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Just want the younger generations to have the opportunities I had.

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Column, on a grimly familiar Farage plot line and Starmer sticking to the script in the Brexit sequel. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it | Rafael Behr
Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in many of the UK’s problems - it’s time UK news shows and Labour started pointing that out
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 27/08/2025
Macron's three-pronged response to Netanyahu's accusations of 'antisemitic fire'
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Macron's three-pronged response to Netanyahu's accusations of 'antisemitic fire'
In a six-page letter, French President Emmanuel Macron said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had 'weaponized' the fight against antisemitism and urged him to 'end the desperate race of a murderous and illegal permanent war in Gaza.'
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 27/08/2025
Nigel Farage doesn’t want what’s best for Britain. Nick Thomas-Symonds: "Aside from his pension packet, Nigel Farage can't bring himself to have any relationship with the EU."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/08/2025
Can someone please just create an AI Nobel and give it to him like how we give Playskool steering wheels to toddlers in carseats to make them feel like big boys?
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
A lesson for some of our 'leaders'.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The most obvious question for journalists to ask Farage is whether he'd really be prepared - Trump-style- to send the police (and army?) into London to detain more than 200,000 Londoners. Because that is what this policy would mean, obviously. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform UK prepared to deport 600,000 under migration plans
The party outlines its plans to detain and deport all migrants who arrive in the UK on small boats.
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
No one around that table has any self-respect.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
"The world can tell the difference now between a war being waged for the survival of the Jewish state and a war being waged for the political survival of its prime minister."
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Journalist: “Can you name any of the military bases you would use to house migrants?” Farage: waffle waffle bollocks deflection (“no”)
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Absolutely horrendous. If that was someone in a chat room there would be consequences.
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Smacks of £350m-on-a-bus levels of bullshit.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Nigel Farage says “We are not very far from major civil disorder” but forgets to add “and I’ll keep doing all I can to ensure we get there”.
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Kim Willsher @kimwillsher.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Stop now. Enough. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Last photos taken by Gaza journalists before they were killed in Israeli strikes
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Six months ago I'd have put money on them buying Teslas, Elon must be gutted.
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I always felt 'Steady as she goes' Bailey was extremely risk averse, now it seems he's also pretty clueless.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The ITV news makes a similar claim, based on 200 people across three locations Friday (800 people across 8 places) and Saturday (2000+ across a dozen) were larger, so "a second day" is weird for this tiny trickle of protest today
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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
➡️ “Reform UK would look fundamentally at the contract between ministers and the impartial civil service.” Civil service union leader Dave Penman tells @politicshome.bsky.social why he fears a Reform government would threaten impartiality
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Union Leader Dave Penman: 'It's A Complete Mystery To Me Why Labour Won't Go Further On Standards'
Civil service union leader Dave Penman has accused Labour of ducking the “low-hanging fruit” of reforming ethics and standards in government, telli...
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Reminder of what Allison Pearson was hoping for during the school summer holiday.
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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Those missing words in full:
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
While relatively small gatherings of far-right protesters are reported as the start of some kind of national civil revolt, much larger protests on other issues are routinely ignored at best, and openly demonised at worst www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/anywhere-b...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Devoted mother Lucy Connolly has said she hopes to see her family some time in the next six months, assuming she can fit them in between interviews with right wing shit-stirrers.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Funny they don't seem so bothered by Jenrick's three homes (including a grade 1 listed manor) plus his forth home in his constituency rented at taxpayer expense. Wonder why.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Sky News, "Farmers Union says the UK is unprepared to feed itself in crisis" British Retail Consortium, "About 80% of our imports come from the European Union" That time in 2016 when Dominic Raab explained that he didn't understand the importance of the Dover-Calais crossing for trade with the EU
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Times: "Asylum protests swell across the UK " headline, reporting an underwhelming wave. Leeds "draws 70" Cardiff "disorganised + small" Altrincham "*swelled* to around 200" Cheshunt about 250 Chichester: about 100 Portsmouth: about 70 v 70 on each side www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: F.B.I. Searches Home and Office of John Bolton, a Former Trump Adviser
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
BBC continues to have a persistent editorial problem in hyping & exaggerating scale of asylum protests (even at odds with its own reporting) How can a report quoting the police saying "about 150 people attended" a protest and counter-protest have the headline "hundreds join asylum hotel demo"
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Those pesky facts eh. They should broadcast a retraction.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The scale of the backlog arises because the Sunak government, while clearing the 2022 backlog, stops processing asylum claims of those who arrive in 2023-24, despite having no real world prospect of removing 99% of those it is accommodating, in limbo. No plan except to leave it to after the election
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Unfortunately, very true. Conversely, without the 'story', (and media support at the time), doesn't cut much ice until it becomes a historical perspective.
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Having spent some time in hotels through work, being in one for longer than a few weeks, (whatever star rating), became a pretty miserable experience.
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Don't think so, it's about the nature of an hotel, nothing to do with occupancy rate.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Best wishes Sam.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/08/2025
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Exclusive: The British government spent more than £2.4 million on an unprecedented super injunction "against the world" that banned the media from reporting on a massive data breach that put Afghans' lives at risk Even the existence of the court order was kept secret www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/w...
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U.K. Secretly Spent $3.2 Million to Stop Journalists From Reporting on Data Breach
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
TBH I'm amazed that anyone passing psychiatric testing would want to join Reform anyway.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Lawrence O’Donnell, "The White House press corp is failing before our eyes" "Donald Trump, the only president in history to have a best friend for ten years raping children nearly every day of those ten years" "Trump's own justice department has said that Epstein raped over a thousand victims"
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Think if you cite the magna carta and being a freeman then it's prob ok.
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK homelessness minister faces calls to resign over tenant eviction claims
Rushanara Ali accused of hypocrisy after claims she evicted tenants from east London property before putting up rent by almost £700 a month
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Depends upon the clown, e.g. I like Coco the clown but hate Boris Johnson.
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
“The whole of the UK population of wild salmon is now on the endangered list. They swim up the Test. This river has a flow limit and Southern Water wants to reduce that by a third. If you do this, you have now effectively banished an endangered species to oblivion…”
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Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream
Environment secretary urged to stop drought order that could damage the ecology of River Test in Hampshire
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz348bs
Top Tip: Radio enthusiasts. Don't bother listening to commercial radio stations. Simply invite your most witless, tedious neighbour round to put records on then talk over them. Ed O'Meara, e-mail
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Yep, it really was a 'win', just think how bad things would be if we were still in the EU ! We've got the good old blue / black ones that mean we can pay to stand in a queue with our fellow Brits, (and the rest of the world).
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Don't know about you but I'm always convinced by people who claim to speak for 'many others / the silent majority / the UK population'.
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
4/4 With laws already in place, we can decide the true and fair value of water companies. We will not be bullied into accepting a broken, rigged system that only serves a handful of shareholders. If you agree, join the call for public ownership: actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...
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Water Belongs to All of Us - Back the People's Plan for Water!
Privatisation has broken our water system. Evidence shows public ownership can bring fairer, cleaner and cheaper water. That’s why I'm backing the People’s Plan for Water. Join me:
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Mad that George Osborne ruins Britain then goes and works for a company that runs an ad campaign based entirely on the premise that you should buy crypto now that Britain is ruined
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
"Respecting the rule of law doesn’t just mean obeying laws you like." - True, but that doesn't necessarily mean the 'law' is being applied appropriately or the resulting sentences are proportionate.
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Chris G @chrisg-29.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
There's an air of delusion that is quite unbelievable.
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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
It is a problem that the BBC politics team believe themselves to be nerds and observably are not, they're just gossips.
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