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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 5h

In June 2017, Emma made history when she was elected Kensington’s first ever Labour MP. Six days after her election, Grenfell Tower fire saw 72 local residents lose their lives in the worst residential fire since WWII. Cuts to "red tape" save money. Regulations save lives. x.com/emmadentcoad...

Screencap of tweet by Emma Dent Coad quoting tweet by Kemi Badenoch.

Emma Dent Coad: "Grenfell - 72 died from the fire, at least five died by suicide, 11,000 have PTSD, concerns about long term effects of toxicity on residents, 11 firefighters with terminal cancer - plus £1bn spent and rising.

That's 'nothing' right?"

Kemi Badenoch: "Cutting red tape costs taxpayers nothing.

It's a common sense solution to get Britain building."

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 7h

At its core transphobia is a rejection of trans identities or the belief that trans people should not be visible and able to participate in public life. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/10...

Image shows a trans flag hanging down amongst leaves. Text reads: Transphobia: the data behind discrimination

>> At its core transphobia is a rejection of trans identities or the belief that trans people should not be visible and able to participate in public life.

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 11h

Reform's barrister, who cleared the party and aides of wrongdoing alleged in an undercover investigation into foreign donations, was a UKIP member for years and has a longstanding association with Farage.

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 9h

Former Labour Deputy Leader Lord Thomas Watson, now Senior VP at Palantir UK, wrote to me defending their public contracts. Instead of trading letters, I’ve challenged him to an open, public debate. He can defend Palantir’s ethos; I’ll argue for public accountability. Will you accept, Tom?

Formal letter from Clive Lewis MP, Member of Parliament for Norwich South, to Lord Thomas Watson of Wyre Forest, Senior Vice President of Palantir Technologies UK Limited, dated 7 October 2026. In the letter, Lewis challenges Watson to a public debate regarding Palantir's role in government contracts and public institutions. Lewis rejects Watson's claim that criticisms malign software engineers, stressing that elected officials must scrutinize corporate power, democratic control, and public accountability. He proposes a debate with an impartial chair, equal time, and audience questions.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14h

Tory £6bn inheritance tax cut plan Increase threshold from £1m per couple to £2m+home. In 2024-25, 30,400 estates paid IHT, may rise to 52,100 in 2029-30. IHT cut for the richest, paid by cutting benefits for old, sick, disabled, unemployed. How will it help economic growth, reindustrialization?

bbc.co.uk

Kemi Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homes

Tory leader says her party is "coming back", as she aims to convince voters it has changed after 2024 election defeat.

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 9h

Here’s a new idea - people get stripped of honours for doing dishonourable things - let’s add tax dodging to the list. buff.ly/6zFAOmn

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 9h

If you’re reading today’s papers and thinking, did I watch a different Badenoch speech, may I recommend our sanity-restoring review? “The same people who could not build a railtrack from London to Manchester for £100bn, will build the Kemi Death Star for 10bn. It’s so ludicrous as to be offensive.”

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 13h

Let's have look at who the British right idolizes. Tommy Robinson: 2 active charges. Russell Brand: 7 active charges Danny Tommo: 8 active charges Andrew Tate: 42 active charges Tristan Tate: 17 active charges Note that all 5 have publicly embraced performative christianity in recent years.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 19h

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13h

Private equity owners of Boots sell it to another PE group from Canada for £6.74bn. Debt-laden PE has no long-term interest. Everything is a commodity. No UK tax levied on dividends paid to foreign owners, which sweetens cash extraction. PE dominates town centres, when it crashes ...

theguardian.com

Canada’s Weston family buys Boots for $8.9bn

Former Selfridges owners buy UK high street institution from long-term backer Stefano Pessina

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 12h

Anyone else think having British care homes sold off for over a billion by a very wealthy man to a consortium from California is not a healthy way to provide a service? www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/del...

yorkshirepost.co.uk

'Delighted': Yorkshire businessman's care home company seals £1.1bn deal with US firm

A Yorkshire company which develops UK care homes and owned by one of the region’s wealthiest entrepreneurs has sealed a £1.1bn deal to sell 45 properties to a Californian investment firm.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 11h

Kemi Badenoch is as working class as also privately educated multi-millionaire Nigel Farage is 'a man of the people'

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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 21h

Talia Ringer: My hot take is that if your company builds software that it cannot stop from hacking into other systems, your company is a malware company and should be treated as such

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heytonyretired.bsky.social @heytonyretired.bsky.social · 14h

If you look at the news headlines in the UK papers today, you'll assume everyone gains from the the Tory pledges. Only 5% pay inheritance tax. And who has £1m extra to hand on to their families? But the paper barons want the the poor to believe they are the winners! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Newspaper headlines: 'Kemi's family home pledge' and 'Badenoch invokes core Tory values'

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch's speech at the Tory conference dominates Thursday's papers.

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 18h

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No outraged speech from Reform UK 'I'm not racist' Farage, no social media disgust from Restore Britain Lowe, no marches by Patriot Platform ... maybe, just maybe, because none of them are black or brown! meme via We Demand UK

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Badenoch claims £2,700 a month from the taxpayer to rent a grade II-listed farmhouse with six bedrooms. The property sits within the highest council tax bracket, costing over £4,000 in council tax a year, which the Essex MP also claims on expenses. "Best welfare" is being an MP.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#BlameMillionairesNotMigrants via Stephen Fisher

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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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🇬🇧🇨🇦 @richard-breakfast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In summary, Kemi Badenoch said there would be no unfunded tax cuts under a Tory Government and then announced lots of unfunded tax cuts for very wealthy people.

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Pablobrooker @paulobro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Did 2010-2024 exist

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Badenoch says IHT hits “ordinary middle class families” across the country (whereas I’m pretty sure that only 1 in 20 estates pay it) She has promised to exempt family homes from IHT

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I went to London yesterday and didn’t witness any Islamification.. no Taliban or Sharia Law either Just a rich blend of colours, cultures, religions etc all rubbbng along together, as happens elsewhere which is what makes Britain Great❗️ Like the rest of Reform Robert Jenrick talks the UK down 🤬

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heytonyretired.bsky.social @heytonyretired.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nearing the end of the UK political conference season, and at best, the most I’ve been offered really is some hope. I'm not convinced somehow.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thousands of active UK companies may have fraudulent directors. Anyone can form a company in the UK. Companies need one natural person as a director who can be non-UK resident. Too many small companies are fronts for crimes I have long called for companies to have one UK resident director.

tradersunion.com

UK companies face scrutiny as identity checks expose possible fraudulent directors

New UK identity rules reveal possible fraudulent company directors as overdue filings surge, raising concerns about the accuracy of corporate records.

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@AlanWalter @alanwalter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m an RNLI volunteer crew member and I invite her to get on a plane from her hideout in Dubai and say that to my face here in the UK

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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The far-right: “Hotels should not be used to house asylum seekers. Place them in disused military bases” Also the far-right: “NO, NOT THOSE DISUSED MILITARY BASES!!!”👊👊

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Devoid of ideas, Tories vow return to Thatcherite policies. They want to cut social spending, build prisons, cut taxes for the rich, free childcare for individuals earning £1m. What will they privatise, sell to foreign investors? No ideas on infrastructure investment, regulation of capitalism.

independent.co.uk

Kemi Badenoch positions herself as modern day Thatcher and vows to revive Tories

The Tory leader dismissed suggestions that her focus on cutting benefits and building more prisons signalled a return of the ‘nasty party’

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Knitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

PPE Crimes I’ll never forgive them for the fact that so many practitioners & patients died because they weren’t protected by PPE & the huge amount of public money now ‘lost’ in mansions, yachts & other luxuries. Should be prosecutions for Tory crimes. But. Crickets.

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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"It's a sort of shooty bangy thing that can move about and has computers so it would be much better if a boy explained it".

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heytonyretired.bsky.social @heytonyretired.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@im-all-id.me saw your repost re being old. Went to the Science museum in London and just about the only thing missing from my childhood was me. Went to see my old office: became a museum itself but even that closed years ago

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Shadow chancellor vows to cut tax in every Tory budget As always, it would be tax cuts for the rich. No mention of corporate welfare, equitable distribution of income/wealth. We haven't recovered from previous Tory follies. NHS queues, potholed road, crumbling schools. What will they cut next?

bbc.co.uk

Shadow chancellor vows to cut at least one tax in every Tory budget

Shadow ministers unveiled a series of policies on day two of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As Nick later says he "WAS" the Tory Mayoral candidate and indeed it was as a result of running for the gig that he was ultimately brought to justice. This wasn't "a thing that happened"

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 06/10/2026

The big tech companies want you to believe that their default software offerings are the only option, but spoiler alert, there’s a wide array of fantastic software out there. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...

eff.org

How to Opt Out of Software Made by Big Tech

Big tech companies make the devices we use and the operating systems that come on them. They also make the bulk of the default software that comes packed into those operating systems. But spend even

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trickle-down has failed. Tax cuts for the billionaires benefit no one but the billionaires. Austerity is counterproductive because it kills growth and shrinks the economy.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes indeed I'm rather tiring of the coverage... a convicted perjuror who brazenly lied his way through life and continued to attend the House of Lords even as this poor woman's life fell apart.

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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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@raystonian @stonia2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kick Israel out of international football. No world Cup, no European competition (it's not like they're part of Europe). Israel has murdered thousands of Palestinian athletes yet Fifa and UEFA continue to sports wash Israel's genocide. Kick them out! #BDS

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026

Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Suella Braverman too proud for benefits... Went to university for free Studied in Europe using the heavily subsidised Erasmus program Claimed ALL her rent, energy, council tax bills for at least 5 years Millions of pounds in expenses claims She just doesn't call them benefits

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Do not Trust Reform They will stop all our Benefits" via Mark Holyer

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh!🤔 I’d love for this to spectacularly backfire against Andrew M-W!! Let’s hope the Police have got enough evidence already!🤞⚖️⛓️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

bbc.co.uk

What we know about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's legal action against police

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking legal action against Thames Valley Police over his arrest in February.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"

Misleading statement by "journalist" Andrew Pierce

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