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@ben63.bsky.social
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The answer to life’s problems are rarely black & white. Sometimes they are the blue & white of MCFC. Live in Stockport. Interested in the arts & museums, solutions to the climate crisis, economic inequality, longterm investment for the UK. Prison reform

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 13/10/2026
Azulejo design inspired by a garden.
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
bitflipped "Nigel Farage pledges this", "Nigel Farage pledges that". Nigel Farage couldn't reliably Pledge a fucking duster
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Could #R4Today, Labour, or perhaps somebody with a brain explore how Reform would close down the asylum system and deport tens of thousands of people to countries who would either not accept them, or accept them and submit them to repression? Naah, let's go for headlines.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Truth 💥
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Robert White @rrgw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This guy is why I don’t listen to the bbc for a sustained period anymore even r4Today which I’ve listened to for 40plus years I hit the off button when he appears !
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🌊 DudeTheyreOnToMe 24:7🌊 @dancinginthestreet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The firing squad will eventually be made up of Trump's cabinet.
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markofbattersea @markofbattersea.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#BBCPM One minute, Donald Trump is threatening India with 100% tariffs for accepting Russian oil, the next, he's accepting Russian diesel! Make it make sense! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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India faces 100% tariff threat over Russian oil after US House vote
Trump’s tariff threat puts India’s Russian oil strategy- and its access to the US market - in a new bind.
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trottillidrop.bsky.social @trottillidrop.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Something that doesn't seem to concern the BBC is that the UK openly and clandestinely interferes in the politics of other countries. #bbcpm
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#BBCPM
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Alan M @alan1874.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If it's all a hoax, Farridge, how do you explain the sudden drop-off in bot responses on twitter since Ukraine destroyed two of their data centres? #wato
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aprilblue57.bsky.social @aprilblue57.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Who's going to jump on this?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There's PLENTIFUL evidence that Russia interfered in the EU referendum. Most sensible people on both sides accept that as a fact. If Farage can counter this obvious truth then he should present his case to us all rather than grandstanding and lazily calling Burnham a "liar".
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On the outside looking in @pauline001.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/mrsb...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump’s obeisance to Putin has been established beyond even the vaguest scintilla of doubt; the possibility of another January 6-style assault on US democracy after/during the mid-terms is clearly acute and ‘we’ are still wary of calling fascism fascism. These are the moments…
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
At last! Big congrats to all including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social As MP I was proud to join a court case to try to force ministers to hold an inquiry into the impact of Russian disinformation on the Brexit vote & other recent elections - their lack of curiosity, from Boris onwards, was stunning …
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This Will Hold @thiswillhold.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🚨President Z is taking out “data centers” that run Putin’s bot farms just three weeks before the U.S. midterms. After the third strike on Yandex's data center, Russian bot activity dropped to zero. This is why Trump and Musk are calling for President Z’s removal. It has nothing to do with diesel.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Questions remain for Green Party Leader Zack Polanski” says Chris Mason but he has no questions whatsoever for Reform leader Farage, thrashed by Greens with only 1,612 votes vs 8,928 🤷‍♂️ Are voters turned off by #FaragesFishyFiveMillion by all the sleaze & corruption Nah that’s not important to BBC
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 11/10/2026
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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Virtually everyone: Oh, I played bass in The Fall for two years
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Russia has been at war with Britain for years and the EU referendum was an open goal which they exploited. That doesn't mean that "Putin made Brexit happen" but his troll farms and media operations certainly played a part Brexiters may hate to hear it but to deny it is to deny a dangerous reality.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
February 2025 #BBCPM
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Matthew 🚜 @gingabeans.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Asking people who've just been in Waterstones if they like reading isn't the objective sample you think it is, #bbcpm.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Driving “growth in every postcode” by throttling largest employer/innovator in many postcodes bsky.app/profile/robf...
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 10/10/2026
Reform to England's housing taxes is long overdue. In our recent Substack, RF Senior Economist Hannah Aldridge makes the case for fixing Council Tax ⬇️ buff.ly/ZnJYFY3
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My Council Tax is suspiciously cheap. Here's why that should bother you (and eventually me)
England's housing taxes reward people like me at the expense of almost everyone else. Fixing them might cause some pain, but that's no reason not to.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#BBCPM
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK
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Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Bit more complicated than that @ben63.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sad news. Thank you for the work you have done
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Bit more complicated than that @ben63.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is one of his favourite questions. I suppose it gives the interviewee to come back with why we do a lot and will do more. For what ever he suggests we are incapable of.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Thames Valley Police applied to an Old Bailey judge for the warrants under both section 8 and section 9 of PACE... no decision was made about whether an application could have been granted under section 9 “because the judge thought that section 8 warrants were appropriate”." #R4Today
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The UK is not locked out of EU defence projects other than by refusing to put some money into it. #BBCPM
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 08/10/2026
ascent
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Openly Gay Animals 🌈 @openlygayanimals.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
😂🥹🥹
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kevinanthony.bsky.social @kevinanthony.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#bbcpm #newsnight #r4today Tories to enable austerity and food poverty?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Perfectly put.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Paddington is polite, kind and full of integrity and loved by just about everyone he meets. Maybe she doesn't have a clue...
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Claudio @cloudyvee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer: a politician ahead of his time. He’d fit remarkably well into today’s post-truth political landscape. #wato
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#WATO
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 06/10/2026
The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES stood on a stage and said: “Let ’em take out Los Angeles. Let ’em take out San Diego.” And people CHEERED. I’m sorry, but what the actual fuck are we doing?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The prosecution case is that Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate used and threatened physical and sexual violence in order to maintain control and compliance." Where are the voices from the self appointed defenders of women and young girls who would usually be on this? www.reuters.com/world/uk/tat...
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Tate brothers used 'lover boy' model to exploit women, Britain says
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate used a "lover boy" model to lure women with the ‌promise of romantic relationships before coercing them to create online pornography, British law enfor...
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John Dalton - brain marinated in woke sauce. They/them @johndaledalton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre could produce nearly double the emissions of all flights out of Gatwick airport each year by burning 4.9m tonnes of wood annually, an analysis has shown. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... #bbcpm
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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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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "How long do you think its going to take for people to forget you ran the country for 14 years?" Helen Whateley, "Kemi has published an essay called The Right Way, really thinking about what's gone wrong with the country" 14 years of Tory austerity 🤷‍♀️
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stranger than satire www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-t...
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Katie Price and Suella Braverman chained together for Channel 4’s Celebrity Handcuffed
The reality TV star has been paired with the Reform UK MP.
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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Be honest-If 72 rich people had died in a fire then justice would have been swift and merciless www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... But that's the way things are in the UK as the system works to protect those in positions of authority #Aberfan #Hillsborough #PostOffice Justice is always 'delayed'.
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London Fire Brigade named in Met's investigation file on Grenfell
The brigade is among 20 organisations the police have compiled evidence against since 2017.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 02/10/2026
Do you realize that we are the last generation on Earth that knows what life was like before social media?
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