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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 10h

🔴 SCOOP: The chair of a lobbying firm paid by the UAE sits on a government council advising ministers on how Britain uses sport and culture abroad. As Man City's verdict puts Abu Dhabi in the spotlight, our latest investigation 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-u...

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Revealed: UAE lobbyist advising UK government on sport and foreign policy

FGS Global chair Roland Rudd accused of "blatant conflict of interest" for advising ministers on foreign affairs while his firm lobbies for UAE embassy

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Unimprovable retort

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I'm not a defence expert." Even by Kemi Badenoch's lamentable standards, this is agonising. Just give thanks she will never, ever be Prime Minister. 🙏 #politicslive

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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fedoddy.bsky.social @fedoddy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes why is “aspirational” the word used to describe this arbitrary compensation amount

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/10/2026

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Theresa Villiers on Badenoch. Oddly I hope she's right but this is the latest in the Telegraph's 'Whisper it' series. The record of this series is not good.... (thread)

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fedoddy.bsky.social @fedoddy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thus confirming the moral high ground for James

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Gavin Lingiah 🧬⚖️ @gav1nx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andy Burnham: We shall improve society a little bit. Conservatives:

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah. So that was the best conference I have ever seen. I never dreamed I would see a prime minister with the bravery to do what he just did.

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Alan Renwick @alanrenwick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Immediate thoughts on Andy Burnham's announcement today of a national commission on electoral reform. Doing this process well will be really important. theconversation.com/if-he-wants-...

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If he wants to secure legitimacy for electoral reform, Andy Burnham must stick to these rules

Involving both the public and all parties in shaping reforms on how they vote will be crucial.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The first thing you can do for me is chuck all your medals and all your caps and all your pots and all your pans into the biggest f*cking dustbin you can find. Because you’ve never won any of them fairly. You’ve done it all by cheating" Brian Clough first meeting with his Leeds squad, 1974

You lot may all be internationals, and have won all the domestic honours there are to win under Don Revie. But as far as I’m concerned, the first thing you can do for me is chuck all your medals and all your caps and all your pots and all your pans into the biggest f*cking dustbin you can find. Because you’ve never won any of them fairly. You’ve done it all by cheating.”

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This really looks terrific.

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fedoddy.bsky.social @fedoddy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jesus the Republican Party is now North Korea isn’t it

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"It is so soul-sucking." The current state of software engineering:

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.

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fedoddy.bsky.social @fedoddy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lol “won”. The sort of journalism that makes you weep

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026

NEW Stewart Lee column ‘Danny Tommo’ and his men of fighting age seek their Passport to Piddington www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

"Piddington is about to be invaded by the very worst Britons this country has to offer
Stewart Lee on the hamlet that voted to secede from the UK"

Stylised green and orange image of sign reading ‘Principality of Piddington’, in a field

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As I have written many times the demise of the centre-right is the most important global political trend of our times.

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fedoddy.bsky.social @fedoddy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Guys, it’s simple. Don’t ask barely literate people questions that require insight/forethought/knowledge. Boom!

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Always enjoy it when @ldfreedman.bsky.social quotes Russian military bloggers panicking.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

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fedoddy.bsky.social @fedoddy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think giving former professional table tennis players their own political opinion columns leads us exactly here

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Absolutely horrendous for this woman and her family.

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Out of spite for President Donald Trump, Carney is accelerating the decoupling of a trade bloc that has generated enormous prosperity for North America." Seriously, Wapo editorial - you're going with Canadian spite? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | Canada’s great European misadventure

Donald Trump is for now. A Brussels bureaucrat is forever.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Out of fear of President Donald Trump WaPo is describing a rational act of economic self defence as spite….

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 17/09/2026

Amazon only has 4 copies left. Bookshop is backordered. But never fear—more copies are on the way! THANK YOU all for making this happen. This is far beyond my wildest dreams. But it's not about me or my book. It's about how we save our future from dangerously insane AI-crypto fascists.

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fedoddy.bsky.social @fedoddy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Isn’t it also that these sums are paid all in the same day, by people with specific links to an inherently/deliberately Shady industry

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mike DODGERS is too cowardly to show up to debate me.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026

Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵

A group photo shows about 35 people, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina Anderson; Ivanka Trump; Jared Kushner; Tiffany Trump; and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

Little Pipe Cay/Lux Hospitality Bahamas; Laura Gordon Photography via Instagram; Laura Gordon Photography

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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 15/09/2026

WATCH: Imagine a world in which democracy doesn't exist. Instead, the United States is broken up into a number states overseen by only a handful of technocrats calling the shots. It sounds like something out of a wild science fiction movie but @gilduran.com says its what tech bros want.

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‘The Nerd Reich’ Author Gil Duran Joins It's The Democracy, Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath

Inside tech oligarchs’ plan to eat democracy and spit it out.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hearing about Matthew Rhys's historic double Emmy win while listening to his delightful NYT interview made me very happy for him. Incredibly charming, modest and Welsh. Link to audio and text versions: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/m...

nytimes.com

The Charming, Amusing, Surprisingly Low-Confidence Matthew Rhys

The “Widow’s Bay” star on his two Emmy nominations, his penchant for going dark and his wobbly self-esteem.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Trump is not happy with last night's SCOTUS order, which I covered here: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-s... Trump writes that his SCOTUS appointees "are merely a shell of their original selves," a continuation of his view that these are "his" justices. Alito and Thomas, however, are "legends both."

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Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting
"disaster," which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM. Justices Alito and Thomas, legends both, strongly disagreed with this horrible, highly political, ruling. It is a big loss for Republicans, and America itself, and makes cheating by the Radical Left "Dumocrats," on Mail-In Ballots, a much easier thing to do - And now they have an open field to do so! The Supreme Court has really let our Country down! Certain Justices are petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats, and are totally unable to show the courage necessary to save our America. Their horrible decision on Tariffs will be costing the U.S.A., for many years to come, Trillions and Trillions of Dollars.
They didn't even state, "money paid does not have to be paid back," much to the benefit of entities that truly hate our Country, and have been RIPPING IT OFF FOR YEARS, unnecessarily costing us, immediately, Billions of Dollars. Likewise, the Supreme

Court's Decision on Birthright Citizenship is a complete and total disaster for America, and has already led to massive corruption with respect to "citizenship" in our Country. The damage done to America is incalculable, and they know this, just as everyone else does - It is an irreparable and unrecoverable harm! The Court's inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for our Country will go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History. This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years. These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves, a Court that is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings that are of such magnitude that it won't be easily possible for our Country to recover or heal.
It is a Court that will go down as having rendered some of the most destructive, hurtful, and damaging decisions in our Country's history. It is not easy for me to write this criticism of the United States Supreme Court - it will likely cost me dearly for years to come - but I feel it my obligation and duty, as President, to do so for the America we love! Thank you for your attention to
this very important matter. God bless the U.S.A. President
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fedoddy.bsky.social @fedoddy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Surely an answer is: why do you want dead people influencing fiscal policy?

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hearing a lot of 'what can be done?' to stop mega donors buying British democracy So I asked a real expert- former Electoral Commissioner David Howarth - to explain how we can fix our broken system Would recommend reading his piece: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/stop-billi...

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Stop billionaires buying our politics

Ex-Electoral Commissioner David Howarth on Reform's £72m crypto donation, the loopholes that allow big money to buy our democracy – and three ways to close them

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Again, MAGA reflects every wing-nut, crank idea collected in the Republican idea bin since the Hoover Administration and stuffed into the closet by the Normies. You know why that happened: nobody should start a war with Iran, Operation *Wetback* was not how you handle farm labor and tariffs are bad.

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 13/09/2026

This fall, we’re cozying up with our favorite books on democracy. What are some of your recommendations? 📚

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13/09/2026

NEW POLLING Tom Brufatto: With a new Prime Minister, determined to prioritise redistributive growth and to restore a sense of hope to the country, this research sets out the roadmap to the party’s recovery, and provides the political piece to complete the economic jigsaw smashed to bits by Brexit.

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fedoddy.bsky.social @fedoddy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The governance of Kingdom ≠ Sainos. This should be a filter interview question for people who write for allegedly serious publications.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@thebulwark.com did a supercut of all the prior times Trump said he was going to give Americans a $5000 check or whatever. It is glorious

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