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My God, I thought Clegg/Facebook was bad enough.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 8h

🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 6h

They're laughing at ordinary working people, the bees and puffins. They get together at dinner parties, quaffing nectar and ethically caught sandeels, and they mock Sir Winston, call you flagshaggers, and LAUGH AT YOU.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10h

Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn… …seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 23h

Well. Here it is: a new book that has been keeping me busy for a while. The Seventh Continent: Antarctica and the Southern Oceans. Past, Present and Future 1/5

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We need HAL, not Iggy. 'I can't do that, Dave.'

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Q on Politics Live: Why is inheritance tax so unpopular, despite so few paying it? Answers offered: Double taxation; against aspiration; something something British psyche. Answer not offered: Media owners, pundits, politicians (i.e. everyone in that studio), and pollsters would be caught by it.

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 08/10/2026

Please submit your small ideas for fixing Britain to the Small-Ideas.org website. It’s a new charitable initiative I’ve set up to try and make sure life’s potholes don’t get ignored. Working with two charities and a cross party panel to turn your ideas into policy then try and make it happen.

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why is she leaning backwards? She looks like she's being propped up on a stand.

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 08/10/2026

BIG NEWS: Today I’m excitedly launching The Small Ideas Initiative. We want you to submit ideas for non-controversial fixes, e.g “live sewage updates for beaches” or “standardised allergen menus” to turn into proper policy. Full info here... blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2026/10/mart...

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why would she? She's got Chris and Laura on the inside.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 07/10/2026

Trump to press at the Oval: "I have a call set up. Today is his birthday. Today is Vladimir Putin's birthday. I'm sure you're going to celebrate. Are you going to celebrate his birthday? No, I have a call set up."

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's 20C in my house (in Hertfordshire) without heating.

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, I could have done Cambridge. No gigs near me.

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I thought only 5% of estates were liable for IHT.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.

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Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026

Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They are rather long and luxuriant.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Paying taxes is punishment is it? Some might say it's a contribution to the infrastructure and regulations (like the rule of law) that enables you to build a successful business and, being less transactional, your contribution to society..

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ten USAF B-1B Lancer bombers have left RAF Fairford for bases in the United States. They’d been stationed in the UK for the war with Iran.

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Being black never stopped Kanye.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nice piece by Tom Rowley. Doesn’t seem like five years have passed since he sat in our kitchen talking about where to put a bookshop in south London.

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Have a drink on us

We’re four today!

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And he'll be loving every minute of it. Apart from the fact the suspect is white English.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Suella Braverman suggests on #BBCQT that you can't be English unless you are white, and have a lineage or heritage going back some generations

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 01/10/2026

Interesting: “Raise the Colours” are citing the European Convention on Human Rights in defence of their flag-raising campaign👇 🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbc.com The ECHR protects us all.

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Raise the Colours' members in court for Birmingham injunction evidence

Birmingham City Council is seeking an injunction to stop the Raise The Colours group's activities.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New Mystic Meg prediction by Daniel Hannan who famously predicted the ‘blue eyed Sheikhs’ of Iceland Banking would would save us in 2004, Brexit Britain would be booming in 2026, and that Covid wouldn’t kill anyone in 2020 In other words, we will be rejoining the EU

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brexit revisited. New, unscheduled, post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on why Burnham's conference speech was a significant development in the Brexit saga, the questions and concerns it raises, and why it might come to be seen as a historic moment: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/brex...

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He looks like he's wearing Marigold washing up gloves.

Yellow Marigold rubber gloves for washing up.

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I remember the funny shaped vegetables.

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You beat me to it. It's scary how much he's got into our brains that we remember that, which in the scheme of things is nowhere near the worst thing he has said or done.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thatcher ended the link between the state pension and earnings in 1980

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is this from a Coen Brothers film?

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The US has withdrawn from GRECO, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption watchdog, which it has been a member of since 2000, ABC reports. Russia and Belarus are the only other countries to have left the group.

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Survation. @survation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Support outnumbers opposition in every age group, including those most affected: -> 55-64: 61% support, 16% oppose -> 65+: 55% support, 27% oppose 8/9

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'd prefer him falling forward all the way down the steps of Air Force One. On top of Natalie.

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Deb B @deborahstort.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, that's very strange.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It never stops being important that, no matter what the subject, politicians like Farage, Trump & Rubio are entirely untethered from the most basic requirements of honest discourse. They might turn out to be telling the truth sometimes but only ever in the spirit of stopped clocks.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They're such self important clowns. It's increasingly clear their weird stop-me-before-I-kill-again message is some kind of weird hype strategy.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why might that be, Telegraph?

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