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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In the spirit of consistency, I do hope Badenoch will be constantly asked "Where's the money coming from?"

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Well, on the bright side, at least he'll have AI to visit him in the nursing home one day

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 7h

A rather sad announcement from @anandmenon.bsky.social on the future of UK in a Changing Europe. ukandeu.ac.uk/announcement...

UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE) was founded 12 years ago. We hired our first member of staff on the day of the 2015 election, the outcome of which guaranteed that there would be a referendum on EU membership. The subsequent period has been tumultuous, yet, throughout it all, we have done our utmost to be a source of impartial, research-based analysis.
We were initially supported by the Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC), who generously funded the organisation for over a decade. Their foresight in recognising the need to bring social science to the attention of external audiences in this area was impressive.
Our ESRC funding ended in April 2025. Since that time, we have kept going courtesy of the generosity of King’s College London and donations from numerous other sources including the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Amazon Web Services and the Spanish Government. I’d like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all those who have contributed to the organisation’s longevity.
Sadly, it is now time to bring down the curtain on this act. UKICE will cease to operate at the end of this year. This is – for us at least – a sad occasion. However, we will soon be able to inform you of the exciting ways in which our work – blogs, reports, lunchtime seminars and more – will continue. The website, containing its rich treasure trove of blogs, reports, videos and the Brexit Witness Archive will, of course, remain accessible thanks to the generosity of the Policy Institute at King’s College London.
I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished over the last decade and of the way we have assessed the Brexit process, the development of the United Kingdom since 2016 and the evolution of UK-EU relations. UKICE has attempted to bridge the gap between social scientists and what some people call the ‘real world’. We have shown a new way of doing social science – engaging, accessible and impartial. While it would be too much to claim to have shaped the debate, I g…

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"It isn’t point scoring that has delayed care reform, but disagreements on how to find the money and what to spend it on... What’s been missing is a leader willing to lead." I look at 20 years of failed adult care reform - and what Labour's proposals could miss By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social

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Death tax, dementia tax, no tax at all: Why England hasn’t fixed social care

Fifteen years after Dilnot called adult care "not fit for purpose", reform still hasn't come. As Andy Burnham and Louise Casey try again, Chaminda Jayanetti traces three decades of false starts.

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 11h

Nice little nugget of horror buried in there

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 4h

Looks like SOMEONE may have put a SLAPP on GLP regarding the suggested action to write to @london.gov.uk about his horrific proposal to put Harry Potter advertising in the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus. You can still use this link to complain however. He should not be doing this and knows it.

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Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia

Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 3h

can’t believe that the mayor of new york didn’t put a stop to something happening thousands of miles away.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 3h

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 3h

Yet when I call the maritime court where they are convicting me for avoiding a so-called "council tax" a rogue court, I (a sovereign citizen) still have to pay my so-called "council tax"!

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 3h

If anyone can use a ticket for Alistair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social in Southport tonight, my friend has a spare. £22 face value, but she'll gladly take £10 or £15. Or whatever you can afford.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 7h

2030. Reform Minister for Racism Robert Jenrick breaks into your house at lunchtime and snatches the Jamaican beef patty from your hands as it doesn’t meet his culturally British standards

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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social · 8h

This defines needs according to the bother it gives other people, rather than the distress the person experiences, and is a sure fire way to guarantee you won't even get to respond to people until they are in crisis. I an't begin to express how disastrously stupid that has been in my experience.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 8h

An absolute horrific thing for him to say and for us to contemplate.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23h

It's somehow utterly fitting of the right-wing populist program of "National Conservatism" that it has now culminated in Israel inviting antisemitic far-right activists to Jerusalem to proclaim that Holocaust guilt is over.

Tweet from National Conservatism: "Americans, on the right especially, are exhausted by efforts to use the Holocaust as a moral obligation to support Israel.

They are unmoved by accusations of anti-Semitism and any hardline approaches to disavow and shame Israel's critics.

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at NatCon Jerusalem."

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h

I spoke about hate crime figures with Henry Bonsu on @timesradio for broadcast later 146,825 hate crimes recorded - Over 100k racially motivated hate crimes +9% - Religiously motivated hate crimes up to 11,419 (+13%) Over 5k against Muslims, over 3k against Jews www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Hate crime figures rise after more offences motivated by religion and race, figures show

Figures supplied by police forces suggest nearly 150,000 hate crimes were recorded between April 2025 and March 2026

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There is a rather wider minority for abolishing the Monarchy (about 1 in 5 to 1 in 4) than for the controversy of whether only white people can be English (1 in 10). It is weird the media classes are so rarely across how niche this 'controversy' is - about 1/4 Reform voters, but few others

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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This being an item on Radio 4 is such a perfect encapsulation of political and media class brain worms: -it’s deeply racist; -it’s nasty and mean spirited; -it’s a totally manufactured “controversy” being kept alive by people in the Westminster bubble; -and as a topic, it’s so fucking BORING!

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

People will say "why do you only talk about Israel when there's other countries doing massive violence?" And so with that in mind I'll just note that the UAE, which is backing a genocide in Sudan, as well as being a slave state, is being treated with delicate kid gloves by the government.

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

more about far right violence that really should be national news www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Salford mayor calls for city to unite

'The spirit of Salford is what unites us'

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It took three years for these thugs to release the body cam footage. Now we know why. bsky.app/profile/al.c...

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When the Tories talk about “cutting red tape” it means repealing regulations that were put in place because someone died so corporations can profit. They weren’t put there just because someone fancied a bit of bureaucracy

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"... the modern use of the term “antisemitism” to refer exclusively to hostility against Jews distorts its original meaning and erases the Semitic identity of Arabs and Palestinians." This gem is from an early draft resolution of "Zionism is Racism" Green party resolution

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

21 years of Sensible, Moderate government lads. This is the common sense stuff, shunning extremist, magical unicorn nonsense. The triumph of the Grown Ups, whom are back In Charge.

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EXC - Bleak new forecasts from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation suggest soaring energy and housing costs mean Labour could be set to preside over the worst parliament for living standards in modern history

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As I was saying yesterday there is an obvious switch in approach and it's a welcome one. Let's see if it sticks with Katie Lam, Nick Timothy etc... on the front bench.

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I killed Diana, lol sike

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(1) Dave Rich on the (very real) problem of antisemitism in the Guardian also says the (wrongful) demand British jews distance themselves from Israel is a "Unique Demand" - but British Muslims throughout the War On Terror faced the "You must distance yourselves from Taliban/Al Qaeda".....

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Greens are seriously injured over an absurd, unnecessary, over-broad, political hand grenade of a motion going off, and now every right-wing group is shooting point-blank at the corpse. Great job!

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Labour party has been a driving force behind the solidification of islamophobia into the social and institutional "common sense" of this country, and yet I don't see calls to boycott and condemn and report them to the cops over it.

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I want to talk about this story and removing levies from bills. As always I'm going to explain it all in layman's terms so people who are not energy nerds can understand what these debates about how to lower their energy bills actually mean www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...

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Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills

Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

October 7. Three years since terrorists killed 1200 people, mostly civilians, and took 250 more hostage. They stormed a music festival, turning a celebration of love and connection into a nightmare. I wrote about Nova - what happened, and how to remember it www.newstatesman.com/culture/2026...

newstatesman.com

How should we remember 7 October?

A secretive London exhibition recreates the horror that occurred at the Nova festival in 2023

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Something that sounds made up but is true is that the first money I ever got for my writing was from Jeffrey Archer, & when I met him just over ten years later he asked for it back.

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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Spot on this. Just whisper "Suarez" and, all these years later, people who barely have a grasp of their own language will start earnestly arguing the nuances of calling a black man "mate" in various South American languages and dialects. We have caseys for heads where football is concerned!

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The thing is, this isn't some gotcha memory test about "what precise amount of money will this cost/raise" of the type beloved by interviewers in election campaigns. It's the most basic question imaginable - "how will this thing work?" She has no idea.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.

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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The photo choice is exactly what I have been talking about

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Us: Patriotic Alternative are harassing South Asian people on the street and threatening the RNLI have you thought about doing something? Shabana Mahmood: we have reduced small boat crossings and are maintaining robust borders

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Wayne Myers @conniptions.org · 05/10/2026

If the main thing you want to do right now is to read a long, rambling, angry response by a non-Zionist Jewish now ex-Green Party Of England And Wales member to the not-so-hilarious antics of yesterday, then have I got the post for you: wayne.conniptions.org/2026/10/05/w... (It may not be, tbf)

wayne.conniptions.org

Why I Am No Longer A Green

I joined the Green Party of England and Wales in 2014.

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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Starmer's failure to refresh governance, human rights and equality, end austerity, and failure to regulate the media surrendered ground to the far right. A good clearout and jail or the Hague would have been an end point for some bad actors. There is no reason why this cannot remain the goal.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social and every MP who joined to speak to constituents at the mass lobby 💪 There is now a huge gap in trans people’s legal protections, and together we will keep fighting for better 🏳️‍⚧️

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you still believe “the antisemitism crisis in Labour wasn’t real” pls look at what’s happened to the Greens, and what happens when these people do when given a free rein

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 04/10/2026

Sometimes I head over to X to find an old tweet of mine or something like that and it’s shocking how evil it is now. The most inhuman putrid malevolent posts are all at the top of the feed. Literal Hell on Earth.

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Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gary Younge on Zionism and antisemitism

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Z2K (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust) @z2ktrust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Disabled people are FIVE times more likely to get the correct benefits award at appeal stage, than from the DWP's mandatory reconsideration. Our new research shows that mandatory reconsideration is a barrier to justice. We are calling for it to be replaced completely.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You know what Ipswich. Big respect for this 🚜

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The GPEW's 'Zionism is Racism' motion is rightly being condemned as antisemitic across the political spectrum. Separately, I wish that the transphobia in our political parties attracted a fraction of that condemnation, but alas it does not.

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