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Didi 🌍🇪🇺🇬🇧

@carpediem1.bsky.social
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Pro European, for peaceful and inclusive society. Against nationalism, misogyny or any other prejudice and mistreatment of people or animals. Retired teacher and lecturer, mostly called “mum” or “miss” at work.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4h
Ian Hislop, "Andy Burnham says the Russians swayed the Brexit vote.. And the head of MI5 said the Russians attempted to sway the vote" "The argument was not over whether they had tried because obviously the Russians had tried" "But we have our own bots, Bottist Johnson"
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18h
The audience member is completely right. When we talk about the damage Brexit has caused, we often focus on the economic harm and the damage to our international standing. Both are important, but we've lost so much more than that. Let's win back those opportunities by rejoining the EU. ♥️
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 3h
In Gaza, you dig a trench for a water pipe and uncover a body. You drive a tent peg into the ground and strike human bones. You clear the rubble of a home and recover another body. Gaza itself has become a graveyard. #gaza #genocide #freepalestine
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 14h
We are not a serious country. On Friday, a Metropolitan Police spokesperson said that Sarah Helm’s post on X is “in the process of being assessed to determine whether any further police investigation may be required.” Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Police assess Palestine Action post by national security adviser's wife
Downing Street says Sarah Helm, the wife of Jonathan Powell, "does not represent the government in any capacity".
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13h
A Washington Post journalist was beaten and hospitalised today by a group of Israeli invader terrorists illegally occupying the West Bank. Will the US take any action? No of course not.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4h
Musk is an enemy of Europe. There is no justification for continuing to use his products
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5h
Why is a retired banjo playing, public school nepo-baby on the BBC's flagship Newsnight commenting on the Red Wall? And why no mention that: Winston Marshall only has a political platform because his Dad is billionaire Paul Marshall... owner of GB NEWS and the Spectator.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4h
Brexit and Russia… “I think you would have to start with Boris Johnson. “The reason why there is still this confusion is there was no public attempt to establish with confidence what actually happened because successive British governments declined to look closely at what was going on.” (Times)
Russia's Brexit meddling: the evidence

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SOCIAL MEDIA
In November 2017, The Times reported that Russian Twitter (now X) accounts had posted almost 45,000 messages about Brexit in 48 hours during the referendum campaign.
More than 150,000 accounts based in Russia that had previously posted about other topics, such as Ukraine, switched their attention to Brexit in the days before the vote, according to data scientists at Swansea University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Russian activity spiked on the day of the referendum and on June 24, when the result was announced. Many of the messages appeared to have come either from fully automated “bot” accounts or from “cyborg” profiles, which have some human involvement.

Most of the posts seen by researchers encouraged people to vote for Brexit, an outcome President Putin would probably have favoured, given that it destabilised the European Union.


PUTIN’S ‘LITTLE GREY MEN’
Russian political technologists operate as a middle tier between state strategy and information warfare, turning politics into managed theatre, fake opposition movements or statedirected social engineering.

One such individual, Yevgeny Minchenko, was “on the ground” in London during the Brexit referendum and shared a photo of a London polling station with his Russian followers on the day of the vote.

A passage in one of Minchenko’s own reports said that, while researching the referendum, he was provided with material from YouGov, the BBC, IpsosMori and Lord Ashcroft Polls.



Minchenko later used his findings to inform a master’s degree course in Moscow aimed at training “specialists in information warfare” — the next generation of election engineers.


THE RUSSIA REPORT
It was only after the hack and leak operation that the British government woke up to the threat Russia could pose to the democratic process, a report concluded in 2020.
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Didi 🌍🇪🇺🇬🇧 @carpediem1.bsky.social · 2h
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 to Local Taxis 🚖 I just wonder if any of these callers have ever made the same request when ordering their favourite curry dish 🍛 ?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 4h
"A big shout-out to Local Taxis in the North East for taking a firm stand against racism. The company says it still receives calls from customers demanding not to be sent a Pakistani or foreign driver. Its response is refreshingly straightf..." www.facebook.com/TruthAgainst... via Truth Against Hate
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h
Oh, Donald . . . That's not a gym. It's a gay bathhouse. And you have *never* looked like that.
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Didi 🌍🇪🇺🇬🇧 @carpediem1.bsky.social · 16h
The Blue Oyster Bathhouse 😂
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 20h
Reform says “a handful” of bad apples slip through vetting. It’s not a handful. We’ve exposed Reform councillor after Reform councillor, and many of them are still in the party. Here are some of the worst👇 hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/16/t...
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Ten of the worst Reform councillors we've exposed – HOPE not hate
Yet another scandal has hit Reform. Earlier this week, ITV published the first findings of a year-long undercover investigation, in which several of the party’s...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 17h
Wife of top Burnham adviser backs Sally Rooney after books withdrawn over Palestine Action support Sarah Helm, a prominent author and journalist, is the wife of the British prime minister's national security adviser, Jonathan Powell www.middleeasteye.net/news/wife-br...
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Wife of top Burnham adviser backs Sally Rooney after books withdrawn over Palestine Action support
Sarah Helm, a prominent author and journalist, is the wife of the British prime minister's national security adviser, Jonathan Powell
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20h
Tax the rich? Everyone is against it until they find out how it actually works. Watch and find out how Wealth Taxes actually work.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
It turns out that man-of-the-people Nigel Farage is as racist and foul-mouthed as his most violent & far right supporters Read More: trib.al/4BHgc6S
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
"the breaking news this hour coming from the occupied West Bank.. masked Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinians harvesting olives.. footage showed settlers setting trees ablaze.." Israeli settler terrorists supported by the IDF and Israeli government.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
"Israel is operating increasingly unrestrained in southern Syria" Heidi Pett reports on how the IDF is raiding villages, setting up checks points, terrorising people & kidnapping them. The result? People are leaving their villages. Which is of course Israels objective.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
🇪🇸🇵🇸 Hundreds of thousands of people in Spain protest in support of Palestine.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Royal Family don't do real work like a Teacher or a Nurse says Lord Foulkes and they should have their pay streamlined like the European Royal families instead of getting £137.9m for ribbon cutting. Absolutely the Danish King and Queen get only £0.5m a year.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“We were arrested under the Terrorism Act for doing our jobs” The arrests of at least five journalists outside Elbit Systems’ UAV Tactical subsidiary in Leicester have been called ‘deeply concerning’ by press advocacy group Reporters Without Borders. www.leicester.news/we-were-arre...
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We were arrested under the Terrorism Act for doing our jobs
Here’s what happened when we were arrested while reporting on a protest in Leicester
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Sarah Pochin on the Reform Party leadership: "They are so chauvinistic... they just exclude you if you are a woman."
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Time to proscribe far right groups starting with Patriot Platform thugs!
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
George Monbiot explains why the UK should rejoin the EU, "There's a reason why Russia tried to intervene in the Brexit vote, they knew that it would harm the UK and the EU if we left" "They were very clear about that and boy have they been proved right"
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Putin and Trump. Enemies of peace. Enemies of Ukraine. Enemies of the west. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Trump calls Ukraine’s resumption of strikes on Russian oil refineries a ‘disgrace’
US president describes Zelenskyy as ‘more difficult ​to deal with ​than Putin’ after so-called energy ceasefire collapses
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Who amongst us hasn't been provoked into saying black people are animals and the King is a secret Muslim who should be decapitated?
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CyKoore @cykoore.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I cannot even begin to put into words how much I hate this man. Netanyahu said Palestinians displaced from Tulkarm refugee camp in the occupied West Bank would not be allowed to return, describing the camp as a “terror stronghold” and that the Israeli army would remain in control of the area.
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MrMirth @mrmirth.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So much for Israeli military efficiency and morality. They never had either. It was destruction on a mass scale, of people and infrastructure. War crime.
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Worried about Russian meddling in UK politics? Wait till you see what Israel is up to. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/worried-ab...
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Worried about Russian meddling in UK politics? Wait till you see what Israel is up to
Andy Burnham’s government is rolling out a new “Centre for Information Defence”. But the outside actors most aggressively undermining what little remains of British democracy are nowhere in its sights
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Mick Lynch wants a progressive wealth tax, which is a Green Party Policy, with the richest paying the same as everyone else on PAYE, 47%. That would bring in hundred of billions, it is time for the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A Reform UK official tells ITV News undercover report how to beat vetting, "What Farage has learnt over 30 years in politics, you've got to play the game"
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
15 outlets published 249 articles about Jason Arday, but there appears to be a partial media blackout regarding Dr Lola Salem, Michael Gove's ex-girlfriend, who has been suspended from Oxford University after being charged with possessing indecent images of children. jamradio.uk/news/2026/10...
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Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges | Jam Radio
Oxford academic Dr Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges. Her recently reported separation from Michael Gove is a separate matter.
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rhonda611.bsky.social @rhonda611.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So you can buy Mein Kampf in UK but not Sally Rooney? What a bunch of complete arseholes in Gov in UK.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Navi Pillay was chair of the UN commission of inquiry that found Israel is committing genocide Here she notes that the reports findings have not been challenged by other lawyers, academics & NGO's. In fact the only people challenging it are the genocidaires & their supporters
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
When Israel runs your country…
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"When I go to school I don't feel safe. I'm scared. I hold my phone in my hand the whole way so I [can] call my parents for help if settlers attack.. we live life in fear" A 16 year old Palestinian girl in the occupied West Bank describes living under occupation.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This was once Gaza, Israel have bulldozed everything then they will bury the rubble and hundreds of thousands of bodies under millions of tons of sands. Then build on top of it. Israel new settlements will literally be built on Genocide. It's like Hitler building on Auschwitz.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Left: Reform UK Councillor Chris Whelan making misogynistic remarks about a female Reform councillor, "If she was my daughter it would still be bath time on a Thursday" Right: Emily Thornberry is all of us when she says, "What on earth! He's passed vetting and is a councillor"
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Teletubbies Dipsy Runs Away Scared
ALT: Teletubbies Dipsy Runs Away Scared
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ranvir Singh on the undercover filming of Reform candidates thats exposed racism: "It doesn't appear to be a few rotten apples. It appears to be a swathe under the belly of the party" There's a simple reason why Reform attracts racist people. Because Reform is a racist party.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"RNLI vows to continue rescues ‘without prejudice’ after Farage backs prosecuting volunteers who help migrants" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rnli... Donate to RNLI at rnli.org/pages/ig/new...
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RNLI vows to continue rescues ‘without prejudice’ after Farage backs prosecuting volunteers who help migrants
THE Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) vowed to continue to “rescue anyone in need without prejudice or fear” today after Nigel Farage suggested that the volunteers who help asylum-seekers enter...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Adam Boulton: "she, in common with a lot of people in Ireland is taking a very strong pro Palestine & I have to say anti Israel & anti Jewish stance" Adam, can you provide evidence that Sally Rooney is taking an anti Jewish stance? Or are you, in fact, lying to smear critics of Israel?
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Didi 🌍🇪🇺🇬🇧 @carpediem1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Pro Palestine doesn’t mean anti Israel and anti Jewish! Idiot 😡 It means anti 🇮🇱 government!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The French Police are getting tired of having to enforce Macron's thuggery, here they take of their helmets and drop their shields and simply watch the protestors. The tide is turning.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
BREAKING Labour MP @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social also calls for the ban on Palestine Action to be lifted. This follows news that Irish author Sally Rooney cannot sell her chart-topping books in the UK due to her support for the group. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. wedonotcomply.org
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Bethany Williams @bethanyincbr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
In addition to the racism and violent language about the King... Reform would appear to have a misogyny problem too. The party of "protect our women" looks like it needs to start that at home and warning this is offensive stuff. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...
Whelan then discussed another female Reform
candidate in Birmingham, saying that he "would
have been sniffing that seat as soon as she got up.
If she'd have given me a hug I'd have f******
fingered her".The men then go on to discuss a female Reform
candidate from Solihull, using sexist and sexually
aggressive language.


"That's reminded me, I need to buy an orange in a
sock," said Councillor Feeney,


"If she was my daughter, it would still be bath night
on a Thursday. l'l wash you properly this time,"
added Whelan.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
There is no other group of people on this planet that would’ve been able to get away with this. So the question you have to ask is, how are they?
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Didi 🌍🇪🇺🇬🇧 @carpediem1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
How far are we from burning books 📚?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Sky reading out Huda Ammori's words "Rooney being unable to publish her work in the UK marks a new low in the escalating assault on free speech caused by the proscription of PA.. [it] exposes the chilling consequences of this authoritarian law.." Yvette Cooper must be so proud
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