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Curious follower of shiny things, prone to getting distracted by random stuff and looking for meaning in a baffling world. Learning Spanish & Swedish. Living in Portsmouth, born in Argyll & married to a Welshman; making rugby internationals interesting! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social James, I’m listening on catchup but just wanted to add to the debate in your first hour. I’m 62 and a recipient of adult social care which enables me to live independently, work part time, run a household etc. It’s really important to remember that… /cont.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I did not have agreeing with Andrew Neil on the subject of demonstrations and immigration on my Question Time bingo card for last night 😲
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Strangely, as we approach the end of 2026, this does not fill me with confidence. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030
Jensen Huang dismisses warnings from former Anthropic researcher and others as ‘doomsday narratives’
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is the sophisticated answer to the ‘British oil and gas makes sense’ question that I’ve been looking for.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Please can the UK have this for Christmas? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Canada could become first ‘associate member’ of the EU, von der Leyen suggests – Europe live
European Commission president says the EU wants to ‘move the partnership with Canada to the highest level possible’
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social From the Telegraph today, James. Does it qualify for an unhinged headline? apple.news/A8u8c6zAGSpW...
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UN votes to ‘reduce size of Britain and US’ in new map — The Telegraph
Traditional Mercator map to be replaced by one that shows true scale of Africa
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social Andrew, I’ve read a report that Reform have launched an online game that allows users to chase down boats carrying migrants using Royal Navy ships. It was in the Independent. Any more info on this?
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Alternatively, maybe the f*cking oil and gas companies could just be told to tolerate lower profits in the name of the common good. Ffs! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Scrap windfall tax on oil and gas firms early, North Sea industry urges
Labour should replace levy in 2027 rather than 2030 as energy bills are poised to surge over the winter, says lobby group
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We are f*cked. Labour could have strangled this at birth. But no. Cowardice. God help us. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo
Party leader, Nigel Farage, says he is humbled by the contributions from cryptocurrency billionaires
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This cannot be allowed to stand. Surely? Nothing makes sense anymore. #stopReform www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo
Party leader, Nigel Farage, says he is humbled by the contributions from cryptocurrency billionaires
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Helen Whately: “Welfare should be a safety net for disabled people. Instead, the system is being abused. But their ‘Timms review’ will do nothing to tackle that abuse or make savings.” Why are the Tories so f*cking nasty about disabled people? Is it a condition of membership ffs? 🤬
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 10/09/2026
Burnham's line anbout Social Security versus National Security echoes Churchill (even though there's no evidence he ever said it). The securest borders are not worth ordinary families living in poverty.
When Winston Churchill
was asked to cut arts
funding in favour of the
war effort, he simply
replied, "then what are we
fighting for?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Listening to Kemi Badenoch and feeling almost envious of a life lived entirely undisturbed by reality.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Badenoch: “What we are saying is that where people are living in areas where it’s too expensive. They’ll have to move somewhere cheaper. Moving somewhere cheaper is what everybody else does.” Ffs. There speaks someone who has never had to make a desperate decision in her entire soulless life.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Absolutely right. The worst thing that Burnham could do now is to try to appease or appeal to the Right. Starmer tried it and it didn’t work. There are more voters on the Left of Centre to reach out to and that’s who he needs to look to. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The pressure on Burnham to appease the right is huge. But now is the time to step out of Reform’s shadow | Andy Beckett
A scandal-besieged Reform still has a loyal base that won’t budge. That should free up the PM to deliver some home truths, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Can I bear to listen to Richard Tice on R4 on the latest Reform scandal or would I rather jam red hot coals in my ears? Tricky one.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Tories just gotta Tory: “Save £1bn by ending VAT exemptions for Motability vehicles” -The Guardian
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hugely wishful thinking If emissions peak by 2040 and fall rapidly, research shows we might get away with 'just' a reprise of the Pliocene ~ 3C higher temperatures and sea level eventually 15 - 25m higher If they don't, it will be worse - much worse www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s really frightening to see how everything on and in our planet is so interconnected. You can know it intellectually but the emotional gut wrenching reality of it hits harder when you see events like the Nepal disaster.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A really excellent thread on how to properly tackle the problems with prisons and crime.
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Monsters Are Gutting America @paularevere.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social James, I’m listening on catchup and I’ve just got to the question about shire horses — and I’ve now got water up my nose and down my T-shirt so thanks for that! 😂😂😂
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I just knew we'd get this bollocks. Farage - like the Telegraph- doesn't want progress or anything to improve he just wants Britain to sit in a miserable slump in which he can holler constantly about "migrants" and drink pints in slow motion videos with people who pine for WW2.
Farage: Burnham's pledge
to house homeless will
attract more migrants
Reform leader says rough sleeping plan
sends message that you get 'everything for
free if you come by boat
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social I miss the comments section BTL on politics live. It just seems pointless to read it now. Any chance of a reconsideration at some point in the future?
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Claire Coutinho is so spectacularly wrong about everything, and has somehow become Shadow Energy Secretary.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Madness. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘It’s irreplaceable’: Fury over Reform plans to expand quarry in ancient Kent woodland
Forty hectares of Oaken Wood could be razed after it was identified as potential site of expansion by Reform-run council
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Speaking as a recipient of adult social care, this would be wonderful news and a massive relief to the brilliant care workers who I rely on and who are currently living in limbo. Please make it happen. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Existing care workers could be exempt from UK’s tough new immigration rules
Exclusive: Andy Burnham thought to be considering waiving stricter right to remain rules for people already working in the sector
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A must read — horrifying.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
What??
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GJdop @gjdop.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
.@zackpolanski.bsky.social is 100% correct, but it's not the 'benefit claims' that are bleeding the treasury but the tax evaders and cheats: the rich, billionaires and selfish people like #Farage.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Surprisingly gutted today to learn that the @theguardian.com is to close down comments on the Politics Live blog from next week. Terrible decision @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social for those of us who feel part of such an active community.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Mahmood as Chancellor. I am really not convinced by that. In what way is she qualified for it?
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
God, it’s wall to wall coverage of England’s defeat to Argentina today! Give us a break ffs. I’ve enjoyed the games but the incessant trumpeting of English exceptionalism is driving me potty now. You won it ONCE, 60 years ago (And yes. I know. Scotland haven’t got out of the group stages). Stop it!
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I usually think of myself as a compassionate and decent human being. But I’m feeling very much challenged by the Orange Shitgibbon and Frogface. Can cholesterol please do the right thing with the former? Maybe then we can put Frogface in the Bin.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The idiocy of Badenoch is so spectacularly ill-timed. Slap bang in the middle of the 3rd heatwave of the year and it’s not even mid July yet. So out of touch with voters and reality itself.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
#andyburnham needs to get onto Bluesky. I’m not going to step into the toxic sludge of the other place to follow his social media.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Ffs. We just can’t get anything right in this country. Pay inequality — second only to the US among rich countries. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This thinktank exposed fat cats and obscenely high pay. Guess what has happened to it? | Polly Toynbee
The High Pay Centre revealed the excesses of CEO wages. But then anti-diversity winds blew in from across the Atlantic, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
@lbc.co.uk The longer Jenrick goes on, the more rattled, angry and dismissive he gets. Talking over the callers he disagrees with, using anecdotal evidence to support his dubious claims. Vile.
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sjn1991.bsky.social @sjn1991.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
#LBC Bob, Henry Novak's family asked grifters like you and Farage to NOT politicise his death. You're disrespecting his memory and his family's wishes you absolute slimeball.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My god, but Robert Jenrick on @lbc.co.uk is really living up to the anagram of his constituency name.
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Sarah @domesticploddess.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
When I woke up and saw that Farage had lost The Times I knew it was over for him.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I so wish the electorate had chosen chaos with Ed Miliband back in the day 😢
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Starmer could not have asked for a stronger set of reasons for putting up taxes to fund defence spending than the demented Mango Mussolini in the White House, the fact that Europe needs to bolster our defence in lieu of the US, and the ongoing cyber threat from Russia and China. But no. Ffs.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@iandunt.bsky.social is spot on with this article. Frightening times. From the I-paper: apple.news/Ao5aiHAl_T_G...
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Farage, Lowe and Musk are the snarling trio who will destroy Britain — The i Paper
Mainstream and decent voices have become mute in this battle of ideas
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Long but magnificent. ifloz.substack.com/p/iran-has-n...
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IRAN HAS NO MORE FUCKS LEFT TO GIVE
In one afternoon he called the strikes proportional, bragged they were very strong and very powerful, then promised a peace deal in 1hr. Iran answered with missiles on 3 countries. There is no plan.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Another excellent article from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nothing says stupidity like Reform's obsession with destroying British jobs | George Monbiot
Claims that our prosperity depends on oil and gas are bunkum – unless you’re a Reform backer with fossil fuel interests, of course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A painful, biting reminder of the legacy of the Brexit vote. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain is a swamp of lies and disinformation – and we got here on the Brexit bus | Jonathan Freedland
Ten years after the vote, our economy is battered – and our national conversation darkens by the day. Still, there is reason for hope, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Gwen @gwenglens.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
God, it’s an absolute bloody shitshow.
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