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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So the Iranians have closed the Strait of Hormuz and the Cotswolds?

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think there’s a misunderstanding of the term “EU Accession negotiations”. Negotiation, in this sense, is primarily over how and by when an applicant will implement or align with each area of EU law (Acquis Communautaire), and then whether they‘ve done that. It’s not over *whether* they will.

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Madison @madison8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

When trump backs down and cancels his lawsuit, the BBC should turn and sue him for harassment & possible extortion using his original lawsuit as an example of him filing fake lawsuits and STILL demand trump’s financial records as evidence that his lawsuit was a lie to harass and extort a settlement.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I think that's what you call a hat-trick.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This can't, or shouldn't, be even remotely good enough, and surely wouldn't be accepted as such for any other party leader. Amongst many, many other things, it can't have been both 'unconditional' *and* 'to pay for my security'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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No obligation to declare £5m gift, Nigel Farage says

The Reform UK leader says the gift was

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

If it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking Iroquois.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Popped over to the hellsite for a few minutes to keep my account active, glad to see @vivamjm.bsky.social still battling the zombie apocalypse of hoary old arguments that never made sense in the first place, e.g. 'bUt wE wErE NeVeR iN sChEnGeN' but still get rolled out ad infinitum.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

It's like two student debaters play-acting a PMQs session, with extras roped in from the pub to pretend to be MPs

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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/01/2026

“The $65 billion should be placed in an unmarked federal appropriations bill—if it isn’t, that will be the end of your precious Minnesota,” read the note, a handmade letter assembled from magazine clippings and sent with what ICE claimed was the severed finger of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

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ICE Issues Ransom Note Demanding $65 Billion If U.S. Wants To See Minnesota Again

WASHINGTON—Claiming the nation’s beloved North Star State was in peril, Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a ransom note Tuesday that told the United States to pay $65 billion if it ever wante...

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

And planned to invade the Canary Islands if Germany assisted Spain in invading Gibraltar during WWII. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

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Operation Pilgrim - Wikipedia

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Standing on the correct part of a Tube platform for the smoking carriages.

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Peter Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The detention of Noriega in 1969 is clearly the closest precedent for the Maduro operation. But events in Caracas remind me of a now-forgotten episode in which the US invaded a Commonwealth Caribbean state, giving the UK Gov’t a few hours’ notice and ignoring their objections 1/9

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Joey interacting with Wild London.

Cat touching the image of a fox on the television.

Cat touching the nose of a fox on the television.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I have not so fond memories of St Sepulchre, Holborn Viaduct, when I first sang there in the 90s - the gas fired hot air heating had to be turned off at least 20 minutes before a rehearsal or service to allow the organ to settle into tune, and even with the heating on it was a very cold building.

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope) 📷 IWM A 10646 🧵1/17

Rather magnificent black floof sitting on a ship’s capstan under a bell with a very inviting dangling rope.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The latest Brexit & Brexitism blog post. I'm only a couple of paras in and there's already a winner: 'As for Frost, he shows the self-awareness of a toilet seat. One might as well expect Liz Truss to refrain from pontificating about “sensible economic policy”'.

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James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I could’ve sworn the Telegraph led accusations of the BBC skewing its news output but that can’t be right

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Steve Wood @steve-wood.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I believe anyone could have done better than Johnson. Here's a quiz I made to prove it.

Covid quiz

There is a disease working through Europe. The Italian PM sends a letter saying how bad it is and it’s heading your way; Do you
A. Prepare the NHS
B. Limit social interactions
C. Allow European teams & supporters to travel to UK & let the Gold Cup go ahead

The disease is here. You’re asked to visit a hospital, Do you:
A. Refuse as it would hinder staff
B. Attend, but follow medical advice
C. Shake hands with the infected and catch the disease

You need to get more PPE; Do you
A. Go to existing suppliers
B. Go to similar suppliers with experience
C. Go to your bar tender, mate, family member who have just started up a PPE company

A new variant is discovered in India. Do you
A. Stop all flights from India
B. Quarantine those arriving
C. Do nothing

Anything other than 4 Cs and you’d have done better than Johnson.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Let’s have a look at a crazy Twitter to newspaper pipeline story and debunk as we go! 🔎👍🏼 16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas” With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees 2.2Million views to date🙄 🧵1/26

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Tom McEnroe @tommcenroe.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This cartoon gets more and more relevant with every passing day

A two panel line drawn cartoon. First panel, the internet in 1969. One figure says "Let's create a distributed network so it can survive a nuclear winter". The second panel titled the internet in 2021 a different figure says "Let's host half of it in one company and see how it goes"

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence. Every single human in the world is the product of migration. It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human. That’s never going to change. Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.

Map showing successive dispersals of humans, homo erectus and Neanderthals from 200,000 to 700 years ago

Overview map of the peopling of the world by early humans during the Upper Paleolithic, following the Southern Dispersal paradigm.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Really looking forward to hearing @seasideferry.bsky.social talking at the Folkestone Book Festival on Wednesday. A seaside town steeped in history, always keen to hear new interpretations. www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/the...

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The Buildings that Shaped Folkestone with Dr Kathryn Ferry - Creative Folkestone

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Ah the 1970s. Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/11/2025

"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.

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KentOnline @kentonline.co.uk · 03/11/2025

There has been much speculation about the Grade II-listed building's future Read more here: www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/n...

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

A week on from the end of BST and the cats are still WHY IS BREAKFAST AN HOUR LATE?

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

A bison calf only a couple of days old at Blean Woods, part of the Wildwood experimental introduction of a herd of bison to a large area of woodland to see how they increase biodiversity and all that woke stuff.

A very young bison calf at Blean Woods near Herne, Kent, born into as near wild conditions as currently possible in the UK.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia. I disagree. RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Next time Farage or one of his mates is on Question Time getting applause for stopping/reversing immigration, may I suggest the following riposte: 'Everyone who just applauded needs to think hard what they were applauding. Without significant immigration, this country will become a catastrophe.' /1

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/09/2025

Decades of personalist rule turned Argentina into a global economic laughingstock, Scott Lincicome argues. Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.

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America’s Perón

Decades of personalist rule turned Argentina into a global economic laughingstock. Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The old garden swing on a tree IT gag about what the customer wanted, what the analyst designed, what the engineer implemented etc etc has been around for over half a century. The principle still applies in these wondrous days of AI...

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

A fantastic day at Ashford Maintenance Depot to celebrate 200 years of railways. #Railway200 @serailway.bsky.social‬

Demonstration of re-railing a derailed train using vertical and horizontal jacks

The queue to see inside the driver's cab of a Javelin

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Very interesting statistics. As you can see, the number of visitors affected by 90/180 is literally miniscule. The number of people who want to spend 91 rather than 89 days is tiny, and the extra spend - the benefit to Spain - is microscopic. 1 H/t @quieroserabuela.bsky.social

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

People can feel sympathy for Lucy Connolly over the scale of sentence she got after pleading guilty. But the appeal found her evidence demonstrably not credible on what she knew/did not know about the sentence before her guilty plea. Her media interviews repeat those false claims

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Last night fighting an ex Liz Truss minister (for goodness sake) on Newsnight about what to do about asylum accommodation. Pitch forks are dictating UK asylum policy now. 🤦‍♀️ My thanks as always to the brilliant @implausibleblog.bsky.social for the clip ❤️🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8auh...

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Epping asylum hotel CLOSED BY MOB RULE? Where should they go?

YouTube video by Zoe Gardner

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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 29/07/2025

MP3, the file extension that revolutionised the music industry, is 30! The audio codec that led to the rise of the iPod & Napster was created by a team at @fraunhofer.bsky.social IIS and named mp3 in July 1995 after an internal email poll. The first song saved to mp3: Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner.

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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

One of those headlines that could only have appeared in the Onion a few years ago, now is apparently a genuine quote. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Kemi Badenoch: Argentinian president Javier Milei would be ‘template’ for my government

Tory leader says she can fulfil same role as Milei, a far-right leader promising big cuts to public spending

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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Following Braverman’s lead, I am going to rewrite my mortgage contract with my bank, stripping out my obligation to pay interest or repay the loan, and replacing them with obligations on the the bank to pay for repairs on my home.

Suella Braverman has unveiled her legal blueprint for how the UK could quit the European Convention on Human Rights
(ECHR) and accused Strasbourg of "judicial imperialism."
In a 56-page document, the former home secretary and attorney general says the UK should rewrite the 1998 Belfast Good Friday Agreement, stripping out ECHR references and replacing them with domestic UK and common law human rights principles.

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

1970s employment rate: 72% Today’s employment rate: 75%

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

One other 7/7 thread today. Because I think how the bus network got running again is a real testament to some serious heroes that day: The bus drivers and staff who got that network running again and got London home that night. And TfL/the Mayor disobeyed the Security Services to make it happen /1

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

This post seems to have upset Douglas Carswell, which is a terrible shame.

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Is this the kernel of the problem? Is it the unwillingness to acknowledge that Europe is a legitimate world actor. At this point, it's a hang-up And is that reflex rejection what is actually stopping the UK moving towards Europe? The history is interesting. A 🧵

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