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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1h

"Does the UK want to reopen the bitter Brexit debate?" asks Vicki Young. There is a way of reviewing our relationship with Europe that does not reopen "the bitter Brexit debate", which I think is underpriced. We could all be honest and agree that Brexit was a shit idea.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h

Hegseth: “Theocratic regimes should never have access to nuclear weapons. Trump recognises that.” The man who last week was manifesting the Christian god in the Pentagon and calling for a crusade.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 2h

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has formally decided to bar some on the political “left” from visiting America, according to a diplomatic cable he sent to embassies this week. When I obtained a copy of the internal cable banning those in vaguely “aligned groups” of “far-left terrorists,”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h

Using phone calls, travel movements and location data, Der Spiegel has traced the recent drone attack on a German airport back to the elite SSD unit of the Russian military intelligence service GRU. When are the authorities going to start saying we’re at war and have been for a long time?

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(S+) Leipziger Flughafen: Das sollen die Männer hinter der Drohnen-Attacke sein

Ermittler meinen zu wissen, wer den Leipziger Flughafen mit Drohnen angegriffen hat. Ihren Auftrag erhielten die Verdächtigen nach SPIEGEL-Recherchen wohl von einer Spezialeinheit des russischen Gehei...

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

From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 5h

'Remember when Nigel Farage described Andrew Tate as an "important voice" for men?' via Truth Against Hate

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 3h

The right wing media and Kemi Badenoch in the form of a 1980s sitcom.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 5h

It’s not a controversy. It’s something quite different.

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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 5h

Starmer and Merz jointly announced 17 projects between our two countries. Press didn’t say a lot. Well they wouldn’t, would they? Today it gets ratified. Bet there’s a Burnham headline or two.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 5h

America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 7h

Why does nobody like us? #R4Today

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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 12h

"Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived." ~ Niccolo Machiavelli #MarianKamensky

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The UK should have walked before being pushed! Israel confirms it is closing the British consulate in East Jerusalem after UK ban on trade with illegal West Bank settlements.

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Domain name settlements.uk (settlements) is for sale at BuyDomainNames.co.uk

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 15h

170 billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the midterms. 17 of these families were connected to Jeffrey Epstein. That's at least $363 MILLION of Epstein-associated influence manipulating our politics RIGHT NOW. We have got to stop letting billionaires buy elections.

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Ian Slater @iansslater.bsky.social · 19h

Unpopular opinion: The Nations’ League is pointless and superfluous. As such it has devalued International football generally, while detracting massively from domestic league campaigns by enforcing a tiresome three-week break from real competition. Elite players’ careers are being shortened too.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 21h

previous owner, a US private equity firm: eats Boots and leaves

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20h

If you close the loophole that lets people like me avoid tax, I will make good on my threat to avoid tax by moving to Monaco, which I actually did 40 years ago, to avoid tax. 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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Listening to Kemi Badenoch list her many supposed triumphs you wouldn't have any idea that the Conservatives just suffered their worst set of election defeats in their history and are now polling eight points lower than when she first took over as leader

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I see Reform UK's internal inquiry has cleared their internal people.

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Security Guard Greets People

ALT: Security Guard Greets People

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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cartoonist: Clay Bennett

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AJ 🦋 @andjamwar.uk · 21h

Deform logic #FuckFarage

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Still not a hoax.

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Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At some point you just have to ask 'why does my license fee pay for this sort of chaff?'

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23h

🔴 SCOOP: The chair of a lobbying firm paid by the UAE sits on a government council advising ministers on how Britain uses sport and culture abroad. As Man City's verdict puts Abu Dhabi in the spotlight, our latest investigation 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-u...

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Revealed: UAE lobbyist advising UK government on sport and foreign policy

FGS Global chair Roland Rudd accused of "blatant conflict of interest" for advising ministers on foreign affairs while his firm lobbies for UAE embassy

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The most blackmailable FBI director in history is going to Russia. What could go wrong??

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From the new Private Eye

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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every problem Britain faces today, started with Thatcher Many Prime Ministers have carried on her work like Cameron, May, Johnson & Truss Thatcher sold off all of Britain's assets & privatised everything, destroying Britain Now we have Badenoch who looks up to Thatcher as her idol & role model

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.

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

"Apparently Reform are now launching their own website as a full TV station. They are recruiting right now. ... And the question for Ofcom is this: When will you finally clamp down on this client media masquerading as a news channel?" via Reform Are Not Your Friends www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 06/10/2026

Donald Trump proved himself a traitor when he invited Russia to interfere in the 2018 elections, when he spurned his followers to attack the Capitol on January 6th, and when he stole classified documents after his first term ended Encouraging Iran to attack L.A. and S.D. is furtherence of a pattern

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Ian Slater @iansslater.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When good guys ran the media. Those were the days.

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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within." ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero @billdayart.bsky.social

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

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John @kidcharlemagne62.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Agreed. It reads like a ‘please don’t lose’ plea from the right

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thanks again to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for highlighting Kemi Badenoch's banning of journalists she doesn't approve of, which very few other journalists in the country seem willing to mention for some reason inews.co.uk/opinion/bade...

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The entire White House is filled with Jeffrey Epstein's friends.

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

We are staring down the barrel of a defining chapter in American history. Authoritarian leaders often enter government through legitimate doors and then begin dismantling the locks. The locks are coming off. The question now is whether enough of us are awake to stop it. -Michael Jochum

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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.

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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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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Germany has arrested former spy chief August Hanning in a suspected espionage and treason case involving highly classified intelligence on Iran’s nuclear programme and the Russian military.

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Germany arrests former domestic intelligence chief over alleged spying

August Hanning served as president of Federal Intelligence Service from 1998 to 2005

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

The president of the United States is a rapist.

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