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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 11h
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13h
Same lie for hundreds of years.
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disenfranchised147.bsky.social @disenfranchised147.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
With a handful of ignoble exceptions every single person on the plant could beat Trump to the Peace Prize.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One other thought - Rubio, Hegseth, Trump etc’s concept of greatness is so narrow- what about medical researchers, scientists, engineers, environmental experts etc finding life saving cures, energy efficient mechanisms, water-saving measures, disease resistant crops etc. Aren’t they today’s heroes?
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Scouse Git @scouse-git.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What. The. Actual. Fuck?!?!
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Well done to @privateeyenews.bsky.social for calling the Tories out on this utter hypocrisy.....
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Badenoch’s speech shows us why people move to the edges. She talks of prison building like they didn’t cause the prisons crisis She talks of police ineptitude like they didn’t slash the force & shut stations. Schools like they didn’t leave ceilings caving in, teaching recruitment in pieces
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
➡️ Jeffrey Archer in the Eye covers library www.private-eye.co.uk/covers/Jeffr...
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Private Eye Covers Library
The official site for Private Eye magazine, the UK's number one best-selling news and current affairs publication edited by Ian Hislop. Subscribe to save money on the shop price and get delivery strai...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just leaving this here... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Disinformation. Austerity. Vaccine fatigue. Measles is back and the consequences are landing on the smallest shoulders. Liz Crosbie explains how and why.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Tots, bots, measles and the surging distrust in vaccines
How does the decline in take-up of the measles vaccination tell a tale of our times?
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.
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irishgoonet.bsky.social @irishgoonet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
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Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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disenfranchised147.bsky.social @disenfranchised147.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh! Lewis! #F1
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disenfranchised147.bsky.social @disenfranchised147.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have work to do today. Rain soaked #F1 is the perfect opportunity to get that done!
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disenfranchised147.bsky.social @disenfranchised147.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What is going on! #F1
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disenfranchised147.bsky.social @disenfranchised147.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Loving the safety car struggling for grip! #VeryWet #F1
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disenfranchised147.bsky.social @disenfranchised147.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That’s a red all day long! #UKRNIR
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disenfranchised147.bsky.social @disenfranchised147.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What are we doing at the back? #ENGESP
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The man who watched Covid ravage Italy and Europe and did NOTHING to protect the country. The man who caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths. The man who let loose debauched parties at number 10 while he told the country it had to isolate. The grostesque shit should be in jail.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's expected these locations will be sold, bought by billionaires. Then most of them re-opened as Private Nurseries making huge profits for billionaire donors. What a surprise.
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disenfranchised147.bsky.social @disenfranchised147.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just a quick whinge ‘cos I’m off to put diesel in the car: £2.05 a litre! WTF! Thank you Americans for igniting the Middle East. You load of… You can choose your own epithet…
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Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Deed! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #Oasis #ManCity
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm sorry what
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He’s literally building a fortified bunker, now an arch that holds major weapons, and controls the military and nukes. He has zero plams to leave, people better wake tf up
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disenfranchised147.bsky.social @disenfranchised147.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yay! Isak! #YNWA #LFC
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.
Independent front page. 

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position  18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Credit to @bestforbritain.org … and to @the-independent.com for its pro-EU/anti-Brexit reporting. Good to have some organisations willing to represent us and our shared best interests, rather than those of non-dom billionaires and populist politicians who couldn’t care less. bsky.app/profile/best...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
Follow
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Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news
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disenfranchised147.bsky.social @disenfranchised147.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This Israeli election could be the country’s last – this week I saw that for myself | Jonathan Freedland
Spend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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disenfranchised147.bsky.social @disenfranchised147.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sometimes I hate football. #SUNARS
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disenfranchised147.bsky.social @disenfranchised147.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sometimes I hate football. #SUNARS
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan:
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So proud of their "patriotic" actions in Dover that they all have to cover their faces 🙄
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 05/09/2026
Rotten to the core! Delo, who was convicted in the US in 2022 for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls in his cryptocurrency business, before being pardoned by Donald Trump, has previously given Reform £4m.
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Crypto billionaire pardoned by Trump gives Reform UK another £4m
Party confident money from Ben Delo will not be caught in new overseas donor cap
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Look at how easy it was for just a few thousand politicians and media twunts to radicalise the elderly to incredible paroxysms of hate, fear and spite. It really was not that difficult to completely derange the Thatcher generation into basically suicide bombing the island to spite their kids, was it
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Not going to share the video, because it is actually horrific, but the footage of Reform members assaulting a young protestor whilst Farage smiles and jokes is probably one of the most disgusting things I've seen in politics and speaks to the fundamental weakness in Reform voters' character.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If AI is for the benefit of everyone, nationalise it, the Billionaires can give up control, we are already paying the construction costs and their electricity bills. Then anything it does create actually will be free. Except of course it is JUST for Billionaires profits.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The utter hypocrisy of Kemi Badenoch here, after banning myself and the late great David Hencke from Conservative Party conference last year. Needless to say my application to attend this year on behalf of Byline Times has still not been approved
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Suna Dasi @sunadasi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don't know whether to laugh or cry anymore.. I'm certainly more than weary of shouting NO SHIT
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🙌 Come on BlueSky 💪 I’m relying on you to ensure this Brexpress poll reflects reality. 🔗 www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"A Reform spokesperson said Geoghegan and [Michael] Crick were refused accreditation because the party viewed them as minor figures." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And if you want to read some of the stories that Reform dislike so much, do follow Democracy for Sale! democracyforsale.substack.com
democracyforsale.substack.com
Democracy for Sale | Peter Geoghegan | Substack
A newsletter dedicated to revealing how dark money and hidden influence threaten our democracy. Click to read Democracy for Sale, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Reform.... present themselves as the anti-establishment insurgents, but banning independent journalists like me from party conference isn’t anti-establishment. It’s the establishment playbook.” Am taking being barred from Reform conference as badge of honour! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK bans three journalists who have investigated party from its conference
Guardian City editor Anna Isaac, investigative reporter Peter Geoghegan and broadcaster Michael Crick refused entry
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reform UK, which promises to "defend free speech" at all costs, has again banned Byline Times from its conference
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