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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Keep politics out of music, like in the old days when Tchaikovsky wrote the 1812 Overture about how nice the weather was that year, or Beethoven composed his “Emperor” concerto in honour of his favourite kitten, and Dylan sang A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, all about the fun of splashing in puddles.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cold Comfort Farm is just such a wonderful comic work. In essence a Jane Austen heroine walks into a Thomas Hardy novel.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 27/08/2026
I hereby rename Washington DC “Trumpton”
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As I board the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, I’m reminded yet again of three things about the EU: 1) You don’t sacrifice any of your national identity or culture by being part of the EU. Estonia remains Estonia. Finland remains Finland 2) Schengen is great. 3) Brexit was and is shit.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
When you consider the campaigns of the billionaire press across a wide range of issues, a principle emerges. The principle goes as follows: We will do and should do nothing for the sake of anyone else.
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Ian Andrews @ianbof.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I found this post box at Knockrome on Jura in 2013. Never seen anything better.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There are 71 Lib Dem MPs in Westminster. There are 8 Reform MPs. When was the last time a Lib Dem press release led the BBC News headlines or was the main story on the BBC News website? (Rhetorical question)
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026
A former director of BBC News speaks:
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
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Antonia Mochan @antoniamochan.com · 10/08/2026
If you’re in Brussels and interested in learning to knit, then come along to the sessions I am running at the Palazzo creative coworking space in St Gilles this autumn: purlandchain.eu/news-and-eve...
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Learn to knit at Palazzo — Purl and Chain
I'm excited to announce that I will be running three "Learn to Knit" sessions at Palazzo in the autumn. They will be on 24 September, 22 October and 19...
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com
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"The noble Lord had stated, that it was unusual to refuse the Chiltern Hundreds, except on account of mental incapacity, or where proceedings were pending for the expulsion of the applicants from their seats. In this case, however, the House had decided that compromises had been entered into, which had the effect of obstructing the investigation of bribery; "
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Antonia Mochan @antoniamochan.com · 07/07/2026
Haha!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
And not a squeak from Farage, Lowe, Robinson or Tice. Nothing. Literally nothing.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The original Antifa.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Don’t just share this on here. Stick this on your family WhatsApp group. Send it to your Brexit uncle. Print it out and give it to that neighbour. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Powerful stuff.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
All 10 shots were fired AFTER they removed the gun from Pretti’s waist. Every single shot was fired after he was disarmed.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian.
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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
If I hadn’t already left the party in protest at their attitudes on disability rights and trans rights, I would be doing it today. They’re pandering to the worst of the far right’s arguments. This is no longer the party I loved and served for 25 years.
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Climate Action Mom also @exponentialGPs@mastodon.social @exponentialgps.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I did live through it. It was amazing to experience how life got better & better after we joined the ‘Common Market’ - more respect & better conditions for workers, clean waterways & beaches, freedom to travel all over Europe. All sorts of things that benefitted me & mine.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This really the cracking of speeches: a banger. Worth reading in full.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 01/11/2025
Dominic Grieve’s response to Nigel Farage’s ‘let’s leave the ECHR’ stunt in parliament is spot on.
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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
It's hard to look at the discourse surrounding human rights in the UK today and not think that JS Mill was right.
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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East Lothian Greens @eastlothiangreens.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Difficult to understand why Labour get more unpopular with every poll when they’re doing such a good job clearing the streets of dangerous terrorists like <checks notes> young women quietly protesting the mass murder of children. 🤷
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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Christian Allgore 💀🩸🖤🎃 @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes. News editor Raffi Berg reportedly controls online coverage of genocide in Gaza to ensure Israeli crimes are 'watered down' or ignored. thecradle.co/articles-id/...
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BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes
News editor Raffi Berg reportedly controls online coverage of genocide in Gaza to ensure Israeli crimes are 'watered down' or ignored
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This week the Guardian's owner, the Scott Trust, gifted the 233-year-old Observer to Tortoise Media. This isn't just a dark day for journalism, it's a sign. Meet the team. This is Putin giving Tortoise's energy advisory board member an 'Order of Friendship' medal in 2017. 1/
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
"analysis of Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out."
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Was there ever ‘shareholder support’ for Thames Water?
New writer Stanley Root’s analysis of Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out
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Science Man @science-man.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Best visual I've seen.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The Daily Express cracks me up. Anyone else here on Bluesky miss it? Or... nah?
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
- a quarter of all England’s farmland belongs to just 2,500 owners - 20 dukes own a million acres of Britain "most of this country is owned by people like the Duke of Westminster, who has 129,000 acres and a £10billion fortune", says @guyshrubsole.bsky.social www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Quarter of England's farmland owned by just 2,500 toffs and fatcats
There are more than 100,000 farm holdings in England, covering 22 million acres in total. But the Defra data show just 2,568 very large farms own or manage 5.6 million acres
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gj1023 @gj1023.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
New pub rules
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
When Stalin invaded Finland Soviet Union was thrown out of League of Nations. When the successor state invaded Ukraine, I got a visit from the head of its successor organisation.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
OTD in 1939 Poland, as a complete surprise to us, suddenly ceased to exist so we "entered to restore or order and protect our compatriots abroad". We ended up committing crimes against humanity. Definitely not an invasion. Imagine that happening today
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ilsesyb.bsky.social @ilsesyb.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,791,674!
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Louise Houghton @louisehoughton.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
"If Trump is elected in November and does impose 10–20% tariffs on $3 trillion worth of imports into the US, the UK through Brexit will have given up frictionless access to its largest overseas market and had tariffs applied on all exports to its second largest market" Anthony Robinson
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Brexit: this week’s Davis downsides
The UK gave up access to its largest overseas market through Brexit, and may find tariffs applied to it’s second largest market if Trump succeeds
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Telegraph article: "The OBR found that the average migrant worker pays more in tax than they receive in public services throughout their lives compared to British-born workers." The headline:
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Yesterday… A man ended his life on the Bibby Stockholm. Sunak hugged his chief whip for getting his fascistic Rwanda Bill through. Raging Tories demanded more cruelty. Right wing media frothed about this latest govt tantrum. And someone killed himself on a Tory prison barge.
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dave43law.bsky.social @dave43law.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
This Government gets more inhumane by the hour Foreign spouses could be told to leave UK under plans to cut legal migration
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Foreign spouses could be told to leave UK under plans to cut legal migration
Crackdown denounced as ‘morally wrong’ and un-Conservative
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
FT's Robert Shirmsley on David Cameron 🔥
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Those wanting to leave the ECHR say our own govt and domestic law would protect us. 2 things: 1) the ECHR was set up to protect citizens from human rights abuses by THEIR OWN govts 2) our govt has already removed our FoM rights and limited our rights to strike, protest and vote.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
I had to check this was real. It is. It’s on her Twitter feed. Andrea Jenkyns was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Skills, Further and Higher Education by Boris Johnson. Reconfirmed in that role by Liz Truss. Jawdropping.
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