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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 14h
President Zelenskyy: "Since yesterday evening and up until now, Russia has attacked Ukraine with more than a hundred different weapons, including jet-powered drones, loitering munitions,&ballistic missiles. A significant number of these weapons were shot down. But unfortunately, not all of them⤵️
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h
The most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
People are under the rubble here. This is an ordinary apartment building in Kharkiv. Russia collapsed it onto People within tonight.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Pollsters Redfield and Wilton, which have consistently produced some of the highest figures for Reform of any firm, employed a senior aide to Farage to oversee their political polling, without disclosing his role. A second Farage aide was also used to place exclusive polling by R+W in the press
theguardian.com
Nigel Farage adviser had unpublicised role at polling firm
Exclusive: Chris Bruni-Lowe used Redfield & Wilton Strategies role to develop potential campaign tactics, sources say
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 11/10/2026
Israel has banned UK Channel 4’s journalist Secunder Kermani from entering Israel to report ahead of elections later this month:

Secunder Kermani
@SecKermani
Wtf! 

Just arrived in Tel Aviv for coverage ahead of the Israeli elections 

Only to be told the Israeli authorities are denying me entry to the country! 

Have reported widely on Israel / Palestine for the past 4 years for 
@Channel4News
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just a reminder: 163 articles were published on Jason Arday in the week after he resigned. Same outlets: 13 articles on Cambridge academic James Orr after allegations of misconduct & a broadcast showing him seemingly engaging in illegal activity. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
bylinetimes.com
The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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"Seamus O'Reilly" 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇦🇺🇬🇱 @jimbobuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In the observer; Andy Burnham has said "UK authorities are “clear” that there was Russian interference in the Brexit vote: this is the first time a prime minister has confirmed Kremlin involvement in the 2016 referendum." Finally.... What we all knew...
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 10/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: An 11-year-old boy was killed and five others were injured following Russian drone and artillery strikes in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/10/2026
Zelenskyy: While our teams are meeting in Florida, US President is having conversation with Kremlin leader responsible for this war. I believe they are simply using our team as a cover...clearly not acting in good faith as a partner. And this, in my view, is a weak decision from strong partners.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All authoritarian cults resemble one another. All democracies are democratic in their own particular way.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 09/10/2026
New powerful message from @barackobama.bsky.social ahead of the midterms: “Get involved and help Democrats win one of the most consequential elections in our country’s history. Because the most powerful office in this country has always been ‘citizen.’”
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted this video of what the Russians have done to Ukrainian civilians in Kramatorsk today. Too many people in the West have gone soft in the head over Russia's war of aggression and are ignoring it. Wake the f'ck up!
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Reform UK Councillor in Leicestershire County Council has called for the RNLI to be prosecuted for carrying out their duty first laid out in 1824. Joseph Boam was ditched as Deputy Leader of the Council by Dan Harrison, and it’s clear why. Now it’s time he’s ditched as a councillor.
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
❗️19 people were killed, including five small children. A Kh-101 missile hit a house directly in Pryluky, Zelenskyy said. “This is the kind of ‘gift’ Putin gave himself for his birthday. The murder of children, the murder of people.”​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you close the loophole that lets people like me avoid tax, I will make good on my threat to avoid tax by moving to Monaco, which I actually did 40 years ago, to avoid tax. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
theguardian.com
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Badenoch speech: The Tory leader is having an argument with herself and she's losing inews.co.uk/opinion/bade...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
With our money. Playing in our faces. 🤷🏼 ✈️
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To the surprise of absolutely no one, but to their courage, victims of far-right figures arguing they are “protecting women and girls” from unknown and unseen particular threat from migrants are coming forward to tell their story of sexual and domestic abuse
theguardian.com
‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Farage is hugely concerned that the Treasury isn’t getting taxes he claims are lost because tax dodging super rich are leaving UK Farage & Tice are passionate about tax going to HMRC Fun fact — both of them used off shore tax schemes to avoid huge sums of tax, they don’t see why they should pay it
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Politico: "CCHQ is working to a strategy aimed at appealing to the center, then hoovering up right-wing support to kill off Reform...The plan centers first on winning back middle class Lib Dem & Labour voters" They're starting that by...pledging to abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just the dumbest collection of halfwit confetti emerging out of that conference. Tax cuts everywhere, paid for with imaginary spending cuts. Huge spending projects with precisely zero utility, except to anchor their 'defence day' narrative. Clowns.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today I think I might finally unlock economic growth by doing the same things that haven't worked for 18 years.
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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s brilliant the PM has recognised the issues Lib Dems have campaigned on for so long are central to fixing our country & growing our economy. As a result of his speech, social care, closer ties with EU and PR are now firmly in the political mainstream, which is exactly where we want them to be.
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tories new policy to abolish the Future Homes Standard, which supports the installation of solar panels on new homes in England, will lock millions of people into reliance on fossil fuels for their energy needs, resulting in higher energy bills & a big set back for Net Zero/Climate Change.
bylinetimes.com
Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#Spain is investing in 14 renewable-powered #desalination plants to help tackle growing water shortages in coastal regions, a €600 million effort with the potential to serve up to 4 million people. Plants force #seawater through membranes that remove dissolved salts www.irena.org/-/media/File...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Suella Braverman too proud for benefits... Went to university for free Studied in Europe using the heavily subsidised Erasmus program Claimed ALL her rent, energy, council tax bills for at least 5 years Millions of pounds in expenses claims She just doesn't call them benefits
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The war on children's safety" continues at Tory conference
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Labour was polling a little over 30% when these articles were written. It is genuinely strange that the Conservative Party is not being subjected to the same obituaries by op-ed given its frequent sub-20% polling.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"BBC criticised for not having Green representative on QT panel ahead of by-election" www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bbc...
thelondoneconomic.com
BBC criticised for not having Green representative on Question Time ahead of by-election
The BBC has been criticised for not having a Green Party representative on the Question Time panel ahead of a by-election next week.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
bylinetimes.com
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 29/09/2026
A video falsely claiming to show a long queue of Muslim women waiting to sign up for free childcare has been liked thousands of times on social media. But the clip actually shows the women waiting in line for a modest clothing sale in Amsterdam.
fullfact.org
Video shows Muslim women queuing for a clothing sale, not free childcare – Full Fact
The video has been widely shared on social media alongside the false claim that it shows women in headscarves lining up to enroll their children into free public daycare.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If @andyburnham.bsky.social or @shabanamahmood.bsky.social or @wesstreeting.bsky.social were looking for threats to British national security, those like Farage and Musk who constantly try to provoke ethnic civil strife in this wonderful tolerant country should come high up on their list
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Most civil servants work in Justice, Home Office, DWP, HMRC & Defence. Cut 224,000 jobs and you cut: prisons, borders, benefits, pensions, tax collection, the armed forces. Then the specialists who keep rivers clean, stop cyber attacks and contain animal disease ..." via Reform Are Not Your Friends
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Security services are still trying to gather information on a potential huge terrorist incident. This is a critical time for them. Nigel Farage is publicly criticising them for not releasing information. He knows the law, he knows they cannot. He is palpably unfit for public office.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 28/09/2026
🚨 UPD: A woman was killed and at least three others were injured after Russian forces struck the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in central Kyiv.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Helen Whatley MP spends every day bashing disabled people online and calling them scroungers. She has claimed for almost £2,000,000 on expenses since 2015. £300,000 of this are for her own travel and accommodation etc, yet she lives 50 miles from London. " via Harry Eccles
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Someone from Reform & their shrill harridan who live as tax free exiles in Dubai have been entertained by the wife of a former minister of state of a country hostile to the UK and he failed to declare it to Parliament he's elected to sit in? You couldn’t make this up" via We loathe Reform UK Ltd
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Farage wastes no time making an attempted Terrorist attack on UK soil about him and his toxic narrative Demanding identities of the suspects to be released hours into an investigation is moronic He’s “just asking the questions” like he did with Stockport & look where that lead with #FarageRiots
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 27/09/2026
I really hope the PM is serious about fixing care, and he can show it by getting on with the cross-party talks we started in July. This can’t just be a series of No10 headlines with no real action. I’ll do everything I can to put family carers at the heart of any solution.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a 29-year-old journalist, Mariya Yizhvenko, she was killed in a Russian strike on a business center in Kyiv yesterday 💔🕯 ​Her death was shared by her husband, combat medic Danylo Yivzhenko, and her former colleague Oleksandra Nekrashchuk. ​
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵
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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sorry Andy. Lifting the ban on drinking in the stands would soon be regretted. And let’s be fair, you’ve got more important things to be speaking out on. Balaclava wearing thugs for a start.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You have to get a very long way through this BBC report before you learn which party runs the council which took the decision to close all these nurseries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
South Tyneside Council nursery closures decision 'devastating'
Councillors confirm that all 10 Stanley's nurseries in South Tyneside will close by July 2027.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, "The Bank of England was set up by Tony Blair" My view: The Bank of England was founded in 1694, during the reign of William III and Mary II.
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Time to call this out. There is a tendency to talk utter gibberish about recent events. To compare two different events and draw unsubstantiated conclusions. To suggest people are doing “nothing”. A short thread.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We live in a world where the person committing Genocide has center stage at the UN and a 50 vehicle convoy for protection. While the victim of Genocide was banned from even attending. We are in a far worse state now than we were 80 years ago.
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