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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h

Perhaps the head of the British Army should not be doing media appearances instructing the public to accept massive benefit cuts? Perhaps he should be fired for doing that, and replaced by a different Rupert who will keep his nose out of politics.

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A powerful intervention from the head of the Army. Something is coming, and government needs to wake up.
He says the public will have to make sacrifices so we can prioritise defence and security.
This is no time for "national security can't come at the expense of social security". Hard choices are coming whether ministers like it or not.
I have been clear where I would start: cut welfare spending and put the money into defence.

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johngrimley.bsky.social @johngrimley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Scottish politics is so fkn inspiring! It’s the only place on Earth where Labour and Tories can look into each others eyes, put aside decades of arguments, and whisper, "Together... we can stop them having nice things." ❤️🤝🇬🇧 #Indyref Or #VoteGreens

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Myth busting about Scotland's 'need' for data centres feat. angry moorhen (Follow us on insta at stopaidatacentres.scot)

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Liz McKinlay🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @fagashlil44.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dear ch4 news: Re your piece on Drug deaths in Scotland; you did not explain the calculations of drug deaths are collected by different criteria than rUK. You also did not explain that Drug Misuse is not devolved to the Scottish Parliament. It is reserved to Westminster. Why not?

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No doubt the EU needs reforms. But calling both for a 'Europe of nations' and the EU as a global power is an example of where this 'big nations' thinking that led to Brexit has brought us.

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Full report is here and we will see what kind of debate it triggers within Labour. But sorry UK friends, if you approach negotiations with the EU as demandeur requesting it bends to the British will, nothing has been learned in the past 10 years.

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tony Blair rejoins the growing voices of those calling for an abandonment of Labour EU red lines and reversing Brexit. But in a symbol of all that was wrong with the Remain campaign, he does so saying the UK should only rejoin if its demands on EU reform are met 🧐

So, this is not about rerunning the debates of 2016 but taking a new approach rooted in the reality of 2026.

There is no point in inching towards Europe as we feel what British public opinion might accommodate. We should be clear that we want back into a formal relationship with the EU. But it must be a Europe on a credible path to reform, a Europe of nation states, a Europe capable of being a genuine global power. Otherwise, though Britain should continue to cooperate with the EU where it is in our mutual interest to do so, and though we should always remain open to changing circumstances, Britain will show that it can and is prepared to remain independent.

Tony Blair, Executive Chairman

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Dawny B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Always liked Gary x

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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The state pension is not a benefit, the deal was we paid National Insurance to cover our State Pension and the NHS and because successive governments have squandered our National Insurance contributions elsewhere they are now trying to claim it’s a benefit in kind, absolute bollocks.

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Matriarchy Now @matriarchy.now · 21/09/2026

Raise your hand if you don’t give a fuck what bathroom people use 🙋🏻‍♂️

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My contribution to ‘Paste, Present, Future’ project, celebrating 35 years of @bigissueuk. Signed, numbered versions of available at Big Issue shop. Lots of other pieces from amazing artists, 25% of sales going to Big Issue. Massive thank you to @grow_up_art_ 👇👇 www.bigissueshop.com/collection/p...

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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Irish President Catherine Connolly shoved Trump behind the smallest desk she could find and my God, she understood the entire fucking assignment. 😹😹😹

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Flintlock. Why do all these nerds follow me? I'm not a nerd. @flintlock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Been thinking about this (from Huw Lemmey) a lot again recently.

You come to understand that the class system soaks into everything in Britain: how, at the top, they’re all essentially the same. The socialists are all aristocrats, the satirists are all bullies. Everyone is related to each other, or went to school with each other, and all are invested in keeping the class motor running. I myself went through a process that I think is a common disillusion. As an socialist eighteen year old, full of rage, you think Britain is a cesspit of conservatism, ruled at the top by a parasitic monarchy, where everything is rigged in favour of the rich. You think Britain is a closed shop where an Oxbridge elite perpetuate a system of patronage, of jobs for friends and the children of friends, where mediocrities rise to fame and fortune and where those who are talented but aren’t rich and white and usually straight and male rise only as performing seals or in order to line their pockets or flatter their egos. You think Britain is only a simulation of a democracy, where opposition is tolerated only so far as it shores up the establishment, tarts up the place to look a bit more modern, or where criticism is allowed only as an escape valve, to release pressure, where satire is a jester to a court that laughs then continues just the same.

Then you grow up a bit, and realise, of course, things are a little more complicated than that. Change is a slow process, realised in incremental steps that might seem invisible in the short term. Negotiation is the British story, the slow accretion of progress, the winning over of heart and mind. You get over your youthful idealism and realise that, while change is slow, the process does perhaps work. Not ideally, and not every time, but the power elites that once dominated British culture and society are seeing their power eroded in favour of a more open, egalitarian, and democratic national culture. Then you grow up some more, and realise you were right the first time, and the joke isn’t funny anymore.

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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's insulting to Rachel Johnson to be continually known as the sister of the former PM Boris Johnson. She's her own woman and more than capable of being an arsehole in her own right.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🇬🇧 Not only does Baron Sharon Davis have ‘legitimate concerns’ about people being foreign, she’s also unhappy about too many pence being spent on children’s breakfasts Maybe Her Toryness should start looking at ending subsidised HoL bars, and £370 (tax free) per day for her and her ermine pals? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🇬🇧 LABOUR promised to “Save Grangemouth” at GE2024 🇬🇧 LABOUR then promised to “Save the jobs” at Grangemouth 🇬🇧 LABOUR saved NONE of the Grangemouth jobs, but promised £200M investment in the town 🇬🇧 LABOUR then spent f*** all in Grangemouth 🇬🇧 LABOUR take Scots for absolute mugs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet?🇪🇺

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What the fuck do they mean 'spontaneous protest'? 1000 people spontaneously taking a walk around Dover with Balaclavas? Look at the social media of every Far-Right organiser in the UK... This was so clearly planned. This tells every Far-Right thug in the country that they have utter impunity.

BBC news reporting on the Far-Right blockade of Dover in which Kent Police call the activity a 'spontaneous protest'

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/09/2026

How could an associate professor in divinity at Cambridge be expected to know that lying is bad? thecritic.co.uk/mone...

Ah yes, James Orr. A lot of us had been hazy about what it is exactly that associate professors in a divinity department do all day. It doesn’t seem to involve a lot of work: Orr is often to be seen at Reform events in London, which take up the whole morning even for those of us with offices down the road. Now we know he was also sipping cocktails while discussing ways in which wealthy foreigners might be able to get round the laws that ban them donating to the party.

The associate professor of divinity was filmed explaining to an undercover reporter that so long as everyone kept their mouths shut, there was no way that the authorities would ever find out. Orr spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow in theology, ethics and public life at Oxford, and it would be fascinating to know at what point he developed this theory of What the Electoral Commission Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Them. Perhaps he was off sick the day they opened the gospel of Luke: “What you have said in the dark will be h

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ColinF @colinf86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Bright eyes - Art Garfunkel

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para-handy.bsky.social @para-handy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Lord Anas Sarwar Baron Sarwar of Maxwell Park Member of the 2nd Largest Unelected Legislature in the World Maker of Laws over the People without their mandate at the Ballot Box Lord over commoners Feudal Superior of the people Champagne Socialist Shameless Hypocrite Labour Greasy Pole Climber

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Town Crier: Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

ALT: Town Crier: Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

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The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Why are over 70 Kirkintilloch businesses in a WhatsApp group, declaring war with a local organisation (one that gets £40,000 annually from the local council, no less) supposedly set up to help them? 🚨 Find out now: www.glasgowbell.co.uk/kirkintilloc...

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James Aithie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jamesaithie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Andy Burnham will make his first address as PM to the Commons later today. He is expected to tell MPs that he won't stand by and watch as bills go up." "Kemi Badenoch is expected to say "Labour have done exactly that for 2 years." "The PM is expected to reply "I won't take any lessons from her"."

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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This from the biggest toss pot in known to man.

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Alan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I had a mate who visited Moscow before the wall came down. He met a guy in a bar and managed to buy his military cap for the price of a few beers. He was cutting around Glasgow for months wearing it until someone told him the Cyrillic writing on the front meant "Bus Conductor".

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As I board the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, I’m reminded yet again of three things about the EU: 1) You don’t sacrifice any of your national identity or culture by being part of the EU. Estonia remains Estonia. Finland remains Finland 2) Schengen is great. 3) Brexit was and is shit.

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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

still one of the greatest conversations ever put on TV.

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