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Damian Cummings

@damiancummings.bsky.social
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Retired. 41 years in the law. MCFC

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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 31m
A very old fashioned type of life. He wanted so much to be a respected conservative toff-around-town & country squire....but he was a bounder and a cad. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Lord Archer died peacefully at home between writing sessions, his publisher said
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1h
Holy shit.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4h
It's true that not a lot of people are hit by the £100k childcare thing, but the thing is, all of the people who are live in about 100 seats, 40 of which the Tories need to win from the Liberal Democrats, 20 of them they have to prevent the Liberal Democrats winning next time.
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Legal Futures @legalfutures.bsky.social · 2h
Anyone fancy an unusually late bit of breaking news to go with their dinner? Here you go: SRA heading for Carter-Ruck showdown in Supreme Court zurl.co/bq1I4
zurl.co
SRA heading for Carter-Ruck showdown in Supreme Court
The High Court has granted the SRA permission to appeal the Carter-Ruck ruling and issued a leapfrog certificate for the Supreme Court.
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Damian Cummings @damiancummings.bsky.social · 2h
14 years. Keep saying it
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h
Tories don’t need votes from the Poors.
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Tories pledge big tax cuts in push to win over wealthy voters
Kemi Badenoch heralds ‘morally right’ plan to cut inheritance tax while shadow chancellor vows to cut mansion tax
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10h
I'm sure this'll go down great at conference. I am absolutely not sure that scrapping an organisation called Natural England will go down so well at the election.
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Albumism @albumism.com · 10h
Led Zeppelin released 'Led Zeppelin III' 56 years ago on October 5, 1970 | Listen to the album + discover where it ranks in our readers' poll here: album.ink/LedZeppPoll
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 10h
Cleverly hits out at Braverman over 'Englishness' row
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Cleverly hits out at Braverman over 'Englishness' row
Sir James Cleverly has criticised former Conservative colleague Suella Braverman after she sparked a row around "Englishness".
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12h
Alex Scott facing two months out after playing through pain with England
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Alex Scott facing two months out after playing through pain with England
Alex Scott has withdrawn from the England squad after a thigh problem worsened during his impressive performance in Croatia
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h
The Far Right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro won the first round of the Brazilian Presidential election by just two points, like Trump wanted. He’s now heading to a runoff with President Lula. Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party also ended up with the most governors, senators and federal deputies.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap election.
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Spanish election: Pedro Sanchez calls snap election for 29 November after housing protests
Pedro Sanchez's announcement comes after his series of measures to tackle the housing crisis was defeated in parliament on Friday.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 12h
Over the past two decades, pensioner incomes have grown by 20 per cent, while those of working-age families have grown by just 7 per cent ➡️ buff.ly/FY93tV6
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 12h
More lying-by-omission right-wing outrage exposed meme via FascinatingAvocados
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UsdawUnion @usdawunion.bsky.social · 12h
We've worked in partnership with Tesco to ensure that staff are supported at work through what may be one of the most difficult times in their lives. Tesco's new 'safe leave' policy will help people who experience domestic abuse to get the support they need.
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 13h
⬇️ ‘Some staff are now asking when the #cuts will end, given some have been told cost savings have been divided into “waves” and more could be coming next year. One staffer feared a “doom spiral” of weaker output and an increase in the number of people unwilling to pay the [ #BBC] licence fee.’
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14h
Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...
ft.com
Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 13h
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15h
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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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How about Europe just makes a deal with Iran and gives the big middle finger to you.
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Damian Cummings @damiancummings.bsky.social · 23h
And why you shouldn't be on X
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh man, they way he (dominating that whole world) keeps the Jackson 5 on the bench for two verses before they're allowed to sing the chorus is Ultimate Level Boss shit. I LOVE this track.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Setting aside the policy merits of this (the cliff edge in the tax system is clearly sub-optimal), and symbolic politics (the proposals enable opponents to paint the Conservatives as favouring the rich), a lot of these high wage earners also probably aren't instinctive Conservative voters anymore?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse. Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed. Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.
theguardian.com
Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI can’t answer this question: have any instrumental tracks featured in the UK top 100 singles chart in the 2020s?
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Damian Cummings @damiancummings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
God help us
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Greens for Palestine say their "Zionism is racism" motion has passed at Green conference. This could be a big problem for the party, not least as four of the party's five MPs have spoken out strongly against it, while Zack Polanski has (sort of) endorsed it. Some, not all, Jewish members worried.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026
Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.
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Abdallah 🇩🇴 @abdallahnr2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They're asserting THE BANK lied?! City are not required to prove innocence. The Premier League is required to prove guilt. This whole process has been upside down from the beginning. www.nytimes.com/athletic/765...
nytimes.com
How Man City plan to appeal the Premier League’s verdict — and could there be any issues? (Gift Article)
Manchester City have now submitted their appeal. This is how they plan to argue it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)
pic of Natalie walking, bag in hand
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The fraternity brothers in the group chat who cheer violence? That behavior is being modeled by the president of this country. I cannot stress this enough — Trump is teaching young men how to be abusive every time he opens his mouth.
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 04/10/2026
Reform UK member Nadhim Zahawi is asked: 'Do you have to be white to be English?'
news.sky.com
Reform UK member Nadhim Zahawi is asked: 'Do you have to be white to be English?'
'My parents were very proud to become British' says the former chancellor.
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
True to form, this appears to be shit A.I. “art” because actual creatives are almost never Conservatives. Why is that…? www.aol.co.uk/articles/and...
aol.co.uk
Andy Burnham and Angela Rayner brutally mocked at Conservative conference - AOL
The Tories have revealed an alternative history of Britain, which brutally mocks Labour and Reform.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Did you weave Angela Rayner in? Sure did boss, real cool and relatable just like you asked for Great....wait what? #CPC26
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
THE TAPESTRY IS HERE #CPC26
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New meme template just dropped
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
‘It means the Tories will rip up - Agrifoods agreement - Youth free movement deal - UK’s return to Erasmus - EU’s 12-year UK fishing access - Moves to link carbon trading schemes (All expected to be finalised and confirmed at the summit later this year)’ 3/
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sunday Times Pol Ed: ‘NEW: The Tory deputy leader has promised to reverse any step Labour takes to move Britain closer to the EU if his party regains power.’1/
thetimes.com
Tory deputy vows to reverse any step closer to EU
Alex Burghart says Labour’s reset has been disastrous, his party is ‘wedded’ to the pensions triple lock and Andy Burnham’s electoral reforms are doomed
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not beating the genocide allegations
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Damian Cummings @damiancummings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is she?
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Damian Cummings @damiancummings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And Rice, again!!
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m not usually one for BBC bashing but really?
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
youtu.be
Petula Clark "Downtown" (2023 New Extended Revisit Mix) ****
YouTube video by themotownboy1
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Years of extremist media using phrases like 'Sadiq Khan's hated ULEZ cameras' in their headlines surely contributes to people like this becoming radicalised to commit terrorist acts?
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 03/10/2026
You get that 88ft Badenoch Tapestry for pride of place in our conference like I asked? Sure did boss, real lazy, old ai that can't tell which head and hand skin tones should go together and still fucks up fingers like you asked. What?
Just appalling artwork
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The brass neck here is breathtaking. And the last thing anyone needs is 50,000 new places.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump defends the men in the Cornell gang rape case, saying he “feels bad” for them and they won't get a “fair shake”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stroke victims are often given leg braces to help them walk.
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
EXCLUSIVE Reform MP Sarah Pochin asked a question about the impact second homes have on rural areas, just 48 hours before buying a £800k second home in Wales… willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/reform-mp-...
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Reform UK MP buys £800k Welsh second home just days after questioning their impact
Is this a case of politicians saying ‘do as I say, not as I do’?
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