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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Still a classic youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT...
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The Daily Mail Song
YouTube video by dananddanfilms
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 07/07/2026
A video of a ‘migrant’ on a small boat has been altered using AI to make it appear as if he’s waving a machete. The fake video has been shared thousands of times online, including by the leader of the London Assembly Conservatives, Susan Hall.
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Video of man waving machete on small boat isn’t real – Full Fact
A viral video apparently showing a migrant on a small boat has been altered using artificial intelligence to make it appear as if he’s waving a machete.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Only someone with a heart of stone wouldn't laugh at the demise of Jenrick's political gambit... playing out here in real time
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.
Refugees

They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or me
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way

(now read from bottom to top)


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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Donald J. Trump C @realDonald Trump
No president ever worked harder than me (cleaning up the mess I inherited)!
Ned Pyle
@NerdPyle • 6h
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
FDR fought the Great Depression and led us through WW2. Lincoln saved the Union.
You have golfed 156 times, visited mar-a-lago 27 times, & spend 6 hours a day on "executive time" tweeting and watching cable news
You may be the laziest president who ever lived.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response. www.publicnotice.co/p/no-kings-p...
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No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response.
Turnout was enormous. There was no violence. And the wannabe king is triggered.
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Lots of coverage in msm about #Labour and China - and rightly so. Much less about #Farage and #Russia How come? @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social with @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...
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Byline Podcast: Nigel Farage's Putin Problem
Adrian Goldberg discusses 'Nigel Farage's Putin Problem' - the headline story in the new Byline Times newspaper. He's joined by Byline Times executive editor Hardeep Matharu and executive editor Pe...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/10/2025
Today we show the world that in America we are not scared of Trump and his pathetic, vile regime. Today we show the world that America does not want a tyrant and does not want a king. Today, let’s make history with the largest peaceful protest ever.
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The Day Trump Feared… Today We Make History Together!!!
By Ben Meiselas
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/10/2025
Today's No Kings protests showcase the absolute best of America
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Happening now: Here’s a view of the “No Kings” protest in Washington, DC
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
M.I.T. Brown. Penn. USC. Now UVA — “the fifth school to rebuff a White House proposal to give universities preferential treatment if they uphold a set of White House demands.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/10/2025
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/10/2025
The ICE raids, the Guard deployments, the fear — it’s all real. But I can’t shake the feeling that Trump pushed too far too fast. People are waking up. Judges are pushing back. Maybe this isn’t the end of democracy — maybe it’s the moment it remembers to fight back. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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When Power Overreaches: The Gut Feeling That America Is Starting to Push Back
I admit I've made some bad predictions...but maybe not this time. Or maybe
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
>”It begs the question of who’s funding it.” To account for the lavish self-funding of my own #NoKings participation: poster board cost me about $8.00 at Staples, I already had Sharpies, and gas downtown and back runs maybe a buck & a half. Same with my friends. I feel like we’re all mini-Soroses.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2025
CNBC: "Very disappointing. It's a weak number. This is private sector jobs for September. The total comes in -32,000. And that was a surprise because economists were looking for an increase of 51,000. Also, the revision was not good. August now showing -3,000 compared to the initial read of 54,000"
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Our Eyes are Open @thecookout.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Draft dodging Pretender-in-chief
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 29/09/2025
An incredibly important election in a tiny country just went the right way. Moldova has resisted a huge Russian disinformation campaign and will not become a Russian puppet state.
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The problem is that ‘this is not who we are’ is coming to feel a little empirically unconvincing. It might help if the PM actually stood up and made the case for a liberal, tolerant and inclusive country.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/08/2025
TARIFFS BACKFIRE: Bloomberg reports Trump’s tariffs are crushing U.S. textile exporters—raising costs, scaring off buyers, and stalling investments. Cocona Labs’ CEO says sales are down and the company may move some of its operations overseas.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 23/06/2025
Plain-Speaking Nige is suddenly evasive... thecritic.co.uk/moth...
Anyway, the Farage position on bombing Iran is that he thinks America had no choice, but he is also against military interventions, but he is also against Iran, and he is also against negotiating with them and also against Keir Starmer calling for de-escalation.

Someone asked if Britain should be taking part in the US attacks. “If they ask for help should we give it? I believe yes.” This is opposition to military intervention like you’ve never seen it before. That’s not to say his position isn’t nuanced. “Blindly following America can be a big mistake,” he warned. Although that turned out to be a reference to Barack Obama. Blindly following Donald Trump is just fine.

Some might call all that an incoherent mess, but another way of looking at it is that it’s the ideal Reform Party position: no one knows what it means and there’s something in there for everyone.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I'm also terribly proud that people who go on as guests of the World Service, or who listen, might hopefully come to associate Britain with its output: curious, gentle, fair, expansive. I hate all that 'soft power' bollocks, but it's a tremendously good shop window for a country.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/06/2025
Ben Jennings on Reform UK’s new chair – cartoon
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Ben Jennings on Reform UK’s new chair – cartoon
David Bull, a former presenter of TV’s Most Haunted, takes the role recently vacated by Zia Yusuf
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Also, asking homeowners for permission would kill the burglary industry.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/05/2025
UK child poverty taskforce set to recommend return of Sure Start scheme
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UK child poverty taskforce set to recommend return of Sure Start scheme
Government source says there are doubts over cost of reinstating early years service brought in by previous Labour administration The government-backed child poverty taskforce is likely to recommend the return of early years service Sure Start, the Guardian understands, though there are doubts in government about whether it could be funded. Senior ministers including Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall and Bridget Phillipson have praised the service in the past, citing it as one of the crowning achievements of the last Labour government. Continue reading...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Seemingly even the Telegraph weren't shameless enough for this - it's been taken down, and all links go to the homepage, which leads with attacks on trans people, and blaming Starmer for Brexit. So they're still shameless about some stuff.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This is awful. Is the government/DFE seriously considering removing statutory support & plans for children with special needs in mainstream schools? It would cause extreme issues for the children involved schoolsweek.co.uk/ehcp-shake-u...
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EHCP shake-up considered as part of SEND reforms - adviser
The plans - or a new alternative - could be 'narrowed' to special schools only, adviser suggests
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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Mouser
Small blue kitten sitting on a desk next to an ancient but ergonomic and much loved trackball mouse.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
He’s got away with untold crimes, lies & offences. He’s achieved the highest office in the land. Twice. He’s lining his pockets on an industrial scale & persecuting his enemies for fun. But he’s still a miserable, bitter, humourless & furious man. Because deep inside, he knows *exactly* who he is.
Donald Trump’s unhinged & hate-filled Easter message.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
BOOM!💥 The number of @bsky.app users just hit 35 MILLION!!! 👏 LETS KEEP GOING, LETS MAKE BLUESKY THE BIGGEST SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM ON THE PLANET AND SEND MUSK, ZUCK & TRUMP PACKING! LETS DO THIS!
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Bring Back British Rail @bringbackbritishrail.org · 15/04/2025
🚆 Did you know @heidialexander.bsky.social's plan for our new #GreatBritishRailways aims to maintain “An ongoing role for the private sector”? 😠 What a joke! Help us 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 by completing the Department for Transport’s consultation before the deadline tonight 👇
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Let’s make Great British Railways great - Bring Back British Rail
Demand full public ownership before the deadline on Tuesday 15 April 2025, 23:59
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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Daughter No1 has opened a pop-up bakery/cake stall on the roadside in Matterdale today (for one day only) If you’re local do support her - she’s a whizz
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/04/2025
A Dartmoor village is paying Prince William £1.5m-a-year for an abandoned prison - and former inmates say it gave them cancer
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A Dartmoor village is paying Prince William £1.5m-a-year for an abandoned prison - and former inmates say it gave them cancer
As ex-prisoners sue over claims that high levels of radon gas have led to serious illnesses, taxpayers continue to foot the rental bill
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Man on lifetime golfing holiday and gold toilet hobbyist has sideline in bigotry manufacture and collapsing nation
Donald Trump’s arse and golf swing
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drjoan.bsky.social @drjoan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Unbelievable. Rachel Reeves is thinking about cutting a tax on US tech giants to appease Trump and his band of billionaires. If anything we should be taxing them more - not less! Agree? Sign today: 38d.gs/techgiantsta... or
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 11/04/2025
🚨Reform UK have been out courting trade union votes this week, but when it really mattered, they consistently voted AGAINST workers’ rights.🧵👇
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Tony @antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Time to re-nationalise what should never have been privatised.
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@stvk1 @stv1dr.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
If income from water charges is invested in service rather than being paid out to shareholders, then of course it makes sense to nationalise water.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 07/04/2025
EXPOSED: Fake water nationalisation tag would still save £3 billion a year. University of Greenwich research shows how taking back control of our water delivers a better deal for the public. Sign our petition to bring water into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/lets...
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Paul Johnson @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is very good indeed. I hope it will be widely read and acted upon in Treasury and Number 10.
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drjoan.bsky.social @drjoan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
UK musicians hit with £914M+ loss post-Brexit. Streams, tickets, vinyl - it’s grim. Join @europeanmovement.co.uk to sign the petition: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/brexit_music...
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Total Cost to Musicians Since Brexit - European Movement UK
The cost of Brexit to UK musicians is staggering. Discover the impact in Spotify streams, Wembley tickets, vinyl LPs, and more. Support the campaign and sign the petition!
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/03/2025
Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
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