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Celia Fox

@cels5.bsky.social
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I love the sea and bright blue skies but live in Shropshire. (Yes, it is beautiful but landlocked!) Retired teacher, quite political. Definitely 'Woke' but why be anything else. (Rhetorical!) Writer of traditional pantomime scripts. "Oh, yes, I am!"

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It's a good job Nigel Farage didn't inadvertently overclaim a fiver on Universal Credit, because he'd really be in trouble then
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“It’s the greatest job in the world” “I’m going to see out the term as Mayor of Manchester”. After hearing all the evidence of the last couple of days. I think Starmer did the only thing he could. I can’t help my opinion on Burnham as I think he is vastly overrated.
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G.U.N.K.L.E @gunkle.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Suella unsurprisingly joins Reform, saying she feels like she’s come home. Quite ironic considering Reform had probably been telling her to ‘go home’.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Rehearsals for the "Ed Davey becomes Leader of the Opposition after the 50th (approx) Tory defection to Reform" photo op
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a group of despicable me characters are riding a roller coaster together
Alt: a group of despicable me characters are riding a roller coaster together
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Celia Fox @cels5.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The least surprising defection of all... Poor Farage, so many egos waiting to take over...
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Nigel Farage is hellbent on stuffing his party with more and more failed Tories. You couldn’t trust them then, and you can’t trust them now. t.co/b8BMExlNm2
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Minneapolis today. One agent yelled "Boo Hoo" at protestors after the killing. Recruitment is crucial: angry, uneducated, racist, violent, easily manipulated...
A street scene in Minneapolis from above showing federal agents spread out across a deserted junction, tear gas all around.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Excellent from @yorkshirepost.co.uk. Reform councils are a joke because they're just bickering, inexperienced Farage groupies. And former Tories who defect will be expected to hide their own huge egos behind that of the Great Leader. Jenrick won't like that... 😂 share.google/brgbhvl9dcoQ...
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Reform is not really a party at all but Nigel Farage’s personal fan club - David Behrens
I don’t wish to sound unnecessarily lavatorial about this, but sometimes it is necessary to flush several times before the most malodorous contents of the bowl can finally be rinsed away. That is pret...
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Jane A. @jane-in-progress.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Badenoch and Farage competing for the "Biggest Traitor to their Country" prize would be hilarious if it wasn't true.
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Celia Fox @cels5.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
No one, even his followers are surprised...
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Celia Fox @cels5.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What is wrong with America?
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 14/01/2026
Deform-led Warwickshire County Council has withdrawn funding for Atherstone Warm Hub for the Homeless, run by volunteers. Wonder if that covers the six-figure sum charged by the consultants they hired to advise on cutting council costs?
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🆘 “This is the pure hell of Brexit for food exporters.” Toby Ovens of Broughton Transport told MPs at the business & trade committee that Brexit has been a costly and logistic nightmare: Vets chasing lorries. Meat stuck in Calais for a month. £16,000 burned because of a stamp in the wrong place.
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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Labour government is backing Northern Powerhouse Rail, giving the North the transport links it deserves. Not before time, but welcome. 🤳*Click to share this on social media:* - Facebook: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1... - Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DTgSrebD02...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
McBride: Look, people are clutching their pearls at this guy yelling something at the president. They are more offended by a worker standing up to the president and calling him out for his hypocrisy than they are by the president trying to cover up for a human trafficking ring
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
the European mission to Greenland was fourth in the BBC news running order this morning, which feels a bit like doing a light "and finally..." item about the archduke's motorcade taking a wrong turn in Sarajevo
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 15/01/2026
One of the best things about Bearly Politics is the people around it. This reader contribution from @metaphorqu.bsky.social is thoughtful, generous, and deeply relevant to where we are right now. While I've been critical about the government, this did make me stop and think. 🐻
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Reader Contribution: CHANGE... #Fuck it’s difficult...
Why real change hurts more than we expect - and why that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Regime is stating that the ICE THUG who shot Renee Good, suffered internal injury that caused bleeding. That he shot in self defense. Can we say BULL - SHIT‼️ abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
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Minneapolis ICE shooting live updates: ICE agent who shot Renee Good suffered internal bleeding, officials say
The ICE agent who shot Renee Good suffered internal bleeding, multiple U.S. officials familiar with his medical condition told ABC News.
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Jenrick making his pitch to lead Reform. A country that buys his vile, racist, snake oil deserves everything it will subsequently reap.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
BREAKING: TIM WALZ: "If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record." "Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution."
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Celia Fox @cels5.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I doubt they could keep canals open or manage any railway system...
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Farage of course did the "thank you Kemi" bit, but it must be satisfying for her to watch these shambles
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
EXACTLY
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Ok @bbc5live.bsky.social ... We've had quite enough of the extended free party political broadcast for Reform that you're currently carrying. Jenrick is quite capable of whining on for hours yet. Time to let him be, please!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Robert Jenrick illegally rushed through planning permission to try help a billionaire avoid £45m in property tax. But he is sick of seeing Asylum Seekers break the law. Because that’s only for him and his rich buddies.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Sums up how rubbish Badenoch is that she has been forced into a “You’re dumping me? I’m dumping you!” rather than just sacking and disbarring Jenrick over the many, many things that would have kept him out of any Tory Cabinet since 1968.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/01/2026
Anyone surprised? Robert Jenrick defects to Reform UK. www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/j…
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Robert Jenrick defects to Reform UK after Conservative party suspension
Announcement comes after Kemi Badenoch sacked shadow justice secretary over evidence of defection plot
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 15/01/2026
Take a wild guess what the next Reform Press Conference is going to be about? I can tell you now that Farage is already lining up the venue, fluffing the flags and lining up the whole of the Westminster Media to somehow spin Robert Generic joining the long line of failed Tories in Reform.
Kemi Badenoch sacks Robert Jenrick over ‘defection plans’
Conservative leader says she had ‘irrefutable evidence’ shadow justice secretary was plotting to defect in most damaging way
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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 #AbolishICE, #SlavaUkraini @andreasor.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The Daily Show: #f'djt #Greenland
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Nigel Farage doesn't care about you, he just wants to be the latest Conservative/Reform Prime Minister, and stuff his pockets like they did. Gotta be braindead to vote for this BS.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Jenrick defection to Reform is the end of him. Farage already struggles to contain more than one outsized ego in his parliamentary party. Certainly no room for anything the size of Robert's inflated sense of self-worth. You mark my words - it'll end badly.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
You're willing to drag the world into deadly turmoil when your only reason for being in power it to avoid jail.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 15/01/2026
Today, it’s not your vote that determines whether the government brutalizes you or sends officers to your door. It’s your neighbors’ vote. If you’re ok with this happening to Minnesotans, don’t get comfortable. You won’t be exempt for long. In the end, a lawless administration comes for everyone.
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
🚨 US DEMANDS CHLORINATED CHICKEN 🚨 We were told this would never happen. Now the White House is demanding food standards concessions and the UK is vulnerable because of Brexit. 🎥 Watch ⬇️ Chlorinated Chicken Is Back And Starmer Is Letting It Happen youtu.be/74JNCJ3TxFs
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Chlorinated Chicken Is Back And Starmer Is Letting It Happen
YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.
Screenshot of an X post by journalist Julie K. Brown questioning why her American Airlines flight booking information from July 2019 appears in Epstein-related DOJ files. Below the text is an image of partially redacted government documents showing flight and personal data tables.
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The J6 Pipe Bomber stated that the reason he placed the pipe bombs at the DNC & RNC because he believed that the 2020 election was stolen, & no one in Congress was taking it seriously. Now who was the one that kept on saying that the election was stolen?? youtu.be/4xgayuaun2U?...
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BREAKING: Justice Department makes BOMBSHELL announcement
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 30/12/2025
Sheanderthal, Marjorie Taylor Green, says she doesn’t watch much Fox News anymore because she finds them “factually unreliable”. She means lying.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This is disgraceful! Which idiot encouraged people to vote for the Brexit that made this inevitable?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.
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Celia Fox @cels5.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Taking a stand by not taking to the stage...
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Rupert Lowe-Life tries to appeal to grandparents with this bollox👇🏼🙄 True I was “raised with the idea that you don’t take more than you give” which is why his gross hypocrisy makes my blood boil Lowe took £100K in furlough from us taxpayers for a company as it made £7.9 million profit grifting git❗️
Rupert Lowe post on X trying to appeal to grandparents forgetting some of us have long memories about him being such a taker
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Celia Fox @cels5.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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Celia Fox @cels5.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
100 % agree!
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I often think back to a Greek taxi driver who once told me: "Too many people want the harshest laws they can imagine - for everyone except themselves." This thinking is rife on the right, but it is also prevalent in a significant minority on the left. And that last part always takes me by surprise.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Watching my daughter grow up without evangelical religious trauma is breathtaking. She’s not scared of a hell, or a god who would condemn her to everlasting torture, and she’s never heard of a rapture. Growing up without that fear really does something good to a young person.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 30/12/2025
Which political event from 2025* left your flabbers the most gasted? Mine definitely has to be the inexplicable rise of the flag shatters and DOGE failing on both sides of the Atlantic. *Submissions from the UK, the peri-apocalyptic nightmare that is the US and other locales more than welcome.
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2025: The Year We Got Used To It
A final long read for 2025, charting how we got used to cruelty, incompetence and farce - and how 2026 will need us all to be much noisier.
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