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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10h

Margaret Beckett: I blew up my party as a cautionary tale Zack Polanski: At last, we will recreate blowing up our party from the iconic “Labour party”

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 17h

My own take is actually that this is the kind of specific question a political party doesn't actually need to weigh in on. Like just as a matter of practicality.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 11h

Resident of Birmingham talking to Resident of Westminster, 1821:

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Merryn @merrynwalters.uk · 15h

I do forget about Bluesky, and I shouldn't. So... who wants to see some WW2 maps, and hear about the mapmakers? This is a favourite of mine. Prome, Sandoway, Thayetmyo - 85: J9 - some of the Survey of India's fine work in Burma, published in (not updated since) 1929. Come on, isn't this awesome?!

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 13h

what creates this horror is not Jews or Judaism, that's just the causus belli. it's the logic and necessity of a world that died in the colonial independence movements of the 1950s and 1960s, except for one stubborn hanger-on that survived into the digital age.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 17h

Remember the battle of Cable Street. London, 4 October 1936. Also remember that they shall not pass. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 17h

Ok look the Conservatives might be third in the polls and all that so you might think they have other priorities but fully support diverting all the HQ’s resources in whatever this is.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 17h

Quite tragic to see the political party which had been one of the most steadfast in defence of my own minority community step on this completely avoidable rake.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

like, most people who were recently activated into being pro-Palestine just assume that Jewish identity works the same way as Christian identity

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

1984 is about how England in 1947 is an authoritarian shit-hole. The Handmaid’s Tale is about how the reactionary right in 1980s America is rolling back women’s rights because second wave feminism failed. The Hunger Games is just a parody of Survivor.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am always intrigued by people who think Idiocracy is a prediction of the future rather than a critique of the present

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This goes for literally every piece of dystopian fiction as well.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 03/10/2026

something especially madness-inducing about wearing a t-shirt and a light jacket on October 3 in England while reading endless climate headlines about needing to get ready for the worst El Niño winter of our lives

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 03/10/2026

I keep thinking I've found the day's most sketchable moment, and I keep being wrong.

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 23h

Not exactly a Daniel Sugarman fan, but this is correct. I have Jewish acquaintances on the far-left of Labour – as pro-Palestinian as they come – who belong to the Movement for Progressive Judaism which is definitionally Zionist because it advocates a two-state solution.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 22h

So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA

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Daniel @deargodwhaat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Deeply affected by Emily St John Mantel's excellent book 'Last night in Montreal', about how deeply bleak and inhumane winter is in that city

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Feel like I've reached a point where I could do a @historyrage.bsky.social on Bamber Bridge

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not great that HHS' current plan for the next pandemic is to let the weak die, which will allow the eugenic superman survivors of the plague to inherit the world.

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Palloma | COMMISSIONS OPEN @crowlls.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

These Bloodborne guys

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Palloma | COMMISSIONS OPEN @crowlls.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve been wanting to rewatch the TOS movies, I love Undiscovered Country so much

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The call is coming from inside Tom Black @tomblack.uk · 03/10/2026

stalin: the pope? how many divisions does he have? this guy: the pope? how many local models does he run?

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Shed O War Games - with Des Darkin @desmondo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Photos from the Fulda Gap 1985 game today with @badsocialism.bsky.social . We did not finish it as we got chatting about game mechanisms, but it was still a good game. #wargames #wargaming #shedowargames

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Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Douglas Adams the restaurant at the end of the universe

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 03/10/2026

I am not very worried about about the Tory Tapestry’s misuse of “doth”. What worries me much more is this sequence of panels which seems to show a small boat full of brown-skinned people followed by a plague of rats running riot and then a lot of dead white people labelled tax payers.

Detail from Conservative Party mock Bayeux Tapestry showing 1. A boat full of brown skinned people. 2. Enormous rats chasing cats. 3. White-skinned “tax payers” dead in the streets.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You can see the moment Mogg realises he's talking to a Nazi here

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Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New #Orbat breakdown: The evolution of the Moroccan Goumiers during WWII - These irregulars became a key part of the Fighting French Forces in Tunisia, Sicily, Corsica, Italy, France and Germany - and then in Indochina. #WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France #Morocco #ORBATboys

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Katline Storm @katlinestorm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The thing that truly rankles me is they proved that they CAN do a good gimmick episode. The Lower Decks crossover is proof that when they TRY they can make it fun. But they never TRIED to be that creative again- and unfortunately that meant also giving up on the interesting setups they HAD done too

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1985, Fulda Gap: can the 11th Cav hold the Russians at bay - and for how long?

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thing is I sort of agree and sort of don't agree with Jay. He's absolutely right to say the genre breaking gimmick episode is impossible to get right (and that imo MASH is the only show to land it more than not) but the problem with a lot of SNW is it was...only ever going where it was meant to go.

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just put a few pence on income tax, I beg.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I actually find the opening to this the most fascinatingly unhinged moment "why are the English the only group of people on the Earth who can't define themselves," is an argument that just does not hold up to a second's thought? Is Kylian Mbappe not French because his dad was Cameroonian?

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't know who was writing the Trinidad Regiment War diary but it is hard to escape the feeling they may not, exactly, have high opinions of the militiamen

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

its kinda great that robespierre invented liberalism communism and fascism over the course of like 5 years

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Imperialism uses violence as a mechanism for administration, fascism uses administration as a mechanism for violence"?

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Saigon. Shit, I'm still in Saigon.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 02/10/2026

And yet my group chat that wangs on about social cohesion and media consumption isn’t watching it?? Frankly do you believe in society if you reject mass television events.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Latest Badenoch: “If [Andy Burnham]’s not calling an election, why’s he talking about things happening in 2030?” - alarming the extent to which so much of our political class cannot process the idea of “planning for events four years in the future”.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had this conversation with a colleague yesterday and I think my distinction is that the bloodshed and violence of Empire is an inevitability of the ideology, whereas the bloodshed of fascism and Nazism is the Point of the ideology

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the idea that the nazis were trying to do in eastern europe what, say, the british did in southern africa, only on a drastically sped-up timeframe, obviously has some merit re: the nazis' other targets, but it categorically fails to deal with their judenhass, which did operate on a different logic.

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Eva @noveldeelights.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“fascinating, emotionally involving insight into an aspect of life in post-WW2 Britain that was completely new to me” Book Review - A Monster in the Ash by Susie Gordon whatcathyreadnext.co.uk/2026/10/02/b... - via @whatcathyreadnext.bsky.social 💙📚

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Book Review – A Monster in the Ash by Susie Gordon

Welcome to today’s stop on the blog tour for A Monster in the Ash by Susie Gordon which will be published on 15th October 2026. My thanks to Kelly at Folk PR for inviting me to take part in t…

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Im not sure if youve ever seen his defense of Larkin? The first published thing I think we have by him and writtem (IIRC) at 17 and its for a.... unfashionable poet with proper love. He's genuine in it I think and it went beyond trying to attract girls

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

in conclusion, x is a land of contrasts

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