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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "Homes, water, energy, transport, care, broken up and sold off." "The British right talk about taking back control. Never let them forget they are the ones. That gave it away in the first place."
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030. It will be replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension. Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage. Poverty awaits future retirees. £500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The man who watched Covid ravage Italy and Europe and did NOTHING to protect the country. The man who caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths. The man who let loose debauched parties at number 10 while he told the country it had to isolate. The grostesque shit should be in jail.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mild consideration & curiosity might lead one to think that putting Peter Thiel at the heart of 🇬🇧’s NHS and military logistics might not be prudent…
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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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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 NEW Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Helen Whately is a millionaire, she talks about unaffordable benefit payments. She was the MP claiming the highest amount for Rent in the entire Parliament, £39,000 a year. And that was JUST what she was claiming for rent. It's always the worst offenders trying to blame someone else.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm proud to represent the interests of the man in the street. The street is in Thailand and the man is Christopher Harborne.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Harborne has given Reform £36 million to match Delo's £36 million. The Telegraph describes it as a "show of force" from Reform's donors. The two men's £72 million is greater than all of the spending by all political parties on the 2024 GE www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Ian Lahey @ilahey.com · 11/09/2026
Two windmills are standing in a wind farm. One asks, "What’s your favorite kind of music?" The other says, "I’m a big metal fan."
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
13 workers left Palantir and issued this statement. "Palantir is increasingly complicit, normalizing authoritarianism under the guise of a 'revolution' led by oligarchs. We must resist this trend."
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Neoliberalism has ravaged the UK Workers’ share of gross value added down from 71.9% in 1975, to 59.7%. 1.23m workers are on zero-hour contracts. 4.4m jobs pay less than the real living wage. Poorest 20% pay a higher proportion of income in direct/indirect taxes than the richest 20%.
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
He funded the Tories when they were implementing austerity for years on end but balks at the thought of having to pay fractionally more tax on his immense wealth to help improve a country ruined by the same Tories he funded
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — Reform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ Pollster — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending
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Reform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ Pollster
Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending
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rhonda611.bsky.social @rhonda611.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Does anyone ever really get justice in UK? Blood scandal, Hillsborough, Grenfell, British troops exposed to A bomb, Al Fayed? The list is endless - justice in UK only for the perpetrators.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So the ultra-rich will continue to own our politics, and our country. Disappointing to say the least. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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gertmer.bsky.social @gertmer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Another Breggxit Benefit?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Our unstoppable march to power continues.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sadiq Khan's hated ULEZ has made London's air cleaner and its children healthier. What this disaster means for populist, patriotic 'dirty air' campaigners on both sides of the Atlantic. Me for @noosphere.app Warning. May contain heavy sarcasm. www.noosphere.app/ulez-mayor-s...
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ULEZ: Mayor Sadiq Khan's Dastardly Scheme to Make London's Air Clean Again Worked
And what it means for patriotic pro-pollution politicians on both sides of the Atlantic
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"This is not generosity. It is suicidal empathy" writes Robert Jenrick (Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...) quotes in para 3 of the BBC report, with a link. "Suicidal empathy" is also the core phrase Elon Musk wants to popularise to promote remigration, political violence + civil war
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
my latest on the miracle of the MMR vaccine. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trump-and-...
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Trump and RFK Jr need to shut up about the MMR vaccine
A reminder of how terrible these diseases used to be
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 15/08/2026
NEW STEWART LEE column The climate crisis requires concerted global opposition to Trump and the fossil fuel industry, not just restrictions on corner shops selling grills www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
We’re banning disposable barbecues, but we’re still drilling for oil? We really are cooked. Stewart Lee on dealing with Trump and the fossil fuel industry
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Don't worry about Data Centers. Don't worry about Climate Change. Don't worry about Mass Surveillance. Don't worry about Billionaires becoming Trillionaires. Worry about immigration, imaginary invasions and pensioners and people on benefits being too rich. That's the lie they expect you to swallow
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Nigel Farage suggests the police advised him against attending the result of the Clacton by-election. Essex Police completely deny this, telling the BBC "we have a proportionate and robust policing operation to ensure the safety and security of all participants in the count"
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 09/08/2026
CORRECTION Harborne’s gift to Farage was *5 April* 2024 not 21 November We have deleted the post and will repost tomorrow 🙏
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Tommy Robinson sent a letter to himself, he meant to log out and send it from a different account. But he didn't. Don't RT 🤣
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump has dropped his $10bn charge against the BBC after he was told he would have to give the BBC his Financial Records. Not suspicious at all...
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Her name is Sister Rosetta Thorpe. Known as the "Godmother of rock" that inspired Elvis.
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It remains striking that Cambridge University – which has rightly found itself subject to immense scrutiny in recent days over its academic appointments process – did not answer any of Byline Times' questions re Cambridge Professor James Orr, Reform's Head of Policy, and his activities there. Why?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Joshua Bonehill-Paine Self-styled "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” who was jailed in 2015 for antisemitic online posts.... Selected as a Tory candidate.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I realise this is Restore Britain etc etc, but it's nonetheless pretty shocking.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Much as I love the News Agents their discussion on Covid was ill-informed and misleading. christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...
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We are learning the wrong lesson from Covid school closures
A response to yesterday's News Agents podcast...
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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
'This idea that we could have simply kept schools open, without changing anything else, and all would have been fine is just not supported by the evidence.'
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Carers' Allowance is capped at £86 a week. Or £70,000 a year if you're a private equity firm that has bought a care home.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Nigel Farage: the controversies A chronology of claims, contradictions and crookedness.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Andy Burnham rebuffs criticism that he left it too late to engage with the Conservatives and LibDems on social care, "I had two letters at the weekend, from Kemi Badenoch and Ed Davey, asking if I would engage, so I said yes" "I was responding to their ask"
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Kemi Badenoch can’t make it so the Conservatives will be represented instead by Shadow Health Secretary Stuart Andrew.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Excellent report from #C4News comparing other countries social care "England is something of an outlier amongst wealthy nations when it comes to social care"
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
£18.5 billion - the cost of free social care for everyone paid through taxation £30-50 billion - annual lost tax revenue from reduced trade with the EU because of Brexit Rejoin the EU to fund social care 🇪🇺🇬🇧 😃
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’m furious that Andy Burnham's talks on social care will not include someone who isn’t even an MP and whose party accounts for 1% of Parliament. Call that democracy?
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gertmer.bsky.social @gertmer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
‘Your child belongs to us already’ Adolf Hitler
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