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Jane Pickersgill

@artyjane1.bsky.social
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Artist. Never stop asking HOW, never stop asking WHY. #FBPE

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 9h
I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes
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Sara Kollack-Walker @skwalker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Highlighting… “The U.S. now joins Russia and Belarus as the only OSCE states refusing observers.” Mayday, Mayday, Mayday!
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Just G @just-1-g.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Expert consensus: The refusal is a major break from democratic norms and likely motivated by a desire to control the narrative around election legitimacy.
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Besame mucho means Kiss me a lot @ceu---azul.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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AndOrNorLyn @norlyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No, it's just the Press finally finding something that they feel comfortable trying to destroy the Greens with; they would certainly have found something else. Look at the coverage for Reform vs for the Greens and tell us who the media favours. And think why.
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testeria.net 🔜 #SpellgardenRPG @testeria.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For now. I remember exactly the same arguments from defenders of apartheid South Africa. Truth is fringe until it is not.
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🇨🇦🇸🇪 🧡 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @promich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Zionism & the accelerated genocidal Zionism as now practiced by Israel are both incompatible with the "two state solution," which was historically deployed only as distraction from the entrenchment of apartheid, ethnic cleansing – AKA slow-motion genocide. That scam is in the dustbin. Try to keep up
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Couples with £1 million and a family home will be able to avoid contributing anything to the collective good of their children’s and grandchildren’s country says Kemi Badenoch. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Couples would be able to leave £1m and family home exempt from inheritance tax under Tories, says Badenoch – UK politics live
Conservative leader says proposed measures would halve the number of families paying inheritance tax
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The person responsible for carrying out the totally independent investigation into Reform and clearing the party of all wrongdoing has been identified.
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
People are apes. We need touch. Love. Warmth. Communication. A dog. A cat. A budgie. Not a talking hairdryer.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Does very much feel like the Badenoch Tories are a busted flush.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yeah, he won a General Election.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I for one am reassured that an investigation into Reform UK, carried out by Reform UK, has found that Reform UK did nothing wrong www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Jeremy Taylor @jeremytaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remind us what proportion of households actually pay inheritance tax?
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
excellent subhead snark from the FT
Tory conference live: Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap inheritance tax on family homes
Conservative leader pledges to slash levies while accusing Andy Burnham of ‘spending money we don’t have’
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
previous owner, a US private equity firm: eats Boots and leaves
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you. The prime directive of the Conservative Party is to get and hold power. The idea that it would risk throwing away the opportunity merely because it involved an albeit uncomfortable arrangement with another right-wing party is clearly for the birds.
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Kemi Badenoch: I'd rather have another election than do a deal with Reform UK
The Conservative Party leader also pledged to cut the cost of hiring 21 to 24 year olds.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If Trump hadn't dodged the draft 6 times he would have gone to Vietnam. And there is no way the Vietcong would have missed big orange glowing fat man in the jungle.
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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...
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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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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Jane Pickersgill @artyjane1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reject Blackheath Car Park Development Final push! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/reject-bla... as seen on #bbcnews website. We are fighting back. Developers v communities. #blackheathvillage see instagram @battleforblackheath #battleforblackheath
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Reject Blackheath Car Park Development Final push!
To raise funds to pay to for the professional reports needed to effectively fight this unwanted application
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"
Misleading statement by "journalist" Andrew Pierce
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Jane Pickersgill @artyjane1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah agree. It's such a turn off.
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Matthew Syed says we need more bankruptcies and unemployment; unclear if this extends to Sunday Times columnists.
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Conservative Party is “authoritarian” and attacking the “free press” by banning journalists from its conference when Kemi Badenoch called Reform precisely that for doing the same. bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Jane Pickersgill @artyjane1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#tories are running scared.
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years.
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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.
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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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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 02/10/2026
Intrigued to see the Conservative conference will feature a speech on "press freedom" next week while they ban lobby journalists such as @josiahmortimer.bsky.social from attending their conference.
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The vast majority of European countries use forms of Proportional Representation, and have done so for many decades. Not one of them has a significant grassroots campaign for switching to First Past the Post.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No wonder Tom voted for Brexit, he thinks Britain is 3,500 miles west of Europe.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the day after the referendum I remember saying to someone "the worst thing about this is we're going to leave and then we're going to spend the next 20 years trying to get back in and by then I'll be retirement age..."
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Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm so very sad to hear of the death of Esther Ranzen who played an important role in reuniting me with Nicky Winton - the man who saved my life. It's so desperately sad that she couldn't choose assisted dying as was her wish.
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Jane Pickersgill @artyjane1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #justdout.
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No 10 gathering evidence on public support for UK rejoining EU
Senior Downing Street officials reach out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test backing for reversing Brexit
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As Lord Harris so eloquently told me earlier in the week.. it’s the scourge of NIMTOism… Not In My Term of Office
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The "Reform Party" was created in part to make the case for electoral reform... looking at many of their accounts and supporters it would seem that most of them have forgotten that
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It only feels “radically progressive” because we’ve spent 40 years normalising radically regressive ideas. This was broadly how Britain worked from 1945–79, when average GDP growth was 2.6% a year — compared with 1.9% in the post-Thatcher years. It works www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham gambles on radical progressive plan to help Britain ‘rise again’
PM accepts some of his plan could be difficult and admits he ‘may pay a political price’
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Evening, #Ofcom. A British politician is advertising, in advance, that his "full verdict" on the Prime Minister's speech today will be given in his own programme, which carries his name, on GB News tonight. Aren't News channels supposed to show due impartiality? 🤮 x.com/Nigel_Farage...
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Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) on X
I will give my full verdict on Andy Burnham’s speech LIVE on GB News at 7PM tonight.
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