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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Should the U.K. rejoin the EU and reverse Brexit? Get voting! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Chants of 'let them drown' sung by a child over a megaphone" surely must be the moment this UK Government realises that no form of appeasement or persuasion is going to solve this problem. Ban the platforms spreading the lies, proscribe the groups terrorising the country. Act now, for pity's sake.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There has been a noticeable lack of serious reaction over Turkish persecution of LGBTQIA+ community from the global community. As in many other countries, Türkiye tries to mask persecution by claiming being LGBTQIA+ isn't illegal and then using "obscenity laws". www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
theguardian.com
Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists
Protesters teargassed as minister claims widespread raids and arrests under obscenity laws were to ‘protect families’
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fixed that story about Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the BBC.
Picture of man smiling with tea-mug. Headline reads: "Non-Billionaire who actually lives in the UK and pays its taxes says he has lost confidence in the super-rich", with sub-header: 'One of Britain's taxpayers says he has lost confidence in billionaires, describing them as "on the take"".
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
... believed disinformation, it was somehow disrespectful not to give it equal billing with real information. Instead of redoubling efforts to educate, they decided it was easier to entertain. They pretend their job is to just take the pulse, because it's easier than trying to save the patient. END
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When "white sauce" in fish pie Contains cheese, it’s a lie. That’s a mornay.
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An RNLI lifeboatman is taking part in the Great North Run tomorrow, wearing his full kit. Please donate here if you can: fundraise.rnli.org/fundraisers/...
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I'm taking on Great North Run 2026 - please help me reach my fundraising goal of £1000!
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Disgraceful response by the ports! Is that even allowed to refuse access to rescue vessels?
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Two ports denied request to land 120 migrants in RNLI boats
The King's Harbour Master and Southampton Port both declined to allow migrants ashore on Sunday.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 07/09/2026
If only there were some legal term for where 12 or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them (taken together) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/09/2026
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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We need our leaders to find the courage to show that refugees are welcome, and racist violence isn't. Not just with words, but with policy that builds real welcome for people seeking sanctuary, and fights the causes of racist radicalisation.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Reform UK Conference 2026 This is all it will be remembered for.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 05/09/2026
I’m flat out begging politicians to stop trying to win votes with a little light xenophobia. All you do is feed the racists without ever satiating them. Stop legitimizing hate
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I appreciate they would deny it, but they spent the last two days arguing about if some ethnicities can be British, announcing they'd declare a state or emergency to push through their policies, and now this, it's a very straightforwardly fascist movement.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
bbc.co.uk
Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I know people in the rest of the UK (and especially England) are incapable of thinking about NI for more than 30 seconds at a time, but we do have a very clear example of what happens when these types of people are emboldened and the state can't/won't intervene
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The scary thing is the extent to which Reform could do this under our current constitutional arrangements.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Need to spice up your love life a bit? Have you tried eels? The 1654 newspaper "Mercurious Fumigosus" noted that eels pies from the town of Ware are "excellent provokatives" in the bedroom. Might be just the thing! But beware: these same pies were also said to aid fertility! 🗃️🧪
Meme. Photograph of French actress Melanie Bernier taken from the Fishlove series. The photo shows her from about the mid-torso up, apparently naked. She is in profile to the camera, with her arm covering her breast. She is looking at the camera, and she has an eel draped along her arm and up over her shoulder. Her eyes are arresting, and the eel seems very chill. Possibly even smug.

This could be a very sexy, alluring picture. Most of the pictures in this series are intended to be so. BUT you can also imagine Melanie as a rising demi-god; an avenging spirit with an army of eels at her command. She has stirred herself from her deep wetlands because bad farming practices have poisoned her home waters, and she is bringing her wrath in defense of the natural world.

Is she attractive? Yes. Is she deadly? Oh yes. You will fall into her eyes even as her eels devour you. Then she will forget you.

Meme text reads:
"If you like my body,
& you think I'm sexy...
Let's go
Get some eel pie"
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/08/2026
Crying Newborn Has No Idea How Much Worse It Gets theonion.com/crying-newborn-has-no-…
Crying Newborn Has No Idea How Much Worse It Gets
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Who you gonna call?
A tour bus in Edinburgh with branding on the side that reads GHOST BUS TOURS
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
On August 5th the EHRC 'Guidance' comes into force. This guidance is a significant rollback in not only trans rights, but human rights. It makes rights conditional upon identity. It denies trans people the right to privacy, as well as the ability to use the bloody bathroom when out in public.
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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It's goodbye to the Conservative Party we used to know. A little video on what Kemi Badenoch now expects from aspiring Conservative MPs. Those who care about the climate or human rights need not apply.
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Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 14/07/2026
🚨 The Covid Inquiry has today published its report into PPE procurement, including the notorious VIP lane. VIP firms were 13x more likely to get contracts, costing 80% more, yet 3x more likely to supply unusable PPE. Minister’s must introduce reforms that ensure this never happens again.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Yes, but also in my case, it's that they are attempting to pass off existing, restricted routes as "new safe routes" while also closing remaining genuine safe routes and further undermining human rights and protections for modern slavery victims, and people are buying it. bsky.app/profile/dani...
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
You know what causes poor race relations? Racists. Racists are what cause poor race relations.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
historians are divided on whether trump was actually a real person, or the stories of a large series of petty tyrants over a period of perhaps 100 years whose stories got merged and blended together back when AI was unsophisticated and new
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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Very pleased to have been appointed as a PPS to DBT. In less than two years... A new industrial strategy defined, trade deals worth billions signed and the Employment Rights Act passed. Lots achieved, lots more to do. Looking forward to playing a part in supporting such a crucial department.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
theguardian.com
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
And another one. “These are unprecedentedly strong responses in patients whose disease has become resistant to both chemotherapy and immunotherapy.”
theguardian.com
Cancer jab can eradicate entire tumours in patients, trial shows
Jab brought ‘unprecedentedly strong responses’ in patients whose disease had become resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy
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Martin Smith @martinpompeyfan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I’ve signed this petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK. It’s very close to the 100k mark where Parliament must debate it and it closes soon. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
No there will not be an early election. A man with 400 seats will not risk half of them three years early to satisfy columnists’ belief in mandate fairies.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
“Respecting” the result of a referendum held 10 years ago, when it’s increasingly clear that it was won on the basis of a pack of lies and that Brexit is doing massive damage to Britain’s economy, status & influence in the world, is a total abdication of responsibility.
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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Once again - Starmer is busily delivering exactly the kind of policies Reform voters say they want and everyone is unhappy because those policies make everything rubbish.
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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🔥 Westminster's First Past the Post system is broken and unfair. 🌹 Today, 66 Labour MPs have signed an amendment, led by @alexsobel.co.uk, to mend it. 👇 Let’s make sure the “Representation or the People Bill” does what it says on the tin. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
More than 60 Labour MPs call for review of UK voting system
The MPs say the current first-past-the-post system for general elections is
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The opportunity in the kings speech to reset our relationship with Europe now cannot be lost - but that means ripping up the red lines on the single market, customs union and freedom of movement that will keep holding us back. www.labourmovementforeurope.uk/redlines?spl...
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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This is an excellent piece. Patrick writes with modesty and accepts that other pollsters may come to different conclusions, but from all the LE2026 data, it's very clear we've lost more Labour votes to the Greens than Reform. Must read for all of us who want to rebuild a winning Labour coalition.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read it, you're misinformed." — Denzel Washington
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Labour Movement for Europe @labour4europe.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The change this country needs is impossible if we stay trapped in a failed Brexit deal. It's time to rip up the red lines on Europe. Join our campaign today 👇
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António Costa @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu · 09/05/2026
#EuropeDay is your day. Today we celebrate our common European project and what we can achieve when we work together. United in diversity, we keep building our shared future of peace, freedom and opportunity.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Maybe Labour should finally accept that socially conservative white working class voters aren't its people anymore, stop mourning its lost heartlands, stop living in the past, and focus on what the party actually is now, and has been for some time
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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Very proud of the positive and authentic local Labour campaign we have fought in Welwyn Hatfield these last few months. Vote Labour tomorrow 🌹
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Reminder: None of the people that Reform promises to put into detention camps in Green wards will have been legally arrested or charged with a crime. Immigration detention is administered outside the criminal justice system and these people don’t see a magistrate or judge.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Guess he’ll have to do all his banking transactions via PaPal.
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