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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.
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Alastair Παν 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇷🇪🇺 @alastair-pandelus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Falklands are British because that is the wish of the people who live there. Scotland is British because that is the wish of the people who live elsewhere. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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The Falklands-Malvinas and fundamental rights | Letters
Letters: Jack Ford of the Falkland Islands legislative assembly says the Falkland Islands are British because that is the wish of the people who live there, in response to an article by Simon Jenkins....
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Vote Harvey/Binface
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
What's a really obvious policy that could save people millions of people money *and* save the government £2 billion a year?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Listen to what he chooses to emphasise
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026
Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
17. Rejoin the EU. The majority of the country wants it. The majority of Europe wants it. EU leaders have said we could rejoin with the same opt-outs we'd negotiated before we left. It's costing the equivalent of £8000 per household per year in lost GDP. Nnnnnnng!!
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Watching London-centric politicians lose their minds at the suggestion of further devolution because "IT COSTS TOO MUCH" while they sit in a mouse-infested palace that is costing taxpayers £40bn to renovate. FYI - £40bn would cover the annual cost of the (expanded) Welsh Senedd for 390 years...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Keir Starmer lied through his teeth to become Labour leader. He justified Israeli war crimes, arrested opponents of genocide, attacked pensioners, disabled people and migrants, pocketed freebies, crushed dissent and threw others under the bus to save himself. History damns him
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Our country needs a bold change of direction. Starmer lost the confidence of the country because of his abject failure to challenge the power and wealth of an establishment which has taken for themselves while leaving the vast majority in a cost of living crisis. (1/5)
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Thinking of the women of Iran, enduring so much www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Iranian singer sentenced to 74 lashes for performing without hijab - rights group
The 29-year-old and eight other musicians have been punished by the autocratic regime for sharing ‘vulgar and immoral content’
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
God I love this country. We're just so ridiculous.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Farage will never be PM. Nor will Lowe. Doesn't matter how much Musk huffs and puffs. Doesn't matter how many dodgy millions they take from foreign tech bros. The anti-wanker vote is just too big, and is prepared to hold its nose and vote tactically to stop them. We see it over and over again.
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🦋 Mark Edgerton @mark-edgerton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
« Were #Farage really heading for Downing Street then he would be winning places like this with ease. That he has not suggests that his hopes of winning power in three years time are far lower than we have all been so strongly encouraged to believe. » Adam Bienkov
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Oh shit. All those noxious little bastards are going to swarm onto Bluesky and ruin it. Quick: somebody call for a riot about the price of Waitrose buchetta, or say something objectionable about women drivers!
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
PRAISE BE! The govt has finally freed society from the dangers of children rioting, children burning down migrants hotels, children generating child porn, and children being manipulated into voting for the far right.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
That’s it. Cops dispersing. Fascists fucking off. We won. Brighton is anti-fascist
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
We the anti-fascists outnumber the fascists by a mile. We are surrounding them. Brighton is anti fascist
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The good people of Brighton are taking no shit from far right fuckwits. Anti-racist protestors outnumbered the knuckle-draggers, blocked their march and told them to fuck off out of Brighton.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
An event is planned to be hosted in London proudly promoting the sale of land on illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. This is obscene. I've called on @london.gov.uk and @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social to stop the event and for this govt to take real action on illegal settlements.
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Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
CARNIVAL AGAINST FASCISM SATURDAY 13 JUNE 2026 BRIGHTON & HOVE Racists plan to come to our city, calling for 'mass deportations.' Not in our city. Not here, not anywhere. Time to get organised!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
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Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Context for Belfast riots
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.
Huge fires encompassing a street with buildings, cars and the majority of the street on fire with plumes of black smoke.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/06/2026
It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“Someone who is rioting doesn’t know that the person they are targeting is actually looking after their mother or their granny” Nor, it seems, do the far right politicians who whip up the rioters with their racism and hate. The harm Farage does is criminal. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘It was so terrifying’: care workers tell of being trapped at home by Belfast mob
Sumayah Nakazibwe and Stella Ariokot feared they would be next as fires took hold of neighbouring houses
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
While ordinary people struggle every day to pay the rent or mortgage - Andrew was not only living in a palace for almost nothing, he was subletting them for cash. The greed of the wealthy elites in this country is breathtaking.
Andrew sublet three cottages whilst paying "peppercorn rent" to crown estate
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Another massive win for Kemi Badenoch! This is getting ridiculous.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. The companies making cash from England’s children in care | George Monbiot
Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes ran by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
brb crying sobbing this is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen
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Helsbels 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 🇵🇸 @helenlouise1973.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
#Farage #Grifter Worst of the worst!
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Young people have been betrayed. The promise that doing well in school and university would, in and of itself, open doors to a career has been shown to be a lie. This government will not address this crisis, as they still believe that neoliberalism is the solution. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Young people out of work or training costing UK £125bn as report warns of 'perfect storm'
A report warns the UK is "at risk of a lost generation" with number of 16 to 24-year-olds out of work, education or training set to rise to 1.25 million by 2031.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 28/05/2026
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
In other words, Labour must become Reform. Half Man, half wasp. All twat. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump
In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The glee with which the transphobic lobby is celebrating this says everything. Nasty, spiteful, and hateful. Shame on anyone bullying this most bullied of communities. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Toilets and changing rooms must be used on basis of biological sex, guidance confirms
The guidance was published on Thursday following the landmark Supreme Court ruling last year.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
That’s how you do it! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @MayorofLondon
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 21/05/2026
Westminster Voting Intention [Burnham as Leader]: LAB: 28% (+8) RFM: 27% (-1) CON: 15% (-2) GRN: 10% (-3) LDM: 9% (-2) SNP: 5% (=) Via @deltapoll.bsky.social, 15-18 May. Changes w/ Standard VI.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
If this is what Israel is doing to white Westerners on camera: What the hell do you think they're doing to Palestinians off camera?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This isn’t change. This is chasing Reform voters - again - on a promise of continued scapegoating of immigrants. As with Brexit, it’s perpetuating a lie to the British people. And we all pay the price for that lie. In our economy, our social care, our NHS and our communities.
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Mr Burnham has been said to favour 'open borders' but is now expected to back Shabana Mahmood's crackdown (Getty)
Andy Burnham is backing Shabana Mahmood's stringent efforts to crack down on immigration, his allies say - in an effort to win votes from Reform UK supporters.Net migration lowest since Covid but half of Britons think it's rising
British Future said politicians "need to take responsibility" for the growing disconnect between the true migration figures and public perception of immigration
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Net migration halves as fewer people come to UK for work and study
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The UK economy will crash this year. That's certain. So, what do we need to do now? youtu.be/v9D4LI-R5fA?... The list is long, and the price of inaction will be very high indeed. Meanwhile, our politicians have their heads in the sand.
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The UK economy will crash this year. That's certain. So, what do we need to do now?
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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Unworkable, unenforceable, immoral, cruel, shameful and destined to be something that haunts Labour.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/05/2026
Farage has devastated our country. His Brexit campaign has crippled our growth, our businesses, and our opportunities. His rhetoric on immigration has poisoned our political debate and sowed deep division in our nation. He can never be allowed to enter Number 10.
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Nothing sums up the death of accountability like the prospect of Nigel Farage in No 10 | George Monbiot
You’d expect the public face of Brexit to be punished by voters. But history shows that such leaders often profit from t
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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind. 📽: NASA Goddard
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