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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Reading this piece and thinking: this guy seems like a cool dude. And then it turns out he loves Whitby. Good lad.

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The TikToker who made Americans mad for Wigan

Kalani Smith is introducing the UK’s lesser-visited towns to an eager overseas audience

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Sunshine in Leeds, River Aire.

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

A good excuse for my favourite 'Conservatism in the UK in 2025' image: first story is from 2022, second is from autumn of last year.

Harborough MP Neil O’Brien has slammed plans for a new prison to house 1,700 inmates.

Neil O'Brien presses the Government for tougher sentencing

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

...on public health provision in the North-West of England. One of the cases was a not-spot of MMR vaccination in one of the most deprived communities. It turned out that local health services had closed down, so it was now a two-hour, £8, four-bus journey to the place where your kid could...

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Sounds to me like the worst possible outcome from the Supreme Court ruling is about to transpire. Leaving aside the indignity for trans people, how is your local community centre, swimming baths, pub or restaurant going to police this to prevent bad faith actors suing them.

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Any plans this evening? Oh you know, probably pay a visit to Pornhub.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 03/08/2025

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that. Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?

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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

As a Bluesky user in good standing obviously I love TheModernHouse.com. The best bit is working out where the TV normally sits, which they've removed for the pictures. Bonus points here for proving it with an accidental glimpse in the fourth pic

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Quite apart from the obvious xenophobia and cruelty, you'd have thought that this lot would have learnt from Windrush what requiring vulnerable people to provide evidence of citizenship leads to. But perhaps they just don't care.

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Ban foreigners from claiming disability benefits, say Tories

Kemi Badenoch makes welfare a dividing line with Labour and Reform

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

it honestly feels like there’s a section of the media which just wants an endless Westminster soap opera, while salivating over Farage’s every word without ever holding him to the same standard as others, rather than anyone fixing anything ever

The Times headline: After a terrible anniversary week, is Keir Starmer finished?
While Nigel Farage sipped champagne at the Spectator's summer party, one cabinet minister said the prime minister's reign 'feels like it's done'

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It's a mark of what's gone wrong with British politics that it's regarded as some kind of career-ending humiliation when a govt has to make concessions to Members of Parliament. We'd be much better governed if MPs found their backbones more often, & govts routinely had to respond to their concerns.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

There may come a day when the BBC puts on air one of the other 29,999 headteachers currently estimated to be working in UK schools, but that day is not today

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Samantha @sdecomines.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

So grateful to have @mcbride.house.gov as a role model and leader in Congress. She embodies the hard truth that overcoming marginalization is hard work and requires grace from those fighting for meaningful inclusion.

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Kien Tan @kientan74.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

⛽️ Petrol is the cheapest it’s been in real terms since 2001, but no govt has gotten credit for freezing fuel duties. 1. It’s an implicit carbon subsidy - so much for Net Zero - and 2. it penalises city-dwellers. Excellent piece from @tomcalver.bsky.social here: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Graph of petrol prices over time in absolute and real terms

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 15/06/2025

When you order Trooping the Colour on Temu.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 10/06/2025

What I cannot work out is *why* Labour thinks saying "It was right to cut Winter Fuel Allowance last year and it's right to reinstate it this year because circumstances changed so much" Is better than "We listened to you, we got it wrong, we've fixed it, and we're sorry".

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 10/06/2025

Today's poll on 'if you had an unexpected bill for £1,000 could you cover it', with results compared by platform. Some interesting differences...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

While Robert Jenrick MP spends his days wandering about the underground tackling fare dodgers and going on about the capital for clicks... his constituency has a genuine problem. ● Newark crime rate: 123 crimes per 1,000 ● London 105.8 per 1,000 But you know... "Sadiq"

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Since we have video now, what better use for it than to share Dame Edna Everage on Cilla Black...?

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Worth noting that literally every other leader is preferred to Nigel Farage as PM. This could become quite important if/when a general election approaches with polling suggesting Farage has a real shot at being PM

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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Good piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social . Reversing the winter fuel allowance cut is pure politics but scrapping the two child benefit cap is actually about the merits of the policy on.ft.com/4kz4GJN

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Britain’s two-child benefit cap must go

The government should recognise that it has a stake in its people having enough children

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This is what it's like to live in a racist society. If the perpetrator is white, they're just some lone madman whose actions have no political implication. If they're an immigrant - in particular a dark-skinned Muslim immigrant - they represent their group and are part of a political attack.

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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Deeply, deeply worrying news emerging from Liverpool city centre today where there are reports from police that a car has hit a number of pedestrians during the LFC parade My colleagues are finding out as much as they can and reporting it here www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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City centre live updates as police confirm people hit by car

Emergency services are at the scene

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Patti LuPone is a generational hater. We are so lucky to have her.

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Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Americans put sugar in all kinds of dishes that don’t require it. And one of the main reasons for this national aberration is … Prohibition. 🧵

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

No matter how much I read about this story it still totally baffles me how it’s gone on so long and not yet been fixed. It cannot be that difficult to just say “anyone who’s earned less than £1k in a year over the limit should be even investigated let alone proseecuted”.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Every day I wake up, and I dream that someone a position of influence in the Labour party will just propose putting up the basic rate of income tax.

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Rayner proposed big tax increases in memo to Reeves

Deputy prime minister’s ideas suggest deep divisions at top of UK government over economic policy

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

1) I'm pretty sure that people with a GRC can get a new birth certificate, so this doesn't even work 2) if you present every gym in the country with the guidance "unless your service is unisex you need to impose this embarrassing and legally risky process" guess what's going to happen

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 19/05/2025

at first you think "ah the dog is passively having fun" and then you realize the dog knows how to steer the skateboard and THEN you learn the dog knows how to PROPEL the skateboard

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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A takeaway from this debate - pretty much all the supportive MPs quoted their constituents as to why they support trans rights. We are cutting through Keep writing to your MPs. If you wrote last month, write again. Write to your MP until you can’t type anymore. Make our voices impossible to ignore

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

And ALL of it in English.

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David Child @davidchild.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

“Toxic masculinity is a thing but it’s not because you’re male it’s because you’re not a very nice human being.” Danny Dyer’s DID is top drawer. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Desert Island Discs - Danny Dyer, actor - BBC Sounds

Danny Dyer, actor, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Just one university - UCL - employs almost twice as many people as there are working in fishing boats.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

New post just out: "On the Brink" Why so many universities are in serious financial trouble. Why it's about to get worse. What the government could do about it. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...

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On the Brink

Universities are in serious financial trouble - what can be done about it?

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Passport queues thing is kinda huge. Makes Brexit invisible for most people

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Part of this must be the sharp drop off in alcohol consumption amongst young men over that period.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I've wracked my brains & can only come up with one explanation that makes sense for the Labour direction. They think their only hope is that it comes to an election & we see that it is them or Reform. And that for all our big talk about hating them, we'll still vote for them to keep out Reform.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Hard to believe the Tories are in so much trouble with this galaxy of talent at the top of the party.

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Conor Clark @conorclark.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

NEW: The UK has dropped to its lowest position ever on an official ranking of the best and worst places to be LGBTQ+ in Europe. Placing 22nd out of 49 countries, it was only 10 years ago that the UK topped @ilgaeurope.bsky.social’s annual review. Malta ranked the best and Russia the worst.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 14/05/2025

Generations of migrants have helped contribute to London’s success economically, socially and culturally. Thank you for what you have done—and continue to do—to make London the greatest city in the world.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

St Paul’s Cathedral from London Bridge ten minutes ago

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

BREAKING: The Scottish Parliament has voted in favour of legalising assisted dying, becoming the third parliament in the British isles to vote in favour of the practice.

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