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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Dear Diary, I'm still furious about Burnham's plan to tackle disinformation. Doesn't he know that one man's disinformation is another man's essential stream of bollocks and lies to spread hatred and division in order to fuel his rise to power?"

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just because I strongly oppose any measure to tackle Russian misinformation, doesn’t mean I’m on Russia's side. In unrelated news, one of the few times I bothered turning up for work as an MEP was to vote AGAINST measures to tackle the spread of Russian misinformation...

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Rebecca Gower @drrebeccagower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I saw Rose Tattoo in Sydney in about 1993.

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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Right fuck this. I have reported Danny Tommo’s YouTube video and I implore others to do the same. They are platforming a man who live streamed himself essentially committing a crime and he will be making money off of it as well. Please please report the video www.youtube.com/live/lkeZbk8...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Ilikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns

A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police.

A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In any other walk of life, representatives of a convicted felon meeting a man indicted for war crimes to discuss an invasion the UN has delcared illegal would be called a "criminal conspiracy". Not "peace negotiations".

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/09/2026

Astonishing to hear people say they'd rather asylum seekers drowned than be saved by the RNLI. Next comes letting people die in burning hostels rather than be saved by the fire brigade and letting people get kicked to death in the street rather than be saved by the Police. Don't platform this hate.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My first cartoon for adults for a while, on the Dover business

A one panel cartoon showing three male-looking figures in all black wearing balaclavas, so you can only see their eyes. Below it says: 'Spontaneous' protest. The figure on the right is saying: 'OMG, SO EMBARRASSING, WE ALL WORE THE SAME OUTFIT!

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/08/2026

New from me: Britain’s graduate earnings premium is falling, cue “too many go to university!” But non-university outcomes are also bad, cue “we must reform vocational routes!” Both miss the point: people used to think education drove economic outcomes, but the economy drives educational outcomes.

Chart showing that US workers who are functionally illiterate earn roughly the same per hour as the average British worker

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

British editorial cartoonist David Parkins illustrates the bottom line.

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Rebecca Gower @drrebeccagower.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

From time to time we drive through Bromsgrove. They had their fair share of idiots sticking flags up on lamposts, but the local council have not been clearing up after them as many other councils did.

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Rebecca Gower @drrebeccagower.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is a very sad story. Putting the human element aside for a moment, why does this headline say "alleged murder"? Surely, a coroner decided she was murdered, and that is why it has gone to court. Other sentences here do not have "alleged" in front of murder. "Alleged" is over-used in journalism.

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Rebecca Gower @drrebeccagower.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I think I need one of these to make a statement in business meetings.

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Rebecca Gower @drrebeccagower.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My neighbour gave me a lot of plums. I roasted some with stem ginger and syrup. The colours are like an art deco-inspired painting.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Apparently £5million can’t buy you enough security to protect you from an imaginary threat.

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Rebecca Gower @drrebeccagower.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We went out for a while and saw a handful of shooting stars and very many man-made objects, including a helicopter. I am glad we went out while the conditions were good, as they aren't usually so in the UK.

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Rebecca Gower @drrebeccagower.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Recently I discovered that "agora" is the Greek word for market [place?] and now I keep thinking that the anxiety disorder we call "agoraphobia" should have a different name, just so that agoraphobia could be used to describe men's fear of being made to go shopping. 😉

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Rebecca Gower @drrebeccagower.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In the evening, the sun filters through the neighbours trees into parts of our house. This evening, all those little spots of dappled light became crescents during the partial eclipse. 🌘

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

While I can’t do much about the weather, I can get angry when a massive leak happens and isn’t fixed for 36 hours. I can’t water my hydrangeas from a hose but this is seemingly without sanction. /2

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.

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Rebecca Gower @drrebeccagower.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I didn't know about Naze Tower, so I have learnt something.

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Rebecca Gower @drrebeccagower.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Recently we went to Kos. Whilst there, we visited the Casa Romana. There were many artifacts and some would not photograph well, but one item particularly caught my attention and it wasn't too difficult to photograph. Here is a small bottle in the shape of a large date, along with two blue bottles.

There is a date-shaped bottle lying on its side on the left. It has the wrinkly texture of a medjool date.
There are two blue glass bottles standing up.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Wessex Water, owned by a Malaysian entity via Jersey, CEO got 14% base salary increase despite bonus ban over sewage spill. 3.5% for workers WW loses 70m litres of water to leaks daily. Dumps sewage in rivers. Customer bills to rise 21% Bosses rewarded for robbing people, damaging the environment

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Wessex Water chief pockets above-inflation pay rise despite bonus ban over sewage spills

CEO’s pay packet surges to £791,000 as union says public ‘sick of obscene pay’ and bosses ‘feathering own nests’

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Almost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded. The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts

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Johnson government wasted ‘vast’ sums on PPE, Covid inquiry finds

Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report

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Rebecca Gower @drrebeccagower.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Being a mathematician has certainly changed over the last 5 centuries.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Politico has picked up my latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social story on Reform wanting jail time for election literature that isn't in English or Welsh - in other words banning Gaelic, Irish, Cornish and Scots (as well as the Asian languages they're no doubt targeting) bylinetimes.com/2026/07/13/r...

LOST IN TRANSLATION: Reform UK has proposed an amendment to the government’s Election Bill that would send candidates who use Irish, Gaelic or Cornish on election leaflets to jail. Reform MPs co-signed New Clause 107 to the Representation of the People Bill that would require all election publications to be “in the English language or the Welsh language” only. Five of six Cornish MPs have signed a joint statement of condemnation. The Byline Times has more.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The most insightful thing I have ever heard about Russia is from a historian who said that for centuries Russia has always tried to destabilise its neighbours and in the shrinking world we are all its neighbours now.

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Rebecca Gower @drrebeccagower.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Last week I went to Somerset for work and found these caterpillars.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Farage resigns his seat in Clacton forcing a by election which he ... er plans to stand in. Huge performative cost to the taxpayers to feather his ego. I hope it backfires spectacularly

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Game on, Nige.

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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A Midsummer Night’s Dream After several attempts, I finally managed to photograph fireflies in the Czech woods.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Funny how it's always the ones you most expect.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Let's boost my petition today which calls for stronger regulation of all our news media through the creation of a single, powerful regulator across broadcast, print and online news, with powers to action on misinformation and the blurring of fact and opinion! Currently at just over 2700 signatures!

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Petition: Establish a single, powerful, independent statutory regulator for all news media

The Government must create a single, independent statutory regulator covering print, broadcast, and digital news media. This regulator should have the legal power to enforce truth and factual reportin...

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Rebecca Gower @drrebeccagower.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

One of the things I love about Oxford is their long time collection of weather data.

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Rebecca Gower @drrebeccagower.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is helpful and also explains why Brisbane feels so utterly vile in January.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Four organisers of Raise the Colours have given an undertaking to the High Court not to put up flags in Oxfordshire or to encourage others. A hearing took place today after Oxfordshire County Council applied for an injunction against Ryan Bridge (pictured), Ben Cullen, Trudy Wells and Kevin Good.

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