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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

Last night the BBC’s Newsnight booked the former spokesperson to a war criminal to call UK PM Andy Burnham a liar about Russian interference in the Brexit vote: Putin mouthpiece Sergei Markov. What was he supposed to say? Yeah, hands up, you got us.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏

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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights

Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yet another begging bowl email from the Labour Party this morning. ‘There is no pretending about the scale of what we’re up against.’ If only you guys had a massive majority in Parliament and could pass legislation to protect our democracy from ‘what we’re up against’.

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

because Justin Webb is openly and brazenly right wing he is untouchable at the "woke left wing" BBC

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If someone acts on their 'concerns' by attacking people in their homes and by biting and throwing rocks at cops, no one should assess if those concerns are 'legitimate' or not. That violent behaviour waives any claim to 'legitimacy'. The phrase comes across as justifying violence, not condeming it.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Alternative for Deutschland is formally classified as ‘far right extremist organization’ by Germany’s domestic intelligence service So why is BBC news calling alternative AfD ‘hard right’?

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The police should shut this down as soon as it even starts to be attempted.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Andy Burnham is going to have to do a whole lot better than Keir Starmer in responding to masked fascists on the streets.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A longstanding issue in governance of the UK is that regulators are simply toothless. OfCom is a great example. We have a regulatory system where regulators don’t regulate.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026

This is absolute rookie stuff. There is just absolutely no way that a headline like this should ever make the BBC News website. It being the weekend is no excuse, either: political news *always* drops on Saturday night, for the Sunday papers.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

When you don't listen for *years* to what loads of us who actually understand universities say, when you listen to a load of know-nothing frauds from think tanks and consultants and media loudmouths instead, this is the university disaster you make. Govts could have listened. They didn't.

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Lowest number of graduate job openings since 2020. This is a core labour market problem that universities cannot fix, but routinely get the blame for.

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UK graduate job openings fall to lowest level since pandemic

Indeed’s findings point to challenge facing Andy Burnham to boost youth unemployment and cut welfare bill

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Today over 3500 GPs will have qualified to join the workforce There is a huge problem, there aren’t enough jobs, the DHSC & NHSE are failing to fix GP employment They have cut GP practice funding by 20% in 10yrs @andyburnham.bsky.social @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social your issue to fix now

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It’s a rip-off price, the vendor is toxic, and it seems the software doesnt deliver: www.ft.com/content/cbd1... Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says

ft.com

Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says

Think-tank’s findings likely to add to calls for audit of NHS England claims around Federated Data Platform

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I do worry a lot about the future for kids, but increasingly I also worry how this is going to affect my own generation growing older. Selfishly as well as selflessly, we must act.

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

57% of UK voters said they felt the Labour government has not been doing enough to protect nature & climate The same proportion thought Starmer had performed badly on nature www.businessgreen.com/news/4533134...

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Poll: Most voters want Andy Burnham to accelerate UK climate and nature action

More in Common polling highlights deep public concern about climate impacts and nature loss, with more than half feeling Labour's efforts to date have not been ambitious enough

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A para from Tim Wigmore’s history of Test cricket.

Bradman then visited South Africa, meeting Vorster to discuss why black people were barred from representing their country. Vorster said that they were intellectually inferior and lacked feel for cricket. Bradman asked Vorster, ‘Have you ever heard of Garry Sobers?’

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Pitiful. Just won a great victory at football. Immediate response: remind us of a failed war to annex a sovereign territory that your governments only go on about to distract from their manifold failings.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I think if you’re the CEO of an extremely politically exposed firm in the public eye and you agree to take this kind of pay increase at this moment, you’re essentially demonstrating that you are not up to the job.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

5/ There is a politics of shade. Leafier neighborhoods are cooler. Poorer ones asphalted AND hotter. 20thC urban planning model of paving everything & concrete/glass buildings creates heat islands 21stC cities: Cooling Adaptation -green belts, shade, water phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Democratic politics can't be sustained with this level of disinformation and misinformation. Action needs to be taken.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 23/06/2026

"The night from Monday to Tuesday was the hottest ever recorded in France since measurements began in 1947" Prime minister holding a crisis meeting of ministers due to heatwave Garonne River temp reaches 28C, shutting down a nuclear power plant Hospitals: "Some patients can't take it anymore"

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Lucy Burke @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering

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Jarrod Kimber @jarrodkimber.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

✍️There is no cricketer more likely to run through a wall for his country. There’s also no other player that’d choose to run through a wall when there was an open door available. www.goodareas.co/p/ben-stokes...

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

A man has been running around stabbing people on the streets of a UK city and large elements of the nation’s media are strangely not interested The Mail ranks a story about Gordon Ramsey’s daughter being pregnant higher. The Telegraph is more interested in a voracious pufferfish. I wonder why?

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Tuned into BBC World Service at 4am this morning - reporting on and analysing the latest on the US and Iran. Feels like journalism from a different era and a reminder of just how good it is and what an asset to the UK. The football coverage was good as well..

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is the thing with the BBC. One section of it will cover the far right disastrously while another is diligently digging out the truth. It runs the gamut from courageous gold-standard reporting to Justin Webb

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Under 16s to be banned from social media, and a white supremacist who fuels riots on our streets, still allowed to run a whole platform.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 11/06/2026

Some news: 🇺🇦 Next month I'm driving to Ukraine. 🇺🇦 I'll be delivering an evacuation vehicle, specially modified for saving lives in areas of the highest danger. But that's only possible if I can fundraise enough - £3,500. I'd be so grateful for any support you can give. donorbox.org/johnoxleydu

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Help John to Drive and Deliver a Life-Saving Evacuation Vehicle to Ukraine 🇺🇦In July 2026 John Oxley will drive 1,318 miles across Europe in 3 days to deliver an evacuation vehicle to Ukraine, where i...

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The houses of ethnic minorities in Belfast didn’t ’go on fire’ last night - as my radio has told me - they were set alight

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Ben Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Tell me about it. I despair at the inaction that has become the calling card of the Prime Minister. No doubt there will be a statement about how angry he is and if the companies in question don’t do something he’ll launch a consultation. He’s become the Paddington Bear Hard Stare of PMs.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Let us have a rapid global campaign to have the Somalian referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan referee at least one match in Canada or Mexico. FIFA should facilitate, not impede, that. The Canadian/Mexican government should pursue it too

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/06/2026

Starmer project in a nutshell, that. Duck every actually hard choice by making bad choices instead, assuming that the electorate will reward you for cowardice in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

British journalists have a duty to our country, and to all they supposedly hold dear as fearless pursuers of truth, to hold Farage accountable and challenge far right disinformation. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uk/...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The BBC's flagship politics show devoting the whole programme this morning to 'two tier policing'. May as well hand the entire schedule directly over to Elon Musk www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbcs-t...

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The BBC’s ‘Two Tier’ Journalism Boosting Reform and the Far-Right

Why is our national broadcaster giving so much oxygen to the racist fantasies of the far-right?

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I have a student son Henry Nowak’s age & I can’t imagine what it took for his family to respond outside court with the grace they did, asking that their son’s death not be used for division and hate. That Reform & Restore chose to throw that back in their faces makes me feel sick.

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Jack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Agree with Emily Thornberry here.. this is a properly shit decision from the govt. How can you just throw them under the bus

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Brexit has made the typical British family 5% poorer, call it £1500 a year. It's an interesting tactic to go out there boasting of getting paid £5m for inflicting this on everyone else. You'd think the attack ads write themselves.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

antisemitic banner at the United the Kingdom rally

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Maybe the government should do something about corrupt foreign influence in British politics?

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