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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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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Paul Nowak of TUC giving a high priority to making sure the government's final settlement reforms (post-consultation) don't make people wait 15 years. [In most cases, they would lose their legal status first] The PM sounds minded to agree but tbc www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary

Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“The idea that you could be here for the next 10, 15 years and you’d still have no legal right to remain in the country … how the hell do you plan?..It cuts across any effort to integrate at all.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary

Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is why I spend every waking hour - last night until 6am - doing this podcast. Because every click, every follow, subscription, and reply, is proof that we are not the only sane people left, looking on and asking, WHY IS EVERYONE TREATING THIS AS IF IT IS NORMAL? bsky.app/profile/quie...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A man who's not even an MP declares himself Shadow Home Sec, another resigns from a Great Office of State he's never held, two men with zero standing to represent UK and France sign a treaty and instead of exposing this bizarre festival of delusion media is praising their reenactment costumes. WTAF

Dear Nigel,
5 September 2026
MY COMMITMENT
At Reform UK's conference today, I have publicly committed to increasing the tax-free Personal Allowance to £15,000, in my first Budget called within the first 100 days of a Reform government.
This change would cut taxes for 40 million British taxpayers.
It would take 2.9 million people out of income tax altogether. It would ensure that the State Pension was not taxed.
It would be worth almost £1000 to an average working couple.
It would form the centerpiece of a new bargain with British workers; a new bargain that puts them first, and ahead of welfare cheats, foreign nations, and the bloated civil service.
MY OFFER OF RESIGNATION
This isn't an aspiration, nor is it an aim. It is a promise. It is a promise I made to thousands of party members in Birmingham and millions of voters across the country live and on camera. And it is a promise I plan to keер.
If I do not deliver it, I should not remain Chancellor. Please consider this my letter of resignation.
failing to The British people are sick and tired of Chancellors and Governments deliver on their promises. In business, those who fail to deliver are sacked, not given honours. Reform, as a party of successful businesspeople, will bring that culture to Westminster. The British people deserve accountability and, with you as Prime Minister, they will get it.
Britain is broken. Britain needs Reform. And we must deliver.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Jennick.
Robert Jenrick MP

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 03/09/2026

'The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.' Gloria Steinem (1934-2026). She died on Wednesday 2 September 2026 at the age of 92. Today we celebrate her life and legacy. She will be sorely missed.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Will making it harder/impossible for care workers/middle skill migrants on work visas to settle improve integration cohesion? No. But will it save money/be good for the economy? Absolutely not, quite the opposite. But at least it's popular? .......... inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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Exempt care workers from hardline immigration reforms, voters say

Shabana Mahmood plans to double the waiting period for immigrants to qualify for indefinite leave to remain

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Iceland is not in the EU, but it is a member of the Schengen area. It’s also a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and is part of the Single Market, meaning it enjoys freedom of movement with the EU. Good to know that doesn’t impact their independence. Maybe we should try it, Nige.

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@Nigel_Farage
Congratulations to Iceland on voting to keep their independence.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 16/08/2026

it's odd to me that the resistance to all this seems to be a one-man operation, and that one man is Sunder, but I thank him for his service. I just don't get how all this is allowed to fester, it's not like we can't guess the consequences

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Ok, some thoughts, as an olde tyme academic, on the Arday tragedy. First, allegations about causes. We don't know what was in his mind, but many people are keen to blame him, or woke lefties/academia, or the media. Some people are absolutely certain that the media are faultless. 1/

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/08/2026

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We will also do a follow up the day after the show has gone out

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tobyontour @tobyontour.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

He got about twice as many votes as the Count. Maybe we should start calling him Nigel Two Bins simply because I imagine he’s the kind of person who’d find that really annoying.

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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Worth keeping in mind that it’s not like Reform took victory for granted: they were actively campaigning for the seat. Its MPs made themselves available to go door knocking and do the media rounds. They were doing GOTV on election day. And they were literally the only party doing so

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This morning the website of Parliament’s standards commissioner has been updated to confirm that his investigation is no longer suspended

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Plenty of evidence that this is a negative policy step. Doctors, scientists: don’t just roll your eyes - call it out. The attack on truth, on institutional trust, is cynical and calculated. We must respond. 🧪 #medsky #episky #academicsky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump signs order attempting to override CDC vaccine schedule and break up MMR shots

Order also recommends all shots be given at separate medical visits though cost of doing them together is lower

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Excellent piece by @samfr.bsky.social. If you're using the term "Boriswave", you're doing the work of the alt-right. The Starmer-McSweeney leadership took this up as an attack line. But as they so often discovered, if you adopt your opponents' diagnosis, it becomes hard to avoid their solutions.

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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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‘Scandi wings’ offering pianos, pool and tea parties coul...

A unit in London’s Wandsworth prison has been transformed using methods from Sweden and Norway that prioritise rehabilitation over retribution

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

More than half of accounts posting about violence in Belfast & Southampton on X were based overseas. Only 4 of the 12 most-seen posts were from the UK. X is now "“a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking & divisive content". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

"Nearly a third of all 43,000 posts on X relating to the two incidents contained racist or anti-immigration comments. Almost one in 10 relating to Belfast contained calls for violence or paramilitary or vigilante action.

Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, said the data demonstrated that X had become “a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking and divisive content.

Their goal, he added, was “to amplify local tragedies and crises, intensify racist narratives, and incite violence in communities they have never set foot in and to whom they have no real connection.”"

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Eddie Robson will be at Fantasycon @eddierobson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This reaction is hilarious. Is it really going to take that much of your resources to build a "cancel my subscription" form on the website instead of forcing people to phone someone whose job is not to process your cancellation but talk you into staying.

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Atul Hatwal @atulhatwal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I was speaking to a Minister at a social thing a few weeks ago about this, they're excellent in all respects on these types of issues, hadn't a clue about the coming impact and basically didn't believe the govt would have a policy that did this

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In case you missed it over the weekend... Some Questions for Channel 4, about their documentary ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’ theneuroscienceofeve... Channel 4 have many questions to answer about their upcoming 'documentary'. Here are some of the most pressing #ADHD #C4

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I genuinely don't understand how @antoniabance.bsky.social gets from "I don't need mad speeches from the PM about strangers" [top] to "I'm broadly fine with [forced remigration of 100,000s of people who came here legally to work]" [bottom] ..which was the "mad speech about strangers" policy..

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

An American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities. Following a "strong warning" from Greenland's govenrment, Trump again posted an AI generated imag... TAT: [Foreign policy | Corruption]

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Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill

Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling

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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Everything about this case shows how the abuse of women is wallpaper, just expected part of life. He should have been remanded, he should have been considered high risk. He should have been charged in a timely manner for every offence and for god sake someone should have seen the pattern.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Local MP Terry Jermy does say what is necessary - but is missing from the Home Office media statement www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is a really inadequate Home Office statement in these circumstancds It empathises with this protest as expressing legitimate concerns, singles out violence against police, and simply fails to say "violence threatening asylum seekers, migrants & other minorities is shocking + wrong"

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sad to see the Home Office is still failing under Andy Burnham but then he didn't remove the rot from the top so not really a surprise.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Reminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.

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Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened

Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 05/08/2026

Trump may have unintentionally demonstrated one of MMT's core ideas, writes Prof Richard Murphy. Governments that issue their own currency don't run out of money. They run into resource limits. Inflation appears when spending outruns available capacity – not because governments "run out" of cash.

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Traditional economics is wrong: Donald Trump has proved it

Conventional economics says that governments can only do what they can pay for. Trump’s war proves its not true

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 04/08/2026

Here's a piece from me about the decision against Sex Matters on Friday, and its wider implications 👇

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New post out: There's going to be a lot of talk about wealth taxes in the run up to the budget. So we asked one of the country's leading experts to give us a ten year plan for doing it right. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

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The right way to tax wealth

A 10 year programme for an incoming government

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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · 03/08/2026

Andy Burnham’s initial priorities for devolution have a sound logic. But all eyes will now be on the autumn white paper to back it up www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/andy...

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Andy Burnham’s devolution announcement is a strong start on his priority agenda | Institute for Government

Changes on tax, new powers and institutions show Burnham means business.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/08/2026

BREAKING Reform UK's Richard Tice is being investigated by the parliamentary standards watchdog over an allegation that he failed to declare an interest.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

NEW How the BBC turned the litigation table on Trump The president now faces a dilemma about revealing his business records By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

And so in another splendid Order in this case, the court sided firmly with the BBC. Nothing in the litigation rules means that disclosure can be delayed. Trump’s lawyers wanted to hide behind an “expert report” at trial setting out the purported damage. But the court said the documents need to be produced now.

Trump’s representatives even contended that producing the business records would be “overbroad” even though they are claiming an astronomical amount of damage to Trump’s commercial interests. Trump and his lawyers essentially wanted it both ways: to mount a wide-ranging damages claim but with the narrowest range of produced documents to support that claim. The court said no.

As with many other things to do with Trump, this case smacks of bluster but little tactical (and still less strategic) thought. What seemed a powerful first move was not really thought through. Trump presumably assumed the BBC, like other entities he has brought suits against, would simply fold. But the BBC also said no.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Fascinating change in BBC news bulletins about Reform. Farage announcement on small boats only gets the third spot and is balanced by critics saying he's trying to distract from allegations over his finances. Quite the change from the uncritical coverage earlier this year.

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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

After Farage used Widdecombe's death into an opportunity to deflect from corruption, my satirical deep dive examines how right-wing populists weaponise tragedy and perform victimhood by turning our outrage into political capital. This one’s for free! 👇🏻 supertanskiii.substack.com/p/mournhub-w...

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MournHub: What Farage's Hardcore Mourn Says About Reform

Nigel Farage's response to Ann Widdecombe's murder was a case study in how right-wing populism turns tragedy into political opportunity.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I need to read a deep dive into how David Lammy ever thought perpetrators of violent sexual crimes would not have to be excluded from any early release scheme. With every concern for prison safety, it is so baffling I’d love to know why it seemed a good idea. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Burnham to focus on keeping child rapists in prison as release scheme talks enter final day

Review goes down to the wire after ministers speak with victims’ representatives and support services

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

THIS!!! Of course school closures were painful at the time but imagine how many more children would have lost PARENTS and how much worse that would have been in the long run. There was no fun and convenient way to deal with a new lethal virus. The lockdowns were needed.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Crazy the way this keeps happening....

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 02/08/2026

Sunday Times Insight team (along with the Guardian) continue to crack open ReFUK’s dodgy money claims and finances - every Sunday now for several weeks. Murkier and more dodgy by the day.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Here are those special rules on Ceuta and Melilla as regards Schengen - dating back to Spain acceding to the Schengen Convention eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Rupert Lowe pitches a deal from Restore to Farage's Reform. His conditions are full adoption of Restore's policies on mass deportations" including "millions must go" slogan on legal migrants + his policies on Islam + a referendum on death penalty + the ditching of Rupert Jenrick & Suella Braverman

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's really hard to see how Farage can avoid a sanction for breaking rules on declarations. At very least he was clearly considering a return when the Harborne donation happened. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Nigel Farage struck Reform comeback deal long before election

Supervised by the convicted fraudster George Cottrell, the agreement undermines Farage’s claim about when he decided to return to politics

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...

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The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center

The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

NEW: The Abramovich connection. How convicted money launderer George Cottrell - & close aide to Nigel Farage - ‘signed documents’ for one of Putin’s closest allies. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/george-cot...

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Farage, George Cottrell and Putin’s friend Abramovich

Source reveals convicted money launderer and Reform leader’s close ally worked as a young man for the now-sanctioned oligarch after becoming friends with his son. Report by Carole Cadwalladr

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