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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sure Farage has a great plan for improving the overcrowded prisons problem by overcrowding them with sweethearts who have committed their lives to helping their neighbours. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Nigel Farage says charities that help asylum seekers get to UK should be prosecuted

Reform leader did not say who should be targeted but party figures have been critical of small boat rescues by RNLI

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sadly there was a climate & nature shaped hole at the heart of Burnham’s speech. Nothing on the benefits of nature restoration & same old words on a “pragmatic” approach to N Sea drilling. There’s nothing pragmatic about pouring fuel on a scorching earth - he should rule out Rosebank & Jackdaw now

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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We have closed all safe and legal routes. This is all that's left. We can fix this by opening safe and legal asylum claims from the other side of the channel, breaking the criminal gangs overnight. That's just not racist enough. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent

The arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The world’s best and smartest people spent a dodecajillion dollars on magic beans that don’t grow beanstalks and now they are going to destroy the world economy, again, and you - who did nothing wrong, again - are going to pay for it, again.

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DAVIEWoOOoO 👻 🎃🕸️ @daviemoo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

People hanging flags on lampposts ask why people feel uncomfortable with it. Because that flag, to me, symbolises a country who failed to reckon with its radicalism, and actively embraced it.

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ZeroooO0OooooO0Ooooo @scootercomputer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have an unconventional solution to the loneliness crisis and the erasure of third spaces...

Marketing graphic for Nintendo Streetpass on the 3DS. It shows white stick figures going about their days and the two in the middle are walking away from each other, one has a tote bag the other a briefcase. It shows 3DSes in their bags and green arrows forming a circle between the people. At the bottom is two 3DSes doing a wireless communication thing between them.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Barber CEO: You Risk Falling Behind If You Don't Get A Haircut "Right Now" Industry Experts Foresee Future In Which Everyone Receives Multiple Haircuts Every Day Today Your Hair, Tomorrow The World: Barbers Say They Are On Track To Build A Pair Of Scissors So Big, It Could End Life As We Know It

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 08/09/2026

Spire - a private hospital that NHS patients are sent to - is now owned by private equity This is dangerous for patients. Do we want to be like the US, where the care you get depends on whether it is profitable for private equity? Invest and build up our NHS and stop NHS privatisation now

Screenshot of a Guadian headline "UK’s biggest private hospital firm Spire agrees £1bn takeover by hedge fund Toscafund, founded by City figure known as ‘the Rottweiler’, signs deal amid fears over creeping privatisation of NHS"

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10/09/2026

THE REPORT THEY TRIED TO HIDE. Empty shelves. Water shortages. Food security at risk. The government cannot keep hiding the scale of the threat. It must release the report in full and act on it.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Labour has banned peaceful protest for Palestine. It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am very tired of being labelled as a traitor for people who hate this country and who are working, consciously or not, to undermine it.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

✨the boots you lick will stomp you too✨

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Can I shock you? I like the war on motorists

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I begged Woman’s Hour to cover Gamergate in 2014, when it was the NYT front page & UK women in games were living in terror. Gamergate became the model for MAGA. They said they didn’t think it was an important story. That week they covered women mountaineers of the 19th C & new ways with aubergine

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Our country isn't poor. We're being ripped off. The Labour Government backed Trump's war in Iran and refused to break our dependence on oil and gas - while we have such huge potential for homegrown renewable energy. We can end Rip Off Britain by making different choices.

House energy prices will rise to three year high

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed

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Alex Clarke @asmrvgc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

More than 3 years complaining about their knees at the end. No thank you.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The UK, right now:

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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

When you think about it, it's actually pretty cool that the UK government has a button they can press to make everyone with a phone immediately shit their pants.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Good. Now we need action. Tax fossil fuel giants to pay for firefighting helicopters. A cool space in every community. A maximum working temperature. And no new oil and gas extraction in the North Sea. We cannot negotiate with the science. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

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UK weather: Burnham to chair Cobra meeting on extreme heat as temperatures surge again

The Government will meet to discuss this summer's record-breaking heat as the tally for days above 30C in the UK is broken.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.

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Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.

Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today is the 81st anniversary of the nuclear bombing of #Hiroshima. Yet despite the gut wrenching horror, the 9 nuclear states have *already* amassed the equivalent firepower of 145.000 Hiroshima bombs & still want more. This is madness. #NoMoreHiroshimas @cnduk.bsky.social

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Zack Polanski, "If we decarbonise by 2050, that would cost less than a single (fossil-fuel) energy shock" "We've now had two energy shocks in just a few years" "We cannot keep waiting, we cannot keep hoping for magic technologies - it already exists, what is lacking is the political will"

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Alex Clarke @asmrvgc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I like the song personally. It was the documentary in my dream that called it indefenable.I think it's dependable, and probably didn't kill Britpop, if such a thing ever really existed.

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Alex Clarke @asmrvgc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I've got this recurring dream about a one hour BBC4 documentary on Hanging Around, it's broad cultural significance and how it pulled together many cultural threads of the time to one form 2 minutes 23 seconds of crystallised Britpop essence which, in being indefensible, called time on the genre.

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Alex Clarke @asmrvgc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I had to buy this on CD recently. I can't stream it anywhere!

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Alex Clarke @asmrvgc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I broadly agree. However, my nearest wouldn't replace my aerial board (a common production fault on my model) so I asked him to open mine up so I could have a go swapping it out myself, and he looked me in the eye and said "Sir, what is in there is not for you." and I have mixed feelings about that.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Look idc about vape shops but I will hear no slander about phone repair stores. The people working in them are the only front we have against the tyranny of Apple and by extension, big tech, who insist that any kind of minor water damage is unrepairable

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Alex Clarke @asmrvgc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Distance by Cake blew my tiny mind whilst listening to Mark and Lard and doing my A-Level physics homework.

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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The more fossil fuels burnt the more of us will die. Faced with Farage, Badenoch, the Daily Mail, the Sun and trade union leaders like Sharon Graham, we need to let them know that we won't go quietly. www.thesun.co.uk/news/3865659...

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Net Zero's killing UK & I'm more right-wing than Farage, says Kemi Badenoch

KEMI BADENOCH is in the driving seat. Her hands are on the wheel of a 50-tonne fuel truck, and she seems pretty fired up as I climb in next to her. Anyone who has watched her blazing Commons clashe…

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Alex Clarke @asmrvgc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I have this dream and I hate this dream.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Wes Streeting has been made Defence Secretary. In his released correspondence with Peter Mandelson, he said: “Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes.” Journalists should ask him: 1) Does he stand by that? 2) What legal obligations does the UK therefore have?

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

To end rough sleeping you need to fund domestic violence shelters, mental health services, drug and alcohol rehabilitation programmes, let people seeking asylum work, and increase welfare spending.

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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

🤯 More drilling in the North Sea? 🥵 On his first day in No. 10 the new PM is going to alienate everybody who cares about our climate 😰 What's next, the devastation of our countryside? 😭 I had hope but he's lost me on day -2

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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Wow just 6% fossil fuels, it is amazing how quickly British electricity supply has been decarbonised

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 08/07/2026

Zelensky is a comedian who ran as a joke and ended up fighting a superpower in the bloodiest war since WWII. I hope Count Binface is ready for that responsibility.

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Alex Clarke @asmrvgc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It dawned on me the other day that the Commodore 64 magazines of my childhood were essentially my introduction to journalism and literary criticism and shaped the lens through which I view the world at large, to some degree

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If you call Starmer "a decent man" you endorse: - trans folks being unable to go for a piss when they're out and about - getting rid of jury trials so that people who threw paint on a plane being used for war crimes are done for terrorism - arresting pensioners for saying the above is bad

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In the end, there were just a lot more human rights abuses than I was expecting from the human rights lawyer.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Keir Starmer lied through his teeth to become Labour leader. He justified Israeli war crimes, arrested opponents of genocide, attacked pensioners, disabled people and migrants, pocketed freebies, crushed dissent and threw others under the bus to save himself. History damns him

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The problems with UK politics run deeper than who’s in Number 10. First Past the Post produces big majorities without real public support and turns politics into a zero-sum scramble instead of cooperation. It’s not a system built to deal with the big challenges we face. No wonder it keeps failing.

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