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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Keir Starmer's response to Nigel Farage at PMQs just now was probably the most powerful and eloquent I have seen him in the Commons. The full answer is worth reading.
“A grieving family have asked us not to respond in the way that the leader of Reform has responded. They've asked us not to. They have lost their son in the most appalling circumstance. They make a simple plea of us as human beings to please not exploit that. That is their plea to us. 
“We all need to reflect on those words of Henry's father. My response, and the response of others to be fair, has been focused on the lessons to be learned so we can deliver justice. “His response has been to appeal for rage – rage. That's his response to a father who has lost his son and asked for that not to happen.
“Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances, but to do it when the family are expressly saying please don't is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is.”
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Arlene @arl58.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Arlene @arl58.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I am the NASA technician. The one who is like ‘a squirrel on crack’ has a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge 🤷🏽‍♀️😂
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Arlene @arl58.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The poorest 20% of UK population pay a higher proportion of income in direct and indirect taxes compared to the richest 20%. Dividends and capital gains, mainly accruing to the well-off, are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages. Progressive taxation wasn't part of the King's Speech.
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The King’s Speech wasn’t the transformative plan for the country we need
The government has some good policies, but not a transformative plan for society.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17/05/2026
Let it be clear: you are wanted here.
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Arlene @arl58.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Exactly! Pretty sure the people in areas like Jaywick are thrilled at having an MP with his penchant for ‘windfalls’ 😳
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
😱 Toe curling stuff. The dangers of getting high on your own supply. There needed to be a banner below Coates's non-apology: Sky Journalist Sam Coates Says He Will Not Resign bsky.app/profile/stur...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
😂 Sam Coates makes an ABSOLUTE TIT of himself. Calls PM photos "fake news" then finds out they're from the Press Association. If you make a spurious, inflammatory point you never made about any official photograph before, to pitch yourself as the only reliable source, at a minimum check your facts.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I like this message.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Phew! No mention of the fact that it was a Reform supporter. That's the sort of journalism we need.
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Malhavic777 @malhavic777.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 26/04/2026
The big day is here! Good luck to every runner taking on the 26.2 mile journey through our capital today in the London Marathon. From elite athletes to charity heroes, your determination inspires us all.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 24/04/2026
The London Marathon 2027 ballot is now open 🏁🏅 The most iconic marathon in the world, here in our city. Whether you’re chasing a personal best or running for a cause, this is your chance to take part in it. 🗳️ Entries close 4pm Friday 1 May. www.londonmarathonevents.co.uk/london-marat...
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TCS London Marathon
The London Marathon is one of the Abbott World Marathon Majors, so this could be the start of your six-star journey! You will also be part of the world’s biggest annual one-day fundraising event.
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Arlene @arl58.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 23/04/2026
Happy St George’s Day to everyone celebrating across London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Today we’re reminded of England’s proud history and the values that continue to unite us.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
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Nature is Amazing @amazingnatural.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Breathtaking Auroras spotted over Alaska 🌌
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Arlene @arl58.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Oh wow! Thank you for sharing 🤗
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Arlene @arl58.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ditto!!🥹
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Arlene @arl58.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
She’s French! 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Grossly incompetent or dishonest from the BBC here
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17/04/2026
With more than £600 million investment from City Hall, East Bank is fast becoming a powerhouse for innovation, creativity and learning. This Saturday, the next chapter begins as another major addition opens its doors: the V&A East Museum. www.lbc.co.uk/article/east...
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East Bank is keeping the Olympic flame burning in east London, writes Sir Sadiq Khan | LBC
This Saturday, the V&A East Museum opens its doors, marking the latest addition to East Bank.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I'll make a few points. Where else are you forced to pay for parking where you work. The hospital could make as much parking as it needs. And finally and most importantly, the vast majority of the money goes to Private Parking companies who charge whatever the hell they like.
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Psaki's Apprentice @sleepycongressman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Canada is also saying that Lebanon has to be included in any peace framework This is huge Because when Canada says it, it really means 100 other countries are saying it, but they don’t have the clout to say it and they need Canada to say it for them
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Also insulting to people with dementia frankly.
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Arlene @arl58.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🙏🏽🤞🏽🥹
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Suziey33 @suziey33.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
USA needs a regime change NOW!!
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Arlene @arl58.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! SWBC* *Someone With Brain Cells
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
He is insane. And this is an open declaration of intended genocide. If any other world leader said this, there would be sanctions and an arrest warrant, not just for him, but for his whole regime.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
You don't have to imagine the response if anybody else had proposed destroying a whole civilisation. You just have to remember World War 2.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The UK has relied on food imports since at least Napoleonic times. Unfortunately, the Brexiters were so busy obsessing over blue passports and the tax cuts they never stopped to work that one out.
UK must feed and fuel
itself - but Labour
would rather attack
wealth


The policies of Sir Keir Starmer
and Rachel Reeves push us to rely
on imports.just as war, inflation
and global instability demand
self-reliance
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Arlene @arl58.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
And now I have the melancholy 🥺
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"constructive conversations witch will continue throughout the week"
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Follow Emma if you haven’t already. Absolutely brilliant work.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/03/2026
Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/03/2026
Starmer to announce support for households hit by energy price spike
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Starmer to announce support for households hit by energy price spike
Prime minister expected to set out tens of millions of pounds in help for heating oil users as conflict with Iran drives up costs Keir Starmer will on Monday announce tens of millions of pounds’ worth of support for Britons hit by a spike in energy prices as a result of the Iran war. The prime minister will lay out the plans during a press conference in Downing Street on Monday, during which he will also take aim at some suppliers of heating oil for price gouging. Continue reading...
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Arlene @arl58.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
So thankful Laurence Fox's acting career was cancelled for doing things exactly like this. Keep digging.
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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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Nigel Farage tells Sky News he 'never' pledged to cut council tax
Sky's Beth Rigby asks Nigel Farage about Reform UK pledging to cut council tax at local level, as well as his party's "inconsistent position" on the Iran war.
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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
That NF fella gets multiples more airtime than he deserves, but with a fraction of the scrutiny. He's so used to getting away with spouting bollocks that when Beth Rigby politely challenged him on the war and broken council tax promises, he totally lost his sh*t and threatened to end the interview.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I have asked the BBC to scrutinise + correct the factually inaccurate claims made by Mr Nigel Farage about why net migration fell in 'Political Thinking with Nick Robinson' Here is the link if you want to do something like this. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
Nigel Farage in answering Nick Robinson's question about why he believes Britain is broken gave an analysis of falling net migration that is demonstrably factually inaccurate.

"It is so broken and its declining so quickly that anybody with a dispassionate view can see it. It is quite interesting. Just look at the net migration numbers. 'Oh isn't it good net migration is coming down?' But do you know why? It is because there is an exodus. There is now an exodus.Those who are of a situation and a financial position to have a choice are now fleeing the country in numbers".

This is factually incorrect. Net migration fell year on year by 465,00 in the most recent Official of National Statisitcs figures: the year to June 2025. This was not because of an "exodus" (an increase in emigration). It is because immigration fell by 401,000 (to 898,000 from 1.299 million the previous year). That accounts for 90% of the big drop in net migration. The increase in emigration by 41,000 was a minor component. Most of the increase in emigration was of non-EU nationals. British citizens made up a third of emigrants, but there was no significant increasse in British emigration, which was at very similar levels in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025: it is not a significant cause of the drop in net migration.

Nick Robinson did tell Mr Farage that he was exaggerating the number of people who don't speak English - and BBC Verify did produce an analysis showing that was a five-fold exaggeration. But this central incorrect claim about immigration and net migration was not caught in the programme, or before broadcast.  

It should at least be scrutinised and corrected afterwards - so that an accurate account of why net migration fell (primarily a reduction in immigration visas to the UK) can be communicated to the audience.
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Randy Samples💙 @randysamples.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Where the hell are we??? In a god damn 5 year old’s bathtub???
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand.
CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. 
RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette.

CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there

RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: 
LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters.
CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. 
RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. 
LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. 
CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits.
RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.
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rmcl82.bsky.social @rmcl82.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This is not Franklin D. Roosevelt that we’re dealing with.
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