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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 23h

Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services?

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Bike Ottawa @bikeottawa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“The truth is that there is a war on walking, cycling, and transit that has made a one-hour city the norm.”

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hmmm… who to believe… Andy Burnham or the compulsive liar who got sacked twice for lying, lied to Parliament, lied to The Queen, cheated on two wives and ignored the Ministerial Code. Tricky one.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

No-one at the BBC seems interested in what these policies, if enacted, would mean in practice: ICE-style terror squads on our streets; 10,000s of despairing people forced onto planes at the cost of billions, many to face death & torture; mass suicide & self-harm (I am not exaggerating); civil unrest

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Reform pledges to suspend asylum system for up to five years and deport claimants

All asylum applications would be rejected and existing ones voided, with all claimants marked for deportation.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Reform are of course by no means the only party who can obtain breathless coverage by the BBC etc by announcing the same thing multiple times over, but one reason for the degraded state of our politics is that so many journalists either don't know the most basic things, or choose not to report them

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Note once again that there is not one pro-refugee included view here - no politician from the Greens or SNP or even the Labour left, no activist or lawyer, and certainly no actual asylum seeker - and "balance" consists of presenting a choice of exactly how vile we should be to people

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Reform pledges to suspend asylum system for up to five years and deport claimants

All asylum applications would be rejected and existing ones voided, with all claimants marked for deportation.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Polish PM Donald Tusk: Russia wants to dominate Ukraine, and we know it will not stop there. Russia wants to destroy the existing security architecture in Europe so that Russian dominance can return to what it was before 1989.

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And off we go www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nothing is more important than intimidating asylum seekers

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Russia has been at war with Britain for years and the EU referendum was an open goal which they exploited. That doesn't mean that "Putin made Brexit happen" but his troll farms and media operations certainly played a part Brexiters may hate to hear it but to deny it is to deny a dangerous reality.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Time for the EU to transfer Russia’s frozen assets to Ukraine. Our long-term survival depends on it

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's important to recognise is that this *isn't* about the US getting "back" to business with Russia, because there's never been much US-Russia business of any kind beyond arms control. What the Trump admin is pushing for is an unprecedented alignment of the US with Russia.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A couple was taken out from the debris in Zaporizhzhia. Their daughter was killed. Russian aerial bombs hit a residential building, killing twenty people, three of them children.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

El País reporter Luis de Vega: "Residents of Pryluky, Chernihiv region, are still in shock over the destruction caused by a Russian missile strike on the building behind us." Thank you to all the journalists who continue to tell the world about Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine. 📹: El País

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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gerardkroon.bsky.social @gerardkroon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NHS, FCA, Police, Armed forces, what say you?

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Countries That Have Public and/or Live Streamed Executions Context: www.reuters.com/world/us-li...

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Billionaire David Ruebens says he quit his London mansion to live in Monaco in response to Labour's punitive tax regime. Only problem with his story, he's been resident in Monaco since 2014. A true patriot, who just happens to have an aversion to paying tax. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left

TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That substantial portions of the European and US Left struggle with the idea that it is possible to condemn criminal actions by the Israeli government while also condemning the vicious brutality of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continues to baffle me.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Find someone who loves you as much as Trump loves Putin

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Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

… as Chloe notes, this disinformation campaign didn’t just involve Kremlin state broadcasters; it was actively promoted by conspiracy theorists in Western Europe and North America, such as David Miller, Peter Hitchens, Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate.

“It wasn't just Kremlin outlets doing the amplifying. In the UK, professors, retired military officers and former diplomats - people whose credentials lent an air of authority - helped launder the disinformation too, sharing clips of the press conference on "alternative" media as proof the west had made it up. It fed a broader
"anti-imperialist" story: that Assad was being smeared for daring to defy Washington and London. And it left behind an argument that still circulates today: that the OPCW was a corrupted, western-controlled institution. This narrative was anchored by one image that did more work than any of the diplomatic language around it: a child, alone at a conference table, telling the world the attack had never happened.”

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Forza Bahab @forzabahab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And again, the shock is that you're not shocked...

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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Letter printed in The Times today

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?

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Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Just quietly noting that the non-Farage vote in Clacton (36% x 44% turnout) is comfortably higher than the 10% of the constituency electorate needed for a petition to trigger another by-election if Farage is suspended from the Commons for 10 days...

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

⭐️ Read this: “Slowly, the Brazilians were learning the same lesson as other American allies… Informal envoys, private companies, online grifters, & hardened ideologues…matter more... They are deploying the tools of American diplomacy & government for their own purposes…because, suddenly, they can”

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA

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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yesterday, five russian air weapons struck Moldova. Among them was reportedly a 'Banderol'-type missile. This deliberate attack on a NATO partner country is not being widely reported in the Western media. Silence and inaction will not contain russian aggression. www.army.md/ro/comunicat...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…

Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/10/2026

hard not to despair at the state of the world!!! if I had to pick between nice-but-flawed Lula and The Failson Of The Worst Man Bolsonaro I would find it easy! how do these decisions keep being a toss-up! they should not be a toss-up! ahhhh!

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Äpplesche 💚 @aepplesche.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Kurzer Prozess.. 🤣

Eine Katze die eine aufblasbare Katze zerstört

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is essential for the sake of the UK's future as a democracy based on the rule of law that the right does not take power in 2029. Nothing - absolutely nothing - is more important than that.

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

100% this ⬇️

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Women have become increasingly reluctant to seek help. ““They don’t want to bring attention to themselves – they don’t want their houses burned down,” she says. “They suffer their abuse quietly, and perpetrators know that as well. So what the far-right are doing, actually, is helping perpetrators.”

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Far from tackling violence against women, far-right activity has actively disrupted frontline women’s services – and ultimately left victims more vulnerable.” Including services aimed at providing protection against domestic violence. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

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‘Fear is part of our life now’: women’s groups thrown into disarray…

Anti-immigration protestors are disrupting services aimed at those they claim to protect

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

Wauw, sprakeloos, de president van de Verenigde Staten... Dit interview moet met een waarschuwing komen, als je veel piekert of je lijdt aan anxiety, niet aan beginnen.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'What are the options?' asked the Prime Minister. So we got a cool dude to explain.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Braverman blathering on about who can be English, Farage starting his me-me-me tour of the country telling audiences he’ll fix the country in 100 days or they’ll all sack themselves… apart from him… and Yusuf fanboying that racist thug who got refused bail… A moron festival. Come on, UK. Enough now.

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's like his strings are being pulled like a puppet because holy shit, every day, something new comes from this administration as if it was personally crafted by Putin to do the most damage possible to America's global power and influence. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting

Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

President Macron, "Brexit has cost the UK 8% of GDP.. Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years" My view: Brexit was sold as a route to greater prosperity: less bureaucracy, more money, new trade opportunities Instead, Britain put new barriers between itself and its largest trading market.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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