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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3h
The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own
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Mimi @mimijones58.bsky.social · 19h
Do NOT use votesafe.org it is an Elon Musk scheme!!! It will steal your information.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 05/10/2026
ICE has been dumping photos and licence plate numbers of protesters into a Palantir database. Reminder: this is the company running our NHS health records 👀 www.wired.com/story/ice-has-been-du…
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
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Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a handful of billionaire Landlords own enough empty houses to house the homeless 10x over. Jail them and house the homeless for free.
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Gillian Currie @gilliancurrie5.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Any fabulous USA women in my feed…… 💪🏼❤️
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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Over the past 18 months, 7 far-right candidates have won presidential elections in Latin America. In most of them, Trump backed the winning candidate. This weekend he hopes to add the greatest prize of all: Brazil. If he succeeds, he will use Brazil to dominate the entire South American continent.
theguardian.com
Trump wants control of South America. If Bolsonaro Jr wins in Brazil, that could become a reality | Steve Bloomfield
The US president has taken credit for far-right victories across Latin America, but those wins have had more to do with fears of gang crime than his meddling, says journalist Steve Bloomfield
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Iranian backed diesel thieves stole my socks! 🇵🇸 🖖‧🌈 @calvinandhobbes69.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
Well said 👏♥️ "Without immigration, we would be much poorer, actually, as a country as a whole, not just as a city."
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Swiss glaciers losing over 5% of their total volume in 2026—wiping out nearly a fifth of their ice in just five years—is a terrifying warning signal. Rapid climate breakdown in the Alps directly threatens European freshwater security. Why stall on emissions targets? 🤔 #ClimateCrisis
abc.net.au
Swiss count cost of 'unprecedented' glacier melting over European summer
Europe's record-breaking summer has led to "staggering" melting on Switzerland's famous glaciers, according to a new report.
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Christian "Birdy" @cdb87.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What the fuck is he talking about?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026
Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊
bestforbritain.org
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Gillian Currie @gilliancurrie5.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh FFS
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Brexiteers claiming the UK is a 'mid-Atlantic country' rather than European shows the hilarious lengths commentators will go to deny basic geography. Sitting 21 miles from France on the European continental shelf isn't negotiable. Why invent fantasy geography to justify isolation? 🤔 #FBPE
thelondoneconomic.com
Brexiteers hilariously claim Britain is a 'mid-Atlantic country'
GB New's Tom Harwood has bizarrely claimed Great Britain is a "mid-Atlantic country" instead of a European one.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds
The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.
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Doug Johnstone @dougjohnstone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hullo! I'm appearing at my local @portybookfest.bsky.social this Saturday Oct 3rd at 7pm. I'll be chatting to old pal Mary Paulson-Ellis about all things Skelfs, then playing a few songs with my son Aidan. Tickets are FREE but going fast: portobellobookfestival.com/2026-2/ @orendabooks.bsky.social
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've been blocked from attending Conservative Party conference. Just a few weeks after Badenoch blasted Reform for doing the same thing... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
bylinetimes.com
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spain supplying a quarter of Europe’s fresh produce while running out of water exposes the reckless vulnerability of our food system. Draining aquifers to fuel intensive agriculture in a climate crisis is unsustainable. Why sacrifice ecosystems for cheap produce? (1/2) 🤔 #ClimateCrisis
dw.com
Spain grows fruit and vegetables for Europe — but it's running out of water
Spain's southern coast produces up to 25% of Europe's fruit and vegetables. But amid intensive farming, climate change and illegal wells, the water it takes to grow them is drying up.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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joeflower.bsky.social @joeflower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And of course he told Putin: “Hey, lighten up on the schools, hospitals, apartment buildings and passenger trains.” Sure he did.
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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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/09/2026
One of the things that links Farage and Trumpism is the complete disregard for the seriousness of government, and restraint Vs making everything content.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The police have asked everyone to please not speculate about the RAF Fairford incident, so naturally I'm going to waste no time in making up total bollocks to suit my own agenda.
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Nick B 🔶 @aviarm.com · 27/09/2026
Difficult to know where to start with this, but the logic seems to be that we can't let these essential immigrants feel secure and welcome in this country in case they get better paid jobs....
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/09/2026
It’s time for the crackdown on peaceful protest to end. Ask your MP to be there for the screening of The Line We Crossed in Parliament: thelinewecrossed.com/parliament
thelinewecrossed.com
Invite your MP: The Line We Crossed in Parliament
An evening of film clips and panel discussion in the Houses of Parliament on 26 October 2026, hosted by Clive Lewis MP. Add your name and we'll invite your MP.
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Gillian Currie @gilliancurrie5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What is the point of the UN etc if all they do is voice concern and condemnation but do NOTHING? The world seems to be stalled when it comes to actually doing anything. Talk is cheap
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Small boat crossings account for ca 3% of total net migration to the UK. Watch GB NEWS or Talk or listen to Farage and Co and you'd think it was the majority.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Johnson cut his journalistic teeth lying through them as Brussels correspondent for the torygraph. That was after he was sacked by the Times for egregious fabrication. More lying from Johnson the Liar PM. He will never change.
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Gillian Currie @gilliancurrie5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Gillian Currie @gilliancurrie5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not sure (but hopeful) that anyone I know still uses Twitter but if you do…..
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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ok so at this point we *dont* want the strait that we control open
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don't miss GB News to hear me spout Reform propaganda and talk absolute bollocks completely unchallenged because for some reason I'm the only MP allowed to get away with this.
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
$1.8 billion for Trump’s vanity projects could cover a year of medical expenses for 88,000 veterans or 600 million school lunches. Trump’s Republican puppets keep finding money for his ego while telling families the country can’t afford basic care. #TrumpsCorruptCongress
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Pentagon cover-up of US military casualties in Trump’s catastrophic Iran War continues. 37 troops have been quietly added to the public tally of wounded personnel bringing the total to 861.
WaPo: Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid
Iran war
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Gillian Currie @gilliancurrie5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shocked I tell you…..
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Leaked reports revealing UK intelligence warned that ecosystem collapse threatens national security and food supplies prove climate breakdown is an existential threat. Suppressing spy chief warnings to avoid political heat is reckless. Why hide reality from voters? (1/2) 🤔 #ClimateCrisis
theguardian.com
Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?
Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Should be reposted every month....
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'More fundamentally, it begs the question: what sort of country do we want to live in?' 📺 Director of Policy @alfie-stirling.bsky.social was on @bbc-politics.bsky.social Live today, commenting on what the impact of Conservative proposals to cut Universal Credit would mean for those on low incomes 🔽
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just because I strongly oppose any measure to tackle Russian misinformation, doesn’t mean I’m on Russia's side. In unrelated news, one of the few times I bothered turning up for work as an MEP was to vote AGAINST measures to tackle the spread of Russian misinformation...
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Gillian Currie @gilliancurrie5.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Easy, do it
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 The Innernet never forgets
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Ko-walla.bsky.social @ko-walla.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So Netanyahu is attending the UN General Assembly in New York. He is a wanted war criminal. Will he be arrested when he gets off the plane?
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