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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Last night I was returning from the middle of Ashford (Kent) to my hotel as the light started to fade. I have hurt my foot so at that point I was slightly limping along a very quiet footpath, a fit young black man came striding the other way and we passed under a big yew tree.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@therestpolitics.bsky.social Come on Rory! You can't get away with saying Burnham’s move on #Brexit won't please people after #BestForBritain did such a comprehensive MRP showing overwhelming support to #RejoinEU. Only four constituencies in the whole country were contrary.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Home Office being as functional as ever (or maybe even worse) ... Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell: "Banned from Britain: One Man's Migration Story" traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR307594623...

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Finally! The press has caught on that it's 'Silly Season' and started trivially bitching about uber-rich celebs moving house. Climate change, food security, right wing corruption, an erratic senile paedophile rapist president, wars of aggression and grossly irresponsible media can't lead every day!

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Looking forward to listening to the latest episode of @therestpolitics.bsky.social in which "Alastair is (apparently) joined by Andy Burnham’s closets [sic] confident [sic], friend and former colleague". I guess having "closets confident" friends helps explain Burnham’s style choices.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22

Express headline: The jaw-dropping list of everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

@therestpolitics.bsky.social 559 on Cueta with Gerald Knaus was another stimulating episode. I was disappointed that the idea of returning irregular migrants to a safe country they departed from was treated superficially despite being a central plank of Gerald's solution.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What is "a scientist" anyway? Many have scientific training and a thorough grasp of scientific method without being employed to use it. Science is a methodology, not a job.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Can US politicos please clarify any subtle differences in how "Rep" is written when it seems to mean both "Representative" and "Republican"? If you have to know a person's details to disambiguate then it all gets a bit exclusive and uncommunicative. #USPolitics

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@therestpolitics.bsky.social Water used by data centres doesn't vanish so "consuming" water is largely a misdescription. So, it's basically simple, require every data centre development to return 90% (or more if reasonable) of the water to the supply in the condition it arrived.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Seems to me that a very significant problem with data centres driven by AI is that we are in a race between multiple companies each preparing complete infrastructure in anticipation of dominating the sector. Once the sector stabilises there will be massive oversupply.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

@therestpolitics.bsky.social Rory's repetition of "Trapped" is emotive nonsense. At most all any form of tax reform proposed in this "Leading" episode introduces is a new factor in making any decision, more often it's just a tweak in the outcome of the financial calculation. There's no trap.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Is #ReformUK going to demand that refuse collections cease for the duration of the #Clacton by-election campaign as it constitutes unfair partisan behaviour by the Council? #CountBinface

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Popcorn ready for the fall of Farage in farcical farrago of financial frauds.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This bin fire might be the very first time I'm happy to see #Farage dominating the news.

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

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"The noble Lord had stated, that it was unusual to refuse the Chiltern Hundreds, except on account of mental incapacity, or where proceedings were pending for the expulsion of the applicants from their seats. In this case, however, the House had decided that compromises had been entered into, which had the effect of obstructing the investigation of bribery; "

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Just requested a refund from @eonuk.bsky.social. They recalculate your direct debit at the same time & tell you whether it'll rise or fall so (with repeated tries) it's possible to find the refund that leaves it unchanged. It's baffling that the default options they present omit that amount.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Greatly disappointed that the deposit rules for British elections are based on a proportion of the valid votes cast, not a proportion of the electorate. What a missed opportunity for #Clacton to recover an honourable reputation even if #Farage wins this pantomime unopposed.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A suggestion for the #RoyalMail to catch up with email, SMS, phone calls, social media and just about any modern means of communication... Let people define block lists of senders whose mail is automatically returned by the sorting office. Costly to develop, I acknowledge, but *so* useful.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If we rejoin the Single Market, with all the benefits to trade, free movement, investment, growth, culture and cost of living that it brings, Reform would have to fight the next election explaining why they'd abolish those things – which is something they didn't even dare do in rhe ref! #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

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"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Neil Kinnock has a message for our next Prime Minister, "We after 10 years after loss and cost and decline, must make the argument, incessantly and continually, to rejoin the European Union" "It. Is. Our. Imperative."

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It would simply be a matter of restructuring... A wholly owned subsidiary company that made no taxable profits would employ the foreign workers. The whole thing is a charade for the news cycle... and appealing to ignorant, racist, drooling fuckwits.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

@therestpolitics.bsky.social It's obvious that the narrative of white disadvantage is fake as Alistair says, but the question is why that narrative gains any traction. The target group of that narrative must have real and/or perceived ...

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

@therestpolitics.bsky.social If data centres are so very vital for the future then they are worth the much greater investment of mitigating their harms. The problem is more about government failing to impose the right rules on the companies developing them than any negative impact they have.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@therestpolitics.bsky.social Rory's leap from 'AI data centres need a lot of power' to 'Ed Milliband is a blocker to UK sovereignty & growth' and 'Net Zero is damaging' is extraordinary. The bottom line is that Net Zero is *essential* to minimise the catastrophic social impact of climate change.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

@therestpolitics.bsky.social Alistair did something weird... after listing the stats about how lucky people felt he turned that into how happy people felt. I'm 65 and feel extremely lucky to have benefitted from free university, the house price escalation etc...

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

@therestpolitics.bsky.social Great to hear Angela Rayner both passionate & reasonable about important things she really cares about. Sadly it was very clear, from things not said when Alistair provided opportunities, that she doesn't see #RejoinEU as integral to helping Gen Z (& the rest of us).

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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧 Sorry BBC/ newsPapers/ GBeebies etc etc This is ‘the actual truth’.

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Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

When votes don’t match seats, trust in politics suffers. England’s past local elections show First Past the Post can exaggerate winners, erase opposition voices and leave communities poorly represented. buff.ly/VBVDL9m

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England’s previous local elections show what’s wrong with our voting system

Time and time again, England’s local elections repeatedly produce results that simply don’t reflect how people vote.If you live in England, you might be casting a vote for your coun

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

More views of that brand new sculpture by the mysterious street artist Banksy. It is attracting a lot of attention and drawing crowds since the eye-catching sculpture popped up in central London. #art #sculpture #banksy #london #travels

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Why does #RoyalMail send a letter to Perth WA via Sydney two time zones further away? That's like routing a letter bound for Brazil via Peru. It's not as if there are no direct flights, or there's minimal volume. Daft!

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Just switched off all unnecessary appliances at the socket as an experiment in my detached house. My smart meter says the resting consumption fell by 11W. At my #Electricity tariff that's £2 a month. Not exactly Earth-shattering, but it's over 1% of waste saved from my total energy costs.

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Paul @endthecaste.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

THIS perfectly describes most of today’s media bias and failure!

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

When did "... about it ..." become "... aboudit ..."? [Also, when did the 'oo' sound become 'ee'?] #EnglishLanguage

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Is #Trump 's primary aim in begging multiple countries for naval intervention in the Strait of Hormuz the proliferation of legitimate international targets for #Iran so that US-related targets bear less focus and carry less risk of US casualties, all driven by the Mid-term elections?

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Setting aside the obviously serious topic of a meme I just saw... The consecutive mentions of: Greed, Pedophilia (aka Paedophilia, or even Pædophilia), and Treason Just made me smile at the wonderful irregularity of English (and American). #EnglishLanguage

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Analysis of the people who funded those flags on our street lights. Councils that don't remove them (looking directly at you @hantsconnect.bsky.social) are complicit in this narrative.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Unlikely, there's much less lactose than protein in cheese. Someone who particularly reacts to cheese rather than milk is far more likely to have an allergy. Cheese made with A2/A2 cow's milk may alleviate symptoms (it's less allergenic), sheep's & goat's cheese too (or plant based alternatives).

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The Trump administration's infantile glorification of killing Iranian sailors is disgusting. It is graceless toxic masculinity on steroids. If they must engage in war then at least do it with some humility.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/03/2026

👏 Best for Britain CEO Naomi Smith (@pimlicat.bsky.social) lays out exactly how Starmer can go further and faster in the UK and EU relationship. 🇬🇧🇪🇺 A closer UK and EU is a stronger and more united Europe. Read below 👇

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Yes, Keir Starmer must do better and go faster in bringing Britain closer to Europe. Here’s how to reset his reset | Naomi Smith

MPs warn the plan so far lacks direction and drive, but there are four clear ways to really move on from our disastrous

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I look forward to hearing how Labour's Mayor (and hopeful leader) Andy Burnham interacts with Hannah Spencer as the Green's new Manchester MP. I suspect it would represent a very different party relationship from Starmer's view of 'sectarian left wing extremists'.

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Went to see the ever-relevant #G&S Utopia Limited (of 1893) two nights ago. On reflection I realised that the "government by party" implemented to disrupt the unhappily efficient running of other institutions is, effectively, the First Past the Post electoral system. #ProportionalRepresentation

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Given Toby's often very precise diction I had to work terribly hard & listen repeatedly to work out that yesterday's (27th Feb) Political Philosophy podcast did not include the words "Liberal values can be fascist ones", but "... can beat ..." ... now it makes sense. @polphilpod.bsky.social

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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Gorton and Denton: “Nearly everyone we spoke to told us they were being told to vote for one candidate just to stop another. The public deserves to vote for the candidate they trust most, but this is simply not the reality under our voting system.” Molly Maguire @makevotesmatter.bsky.social

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 23/02/2026

Most of us in Britain aren’t Christian in our beliefs, practices, or identity. The only basis for national identity in our country is around the shared values and institutions of our plural society. Christian Nationalism is a divisive dead end. humanists.uk/2026/02/23/d...

Reform adopts US-style Christian Nationalist platform, pledges 'patriotic' Christian curriculum

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