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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 13h

NEW | Another day, another columnist selectively quoting Orwell… ALLISON PEARSON’S ACTION MAN FETISH A deranged defence of the SAS and a dismissal of war crimes accusations is exactly what we expect from one of the Telegraph’s worst. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/allison-pe...

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Allison Pearson’s Action Man fetish

A deranged and bloodthirsty defence of the SAS and a dismissal of war crimes accusations is exactly what we can expect from one of the Telegraph’s worst.

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Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social · 6h

I'm so very sad to hear of the death of Esther Ranzen who played an important role in reuniting me with Nicky Winton - the man who saved my life. It's so desperately sad that she couldn't choose assisted dying as was her wish.

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 5h

One thing that's going to have to disappear from future credits as seen in Succession, Colin From Accounts, erc - grainy, flickery, Super 8-type images capturing the childhood moments of grown up characters. All of my videos of my kids as infants could have been taken yesterday.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It seems apt that Manchester City fans adopted the Poznan, a celebration where everybody looks the other way.

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 19h

Deliberately didn't watch the Burnham speech because how capably he emotes, how well he comes across, is irrelevant. Don't want to be subject to that manipulation. What is he going to do and is he going to do it? We'll see.

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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Any reality-based Man City fans gonna set up an AFC City then? Or will they decide to reputationally go down with the tainted ship?

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So, if they've been released on bail, that means this has been something and nothing - anything from petty theft to dogging. Which is going to make some of the worst people look very stupid, not least Donald "I've been following them for some time" Trump. This has the potential to be a right laugh.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, there certainly does seem to be quite a lot about our relationship with America that is unclear, and deliberately hidden from the public

Sky News @SkyNews • •1h
Wes Streeting, onstage: "Our friendship with America is the closet alliance of any two nations on Earth"

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files

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Jussie Northside @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Janice Turner has no background or training in medicine, neuroscience, psychology or psychiatry.

Janice Turner: Is your ADHD diagnosis really helping you?
A huge increase in those claiming the condition as well as receiving Pip to cope with it risks creating a lost generation

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Ariane Sherine Juniper @arianesherine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In Episode 2 of Ari & Ad Fix Your Life, Ad feels sad when Ari laughs at his made-up word. Listen to the full thing here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A former staff member of Tony Blair Institute said they had serious concerns that this was “very much trading money for access”, but was instructed by a colleague not to describe it that way. ‘They were saying you have to be really careful not to make it seem as if they’re paying money for access’😬

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I did say Shabana Mahmood would be on the side of the thugs. Burnham keeping her in post was an utter disgrace. Labour supporters should be brave enough to say so. So should Labour MPs.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent

Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NEW | I’m not surprised, but I am livid. BBC NEWS, ‘DANNY TOMMO’ AND THE DINGHY ATTACK THAT DISAPPEARED While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bbc-news-d...

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BBC News, ‘Danny Tommo’ and the dinghy attack that disappeared

While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts.

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Preserve the BBC but defund, even disband BBC News. They are worse than nowhere and have been for a while. Do Attenborough, baking, comedy, whatever but stay away from the news. You are a national, fascist enabling liability.

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

FOUR MINUTES OF ADS DURING THE ARSENAL WSL CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GAME ON DISNEY PLUS! IF JACOB'S CREEK THINK I'M GONNA BUY THEIR WINE OR HULU THINK I'M GONNA SUBSCRIBE TO THEM THEY CAN FUCKING THINK AGAIN! IT'S FOOTBALL, YOU IDIOTS! ADVERTISE AT HALF TIME OR FULL TIME OR FACE OUR LOATHING, YOU TWATS!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her. RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @comrade-kumar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ed Sheeran’s tears weren’t for the mothers and fathers of Gaza carrying their children’s remains in bags, or the thousands of children who have undergone amputations without anaesthesia. His tears were for the money and fans he lost for by being a coward.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The fact that many of the people on UC are also working is not mentioned until way, way down in this Times story. Same for the detail that lots of previous benefits have been phased out and rolled into UC. But above all, the TPA is a pressure group funded by people who avoid and evade tax.

One in five adults are on universal credit
More than seven million people are claiming the UK's main benefit, including a million people in their twenties, Taxpayers' Alliance research says
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Daisy Eastlake, Political Reporter
Monday September 21 2026, 7.00pm, The Times

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pete Murray is 101. He's the reason I support Arsenal. I was casting around for a London team as a kid - hated living in Leeds, pined for my home town of London. "You know? Pete Murray supports Arsenal," my Dad suggested. So here we are. And here Pete Murray still is. Ghastly Tory, apparently.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Keep reading that we've "cancelled" Ed Sheeran when what actually happened was: he kept doing all his concerts while sacking his support act and friend of thirteen years coz they said "Free Palestine". Ed Sheeran is not "cancelled". He did a show last night.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Every word of this - and a subject far too infrequently addressed. A culture of mortally dangerous machismo is being under-legislated against, ignored even by those supposedly in charge of our safety.

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Great, incidental moment in last night's 70 Up - Bruce, probably the most decent man in the show throughout is now an RNLI volunteer. Glad that got put out on mainstream TV. The best of us. And fuck Reform, the worst of us.

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As someone who deplores non-violence in situations like this, I am happy to share this video.

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Outraged by Sydney Sweeney? More fool you.", chides the strapline to a Marina Hyde column in The Guardian. A bit rich, really. I'd have no idea that Sydney Sweeney even existed if The Guardian didn't keep trying to tell me about her.

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nice, one, Sheeran. The feelings of people who feel unsafe unless an entire people remain captive must take precedence. Pathetic, you utterly talentless divot of a human being. You had the clout to make a stand here but chose to be a coward.

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Ham Roids 🎃 @anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ed Sheeran could have refused to boot Macklemore and forced venues to decide if they wanted to lose all that revenue or not. What is the point of being rich and having a platform if you're so easily bullied into being a useless coward?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There were many ways in which the US and its allies could have responded to the horror of 9/11. But by building extreme security states, launching pointless forever wars and restricting domestic dissent, successive governments inflicted more harm on their nations than the terrorists could have done.

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Proclaimers - I would walk 500 miles to kick the pair of you in the bollocks, you ignorant, transphobic arseholes.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I went back to listen to it and it’s genuinely quite shocking.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This, by the excellent @merylorourke.bsky.social punctures a lot of the recent nonsense surrounding ADD/ADHD diagnoses: merylowrites.substack.com/p/handing-ad...

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Handing ADHD Meds Out Like Candy

Unlike...?

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This. It's replenishing. You could treat yourself to an expensive spa treatment. Take a short break on some faraway beach. Take drugs. Or, for five dollars on Bandcamp you could have this and have it forever. Music is such a bargain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii63...

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Pharoah Sanders - Harvest Time

YouTube video by spiritualarchive

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Now that The Times is discreetly but actively encouraging fascists, entering its "Hurrah for the blackshirts" phase, maybe the centrist sensibles who write for it and give it respectable legitimacy should cease doing so?

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m preaching to the choir here, but I can’t stop thinking about this Marina Hyde answer, and how revealing it is about the liberal mindset (or whatever deranged brand of centrism this is). You simply cannot rely on these people.

Caroline, Switzerland: “Are you still on X? If so, why?”

Marina Hyde: “Yes, I am. I don't use it much at all as I find social media a massive time-suck. I hear Bluesky is truly ghastly, but have never visited.”

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If voting ever changed anything, Margaret Thatcher would have been elected in 1979 and effected an ongoing, permanent transformation of British society, all to the bad.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Not even diet hate: it turns out that the pledge to “end the culture wars” was to join in with the cranks and help them to win them. That bought these dickheads the compliance of the press, so they could have five years in charge to do… something, at the expense of the people they’ve betrayed.

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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Say what you like about Bernie Ecclestone, he has such a nice smile.

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Farage was - once again - lying when he said counter terrorism police had delayed his speech because of threats. West Midlands police confirm they gave no such advice.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 04/09/2026

I just started to read Margo’s Got Money Troubles, and as a very jaded reader, I admit that the author got me in the first paragraph.

Chapter One: You are about to begin reading a new book, and to be honest, you are a little tense. The beginning of a novel is like a first date. You hope that from the first lines an urgent magic will take hold, and you will sink into the story like a hot bath, giving yourself over entirely. But this hope is tempered by the expectation that, in reality, you are about to have to learn a bunch of people’s names and follow along politely like you are attending the baby shower of a woman you hardly know. And that’s fine, goodness knows you’ve fallen in love with books that didn’t grab you in the first paragraph. But that doesn’t stop you from wishing they would, from wishing they would come right up to you in the dark of your mind and kiss you on the throat.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026

With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.

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