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Andrew Knight

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 5h
So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time
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Taryn T, Duchess of the Blue Sea @tarynt.bsky.social · 21h
When their priority is to make an execution public and not the Epstein files, it tells you everything you need to know.
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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“The child of a banker can settle in the UK after 3 years, while the child of a care worker has to wait 15 years.”
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22h
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK
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Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics
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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Average new-build defects by country: Germany < 10 France 10 to 15 Netherlands ~20 Italy 20-25 Spain ~58 UK 130-150 Do you see this, Brits? Judging by the lack of reaction to my post below, you do not. Why do you let them get away with this in the UK? Wake the hell up, this is NOT normal.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021–2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an “exodus” of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times, 2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners’ firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners’ savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms. Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...
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Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I trained as an OFSTED inspector (didn’t want to inspect however just know what their training was like) and I have been through many inspections as a teacher, senior leader and Head. The one thing I have never seen OFSTED do is improve a school. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ofsted faces fresh calls to halt graded school inspections in England
A second head teachers' union says it is "increasingly concerned" about members' "welfare and morale".
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Arkancrow @arkancrow.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear legislator : if you're worried about overdiagnosing ADHD and autism, put more money on research.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.
ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says report, as author warns of rise in mental ill health
Summary
• An official review in England finds there is a risk of people being over-diagnosed with
ADHD and autism - three key findings from the report
• As well as neurodevelopmental conditions, the review looks at mental ill health, particularly in younger people. Our health correspondent explains the difference
• It was commissioned earlier this year after Wes Streeting, then the health secretary, said there was an "over-diagnosis" of mental health conditions
• Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, review chair Prof Peter Fonagy said Streeting was "with respect, completely wrong"
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
After all the job losses, poverty, bankruptcies it caused the umpteen lies about 'Brexit benefits' which never happened when will Farage, Gove & Johnson #ApologiseForBrexit meme via Mark Keeping
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 08/10/2026
Here’s a new idea - people get stripped of honours for doing dishonourable things - let’s add tax dodging to the list. buff.ly/6zFAOmn
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Ben Canham @bencanham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One of the most important things we can do is take the time to understand each other. We may experience the world differently, think differently and face different challenges. But those differences don't have to divide us. They can help us learn from one another. 💙🧩
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'
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‘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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martindvz.bsky.social @martindvz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Brexit can and must be reversed soon.
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Jax (the original) @jacqueline321.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Marios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
By talking deliberately choosing to talk about Zionism - in preference to simply saying Ethnostates in general/Israel in particular - you seem less focussed on the evils of ethnostates and more focussed on a semantic fight with someone who agrees on ethnostates being bad but disagrees on Zionism.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For a long time I have heard rumours that you strangle kittens for fun and worship Satan. I have never believed it and still don’t. Am I doing this right?
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Terry Brough @terrybrough.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Ask your MP to join those calling for a proper tax on private jets
The money raised from simply taxing private jets in line with commercial flights could wipe out energy bill debt overnight and bring energy bills down for every household across the UK.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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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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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FARTGATE: Tomorrow’s Lancashire Telegraph is an absolute joy to behold. Buy it. Treasure it. Leave it to your grandchildren. #BuyALocalNewspaper
Lancs Telegraph front page: A POINT
OF ODOUR
Reform councillor 'broke wind
towards rival' during meeting.
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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🇬🇱🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No one should be making profits from vulnerable children. Yet £1 out of every £5 paid to private providers of children’s social care is taken out in profit. Time to end this scam! Add your name now. weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-p...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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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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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 01/10/2026
The far right thrives on lies and disinformation. We’re debunking some of the most common myths they peddle, exposing the harm they cause, and showing why their claims don’t stand up to scrutiny. Read our new report: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/01/f...
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Far Right Fact Check
Disinformation Debunked - What the data actually says.
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More of this sort of thing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Motorists in Wales face fines of up to £150 for idling
The previous punishment for idling was £20 and had not changed since its introduction in 2003.
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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At a time when fascism is back on the rise across Europe, the very convention created to establish fundamental freedoms and to prevent the atrocities of World War Two could not be more relevant. We should ask why would any government want to scrap something that protects us from authoritarianism ?
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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Private equity-backed children’s homes are ‘rinsing council budgets dry’, says Southport MP Patrick Hurley southport.thelead.uk/p/private-eq...
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Private equity-backed children’s homes are ‘rinsing council budgets dry’
Southport MP Patrick Hurley made the claim
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People are saying Pedro Sanchez might drive all the Landlords out of Spain with his rent freezes. Oh no! What will they do then? Live in affordable houses without being ripped off. So terrible.
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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Palantir have a £330m NHS contract and recruited former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson, who had already been a paid adviser, into a senior executive role. At the same time, Labour’s conference machinery blocked members from debating a motion calling for that contract to be cancelled…
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Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yup. Almost no/one makes this valid comparison. And solar panels don’t leak methane from old uncapped drill sites. At average methane leakage rates, 10,000 abandoned wells will have a near-term climate impact equivalent to 20,000 cars on the road each year
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nigel Farage has deleted this post But not before it's been shared widely showing him to be either a serial liar or delusional and either way, unfit for public office
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wonder a lot about these soldiers. How they can return to their communities. To their families. To their own children. Without shame. Without remorse. As with all genocides, the one in Gaza is an annihilation of the future. A death of empathy. Of tenderness. Of beauty.
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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This puts the situation at BBC News very well. The corporation has lost its way re how to cover news and current affairs. Maybe it’s punch drunk, maybe it’s being badly led (malevolently or ineffectually). Whatever - it needs to go back to basics - what is news for? bylinetimes.com/2026/09/07/t...
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The BBC Is Just Nodding Along
The corporation's news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer
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Brizo75 @brizo75.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So by Denby's account a person can make their wealth here, utilising the state and the economic environment and all that offers, to accumulate a personal fortune. And then when they amass that fortune they will pay a lower tax rate than their cleaner and if that is challenged they are right to leave
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Brizo75 @brizo75.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ghoul on BBC Politics Live... "Burnham thinks the state can make growth, it cant, its down to private business and entrepreneurs" This is the sort of right wing horseshit that is destroying the UK. The state can play a pivotal role in growth, essential even. How would she explain Chinese growth?
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James Woodfield @jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nationalising social care would reduce its costs by removing expensive parasites. “Social care systems are being deprived of millions of pounds as private companies extract large profits, with much of it going to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens.” lowdownnhs.info/private-prov...
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Millions extracted in profit from publicly funded social care - The Lowdown
Social care systems in three regions of England are being deprived of millions of pounds as private companies extract large profits, with much of it going to firms owned by private equity or based in ...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Crown Estate sea bed auctions could add £38 a year to energy bills
The business that manages the King’s land has put wind farm projects at risk with move away from capped fees for developers, a University of Oxford study warns
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Gina Hinojosa: "While we've been fighting over culture wars ... 15 billionaires have amassed money, power, and all our data and are about to blow up the world. And if we don't come together fast to save ourselves -- this is it"
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires
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