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Colette Austin

@coletteaustin.bsky.social
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Finalising my Brexile to Italy 🇮🇹 🇪🇺. Ex-lawyer, serial student of International Relations, Politics (BA; LLB, LLM; MSt Cantab), focus on nuclear strategy, European Security and autonomy from the US. Idiots and unsubstantiated comments blocked.

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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 14h
Well he would say that, wouldn’t he.
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And more globally despised.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In bombshell interview, the man who served as Netanyahu’s military secretary on October 7, 2023 says that the Israeli pm passed up clear-cut opportunities to bring more hostages home from Gaza alive because doing so would have risked his political career! www.timesofisrael.com/pms-ex-milit...
timesofisrael.com
PM’s ex-military secretary: Netanyahu prioritized political survival when he could have saved hostages’ lives
In bombshell interview, Avi Gil, who was in post on Oct. 7, alleges PM's chief of staff falsified his phone records from that day; PM issues denial; opposition leaders call for criminal probe
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Some of the most hypocritical people in the world call themselves Christians.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
nytimes.com
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Criticism from the Israeli government” is meaningless. It carries no weight. It has zero credibility.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026
Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊
bestforbritain.org
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
😂
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I, too, remember the 1980s boom! And we could do it again! Sell off the railways, water, gas, electricity, and council housing, and use the income to cut taxes for the rich! Oh, wait...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
Pilots in beautiful machines dropping bombs down air chutes into drug slash nuclear factories?
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 01/10/2026
Was just explaining this to someone at Labour’s conference - Crown Estate owns the coast and seabed and charges for the use of it for green energy projects - pushing up energy bills.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham could change tax relief on pension contributions for his projects. Gross tax relief in 2024-2025 was £83.9bn. 71% went to 7.7m additional & higher rate taxpayers. 29% to 30.4m basic rate taxpayers. Giving relief to all at 20% leaves £14.5bn spare for social care. But equality/equity?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s not as broad as that. She said a garage full of young males who assume, probably rightly, that she knows little about engines and she gets ripped off or fobbed off. That’s not paranoia or fear of all-male environments, that’s reality. You wouldn’t believe the patronising shit I’ve encountered.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.
leftfootforward.org
This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Deloitte paid its UK-based partners £1.125m. Firm has 784 equity partners. Due to self-employed status of partners, employer national insurance (ENI) is not paid on profits shared. 150,000 ENI avoided on every £1m of profits shared. Billions lost across the country. Must end this privilege.
cityam.com
Deloitte UK advisory arm rebounds to growth as new boss insists AI 'can’t replace lived experience'
Big Four giant Deloitte's new UK boss, Darren Graves, insisted AI “can’t replace lived experience” as the firm's advisory arms return to growth.
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Issues?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fair, though.
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This administration has already started an unnecessary war on a false pretext. That’s the only re-election strategy Karl Rove ever had.
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Words ending in consonants, you say. Dogs in Italy are screwed then.
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump. Corrupt as hell.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today Prince William is lecturing us about Climate Change. Yesterday he flew in a Private Jet, then a Helicopter, then travelled in a multi vehicle Land Rover Convoy. Early this year he went on holiday in this $450m Megayacht that uses as much fuel as 2000 cars. He is full of shit
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Those are Liverpudlians, not Scots. But equally awesome! They take no crap from anyone.
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If the UN were not headquartered in the US, he wouldn’t be.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 22/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: We have obtained accounts from Circulo Independente LDA, a Portuguese company established by Adam Geary to run Stephen Lennon’s political operation. Was the company established overseas to avoid British company rules and, ultimately, Corporation Tax? hopenothate.org.uk/tommy-robins...
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Tommy Robinson’s Algarve Empire: Exposing his shadowy Portuguese companies – HOPE not hate
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He does.
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’n surprised the baby-killer still has a wife and children to return home to.
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Outside the US, the UK is Palantir's biggest market. 1 in 6 of its employees are based in the UK. As of 2026, Palantir holds £900m in government contracts, inc. £182m from the NHS, £375.8m of which have been awarded without competition. Concerned? Hell, yeah! #politicslive youtu.be/wcGDSsxvSI4?...
youtu.be
How Palantir captured the UK
YouTube video by TLDR Business
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Also, football managers like Harry Redknapp and actors like Ray Winstone. What’s wrong with them?
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The UN doesn’t do propaganda campaigns; it researches and reports facts.
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Russians are savages. They did the same in Poland at the close of the war (worse than the Germans, who were enemies). They’re still savages today.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not a real estate deal that needs to be negotiated. Don’t expect Trump, Vance, Witkoff or Kushner to even acknowledge this, much less condemn it.
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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Very difficult to argue against this…
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Muted for posting AI slop without identifying it as such.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Sommer 2026: 16.000 Hitzetote 🥵 alleine in 🇩🇪. Dürre. Brände. 🤯 Die Bundesregierung subventioniert jetzt mit 2.500.000.000 € von unseren Steuergeldern die Ursache der Hitze: fossile Brennstoffe. Unfassbar. 🤯🤯🤯 Das meiste Geld landet dann wieder bei den Ölkonzernen, der Lobby gegen Klimaschutz.
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Colette Austin @coletteaustin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yet half the people they employ are so poorly paid that the taxpayer steps in to top up supermarket pay to a living wage. So, since the taxpayer subsidises their wage bills, they are the biggest benefits recipients in the UK.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tesco are making £4bn a year in profit. About 50% of their staff are on Universal Credit. Why don't we crackdown on this unneeded benefit for billionaires?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The French got rid of this in 1793, the Russians in 1917. Why have we still got it in 2026?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Man who migrated to another country to avoid taxes says Britain's problem is migration and taxes that he doesn't pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Jim Ratcliffe: UK is ‘on the slide’ from days when it had world’s ‘greatest empire’
Co-owner of Manchester United says Britain is in decline because of high taxes and immigration
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Proscribe the extreme far right groups before it's too late" via The UK Against Hate
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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This
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