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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A political party could produce content that looks like journalism while ultimately serving a party-political operation. Key question is how clearly that line will be labelled. pressgazette.co.uk/news/reform-...

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Reform hiring journalists to build national newsroom

At least 12 jobs on offer via new Reform content operation.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what if we just get Man City to pay for the National Care Service

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Scenes like this did a lot of damage to Mosley and the BUF in the 1930s. Though that relied on Conservative papers reporting them.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth speaking tonight: "The people of Wales have today decided on the next steps in Wales’s journey... "Plaid Cymru now stands ready to take the necessary steps to form the next Government of Wales. "This is a moment one hundred years in the making."

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Huge respect for Ed Miliband's refusal to back down to pressure over North Sea oil. The fact is drilling for oil in the North Sea will do NOTHING to fix the Iran crisis. The only long term solution to this crisis, and others that will follow, is renewables. Anyone who says otherwise has an agenda

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 09/03/2026

Israeli soldiers were killed by brown people terrorism while Lebanese buildings simply disintegrate and Iranian school girls spontaneously stop being alive - similar to how Palestinian babies just instantly combust in well-documented examples written up by the NYT.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Sanchez: “We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values and interests, simply because of the fear of reprisals from some. We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional and I would also say moral strength of our country

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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

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Ben Pummell @benpummell.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Very impressive that we've managed to go from economic policy based on the whims of voters through election cycles, to the somehow even more short-termist approach of economic policy based on periodic projections from arms-length bodies. Truly it is a mystery why our economy fails to thrive.

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Ben Pummell @benpummell.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Football club owners are a perfect antidote to imposter syndrome.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 23/09/2025

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point

How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

If you were writing a political drama and wrote Stephen Miller as a character everyone would think you were being absurdly OTT.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 21/09/2025

So much of the commentary on Palestine today without much sense of the deep history. No this is unlikely to make much or any practical difference. But you can say this is a debt which has long been owed. The UK promised a Palestinian state a century ago when the British took on the mandate.…

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

A welcome - and long overdue - step. But while it’s necessary, it’s deeply insufficient - and must be accompanied by urgent action to help bring an end to the genocide in Gaza, including boycotts, sanctions and an end to all arms sales to Israel.

news.sky.com

UK officially recognises Palestine as a state

Sir Keir Starmer has announced the UK has officially recognised Palestine as a state.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

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Ben Pummell @benpummell.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This technocratic messaging simply isn't good enough for the era we're living through. Reform are gathering strength precisely because trust is at an all time low, and people *don't believe him* and *don't care* about realism. You have to challenge the ideology at source.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/09/2025

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

‘I’m not far right but I went to a rally organised by Tommy Robinson’ is a pretty unconvincing position.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

And the Labour government - *Kinnock voice* the LABOUR government - thinks that's all just a wonderful display of free speech, while they also go about arresting pensioners for wearing Palestine Action t-shirts. Because the parasite-king Morgan McSweeney decided he wants racist votes.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

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SueD @0drat.eurosky.social · 14/09/2025

I've just explained yesterday to a friend in Kyiv.. England specifically is allowing a minority of far right thugs (not even "gracing" them with the word "fascist") to get away with steering the narrative .. it isn't a debate .. it's like people sitting passively allowing a bully to shout at them.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2025

The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.

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mothcub @mothcub.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This is an argument for falling population, falling GDP, and an employment crisis.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

1. Terrific that a US politician is holding Farage to account for his free speech hypocrisy 2. Why can’t we do this in the UK?? 3. Farage lies in this clip - claiming he doesn’t ban journalists from Reform conferences. I’ve been banned from the past two.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities

From BBC news website:

I 'completely get' concern over asylum hotels - Starmer

Starmer is asked how he would feel if a hotel housing asylum seekers was at the end of his street.
"I completely get it," Starmer says, adding: "Local people by and large do not want these hotels in their towns, in their place, and nor do I. I'm completely at one with them on that."
Starmer says he understands why people want the hotels closed and he wants that too "as quickly as possible".
Asked to put a date on it, Starmer reiterates his commitment to do so by the end of this Parliament.
When it's put to him that is four years away, he says he would like to bring that date forward, but does not commit to another date.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The current Tory position on climate change amounts to ‘it’s happening, it’s serious, we have no meaningful plan to address it, and we intend to make it worse’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories would maximise North Sea oil and gas extraction, Badenoch to say

Conservative leader says it is ‘absurd’ to shift away from fossil fuels and leave ‘vital resources untapped’

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 31/08/2025

If you can’t see how attacking this could have hugely dangerous implications for every single person living in the UK irrespective of citizenship or immigration status, I do not know what to tell you.

Article 8 - Right to respect for private and family life
1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

It's actually astounding how Labour has managed to go further on anti-migrant, anti-trans etc policies in a year than the Conservatives did in 14. The way they so cavalierly talk about circumventing human rights for migrants, trans and non-binary individuals etc is beyond even the last government.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 27/08/2025

Nigel Farage and the Reform Party’s Taliban Tax means sending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money to an oppressive regime that British soldiers fought and died to defeat.

Mockup cheque from The British Taxpayer to pay The Taliban £267,000,000, signed by Nigel Farage. Headline reads "Reform's Taliban Tax". Photo of Nigel Farage laughing.

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Dire. The Labour Party is being led by a moral vacuum

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 29/08/2025

Biden's former ambassador to Israel seems to argue that it's OK to kill kids if they're the kids of Hamas fighters. No wonder the Biden administration's policy on Israel was so wretched when people like this were involved. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Again, credit to the NS for even belatedly but repeatedly telling their audience the obvious, at a time where their colleagues would rather talk about anything else

"The UK government is complicit in genocide" | Humza Yousaf interview

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

It's hard to understand what Starmer was apologising for on his 'island of strangers' comments when he's now apparently perfectly happy putting out obvious racist bait like this

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 28/08/2025

Keir Starmer's political strategy of trying to position himself as Farage with better administrative skills would be morally reprehensible even if it were working. It does not appear to be.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

If this is not deliberately racialised imagery, it is at best fantastically naive to not understand that it looks & feels like racialised dog whistling to single out this man in such a way.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

This is my opinion, and I’m not especially interested in a debate about it, but if you’re still supporting Labour, I think it’s important that you examine why, and whether your own principles can accommodate who they are telling you, daily, that they are.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

We can see the oncoming train four years away but we’re not going to get off the tracks, because that would require the country’s most important smart people to admit they were wrong and that they have disastrously fucked it

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What could be done in practice with a Reform majority in the House of Commons would have no constitutional limits, short of either refusal of Royal Assent to a Bill or the courts impugning the sovereignty of parliament.
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It would be messy and chaotic and crazy expensive but ultimately Reform can override courts if they have a majority and I don't see why, say, the Taliban wouldn't sign a returns agreement to get back people they would like to torture and kill. So yes it could work.

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