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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 22h
resolutionfoundation.substack.com/p/why-nobody...
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Why nobody knows how much we’ll save from the triple lock announcement
Ruth Curtice and Parth Pandya consider the uncountable savings from the PM’s new policy
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 22h
Amid rising diesel prices, Republicans turn against Trump for first time on handling inflation open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
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Amid rising diesel prices, Republicans turn against Trump for first time on handling inflation
In our September poll, 52% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents disapprove of Trump's handling of prices. That could be dragging down Republican Senate candidates in red states
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 22h
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Écrits antisémites de Bardella : la démonstration en vidéo
Des échanges sur la messagerie Messenger, des mails et de nombreux entretiens avec des témoins des premières années en politique de Jordan Bardella : « Mediapart » explique dans une vidéo de 9 minute…
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 23h
Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/10/02/r...
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Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years
Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘If you’ve got £1 million or £2 million to spend on political advertising, forget it,…. If you’ve got £8 million, you can make people believe anything you want.’ I wrote about Britain’s broken political finance system for the latest @lrb.co.uk
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 23h
How will the Telegraph cope with its German owners? alanrusbridger.substack.com/p/how-will-t...
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How will the Telegraph cope with its German owners?
The Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner has courted controversy for his views—will he be able to resist interfering in British politics?
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.wsj.com/opinion/jami...
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Opinion | Jamie Dimon: A Plan for the Western World’s Revival
A U.S. trade pact with Europe could encompass friendly democracies and revive the old alliance.
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
substack.com/@paulkrugman...
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A Globalist Comeback?
Hints of a business break with MAGA
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
substack.com/@martindavie...
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Martin Davies (@martindavies631844)
The foreign funded Farage Brexit con has been a disaster
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lend your support to entrepreneurs in low-income countries through @lendwithcare.bsky.social Make your first loan for free with this link! lendwithcare.org/referral/LUA...
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Microfinance from CARE International UK
CARE International's microfinance lending initiative
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WDR Zeitzeichen Podcast: www.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/2068... Subscribe to this podcast: www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au... ---- Sent from Podcast Republic 26.9.22R play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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WDR Zeitzeichen
Der tägliche Podcast über Geschichte von der Antike bis heute, über Europa und die Welt, über die Geschichte der Menschheit: 15 Minuten zu historischen Persönlichkeiten und Erfindungen. Von George Was...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family sues US government over her killing in Minneapolis
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Renee Good's family sues US government over her killing in Minneapolis
The 37-year-old woman was killed by an immigration official during a federal crackdown in Minneapolis in January.
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ideas of Israel. Episode: shows.acast.com/ecfr/episode... . Media: sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65b... .
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The ideas of Israel | Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes
Mark Leonard welcomes Beth Oppenheim, Ariel David and Neri Zilber to discuss the battle of ideas for Israel’s future and what it means for Europe
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...
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Écrits antisémites de Jordan Bardella : les preuves du mensonge
« Propos délirants », « dinguerie », « faux grossiers »… Depuis nos révélations sur ses écrits antisémites, Jordan Bardella, soutenu par Marine Le Pen et le Rassemblement national, a violemment mis e…
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Divide And Rule: The US Strategy Towards Europe phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/divide-and...
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Divide And Rule: The US Strategy Towards Europe
And Why It Could Work
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Atzoma | לא שותקים
Atzoma on לא שותקים. המרחב הדיגיטלי להפגין.
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
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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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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How Europe can stall Russia’s hybrid war - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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How Europe can stall Russia’s hybrid war
Enhancing domestic security, using new technologies and negotiating guardrails could lessen the risk of mass-casualty events
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Accusé en 2024 par l’écrivain et philosophe Bernard-Henri Lévy d’être « certainement antisémite », Jordan Bardella avait déposé plainte pour injure publique. Il s’est discrètement désisté quelques jo… www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
mediapart.fr
Jordan Bardella « certainement antisémite » : le précédent judiciaire qui fragilise le président du RN
Accusé en 2024 par l’écrivain et philosophe Bernard-Henri Lévy d’être « certainement antisémite », Jordan Bardella avait déposé plainte pour injure publique. Il s’est discrètement désisté quelques jo…
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ces dernières années, le camp présidentiel, mais aussi une grande partie du patronat et des médias, ont validé presque sans réserve l’entreprise de dédiabolisation du Rassemblement national, tout en … www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
mediapart.fr
L’affaire Bardella, miroir des égarés de la République
Ces dernières années, le camp présidentiel, mais aussi une grande partie du patronat et des médias, ont validé presque sans réserve l’entreprise de dédiabolisation du Rassemblement national, tout en …
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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What Britain’s Catholic Prime Minister could learn from St Augustine
Burnham cannot govern indefinitely on a platform of virtue deferred
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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CALL FOR AN HMRC INVESTIGATION INTO STEPHEN LENNON
A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A supermarket in the Kyiv region after a Russian attack today. Yes, a supermarket. Everything is a target for unhinged war criminals.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the day after the referendum I remember saying to someone "the worst thing about this is we're going to leave and then we're going to spend the next 20 years trying to get back in and by then I'll be retirement age..."
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Flooding the Zone joycevance.substack.com/p/flooding-t...
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Flooding the Zone
Jack Smith kicked off his testimony on the Hill today like this: “I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump.” He told senators that his...
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tony’s minor tantrum: how Blair’s institute responded to fresh “cash for access” questions democracyforsale.substack.com/p/tonys-mino...
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Tony’s minor tantrum: how Blair’s institute responded to fresh “cash for access” questions
We asked TBI about allegations of £500,000 corporate memberships and a logo that vanished at Labour conference. They said they’re not talking to us anymore
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Courts Are Not Going to Save Voting Rights open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Courts Are Not Going to Save Voting Rights
🚨 34 Days to the Midterms 🚨
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundatio...
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hot take on a weak White House Accord on “Super Intelligence” garymarcus.substack.com/p/hot-take-o...
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Hot take on a weak White House Accord on “Super Intelligence”
What was signed, and what wasn’t said
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How tactical voting could destroy Reform… kellnerp.substack.com/p/how-tactic...
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How tactical voting could destroy Reform…
…and left-of-centre voters help to revive the Tories
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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Arrival', the first episode of The Prisoner, debuted in the UK on this day in 1967 in selected ITV regions.
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 29/09/2026
SNAP POLL / By 48% to 28%, Britons support Andy Burnham's proposal to change the triple lock in order to help fund part of a national care service yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
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BREAKING: OpenAI was warned, months before the Hugging Face incident
They raced ahead, anyway
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) has hosted panels featuring, and sponsored by, big tech companies that are driving a dramatic expansion of fossil fuel production in order to power their energy intensive data centres. www.desmog.com/2026/09/29/t...
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Tony Blair Institute Brings Gas-Guzzling Tech Giants to Labour Conference
LIVERPOOL – The think tank led by former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair has hosted a number of events sponsored by Trump-donating tech firms at this year’s party conference. The Tony Blair…
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
snyder.substack.com/p/trump-powe...
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Trump, Power, What Comes Next with Robert Reich
A recording from Timothy Snyder and Robert Reich's conversation
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Après nos révélations sur les écrits antisémites de Jordan Bardella, le Rassemblement national menace « Mediapart ». Notre émission spéciale avec les journalistes qui ont enquêté. www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...
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Émission spéciale : nos révélations sur Jordan Bardella
Après nos révélations sur les écrits antisémites de Jordan Bardella, le Rassemblement national menace « Mediapart ». Notre émission spéciale avec les journalistes qui ont enquêté.
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
labour.org.uk/updates/stor... Worth reading!
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Andy Burnham's speech to Labour Party Conference 2026 – The Labour Party
Hear from Andy Burnham, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
substack.com/@nickcohen/n...
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Nick Cohen (@nickcohen)
“American power will never recover from Trump. We’re looking at a superpower suicide.” Reposting my interview with @Anne Applebaum. This time with an edited transcript!
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lessons on how to beat Reform writesbright.substack.com/p/lessons-on...
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Lessons on how to beat Reform
🔴 Inside Labour conference...
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.youtube.com/live/_ORT80T...
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Is Meta's time up? The legal fights against Meta's harmful business model
YouTube video by Foxglove
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“You Will Miss US When We’re Gone” minnalander.substack.com/p/you-will-m...
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“You Will Miss US When We’re Gone”
The weakening of the global US alliance structure is the most significant change in the international order since World War II.
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Beclowning of Scott Bessent paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-beclow...
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The Beclowning of Scott Bessent
Another Trump enabler pays the price
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.mediapart.fr/journal/cult...
mediapart.fr
Ce que dit l’affaire Thélyson Orélien du racisme
L’affaire Thélyson Orélien agite le milieu littéraire. Au-delà des accusations d’avoir utilisé l’intelligence artificielle et de plagiats sur des textes antérieurs, les autrices et chercheuses interr…
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
mediapart.fr
Prison avec sursis réclamée contre François Bayrou au procès en appel du MoDem
Deux ans de prison avec sursis ont été requis lundi contre le patron du parti centriste, qui aurait impulsé la fraude au préjudice du Parlement européen. La condamnation de tous les prévenus a été de…
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
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« Une peine de mort professionnelle » : les avocats de Rachida Dati dénoncent la sévérité des peines requises
Lors du dernier jour du procès de Rachida Dati, jugée pour corruption, le parquet a requis quatre ans de prison, 450 000 euros d’amende et une peine d’inéligibilité. Ses avocats ont dénoncé « une cru…
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...
mediapart.fr
« Les banques sont toutes détenues par des juifs » : Jordan Bardella face à ses écrits antisémites
« Mediapart » a mis la main sur des échanges de l’actuel président du RN, au début de sa carrière politique. On y découvre l’antisémitisme obsessionnel de celui qui rêve de devenir premier ministre. …
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Netanyahu under pressure over reports he was warned about October 7
Opposition attacks Israeli premier ahead of election over leaks suggesting Egyptian and Emirati officials alerted him to Hamas threat
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Must Watch !! Regime Change and Corruption with Anne Applebaum snyder.substack.com/p/regime-cha...
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Regime Change and Corruption with Anne Applebaum
A recording from Timothy Snyder's live video
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emilswells.bsky.social @emilswells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Sudan War: is there any way out? samf.substack.com/p/the-sudan-...
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The Sudan War: is there any way out?
Since April 2023 Sudan has been consumed by a vicious war that gets far too little attention in the West.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope can’t resist his pizza.
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