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Rebecca Taylor

@beccaet.bsky.social
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Liberal internationalist 🇪🇺 feminist, antiracist & LGBTQ+ ally. Yorkshire/London. Ex LibDem MEP. LD Friends of Cycling/Primary Care WG. Works in health policy. ❤️s running, cooking, cycling & yoga. Mum of 1. Dual 🇬🇧/🇩🇪 citizen (personal account)

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godofindifference.bsky.social @godofindifference.bsky.social · 14h
“UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children Planned rule change forms part of — Burnham’s bid to crack down on the ‘little charges that add up’”
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UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children
Planned rule change forms part of Burnham’s bid to crack down on the ‘little charges that add up’
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Sam 🇺🇦 @wardlfc.bsky.social · 14h
This is why you don't let countries own sport teams. UAE officials have warned the UK government that the severity of Man City’s punishment could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain, according to people familiar with the matter. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Man City Verdict Puts UK-UAE Diplomatic Relations Under Strain
A historic legal ruling against Manchester City Football Club has placed diplomatic ties between the UK and the United Arab Emirates under significant strain, with billions of pounds in projected fore...
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 15h
Sunak in 2021/2 wanted National Insurance rate to be 5 points higher than Sunak left it in 2024
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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 14h
Shhhhh 😉 Right now #LibDems are on track to retain all seats gained from #Tories in 2024 & possibly gain some more because #Badenoch has decided to actively repel LibDem -> Tory switchers.
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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 14h
Quel courage!
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 15h
At least 21 members of my extended family were arrested and sent from Lithuania to camps or exile colonies in this 1951 act of repression by the Soviet occupiers.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Braverman clearly thinks need an English-born grandparent to be English, citing Japan as a norm. So she has slightly softened her view, which was "“How many generations must pass before one can claim to be English? Five? Six? It is a question without an easy answer” (Feb 2025) x.com/EddieBurfi/s...
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Eddie Burfi (@EddieBurfi) on X
Suella Braverman, trying to flog her book, says she’s not English (implying nor are any brown/black people). She’s then asked SIX times to clarify what makes someone ‘English’ & she can’t answer. Sh...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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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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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The number of people arguing City should keep titles they cheated* their way to is frankly mindboggling *subject to appeal etc etc etc
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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 01/10/2026
‘For the birds’: Lib Dem MP tells Ed Davey to ‘think again’ on triple lock defence @tomgordonld.bsky.social says the argument that it helps millennials is “at best for the birds, and at worst downright insulting” Full quotes 👇 www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/for-...
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‘For the birds’: Lib Dem MP tells Ed Davey to ‘think again’ on triple lock defence - Politics.co.uk
A Liberal Democrat MP has criticised Ed Davey over the party’s position on the pension triple lock, saying the argument that it should be kept to help millennials is “at best for the birds, and at worst downright insulting”. In a post on X, Tom Gordon said he had listened to Davey on BBC Radio […]
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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am not sure if the USA can ever recover from the ongoing self destruction. What will rise from the rubble might be better or far worse. It’s up to the USA nation to decide and the rest of the world to choose if they can be trusted again. All I know it’s going to be a long road.
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Liz Jarvis MP @lizjarvis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Many years ago I interviewed a woman who had witnessed the execution of the man who had killed her son and daughter in an armed robbery. She said it gave her no comfort at all, and spent the rest of her life campaigning against the death penalty.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Captain Smit Machchhar, who was stabbed while fighting off his co-pilot during a mid-air brawl on a Flydubai flight, was hailed as a hero by the leaders of India and Israel, who said his actions averted a disaster. ft.trib.al/fBgKwMS
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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 01/10/2026
Teachers in Saskatchewan are struggling to choose between protecting children and following the law. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
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Saskatchewan's pronoun policy is driving teachers out of the profession | Xtra Magazine
Teachers in the province are struggling to choose between protecting children and following the law
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The “Cornell 7” framing rubs me the same way described in this thread. We usually use that language for people falsely accused of crimes. Personally, I’ll be going back to “the Cornell gang rapists.”
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today's GB News TV advertisers include *SimplicityCremations *ChrisWardLondon *AllClearTravel *WeFixLondon *Boxt *CandlelightUK *YourUnbelievaBowl *AcornStairlifts *NakedMarshmallow *TrailFinders *SolomonGlobal *MansfieldFireplaceAndStoveCentre *EveysPreloved *WhatStores *WinSmart
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If the pilot hadn't risked his life to subdue the co-pilot. If the passengers hadn't been able to breach and take control of the cockpit. If there hadn't been a *second pilot team* on the plane. If the damage to the plane's tail was more substantial. This is Miracle on the Hudson levels of luck.
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm not sure it has sunk in for people just how close we came to a hundred-plus Israelis crashing into the Jordanian desert in a giant fireball. Which, aside from being horrible in itself, would most likely have meant a very bad time for a lot of other people in the Middle East.
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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interesting as triple lock isn't actually being scrapped, but revised to a double lock. Would more be in favour if they understood this nuance?
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ϕ @phi.zzstoatzz.io · 30/09/2026
Eight papers said Burnham "scrapped" the triple lock. The policy is an "adjusted" one: inflation or 2.5% from April 2030, plus earnings catch-up in some years.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Even Farage has failed to tweet about Burnham's Brexit angle. Only about the triple lock – tweeted twice.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Remarkable that the Telegraph is not screaming this morning about Burnham's pledge of a closer/rejoining EU relationship because Brexit has failed.
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gallagher claims people in high places told him the only punishment City faces is fine & transfer ban. Not even a points deduction. Too much champagne supernova? Liam Gallagher leaks Man City punishment after secret talks with 'someone in very high position' share.google/YDleWYHyt8a1...
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Liam Gallagher leaks Man City punishment after secret talks
Oasis star leaves fans bemused with his ‘scoop’
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the weirdest aspect of the RAF Fairford incident.
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 29/09/2026
This is relevant, too: men don’t see women being treated this way because men don’t behave like that to women who are accompanied by another man.
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DanTechnik @dantechnik.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Free social care at the point of need would be transformative. To those claiming Labour is targeting pensioners, please speak to someone currently navigating the current system with their loved ones. This is genuine cradle to grave care, let’s grab it with both hands.
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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Should bloody think so. Shameful state of affairs.
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elligh.bsky.social @elligh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Although we’re living longer, the data on healthy life expectancy in the UK isn’t good. Andy Burnham must reverse this trend to protect the NHS and social care www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britons are not ageing healthily – we need to learn from countries that have made it a priority | Devi Sridhar
Although we’re living longer, the data on healthy life expectancy in the UK isn’t good. Andy Burnham must reverse this trend to protect the NHS and social care, says public health academic Prof Devi S...
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Northern Monkey @northernmonkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the Special Relationship that (corrupt, lying) Wes Streeting was gushing about a day or so ago. If Burnham just sits back and let's this go unanswered, hes just proving what a pathetic puppet he is.
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My new article, co-authored with @sandraduffy.bsky.social is out today, please read & share: "Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic - Cal Horton, Sandra Duffy, 2026
Trans children in the UK are the targets of an escalating moral panic, centred around access to affirmative adolescent healthcare. Combining moral panic theory ...
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.
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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This Guardian article is headlined 'Fairford bomb plot', no quote marks. But the penultimate paragraph says "After the suspects’ release it emerged that no explosive material had been found.". Someone have a word with the subs?
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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford bomb plot
The US secretary of state offered no evidence for his claims, and also said many people were ‘disturbed’ that the five suspects had been released on bail
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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not today's most surprising news story.
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Scottish Lib Dem leader will not investigate claims an MP was 'ousted' in ageism row
It would not be appropriate for Scottish Liberal Democrat leader to investigate claims of an ageism row involving a senior MP, the party has said.
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mickft.bsky.social @mickft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Orange Book is often misquoted on BlueSky as an economic Liberal trope. Actually, its authors included several Social Liberal writers. It did not present a single view, nor indeed a single philosophy. Those using it to trash LibDems ought perhaps to read it, not rely on the views of others.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The madness of #women's clothes: I ordered a long sleeved fitted t-shirt from a well known retailer in a clothes size I've bought in past. It is simultaneously too big (around shoulders & decolleté) and too small (slightly too tight) at waist 😮. I can't get simply get another size! 😡 #DesignFail
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"I have felt the same shiver of revulsion and fear at the sight of racists, masked up and dressed all in black" at the end of the speech today
I know, personally, that this doesn’t always feel true today. I know the fear that some communities have felt in recent times. The sense that the forces of division in our country are growing stronger, while the unifying voices grow weaker.

I have felt the same shiver of revulsion and fear at the sight of racists, masked up and dressed all in black. Whose actions are designed to threaten communities like mine.

I know that other communities have felt the same fear. Like British Jews, facing the rising tide of antisemitism. And targeted by the hostile acts of foreign powers who plot violence against our fellow countrymen and women.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia — the oldest natural history museum in the U.S. — has closed its doors after nearly 200 years 6abc.com/post/philade...
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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every year I am a little disappointed my sons don't know all the words to Christmas carols the way I do from being force fed them every year at school. So I am in favour of this provided it is In the Bleak Midwinter in July.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I just read a third or possibly fourth news article where the reality of an 'AI has discovered something marvellous!' story turns out to be GenAI somehow accessed material it had no permissions for, which was the outcome of an expert's years of work, and presented it without attribution. GenAI lies.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I thought I was right in thinking that this was a load of old cobblers - but there's nothing like having @danneidle.bsky.social confirming it is!
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The bombing and gunfire must stop now. Civilians must be protected, aid and medical supplies must be allowed in without obstruction, and rescue teams must be given the equipment and access to recover those buried beneath the rubble. We need a real, immediate and permanent ceasefire, now.
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The magnitude of the destruction is almost impossible to comprehend. No appropriate words to describe this footage.
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
TransActual is working with Dr Kat Gupta, a researcher in Politics, to examine how trans people and our supporters responded to this consultation. Please visit transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/09... for more information.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The ‘harm’ from immigration is illusionary. The harm from too little immigration is all too real.
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Stéphanie Taberner 🔶 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 @singlesfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Brexit is a calamity. #ApplyToJoinEU
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In fact, as my/ @migobs.bsky.social research shows, those migrants who came in the peak (2021-23 period) seem to have relatively high earnings progression and employment rates.. migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...
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Upward mobility? Earnings trajectories for recent immigrants - Migration Observatory
This analysis uses new data from HMRC to show how the size and earnings of the migrant employee workforce has changed over time in recent years.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 28/09/2026
"International students have little impact on GDP" is certainly a take.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is *not* the result of "the success of Mahmood's reforms", but of earlier measures/other factors. Her proposals could make it considerably *worse* in future years. A few other points linked below.. archive.ph/0psJ8
Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told. 

Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration significantly undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). 

The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana Mahmood’s reforms, which have seen net migration cut to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn. 

Labour sources familiar with the budget process, however, said that the figure was now closer to £6.5bn. The OBR’s migration forecasts have been consistently higher than real numbers in recent years.

Treasury officials, who have long expected Mahmood’s reforms to cause a hit to headroom, described the number as “pure speculation” but did not deny that Healey would have to contend with a larger funding gap than expected because of falling migration
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