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Richard E Grant being chosen as a Traitor and then almost immediately telling everyone he was a Traitor may be the purest Celebrity Traitors moment ever. Years of acclaimed acting. Decades of craft. One simple instruction: don’t tell them. Richard: “Traitor.” Magnificent. #CelebrityTraitors

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Brexit has reached the “everyone quietly knows it was a terrible idea” stage. A new megapoll has 49% backing rejoining the EU; 28.5% opposed — and 54.9% calling Brexit a failure. At some point “respecting the vote” became refusing to notice voters changing their minds. #RejoinEU #Brexit #UkPolitics

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If digital DJing means staring at two virtual turntables and pretending it’s 1998, we’ve missed the point. Stems. Loops. 4 decks. Live edits. Sampling. Effects. Harmonic mixing. Technology should upscale your ambition, not just recreate two bits of vinyl. #DJing #ElectronicMusic

Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reform’s “inevitable” march to power is collapsing. More in Common had them on 381 projected seats in January. Now: 147. Another poll has them only winning 11! Turns out shouting “betrayal” at everything isn’t a governing programme. The panic and stunts are starting to show. #ReformUK #UKPolitics

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Farage saw a suspected terror plot and, before the facts were known, reached straight for migrants and small boats. Then police confirmed all five suspects were British nationals. This is what happens when prejudice gets there before evidence. #NigelFarage #ReformUK #UKPolitics

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Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Burnham knows changing the triple lock carries a political cost. But protecting pensions against inflation while shifting billions into social care could leave many people better protected overall. Sometimes governing means making difficult trade-offs. #AndyBurnham #TripleLock #SocialCare

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A report says cutting NHS bureaucracy could save thousands of lives and billions of pounds. Somewhere, a committee is already arranging six meetings to discuss setting up a working group to consider reducing meetings. #NHS #UKPolitics

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Drones getting defibrillators to cardiac arrests faster is exactly what “the future” should mean. Not a fridge that emails you. Not an AI toaster. Just clever technology doing something genuinely useful. #Tech #HealthTech

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Play School is coming back. Somewhere, an entire generation has just heard “through the round window” and been transported 45 years backwards. If Bagpuss turns up next, I’m buying flares. #BBC #Nostalgia

Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Strange New Worlds finale: young and old Uhura working across time to fix a ripple. Somewhere, Dennis Quaid is staring at a radio and muttering, “I’ve seen this one.” 😄 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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The Bank of England warns inflation could top 4% next year. Apparently the cost-of-living crisis has been renewed for another season. Nobody remembers subscribing. #CostOfLiving #UKPolitics

Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thames Water forecasts nearly £2bn in finance and adviser costs over 18 months. Imagine explaining to a leaking pipe that the money has gone on meetings about the pipe. #Water #UKPolitics

Mirror publisher to cut 220 editorial jobs as readers turn to AI summaries

The Mirror's publisher plans to cut 220 editorial jobs as AI summaries divert readers from news sites. If people stop clicking through, who pays for the original reporting? #Journalism #AI www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Reach, which also owns Express, makes decision because of ‘mammoth shift’ in how audiences seek out content

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A former Starfield lead saying Bethesda may have tried to do too much explains a lot. Bethesda’s greatest strength was never making the biggest possible world. It was making worlds you wanted to live in. Hopefully TES VI remembers that. #Starfield #ElderScrolls

AI doesn’t need another round of either “it will save humanity” or “it will destroy humanity”. It needs boring, effective regulation: transparency, independent oversight and consequences when companies get it wrong. #AI #Technology

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If local government reform means fewer councillors, bigger authorities and decisions taken further away from the communities affected, “efficiency” needs to be proved — not simply asserted. Local democracy still matters. #LocalGovernment #UKPolitics

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Whatever your politics, £72m arriving from two donors should make everyone ask the same question: how much influence should any individual be able to buy in a democracy? Political funding rules clearly weren’t written for sums like this. #UKPolitics #Democracy

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UK GDP grew 0.4% in July when economists expected no growth. Good news — and proof that “Britain is broken” is often more slogan than diagnosis. Growth is still fragile, but pretending nothing is improving is as dishonest as pretending everything is fixed. #UKPolitics #Economy

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25 years since 9/11. Nearly 3,000 people were killed that day, and thousands more have since died from related illnesses. Beyond the politics and wars that followed, today should still begin with the victims, their families and the people who ran towards danger. #September11

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Fable’s living world feels like Skyrim modders accidentally designed the next generation of RPGs. Imagine what people could build if Playground Games released modding tools! Schedules, relationships, reactions, routines; the possibilities would be ridiculous. #Fable #Skyrim #Gaming

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Assisted dying has been defeated again, 286–270. Whatever side you’re on, this deserves better than slogans. Dignity, coercion, palliative care and personal choice are all real issues. Parliament should treat it with the seriousness it demands. #AssistedDying #UKPolitics

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Zack Polanski standing in Starmer’s old seat makes Holborn & St Pancras far more interesting. A Green leader taking the fight directly to Labour on housing, Gaza and climate? That’s a by-election worth watching. #GreenParty #UKPolitics

Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Netflix allegedly used BitTorrent data to see what people actually wanted to watch. Bethesda should do the same with Nexus. Look at Skyrim’s most downloaded mods. Those aren’t just mods — they’re 15 years of unpaid market research for Elder Scrolls VI. #Skyrim #ElderScrollsVI #Bethesda

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Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Reform spends its life screaming about corruption, foreign influence and “the establishment”. Then Channel 4 films its own people discussing ways around foreign-donation rules. Funny how quickly the principles disappear when the money’s pointing their way. #ReformUK #Farage #ukpolitics

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Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

At Reform’s conference, protesters were manhandled, had their hair pulled and were dragged out. Farage then dismissed the backlash as “utter nonsense”. You can boo a protest. You can argue back. What you don’t get to do is assault people for dissent. Animals. #ReformUK #Farage

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One of the strangest ideas in modern politics is that changing your mind is weakness. If the evidence changes and you still hold exactly the same opinion, that isn’t strength. Sometimes it just means you’ve stopped thinking. #Politics #UKPolitics

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I’d genuinely like to see more cross-party politics. Climate, social care, housing, infrastructure — these are problems lasting decades, not electoral cycles. Government should be about solving problems, not automatically opposing whoever suggested the solution. #UKPolitics #Climate

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Another Conservative reshuffle. At this point they’re not rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. They’re arguing over who gets to be Assistant Shadow Minister for Deckchairs. #Conservatives #Badenoch #UKPolitics

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Reform spent years telling us they were an unstoppable political insurgency. Turns out they’re also capable of factional rows, suspensions, bad headlines and falling polls. Welcome to being a normal political party, lads. #ReformUK #Farage #UKPolitics

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Burnham’s builder register could become genuinely powerful. Next step: no government, council or publicly funded contracts for firms that aren’t registered. No public money for cowboy builders. Let it prove itself — then move to compulsory licensing. #Burnham #Housing #Builders

Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Not everything needs nationalising. But if something is a natural monopoly that everyone needs and nobody can realistically choose not to use, perhaps maximising shareholder returns shouldn’t be its primary purpose. Water would be a good place to start. #PublicOwnership #Water #UKPolitics

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Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The interesting question about AI isn’t whether it can write another bloody email. Can it reduce NHS admin? Speed up planning? Cut paperwork? Detect fraud? Give public servants more time to actually help people? That’s where the real prize is. #AI #PublicServices #Technology

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Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Britain now has five-party politics trapped inside a voting system designed for two. FPTP increasingly means millions of votes count for almost nothing. Whatever your politics, that isn’t healthy democracy. #ElectoralReform #ProportionalRepresentation #UKPolitics

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Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Burnham apologising for Labour’s previous handling of Gaza matters. But apologies are about the past. The real test is what Britain does now: arms, sanctions, settlements and international law. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #Gaza #Labour #UKPolitics

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Burnham to face pressure at Labour conference to recognise Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide

Grassroots groups to urge PM to break with Starmer policy and impose full arms embargo on Israel

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Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Britain has just endured another summer of extreme heat and wildfires, yet politicians are still debating whether tackling climate change is electorally convenient. Physics doesn’t check the opinion polls. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #UKPolitics

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Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Reform appoints an economic adviser who has argued for NHS privatisation and ending the pension triple lock. At some point we should probably stop treating “Reform will protect ordinary people” as a serious proposition. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #ReformUK #NHS #UKPolitics

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Reform’s new economic adviser has called for end of pensioners’ triple lock

Exclusive: Mitchell Palmer has also argued for privatising the NHS and immigration as way of cutting poverty

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We somehow went from: “Netflix has basically everything for £6 a month” to: “Which of my seven subscriptions has series 3, and why does series 2 require another subscription?” Streaming companies have painstakingly recreated the conditions that made piracy attractive. #Streaming

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The useful AI revolution won’t be robots replacing everyone. It’ll be the moment somebody invents one that can phone British Gas, sit on hold for 47 minutes and argue about your direct debit for you. That’s when civilisation truly begins. #AI #Technology

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Public transport works best when the public interest comes first. Taking local buses back under public control isn’t radical. The weird experiment was pretending an essential service should be run mainly around shareholder returns. #PublicTransport #UKPolitics

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Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Greens want a windfall tax on the biggest banks, saying it could raise £19bn and cut hiring costs for small businesses. Tax huge excess profits to help firms create jobs? That sounds rather more pro-business than making disabled people poorer. #GreenParty #UKPolitics

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Clacton has 10,442 PIP claimants — equivalent to 47% of Farage’s entire by-election vote. Reform wants to slash PIP eligibility. For a party elected to “put Clacton first”, that could hit thousands of its own constituents. #Clacton #ReformUK #PIP #Disability

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Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

22,239 people in Clacton bothered to turn up and vote for Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage couldn’t even be bothered to turn up for them. #Clacton #Farage #ReformUK

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Kerr Avon @djkerravon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Farage’s “landslide” was 62.8% on just 44.37% turnout. That means only about 28% of eligible voters in Clacton actually voted for him. A win? Yes. A sweeping mandate? Not remotely. #Farage #Clacton #ReformUK #UKPolitics

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Clacton Express: Binface 2026

Good luck to Count Binface. In a political landscape increasingly dominated by absurdity, it feels only right that we support the one candidate who’s actually doing it deliberately. youtu.be/ujHphnnDaGg?... #CountBinface #UKPolitics

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Electronic music in 2026 is fascinating because nothing really dies anymore. Disco feeds house. House feeds tech house. Trance comes back. 90s sounds mutate again. Forty years of dance music is now one enormous box of records everyone keeps digging through. #HouseMusic #ElectronicMusic #DJ

Bethesda are remastering Oblivion while Skyrim modders have spent 15 years quietly demonstrating what a genuinely modern Skyrim could look like. At some point surely somebody at Bethesda looks at that ecosystem and thinks: “Maybe we should actually do this?” #Skyrim #Bethesda #Gaming

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