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Annika Newnham

@annikabrandberg.bsky.social
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Tant och tönt. Associate Prof in Law at Uni Reading. Lives by the sea. Listens to the Archers, despairs at Politics, loves long country walks with husband and dog. If you have to resort to "F*ck off bitch!" you probably lost the argument a few bleets ago.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
First we had divorced parent Richard Tice saying that couples with children should be married. Now we've got divorced parent Matt Goodwin saying Reform will prioritise married couples with children. Who's up to mansplain marriage next? Henry the 8th?
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If you want to see how lost the UK has
become, look at how many journalists and
politicians are today opposing Reform UK's
very sensible policy of prioritising married
couples with children in taxpayer-funded
housing. These critics are not serious
people. England's birth-rate is 1.3.
Scotland's is 1.2. If we do not support
British families that have children then we
are done. We will simply not survive as a
country. This should not be controversial.


Vote Reform
Put British families first.


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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.
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DAVIEWoOOoO 👻 🎃🕸️ @daviemoo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Niall Harbison’s social media is amazing because it both makes me furious and disgusted with people and absolutely floored by he and his team. He looks after so many dogs in horrible condition because of the cruelty of people and I honestly think he doesn’t get enough recognition for it.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I give up - Liz Truss just made parody accounts redundant.
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
If you need a smile this weekend this is it. You won’t believe her comeback… youtu.be/WaPozz_UvrA?...
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Humans Poisoned her and hit her with a car. Watch as we try to teach her to walk again
YouTube video by Happy Doggo
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
thanks to whoever left this awesome giant sheep outside the museum! we're sure nothing bad is going to happen
A giant sheep standing outside the entrance of The Museum of English Rural Life
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Russia is inflaming the debate on immigration in Britain as part of “increasing ambitions to disrupt our way of life”, counter-terror police and experts say It has directly and indirectly paid right-wing influencers to spread messages that align with its political goals inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...
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How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain
Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.
A quote from a Kemi Badenoch interview in the Spectator, comparing Bridget Phillipson to a Gestapo officer.
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Matt Gaetz Forehead @mattgaetz4head.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Tammy 🇺🇸🦅💙🟧🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🧑🏼‍🏫📚🌊🏝️ @educatorts.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This is heartbreaking. I can’t stop crying. The cruelty of our government in unbearable to witness. I’m glad that the family was able to reunite hours before his death, but I’m furious about the precious days, weeks, months they lost because We the People hired a fucking demon to be our President.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 22/04/2026
Now "Remoaners" have jumped on the Lego bandwagon. Good!
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
If this man had murdered eight strangers the story would lead every news outlet. But because they are his children, it's "family violence," "domestic violence" -- undeserving of the same attention. Even though this violence is much more common www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
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Haunted by ‘Dark Thoughts,’ Louisiana Father Kills 8 Children
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🌴✨🦋 Kathryn 🦋✨🌴 @kathrynkatiekwrites.substack.com · 20/04/2026
How dare you drive the speed limit when I'm late to something due to my own poor time management skills.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 22/03/2026
It's only force majeure if it comes from the Majeure region of France. Otherwise it's just a sparkling shitshow.
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James Mellor @jamesdfmellor.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
To #RejectionIsland, to rescue an unused cartoon.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
When your brand is so mistrusted that rebranding yourselves as Estate Agents counts as an upgrade
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Jen Stephen @ambridgeponyclub.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
#MothersDay can be the hardest day of the year; sending love to those who have lost their Mother, to those who have lost a child or cannot be with their child and to those would love to be a Mother but cannot.
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a butterfly is sitting on a purple flower with the words `` flowers for you '' written on it .
ALT: a butterfly is sitting on a purple flower with the words `` flowers for you '' written on it .
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
#InternationalWomen'sDay2026
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 27/02/2026
Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home. 14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“It’s his own fault, shouldn’t have been carrying a weapon!” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Peter Mandelson embroiled in scandal on Groundhog Day. Apt.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
How many years have we been watching gun nuts open carry semiautomatic rifles into, like, a Dunkin' Donuts as a statement against government control? And they're now silent over a citizen being murdered by federal agents and then blamed for legally carrying a firearm?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
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Diana @neverheardofher.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Literally couldn’t care less about Andy Burnham. You’re the mayor mate, do your job you were elected to do. We all know he only wanted to be MP so he could cause chaos and challenge Starmer. Sit down and put your ego back in the box Andy.
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GC Rust @gcrust.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Day after a man was executed in Minneapolis, Il Douche is whining about halting progress on his Ballroom. I feel like Louise XVI would even be saying that's a bit much.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Quite glad that the big story in British politics is whether Andy Burnham will apply to stand in a by-election and not people being gunned down by state militias. Solidarity with Minnesotans resisting this barbarity.
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Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This is a lovely story
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Michael Beveridge @tattieboy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
It's beginning to look like all of those guns Americans buy to keep government in check were only ever bought for school shootings.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/01/2026
The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
67% of Reform MPs have previously been elected as representatives of the Conservative Party. They broke the country last time; do you trust them to fix it?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
“This aged well”
David Walliams doing the shamed MP reading a speech out outside his house thing, with Matt Lucas dressed up as his wife.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
we go live to David Walliams’ front door
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Michael Smith @smithmichaelw.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I see the plan there - campaign as long as they can, go to as many protests for photo ops, head off to picket lines, shout solidarity a lot and avoid any of the complicated part about real solutions with really hard choices - same as the last 40 odd years then
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Brenda Selwyn @brendaselwyn.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Though really, they should be going by Omnibus 🤣 #TheArchers
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU
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JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...
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Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero'
The "extraordinary bravery" of the LNER worker who intervened during the train mass stabbing attack on Saturday has been hailed by his company.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
The driver "managed to contact the control
centre at Network Rail and get the train
diverted onto the slow line", Calder says.


"That was absolutely crucial because this
train was scheduled to be travelling through
Huntingdon station on the tracks with no
platform at 125mph."


"It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere,
which would have been very difficult."


Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest
possible way" thanks to the "incredible
professionalism from the driver and the
police". Train drivers are trained on how to
take appropriate action, he adds,
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
PSA.
Noddy Holder: Noddy says...
NOT YET
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