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Winderful @winderful.uk · 4h
While you were sleeping, #windEnergy reached 62% of the National Grid's electricity demand. winderful.uk
The winderful.uk dashboard showing that wind is generating 16,160 MW. That's enough to floodlight 308,064 football pitches
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Chris Gallen @villain57.bsky.social · 11h
The fact Derbyshire mentions the tabloids is why the BBC News media is no longer fit for purpose. They slavishly follow Twitter and the right wing press media for everything. They’re failing to follow their own charter.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 28/09/2026
It’s happening. Oxford Street is going traffic-free on Monday 26 October. The transformation of the nation’s high street into a world-class pedestrianised space will begin in earnest four weeks from today.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
...to explore exactly how to do this among other social care reforms. It's due to report back within months. Yet rather than acknowledge that, here he is taking all the credit for a ready made plan handed to him. 2/2
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh no, Burnham does NOT propose this. All he does is promise to continue the plans underway for a long time under Starmer. Starmer included the promise in the 2024 manifesto. In January 2025, he set up the Independent Commission on Adult Social Care, chaired by Baroness Louise Casey... 1/2
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Talk TV on migrants: 'culturally, I'm an ancient Roman; culturally, these people are barbarians' 😖 Truly grim. No one should be advertising on this toxic channel. What are IKEA thinking? Sign the petition: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik... #migrants #mediahate #ikea #stopfundinghate
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 27/09/2026
NEW Stewart Lee column The collapse of compassion in post-Brexit Britain suggests it’s now time for Roman-style lethal spectacles. The alternative – stopping malign global influences from destabilising our society, say - seems beyond us www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

At this rate, we'll be staging public drownings of migrants, to address 'legitimate concerns': Stewart Lee on the collapse of compassion in post-Brexit Britain. Stylised image of a RNLI ferry
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Dawny B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Always liked Gary x
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Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“I was approached indirectly and asked whether I would call for Keir to resign in return for [a cabinet job], but that’s just not how I conduct myself.” Darren Jones on the dirty deals that got Andy Burnham into No 10 and life after the "coup", in this week's NS www.newstatesman.com/politics/pol...
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Darren Jones: “I was asked whether I would call for Keir Starmer to resign”
The former cabinet minister on the dirty deals behind the No 10 takeover, and what Labour should do next
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autumn poem just dropped.
[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
 
  comm   n pr  ble    whe    writin    p   ems
in the shape of decid o   s trees
is t  at once t   ere ar   ives
the fir   t sti   rings of    he new aut   mn breeze,  
  he       oems will begi    to shake    hemselves ge   tly  
  ntil their letters loos   n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then
 
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]
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Jack dart @jackdart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Danny Tommo is a thug, a criminal and should be arrested immediately. This cannot go on any longer. The government must act swiftly and ensure vigilantes aren’t given a pass.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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Phil Myers @philmyers53.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
THE PLP FELL FOR IT Starmer wasn’t simply criticised. A relentless, heavily funded right-wing campaign worked to convince voters that Labour was failing. Money, media & social media amplified the message. But the biggest mistake was inside Labour itself. The PLP bought into it
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Man who supported Brexit then fucked off to Monaco to avoid contributing a penny of his £15 billion fortune to public services makes the mistake of thinking anyone gives a shit what he thinks.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On Question Time Danny Kruger just explained that our crypto billionaire donors will "get absolutely nothing" in return for their donations. In unrelated news, we plan to cut capital gains tax on crypto assets from 24% to 10% and set up a Bank of England Bitcoin Reserve Fund.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 18/09/2026
More officers. Smarter tech. Record funding. Fewer places for phone thieves to hide.
Bar chart showing 'theft from the person' 42% lower, 'personal robbery' 33% lower, 'vehicle crime' 33% lower. Text above reads "Targeted policing is making a difference in Westminster. More officers and Sur-Ron e-bikes are helping cut crime across Westminster, with significant reductions in theft, including phone theft." Text below bar chart reads "Source: MOPAC analysis of MPS recorded crime data (12 months to August 2026 vs previous 12 months. London Datastore 02/09/2026. Recorded crime data is subject to future revision".
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Winderful @winderful.uk · 17/09/2026
While you were sleeping, #windEnergy reached 58% of the National Grid's electricity demand. winderful.uk
The winderful.uk dashboard showing that wind is generating 13,603 MW. That's enough for 7,557,222 kettles!
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Reform won Durham promising to show Britain how it would govern. Now another three councillors have walked away, with one making an extraordinary allegation about what happened after she raised a serious safeguarding concern. " thedailybritain.co.uk/reform-durha... via The Daily Britain
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reform UK Durham is now on the verge of NOC. Andrew Husband and Darren Grimes must be considering their positions. 65 to 52 councillors since the locals. Absolute disaster.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/09/2026
Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.
Chart showing global annual temperature abnormalities between 1880 and 2024
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Callum Parrish @callumparrish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Rachel Reeves can feel very vindicated by this.
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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A very British form of resistance popping up on Facebook today. People buying RNLI Christmas cards to send to a Reform UK free post address.
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MrMirth @mrmirth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is what the BBC calls 'news'. Released today. It's just a blatant platforming of Reform. It's meaningless and is not news.
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
And this open letter of support, signed now by 81k people.
act.38degrees.org.uk
An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We thought the best person to talk to Laura Kuenssberg about donations from billionaires would be Robert Jenrick, who received a £12,000 donation from a billionaire after helping him avoid £45m in tax.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 13/09/2026
Trees work harder than you think. They cool our streets, clean our air and provide us with shade. We’re planting 5,000 more where heat risk is highest - growing London’s tree canopy for future generations. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Drought devastation: How to save London's parched trees
Heatwaves and drought make planting native trees and maintaining the existing canopy more and more difficult.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 13/09/2026
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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Stewart Lee: Danny Tommo’s masked patriots are coming for the Mail – if Millets doesn’t run out of balaclavas first
When the rightwing pro-Christian protesters are standing outside the rightwing pro-Christian newspaper demanding to be bought a house, you hardly need a satirist to intervene
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MrMirth @mrmirth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Campbell, hits the nail on the head. BBC news, 'cheerleader' of Farage/Reform.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"So tell me Mr Farage, what was it about a system favoured by money launderers that allows donations to be totally untraceable that first attracted you to crypto?"
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Evanitamushroom @evanitamushroom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Starmer took action in March and July to stop this www.gov.uk/government/n... Burnham blew it. If only he had acted like Starmer it wouldn’t have happened.
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Cap on donations from overseas electors and ban on crypto donations to protect democracy
Landmark changes to protect UK democracy from scourge of foreign actors and financial influence are set to come into force.
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DW @dwblue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Like the Dems in the USA - completely blindsided by what they're actually up against. Which is basically a global right wing oligarchy wanting to mould politics for their own benefit & planning to sideline democracy in the process
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headwindcyclist🚴🦩 @headwindcyclist.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
They want us to go home.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
nothing says “party of the ordinary workers” than taking a £36m donation from a crypto tycoon convicted in the US in 2022 for failings in an anti-money laundering programme before being pardoned by Donald Trump
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2026
How it started / How it's going
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wonder what it is about off shore tax hating billionaires being so drawn to Nigel Farage's "people's party"
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Andy Burnham bottled it and now look
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tory Party’s former campaigning director Anthony Lee & his wife Laura Saunders have pleaded guilty to cheating at gambling regarding the 2024 general election date.
lbc.co.uk
Conservative MP candidate and campaign chief admit cheating with election bets | LBC
Anthony Lee was the Conservative’s director of campaigning, in charge of deploying resources for the general election which was called by then-prime minister Rishi Sunak
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reform’s Robert Jenrick defends and justifies political violence by the Hard Right party’s members. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform member who hit female protester with crutch should get medal says Jenrick
Robert Jenrick, Nigel Farage's Treasury spokesman, said a man seen swinging a metal crutch at two hecklers should be given a medal and said he felt sorry for him after pictures and video were widely s...
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Toilet Instructions
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Despite saying that it is committed to banning snares in England, Defra is seemingly slow to change the law. Snares are banned in Wales and Scotland, so Dame Angela Eagle and the Defra team, what are you waiting for?
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fill in our handy tool, and you can email Defra in seconds, telling the department to hurry up and BAN SNARES. protectthewild.org.uk/ban-snares/
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Ban snares petition - Protect the Wild
Ban Snares in England – Labour Promised, Now They Must Deliver If this form does not work properly on your laptop or phone, please copy and paste the text in the letter below and send it to…
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you think this is messed up, please sign our letter to Defra, calling on the government to fixing this glaring loophole in the law. protectthewild.org.uk/ban-glue-tra...
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Ban the public sale of Glue traps - Protect the Wild
Ban the public sale of glue traps in England "Having trouble with the email link? No problem, simply copy and paste the letter below and send it to this address:📧 PS.Baroness.Hayman@defra.gov.uk…
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's still legal to supply and sell glue traps in England. DIY shops and online stores can still sell them to the public, despite it being illegal to actually use one.
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Elaine Y @eleniwhy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“I feel like I have accidentally joined a cult - I so regret it,” the serving councillor said.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Party of Thugs.
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Robert Jenrick Says Reform Supporter Who Attacked Woman At Party Conference 'Should Get A Medal'
He previously said the heckler should “get a life”.
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Richard Morley @sevenworldscollide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Support Plymouth - UK Anti-Fascists Saturday 19th September "Plymouth needs to be defended, supported, and grown as a multicultural hate free community and safe place. No matter your age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation." www.facebook.com/plymouthanti...
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026
A dark blizzard of disinformation is warping the public’s perception of our great city. But we know the truth: our homicide rate is lower than every major US city, neighbourhood crimes are down and we’ve been ranked #1 city in the world 11 years in a row. My piece for The Times.
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We must fight back against troll army’s lies about London
There is a dark blizzard of disinformation online, where our capital is described as a lawless dystopia in decline — this couldn’t be further from the truth
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Politico: "The latest Private Eye pulls various data together to suggest the Rachel Reeves agricultural inheritance tax changes might be having the intended impact: pushing tax-avoiders out of farmland and making it more affordable for real farmers." (Cont.)
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