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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Q on Politics Live: Why is inheritance tax so unpopular, despite so few paying it? Answers offered: Double taxation; against aspiration; something something British psyche. Answer not offered: Media owners, pundits, politicians (i.e. everyone in that studio), and pollsters would be caught by it.
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sorry at what point do the government feel the need to do something about BBC funding, or are they just going to watch it be salami-sliced to extinction?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026
“He got rich here and then made off to Monaco to save himself money…He avoided giving back to the economy that made him a billionaire…He and anyone else who leaves here to not pay tax should be stripped of their honours.” Bravo @dalevince.com #TaxTheRich www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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Apparent exodus of super-rich suggests UK is no longer billionaires’ playground
If recent complaints are believed, London and the UK are no longer welcoming for ultra-high net worth individuals
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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Helen Whateley: Kemi (Badenoch) has published an essay called The Right Way, really thinking about what's gone wrong with the country" Krishnan Guru-Murthy: How long do you think it’s going to take for people to forget you ran the country for 14 years?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Apparently Reform are now launching their own website as a full TV station. They are recruiting right now. ... And the question for Ofcom is this: When will you finally clamp down on this client media masquerading as a news channel?" via Reform Are Not Your Friends www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The super-power of Nigel Farage ... "AbsenteeMan" meme via Stephen Fisher
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Obviously laughable. But a reminder of how these people would behave in power: Financially benefiting the journalists and pollsters who do their bidding, legally pursuing those who do not.
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Leah-Bug @leah-bug.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How does Russia take out 20% of the United States’ most senior military leadership without firing a shot? By turning to the same man who is responsible for the destruction dozens of bases in the Middle East, the depletion of our arsenal, and hiding it all from the American people, Petrov Hegseth.
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Tory Party spent 15 yrs running down public services. They hollowed out every public service to the point of collapse, they profited enormously from the Covid pandemic, they went through Prime Ministers like a game of musical chairs. They're saying they will get it right next time.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Beating up pensioners and vandalising curry houses in Gosport is not 'an expression of legitimate concern'
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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Far Left's position on Ukraine should disqualify its members for the rest of their lives.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, the White House sometimes serves as a branch Kremlin press office, which would be humiliating for anyone who had the slightest hint of patriotism or for that matter personal dignity.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is why you never pick up tear gas or flashbang grenades
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"
Misleading statement by "journalist" Andrew Pierce
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
GMB headlining with 150 migrants who arrived in Gosport overnight. In a parallel universe where the number of small boat crossings is low and falling, this would not be news, never mind headline news.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Letter printed in The Times today
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A second Brexit referendum is a truly stupid idea. Straight to rejoin. No fucking about. There’s no logical argument, economic or otherwise, for not rejoining. The British electorate has proven that they don’t have a clue and are easily duped by disinformation campaigns and foreign interference.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 04/10/2026
The "zionism is racism" motion that has just passed on the Green Party's conference floor is truly gross, and deeply racist. The party's MPs deserve some credit for opposing it, though they should've done so more stridently and sooner. This is now a millstone around the party's necks. Deservedly.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Full marks to Bobby J for not bothering to mention that this was entirely due to being given £45 million from the Labour government and told to do it. Even a Reform council couldn't fuck that up.
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Sam Vimes @samvimes6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump is so corrupt that he's trying to cement that corruptness in law. Crazy.
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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At some point you just have to ask 'why does my license fee pay for this sort of chaff?'
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Susan 🐝🐓🪴🌻🇪🇺🇺🇦 @susanf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
BBC Breakfast airing Farage again as ’most attacked politician’ and his lies about being ‘refused’ protection - all without challenge. No politician should fear for their life, but sick of BBC pushing Refuk narrative without fact checking
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Chinese Govt owned Syngenta to cease operations at Grangemouth, 400 jobs at risk. Previously oil refinery closed. England-based British Steel rescued. What would govt do now? UK govts oppose state ownership but let foreign govts own infrastructure. Why? Any industrial strategy?
independent.co.uk
Chemical firm to cease operations at Grangemouth site putting nearly 400 jobs at risk
The move comes just over a year after Syngenta, owned by state Chinese firm Sinochem, was given more than £2 million in Scottish Enterprise funding to expand its Scottish site
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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BBC News has just told the nation that it was entirely OK that Farage was given £5 million because some nutter dreamed of killing him. Beyond belief.
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🙄👊🏻🙄👊🏻🙄👊🏻🙄👊🏻🙄 Good! Greedy grifting pair of hatriots!
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This picture has surfaced of Nigel Farage pointing & laughing as the pound crashed after Britain voted to leave the EU. If you still think he’s the man of the people, who would make our country better than it’s ever been? Think again!
Picture of Nigel Farage pointing & laughing as the pound crashed after Britain voted to leave the EU.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
History is written by the victors. Thatcher broke the power of trade unions by mass unemployment, industrial restructuring, frittered away N Sea Oil, laid the foundations for the current housing crisis, decimated local bus services, hollowed out local government and introduced the poll tax.
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Andy Burnham seems to remember a different 1970s to the rest of us. Britain in 1979 was utterly broken - ravaged by unaccountable trade union power, economically stagnant, the sick man of Europe.
The 1980s saw a remarkable national recovery based on free enterprise, the rule of law and championing Western values. And it is this that our Prime Minister rails against...
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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BBC website. Me me me it’s all about me Chris Mason. Mason has deliberately turned a none issue over Burhan’s comments about Man City into a major event when no such issue existed. Mason is a snivelling little runt who should be sacked.He’s a nasty little man.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The #BBC strange idea of "balance" continues. #bbcqt continue their promotion of Reform: a party with a mere eight MPs: four of whom were elected as Tories and defected post-2024. Meanwhile the Lib Dems with 71 MPs: the third force in the UK Commons barely get a shout in.
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Samantha @msspydasam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I wonder why Farage is still so opposed to re-joining the EU, if only there was something...
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Wouf @zeseadog1966.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can but strongly recommend everyone to read this article from the (now retired) former big boss of French Marine Infantry, colonel Michel Goya. "The strength of small powers" - brilliant. michelgoya.substack.com/p/de-la-forc... If you don't know French, use deepl.com to help you.
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De la force des petites puissances (I)
Quel est le principal point commun entre la guerre entre la Russie et l’Ukraine d’une part et celle de la coalition des États-Unis et d’Israël contre l’Iran et ses organisations alliées ?
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
City, not playing the ball. Not even playing the man. Instead trying to play the man's government. These very public tactics making it almost impossible for the authorities not to punish them severely.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'In the letter, Watson detailed Lewis’s interventions on Palantir, writing: “By my count, you’ve spoken about Palantir almost 130 times since 2020; around 50 in the past year alone.” Clive Lewis MP told The Nerve: “ ... That, to me, was an implicit threat"' www.facebook.com/bheardmedia/...
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Simon Pease @simonpease.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And he’s absolutely right. Russia is waging a terrorist war against us all. Putin’s terrorist war.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why is George Osborne not widely seen as the most disastrous Chancellor the UK had in decades? One reason is the r/w media did not frame him that way. He was an economic & social vandal who damaged the fabric of UK society. For a host of reasons he should be nowhere near the British Museum.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The UK has always had a right-wing media. But they are now a hysterical, disinformation spreading cartel. Weaponised by Brexit lies, Corbyn smears, defending Boris Johnson, spreading racism & trying to delegitimise the very idea of a Labour Govt. Another rotten vested interest needing reform.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Poor Sir Simon. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 'remarkable national recovery' he refers to is a myth. The 1980s was when our national decline started. I wonder where he gets his information? 99-percent.org/back-to-the-...
A post suggesting that the 1980s saw a national recovery from the previous period -- entirely inconsistent with the facts.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/09/2026
🚨 We’re calling on Ofcom to open a formal investigation into Nigel Farage presenting GB News shows and whether his programme on 15 September 2026 was within the rules on impartiality ⚠️ Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias.
bestforbritain.org
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Quite. We don't have to invent barriers that are surmountable. The real ones are big enough. bsky.app/profile/jdpo...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the Baltic states, the UK and France are not invited to discuss the state of NATO with the USA, then the other European NATO states should refuse to attend as well. European security needs to be seen as a whole, only Putin (and Trump) wants to divide it up. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting
Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nigel Farage has deleted this post But not before it's been shared widely showing him to be either a serial liar or delusional and either way, unfit for public office
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Ger D @rardeenus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The last referendum was totally corrupted by Cambridge Analytica, Arron Banks, Russia, Steve Bannon and Farage. Avoid them at all costs- they’re unsafe. #newsnight
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There wasn't a social care crisis when local authorities provided the service free of charge. Then Thatcher privatised it and private equity bosses started charging £8000 a month.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If Reform did something like this with mosques we might think they were a bit racist. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Jewish Greens face sanctions for belonging to ‘Zionist’ synagogues
The Green Party rejected an amendment to protect Jewish members attending self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations from reports of racism
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