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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 16h
📱 This case should "send a shudder down the spine" of any driver who uses a phone #MobilePhone #DangerousDriving 🙄 but allowed to drive again after 6 years @edi.bike @chdot.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @pactsuk.bsky.social @fphuk.bsky.social @heidialexander.bsky.social @chairrdrf.bsky.social
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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 07/10/2026
Jews from across the globe speak out about the horror that Israel is inflicting on Gaza and the West Bank and its aggression against neighbouring countries #genocide #EthnicCleansing
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beanz111.bsky.social @beanz111.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Protect and survive!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The threats to our resilience are the same as the threats to our democracy: corporate lobbyists shaping policy, with dire consequences for our ability to withstand crises. Burnham seems to want to change this. But is he aware of scale of the task? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot
The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tory £6bn inheritance tax cut plan Increase threshold from £1m per couple to £2m+home. In 2024-25, 30,400 estates paid IHT, may rise to 52,100 in 2029-30. IHT cut for the richest, paid by cutting benefits for old, sick, disabled, unemployed. How will it help economic growth, reindustrialization?
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Kemi Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homes
Tory leader says her party is "coming back", as she aims to convince voters it has changed after 2024 election defeat.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Privatisation in a nutshell: 1) Steal from us something we own. 2) Sell us back an inferior service 3) Charge us a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: royal mail, water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services…
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
via Campbell Finnie
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🔴 SCOOP: The chair of a lobbying firm paid by the UAE sits on a government council advising ministers on how Britain uses sport and culture abroad. As Man City's verdict puts Abu Dhabi in the spotlight, our latest investigation 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-u...
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Revealed: UAE lobbyist advising UK government on sport and foreign policy
FGS Global chair Roland Rudd accused of "blatant conflict of interest" for advising ministers on foreign affairs while his firm lobbies for UAE embassy
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EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com · 08/10/2026
🌤️  Good morning Edinburgh. Today’s headlines: Summerhall artists have more questions, Fringe could shift for school holidays, adventurer Mark Beaumont's 'Extreme Dreams' + Porty family on Grand Designs ⏰ Read more in Edinburgh’s ad-free local newsletter: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...
Three screen-captures from the Grand Designs TV show, showing a man walking on a road next to a new house. Text over reads: The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Thursday 8 October 2026 Summerhall artists left with questions after consultation, Fringe could shift for school holidays, adventurer Mark Beaumont shares 'Extreme Dreams' + Porty family on Grand Designs
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#R4Today
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Private equity owners of Boots sell it to another PE group from Canada for £6.74bn. Debt-laden PE has no long-term interest. Everything is a commodity. No UK tax levied on dividends paid to foreign owners, which sweetens cash extraction. PE dominates town centres, when it crashes ...
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Canada’s Weston family buys Boots for $8.9bn
Former Selfridges owners buy UK high street institution from long-term backer Stefano Pessina
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🧵 Matt Goodwin demanded to be fact-checked live on air when he claimed the UK spent "£100 million PER YEAR on family planning and condoms in Pakistan". He then 'corrected' himself to £74.3 million, saying it was based on a "major news story from October 2025" He was, of course, still wrong... 1/30
Screenshot of LBC tweet:

How much has the UK actually spent on condoms in Pakistan? 

Henry Riley is sceptical about Matt Goodwin's numbers so the reform politician calls himself to be fact-checked live on air.
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A £6bn tax cut that creates a perverse incentive for older people to *upsize* is not a good policy - www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit makes no economic sense
The Tory leader’s proposal to slash the tax would shovel £6bn of taxpayer money to the already-wealthy
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Israel demolishes properties of Palestinian who saved 30 Israelis on 7 October - www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-d…
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Israel demolishes properties of Palestinian who saved 30 Israelis on 7 October
Yousef Zyadna was praised for rescuing Israelis during the 7 October attacks. Three years later, authorities have demolished properties belonging to him and his family
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Royal Mail since privatisation in 2013 - stamp prices up 107% 💰 - failing to deliver letters, missing statutory targets 📮 - now wants to cut 2500 jobs ⁉️ Absolutely disgraceful Andy Burnham must step in and TAKE BACK OUR ROYAL MAIL www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
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Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 head office and support jobs by end of next year – as it happened
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warns energy shock, public debt and AI boom threaten global growth, as Brent crude rises above $101 a barrel and government bond yields rise
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...
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Here lies Jeffrey Archer
The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.
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Forza Bahab @forzabahab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And again, the shock is that you're not shocked...
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The King’s cut from your electricity bill bit.ly/4yx46ng he gets 12% of crown estate profits through the Sovereign Grant
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Crown Estate sea bed auctions could add £38 a year to energy bills
The business that manages the King’s land has put wind farm projects at risk with move away from capped fees for developers, a University of Oxford study warns
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EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com · 06/10/2026
🌤️  Good morning Edinburgh. Tuesday’s headlines: 'Resign already', students tell Mathieson, Alan Cumming backs ECA campaign, first look at plans to bulldoze Summerhall + Princes Street Gardens has new Friends ⏰ Read more in the ad-free local newsletter: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...
A man in a suit walks past demonstrators holding signs on a city street. Text over reads: The Edinburgh Minute - Tuesday 6 October 2026: 'Resign already', students tell Mathieson, Alan Cumming calls for ECA courses to be saved, first look at plans to bulldoze Summerhall + Princes Street Gardens has new Friends
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW 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 at the Empty City (£) emptycity.substack.com/p/the-manche...
The club is now not in a happy place legally.

Not only has it been found to be in breach of various regulations, the commission ruling uses terms like “sham”, “disguise” and “conceal” in respect of those breaches, on the basis of “strong, cogent evidence”.

But this post is not about that evidence. This post is about what the club did once it knew it faced an investigation about those matters.

It made a decision not to cooperate.

It made a decision to put forward witnesses to provide evidence on key points which was found by the commission to be dishonest.

Those were aggressive decisions the club made once it know it knew it was in regulatory and legal peril.

And it would have done so knowing the likely consequences of those decisions in the findings of the commission.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/10/2026
Andrew Griffith delivers one of the all time rhetorical stinkers. My Tory conference SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/an-h...
On reflection, it would have been better for Andrew Griffith if he’d abandoned his speech when the announcer got his name wrong. He is the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, supposedly the second most important figure in the Conservative Party. If they don’t even know what he’s called, he should take the hint.

It was an oration that party managers will describe as a cautionary tale to generations of MPs yet unborn

He didn’t, of course. Perhaps he thought that after such a slip, things could only get better. If so, it was a judgement in which he was profoundly mistaken. He was about to give one of the all-time terrible party conference speeches. It was an oration that party managers will describe as a cautionary tale to generations of MPs yet unborn. Some speeches are written terribly. Some are delivered terribly. This one was so terrible in every way that it should be sealed in lead and buried at the bottom of the ocean.
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beanz111.bsky.social @beanz111.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You read a few of them? One would have been enough.
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 06/10/2026
The aggressive approach that Man City has adopted in dealing with its legal trouble seems to be making it worse for itself, writes The Empty City
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The diabolical defending of Manchester City
Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📌 ICYMI — Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think…
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Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NHS England waiting list hits 7.33m appointments for 6.21m individuals, rises for the third time in 4 months. Privatisation by stealth. NHS capacity neglected. Thousands suffer. Private sector profiteers. www.oecd.org/en/publicati... Hospital beds per 1,000 population, Comparison 2013 and 2023.
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Mike Sivier @midwalesmike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch says Tory police cuts were necessary because there was “no money”. But debt is higher now and she says we need 10,000 more officers. #KemiBadenoch #PoliceCuts #Conservatives #Austerity #TheWhipLine thewhipline.substack.com/p/badenochs-...
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Badenoch’s police cut claim shows why she must never become prime minister
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch’s frivolous comments about why her forerunners in the Coalition government of 2010-15 cut police numbers show that she does not understand how government works ...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.”
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Israeli lecturer charged over plot to kill hundreds of Palestinians and force mass expulsions - www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-l…
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Israeli lecturer charged over plot to kill hundreds of Palestinians and force mass expulsions
Bar-Ilan University mathematics lecturer planned to recruit 72 Jewish attackers who would have been armed with firearms, axes and hammers, indictment says
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Together, wind and solar power has saved the UK from almost £6 billion of expenditure on gas since the Hormuz Crisis began, according to a recent analysis by Carbon Brief. Rooftop solar is seen as a key part of that mix bylinetimes.com/2026/10/05/c...
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Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A Centre for Net Zero study, involving a randomised trial of installing 39,000 home solar and battery systems, cut net grid imports by 77% and bills by 62% over one year. They also cut peak-time consumption from the grid by 66% and still made a significant difference during the winter
bylinetimes.com
Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🔴 Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded ‘a plan for poor housing and high bills’ by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again bylinetimes.com/2026/10/05/c...
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Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Make sure your Labour MP reads this one!
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Alanwino @alanwino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is horrifying and unconscionably cruel. Words fail me. What has the US become?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
".. the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli military has raided Birzeit university. The soldiers stormed the campus.. with a bulldozer & military vehicles. They demolished a memorial dedicated to 40 Palestinian students killed by the Israeli military"
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Never vote Reform UK" via We Demand UK
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The head of Jewish Greens has said she might quit the party, amid growing anger among some members at Zack Polanski for his inaction over the party’s policy motion equating Zionism with racism. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Head of Jewish Greens says she may leave party over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote
Vivien Lichtenstein says she believes motion is unhelpful as anger grows over Zack Polanski’s absence for vote
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exc: Abu Dhabi has held talks with at least one minister since reports of the Man City verdict first surfaced Foreign office minister Stephen Doughty is among those understood to have been called by UAE officials, along with some of the UK's most senior diplomats observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Burnham’s former deputy says Manchester City ‘will prove ...
The former deputy mayor of Manchester criticises the Premier League investigation into the football club’s finances, after it was found guilty of numerous breaches
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Return to tribalism. Counter to globalisation. Amazing new alliances.” – Peter Thiel to Jeffrey Epstein. The Dark Enlightenment is an elite-run, ideological war on democracy. It's coming for Britain's institutions. Help us map it out. #LightUpTheDark subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
James Orr. Peter Thiel. Race science. Tech authoritarianism. We've spent years tracing the networks behind Britain’s ‘Dark Enlightenment’. Help us launch an urgent new investigative project to follow the money and map how it operates. #LightUpTheDark subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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#LightUpTheDark – Byline Times
Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The environmental costs of AI is mostly in the infrastructure required to build these unwanted sinks, and here are these avaricious ghouls avoiding paying for their environmental desecration.
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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Israeli pogroms are escalating against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Settlers and the IOF have: - raided and bulldozed homes - stolen agricultural produce - abducted people, including a pregnant woman - set dozen of cars alight - stormed mosques and neighbourhoods All with U.S. impunity
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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And yet Chris Mason prospers.
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MJ @mathewheath.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's like they don't want to be in power anymore.
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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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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Investigate Reform's foreign funding now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
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Sign the petition to hold politicians to account
Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.
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beanz111.bsky.social @beanz111.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🚨 An undercover investigation shown on Channel 4 exposed Reform figures allegedly breaking the law over foreign funding. Now demand a full criminal investigation. Sign the petition. 🔥 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
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Sign the petition to hold politicians to account
Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.
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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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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A reminder of just how low Farage will go for lots of lovely dosh ... via Anti-Reform Hub
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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 03/10/2026
The plane was seconds from hitting the ground so I fought impossible g-forces, broke into the cabin, tackled an armed man, tied him up with headphones, and remembered what I'd learned from Air Craft Investigation to fly the plane. If you don't believe this, you're an antisemite.
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