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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I think it's absolutely fantastic. It shows what an extraordinary country I live in and that refugees can fully integrate and participate in society
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Janh1 @janh1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Late beach stroll #SwanseaBay
Pale golden evening sunlight over the sea. Sun mostly behind a cloud.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Labour Party are now the most trusted political party on almost every major issue with voters, new polling has revealed.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Looks like there’s an mRNA vaccine against pneumonic plague. Eat your heart out, RFK Jr. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Novel Bivalent mRNA‐LNP Vaccine for Highly Effective Protection against Pneumonic Plague
The study investigates mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccines targeting Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague. Combined F1+LcrV mRNA vaccination elicited robust immune responses and protected mice....
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 05/10/2026
Convinced that mRNA vaccines are gonna go down in history like the invention of antibiotics
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everything that's wrong with our nation. Everything that's broken. Everything that's corrupted. Started with her.
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Janh1 @janh1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Heard a curlew out there... 💙 #SwanseaBay
View of low-ish tide Swansea Bay. Deserted wet beach and sun dipping below broken clouds
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyway. Andy Burnham. Promising.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026
I’m actually gonna pop this one out of the thread and tag her because @nigella.bsky.social this was really a beautiful moment! Thank you for saying it!
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026
GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... More proof that Farage and his henchmen Tice & Jenrick are spreading disinformation on an unprecedented scale. Not only that, they are doing so for truly evil purposes. IMO this amounts to Misconduct in a Public Office and all three should be prosecuted for that.
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Nandy labels Farage ‘master of conspiracy theory’ over Fairford claims
Culture secretary criticises Reform leader after he tried to link suspected bomb plot to small boat crossings
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gdawg714.bsky.social @gdawg714.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I still find it hard to process that Andy Burnham is our PM. He sort of just appeared and walked into 10 Downing St. But that conference speech was outstanding. Authentic, principled, focused, passionate and deeply moving. These are the qualities required to fight Farage's populist insurgency.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "I will not allow it to continue like this. Today I can confirm Angela Eagle will present a strengthened water bill to Parliament. The center piece of that bill will be this. The repeal of Margaret Thatcher's ideological ban on public ownership of water companies."
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing.
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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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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm sure @mrjamesob.bsky.social is looking forward to Man City vs Kidderminster as much as I am.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Burnham today v impressive. The idea itself, the scale of what is being proposed, the determination to push ahead despite how vulnerable it makes him, and the big fundamental point behind it all: that mainstream politics will only survive if it proves it can solve big problems.
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Welsh Bollocks @welshbollocks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Flashback to the time Wales accidentally put a squirrel in charge of the government. Best 6 weeks of our lives, never ate so many nuts.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yet, despite all of the [waveth handes 360 degrees], still so much beautye yn the worlde. So much art made by so manye, as strategyes for survival, consolacioun, courage, joy. And you, out ther, makinge somethinge beautiful. You are the best.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every stitch tells a story of love, community, and remembrance. Volunteers across MN created the "Stolen Neighbors Quilt" with 11,000 squares to honor Minnesotans detained by ICE. Each fabric square represents a neighbor, a family member, and a life impacted by deportation. We stand for Justice!
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Erik Ten Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Man City announce new shirt sponsor.
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Bob Patin @bobpatin.com · 24/09/2026
TV ads for online gambling sites should be permanently banned.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
👏😂👇
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
MP says Hampshire Reform leader's RNLI comments 'incomprehensible' “He’s not fit to lace the boots of a single brave RNLI volunteer." www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/2656486...
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MP says Reform councillor not 'fit to lace the boots' of RNLI volunteer
Reform UK Hampshire leader George Madgwick has been criticised by Southampton MP Darren Paffey for calling on the public to withdraw support from…
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Spencer vs Windsor From the Private Eye archive. Issue 933, September 1997.
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Unless he’s raising an army in the Spanish Netherlands and claim the throne for himself with support of France and the Habsburg powers, this should not be leading the BBC headlines for the third day in a row. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Earl Spencer tells BBC Harry and Meghan's media treatment echoes what happened to Diana
Princess Diana's brother says she was "really brought low by all that criticism" and he saw her in "tears of despair".
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But more of this sort of thing from ministers please
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Man who migrated to another country to avoid taxes says Britain's problem is migration and taxes that he doesn't pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Jim Ratcliffe: UK is ‘on the slide’ from days when it had world’s ‘greatest empire’
Co-owner of Manchester United says Britain is in decline because of high taxes and immigration
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you think closing an RNLI station is done by people with "legitimate concerns" you really need to give your head a wobble. It's an unforgivable act of thuggery.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A sadde thinge that we have to worke arounde alwayes ys that the quiet, steadye, patient labor and kyndenesse required to holde up the worlde and keepe us all goinge ys nevir a newes item. Unshowye, ordinarye, hard-won skill at the job you must do for othirs to get on. The greatest honor ys ther.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
via Ministry of Wibble
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oh dear.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyone know why a newspaper owned by the Fourth Lord Rothermere, who inherited a fortune from the Third Lord Rothermere, who inherited his money from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere, is so strongly opposed to inheritance tax?
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Janh1 @janh1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bore da ☕️ 🥐 A misty wet autumnal Sunday morning on the Welsh riviera but heading abroad to brighter skies - to Devon! 😎 Have a peaceful day folks 🕊️
Rainy view of tall pine trees overlooking Swansea Bay
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It would be more helpful for him to acknowledge and explain the role that his austerity policies played in encouraging people to vote for what he correctly critiques here.
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Martins and Swallows hawking above the Mead Hall in numbers I've not seen in many a year. Must have been a good breeding season. Anyway. Winter is coming.
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If your idea of patriotism is calling any member of the RNLI, an entirely voluntary organisation whose crews daily risk their lives to save others, a traitor, then you are beyond hope of redemption.
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Maralyn Maralyn @maralynmaralyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
we’re all agreed the bacon sandwich thing was antisemitic now, right
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ed Miliband! The country is with you, even if the right wing newspapers abd their cheerleaders are not.
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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