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Clare Simpson @claremsimpson.bsky.social · 1h

And bad compositing organisation to even let that motion be voted on

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gini in a bottle @citation-needed.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, we were just mocking Rees-Mogg for complaining that the mansion tax would mean normal working young people will have to pay taxes on their £2.5 million homes just as they are starting their careers. This video is like watching a 6 year-old beat a 2 year-old at checkers.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 4h

passing the "zionism is racism" motion on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street is a bit on the fucking nose isn't it

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 6h

If any mutuals are supportive of the passing of the GPEW's "Zionism is racism" motion, please let me know and I'll unfollow. It is above all a failure of leadership - in terms of both failing to prevent the entryism that created the majority in favour, and failing to express clear opposition to it.

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helen, gender goblin @gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social · 8h

They were friends? You mean a DISABLED girl could be friends with the TEAM CAPTAIN? Surely not, we all know disabled people are not real people with the capacity for friendship and agency! (yes, mods, that was sarcasm.)

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Ianrobo @ianrobo.bsky.social · 8h

This is worse than the Ed stone

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 9h

That's enough "Kemi Badenoch might be quite a good Tory leader actually" articles thanks. We've seen her interviews and you're all beginning to sound a bit desperate.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12h

Just so dispiriting to watch the Greens be corrupted by the same poison that took over Labour. All the same shit: the excuses, the mealy-mouthed justifications, the tortured position statements, the deafening silences. Like a historical reenactment.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 11h

Russell Findlay is a deeply dislikeable reactionary bigot, but if talking about independence at every possible opportunity is obsessive, The National should look closer to home for folk to criticise!

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 12h

“By Christmas” … which Christmas?

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 13h

There is an argument for uncompensated public ownership for Thames Water because its shares are junk anyway (although really UKGov need to pursue Macquarie for the billions it siphoned off before jettisoning the corpse) but SE Water is still owned by pension funds, so how would that be justified?

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 14h

"Every Green vote moves Labour" is the sort of messaging you put out when your canvass returns are telling you you can't win.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 14h

Hmm. We need more kindness in the world, that's for sure, but I think we need a lot less monetising of emotional moments online, a lot less performative morality for clicks, and a complete end to the treatment of disabled people as opportunities for fleeting pity before we scroll to the next video.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026

I implore all cis people to read this.

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Jurgen Klopp’s teeth @humzas-brain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Interesting watching what’s going on in France, here, Spain and the USA. We are reaching that ‘let them eat cake’ moment where the super rich have taken too much out the system and it’s obviously hurting ordinary folk. Were I a smart billionaire I’d be asking for tax rises.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"David Cameron's former advisor is running for CA Gov and released an ad themed like softcore porn about lesbians" do you ever think we live in hell?

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Glen Darroch @glendarroch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am not Starmers biggest fan, but when folk hit out with the genocide stuff I ask what Starmer was unable to do that any other world leader was? Netanyahu answers to nobody. Not Starmer. Not Trump. Nobody.

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Alan Griffiths @alanji.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Green Party has even more lax rules and habits than the Liberal Democrats. Wide open to such events.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Starmer was complicit in genocide" sits alongside "Blair is a war criminal" as marking out the person saying so as either not understanding the words they are using or not caring that they simply aren't true. You can be deeply opposed to injustice without being dishonest. In fact it helps.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Quite an odd choice to brief this out

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The greatest service Keir Starmer did the Labour party was to drive the anti-Semitic left out of the Labour party. He deserves immense credit for that. The Greens welcoming them with open arms was absolutely always going to prove a disastrous decision

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fascinating detail in here about GPEW conference and the "Zionism is racism" motion, including some explicit evidence of the widespread entryism we knew was happening, and some deeply disturbing detail on how party officials are preparing for the debate. "We expect no physical violence" indeed.

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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We have a new icon - MP Miatta Fahnbulleh

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the interests of appropriately directing any righteous anger you might feel about this, I would like to point out that the monarch surrendered control over the Crown Estates in 1760, so, massive environmentalist though he may be, King Charles can't really do much about this I'm afraid.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Staggered at the number of supposedly intelligent, right-thinking people who still think they are immune to X’s powers. Boromirism.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Scary, and also a reminder that the US mortgage market is *very* different from ours. There, a 30-year fixed rate is standard, which is why higher interest rates have quite different economic effects to when they happen here.

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Jocky Wulsin 🌹 @britainscot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well if anyone will know it'll be him.

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Burnham handed the Lib Dems so much of what they have been calling for over the last ten years, if they end up being the most wrong-footed by Burnham's conference speech that's entirely on Ed Davey.

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From The Times obit for Esther Rantzen. Nothing against Ms Rantzen but us dogsbodies trained for 9 months to “do the chores” and would like to see the obit writer survive “Red Light Fever” and operate the panel in a busy studio live on air or create believable sound effects for a convincing drama.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 01/10/2026

He has fucked up, from our viewpoint, but he's also close to the City owners so from his pov he's done good.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump and the weaponisation of ignorance is one thing; the US at least has clear voices condemning that aberration and those winds will change. But it is guns, religiosity and the death penalty - support for which runs through all sides of US politics - that for me makes the country unfathomable.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How do you say "Away and shoogle" in French and German?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban 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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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think Burnham is fortunate that he said this in the same week he said so much other stuff that is giving him positive headlines, because this is a very ill-judged intervention for a Prime Minister. He should never have even entertained the question. He can't blur lines like this.

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Andy Burnham 'really concerned' if Man City owners sell up after rule breaches

The prime minister compares the allegations against Man City to the plight of his own club Everton.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'“Lay down your weapons now or I will have no choice but to ask you to lay down your weapons later,” the commander in chief wrote on Truth Social, adding that the Iranian regime only had two more days to consider his terms before he would give them eight more days to consider his terms.'

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Trump Warns Iran To Accept His Ultimatum Or Face Wrath Of Next Ultimatum

WASHINGTON—Threatening to continue issuing threats if the Islamic Republic did not quickly agree to his demands, President Donald Trump warned Iran on Monday to accept his ultimatum or face the wrath ...

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Andrew Baynes @baynesa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looking forward to lots of AI generated content about the Chuurch Fate with an image of the devil buried in them somewhere.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy "Publisher has stopped working! How am I going to do my newsletter now? What do you mean Microsoft doesn't give a shit? There has to be something you can do! Help!!!" Eve to all who celebrate.

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Jaye @jayebutler-moore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And no sign of getting the UK back on track with LGBTQIA+ rights.

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Glen Darroch @glendarroch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If Gordon Brown had tried to understand Gillian Duffy's frustrations a little bit less we might not be here. And I say that as a fan of Gordons.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty comprehensive endorsement of the proposed scrapping of the triple lock from @resolutionfoundation.org here.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's quite fun how basically no-one in labour seems to know which faction they're pretending is in charge instead of themselves anymore.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just did a wee slot about Burnham's speech on Radio Scotland alongside Brian Taylor and Michelle Thomson. I watched the full thing through this morning in preparation, and I was genuinely impressed that he finally seems to have found a defining ethos for his politics, just in the nick of time.

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