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Can someone close the Overton window please, it’s getting cold in here. “Without music, life would be a mistake”

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Robert Newton @roberttnewton.bsky.social · 20h
Does Burnham now deserve an apology from Farage??
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A member of his party’s in jail for taking money from Russia to interfere in UK democracy so he knows damn well it’s plausible. Yet there’s no curiosity, no “I’d like to see the evidence”…just the flat out denial of a man who loves his country so much he doesn’t care if our democracy is compromised.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"You can be very confident that the Russians will take any divisive issue in our politics, whether that is Brexit, whether that is Scottish independence, whether that is migration, any one of these, and they will try and stir the pot," Sir Richard Moore told Andrew Marr.
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Former MI6 chief 'very confident' in Burnham's assertion Russia meddled in Brexit vote | LBC
The former intelligence chief's comments come despite Nigel Farage insisting 'there was no Russian interference' in the 2016 Brexit vote
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Allison O'D @ally888.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyone know why a newspaper owned by the Fourth Lord Rothermere, who inherited a fortune from the Third Lord Rothermere, who inherited his money from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere, is so strongly opposed to inheritance tax?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wow 👏
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There’s lots of empty land in and near Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster, and for that matter at the very spacious estates of the tech oligarchs and the nice campuses of the tech companies. Those seem like easy places to put data centers.
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Today is an incredibly hard day in Kyiv. Jet shaheds have been flying since the night. It’s almost 8 pm, And the air alerts barely stop. You can’t work. You can’t go to the bank or mall. You can’t even cross Kyiv normally. You just wait while russia keeps hitting
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The arguments trotted out against leaving fossil fuels in the ground are strikingly similar to the arguments trotted out against ending the slave trade, 230 years ago. 1. If we stop trading slaves / extracting fossil fuels, Britain’s economy will collapse 🧵
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
AB, a 🧵
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groaningtheblues.bsky.social @groaningtheblues.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Insane. Badenoch is not a serious politician.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
These aren't just any old business donors, or some amongst several. NF/Reform are pulling in major money from a sector closely connected with organized crime & terrorism (www.rusi.org/explore-our-...) and with the Putin regime (www.rand.org/pubs/comment...). 2/3
rand.org
Russia's Use of Crypto Schemes
Russia is increasingly reliant on cryptocurrency to sustain international trade and circumvent sanctions. Western allies should understand, map, and develop appropriate countermeasures to the crypto s...
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Attention is now rightly being focussed on the process of Farage's gifts from crypto-magnates, but the even bigger questions are about what they mean. Even if the gifts have been declared 100% correctly, how come he and Reform are *so* beholden to crypto? 1/3 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nigel Farage says 'no wrongdoing' after benefits from ally not declared
The Liberal Democrats have asked the Reform UK leader to be "straight with the British people".
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The instinctive reaction right now is lazy, sleep-walking cynicism, or sullen don't-give-me-hope despair. But the truth is: someone with very good communication skills, the right diagnosis and a reforming zeal is about to become prime minister. That seems pretty fucking encouraging to me.
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Gary James @garyjamesactor.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The relentless UK press assault on our own democracy has started. Burnham is NOT even PM yet & already the Press ramp up their assault on anything & everything in their mission to destroy every aspect of Labour’s Govt. It won’t stop until the oligarchs have ousted any threat to their money
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I am genuinely excited about a PM who will be serious about devolution. If done right it could give people more sense of control about their locality; free up Whitehall to focus on big strategic issues; and make it harder for a future national govt to burn everything down.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
In twenty years' time, the politicians who fought Net Zero so they could buy the votes of idiots and pocket those sweet, sweet oil donations will be remembered alongside history's great villains. Actually, scratch that. Nobody before them ever gambled with an entire planet.
Chart showing mean summer temperatures rising from 14°C in 1884, to 16°C today, and rising to 21°C in 2056.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Guy De Launey @guydelauney.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Is binning expert correspondents in eastern Europe a good idea at a time like this? Disinformation on the rise, Russia interfering in many countries, threatening several and actually at war with one? Well, BBC News management seems to think so. It's disposing of me and 4 of my colleagues.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The bad news: the UK's fiscal position means Burnham/any new Chancellor will have little/no room for manoeuvre on tax/spending/borrowing. The good news: there is a. progressive policy agenda that is pro-growth *and* fiscally credible. www.ft.com/content/7235...
ft.com
Three ways a new Labour leader could change the politics of growth
The UK needs to confront the policies that have made us poorer
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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
UKIP, having won one of 650 seats in the 2015 general election, panicked Cameron into holding a disastrous Brexit referendum. Now, seven times Westminster loser Farage, whose party has four MPs and four Tory turncoats, has lost six by-elections in a row and the media still treat him as a future PM.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
My letter to the Financial Times: Reversing Brexit — why the conditions look right giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Letter: Reversing Brexit — why the conditions look right
From Richard Corbett, Former Leader, European Parliamentary Labour Party, Shipley, West Yorkshire, UK
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The main problem with Musk being “worth a trillion dollars” is this: imagine his investors or the stock market suddenly realise he doesn’t sell anywhere near enough to justify the valuation. The crash would be huge - so big it would affect all of us. I can’t even hope for him to go bankrupt.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Mick Lynch repeatedly humiliates Reform UK's Laila Cunningham She then accuses Mick Lynch and Labour of spreading lies to "win the argument" denying that Nigel Farage wants an insurance-based NHS Here's a clip of Nigel Farage calling for an insurance-based NHS
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Leaving the ECHR, will weaken protections for all in society. That’s the end goal. Then they will usher in freeports, SEZ’s, data centres, zero hours contracts, no employment protections, state surveillance. All in the name of protecting us. When we already have protections…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’ve written about Lisa Nandy’s response to the rejoin argument. She said, “If rejoining the EU is the answer, then essentially what we’re saying to people is life was fine in 2015, we just need to go back there”. But that’s not the point pro-EU folks are making 👇 open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...
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Lisa Nandy is half-right - and that's the problem
"Misidentify the illness and you prescribe the wrong treatment. Britain has been misdiagnosed for long enough."
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Mike Brady @mikebrady.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
One Tory act of vandalism following their 2010 victory was cutting funding to Gordon Brown’s Sure Start programme, eventually closing 1400 centres, which had made significant differences to life chances. One of Starmer’s failings is not shouting about bringing them back. I only found out today. ⬇️
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote
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Greens suggest they will properly contest byelection in blow to Burnham
Statement follows speculation party would not field candidate in Makerfield or barely fight seat
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I'm not anti-Burnham, but he chose to leave Parliament, he chose not to run in 2024 & he chose to seek re-election as Mayor. The idea he should jack this in 2 years early, that someone should give up their seat for him & that the PLP should sit on its hands until he's arrived feels rather entitled.
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Charlotte Nichols MP @charlotte2153.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I don't know how many different ways I can say this but I'm not stepping aside for Andy Burnham, and it's both very tedious for me and very demoralising for my staff to keep seeing it reported that I might be about to go when there's never even been so much as a conversation with Andy about doing so
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12/05/2026
Very good column by Natalie Fahy @nottinghampost.co.uk on Reform UK councillors refusing to speak to the media: "Journalists need to stand up, keep asking and keep reporting when the questions refuse to be answered. Because I truly wonder what Reform has got to hide."
nottinghampost.com
Media needs to take a stand against Reform’s press bans
Newly-elected councillors in England are being told not to speak to the press
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Say what you like about the British press, but I find it reassuring that they spend months ripping apart a Labour PM for properly declaring some glasses and football tickets, then all but ignore someone who wants to be PM when he tries to cover up a £5 million gift.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Saw a video of Nigel Farage voting earlier on. He took out a burgundy EU passport as his ID. CUNT!
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Left: President Trump posts a tacky AI image of himself for May the Fourth Right: President Obama posts a video with Mark Hamill for May the Fourth
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rob1949TX @rob1949.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This President is such a G-D idiot & embarrassment to this nation. Can you believe his lack of protocol much less common decency?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/04/2026
standing ovation after King Charles sings the praises of NATO and says "that same unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine"
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Betty💪 @bettyhumpter25.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A reminder that this is the same "unhinged" war and President the Daily Mail has spent weeks berating Keir Starmer for not joining and following
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The stupidest war in history, being waged by the stupidest president in history.
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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Sources told @theobserveruk.bsky.social that crypto donations had “come into a wallet controlled by a permissible donor” and were then turned into fiat, adding “this makes it much harder to track”. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk
Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c...
Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Jeff Bezos is worth $220 billion. After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them. Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, "Let us say to our British friends" "If they stand ready to return to the EU Single Market with all associated privileges and duties" "They will be be met with open arms" Sounds like a plan. Who's in?
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Trump: "The President of the United States Gavin Newscum admitted that he has learning disabilities." Yes, he actually called Gavin Newsom the "President of the United States" while trying to insult his cognition.
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 09/03/2026
The current situation reminds me how magical I find it that the petrol already in storage tanks at petrol stations manages to increase in price in line with global oil prices almost instantly. But to decrease it always seems to need to wait a bit longer for the new, cheaper stuff to arrive.
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