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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 21h
Trump’s obeisance to Putin has been established beyond even the vaguest scintilla of doubt; the possibility of another January 6-style assault on US democracy after/during the mid-terms is clearly acute and ‘we’ are still wary of calling fascism fascism. These are the moments…
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 19h
Eight years ago
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at the restaurant inside the high end Mayfair furniture shop RH London. And it’s chaos. Warm water. Can’t mix cocktails. Run out of hamburgers. Dull food for bored oligarchs who don’t eat. Have a few quotes and a pic of a £22 baked potato. www.ft.com/content/5993...
Drift through its rooms admiring the oversized sculptures, the overstuffed seating and the passive-aggressive war on colour. I was tempted to give myself a quick nosebleed just to introduce a splash of red. While there, do take a look inside the utterly magnificent restaurant at the back of the ground floor, housed in what was once a banking hall. The cathedral-high ceilings are coated in gold leaf and dangle with giant golden chandeliers like crystal udders. There are pillars, acres of polished wood veneer and lots of soft curved seating, picked out by pools of light from dainty table lamps. Gawp at it. Gasp at it. But whatever you do, don’t book a table in it. On my recent visit, the whole operation was a bloody shambles.It starts in the second-floor cocktail bar, designed by Anouska Hempel, where the £16 Margarita comes from a bottle of pre-mix with a hand-scribbled label, and they can’t make any classic cocktails which aren’t on the list. Ask them for a Daiquiri then watch the panic flicker in their eyes. Online, the cheapest bottle of wine offered up here is a Riesling at £68. When you arrive, it turns out to be £86.Back downstairs in the restaurant a bottle of sparkling water is brought. It’s warm. We ask for ice. None comes. We ask again. None comes. Third time’s a charm. At least we get water quickly; the wait for food is interminable (if you don’t count the £56-worth of mini lobster rolls we didn’t order, that they tried to foist on us). We watch one of our dishes being offered to a nearby table. The diners look baffled. The waiter returns to the pass in the open kitchen where a row with the chef appears to ensue. He waves a ticket at her. Finally, 10 minutes later the plate comes to us. In a functioning restaurant you should be able to spot the person in charge immediately. There is no one in charge of this room. It’s chaos.Our missing dish is the cutely named “Parisian petite potato”. I wanted to see what a £22 baked potato was like. Small, is the answer, and topped with the now obligatory caviar. Honestly, there’s so much caviar washing around London at the moment, I’m convinced there’s some bloke with a lock-up in Camberwell who has got hold of a surplus that fell off the back of a knackered old sturgeon. Now he’s pushing it out to W1. Anyway, it’s a baked potato with fish eggs. I’m not sure which bit of it is Parisian but it’s definitely petite, I’ll give it that.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Whenever I travel abroad to meet with foreign leaders, I write a behind the scenes account of the trip on my way home. Here are notes from my recent trip to the Middle East. It's not a comprehensive recitation of all the topics raised. Just a snapshot.
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Behind the Scenes: My Visit to the Middle East
I refuse to accept this moment as normal.
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Two elderly gentlemen were arrested at the top of my high street this morning for holding signs saying “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine action”. It took over a dozen police to carry one of them away. When is Burnham going to stop this madness?
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/10/2026
Trump: "If Republicans get in power, you're going to end up in a depression. These people are incompetent"
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A Ruby-crowned Kinglet waves hello! 👋
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump’s last desperate gambit (and Putin’s) now that POTUS has wrecked his voters with a failed war on Iran, and the Ukrainians are wrecking the Russian economy and pushing their front lines back
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CNN @cnn.com · 11/10/2026
Kalshi is scrutinizing a handful of small bets that correctly predicted Katie Zacharia would be the next White House press secretary, according to a person familiar with the matter. cnn.it/4jbKNv7
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nailed it. 🔨
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jim Ratcliffe says Britain is "on the slide" so our member @stephenstroud.bsky.social went on 5 Live to set the record straight. This country built his wealth. We'd like to see him contribute fairly to it, not talk it down.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Imagine looking at ICE… Those unruly, violent, incel thugs, and the chaos, fear and murder they’ve brought to the streets of America, and thinking...that’s what Britain needs. Well, Nigel Farage has.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This wouldn't happen in the UK. Reform and the Conservatives have been banning journalists and news organisations they don't approve of for years now and the lobby has done absolutely nothing about it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
Mamdani stares into the middle distance as Trump responds to a question about his ban on the free press by ranting about his economic record and how great his war in Iran is going
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/09/2026
Breaking News: Major TV networks — ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC — agreed to suspend their pooled coverage of President Trump after the White House blocked CNN from its duties.
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Networks Suspend Pool Coverage of Trump After White House Bans CNN
The move was an escalation of President Trump’s showdown with the White House press corps after he moved to bar journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🔥 This video is approaching 1 million views collectively across social media. Pretty please use this tool to write to your MP - whoever they are - it all counts. And then share this link everywhere to family, friends, groups —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...
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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Couple of examples: Massive Attack speak about ‘surreal experience’ of being banned from Singapore over Palestinian flag www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a... Massive Attack Call Out Ed Sheeran: ‘No Artist Should Tolerate the Censorship of Another Artist' www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Massive Attack speak about ‘surreal experience’ of being banned from Singapore over Palestinian flag
British band say they are ‘proud to have made this impromptu expression with our fans in Singapore’, where open display of all foreign flags is banned
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
*rubs temples* why am i reading about MPs scrutinising Eurovision track record instead of them taking action against far-right and fascist groups that are harrassing the RNLI, the public, & shutting down infrastructure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs
It comes after the UK's entry Look Mum No Computer came last in May's final, scoring just one point.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Last Day of Biden Vs. Trump: 🔹 Gas: $3.12 → $4.32 🔹 Diesel: $3.63 → $6.29 🔹 Inflation: 2.9% → 3.4% 🔹 Wage growth: 3.9% → 3.1% 🔹 Real wage growth: +1.0% → -0.3% 🔹 GDP growth: 2.8% in 2024 → 1.5% in Q2 2026 🔹 And the U.S. is now at war with Iran.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: Cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne - the man who gave Farage £5m - has quietly dropped his defamation suit against @wsj.com over this 2023 article 👇 1/
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kevin Rowland and Dexy's Midnight Runners are very unhappy that Nigel Farage used their music at the Reform party conference.
Tweet from the official Dexy's Midnight Runners account

I, Kevin Rowland (the son of Irish immigrants) and the main songwriter of ‘Come On Eileen,’ am disgusted to learn that Nigel Farage has used our song to make his entrance for his party conference. Myself, and all of Dexys are passionately against Farage’s politics.

@ByDonkeys .
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axa74.bsky.social @axa74.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest BBC calling masked people dressed in black blockading the port “protesters “ - no indication of what they are protesting about /in support of ? Whilst unmasked peaceful supporters of Palestinian cause, labelled anti semite or terrorists.
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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Giving London children new lungs www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Badenoch stands by an ex Neo Nazi candidate but bans anyone who doesn’t sign up to her moratorium on net zero. A weird form of authoritarian cancel culture has gripped the conservatives … app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/74332/...
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Kemi Badenoch is creating a new—and very odd—type of Conservative party
In her upside-down leadership, former neo-Nazis can run as councillors, but anyone hoping to stop the world from burning is banned
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The "party of free speech" strikes again
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I'm looking for 200 volunteers to read a free copy of my next book, ahead of publication. Read an excerpt and apply here. It'll be fun. Or you might do a sick. That's dogs for ya! #BookSky thewolfthatchewsrocks.com
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The Wolf That Chews Rocks
Why your dog is weird, according to science. A funny, affectionate journey through the evolution, behaviour and baffling inner life of dogs.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The old ‘hacking’ excuse from Banks, which he tried to use on me and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social when we obtained emails of his many visits to the Russian embassy to talk gold and diamond deals with Kremlin officials. He knew it wasn’t true then, and isn’t now
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
Cooking on holiday – without taking half your kitchen with you
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Cooking on holiday – without taking half your kitchen with you
Making a meal anywhere but home can feel unnerving, but all you need is some forward planning and an essentials list
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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 29/07/2026
🚨 How much of the NHS 10-Year Plan relies on private companies? 8 out of 20 core commitments in the health strategy rely on private sector delivery over public investment. Will leadership reverse NHS outsourcing or double down on private partnerships? Read here: lowdownnhs.info/private-prov...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Big new story from @annaisaac.bsky.social. Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother before she made Reform & Tice donations. The even bigger question now is where did Cottrell’s money come from? And this is where I think a very big problem lies.. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE agents in Maine killed a father on his way to work yesterday: Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26. The week before, agents killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, a father of three. The Trump administration isn't returning America to a nostalgic past. It's plunging families into a horrific present.
Maine Sun Journal quote from newspaper article: "The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas."
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Donald Trump has paid writer E Jean Carroll more than $5m (£3.7m) in damages three years after he was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming her in a civil case
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Haunted once again… A 3 year old in Bluey pyjamas watched ICE shoot her father dead Then his lifeless body dragged from the car & handcuffed He had a Social Security # He wasn’t even the man they were after Not fleeing Not undocumented Now dead America, you are so broken.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Every refugee admitted to the US in 2026 has been white. That’s not an exaggeration. Nor is it by chance.
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The Pipeline from Fringe Conspiracy to Trump Policy
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
EXECUTED BY ICE IN COLD BLOOD IN FRONT OF HIS 3-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
When I said "My next book is going to be a collection of short stories" I really did mean - in many cases - SHORT. www.tom-cox.com/my-next-book...
AMANDA'S LIST. It was Sunday, but when she woke up, Amanda had a list of jobs as long as her arm waiting for her. Fortunately it was written in
really tall thin letters and just said, ‘Drink a box of wine and read a
book in the garden.’
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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Looks like a wealth tax is an ace with the Great British public - as Brighty Buoy found out at Wimbledon. Do you support a 2% tax on wealth over £10m?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Ukraine launched a major nighttime attack on a dozen Russian regions, Russian-held Crimea and the surrounding seas, Moscow’s Defense Ministry said Friday, in what appeared to be one of Kyiv’s biggest drone assaults since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion more than four years ago.
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Ukraine unleashes one of its heaviest drone bombardments of Russia
The Defense Ministry in Moscow says Ukraine launched a major nighttime drone attack on Russian regions, Crimea, and surrounding seas.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I can’t think of many rural terms I like more than “witches’ knickers” - to describe black polythene snagged in fences, hedgerows and trees.
Some underwear once belonging to a witch but now caught forever in the straggly foliage of a dying tree, after the tree, in its last gasp of mischief, reached out and pulled the underwear off the witch while she was in mid-flight on her way to the Devonshire Witches Conference (Good Witch Division).
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