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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 6h
Meloni: "we must be aware that the surge in fuel prices is due primarily to the war in Iran, not to the conflict in Ukraine. Therefore, the outcome of this choice is doubtful, while the risks are clear."
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6h
Reform's deputy leader on Solihull Council quit to be an independent yesterday, saying it was for personal reasons by mutual consent. It came a day before ITV news broadcast his racist comments when filned undercover. He says mass deportations must make Britain 99% white
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 8h
Do you feel betrayed? Zelensky: "Really, yes... It's a pity we are losing a strong partner." You think you're losing America? Zelensky" Yeah... It's not about business for us. It's just our life. And this our country, our body, our home, our children... This is not the right side of history."
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8h
Zelenskyy tells Piers Morgan Trump has betrayed him and that Musk and the US deliberately cut off Starlink and people are being killed as a result “This is not the right side of history. It is a pity that we are losing a strong partner”
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14h
Asked whether she has read the official report on Russian interference in UK elections, Kemi Badenoch's spokesman tells me "I suspect she has". Pushed again on whether he suspects, or actually knows that she has read it, he replies "I don't know"
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Ellie chats & rants @loopyleanne.bsky.social · 14h
Couldn’t agree more. If you are on Twitter still, get the fuck off it. That goes for the UK government too. Off. There are NO excuses to still be on it Follower numbers are NOT a good enough reason to stay. Half of them are probably bots anyway Ffs.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 14h
⚡️ BREAKING: President Zelenskyy has arrived in the UK for official high-level meetings. He is scheduled to meet with King Charles III and Prime Minister Burnham."
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h
French Far Right Rassemblement National leader and Putin puppet Marine Le Pen told the FT she would end French financial aid to Ukraine within six months of becoming president, oppose Ukraine’s EU membership and reconsider EU sanctions on Russia.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 15h
OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 17h
Reform’s ‘Independent’ Donations Inquiry Was Led By The Lawyer Who Defended Donald Trump Over Russian Collusion bylinetimes.com/2026/10/13/r...
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Reform’s 'Independent' Donations Inquiry Was Led By The Lawyer Who Defended Donald Trump Over Russian Collusion
Reform UK said its internal inquiry would proceed “independently and without prejudice” yet it was led by a barrister who has previously represented Nigel Farage and Donald Trump
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23h
Look, Zelensky signalling that the US has cut off all warning of Russian missile attacks on Ukraine.
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Spartacuss - 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇨🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @elbowsuk.bsky.social · 17h
The world should bring Musk down faster than a SpaceX rocket crashing out of orbit.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17h
It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 08/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch’s new booklet ‘The Right Way’ claims Labour extended the Energy Profits Levy to 2028 and 2029. But a Conservative government made the first of these extensions, and announced the second. (Labour’s since extended it again, to 2030.)
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The Conservatives - not Labour - extended the Energy Profits Levy to 2028 – Full Fact
Kemi Badenoch’s new party booklet says Labour extended the Energy Profits Levy to 2028 and 2029, but a Conservative government made the first of those extensions, and announced the second.
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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
and the bombing has already started. 7 minutes later. bsky.app/profile/ozka...
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Sharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
💼 Alan worked in the civil service for 34 years. He submitted his pension forms not once but twice. Capita confirmed they had received his forms back in December. So why is he still waiting for his pension to be paid? 😡 📢 Please watch, share, comment and tell Capita enough is enough!
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 12/10/2026
Nearly 4M Records of Enslaved People in 20 Former British Colonies Now Searchable Online. “The Former British Colonies Enslavement Registers contains about 300,000 pages recording enslaved people across former British colonial dependencies…” [theguardian.com]
theguardian.com
Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Burnham on Farage: "He's given Britain a decade of division and drift. I would hold him very significantly responsible for our failure to move forward in the last decade" Finally a proper response to that finagling spiteweasel
mirror.co.uk
Nigel Farage 'very significantly responsible' for UK's miserable decade says PM
Andy Burnham launched a rare personal attack on Nigel Farage as he tore into Brexit 'lies' over migration and accused the Reform UK chief of giving Britain a 'decade of division and drift'
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Bellingcat's latest documentary, Killing Anna, will be broadcast tonight on Channel 4 at 11:05pm, following the real life investigation into the Tadamon massacre in Syria. It'll also be available on More4 from tomorrow onwards www.channel4.com/programmes/k...
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12/10/2026
The plot is a golf course that has been derelict since 2017. There are 21 golf clubs within 10 miles. The land has been classed as grey belt. The council has designated the site for housing in its local plan. So, when a plan for 660 homes came to planning committee, it was, of course, DENIED.
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Sevenoaks’ Nimbys prefer a derelict golf course to housing
Local Plans are failing to build the homes they promise
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 12/10/2026
Exclusive: Do you remember the polling company Redfield and Wilton, which appeared from nowhere in early 2020, whose polls quickly appeared in lots of publications? The company’s director is a registered solicitor, prompting questions over where the polling expertise came from. Here’s the answer…
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Nigel Farage adviser had unpublicised role at polling firm
Exclusive: Chris Bruni-Lowe used Redfield & Wilton Strategies role to develop potential campaign tactics, sources say
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'll be talking to President Barack Obama in Glasgow. On Wednesday. Google is your friend for tickets.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Andy Burnham, "There is certainly misinformation and disinformation that is emanating from Russia into German politics" "These things are important now to put clearly on the record" "And help voters in Germany, France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies, Russia"
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 12/10/2026
Easy links to listen to the podcast For everyone www.BBC.co.uk/sounds/brand... (free, no licence fee needed but need to sign up) For Apple users... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... And if you listen to podcasts elsewhere it should be on that too
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Hoon @hoon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Guess who’s pissed off by the loss in right wing bot traffic?
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Eight years ago
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
it appears that the US tried to interfere with the govt it says is its greatest ally in Europe
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Reports claim Trump tried to change Poland's government. What do we know?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump posted that Putin and Zelenskyy agreed to a deal this morning for a cease fire on energy infrastructure. Zelenskyy is asked about it and says: “That’s news to me.”
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nothing is more important than intimidating asylum seekers
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🔴NEW🔴 Joint investigation by me and @hannahalothman.bsky.social at the Guardian Anne and Jane were 10 when they were sexually abused by a man working in their British army school. Two police investigations later, he has never been interviewed or arrested. Why? www.opendemocracy.net/british-army...
opendemocracy.net
Legal loophole denies justice to child abuse victims in British Army school
Exclusive: Questions over whether alleged abuse fell under military police’s jurisdiction is "travesty of justice"
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 10/10/2026
A High Court will rule whether the former prince will appear in the case of a former financier and an 80-year-old Turkish millionaire
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor could give evidence in fraud trial
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So let's get this straight: Russia just murdered over 65 people in Ukraine in less than 48 hours. Crushed a building on top of sleeping families to celebrate Putin's birthday. And today, the U.S. announces that they are lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and planning to buy some,
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🔴 NEW Reform UK’s James Orr’s Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister By @nafeez.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Reform UK’s James Orr’s Foundation Hosted Sanctioned Israeli Minister
The latest National Conservatism conference, held in Jerusalem, was co-sponsored by an Israeli NGO sanctioned by the EU and Canada
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Sharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
See here for details ⤵️
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I spoke to @lukeharding1968.bsky.social about his brilliant and shocking new book Betrayal, about being expelled from Moscow, Ukraine's resilience, the US's betrayal of its allies, and drinking Odessan wine in Kyiv. For @opendemocracy.net www.opendemocracy.net/podcasts/tru...
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Palantir and the art of Tax Avoidance
Luke Harding on Putin’s war, Biden’s hesitancy, Trump acting as a Russian asset, and Kremlin links to Brexit and Britain’s hard right.
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’ve covered death row cases for nearly a decade and witnessed several executions. What happened to Christa Pike wasn’t an anomaly. It could happen anywhere. With another execution planned for this week in Texas, let me explain why. THREAD 🧵
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — Nigel Farage-Backed Bitcoin Firm to Buy Gold Dealer That Paid Him £685,500 — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social The deal would put the Reform leader's gold bullion 'brand ambassador' fees in the hands of a crypto company he part-owns
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Nigel Farage-Backed Bitcoin Firm to Buy Gold Dealer That Paid Him £685,500
The deal would put the Reform leader's gold bullion 'brand ambassador' fees in the hands of a crypto company he part-owns
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
📌 ICYMI — Reform Council Leader’s Firm Advised £95 Million Project Which His Own Council Is a Partner… — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Cllr Paul Mackings' consultancy has advised on the South Tyneside College relocation since 2021 and his firm gave £111,000 to Reform UK weeks before he stood as a…
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Reform Council Leader’s Firm Advised £95 Million Project Which His Own Council Is a Partner…
Cllr Paul Mackings' consultancy has advised on the South Tyneside College relocation since 2021 and his firm gave £111,000 to Reform UK weeks before he stood as a candidate
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days
wired.com
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Flags on the Abingdon Road
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Reduction from 40k to 20k context in which a UK controlled route scheme of 2k-4k a month (20-40k) for a EU guarantee of returns (with joint patrols & juxtaposed controls) could now take unauthorised crossings below 5k for 2027-29 & effectively end smuggling route as a viable means to claim asylum
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Just in: TMZ says Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami.🔥🔥
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I went to Porto Montenegro to find out why so many Reform money men have businesses registered to a grubby looking office building a stone's throw from the luxury yachts on the glittering marina. Feat. me visiting my first casino. www.opendemocracy.net/inside-refor...
opendemocracy.net
Inside Reform and George Cottrell’s world in Montenegro
Why are some of Britain’s most controversial Reform-linked figures all operating out of a grubby office in a town of 11,000 people in the Balkans?
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The look of a cut-and-shut garage owner being collared by Roger Cook.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The treatment of this woman is absolutely outrageous and one of the most egregious corporate violations of free speech I've seen. I have just bought the book as a fuck you to Facebook. It's available here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/care...
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Careless People: A story of where I used to work
The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more.‘Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to b...
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
FT exclusive Nigel Farage’s 2015-16 Brexit rallies were unlawfully funded from the EU budget. European monies paid for anti-immigrant posters during the demagogue’s ‘Say No To The EU’ tour
ft.com
Nigel Farage’s Brexit rallies were funded from the EU budget
European monies paid for anti-immigrant posters during ‘Say No to EU’ tour
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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Why does it cost more for councils and housing associations to build new homes than it does the private sector? www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/why-is-...
insidehousing.co.uk
Why is development more expensive for social landlords?
Ahead of her session at Housing 2026, Anna Clarke, director of policy and public affairs at The Housing Forum, discusses a new report it has released.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 16/06/2026
This confirms something a lot of people in Westminster noticed: while Farage was happy to bluster through the Schoolboy Nazi stuff, he has gone to ground over the £5million "gift". The story has Reform worried.
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Three more big blasts. Sounded like air bursts - interceptions. Reports of more Zircons - five targets total incoming to Kyiv. Assumption Cathedral in Kyiv’s Pecherska Lavra reported on fire - reconstructed 11th century church was last destroyed by the Soviets in 1941.
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