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Fiona Gardner

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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
weird weird weird
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Voters loathed the Tory party when they booted them out in 2024.They really needed to shake off their disgrace with humility and better ideas. They haven’t. They’ve doubled down. More Brexit, more austerity, more anti-immigration ugliness, more tedious arrogance… and no good reason to vote for them.
Party seems to have learnt nothing from 2024 defeat
John Oxley

The Conservative Party is keen to show it is now ready to return to government, two and a half years after a
historic defeat.Their self-soothing explanation posits that defeat came from not being able to do what they wanted 

No such pivot is happening at the current conference. The Tories have come to Birmingham calling for a return to orthodoxy, with similar lines about cutting benefits and regulation. Even so, they seem trapped by the same contradictions
- pledging to cut benefits, but not the winter fuel payments and triple lock on pensions that go to their voters.
There is no "hug-a-hoodie" moment in Birmingham. The Conservative Party is not indicating that it has changed or seeking to broaden its appeal. It is doing the opposite: it is a party returning to its core, restating all the old ideas voters have rejected but louder.
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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
World’s largest penguin colony suffers ‘enormous population crash’: Chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski Island in Antarctica down by two-thirds since 2011, probably due to climate crisis The world’s largest penguin colony has declined by two-thirds since 2011, most likely because of the clim...
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World’s largest penguin colony suffers ‘enormous population crash’
World’s largest penguin colony suffers ‘enormous population crash’: Chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski Island in Antarctica down by two-thirds since 2011, probably due to climate crisis The world’s largest penguin colony has declined by two-thirds since 2011, most likely because of the clim...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.
THE
TIMES
Wednesday October 7 2026

Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes, I am 🤬
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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
why would you be so stupid - environment is for all of us
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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
and that's very bad news for the Amazon rainforest too
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…
Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exactly 😤😡
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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sooner the better
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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He just can’t resist it - plus any diversion from his own corruption
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Laura Kuenssberg - who is paid over £400k a year - asks Andy Burnham where the money to pay for social care will come from. One obvious answer would be higher taxes on people paid over £400k a year.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Burnham today v impressive. The idea itself, the scale of what is being proposed, the determination to push ahead despite how vulnerable it makes him, and the big fundamental point behind it all: that mainstream politics will only survive if it proves it can solve big problems.
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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ha ha - of course another oppressed minority (not)
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Universities are supposed to be places that question power and hold corporations to account." Yes - really @newcastleuni.bsky.social?! www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University
Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
👏😂👇
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Imagine looking at ICE… Those unruly, violent, incel thugs, and the chaos, fear and murder they’ve brought to the streets of America, and thinking...that’s what Britain needs. Well, Nigel Farage has.
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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Seriously frightening
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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
‘Jaw-dropping’: Super El Niño bursts through temperature record months ahead of peak: The ‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will heavily impact communities across the world The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the h...
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‘Jaw-dropping’: Super El Niño bursts through temperature record months ahead of peak
‘Jaw-dropping’: Super El Niño bursts through temperature record months ahead of peak: The ‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will heavily impact communities across the world The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the h...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BBC - wake up … concentrate you are pandering to the right wing - AGAIN
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely horrifying. How can our government be planning to drill for new oil and gas when we know these are the consequences? We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.
Babies will face almost twice as much extreme fire weather in Europe that great grandparents
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.
Independent front page. 

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position  18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%
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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
why turn the RNLI into the enemy - most normal people love this charity
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone remember that time when two fighting aged men living at those barracks ran amok and assaulted a member of the public.... why didn't Piddington declare independence then I wonder? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2324828...
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Soldiers banned from every pub in Bicester after 'dreadful' attack on civilian
Bradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One thing I can’t forget is that Nigel Farage used to hiss like a gas chamber to his Jewish classmates. Says all you need to know about him.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"... the Electoral Commission has now confirmed it is considering a complaint concerning hospitality provided to Nigel Farage and senior Reform figures during fundraising events in Dubai" via Truth Against Hate ps Dubai is a Muslim country with Sharia Law - which Reform say they hate
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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yes exactly- think of all the good that those millions could do for child poverty…
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
69% of Brits now see Nigel Farage unfavourably, the highest recorded by YouGov tracker to date - with just a quarter having a favourable opinion
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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Truly dreadful and destructive
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Two crypto billionaires give Reform £72million in one weekend… to create a “level playing field”… as a “philanthropic gift to the country” Or.. back in the real world… yet more brazen corruption and greed with a strong whiff of treasonous criminality. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage knew Putin was using crypto to evade sanctions - but invested in it anywayLate last year Mr Farage told a crypto conference "I am your champion". In October he told a blockchain conference that "people should hold crypto as part of their portfolio. At another event a month later he admitted
"I have got some crypto investments that are long-term".
Putin used crypto to evade sanctions (Reuters)
Mr Farage is under investigation for an undeclared £5m donation from Reform's biggest donor, Christopher Harborne, who is a cryptocurrency billionaire
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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a good letter
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Think Reform fucked it with their donations. They're so outrageous, so obviously obscene, that they've managed to accidentally create a consensus for tougher action on political funding.
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MrMirth @mrmirth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is what the BBC calls 'news'. Released today. It's just a blatant platforming of Reform. It's meaningless and is not news.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The largest single cash donation the Labour Party ever received is £4 million Reform receives two £36m donations in 2 days, one from a convicted felon Why oh why didn’t they set a £5 million cap when they could❗️🤷‍♂️ Instead they let UK democracy be sold to dodgy, tax dodging far right billionaires🤦‍♂️
bbc.co.uk
Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record
Christopher Harborne says he has equalled a donation from Ben Delo - the single largest gift to a UK political party.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform UK's record-breaking donor was accused of running “in effect a money laundering platform”. Prosecutors accused Delo of being the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who knew that his Bitmex platform had become a “magnet for money laundering and criminal activity”.
adambienkov.co.uk
Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry
As criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ffs. Well, it’s up to us to make sure that their grubby ‘investment’ is a phenomenal waste of money. Reform is a shitshow of crooks and idiots who have no idea how to behave, let alone govern. The majority of us who loathe them must unite to keep them out of power forever.
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IS HE DEAD YET? ..Dave hater of racism , ignorance and hypocrisy @davehaterofracism.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
BBC NEWS NOW ' Nigel Farage says Reform UK has broken no laws ' may I suggest a different version? ' despite video evidence showing the contrary Nigel Farage says Reform UK has broken no laws '
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gypitneep.bsky.social @gypitneep.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nigel Farage is a bore. A loud-mouth, grifting bore.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Andy Burnham's first speech, "From the 1980s this country took a series of wrong turns" "Political power was centralised" "Economic power, privatised" "The country, deindustrialised" "Austerity followed" "And then Brexit compounded the damage" "Change begins with honesty"
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Bhutan should take Britain's permanent seat on the UN Security Council because Bhutan actually finds solutions to the world's ills. As well as measuring progress using Gross National Happiness (GNH) instead of GDP, this tiny country is pioneering conscious eating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Bhutan hosts first ‘conscious food summit’ amid threats to global supplies
Organisers say people must revive spiritual relationship with food amid double threat of climate crisis and conflict
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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
still love this film ...
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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
shocking - and when calle dout the BBC denies it ...very odd
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Fiona Gardner @contemplative0.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
yes not just strange but delusional - BBC let Reform go
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