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115 financial violations may be massive fraud, but it also happened around my home constituency, so it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

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She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 4h

As part of the People Vs Palantir days of action, Amnesty International UK and Just Treatment brought a destroyed Palestinian ambulance to Palantir HQ in London in order to highlight the company's links to Israel’s systematic attacks on Gaza’s health system throughout its genocide in Gaza.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14h

Barghouti: "Its the moment of the death of the 2 state solution, because the intl community allowed Israel to be impunitive.. & failed to apply intl law.. did not impose sanctions on Israel.. western govts are not only allowing Israel to commit crimes, they supported the crimes"

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bedfordtwo.bsky.social @bedfordtwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ingredients-wise, does Greggs sell anything that Waitrose doesn't?

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bedfordtwo.bsky.social @bedfordtwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone know how Andy Burnham's COBRA meeting went yesterday?

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Nic Boothby @nicboothby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The police may have let 5 suspected terrorists go, but they did arrest 50 more today, so I'd say they're quids in all told...

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More than 50 Palestine Action support rally protesters arrested

More than 250 protesters sat outside Labour's party conference in Liverpool to support the banned group.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"We will continue to isolate Iran so that they re-open the Strait of Hormuz, which is so essential to tackling the cost of living crisis here at home" Do we have any idea what happened to make them close it?

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Gene Hunt 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Honestly, these people. Say "whoopsie" over Gaza but carry on arming Israel and arresting people for peaceful protest. Blame the Iran war on Iran while facilitating the bombing of schools and hospitals from British soil and acting surprised when there may be consequences to that.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I remind you that half of your political/media class frantically urged you to vote for this pig-ignorant, disastrously incompetent crook, and the other half frantically urged you not to vote for the only viable opposition, and then put two and two together about why they did that.

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It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate from the people. He has no real ideas, and no plan.

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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kind of grimly fascinating as always, coming from the former director of strategy to a Labour PM. There just isn't a future for a centre-left politics that is this hostile to pretty basic progressive values.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How do we wind up with Britain’s poisonous, very right wing press cheering on the very right wing leadership of the main left wing party, all laughing together as a minister vows to slaughter the party’s “sacred cows”, one after another, day after day.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Also worth noting: the absolute contempt for pretty much everyone in left wing politics. How do people who behave like this wind up leading a party whose representatives and members they so clearly despise and look down upon as morons and swine? Well, it is a long, crooked story.

Kind of grimly fascinating as always, coming from the former director of strategy to a Labour PM. There just isn't a future for a centre-left politics that is this hostile to pretty basic progressive values. 1/2
Which leaves us back at square one - putting up personal taxes. That is surely the point of this whole dance. There is a hunger among some that will not be sated until such a time as Labour has taken its own electoral base - working-age people, struggling to make ends meet even on good salaries, clobbered by the cost of living crisis and madcap marginal tax rates - dipped its hands in their pockets and made them pay even more for the rest of the country's continuing pleasure.
Rather than tackle the post-Covid culture, where the state is increasingly treated as a cash machine to dish out entitlements to everyone from people arriving on boats to rapidly medicalised layabouts, too many around the Labour Party instead want to take the easy route: higher taxes for the remaining people who actually create some wealth.

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Full of admiration for @zackpolanski.bsky.social after hearing about the Jewish community hustings yesterday. We need more political leaders who stick to their principles even when they know it won't make them popular. I'm proud to be a Jewish member of the Green Party this morning

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Polanski sparks anger after declaring himself ‘anti-Zionist’ at packed communal hustings - Jewish News

Green Party's Holborn and St Pancras by-election candidate is booed and heckled

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A helpful way to look at this is to ask: would e.g. Michael Gove count as a “decent centre right” politician? I think the overwhelming answer from other politicians and pundits would be Yes, Of Course. And yet Gove is a prolific source of insane far right conspiracy theories and bullshit.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Of course: Tony was always a psycho and a true believer, and he fervently believes in the transformative power of extreme violence to accomplish wondrous ends. It’s not like he bothers to pretend otherwise.

Clash Report • @clashreport
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Tony Blair on Gaza:
There is talk of free Palestine, but for Palestinians living in Gaza, they don't need a slogan; they need a solution.
To be free, Gaza must live in peace with its neighbors and with itself.
And this cannot happen if it's governed by those who use Gaza as a base for war against a neighbor it has no chance of defeating.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Liberalism in Britain not so much dead, as cremated and its ashes scattered to the winds. The only libs left were leftists, and you saw what these people did to them. It’s just tinpot, no-ideas authoritarians and crackdowns conservatives, all the way down.

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It is a bit depressing that Phillipson was questioned about the views in Piddington as if it's a given that a camp of male asylum seekers necessarily poses a greater threat to women than a collection of any type of men, despite the lack of any evidence on this. 4/6
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Ed Davey, speaking later on the BBC, is invited about three times by Laura Kuenssberg to say that asylum seekers do not pose a greater proportional threat to women than men in general. He does not.
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The furthest Davey will go is: "Of course, not every single person who comes over is the threat. The vast majority will not be. But one of the concerns about the current system is there are no security checks that are able to be made." 6/6
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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

GRMA to The Telegraph for this weekends PR campaign. 🔥💚🤍🧡

Telegraph: "Generation Kneecap's plan to break up Britian and reshape Ireland"

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I accept that it is possible that many well-meaning people collaborated in hounding the anti-racist left because they are simply easily led idiots. And I’ll point out that it makes no difference whether you are a malignant swine or a clueless oaf: the results are the same, regardless.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Jonathan was doing his “last chance to save Israel from its worst instincts” schtick back when I started reading his columns in 2002 and the only lesson he has learned in the quarter-century since is that he can just keep doing it forever, without varying in tone or content.

theguardian.com

This Israeli election could be the country’s last – this week I saw that for myself | Jonathan Freedland

Spend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*An incident that now looks spectacularly crooked and IMO rises to potentially criminal, given the people involved were given a six-figure settlement by party officials who presumably understood that it was a payoff to accomplices. Plod should be all over that one, I reckon.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A vicious little fash crank* regaling a bemused dork with far right conspiracy theories about Islamic/Bolshevik subversion and the awesomeness of public schools is what right wing politics has been for a long time. *Also editor of the country’s top far right politics magazine and a former minister

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Watch Michael Gove's full interview with Rory Stewart on immigration, Islam and Britain's biggest problem
Part Two, in which he makes a case for the future of private education and explains how Britain can achieve growth, will be released on
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youtube.com/watch?v=qmf26s...|

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And it’s not like this wasn’t obvious: here’s what I said the day after the election, and I do not have a crystal ball. I just listened to what the new government said it wanted to do and looked how its key figures had behaved.

The incoming government has been crystal clear: it is reaching out to the right - the whole of the right, including the parts that are implacably hostile - by demonstratively stomping upon the left, and that will not stop for as long as these horrible, awful people are in charge.
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Horrible, but this is 100% the lesson that both the incoming government and the commentariat are going to take from this experience, and they are all going to go down in flames chasing elderly racists as a bulwark against people who are horrified by genocide.
Crackdowns ahoy.
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A string of independent MPs winning on Gaza is a huge, flashing warning sign for the future of the country. Total, utter failures of integration.

Flying_Rodent @flying_rod... • 05/07/2024
A parliament packed with twitchy reactionaries with small majorities and a rising far right, in a country where the political weather is dictated by the world's most deliberately poisonous media outlets? Bad vibes here, very bad vibes IMO
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It's absolutely bonkers how much more marginal Britain has become.
With most results in, the average seat majority looks to be about 6,700, down from 11,200 in 2019.
We have a Labour landslide, yet at the constituency level seats are tighter than any point since 1945 #GE24 YE

I see this is still the case: some absolutely hilarious results but the vibes are nothing short of horrific, and we are looking at an incredibly grim, extremely reactionary parliament and a government instituting deeply unpopular policies while fighting to shore up its right.
Flying_Rodent @flying... • 05/07/2024
That's enough for me: hilarious to see the Tories get walloped and maybe some fun results here, but the overall vibes are deeply alarming. Hope the picture looks better in the morning, night

Flying_Rodent @flying_rod... • 05/07/2024
Sienna is getting abuse for this but it's plainly correct: lots of these MPs will be dealing with members of the public that the new
government is going to spend much of its time performatively abusing, insulting and deliberately offending, to please people who don't vote Labour.
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The size of the PLP, the shock results and success of independents, the electoral threat from right and left, the existing frustrations among some Black and Asian Labour MPs...
Party management is going to be a massive challenge for Keir Starmer

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Because it’s a pop culture story, and a whole section of the public who are not acutely attuned into news are now getting a chance to see how idiotic, disgusting and insulting it all is.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

F1 Driver Lewis Hamilton expresses support for Macklemore: “Thank you for using your voice, standing with you.”

Screenshot of Macklemore’s instagram statement about being dropped off Ed Sheeran’s tour — and Lewis Hamilton’s comment on the post that reads:
“Thank you for using your voice, standing with you.”

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh yes, can you imagine if state-aligned media in Britain spent years broadcasting terrifying war propaganda and incitement against political opposition, stirring up hatred against foreigners and domestic rivals and the government then began arresting dissidents on trumped up charges.

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To understand the threat to our real democracy, watch Putin's fake one
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As Russians vote this weekend, remember that Britain is not immune to the cynical tactics and corrosion of trust that keep him in power

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As someone who deplores non-violence in situations like this, I am happy to share this video.

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Colin Scott @legalbeagle1978.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I banned my wedding DJ from playing any Ed Sheeran music back in 2018, in advance of this inevitable moment.

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Momus Jones @boyq.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Markets closed today with the price of Ed Sheeran hovering near $110/barrel.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 15/09/2026

Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

…This now means that all of Ed Sheeran's remaining opening acts — and his touring band — have just withdrawn from the tour:

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

*Four* acts have now withdrawn from Ed Sheeran’s tour in rapid succession: FINNEAS Lukas Graham Beoga Aaron Rowe

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Certainly here, more or less anything that people on the left like and want is automatically stupid, generally discrediting and usually extreme. Maybe that’s because we’re all stupid and extreme? Anything is possible but I doubt it, looking at what appears to be sensible and moderate.

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.

But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m baffled when people try to suggest that the BBC News is left wing or ‘woke’. Can you imagine someone presenting their flagship radio news programme who so brazenly exhibits and pushes left-wing views and talking points as much as Justin Webb does with those from the right?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That was, of course, democracy in action: it does not get more organic and from the people than that. Now: how do you like these fucking apples? Too bad, these are the magic beans we bought, and we’ll just have to live with it now.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The way you win over voters to the right is to say you understand their concerns and that they’re right about everything. The way to win over voters on the left is to tell them you hold them in total contempt.

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Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's hard to read this as anything other than complaining bitterly about having to do one's job.

Given the change in London politics, Mr Lammy continued: “So for the first time in 27 years, I need an organiser, a community organiser who’s day-to-day in the constituency on doors, with those leaflets, helping me know where the issues are, street to street, neighbourhood to neighbourhood.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Labour: don’t worry. We have a plan to make sure the train these guys want to put you on is severely delayed.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh look, it turns out that successive British governments have been “feigning helplessness” over Israel’s criminality and have merely been “paying lip service” to a peaceful resolution. Exactly like we’ve been saying they were for years. And all it took to notice was the government doing something.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ed Miliband’s statement on Israel is only a first step. We need to go further: a full ban on goods, services & investment. Labour is still shamefully refusing to recognise the Gaza genocide. We must have a full arms embargo, full sanctions & an end to military collaboration.

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