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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 13h
Trump’s love for Putin is the only pure thing in his life.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
🤔Heads we lose, tails Putin wins. Every time. Must be a coincidence!
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 15h
Its hard for bluesky users to know what Amnesty thinks about Russia's actions in Ukriane as they haven't mentioned them for a year.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20h
What these guys did was bigger than Brexit. They showed how you could produce work of an academic quality and distribute it through the media, to improve the standard of national debate. I wish more organisations would learn from what was accomplished here.
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Norbert Röttgen @nroettgen.bsky.social · 17h
Gerhard Schröder ist eine Schande für unser Land!
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22h
Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!
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Der Postillon 📯 @der-postillon.com · 19h
MEGA-Event: USA planen Halbzeitshow zwischen erster und zweiter Salve von Hinrichtungslivestream www.der-postillon.com/2026/10/halb...
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MEGA-Event: USA planen Halbzeitshow zwischen erster und zweiter Salve von Hinrichtungslivestream
Fort Hood (dpo) - Die USA wollen eine Hinrichtung livestreamen. Informationen des Postillon zufolge soll das Mega-Event ähnlich dem Superbowl zwischen
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This prompted me to go back and check the claim that "On current DWP forecasts, from the 2024 election until 2030, Labour will have increased working-age benefit spending by a further £51.6 bn/year." It appears to be equally fictional/spreadsheet error. Correct figure is maybe £36bn..
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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 23h
Dear people of the UK, this Prize is for you! In 1946, the British founded the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. 80 years on, NRW says "Thank you", presenting its highest award, the State Prize, to the people of the UK, recognising the deep friendship between the state and the UK.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23h
This is a really serious piece of investigative work. Thank god someone is doing it.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23h
🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No, competitive tendering and transparency in the award of public contracts would do.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Anna Politkovskaya was murdered 20 years ago today. If you have any interest in Russia but haven't read her work, today is a good day to start. This is the opening of her book Putin's Russia:
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"We charge you with genocide." Grim, inane and preposterous. One day these people will realise that words mean something and you shouldn't just string them together randomly to make yourself feel better.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 08/10/2026
Burnham to press ahead with Oxford-Cambridge corridor ft.trib.al/8kW0vZi
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Burnham to press ahead with Oxford-Cambridge corridor
New premier is seeking to reassure investors and reject claims he does not care about the south of England
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 07/10/2026
‼️ Ukraine's General Staff reports damage to Samara oil station and Astrakhan gas processing plant supplying Russian forces
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Ukraine's General Staff reports damage to Samara oil station and Astrakhan gas processing plant supplying Russian forces
The General Staff has reported that the Samara oil pipeline control station and Astrakhan gas processing plant, which help meet the needs of the Russian Armed Forces, sustained extensive damage in str...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Corruption of this kind is why the Democrats need to freeze or cut back US defense spending of they take control of Congress. If you actually care about US security, funding this is destructive.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is slightly bad luck for Reform that Suella Braverman has taken a core Restore argument + vocally championed it, allowing Kemi Badenoch to attach Reform to it Braverman doesn't identify as English - but almost no English-identifying [white] MP would reject Rashford or Ian Wright as English
This inclusive nativism – that being born and bred in England does count, regardless of skin colour or faith, if you identify as English – is entirely missed by Suella Braverman, who writes dismissively about “a plane ticket and a birth certificate” as if they are the same thing. “How many generations must pass before one can claim to be English? Five? Six? It is a question without an easy answer”, she writes in in her Telegraph commentary piece. The only charitable thing to do with this thought would be to assume that no thought has gone into it whatsoever.

Thoughtlessness could prove an important defence for Braverman. It seems deeply unlikely that she would defend the outcomes that her piece logically entails – when applying it to the specific cases of those who identify as English, without five or six generations of English ancestry. But she would surely lose the Conservative whip were she willing to do that – since it would involve rejecting the English identity – on racial grounds – of many people accepted as English by just about everybody who is not a vocal and overt racist.

Braveman has over a hundred Conservative parliamentary colleagues who do identify as English. If she sense-checked her theory with them, she would find it unlikely that any would declare that Marcus Rashford and Jude Bellingham are too black to be English – nor that Moeen Ali’s declaration of his pride in being English should be rejected on the grounds of his visibly Muslim beard and Pakistani heritage. It may seem even more baffling that the ‘Braverman rules’ would reject Harry Kane and Wayne Rooney as too Irish to be English too.

Sporting symbolism has undoubtedly entrenched this common-sense consensus that English national identity has been multi-ethnic since the 1990s. That is one of the reasons why Asian English identity is less intuitively familiar than that of the black English, with little presence in football in particular.  But this is not just a question of sport.   Braverm…
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The "Russian World" in 2026: sponsored by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Manchester City decision shows the costs of an aggressive litigation strategy How the club’s lack of cooperation and putting forward dishonest evidence have put the club at a disadvantage By me, now posted at LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/manche...
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The Manchester City decision shows the costs of an aggressive litigation strategy
How the club’s lack of cooperation and putting forward dishonest evidence have put the club at a disadvantage * This is a post is on the decision by an independent commission on Manchester City. In pa...
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 05/10/2026
Our latest on A7: a British businessman active in UK finance was named by Ilan Shor as CEO of VexPay, part of the A7 network, according to A7’s own interbal minutes (he denies it) www.ft.com/content/b3c4...
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UK businessman given senior role at group linked to Kremlin money-laundering operation
Moldovan oligarch behind secretive A7 fintech referred to Michael Donald as chief executive of linked payments company VexPay
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@stefanpaetow.bsky.social @stefanpaetow.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
This. It destroyed the camera, damaged houses and cars. That's not "jailed for destroying a camera".
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What Trump and Hegseth are saying is that one of the most powerful squadrons in the US Air Force, the most power air force in human history, has been scared off by 5 half wits in a transit van. Trump is turning you into a laughing stock, lads.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 05/10/2026
⚡️ German intelligence chief warns of 'violent conflict with Russia.’ Russia is conducting a "shadow war," head of Germany's foreign intelligence service (BND), Martin Jaeger, said.
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German intelligence chief warns of 'violent conflict with Russia'
Russia is conducting a "shadow war," head of Germany's foreign intelligence service (BND), Martin Jaeger, said.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man City can afford some very good legal advice. We can safely assume the legal advice would set out the very real and serious risks of such an aggressive legal strategy. That is the lawyers’ job. Man City have chosen to adopt that strategy anyway.
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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 05/10/2026
Visiting Kyiv yesterday, Chancellor Merz announced an additional €1 billion military aid package and €350 million in energy support for Ukraine.
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Jonathan Jones @sirjjkc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ve lost track of the number of “red tape challenges” I’ve lived through - commitments to “slash regulations”, “roll back the frontiers of the state”, blah blah. Sure have a go. Repealing obscure, already obsolete rules doesn’t count
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Chancellor Merz in Kyiv: "This morning, on a peaceful Sunday, there was an air raid alert in Kyiv. I can only repeat once again from this place: Mr. Putin, stop this senseless war. We are ready to negotiate. We are ready to talk to each other about ending this war.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Conservative party Shadow Culture Secretary to speak at conference tomorrow about how to "defend press freedom", whilst her own party bans journalists whose coverage they don't like
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Truly vile. At a public event, Mike Graham mocked Andy Burnham’s father for having Alzheimer’s, less than three weeks after Roy Burnham died and apparently on the day of his funeral. Just the lowest of the low.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rather difficult not to feel a bit gloomy about the state of the country atm, so I wasn’t going to make much of a thing of this anniversary this year. And then I saw this and started to cry. Because a free and united Germany in a free and united Europe was worth it. And is worth fighting for now.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Still annoys me that Brexit is seen as somehow different to political trends in the EU, particularly France and Germany, when their parallel is so obvious. Similarly what is happening now, a shared politics of nostalgia, with very little vision for the future of Europe.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was just on LBC with @mrjamesob.bsky.social to discuss Kemi Badenoch's banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social from attending Conservative conference after calling such bans by Reform "authoritarian" and an assault on free speech 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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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Badenoch still doesn’t grasp the impact of a war she would have joined: 🥶
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US deploys thousands of troops to Middle East as Donald Trump weighs strikes on Iran
Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt expected to arrive in the region by the end of November, a US official says
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It remains a genuine mystery to leading luminaries of international relations like @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Chomsky and @dipshitbunchofnunbers as to why NATO is so popular amongst all the people we did things like this to. Totally.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OTD in 1951 *2nd* wave of Operation Osen's deportations began. Over 16000 Lithuanians were forcibly sent to Siberia as USSR continued to liberate them from fascism & also their freedom 6 years after WW2 ended. Imagine mass deportations happening today?
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Takes a peculiar kind of genius to misinterpret two great thinkers in such a short space of words. Not sure why the FT carries this stuff www.ft.com/content/c05f...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Latest piece out. There was some confusion about why the UK, France and the Baltics were not invited by the US to its NATO meeting. Its actually brutally simple and part of a US strategy of divide and rule towards European security. And it might work. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/divide-and...
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Divide And Rule: The US Strategy Towards Europe
And Why It Could Work
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026
Central to the push to reopen the rape case was Cornell’s independent student newspaper, which published an editorial shortly after Jane Doe’s September lawsuit — “Cornell Won’t, We Will.” The piece named the 7 men accused, and went on to condemn the university for its treatment of the case.
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Cornell University Journalists Kept Rape Case in Spotlight
“We have the right to demand safety from our university administrators,” said one student journalist.
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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I suppose the Free Speech Union will be all over this… won’t they? Is anyone there?
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 01/10/2026
⚡️ Ukrainian pilot dies after MiG-29 fighter shot down by Russian missile. Redvanovich, who was 25 years old, served as the commander of the "Ghost of Kyiv" 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade.
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Ukrainian pilot dies after MiG-29 fighter shot down by Russian missile
Redvanovich, who was 25 years old, served as the commander of the "Ghost of Kyiv" 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 NEW Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations By Samantha Asumadu Read below. ↓
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Shall we adopt this aggressive media and legal strategy?" - No. - No. "Thank you for your media and legal advice, but we are going to do it anyway."
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the most important story in the world keeps getting a bit important-er
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 29/09/2026
“Estonian authorities have confirmed that the 15 August arson attack against the Estonian defence company Milrem Robotics in Tallinn was an act of sabotage ordered by Russian security services.” www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Estonia says arson attack on ‘consistent with other acts of sabotage carried out in Europe on behalf of Russia’ - Europe live
Foreign minister summons Russia’s chargé d’affaires over attack on Milrem Robotics as security agency says incident was ‘deliberate and pre-planned’
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