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Mel Stevens

@crispin-even.bsky.social
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Love Europe, hate Brexit. Play a bit of sax.

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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today before Senate.
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Lady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An actual cartoon from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 24/09/2026
Our megapoll with YouGov shows that more than 99% of GB constituencies want to rejoin the EU. We spoke with people in Holborn and St Pancras, where a by-election is taking place next week. They confirmed that a party that putting EU membership in its manifesto would win their votes.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The total weaponisation of the poppy over the last ten years by the right is undoubtedly one of the more unpleasant and depressing elements in our national pantomime. It's become a de facto nationalist symbol.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Would be good if we had a PM prepared to talk honestly about what responsible sovereignty should mean, rather than sticking with the brexity version that’s all about rejecting teamwork, bowing to Trump, erecting monumental trade barriers and waving big ‘you’re not welcome’ signs at foreigners.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
His brain is completely broken. What the actual fuck is this nonsense
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This from a party with liberal in the title. Zero moral leadership from either Labour or the Lib Dems on this issue
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Mel Stevens @crispin-even.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Britain's future relationship with Europe is being debated in Parliament on 12th October. I've just asked my MP to attend. Will you ask yours? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...
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Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/09/2026
Mark Carney has learnt the lesson that neither Canada nor the UK can rely on the US. The EU is Britain's closest partner. EU membership is a no-brainer.
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The Guardian view on EU-Canada relations: strategic ambition with lessons for Britain | Editorial
Editorial: Mark Carney’s response to the challenges posed by an unreliable US president contains a clarity of vision tha
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Mel Stevens @crispin-even.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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'What does this man need even more money for?’
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Mel Stevens @crispin-even.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Honest Government Ad | Palantir
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good plan, Australia and Canada. Huge sigh, UK. How long do we wait, how much do we lose, how stupid do we have to be?
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/09/2026
Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.
Chart showing global annual temperature abnormalities between 1880 and 2024
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We shall grant Piddington independence. Then we will colonise it and civilise its inhabitants until they achieve the kind of maturity required to govern themselves inews.co.uk/opinion/pidd...
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Piddington, you're welcome to leave the UK. Don't let the door hit you on the way out
Ian Dunt: The village that ‘roared’ has swallowed the far-right’s lies
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Stéphanie Taberner 🔶 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 @singlesfield.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyone has an update on the Parliamentary standards investigation into Farage? Unrelatedly, clearly, I am wondering who and what can be purchased for £72 millions?
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Steve @tnsteve.com · 12/09/2026
Happy to help translate trump bullshit for you.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13/09/2026
⚠️ "Reform is facing questions about explicit links to the nationalist hard right after Ryan Bridge, a co-founder of the anti-migrant Raise the Colours group, was given a prominent platform at Reform’s conference, where Farage pledged to “legally back” him."
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Reform UK beset by internal row over response to Dover and Portsmouth protests
Nigel Farage said demonstrators in balaclavas were ‘horrible’, but others in the party defend them as ‘brave, passionate
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Tomorrow night, Channel 4 Dispatches airs the findings of a year-long investigation into Tommy Robinson’s finances. Watch it. Then come back here. We’ve got more to show you.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Denmark built so much wind that some blustery hours the turbines out-produce what the whole country is using. When that happens, the extra power doesn’t sit idle. It moves through Denmark’s links into the wider European network and heads to neighbors like Germany, Norway, Sweden. #ActOnClimate
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Mel Stevens @crispin-even.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Is Farage F**ked?
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Mel Stevens @crispin-even.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
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Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just Nadine Dorries digging a hole so cavenous and wide as to be visible from Pluto. youtu.be/9Et3igGEKUs?...
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Nadine Dorries quizzed over Reform’s secret donations plot
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 04/09/2026
Three senior Reform figures were involved in those Channel 4 revelations we saw last night. Two have been kicked out. The third is Nigel Farage. Farage should be suspended while this matter is investigated. He has very serious questions to answer.
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New revelations linking jailed ex-Reform Wales leader Nathan Gill to a wider pro-Russian influence network expose deep flaws on the right. Farage’s "bad apple" defense collapses as more Kremlin links surface. How deep does host-state influence really run? 🤔 #FBPE
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Nathan Gill 'part of bigger pro-Russian network than has yet been exposed'
Martin Shipton A British journalist who has described Putin’s Russia as a “Mafia state” has written a book in which he suggests that Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s jailed former leader in Wales, was part of...
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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💙 amsterdamred 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪 Please NO DM'S Please. Just an Old Hippie @amsterdamred-5280.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Did it die overnight? Anyone or any country that has access should release the Epstein files in full, only REDACTING the victims (children who were sexually assaulted) and leaving the perpetrators UNREDACTED. Everyone needs to know the names of the scum.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
'Farage in 2016: “The worst case scenario, economically, is better than where we are today.” 10 years after 'today'' "98.2% of UK businesses want to rejoin the EU single market" meme via Mina Rodgers
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I had an operation yesterday in Newcastle with consultant surgeon, chief anaesthetist, ~60% of nurses, support staff not white, and most of the white ones not English It went very well! "Immigration helped build this once great nation and still continues to do so" via The UK Against Hate
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Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
That is 6% of Texas voters. That is HUGE. I hope folks who care about voting spend some of their energy trying to help Texans who are being disenfranchised. Texans, please check your own voter registration, and help those you love check theirs. 👇🏽 goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
‘Brexit lies are exposed, the debate is settled… we must rejoin the EU’ – Sadiq Khan This is searing stuff from Sadiq Khan, and his arguments for the UK to rejoin the EU are as clear and comprehensive as it gets. #RejoinEU www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sad...
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'Brexit lies are exposed, the debate is settled... we must rejoin the EU' - Sadiq Khan
This is searing stuff from Sadiq Khan, and his arguments for the UK to rejoin the EU are as clear and comprehensive as it gets.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“When the Brexit referendum happened, I didn’t believe any UK government would seek the deal we ended up with; I couldn’t imagine a govt would inflict this on its own nation” … or, worse, that they’d keep on inflicting it. FFS, just stop this Brexit madness. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
True cost of Brexit on UK trade revealed as calls to rejoin single market grow
• Britain is still counting the cost - and paying the price
- of BrexitHow have businesses reacted to Brexit?
A major survey of business leaders by the European Movement UK shows that the vast majority say Brexit has impacted their firms, and would support closer ties with the EU:
98.2% support accessing the European Single Market
96.4% Brexit has been bad for their communities
78.6% pessimistic about economic growth
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72.8% negatively impacted by
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Donald Trump's plan is to privatize ALL of the USA's valuable National Park land, an area the size of France + the UK. It will make him and the billionaires hundreds of trillions of Dollars and destroy what little remains of natural beauty in the USA.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If 10yrs on, £Billions wasted and zero benefits later makes you angry enough about Brexit, then don’t be checking this out to see just how much we threw away, risked and lost, so we could crow about sovereignty and put flags on roundabouts instead. what-europe-does-for-me.europarl.europa.eu/en/focus
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What Europe does for me - #EUandME
How does Europe affect our everyday lives? How does it impact our jobs, our families, our health care, our hobbies, our journeys, our security, our consumer choices and our social rights? And how is E...
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The missing Epstein files are back in the headlines, and the official explanations sound more pathetic than ever.. If evidence can vanish inside a federal chain, people should go to jail or hell. #Epstein
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Our rapid disillusionment with political leaders is treated by much of the media as some kind of pathology. But what I see is these leaders backtracking on their promises, dashing people's hopes and serving the ultra-rich ahead of the rest of the population. Why wouldn't we be disillusioned?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I mean… this is a painful watch. Here we are, Brexit Britain, in our not-so-splendid isolation, being battered on trade, less secure, less reliable, less trusted… just so much less… Canada wants in and we still can’t admit what arrogant, clueless fools we were for throwing it all away.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Iran and Canada now have a joint interest in harming the U.S. economy ahead of the midterms. Of all countries. If you’re going to start a war with an adversary—shouldn’t have done this one, but if—then it’s wise to line-up allied support in advance, not to pick fights with allies at the same time.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23/08/2026
So much for the tidal wave about to break over British politics, Reform UK is a party that would struggle to run a bath. They're now losing a councillor every three days. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/refo…
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Reform loses newly-elected councillor every three days as troubles mount
EXCLUSIVE: A new online tracker by campaign group Best For Britain shows 35 newly-elected Reform councillors have quit o
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The hellbound horror of GCSEs iandunt.substack.com/p/the-hellbo...
Once GCSEs started, that all ended. Education stopped being about learning and started being about passing exams. In fact, it barely counted as education at all. It degenerated into little more than a memory exercise. Can you take information from Source A - your revision notes - retain it, and then input it into Source B - the exam paper. This system produced very reliable exam results, which were used to promote the school to the next set of parents, but it did not produce, did not even aim to produce, people with a love of knowledge or a natural curiosity about the world. It was actually completely indifferent to curiosity. Speaking about it in that context would be like trying to insert Smarties into a slot machine.

At the point of GCSEs, we really do lose that greater educational virtue. We gain things - the work ethic, the need to perform - but we lose things too. And that loss, the complete absence of any genuine intellectual endeavor, is why GCSEs are often such a harrowing period.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19/08/2026
In 1965, CEOs were paid 21 times as much as a typical worker. Today, that number has spiked to 281. The system is rigged and it's time we level the playing field.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
REMEMBER: They all knew.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Legacy media failed Americans once again on Sun. by not posing a single question about the Epstein Files & contempt of court to Todd Blanche. Instead, he made blanket assertions w/no push-back or follow-up. At least independent media is independent, even if the DOJ isn’t. youtu.be/RLpl0ILXCXo?...
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AG Blanche HUMILIATES Himself With SHOCKING Admission On LIVE TV!!
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Two thirds of articles about the wildfires didn't mention climate change. Once again parts of our media are failing at the most basic part of their job - reporting the truth. uk.themedialeader.com/two-thirds-o...
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Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven't mentioned climate change
Analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit adds to concerns that national newspapers are failing to link this summer's extreme weather to climate change and the net-zero policies necessary to mitigate its drastic effects.
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AnthonyF272 @anthonyf272.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The news media that has broadcast Reform's suggestions about stopping EU citizens resident in UK, claiming benefits, causes huge damage to this country. The world sees how weak the UK government is. Labour should have clamped down on the BBC's bias, the day they got into office.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It's as if "Parody Nigel Farage" lives in the Reform UK leaders head ...
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