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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It’s May 1940 and Churchill is about to replace Chamberlain as Prime Minister then these two rock up… Can you imagine??

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Let's look at what's happening at some universities, shall we? What about Aberdeen, Nottingham and Wolverhampton, quite a good cross-section? Oh. How could a whole country be so thick and useless as to smash one of the jewels in its crown? 🤷‍♂️

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Chris Carnall @cjcarnall.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Straightforward #QTWTAIN for @rentouljohn.bsky.social on the BBC website just now. A video clip: “Should you use AI to help you vote?” Good grief!

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

8 March: Trump tells UK not to send ships to the Gulf as "We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won". 14 March: Trump asks UK to "send ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat". It's a tragedy that so many lives hang on the whims of this angry child.

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Chris Carnall @cjcarnall.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This court ruling is a real work of art - and a history lesson bsky.app/profile/gbso...

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

A (darkly) comic sketch that turns out just sad. How have we fallen to this rubbish politics of fakery and grifterism? Tawdry and bathetic. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Reform’s Matt Goodwin is sure he’s the right man for Gorton and Denton. He just doesn’t know why… | John Crace

Introduced by an unsupervised Lee Anderson, the byelection candidate was out of his depth immediately

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Chris Carnall @cjcarnall.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Looking forward to hearing the short list for the FIFA Prize for Literature 🤷‍♂️

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The ability to communicate and appreciate this country's rich cultural heritage is SO useless and overrated.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

New deputy leader candidates, same fucking misogyny. Like, it's a CREEPY sentence for a piece of political analysis to even contain, but to choose it as the TITLE is next-level incel shit.

QUENTIN LETTS: Bridget Phillipson's weirdly precise bob of inky hair swung like a black satin curtain in an Istanbul brothel
By QUENTIN LETTS, PARLIAMENTARY SKETCHWRITER

Published: 00:03, 10 September 2025 | Updated: 00:03, 10 September 2025

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

How Chris Mason reports Reform v How Chris Mason reports Labour.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

We may scoff at the shenanigans in the US or in Latin America but all you need in the UK to get away with corruption on a grand scale is a plummy accent and the confidence that comes from a private education.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The BBC has always bent towards the status quo. But since Brexit it’s top journalists - who like Mason & Kuenssberg think they’re celebrities - have fawned over the protagonists of that ‘exciting story’: the rise of hard right populism. They’ve stopped being journalists & become celebrants.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

What a choice for those on the left. A hopelessly cowed Labour Party that can’t articulate what it wants & panders to the far right. A breakaway socialist party cosying up to some of the dodgiest politicians in the UK. Or Hypnoboobs.

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Chris Carnall @cjcarnall.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Sounds about right 😮‍💨

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2025

Parliament should be sovereign to make its own decisions, unrestricted by busy-bodies in Brussels or any foreign power... except obviously the Trump administration which can and should dictate UK social media due to its own unimpeachable free speech record.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Farage dodged parliament, went to the US, slagged off the UK, lied to Congress, grifted for donations and hoped to persuade the US to punish us for the Online Safety Act. And got his arse handed back to him. You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Credit to Ed Davey for this. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

"I understand it is normally the role of opposition leaders to jump up and down and call for resignations – as we’ve seen plenty of from the Conservatives already.

Obviously if the ethics advisor says Angela Rayner has broken the rules, her position may well become untenable.

But as a parent of a disabled child, I know the thing my wife and I worry most about is our son’s care after we have gone, so I can completely understand and trust that the deputy prime minister was thinking about the same thing here.

Perhaps now is a good time to talk about how we look after disabled people and how we can build a more caring country."

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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

30th August 2025 05.12

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A courteous but very impressive rebuke to Nigel Farage from the Bishop of Oxford. "I heard no compassion in what you said...". "I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities". Do read. blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...

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An open letter to Nigel Farage - Bishop Steven's Blog

Bishop Steven writes an open letter in response to Nigel Farage MP's immigration policy which was launched in Oxford this week.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I'm no Lib Dem but it must be frustrating to observe the fan worship of Nigel "Four MPs" Farage. The party will play a vital role in the next General Election as the home of sensible ex Tories and as a potential coalition partner.

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

PHOTO OF THE DAY. England goalkeeper Gordon Banks catches a dog (1965). 📷 google images

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

There have always been Trumps, as there have always been Johnsons and Farages. None are particularly complex or interesting characters. What needs understanding is how the barriers that shut them out have collapsed, and why - in the case of the first two - established parties have knelt before them.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

There were Trumps in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and so on. But they were checked, balanced, blocked. And therein is the failure this time.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Bin the Blue Labour defensive identity bullshit, bin the "these people have a point actually" which just encourages the worst racists and narcissists, you were elected because you were supposed to be offering something more positive. Do it.

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

As Putin’s word mean nothing and Trump’s word means nothing, how can any agreement between them possibly mean anything?

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The Land of the Free’s public seems remarkably content to toe the line and eat the authoritarian shit their President feeds them when told to, but I didn’t think they’d also be happy to watch their Leader of the Free World be publicly owned by a foreign dictator on US soil.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

This is pure Trumpery from the Conservative Shadow Home Secretary. He’s trying to turn violent rioters and their instigators into “political prisoners” as Trump did with the Capitol rioters (which led to the death of a friend of the family). We’re importing tyranny from the US

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 26/07/2025

Legitimate Concerns?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Many voted for Brexit because they believed everyone with a black or brown face would be deported. Farage and Reform have given these halfwits political cover for their racism.

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Chris Carnall @cjcarnall.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The framing is grim (“Working people” and all that) but the policy is excellent!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

BBC among media misreportimg/exaggerating scale of asylum protests Median protest is a few dozen, below 100. "Usually Several hundred at a time" is false. - should say *occasionally* < 1/10 protests have 200 people "Sometimes thousands" I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet

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Ben Garmoe @bengarmoe.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

On Jim Lovell’s passing, go listen to Season 2 of 13 Minutes to the Moon if you haven’t already. I think it’s the best season of a podcast ever made, and I don’t say that lightly.

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Kevin Fong @drkevinfong.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Farewell & thanks for everything Captain James Lovell. Apollo 8 Command Module Pilot - arguably NASA’s boldest mission - Commander & survivor of the ill fated Apollo 13. I’ve met few people more inspiring or more generous with their legacy. God Speed, safe flight. #AdAstra #NASA

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Chris Carnall @cjcarnall.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

A late comment on the England v India Test Match. I wondered at the time why England didn’t give Chris Woakes a runner. I’ve not seen it mentioned since, so perhaps I’m missing something? #woakes #ENGvIND

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him

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Chris Carnall @cjcarnall.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Smithsonian throws away its credibility.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Just peachy to have Justin Webb on #r4today insinuating that asylum seekers arriving by small boats are largely criminals and sex offenders. Such an irresponsible, Daily Mail-style prejudice in his questions and assertions. This isn’t journalism. It’s scaremongering for the far right. Shameful.

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Chris Carnall @cjcarnall.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Just finished watching Norma Percy’s 1990s documentary series on Watergate (BBC iPlayer). So interesting not least as a reflection on present-day USA, & p-d documentary making. Checks & balances just about worked. Of course now Trump’s Supreme Court has granted the President immunity in advance.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Can someone please explain why it is that too many politicians only seem to want the votes of the prejudiced and the ignorant? To the extent that they are actively repelling anyone capable of rational thought and decency. Why the pathetic need to appease the bigot vote, at everyone else’s expense?

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

“We are basically serfs. Doffing our cap in such a grotesque way that people can’t even see through a bullshit-peddler private-school banker, telling them immigrants are the problem and not the entrenched privilege from which he and his ilk have benefited more than anyone who came on a small boat.”

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Chris Carnall @cjcarnall.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Both of the methods which @support.bsky.team @bsky.app are offering me to verify my age require me to part with data which would be very useful in the wrong hands. I suppose I’ll just have to cope without DMs and “Adult Content”.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A cynic might think the swivel eyed right wing gobshite community might actually want riots this summer.

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