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keven-pittsinger.bsky.social @keven-pittsinger.bsky.social · 5h

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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 11h

If your definition of Englishness excludes a man like him, it is your definition that needs challenging.

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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 11h

Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull. Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17h

A rich text. Robert Jenrick, who this time last year Kemi was defending and wanted to run the justice system, depicted frequently as an unperson. The multiracial crowd celebrating Kemi, the monoracial one on the boats (are Albanians, Iranians, Iraqis and Syrians black now?)

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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 14h

Could we stop negging any slightly optimistic move by UKG?

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 16h

South-west London, c. 1977. There are, in my primary-school class, at least 1 Irish lad, several Pakistanis (1 of whose older sister, at a birthday party, was a vision of loveliness that echoes 50 yrs later), several West Indians, as we said then, & a lad from Spanish Morocco, my best mate Oscar.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 17h

Since Suella Braverman is trying to exclude many of us from England, here’s my family story from seven years ago to push back against this ethnonationalism This is My England, and Yours: Reclaiming Englishness bylinetimes.com/2019/12/18/t...

bylinetimes.com

This is My England, and Yours: Reclaiming Englishness

Now that English Nationalism has been unleashed, Peter Jukes argues that we must all try to restore England's buried civic tolerance and historic diversity.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 17h

Microsoft branding nightmare re AI risks to humanity

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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 17h

But rather more competent and thought-through, I'd suggest.

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stephenmcnair.bsky.social @stephenmcnair.bsky.social · 18h

Starmer and Sunak both offered vague 'closer' wihtout ever esplaining the options and trade offs. Burnham is proposing to explain to people what the real options are.

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 18h

So the FT headline misses the point. Maybe it's about time they realised Europe does not revolve around the UK, let alone what the latter might, possibly, be doing at an unspecified time in the future.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, building Brussels support has to go alongside the domestic campaign

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Simon Ziegler @simonziegler.bsky.social · 19h

Thank. Do you think I’m underestimating a need to engage early and build support in Brussels with my 2 phase thoughts of domestic consensus behind the idea followed by a more realist process with Brussels?

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, I think that's right for 1, but that this has to be in part a story that also appeals to Brussels, which in turn helps answer 2. No individual on the EU side will be strong enough on their own to support, the UK would need a wide range of goodwill across institutions (not enough now).

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Simon Ziegler @simonziegler.bsky.social · 19h

2. During this domestic consensus building period, who in the EU do we need to have on side before negotiations start? EU member states? Brussels (which I use a a big, vague, waving hands expansively term)?

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Simon Ziegler @simonziegler.bsky.social · 19h

I have 2 thoughts/queations 1. Don’t Burnham et al first need to create a developing domestic narrative to support the aim of UK accession first? In that case whether we’re entirely in line with Brussels thinking might be premature.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 19h

If Burnham wants to really change the UK EU dynamic he has to primarily do so in Brussels, and break a 50-odd year taboo in doing so. Anything else means incremental progress at best. That's the blunt truth coming from many years of coffees. And the challenge. encompass-europe.com/comment/how-...

encompass-europe.com

How to achieve UK aims in Brussels

(a companion piece to everything Brussels really thinks about the UK) There are 27 countries present and permanently negotiating almost every policy area in Brussels. These are the member…

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 19h

This is all very nice on Burnham's opening the door a little on EU matters, but I've been having conversations in Brussels about the UK's choices since at least 2023 and nothing has basically changed since then. www.ft.com/content/3d43...

ft.com

Does the EU want Britain back?

Burnham has reopened the Brexit debate. That doesn’t mean the UK will be welcomed back on its own terms

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m old enough to remember ppl in UK being proud to have put racism👇behind us to judge others not by colour or ethnicity but by actions & behavior.. racist were a minority looked down on Oh how far the UK has fallen in the recent years with Farage leading the way I find it most depressing 🤦‍♂️

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Was just on LBC with @mrjamesob.bsky.social to discuss Kemi Badenoch's banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social from attending Conservative conference after calling such bans by Reform "authoritarian" and an assault on free speech bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...

bylinetimes.com

Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block 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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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The death penalty has no place in any society."

https://x.com/UNHumanRights/status/2105639407030059371

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Rιƈαɾԃσ Gɾιɠσɾι🍹 @ricardogrigori.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🦩 Everything Magical & Weird: Edithcolea grandis - Persian Carpet Flower. Some plants look as though they were born on an alien planet and somehow lost their way home. Happy Flower Friday. 🌺👽 #flower #plant #witchsky #alien

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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 02/10/2026

On a spectrum from 0-10, how positive was Burnham about building better relations with the EU, compared to, say, Truss, Johnson, May, David Frost, or Sunak? /rhetorical/, by the way!

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'What are the options?' asked the Prime Minister. So we got a cool dude to explain.

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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 02/10/2026

Why follow a firm manifesto commitment, and winning a GE on it, with a referendum? Would he not already have a mandate?

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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“With births barely exceeding deaths, and likely to fall, idea UK faces inexorable immigration-driven population growth is detached from reality. The long-term challenge is how we sustain the workforce, public services and tax base as the population ages.” www.thetimes.com/article/uk-p...

thetimes.com

UK population grows at slowest rate since 1998, ONS figures show

The slowdown is largely due to the ongoing fall in net migration

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Renew Europe @reneweurope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The biggest lie of the last 30 years." 🇪🇺 In Madrid, Emmanuel Macron called out Brexit and the gap between populist slogans and reality. Political promises don’t disappear after an election. They belong on the public record, and they must be measured against real results.

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fascinating chat with a diplomat from a major European country this wee. In short, Burnham's speech has not had a big impact. The position, they say, is that UKG wants broadly speaking full access to the European single market. However: A 🧵

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

US spy firm Palantir has put its latest revolving-door hire Tom Watson to use — 'threatening' other politicians for criticising it Via @skwawkbox.org

thecanary.co

Watson 'threatens' Lewis for criticising Palantir

US spy firm Palantir has put its latest revolving-door hire Tom Watson to use — 'threatening' other politicians for criticising it

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: Burnham - Straight From The Heart Join the gang as they discuss: 🌹The big speech 💬 Fave parts of other speeches 🇪🇺The EU love in ☑️ Dare we dream of PR now? 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2QVs...

podcasts.apple.com

Burnham: Straight fom the heart

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 1 October · 1hr 2min

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OpenAI’s data hacking worse than previously known and also tried to cover up the hacks ““Asymmetric Security, a digital forensics company, found OpenAI’s models pulled data from 55 websites belonging to businesses, non-profits and government agencies” & medical clinics www.ft.com/content/1150...

ft.com

OpenAI’s agents obscured hacking activity in government site breaches

New findings by Asymmetric Security provide further evidence of novel tactics AI tools use to conduct hacks

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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Brexiters should be rejoicing at Burnham’s speech. They can campaign on all the ways Brexit has improved our lives and the fortunes of our country. They can set their case out clearly and with facts for all to see. Bet they can’t wait.

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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 01/10/2026

~ Unserious and down in the polls: Zack Polanski doesn't look up to the job - The New World ~ archive.is/1cLXr

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JP @taoshadow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For my Spanish speaking friends.

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