - been opened. The taboo has been smashed. EU membership is back on the table. It’s time to make it the closing paragraph of this new chapter in UK-EU relations. encompass-europe.com/comment/a-pi...
encompass-europe.com
A pivotal moment for UK-EU relations
When the sun rose on June 24, 2016, one thing was clear: the relationship between the UK and the EU had entered a new, arduous chapter. As Boris Johnson and Michael Gove blinked into the cameras,…
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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They’re bonkers. And thick.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
👏 Rachel Blake MP: "The case for a closer relationship with Europe is no longer ideological. It is practical. It is economic. And it is patriotic. "The time has come to stop treating EU membership as an unsayable idea. It should be part of the national conversation about Britain’s future."
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Rejoining The EU Must No Longer Be 'An Unsayable Idea', Declares Labour MP
Writing for HuffPost UK, Rachel Blake says overturning Brexit “should be part of the national conversation about Britain
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
Reform UK wants power. But the party is haemorrhaging the people it recruits, with councillors resigning, being suspended or quitting. Since May, 51 Reform UK councillors have abandoned the party. We are keeping track: bestforbritain.org/reform-uk-defect…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
Germany’s ambassador to the UK, speaking to The Telegraph: "It is, of course, for the British people to decide how close they want that relationship to be. But let me be clear: in Germany you will always find a partner for setting the ambition as high as we can."
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
🚨 An online tracker by Best For Britain reveals 51 Reform UK councillors have quit, defected or been suspended since May amid questions about Nigel Farage's leadership.
mirror.co.uk
Blow to Nigel Farage as Reform sheds 51 newly-elected councillors in five months
EXCLUSIVE: An online tracker by Best For Britain reveals 51 Reform UK councillors have quit, defected or been suspended
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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More bothered about their brainless ideology than politics that actually benefit our country. They are a dead parrot.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…
Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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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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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brexiters are back to their old populist trick of comparing the EU to perfection and finding it wanting. Never fall for that. Compare the EU to the reality of Brexit Britain — and be aware that the EU itself knows it can never be perfect, which is why it's the Commission's job to suggest reforms. 🇪🇺
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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lionel Reid, 19, ploughed his BMW into a cyclist while under the influence of alcohol and then left the scene. Cannabis was also found in his system. The 50-year-old cyclist sustained serious head injuries. I am sure we all feel reassured that Reid’s punishment is an 18-week suspended sentence.
A teenager who ploughed into a cyclist while under the influence of alcohol and then left the scene of the crime has received an 18-week suspended jail sentence.A smashed windscreen after the collision
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026
The British public has long known that Brexit has been a catastrophic mistake. This week, the Prime Minister also admitted that Brexit has done "more harm than good" and put all the options for our future relationship with Europe on the table. EU membership is the only option that makes sense.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026
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.
bestforbritain.org
Tell your MP: 628 constituencies want EU membership. Only 4 don't. - Best for Britain
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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dear @quietriotpod.bsky.social what do you think of a special about what’s going on at the BBC at the moment? Not sure if this fits the remit but clearly it’s being stripped back in a huge way. Just an idea…
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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why stop at 50,000? Why not 500,000 or 5,000,0000? Or any other ridiculous number you’ll never achieve? You built 500 places in fourteen years. Back to lying, fantasy politics then.
bbc.co.uk
Tories pledge to build 50,000 new prison places
The party says its proposals would stop prisoners being released early and cut crime.
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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For me the stand out comment from one was that theirs wasn’t a special life but it was nice to have been seen. A fitting end to a unique TV experiment. What a shame today’s TV no longer produces thoughtful reflective programs like this. Goodbye to the 20, what a journey 🙋🏻‍♂️
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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not sure I’d want to reminded so vividly of parts of my life in this way. Extremely touching to hear of the deaths of two of the subjects but lovely to see a couple of them return at the end of the series after choosing not to participate in some of the recent editions.
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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Watched the very last episode of #itv #70up last night. Surprisingly emotional at the end. Clearly Michael Apted’s approach was flawed in its class based assumptions but the participants did seem to have fond reflections on their roles in his experiment.
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Samantha @msspydasam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I wonder why Farage is still so opposed to re-joining the EU, if only there was something...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"It is hard enough to be a carer for your own loved ones. The tenderness I dispensed to my mother, came from a battery she had charged with five decades of love. Being able to muster the energy and patience it takes to care for a complete stranger... Well, it's magical. It's a sort of superpower."
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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At some point a room full of people agreed there was no space on this carriageway for a cycle lane so they settled on this instead.
A cycle lane in Lisbon on the sidewalk that heads into two trees and a bus stop. Next to an empty carriageway.
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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Brilliant reveal tonight @mchshe.bsky.social @richardosman1.bsky.social So happy it’s Michael. Welcome to our teatime daily 🙋🏻‍♂️
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