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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12h
Danny Tommo denied bail and remanded in custody as Tommy Robinson jets off on another luxury holiday searchlightmagazine.com/2026/09/the-...
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 17h
'They care too much to avail themselves of the correct information.' James O'Brien explains how the media has 'persuaded people to believe dangerously and demonstrably untrue' things.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h
Hospitals in England hit by shortages of common drugs such as paracetamol
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Hospitals in England hit by shortages of common drugs such as paracetamol
NHS trusts also report disruption to supplies last winter of co-codamol and blood pressure medication ramipril Hospitals are being hit by shortages of key drugs used to provide pain relief, prevent blood clots and tackle high blood pressure. Dozens of NHS trusts in England have encountered scarcities of aspirin, the painkiller co-codamol – a combination of paracetamol and codeine – and ramipril, a blood pressure tablet. Continue reading...
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The speculation and hyperbole has gone into overdrive in some quarters... particularly on X-crement and right wing channels. Given they've been released I suspect there might be a few red faces in the coming days. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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RAF Fairford suspects to be released on bail, head of counter-terror police says
Laurence Taylor says the five men arrested on Sunday are still under investigation as police consider multiple lines of inquiry, including the possible involvement of a foreign state.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cheers, Nigel Farage is crying now
Headline: men arrested near RAF airbase are UK citizens from London
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jeez. Don’t post anything or spread any information that might identify the farmer near RAF Fairford, you idiots.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Then there is no hope , the while fucking toppling edifice is collapsing because these fiscal rules don't match the non fiscal reality . A labour government whipped and the gimp of the city is doomed to fail which is why the OBR was created by Osborne in 1st place
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...
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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson
A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
See, making young people’s lives better, improving their life chances and giving them more opportunities, *that* could be a ‘moral crusade’. Changing U.K. benefits for young people is just about saving rich people’s money.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 28/09/2026
Russia and Ukraine are racing toward fully autonomous drones that can select and strike targets without human intervention — raising urgent questions about who, or what, makes life-or-death decisions in warfare.
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Russia-Ukraine war is accelerating the dangerous race toward fully autonomous drones
Drones with autonomous functions reduce dependence on communications links and can escape attempts at jamming. But they come with huge ethical risks.
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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here in Britain we decided to shout at boats instead
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hell hath no fury like a person on £400,000 a year facing the prospect of paying a bit more tax that they can easily afford.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is no such thing as taxpayers’ money youtu.be/4AyhV70BDwE?... Anyone who claims the government spends taxpayers' money is talking total nonsense. The problem is that almost all our politicians do.
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There is no such thing as taxpayers’ money
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The Bank of England was set up by Tony Blair" It's easy to forget that Tony Blair had been in power since 1694 when the Bank of England was founded. Good job Brain of Britain Liz Truss is here to remind us.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rayner is correct: these proposals are economically damaging and politically counterproductive. Pretty clear that view is now almost universal in the Cabinet/Labour Party and the informed public. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Angela Rayner condemns Labour’s migrant visa crackdown
Speaking before the party conference, the housing secretary says Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans would affect care workers
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Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
MoD admits ‘regrettable failure’ after 97 million files discovered in SAS war crimes inquiry aoav.org.uk/2026/sas-war...
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MoD admits ‘regrettable failure’ after 97 million files discovered in SAS war crimes inquiryMoD admits ‘regrettable failure’ after 97 million files found in SAS war crimes inquiry - AOAV
The MoD has admitted a “regrettable failure” after 97 million files were discovered during the inquiry into alleged SAS war crimes in Afghanistan.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”
Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the UK population. The govt can do so immediately by increasing income tax-free personal allowance by £3,000. All it needs to do is to end subsidies to commercial banks.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
just spotted truro reform candidate Steve Rubidge on tiktok wondering why protesting against “illegal “ immigration makes you get called a racist tbh I’ve know “conspiracy Steve” for about 20 years and I shaven’t managed to explain the difference between 5G and his microwave yet else want a go?
a leaflet from Steve Rubidge from back in the days of the pandemic when he was a anti mask, lockdown and vaccines activist
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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
three aircraft two commercial airliners behaving weirdly off the coast of #cornwall anyone know why ?
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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
danny and the boy burkas
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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
FFS. How many times? Doing summer jobs to earn cash for holidays, clothes & going out, and to have someone who'll write references for you, is NOT the same as having to do it to have money to eat. I worked as a lab tech in Uni summer hols. But I didn't HAVE to. The Tories really are full of sh*t.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Mike Boyle @trueseadog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Skeleton of reform voter spotted!
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Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Former SAS worker tells The Times that troops were ‘feral’, ‘not the heroes they think they are’ and believed themselves ‘untouchable’ aoav.org.uk/2026/sas-wor...
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Former SAS worker says troops were ‘feral’, ‘not the heroes they think they are’ and believed themselves ‘untouchable’ Former SAS worker describes ‘feral’ culture amid Afghanistan inquiry - AOAV
Former SAS worker Monica Grenfell tells The Times that some troops were “feral” and felt “untouchable”, amid the inquiry into alleged unlawful killings in Afghanistan.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,
The Tories said the reduced subsistence allowance would be loaded onto pre-paid card that would not allow cash withdrawals, and would "prevent spending" on alcohol, cigarettes, or gambling.
The party is yet to detail how its proposal would work, but shadow welfare secretary Helen Whately said it would be "a version" of the pre-paid Aspen card issued to asylum seekers living in government-funded accommodation.
These cards cannot be used to make contactless, telephone or internet payments, whilst asylum seekers whose applications have failed cannot withdraw cash.
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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it’s time for labour to grow some claws,
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good on Badenoch to get you so perplexed by the first statement you don't even engage with her intention to fight a winter election in the middle of a potentially major international energy crisis on a platform of slashing financial support from the state
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch is the politician of the modern media environment (derogatory) in that almost everything she says collapses the second even simple follow-ups like 'you think there will be an election after the budget you're already denouncing?' and 'do you read the World News section of the paper?'
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 9 months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Secured millions in worker restitution from DoorDash and UberEats -Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program -Cracked down on bad landlords -Balanced NYC's budget without cutting major social services This is what leadership looks like.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is four years today since Liz Truss launched the budget that sent the financial markets into meltdown. Who could have guessed that someone who couldn't find their way out of a room might not be the best person to put in charge of a major economy?
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Helen Whately is being typically right wing by "othering" benefit claimants, as though they're not like the rest of the population. Twelve years as a foodbank volunteer has taught me poverty isn't caused by booze and ciggies. It's far more complex - poor pay and housing and bad health for starters.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.
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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
as an economist I say a border is just a tax boundary, ultimately all that pomp,flags, marching bands and bright coloured military uniforms are there to keep you loyal to this tax regime. politicians adorned with flags are likely treating that tax boundary with disdain themselves
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There is a lot of misinformation about the UK social security spending. The chart below shows Total UK social security spending as a percentage of GDP, 2013/14 to 2030/31 (spending & forecast) 55% goes to pensioners, the remainder covers everything else. lordslibrary.parliament.uk/welfare-refo...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Heading home #Cornwall
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
From Andy Burnham's excellent speech at the UN, "Russian agencies have used every means at their disposal and spread lies and disinformation, and prey on people's fears. They've used bots and fake websites..." My view: We've known this since Brexit, so what he is goig to do about it?
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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it’s one thing to co- author a piece of abject nonsense like “ britannia unchained “ but another to actually try to implement it . but in retrospect every journalist who read it and failed to treat the authors with contempt is complicit
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I watched it live on TV. I'm pretty jaded about watching politicians spew nonsense and make mad decisions, but when Kwarteng announced the 45p rate cut I did shout out loud "what the fuck are you doing!?"
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lisa Nandy, as the BBC publishes propaganda for violent thugs
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