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Ian Lindsay

@ianlin.bsky.social
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🇬🇧. Grown more left wing as I've aged or maybe it's because I've stood still while others have moved to the right. 🇪🇺Pro-EU, 💙 NHS. Proportional Representation. Rugby Union, football ⚽, cricket. Railways. History. No posts + no bio = block. No DMs.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 7h
Trump, a rapist and best friend of Jeffrey Epstein, told reporters as he left the White House for a rally in Alabama that he felt badly for the Cornell Seven, the men accused of gang rape, and called the special prosecutor on the case corrupt.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 5h
‘Keminaissance’ is pure wishful thinking on the part of a rightwing media that furiously peddled pro-Farage propaganda until it became embarrassingly obvious that he was a raging liability and they needed to go back to the Tories as their weapon of choice.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 5h
It is altogether possible that by this time tomorrow that the orange shit gibbon will have blown an aneurysm when it’s announced that he is categorically not the winner of the Nobel peace prize and that, in fact, it’s Mark Carney… And won’t we all have such a wonderful weekend…
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Dancing In The Heights
ALT: Dancing In The Heights
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 5h
The sculpture I saw today evoked so many emotions. It’s the strongest image of Ukrainians I’ve ever seen. TIRED, BUT NOT BROKEN 🇺🇦 Yurii Myrko Ceramics, artist’s own technique
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 17h
Need reasons to be cheerful? We’ve got them for you… Burnham highs, Braverman lows and Reform’s luck seemingly running out Plus a touch of class from Jűrgen Klopp Get this brand new ep of The Trawl podcast in your ears now… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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A Hopeful Trawl: Burnham Highs & Braverman Lows
Podcast Episode · The Trawl · 7 October · 43min
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump regime wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court because it plans to continue committing war crimes. The Trump regime is refusing to allow international election monitors because it plans to continue committing election fraud. They are not being subtle.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/10/2026
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch research contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus * Apparent exodus of super-rich suggests UK is no longer billionaires’ playground When the Sunday Times broke the news that David Reuben, one of the richest men in the UK, had apparently fled to the tax haven of Monaco, there was much pearl-clutching. Reuben had moved from his Holland Park house in London to live full-time in the principality. Labour’s tax regime was blamed, with fears that there would be a cascading effect across the economy with wealth draining from the UK. It was reported across the world that he had probably left because of potential taxes on wealth in the upcoming budget. Continue reading...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No doubt all the people who printed, posted or broadcast this now disproved story respect their readers/viewers/listeners/followers enough to correct the record asap… www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Rachel is absolutely brilliant. But don’t take my word for it, buy a ticket & find out for yourself!
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The American Dictator.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I've seen Rachel Parris in other stuff (Austentatious) and she's been terrific. Pretty sure this will be too.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
FUN FACT: The Bible doesn't say *anything* about abortion. Ever. Well, except for the time God provides a handy recipe for a magic potion to induce an involuntary one. Numbers 5:11-31
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We'll have a full analysis of the Conservatives' proposed inheritance tax cuts tomorrow. But, for now, three charts. 1. Who would benefit from the cuts?
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
russians kill children, women and men, the young and those whose hair has turned silver. russians destroy homes where someone had breakfast yesterday. They burn warehouses full of books. putin is evil. But this evil has hands that kill, destroy and burn.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Don't forget that nearly all Republicans in Congress stood by and supported Trump's... -Tax cuts for the rich -Cuts to the social safety net -Iran War -ICE abductions & National Guard deployments -Inflationary tariffs -Blatant corruption His unpopularity is theirs too — and the midterms are here.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Well, that’s me convinced.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tory leader’s most forceful attack on Reform MPs: ‘I don’t want to explain to my son when we’re watching our brilliant England team play football that some people don’t think our black players are English…. 1/2
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seacide @antiseacide.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fantastic news. 🖕parasites.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I for one am reassured that an investigation into Reform UK, carried out by Reform UK, has found that Reform UK did nothing wrong www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Late morning in Kyiv after the overnight attack. Soon, I’m going to my workout. As usual on Wednesdays. Perhaps you’ve read about the casualties and damage. Not only in Kyiv. I hope you have. I don’t open the windows. The city is covered in smoke.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just put the text of Badenoch and Burnham's speech alongside each other to compare. Burnham's is, from a technical speechwriting POV, so much better. It's a proper structured argument whereas Badenoch's is just a list of stuff, randomly strung together.
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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why do you need an "investigation"? What we need is a prosecution.
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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Murdoch and the rest of the oligarch propaganda machine have already decided Farage is a dud and they are desperately trying to reanimate Badenoch. It's pathetic.
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Christian Wolmar @christianwolmar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It can be done
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Voters loathed the Tory party when they booted them out in 2024.They really needed to shake off their disgrace with humility and better ideas. They haven’t. They’ve doubled down. More Brexit, more austerity, more anti-immigration ugliness, more tedious arrogance… and no good reason to vote for them.
Party seems to have learnt nothing from 2024 defeat
John Oxley

The Conservative Party is keen to show it is now ready to return to government, two and a half years after a
historic defeat.Their self-soothing explanation posits that defeat came from not being able to do what they wanted 

No such pivot is happening at the current conference. The Tories have come to Birmingham calling for a return to orthodoxy, with similar lines about cutting benefits and regulation. Even so, they seem trapped by the same contradictions
- pledging to cut benefits, but not the winter fuel payments and triple lock on pensions that go to their voters.
There is no "hug-a-hoodie" moment in Birmingham. The Conservative Party is not indicating that it has changed or seeking to broaden its appeal. It is doing the opposite: it is a party returning to its core, restating all the old ideas voters have rejected but louder.
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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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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every single leader of Reform UK is an ex member of the Tory Party responsible for 14 years of austerity which killed thousands of old, poor, sick and disabled people Don't listen to their promises to make life better They are the problem "From one bin to another......" via We Demand UK
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
I wonder why Badenoch couldn't say that London benefitted from Brexit 🤔 The reality is that neither London nor any other region in the UK has benefitted from Brexit - the opposite is the case. That's why our polling with YouGov shows that 628 out of 632 constituencies want to rejoin the EU.
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Kemi Badenoch refuses to say if Brexit has benefitted London
The Tory leader insisted that voters were not interested ‘in having a row’ over the debate to rejoin the EU
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
14-year-old Daniel Umanskyi was killed by a Russian drone on September 25,2026. His open notebook,with unfinished homework,was left lying on the table. Daniel was writing about the moral code of Volodymyr Monomakh&how unacceptable it is for the strong to hurt the weak. Deepest condolences. 📹:BBC
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 06/10/2026
The ‘Iran War’ - is barely 8 months old, but in that time our own homegrown green energy sources (the wind and the sun) have saved us nearly £6 billion. buff.ly/AK0bDXo
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kyiv. I am in my favorite bookstore. That means I crossed the Dnipro River. Trains of my metro line run across it again with some restrictions. Relief. I write more about how Kyiv and I live in the letters. Sunday Letter from Kyiv. Sounds good.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And the utter shamelessness of The Times for relentlessly peddling Tory positions unchallenged. No matter what lies they tell, what damage they do. You can’t really call yourself a journalist at all - or a broadsheet of record - if you do that.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Republican Party went from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump. No wonder they don't believe in evolution.
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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Iranians have no way to "take out" any US city. Trump's friends North Korea Israel, Russia and India have that power of course.
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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why does the Tory Party attract crooks and why does the Tory Party love them so much ?
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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A deeply unpleasant man with no redeeming qualities at all.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Except it’s not a unique selling point. Farage and Reform/Restore threaten to leave the ECHR too. It’s the default position of far right populists who’d betray us all in a heartbeat (who have already betrayed us all)… It’s symbolic of their toxic corruption and incompetence.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 05/10/2026
My debut on Fox News last night, wasn’t sure what to expect - it was actually fun. Good convo all about making diamonds from the sky (skydiamond.com). Did notice the ‘Gulf of America’ on the weather maps, instead of Gulf of Mexico….guess it’s real over there..:)
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Beware of what is likely to happen before the midterm elections.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
Let’s stop doubting Thomas Tuchel: England are impressive and Euro 2028 is the target
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Let’s stop doubting Thomas Tuchel: England are impressive and Euro 2028 is the target
Coming third in the World Cup was really not a disaster, and Saturday’s rout of Croatia and building the team around Jude Bellingham are good signs
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The collective ignorance of MAGA, a cult that mindlessly repeats whatever they've been told by liars—and knows no actual history.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For policy reasons relating to Europe, immigrants and economics Harold Macmillan Anthony Eden Ted Heath Benjamin Disraeli William Gladstone David Cameron Alec Douglas-Home and Winston Churchill wouldn't have been allowed in your cabinet, you feckless wazzock www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch
The Tory leader seeks to echo Margaret Thatcher as she sets out her guiding political principles.
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