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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?

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Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m

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LawrieBhoy 🍀 @lawriebhoy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There are 35 million ‘workers’ in Britain. Reform and the Tories consistently vote against workers rights legislation. Reform and the Tories have promised future polices that will further erode workers rights. Any worker who votes Reform or Tory is literally voting against their own interests.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When people say the Conservatives play politics on easy mode this is what it means

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's almost legitimising those clubs who use it as some special case and more deserving of the glass ceiling they're barricading themselves behind.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's more than a stretch. If it isn't Chris's preference then he doesn't have to use it. 👍

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sorry like, but he can fuck off with this 'legacy' club bollocks. Aston Villa are a legacy club if there's a thing not a 'wannabe'.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perfectly put.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The lad who posted that bollocks has never struck a bat in his life, that's what I'm taking from his sage words. 😁

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So the Tory plan to cut recorded pollution incidents, like sewage spills by water firms, is to scrap the agency doing the recording...

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The chart show was at its best when it first started on channel four.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Aah, to have the self confidence of some of these Tory MPs.

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John O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Controlling a plague is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman”

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jeffrey Archer’s death narrows the competition to be the last surviving real person mentioned in “Hello” youtu.be/l3F2z4UPwQI?...

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The Beloved - Hello (Official Video)

YouTube video by TheBelovedVEVO

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

Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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Michael Martin @tfmick1892.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This week’s musings as the shadow of Man City’s misdemeanours hang over football and what the rules say about our national game - #NUFC tf1892.substack.com/p/thru-black...

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THRU BLACK & WHITE EYES - No Winners - 5/Oct/26

The Man City case, their guilt, the rules and what it all says about Premier League football rumbles on.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Superb piece, Mick. Right on the money. The lack of scrutiny at the rules and the creeping use of bollocks like 'traditional' and 'legacy' big 6 clubs makes my teeth itch.

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AshfromEnfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Your Enemy are Not travelling by small boats but by Private jets … 😡🤬

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not sure about everyone being busy watching England, mind? 😁

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why is Nigel Farage back on air? Ofcom bans politicians from presenting news programmes, but GB News claims Farage's show is just 'current affairs' despite him using it to defend Reform's £72m in donations. Close the loophole now.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As has been said, a good few of them might be students at Durham?

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'd guess they'd been on the drink in Newcastle and were going home. They've got off at Durham and got buses/taxis to wherever they lived. Some people will stay local and some will go into Newcastle for a night out occasionally if you're remotely close.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No, they were bankrolled in the late fifties/early sixties.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

.... 'legacy' clubs not clubs just spending whatever they could at the right time.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

.... Time it would've been attendance which helped big clubs buy players and pay them. Prices and gate money wouldn't have been vastly different between the big city/town clubs yet some managed to pay more than it others to ultimately help them succeed. If the timing is fortunate they become....

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not suggesting Man City haven't cooked the books nor deserve whatever they get but please don't let some knacker go on about it not being fair on the likes of Liverpool/Man U etc when all clubs including those have invested heavily in the past before the drawbridge was lifted. Once upon a.....

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

4/ .... cap the 'big 6' revenues to everyone else's budget if everyone else is barred from investing as the 'big 6' clubs in the country do and did in the past to get to where they are now?

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

3/ .... They get so close to the point but then shut it off at the most important bit. I'd love to ask them to define fairness for all if clubs can't invest money they already have to grow. If they say unimaginable wealth can't be allowed to run away with it then ask them when they're going to ....

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2/.... clubs but being struck down by instant amnesia as to how the 'established' clubs became successful on the pitch in the first place I'll fucking scream. As for 'legacy' clubs and the 'traditional' big six, honestly man, it's fucking laughable.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1/ If I hear one more sanctimonious hypocrite in the media harp on about the Man City owners putting their money in on the sly instead of earning it on the pitch through the years like other more 'established' clubs but being struck down by instant amnesia as to how the other 'established' .....

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..

Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Them getting voted in was the disgrace I'm afraid.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Something, something drawbridge. Typical Tory/reform.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What is Nigel Farage is as usual missing is facts, evidence, rational reasoning which he again replaces with a spewed out mish-mash of racist rumour, anti-migrant bias, anti-Muslim hate, peppered with umpteen outright lies meme via We Demand UK

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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rui Pinto, the man behind the Football Leaks website, has posted a detailed allegation about Gianni Infantino’s role in UEFA’s handling of Manchester City and PSG in 2014, citing material revealed through Football Leaks. These are Pinto’s claims, and they’re worth reading in full below.

Screenshot of a post by verified account Rui Pinto (@RuiPinto_FL), dated 30 September 2026. Pinto alleges that Gianni Infantino, while UEFA General Secretary in 2014, improperly intervened in investigations into Manchester City and PSG, sharing confidential documents and helping both clubs avoid potentially harsher sanctions. He says the details were revealed through Football Leaks and concludes that Infantino has become “a cancer on football” who should have no place in the game’s future. The post shows 2.2 million views.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In your last sentence, swap out 'UK' for 'UK media and news'. 👍

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You could go back a lot further than Blackburn, Jeff. 👍

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Steve @stebfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thats the bit that I struggle with. Im supposed to be furious at man city, but not chelsea who did exactly the same thing just a few years earlier. Im also supposed to forget superleague and project big picture which was a far more heinous assault on football.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'All with smiling faces' by the same author is a superb book about a criminally overlooked part of our history.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hopefully they've enough professionals in place to now take advantage of the 'commercial opportunity' to get closer to sky's chosen few.

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David, (No royal city). @howmanheyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It used to be 1882 but like you say they've revised it to 1881. I think a lot of fans were nonplussed when this 1892 stuff came out around 1992. Old programmes from the (19)80s declared it plus I had a NUFC mirror with 1882 on it.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An amazing glimpse into Mesolithic everyday life: this more than 7,500-year-old ring was made from heather roots, carefully rolled up and prepared for later use. It was discovered at the settlement of Motala/Sweden, where the same material was used for fish traps. Dating 5750–5550 BC. 🧵1/2 📷me

A thick bundle of dried plant roots, tightly rolled into a ring and secured with fibrous ties, displayed on a dark grey museum plinth.

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