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Graham

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Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
No words needed 😐 #memes
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.
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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
German broadcast. Nailed it
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Graham @gypsygc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
After seeing Matt Damon at the World Cup I think I’ll give The Odyssey a miss.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
But a rainbow bucket hat is too political?
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Graham @gypsygc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“It would have given Farage a similar level of security to Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and some high-profile Cabinet ministers.”
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 13/07/2026
Britain’s top 20 bogus world beers As we wait for England to win the World Cup, there are a bunch of exotic beers to try... northeastbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/fo...
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Britain’s top 20 bogus world beers
As we wait for England to win the World Cup, there are a bunch of exotic beers to try...
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Imagine Cilla Black doing ‘Yes’ by McAlmont and Butler.
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Tom Pratt @tomfury2020.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
If you haven't already got one, don't bother putting yourself forward?
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Welshworrier @dickshiner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 02/07/2026
Lisa Nandy currently engaged in the greatest last-minute attempt to feign interest in culture since I tried to read the second half of Sons And Lovers the night before my English A-Level.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16/06/2026
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Norway fans are rowing their way up the escalators in Boston
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
1. Do not repeat rumours as context! If a claim is unverified, say so clearly. Stop laundering racist misinformation through phrases like "concerns have been raised" or "people are saying".
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 01/04/2026
Four weeks ago I asked billionaire Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital if they'd been issuing fake electrical safety papers to their tenants. Why? Because when we went door-to-door, we kept noticing the paperwork was curiously identical. And tenants said they'd never seen an electrician. Little thread:
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Spotify and Apple Music “minutes away from being obsolete.”
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The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete
Jimmy Iovine just called the Death of Spotify. He might be right.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Steve McCroskey from Airplane!Some angry man leaning on a desk.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Well said!
Tweet by Justin Tinsley responding to a clip of Joe Rogan saying the world feels unstable. The embedded image shows Rogan speaking into a microphone during an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A Labour leadership with both says "you must listen to these voters who don't share your values and take them seriously" and "you must NOT listen to *these* votes who *do* share your values - their preferred party should be dismissed as extremist" is headed for electoral disaster, and deservedly so.
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jbroomer.bsky.social @jbroomer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Reminder.
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Paul Singh 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @paulsingh.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
wow it's really lucky no Sun or TPA staffers ever accept cabs when they appear on the BBC because otherwise this would look like a pretty embarrassing bit of hypocrisy
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
No idea who Laurent Brindeau is, but isn’t this caricature of @zackpolanski.bsky.social in today’s @dailymailpolitics.bsky.social ragingly antisemitic?
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 18/12/2025
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
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Dan Hayes @danhayesjourno.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story. Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us. We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.” Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners? www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
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A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I reckon the collapse of Northern Rock was worse for consumer confidence. Wonder who the Chair was?
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Airline strands ex-BBC editor, citing Parkinson's www.bbc.com/news/article... Don’t travel with Turkish Airlines- they discriminate against people with Parkinson’s
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'My sin was having Parkinson's': Presenter left stranded
Mark Mardell was left feeling 'humiliated' after he was told he could not board a flight.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1... My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
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Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 21/10/2025
"I warn you not to fall in love with someone from another country. And if you do, I very specifically warn you that she mustn't take maternity leave."
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Labour seems to be pursuing an even more self-destructive variant of the Rishi Sunak strategy: taking a position that will never win over Reform-leaning voters and simply infuriating and alienating the people who actually elected them to office.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Honestly what is the point of a Labour government that won’t take a stand against mass revocation deportation of people with permanent settlement rights? If you won’t stand against anything you stand for nothing.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
“You need to vote for us to stop Reform” is hardly going to work as a campaign slogan when you won’t even criticize a Tory MP proposing things more extreme than Reform (or Enoch Powell, or the BNP), and won’t stand up for the families such proposals threaten.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Micheal Heseltine is a person with principles and a spine.
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Hannah @teaforpterosaur.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Genuinely what the actual fuck
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The UK is not a papers, please society. It is a 'can you navigate a Kafkaesque thicket and/or get someone from a middle class occupation to sign your papers please society'.
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Luce Leonard @luceleonard.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Cartoon by Ivan Ehlers Via Samuel Long
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Justin VanDeVelde @vanderduff.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Speaking of things making themselves irrelevant and shrinking their audience, how are things at the Washington Post?
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