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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Dear Donald, On second thoughts….
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This is real. And I have never seen the competence, morals, standards and communication strategy of any government collapse so fast.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Stephen Fry, "I'm deeply worried about the darkening shadow that's going over the world, the shadow of fascism" Laura Kuenssberg, "You would use that word?" Stephen Fry, "Absolutely. It's a cult of power. And power only speaks to power"
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/02/2025
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.
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A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
All I can say at this stage is… FINALLY! 💥
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”
The full front cover is dominated by a picture of Zelenskyy. The word BETRAYED is written in German (VERRATEN) across his chest in yellow. The rest of the subtitle is underneath.
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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename 'Krasnov' Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief
A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
ДРАТЬСЯ! ДРАТЬСЯ! ДРАТЬСЯ!
Meme image of Donald Trump post-assassination attempt, curiously allowed by his security to raise his hand in victory and shout "Fight! Fight! Fight!" while the American flag unfurled behind him. Only it's the Russian flag. Because Donald Trump is a Putin asset. Also an asshat.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Sieg Heil? No thanks. Let’s all join European Movement and build the resistance to this.
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European Movement
We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
You've almost got to admire the thought process behind seeing how spectacularly badly Labour's winter fuel payments policy has gone down with pensioners and then thinking "let's come up with something even more unpopular"
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Calum Miller, "One of the biggest barriers to growth is a self inflicted one, because we have deliberately cut off our access to our biggest market, the European Union" "The solution to growth is a deeper and tighter relationship with the EU so businesses don't trip over the new red tape" #BBCQT
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
There are around 10k private school kids in Edinburgh. 51 have moved to state schools in January. As I've repeatedly said the effects of VAT on fees are going to be minimal. www.thetimes.com/article/ab42...
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VAT on private school fees puts Edinburgh state schools at capacity
Majority of the capital’s 15 private schools are understood to have lost pupils, dispersed to state schools throughout the city
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I hereby declare Littlejohn's Law: "When a columnist rages against people working from home, it is almost certain they wrote it while working from home." (Via Private Eye)
PS: It's not just on net zero where the news outlet and its parent appear to diverge. As DMGT's annual report delightedly explains, the company supports employees "in maintaining a work-life balance" by, for instance, allowing "flexible working practices". "There's loads of people still working from home here," confirms a Mail source.

But this did not stop the paper devoting a front page splash and editorial on 30 December to public sector employees being allowed to work from home and even abroad, bemoaning "the folly of seaside shirkers" who would be "so out-of-synch with colleagues and devoid of proper managerial supervision".

The following day, columnist Richard Littlejohn smirked over the new year honours list that "I shouldn't be surprised to discover that some of them are getting gongs for services to Working From Home. Or Working From The Beach." Naturally Littlejohn, who never comes in to the Mail office, emailed these words from home – or, at least, one of his homes, given that he spends much of the year WFH-ing from the rather sunnier climes of Florida!
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Team Trump testing out how to not implement the tariffs that only a few of them think of to be sane economic policy-making. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Team Studies Gradual Tariff Hikes Under Emergency Powers
Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming economic team are discussing slowly ramping up tariffs month by month, a gradual approach aimed at boosting negotiating leverage while helping avoid ...
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Bob Hawkins @bobhawkins.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The people demanding Rachel Reeves’s head are the Mail,Telegraph & Express & the BBC quoting the Mail,Telegraph & Express add to the non existant clamour #bbcpm
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/01/2025
It takes a pretty special kind of entitlement and a very friendly media to stand there, as a member of the party who took gov't debt from 63% to 100% of GDP, from £900 billion to £2.8 trillion, who gave us Brexit and PM Truss, and say "we know how this sorry story goes - we have seen it before." ~AA
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Special Counsel (Jack Smith’s) report confirms Trump went to “unprecedented criminal effort" to retain power in 2020. Only election in 2024 stopped him being convicted. So, when Tories say he represents the “rule of law” - just laugh at their sorry immoral arses. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"The department's view that the constitution prohibits the continued indictment and prosecution of a president is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the government's proof or the merits of the prosecution, which the office stands fully behind," Smith writes.
"Indeed, but for Mr Trump's election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial."
Post by Tory, Daniel Hannan: 

“In contrast to the European Union, based on technocracy and central control, let's build an Anglosphere Union based on liberty, open markets, secure property, free contract and the rule of law.”
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I fear there is deep truth here.
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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Credit to @bladeofthes.bsky.social 👏
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
In this week's addition of @privateeyenews.bsky.social 'you can't just call everyone you disagree with a facist'
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
2024 daily temperatures compared to past years. A frightening graphic from the BBC. #ClimateEmergency
Chart showing rapidly rising temperatures with 2024 the worst
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/01/2025
Mark Francois: “I have always argued that Starmer remains a Remainer at heart and this just helps prove it. Labour are going to try and take us back in, one step at a time.” Let us pray. ~AA www.theneweuropean.co.uk/does-this-de...
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Does this development mean Starmer is secretly planning to Rejoin?
Mark Francois has sounded the Brexit betrayal claxon over a big change at the Foreign Office
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Woman widely reported to have crashed the UK economy sends lawyer’s letter to UK Prime Minister telling him to stop saying I crashed the economy bit.ly/4fT0W3l
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Liz Truss sends legal letter ordering Starmer to stop saying she crashed economy
‘Cease and desist’ letter accuses PM of harming her reputation and contributing to her losing her seat
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
First he tried to replace Nigel Farage with Rupert Lowe and now he's endorsing "new leadership" from Liz Truss Are we entirely sure he isn't a secret double agent trying to bring down the British right?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Looking forward to this! www.lbc.co.uk/radio/charit...
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Full Disclosure live on stage with James O'Brien and Carol Vorderman: Buy your tickets here
James O’Brien is recording his podcast live on stage to raise money for LBC’s charity Global’s Make Some Noise.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A reminder that this was the same line George Osborne was advised to cancel by the Treasury when he became Chancellor
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/01/2025
Reform UK's 5 MPs tried to introduce a bill targetting Reeves, with the TUV's sole MP Jim Allister. All Rupert Lowe (Musk's pick for leader) has to do at this stage is list the six names. He kept forgetting some. This went on for ages. Commons Speaker: "This is a shambles. Absolute shambles." ~AA
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Jessica: The fire chief has been called a DEI hire. I would take her resume any day, 24 year vet, paramedic, engineer, fire inspector, captain, battalion chief, fire marshal, deputy chief.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Dismal that we’ve got to a place where our public servants think nothing of speaking to people like this. Unprofessional, rude and deeply dim. I know that’s the Reform brand, but still….
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Being called a "half wit" by a man who is apparently unable to read a one sentence Tweet is quite something
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Never has the fake 'patriotism' of the British right-wing tabloid press been more powerfully displayed than this week
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mySociety @mysociety.org · 10/01/2025
A great example of how perseverance can get results with FOI - a refusal at first does not mean you have to abandon your quest for information. More on this story here as well: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reasons given for Boris Johnson peerages ‘inadequate’, campaigner says
Martin Rosenbaum fought for 18 months to reveal who had supported nominations of two former special advisers
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Left: Liz Truss says Gordon Brown crashed the economy, he didn't. And that Rachel Reeves has pushed the UK to an economic crisis, she hasn't Right: Truss apologises/ Sunak says he was made PM t fix her mistakes. Hunt says he reversed her budget. Even Kwasi Kwarteng said he told her to slow down
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 10/01/2025
US right wing fans misinformation fires as firefighters battle Los Angeles blazes
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US right wing fans misinformation fires as firefighters battle Los Angeles blazes
A similar campaign of rumors and lies was seen after the North Carolina hurricane, with DEI a primary target As Los Angeles firefighters battle ongoing blazes, prominent rightwing figures are spreading bigoted criticism of the response and lies about who…
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The British Brexit patriots fawning over a foreign oligarch. Weasel minded weaklings
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Quislings
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Musk plans to use his fortune and TwitterX to take down governments in the UK and EU. Steve Bannon: “There’s not a centrist left-wing government in Europe that will be able to withstand that onslaught.”
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Musk Takes Slash-and-Burn Style to Europe After Bolstering Trump
The world’s richest person has his sights set on Germany, the UK — and the EU’s regulatory powers.
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Bruce Feldman @brucerfeldman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The @nytimes.com should hire whoever wrote this headline. Seriously!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Bear sends legal letter ordering people to stop saying that bears shit in the woods. Lawyers delighted to be able to bill ££££ for this wildly delusional nonsense. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Liz Truss sends legal letter ordering Starmer to stop saying she crashed economy
‘Cease and desist’ letter accuses PM of harming her reputation and contributing to her losing her seat
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A reminder of how seriously Elon Musk really takes the issue of women's safety www.businessinsider.com/spacex-paid-...
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A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence.
SpaceX paid a flight attendant $250,000 in severance after she accused Elon Musk of exposing himself and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for a sexual massage.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Liz Truss threatens to sue Keir Starmer unless he "ceases and desists" from alleging she crashed the economy. In other news, here's Liz Truss making the exact same allegation against Gordon Brown
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I know it's childish, but this got me
"Mark Zuckerberg, recipient of world's first rat penis transplant, announces Meta will stop fact checking"
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
If I had to use a single word to describe the current state of British politics it would be grim.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
UK universities join retreat from Elon Musk's X, citing misinformation on platform @bruceandy.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...
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UK universities join retreat from Elon Musk's X, citing misinformation on platform
Universities and other higher education establishments have joined a retreat among British institutions from Elon Musk's X social media platform, citing its role in spreading misinformation that fuelled race riots last year.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
UK desire for high spending and low taxes, coupled with an ageing population and immigration controls, may be facing a reckoning. Not obvious there could be a growth plan capable of resolving that, but even a more modest one is barely in evidence.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/01/2025
The right's despicable tactics laid bare KB hints Labour politicians may be "complicit" in rape gangs scandal Then accuses Lab of voting against inquiry - when it's *her* party bringing a wrecking amendment to a Bill on CHILD SAFETY & WELLBEING that Lab HAS to vote against or whole Bill dies #PMQs
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