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Dr John Gibson @drjohnegibson.bsky.social · 12h

The whole political system is up for sale in the form of so called "donations".

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Let me try this once more. It was a choice. EITHER the Greens adopted a slogan. OR they could have joined the next govt, where they could push for an end to arms sales, sanctions, support for the arrest warrants etc. It was never going to be both. Which one makes a material difference? #GazaGenocide

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Years of extremist media using phrases like 'Sadiq Khan's hated ULEZ cameras' in their headlines surely contributes to people like this becoming radicalised to commit terrorist acts?

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide

Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How on earth did we let that triumvirate of thickheaded wickedness - Farage, Johnson and Rees-Mogg - persuade us that Europeans were our enemies?!

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block 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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Clean Air Where @cleanairwhere.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🧵 1/4 Cold weather doesn’t give you a “chill” that makes you sick. What actually happens is that colder weather pushes us indoors, where we spend more time sharing air in spaces that are often poorly ventilated.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Far from taking pride in it, the men who killed this magnificent animal should be deeply ashamed. That swift, sleek, wonderful monster, flashing with holographic colours, reduced to a dead black lump. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

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Monster 282kg tuna landed in Brixham is 'heaviest ever' catch

Giant £4,000 Bluefin tuna caught off Devon coast could be heading to Michelin-starred restaurants

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Dr John Gibson @drjohnegibson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And all so rich sadists can shoot more so-called "game" birds.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'It's a mystery, isn't it' via Christopher Warner

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Dr John Gibson @drjohnegibson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't understand how people sitting peacefully holding up a placard are arrested under terrorist legislation whereas this direct call for disorder and worse, appears to be tolerated. Some might think old ladies and vicars with placards are considered an easier target for arrest.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tice isn't as clever as Farage, who understands that he has to at least pretend not to support these thugs

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?

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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis

When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Unlike the team at The Telegraph, I am intensely relaxed about this.

A headline in the Telegraph reads:

Burnham refuses to rule out rejoining EU

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Broken Politics 🌍 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks to years of Tory underfunding, the #ToryBrexitDisaster and Farage's persecution of all immigrants... ...our #NHS is now seriously understaffed. Labour will have to sort out the mess, as usual, and no doubt be criticised by the party that caused it! #ukpolitics #RejoinEU #r4today #wato

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nick Candy and Holly Valance. Britain’s most expensive house. A £265m sale. Usual consequence: £32m of stamp duty. But five small flats were included in the sale. By an extraordinary happy accident, that cut the tax by £18.5m. The curious sale of Nick Candy’s mansion A 🧵:

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

UK politics funded by billionaires, mega-donations surge as the rich buy power. £179m donated by wealthy individuals since 2019. A cap at £100,000 or £500,000 won't do. Only the rich can enter political auctions Can't end political corruption without ending donations.

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UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge

Exclusive: A total £179m has been donated by wealthy individuals since 2019, research reveals

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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 12,000

Bar 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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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes, I'm pretty sure everyone can see what's happening. Rich, privately, educated entitled tossers who could not be more part of The Establishment do not think they ought to have to play by the rules.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Man who migrated to another country to avoid taxes says Britain's problem is migration and taxes that he doesn't pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Jim Ratcliffe: UK is ‘on the slide’ from days when it had world’s ‘greatest empire’

Co-owner of Manchester United says Britain is in decline because of high taxes and immigration

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"While death is obviously not the only bad outcome from any virus, if that virus didn’t kill you, you are left with survivor immunity. That’s something to be profoundly grateful for, not something to glorify and intentionally seek out." My latest

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“There is No Such Thing as Natural Immunity; There is Survivor Immunity.”

We should abandon the term "nature immunity." Professor Christopher Halkides came up with a wise replacement.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm pleased this thread has proved so popular it's such an important and relevant bit of history.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I regret to tell you that I also had a lesson on how bigots are impervious to fact & reason The same bloke (it turned out he was employed by the agency subcontracted to do this work) tried it on when he returned a yr or two later But this time one fierce stare was enough to stop him in his tracks

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hey! 🇺🇸! This is the price in GBP per LITRE. To convert to gallons and 🇺🇸 $ Diesel is $11.81 a gallon. That isn’t a LITTLE bit more. It is A LOT. How would YOU like to pay it. For an insane Trump war in which we (🇬🇧 & RoW) have no part and leaves America worse off too.

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Dcmfox @dcmfox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I will post this again for context. The difference between a billion and a million dollars

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you are attacking Doctors Without Borders or World Central Kitchen, you are wrong and can get fucked.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:

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Dr John Gibson @drjohnegibson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

news.sky.com/story/reform... These sort of purchases of our democratic system are the inevitable result of a failure to effectively legislate so-called political donations.

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Reform given £72m by two crypto billionaires in record-breaking haul

The donations come amid a criminal investigation into allegations Reform UK breached rules on political donations.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster

Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Says it all really - two tier Reform" via Eric Jones

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Not everyone's train journey is the same.

A lone black woman on a train.
Her carriage is full of masked white men going to march for white supremacy.

Three white women on a train smiling. Their carriage is full of masked white men going to block the port of Dover.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Seriously, if you think hordes of balaclava-clad thugs are in the same category as homespun-wearing middle-class pensioners holding placards, you need to give your head a wobble.

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Dr John Gibson @drjohnegibson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I seem to recall when Mr Farage had milkshake thrown at him from a distance, these resulted in criminal charges.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Our undercover reporter @scatatkins.bsky.social posed as a far right journalist at the Reform Conference, and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Still scarcely any mainstream coverage of this massive story, despite the new and separate scandal involving James Orr. This is not just double standards. I'm struggling to detect any standards at all.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Jason Arday story is by no means the biggest scandal at Cambridge University. I'm sure the media is going to pick this up and run with it in just the same way ... Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Let me get this right: if you're a retired vicar and peacefully hold up a sign opposing genocide, you're a terrorist. But if 1200 morons put on balaclavas and close half of Dover to stop people *escaping* genocide, police "constructively engage." Is that it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent

Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I spent happy years as volunteer @britishmuseum.bsky.social & knew quite a few staff. Bet they, & today's volunteers, are rightly _really_ unhappy. "It is understood the museum chair, George Osborne, was aware of the viewing". One thing to say: #OsborneOut www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

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British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum

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