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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 17h
As several senior European figures have commented, if you're serious, "Ask for a customs union". It is our sovereign choice to protect our future, just as Brexit was the UK's. We won't leave holes because of exceptionalism. #ExtrawurstGroßbritannien www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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UK car industry faces ‘difficult trade-off’ between Chinese and EU markets
Britain under pressure to put tariffs on cheap Chinese vehicle imports ahead of protectionist trade measures
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
these fucking ghouls should never know a day of peace for the rest of their lives
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Putin apologists want you to buy that: -An alleged off-the-books 1991 verbal promise outweighs a signed 1994 treaty -Democratic countries formerly occupied by Russia asked to join an anti-Russia alliance for no reason -Ukrainians don't want freedom, an American tricked them into it with cookies
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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No-one works harder than poor people
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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch saying people earning a million pounds a year shouldn't be punished for working hard, and in all my years on this earth I don't think I've ever been so naïve as to think people getting that much money are working hard.
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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My experience of work has always been the harder you work, the less you get paid.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 02/10/2026
Europe didnt just experience an exceptionally hot summer in 2026. It experienced a summer where multiple climate extremes reinforced each other. First - temperature records were broken at daily, monthly and seasonal scales across Europe Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/summer-revie...
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just hanging on the edge of my seat, waiting for all the witnesses of “Ukrainian biolabs,” because of which Russia was right to exterminate Ukraine, to lose their shit to the same extent over the very much real reckless leak of pneumonic plague from a lab in Russia’s Irkutsk.
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fascinating chat with a diplomat from a major European country this wee. In short, Burnham's speech has not had a big impact. The position, they say, is that UKG wants broadly speaking full access to the European single market. However: A 🧵
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The entire last decade has been an exercise in creating a different set of standards for One Special Boy. Trump can never fail, people can only disagree about his performance. It isn't that he doesn't understand anything, he has unorthodox economic stances. It's delusions framed as evenhandedness.
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Brexiters should be rejoicing at Burnham’s speech. They can campaign on all the ways Brexit has improved our lives and the fortunes of our country. They can set their case out clearly and with facts for all to see. Bet they can’t wait.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At least 21 members of my extended family were arrested and sent from Lithuania to camps or exile colonies in this 1951 act of repression by the Soviet occupiers.
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now that Andy Burnham has reopened the Europe question, free movement will be at the centre of debate. For @arguablymag.bsky.social I argue that it's a big benefit, not a price to be paid for a better trade relationship. www.arguably.uk/p/eu-free-mo...
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EU free movement is an opportunity, not a threat
Progressives need to rediscover the positive case for immigration
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"It's mind-boggling" is actually fully delusional.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The biggest barrier to emissions reductions has always been the continued and expanded use of fossil fuels.
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POP @populismblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nostalgia isn't only for those who lived it. The oldest, who remember the dictatorships, tend to be the least nostalgic in both countries. Younger cohorts tend to idealise a past they never lived. Memory evolves, stigma fades. How we transmit the past matters.
Bar chart showing average authoritarian nostalgia across age groups.

- Combines three dimensions: regime evaluation, mythical past, and democratic attitudes
- Displays variation across age cohorts
- Indicates how nostalgia is distributed generationallyBar chart showing average authoritarian nostalgia by age.

- Based on same composite indicators as Figure 15
- Shows generational variation in Spain
- Allows comparison with Portuguese case
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So what ARE the options for Britain re EU? - Status quo: massive damage to the economy - Customs Union: limited economic benefit - Single Market: significant economic benefit but UK has to follow EU rules without a say on them - EU membership: econ & political benefits with a seat at the table
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Kathy Love @kathylove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
‘why should capital be free to go where it wants for profit, but labour - the only thing most people have - is tied to the land like serfs’. Such an important point. I’ve thought for a long time that there is a class element to opposition to FOM of people.
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
English person: did you hear about the irishman who... Irish person: yeah, you were literally tricked by a bus
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's never an ask for Russia. Ukraine are going after the refineries to bring their economy and war economy to a halt so that they stop killing Ukranians and leave Ukraine.
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 28/09/2026
Simon you're being cynical. I'm sure it will contain a comprehensive plan for the redesign of the European institutions and a few carve-outs for the UK, as a generous offer to the UK's European partners before they come over to London to start the rejoin negotiations.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/09/2026
‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
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‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
Home Office faces legal action after 1,473 people living in UK before Brexit told settled status was granted in error The Home Office is facing legal action over a controversial policy to strip EU citizens who were in the UK before Brexit of their residency rights on the grounds that it gave them the status “in error”. It comes as a Home Office minister revealed that the government has contacted 1,473 citizens with post-Brexit residency rights to tell them the original decision to grant them residency was made in error. Continue reading...
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Precisely. Professor Robert Pape has been explaining this unfolding escalation trap and its most likely unfolding future scenarios (Pape has been correctly predicting the unfolding reality since summer 2025’s bombing of Iran). In this interview he explains it in full detail:
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵
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Bertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two tier policing. Victoria Thomas Bowen, who chucked a milkshake at Farage, was given a 13-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months; had to pay him £150 compensation; had to complete 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £450 in court costs. It was nowhere near the level of violence of this assault.
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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lethargy in place of strategy. New post on my fortnightly Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at the urgent lessons from the Reform mega-donations, Piddington, and the growth of the far right; reset inertia; and the real lessons from Canada & Carney: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/leth...
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 24/09/2026
The new structure expands diamond’s rigid 3D lattice by incorporating alternating single and triple bonds between the connection points and is one of the only carbon form capable of covalently bonding across all three dimensions. #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/meet-di...
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Meet diamondiyne, the new diamond-like carbon allotrope predicted 35 years ago
Unusual mix of sp and sp3 bonding could furnish porous material with unique properties
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We need to hear contrition for Brexit's having shattered the West, the glee which so many of his colleagues greeted our suffering, and the rampant Europhobia still present And we need to see him say he will *support* Europe as the best hope for a critical mass of democracies working together Ends
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We won't dismantle Europe so that PM Burnham doesn't have to tell the truth to the people of Makerfield. The UK is of course free to apply for the EEA or indeed membership if he's willing to actually do so. 8
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This year has been brutal, and like most people you probably want to do more about climate change. But what, and how? Great news – I’ve written just the book for you! It’s called What One Person Can Do and it’s a clear and simple how-to guide, a roadmap to help you make influential changes...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BBC licence fees are paying for Mason to grovel to Donald Trump
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s impossible to read this about the police still wasting huge resources attempting to convict people for peacefully walking slowly and then begin to comprehend the craven police inaction over Tommo and his violent masked thugs. Can anyone explain it?
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For centuries, humans have done a brilliant job of increasing agricultural productivity, confounding Malthusians and other pessimists. The climate crisis makes that a lot harder. arthursnell.substack.com/p/the-coming...
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The Coming Food Crisis
Due to climate breakdown, falling agricultural productivity growth might be the new normal. This will feed a chaotic world order.
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's a fair question, worth unpacking. The OBR 4% forecast is on the lower end of the post-Brexit estimates of the costs. That translates to about £40bn in lost tax revenue.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This isn’t the first time Trump is demonstrating genocidal intent in a speech, and definitely not the first time when it comes to Iran. Trump poses an immediate threat to world safety, and I’m not sure why we are not behaving as such
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump recently said that he didn’t promise not to start new wars. Obviously, that’s a lie. Good thing we have video recordings of this.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/09/2026
This is going to be a thread of AI greenwashing getting pumped out at New York Climate Week Here's one from today: Siemens, raking in MOUNTAINS of $$ from selling gas turbines to data centres (not mentioned) says: “we are racing to mitigate this as fast as possible" apnews.com/article/clim...
On the other hand, Eva Riesenhuber, the head of sustainability at the German automation company Siemens, and Evelyn Wang, vice president for energy and climate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said AI is too important to humanity and will help tackle climate change.

Data centers adding to climate and water problems “is not forever,” according to Wang, who told The Associated Press that data centers are five years away from being water neutral and about a decade away from no longer adding to planet-warming emissions.

Acknowledging these concerns, Riesenhuber said “we are racing to mitigate this as fast as possible because we are hooked on the intelligence, and we do need the intelligence to design the future that this planet needs.”a chart showing siemens gas turbine sales will add emissions the equivalent to pakistan
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hahaha! Ten years into it and Labour’s still playing its long-game on Brexit. Can anyone possibly still believe it? Have a bridge, some snake-oil and a shipment of homeopathic supplements to sell you if so. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham does not rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto
PM says immediate focus is on rebuilding bridges with EU as he prepares for first meeting with Ursula von der Leyen
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kenfogg1971.bsky.social @kenfogg1971.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You're right of course but do add in the left wing boneheads who were all too happy to let Farage make the running on Brexit with not a word about how he and his people are enemies of ordinary Brits because you thought it would open up a golden Lexit
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
If you knew he was abhorant and dangerous but were perfectly happy to let Farage drum up the vote for Brexit because you thought it was the surest route to UK-EFTA or whatever dumb shit you convinced yourself would magically happen, I'm just not that interested in hearing from you in public life.
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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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Matthias Meyer @mmyr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Additional context (@reuters.com)
Picture of the day | September 15, 2026 
A voter fills in documents as members of an electoral commission, accompanied by a Russian service member and a police officer (not seen), visit residents at their homes during early voting in Russia's parliamentary election, in the village of Verbovka (Verbivka), Donetsk region, a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As I set out yesterday, I think Piddington is being taken insufficiently seriously all round. framingthequestion.blog/2026/09/16/n...
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Not wanted here? Piddington and Cumulative Radicalisation
“Jews not wanted here” sign, Germany 1937 (Julien Bryan/USHMM #64416) The decision by the Oxfordshire village of Piddington to vote to leave the UK over “concerns” about proposed immigr…
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They want to pretend to Remainers that they want a deal, but make it impossible to actually get a deal. It’s all for the UK voters, that’s all.
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