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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22h
A campaign to be proud of. A huge thank you to everyone who helped make it happen.
Quote graphic featuring Green Party leader Zack Polanski, with his photograph on the right against a grey background. The headline reads: “A BY-ELECTION CAMPAIGN TO BE PROUD OF.”
Below, the graphic identifies Zack Polanski as Leader of the Green Party and features the quote:
“I'm incredibly proud of the campaign we did run. We got 30% of the vote, and in fact John Curtice, an independent pollster, said this shows that the Green Party are more of an electoral threat in these seats than we've ever been before.”
The Green Party logo appears at the bottom left, alongside the imprint: “Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party London SE1P 6YL.”
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 21h
Sorry, my typing!! abot =a bit. votthan= votes than i expected,
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The great challenge this country will face soon is deciding who runs it and for whom. Is it run by central banks for financial markets, or by elected governments for people? That is the question. Resolving it may be ugly, but it will have to happen. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10...
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Andrew Bailey thinks financial markets rule. They don’t, but he did define the conflict to come.
Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, gave a speech yesterday about the state of the world’s financial markets and the threats that they now face. Much of what he said was entirely ortho...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/10/2026
Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts
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Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts
Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns Tom Watson, the former Labour deputy leader who recently joined Palantir, has warned against “mob rule” when it comes to awarding public contracts. Lord Watson, now a senior vice-president at the US tech corporation, warned UK ministers could get themselves “in a lot of trouble” as he was questioned about concerns raised about the government working with his new employer. Continue reading...
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Astounding Badenoching. Pure, liquid Kemi.
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thats him off then. No matter what happens. He'll be just fine.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says. Lost for words at the insanity in Trumpistan, a truly sick dictatorship. Like medieval times, executions offered as a public spectacle in a country that claims to be Christian. What next?
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Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Indeed. I'm abot surprised by the vitriol. He lost, got more votthan i expect, given it a day after a controversial anti zionist vote, THE DAY BEFORE, this election in an area with a significant Jewish population. Seems a bit odd to me.
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🤞🤞🤞
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You mesn....'I'm mellllttingggg...'
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liberty dies slowly.bsky.social @libertydiesslowly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And then the criminal showed them how to steal billions from the US taxpayers and every last one of them jumped on board for their share.
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Richard, Toad the Just, Earl of Sausagetoad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🌊 @richardlordtoad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They all knew, but sucked-up anyway...
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Patricia Pino @patriciapino.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Our prime ministers have become mere spokesmen for the Treasury. They keep waiting for it to provide the answers. But it is the Treasury senior staff who are the problem.
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's a start in the right direction, so I'm not going to nitpicking. I'll reserve that for later. 😉
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
To be fair to Starmer he started thawing relationships with Europe after years of Tory hostility But Bravo to Burnham he’s really working hard at rebuilding them and paving the way for a re entry to EU Which would highlight Farage’s legacy as the man who pushed Brexit and cost us billions £’s..
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Andy Burnham to meet German chancellor in Berlin to discuss security and EU ties
Downing Street said deeper co-operation in the face of rising hybrid threats from Russia would be high on the agenda during the PM's first official visit to Germany.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Let's have look at who the British right idolizes. Tommy Robinson: 2 active charges. Russell Brand: 7 active charges Danny Tommo: 8 active charges Andrew Tate: 42 active charges Tristan Tate: 17 active charges Note that all 5 have publicly embraced performative christianity in recent years.
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is the ONLY detail I've heard over several days now. So yes, it is! 🤪
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fuck me, this Badenoch speech is awful. Bitter, angry and weird. She’s going on about Burnham taking us back to the days of British Leyland, most aren’t going to know what’s she’s talking about? The only difference between the Tories and Reform is Badenoch knows black people can be English?
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nope. Not going to even give here the be soft of the doubt. I'll simply accept what you say. I'm only ever going to be disappointed in her.
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I mean, after the Zionist vote I can see that there might be a drop. But is he less popular than Badenoch? and Farage? Really? I mean 2 demonstrably horrible horrible people with a much wider range of horrible horrible policy positions? I think you need to investigate the people who were poled.
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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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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Serves them right.
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Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Dude wrote one of the most brutally accurate takedowns of modern American civic life that I’ve ever read.
Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth. They know next to nothing as a rule about their own history, or the histories of other nations, or the histories of the various social movements that have risen and fallen in the past, and they certainly know little or nothing of the complexities and contradictions comprised within words like "socialism" and "capitalism." Chiefly, what they have been trained not to know or even suspect is that, in many ways, they enjoy far fewer freedoms, and suffer under a more intrusive centralized state, than do the citizens of countries with more vigorous social-democratic institutions. This is at once the most comic and most tragic aspect of the excitable alarm that talk of social democracy or democratic socialism can elicit on these shores. An enormous number of Americans have been persuaded to believe that they are freer in the abstract than, say, Germans or Danes precisely because they possess far fewer freedoms in the concrete. They are far more vulnerable to medical and financial crisis, far more likely to receive inadequate health coverage, far more prone to irreparable insolvency, far more unprotected against predatory creditors, far more subject to income inequality, and so forth, while effectively paying more in tax (when one figures in federal, state, local, and sales taxes, and then compounds those by all the expenditures that in this country, as almost nowhere else, their taxes do not cover). One might think that a people who once rebelled against the mightiest empire on earth on the principle of no taxation without representation would not meekly accept taxation without adequate government services. But we accept what we have become used to, I suppose. Even so, one has to ask, what state apparatus in the
"free" world could be more powerful and tyrannical than the one that taxes its citizens while providing no substantial civic benefits in return, solely in order to enrich a p…
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Manchester City are now officially guilty of sustained corruption over decades. What next? sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/manchester...
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Manchester City are now officially guilty of sustained corruption over decades. What next?
This post will be short and not particularly sweet.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Brazil, good luck out there; save your democracy
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@SportUnlocked Podcast @sportunlocked.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🚨POD: Man City verdict fallout 🎙 @robharrisreports.bsky.social @martynziegler.bsky.social @tariqpanja.bsky.social 🔵Is appeal argument undermined? 🔵Challenging CEO Soriano 🔵Premier League’s reputation 🔵More than 10 years of our reporting 🔵What’s next? podfollow.com/SportUnlocked
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Sport Unlocked
From the pitches to the boardrooms, the stories behind the big decisions by sports leaders affecting every fan. Featuring sports news insiders Rob Harris, Martyn Ziegler, Tariq Panja and more
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's ok. I'm with you. A clock.....twice a day etc etc.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
UAE may halt UK investments after Manchester City guilty verdict. The 'rule of law', not blackmail must prevail. Over 100 individual breaches of the Premier League Rules. It filed misleading accounts at Companies House. There are questions about whether Manchester City circumvented UK taxes.
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UAE may halt UK investments after Manchester City guilty verdict
Premier League’s actions would ‘have an influence on the bilateral state relationship’, Emirati officials said
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WheresMyCake @itshotoutthere.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/itsh...
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Excellent. Thank you for the info.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Burnham scraps Starmer-era plans to curb jury trials. A victory for common sense. The Bill would have been defeated in the Lords. Due to Tory cuts, there is a backlog of over 81,000 Crown Court cases in England & Wales. Govt must invest in public services.
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Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials
The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exactly. Announcement something obvious popular and correct imo. But what's the plan? There is a problem that needs to be solved.
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is the guy that joined the Tory party....AFTER Kemi became leader! Since then, there is nothing I read of his.
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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Let the spaces stand as a memorial to the years when a foreign entity took this country’s greatest cultural mode and tried to twist it for its own political ends” @jonawils.bsky.social on why there is, and should be, no winners from Man City’s stolen glory. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Let there be blanks instead of Manchester City’s name on trophies: there was no honour there | Jonathan Wilson
The spaces can stand as a memorial to these lost years both as a rebuke to an era of greed but also a tribute to the Premier League’s hunt for justice
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
B.
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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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Premier League News @plnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
According to Premier League regulations, Manchester City’s appeal requires a 5-day hearing within a 12-week window. This sets December 24 as the hearing deadline, with a binding verdict expected within 30 days post-hearing.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/10/2026
Extremely frustrating that "AI" in common usage has come to mean LLMs, as someone who's been working professionally in AI since the 1990's
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Roger @arbejdsmyren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In Denmark a scientist plotted data and research findings into Claude, only to see Anthropic publish the findings as something the LLM had conjured up on its own. The theft of one scientist’s data and work translates into false claims about the model’s ability to generate research #ai #eupol
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also in my newsletter City should have been punished for breaches in 2014. It was Gianni Infantino's craven approach - as revealed in football leaks and his approach to Trump - that let them off. This entire story could have been stopped then www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Alan Travis @travisbl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What a cunt she was
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That 1980s boom he’s talking about is because we sold off the family silver, which lead to decades of the highest energy & rail fares in Europe plus sewage in rivers.. oh and being held to ransom by fat cats warning that if we want anything to improve we need to pay all over again. Fuck off Simon.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/10/2026
Now that the attacks on Piker failed to resonate, time to move on to the next person to demonize. I'm sure attacking the beloved children's entertainer will work...
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Matt David @fatmattmooch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes. I know, utopian view. EU may well ask for extraordinary conditions to avoid another stupid Brexit situation
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Forever. They have enough. 🙂
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thats not true. Sweden are full members without Euro. We can take same deal or make same case.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.
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Barnesy @barnesylsp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More a pac-a-mac day imo.
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