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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026

🚨 NEWS: A 28-year-old researcher at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected lab accident in Siberia. Nearly 200 people are reportedly under observation and hospitals have been quarantined amid concerns over possible pneumonic plague.

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Russian Lab Worker Dies After Suspected Plague Accident as Quarantines Expand

A 28-year-old worker at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected laboratory accident in Siberia, with nearly 200 people under observation and conflicting accounts emerging from R...

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 02/10/2026

On August 4, a drone struck the wing of a Ukrainian aircraft at Germany’s Leipzig Airport and fell onto the tarmac. Strapped beneath it was a tin can packed with explosives.

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How a failed attack in Leipzig revealed a wider Russian campaign

Documents obtained by the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network trace drone bombs, incendiary parcels and arson attacks to Russian intelligence.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...

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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.

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Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"His remarks are particularly likely to be welcomed by EU members, who have been frustrated by the UK’s inability to have an honest conversation with itself about its relationship with the bloc." An excellent article from @alexhh.bsky.social in @bylinetimes.bsky.social And already....

Screenshot from the Financial Times of a photo of Macron and Sanchez shaking hands, above the text: Emmanuel Macron, French president, and Pedro Sánchez, Spain's prime minister, both said the UK would be welcomed back into the bloc, which it voted to leave in the acrimonious Brexit referendum in 2016.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 26/09/2026

President Donald Trump declined Tehran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and expects to resume bombing Iran after the US midterm elections in November, the Wall Street Journal reported

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Trump Rejects Iran’s Seven-Day Ceasefire Proposal, WSJ Reports

President Donald Trump declined Tehran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and expects to resume bombing Iran after the US midterm elections in November, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Exclusive: Russian intelligence agents are “hijacking” online networks of violence-obsessed children and offering them money, guns and coaching on making explosives and poisons, new research suggests At least two incidents have been claimed by the networks in the UK inews.co.uk/news/russian...

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Russian spies 'recruiting UK teenagers' to carry out acts of violence and sabotage

Russian intelligence agents are “hijacking” online networks of violence-obsessed children and offering them money, guns and coaching on making explosives and poisons, new research suggests. Law enforc...

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

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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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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

UK is on track to install around 300,000 solar rooftops this year That'll break records and on its own add at least 1GW of solar to UK generation For scale, UK maximum demand is around 50GW www.businessgreen.com/news/4535700...

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'Unprecedented numbers': Solar industry on track to smash rooftop record

MCS tracker reveals number of small-scale solar installations completed this year has already surpassed long-standing 2011 record

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Reuters @reuters.com · 11/09/2026

President Trump led his Republican Party in a mock pledge during their political convention in Dallas on September 10, telling them to ‘cheat like hell’ and vote whether they're ‘registered or not’ in November's midterm elections. reut.rs/3TkYP2V

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Trump promises every adult American $5,000 but only if Republicans win both the House and Senate We’ve heard the dividend promises before. Trump offered of a $5,000 DOGE dividend in 2025, but it was never enacted. Then came the promised $2,000 tariff dividend, which also never materialised.

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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A video statement from the RNLI chief exec about recent events and about the RNLI’s unchanging and single mission, to save lives at sea. rnli.org/news-and-med...

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Statement from RNLI Chief Executive Peter Sparkes

Statement from RNLI Chief Executive Peter Sparkes regarding Channel activity.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...

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Sovereignty for sale

Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 08/09/2026

Both UK & Denmark believe in universal healthcare, but principles are not outcomes. Denmark treats health as whole-society issue: housing, education, inequality, prevention. UK tries to treat its way out with NHS alone. Results speak.

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Denmark versus UK: which country gets more health for their money?

Britain and Denmark both have health services free at the point of use, but Denmark is healthier. Why? Its not just about money

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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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is deeply shocking.

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/08/2026

Four months ago, top scientists published a report showing that Himalayan glaciers are losing ice at double the rate since 2000, with some glaciers losing a third of their area in just three decades. "This isn’t a distant problem; it’s a crisis unfolding in real-time," they said. We were warned.

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