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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Dear Diary, I'm still furious about Burnham's plan to tackle disinformation. Doesn't he know that one man's disinformation is another man's essential stream of bollocks and lies to spread hatred and division in order to fuel his rise to power?"

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Robots No way on the farm This menace is real from China , company is unitree robotics $2700 wait for the ending !!

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Crispin “Odious” Odey loses bid to overturn City ban. “Mr Odey clearly thought he could act with impunity.... [His] arrogant entitlement and the resulting complete disregard for proper governance means [he] is unfit to work in financial services,” said FCA enforcement director Therese Chambers.

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Odey loses bid to overturn lifetime ban from the City

Crispin Odey has lost his bid to overturn a lifetime ban from working in the City following sexual misconduct allegations against him.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is all so upsetting on so many levels. And feels like a far bigger problem than is being acknowledged or addressed.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/09/2026

How could an associate professor in divinity at Cambridge be expected to know that lying is bad? thecritic.co.uk/mone...

Ah yes, James Orr. A lot of us had been hazy about what it is exactly that associate professors in a divinity department do all day. It doesn’t seem to involve a lot of work: Orr is often to be seen at Reform events in London, which take up the whole morning even for those of us with offices down the road. Now we know he was also sipping cocktails while discussing ways in which wealthy foreigners might be able to get round the laws that ban them donating to the party.

The associate professor of divinity was filmed explaining to an undercover reporter that so long as everyone kept their mouths shut, there was no way that the authorities would ever find out. Orr spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow in theology, ethics and public life at Oxford, and it would be fascinating to know at what point he developed this theory of What the Electoral Commission Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Them. Perhaps he was off sick the day they opened the gospel of Luke: “What you have said in the dark will be h

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 05/09/2026

My cousin’s shirt took me a second. He said “it’s great because anyone who would be offended by it couldn’t understand it anyway.”

A shirt with the following words in rainbow colors:
Fluorine
Uranium
Carbon
Potassium
Titanium
Rubidium
Uranium
Magnesium
Platinum

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

According to Nigel Farage, Iceland being in the EU Single Market, having free movement of people and belonging to Schengen is perfectly compatible with national independence. I look forward to him endorsing the same independence for the UK: back in the Single Market, with free movement and Schengen

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Jaw dropping read (if you perservere to the end): "The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain" russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spread...

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The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain

The absurd error behind austerity, stagnation and the rise of populist rage.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’

Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/08/2026

I was just thinking about the fact that Dolly Parton and Donald Trump were the same age

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

10,000 Garmin SOS Calls Showing The Most Dangerous Places For Outdoor Activities On Earth What is going on in New Zealand? Full post about the calls: brilliantmaps.com/garmin-so...

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...

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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS

Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/08/2026

I'm sorry but it's clearly newsworthy that the President's decisions are being unduly influenced by a mentally unstable obsessive no one voted for who has attached themselves to him in an effort to live out weird fantasies they've had for decades. Something has to be done about Stephen Miller.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hahaha. We need so much more of this Private Eye style ridicule when it comes to Farage. No one should be taking him seriously any more.

Wildfire in Clacton
AS temperatures soared on Friday, Essex fire authorities reported things were so bad that a man's pants had caught fire.
The individual, identified as Nigel Farage, had claimed Essex police had told him to keep away from his by-election declaration.
"We've never seen such an enormous fire coming from a single pair of Union Jack Y-fronts," said a police spokesman. "We urge members of the public to avoid pants on fire by at least coming up with a half-decent excuse for their cowardice."

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bin Day cometh.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Sometimes I think about how Michael Gove was able to dismiss the Tories £ 10 billion PPE waste & industrial scale corruption as an ‘ honest ‘ error & UK media said ‘ Oh that sounds credible ‘ 🙄 & the story disappeared after 2 days .

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

What A Circle With 5,000km Radius Centred On Paris Looks Like On A Mercator Map brilliantmaps.com/5000km-ra...

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sure, ruin our best player, who struggled with it last time. Hasten his retirement. Hard to think sentient humans making these decisions.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Poverty lowers healthy life expectancy (HLE). HLE in Richmond-upon-Thames, male 69.3 yrs, female 70.3 yrs. Parts of Blackpool, male 50.9 yrs, female 51.2 yrs. Parts of Scotland, male 44.8 yrs, female 44.2 yrs. Ending poverty makes people productive, reduces pressure on public services.

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We need to abolish state-sanctioned poverty

No one is ever born poor. They are condemned to poverty by societal policies which prevent millions from realising their full physical, mental, and intellectual capacities potentialities.

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Raibeart #YES 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @raibeart.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The corrupt UK. While rightly the justice system went after Murrell (who embezzled SNP funds) & this has been daily news for months by crooked BBC Scotland, the billions of covid fraud stolen from *public* funds (estimated at £8billion) has been ignored with no consequences for the perpetrators.

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Horgabost, Isle of Harris. Pic: IG/iainsranndach

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A reminder of this day in 2016, from The Decade In Tory

The shit hit the fan.
This came as a surprise, because with the exception of the millions of people who had predicted the shit would hit the fan, nobody had predicted the shit would hit the fan. But it did.
The referendum was held on a Thursday. On Friday, the pound fell to a level not seen since 1985. Shares in British banks dropped 30 percent. The Bank of England had to stump up £250 billion to stabilise the markets, which, even compared to all the large amounts of wasted money previously mentioned, still manages to stand out as a really quite gigantic amount of money: £1 per second for 7,927 years; or £3,600 per hour, every single hour since the earliest known human civilisation arose in ancient Mesopotamia.
By Monday, total stock market losses were £2.17 trillion, which would have paid for the UK’s membership to the EU for the next 241 years.

The only global credit ratings agency to have thus far maintained a AAA rating for the UK, dumped us down to AA. The other credit agencies, who had already had us at AA because we were a nation heading in the wrong direction, now downgraded us yet further.
This might sound like an abstract thing, but it meant the repayments on all this new borrowing were suddenly higher, which meant the government suddenly had even less money for the NHS or public services.
Shit: meet fan.
But it wasn’t all fun with money: we also experienced a five-fold increase in racist hate crimes in the week following the referendum, which police said was just the tip of the iceberg, because such attacks were “significantly under-reported”.

As he trundled in to make his triumphal address, Boris Johnson emanated the sweaty terror of somebody from the HR department suddenly called upon to make good on their boast that he knew how to defuse a bomb. Johnson and Gove had convened a celebratory press conference, which with the sound off you could have easily mistaken for an official response to a school shooting. The body language screamed “oh giddy Jesus, this is awful” as the pair of them gazed unblinking at the floor, pale and shellshocked. They looked like a pair of gormless game-show contestants who by a series of miraculous flukes had accidentally won a speedboat, and only now did it dawn on them how much it would cost to run it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Elon Musk spent $290 million getting Trump elected. During this midterm cycle, he's spent $85 million. In total, that’s 0.0375% of his $1 trillion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This map is absolutely fascinating

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

My goodness, Ed Luce is furious giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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The Braes o' Bonúll @bonullbraes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Why is Farage getting a free ride from the press? I mean they've been pushing him on to the front pages for years now. Why not fully expose him on this?

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James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The last remaining person in Parliament who served in the Armed Forces in the Second World War retired on Wednesday. Labour peer Lord Christopher, aged 101, bowed out, 81 years after WWII ended.

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.

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The Economist @economist.com · 14/05/2026

In Britain’s last general election, “nearly 60% of voters ended up with an MP they didn’t vote for,” writes Eric Maskin. “The country’s first-past-the-post voting system deserves much blame,” he argues

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To improve Britain’s politics, improve its voting system

Ranking candidates by order of preference would better reflect the will of the people, writes Eric Maskin

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bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

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