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Mary McG

@jadegirl50.bsky.social
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Green Granny, gardener, Taiji practitioner (4th duan), enthusiastic cook, sourdough baker and occasional rambler! Loves hills and wild places.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22h
Usual hand-wringing about returning to division and inaction, not getting the same opt-outs etc… but arguments to rejoin trump those what-ifs. Going it alone in a world dominated by Putin, Trump and China is strategically idiotic and economically ruinous. Shaking your head at that is red-flag-dim.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22h
They know this is beyond the pale otherwise they'd be bragging about it on Twitter and Fox & Friends.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This would be economically illiterate & environmentally disastrous - and makes us less secure: undermining efforts to reduce energy bills by reducing dependence on gas, increasing vulnerability to global dictators, driving climate emissions & knee capping a market that’s just beginning to take off
theguardian.com
Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Certainly touched a nerve hasn’t it?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sir Ken McCallum head of MI5 - Russia remains "aggressor number one" and is fighting a hybrid war against the UK that is not being taken seriously enough. This "war" did not start last week. It's been going on for a decade+ and those denying it should be challenged. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
MI5 tackling more state threats than during Cold War, warns intelligence chief
Sir Ken McCallum says Russia, Iran and emerging threats from AI were increasing the risks to Britain.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Putin has not funded disruption and chaos across Europe and the UK solely to weaken his enemies. He also knows that disruption and chaos favour the far right. And the far right loves Putin. It will abandon Ukraine and build him a highway into Europe.
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is very encouraging from Burnham. It’s been such a shameful period for the UK, with former PMs refusing even to investigate credible allegations of election interference from a hostile state. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
How significant are Burnham’s remarks on Kremlin interference in Brexit vote?
Prime minister has reopened the debate over whether Russia sought to influence the 2016 referendum
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Bravo, that man. Thank you to all the people of Ukraine.
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Earlier this year, E3G released a big report with the Department of War Studies at Kings College which showed that our dependence on gas is a major national security risk. Cutting heat pumps to fund defence is like not paying for a flu jab so you can buy lemsip. It makes no sense.
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Absolutely this!! I remember back in 2016 - after learning about the Brexit crime scene - waiting and waiting for a cancellation and rerun of the referendum! My last remaining grains of trust in the establishment died at that point. I hoped the huge drive for the 2nd vote might succeed - but no🤬!
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
‘Development Partner’ at Verduin, the fascist bookstore in London heavily connected to Nina Power
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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mejasonandsi.bsky.social @mejasonandsi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Russia had plenty of English enablers (for the coin, of course) that allowed this to happen. Farage, Johnson, etc. Hopefully we can also look at taking action against these genuine traitors.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They're laughing at ordinary working people, the bees and puffins. They get together at dinner parties, quaffing nectar and ethically caught sandeels, and they mock Sir Winston, call you flagshaggers, and LAUGH AT YOU.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What we face. I talk to Oli Dugmore for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social podcast about extreme weather, tipping points and the potential for systemic collapse of the global food system. Then: how we confront these threats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdPz...
youtube.com
Extreme weather will batter our food supplies | George Monbiot | The Exchange
YouTube video by The Exchange
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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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?
THE TIMES

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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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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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Letter printed in The Times today
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2026
Nobody is prepared for the world of drone warfare that is coming, in fact is already here www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
nytimes.com
U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You’ve been seeing very large #bumblebees on the wing for the past while. Why? Okay I’ll tell you why in this quick thread if you promise to #repost as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year. Deal? 1/15 #bees
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 04/10/2026
This week’s Stewart Lee column “The men arrived on small boats. No they didn’t. They’re Middle Eastern. Oh, they’re British. They’re dangerous. No, they’ve been bailed! What 10-year-old would take this seriously?” Stewart Lee on the Fairford Five www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
thenerve.news
Stewart Lee: Five Go Mad in Fairford is the worst Enid Blyton yet
The men arrived on small boats. No they didn’t. They’re Middle Eastern. Oh, they’re British. They’re dangerous. No, they’ve been bailed! What 10-year-old would take this seriously?
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026
Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the first episode of Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian, I discuss with Aditya Chakrabortty how powerbrokers co-opt elected officials, rendering our democracies demos-free zones. Also my assessment of Andy Burnham's plans to 'rewire' the UK economy www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ72...
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“There’s no such thing as democracy” – Yanis Varoufakis | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
YouTube video by Politics Weekly
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is exactly the foul, rancid, racism that my dad got when he arrived from Ireland in 1950’s needing to board somewhere A powerful man if he’d met Matt Goodwin spouting this vile shit he’d have knocked him out He built a sucessful biz & purposely employed blacks, asians etc to give them a break
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles - www.theguardian.com/environment/... good to see; now ban dredging everywhere
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‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles
Fish and shellfish populations were falling rapidly as scallop dredgers devastated the seabed, but local activists and small-scale fishers battled hard to protect their coastline
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here’s the moment @labourlewis.bsky.social read out the letter at a fringe event at Labour conference hosted by @the-citizens.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/the-...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
Israel engaged in the demolition of a city with families still inside the buildings. Real life horror.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Old Oakie @markingall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chris Bryant observes that Northern Ireland has the fastest growing economy in the UK thanks to unique access to the markets of both the UK and the EU. This "unique access" was something enjoyed by the whole UK before Brexit.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pressure building up at and beyond Labour Party Conference because: - Brexit even more costly than predicted, hurting economy & damaging public finances - Geopolitical situation: aggressive Russia in east & unreliable USA in west - British public now has a steadily growing majority for rejoining EU
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What’s your legacy Johnson? Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this. The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure. You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin.
Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson
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It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate from the people. He has no real ideas, and no plan.
BORIS JOHNSON: UK is defenceless against migrants without...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jeez. By now even Larry the cat knows it was Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal which caused the skyrocketing number of small boat crossings in the English Channel
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So they're now talking about attacking the system of policing and law. Arrest these f*ckers. Stop bowing down to them and dancing around them.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No amount of money can buy you popularity. For every person who likes Farage, there are 2 or 3 who really loathe him. The number against him might even go up, the richer he gets. He simply cannot make people like him. And we will not change our minds. We’ll do whatever we can to make him fail.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely horrifying. How can our government be planning to drill for new oil and gas when we know these are the consequences? We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.
Babies will face almost twice as much extreme fire weather in Europe that great grandparents
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇
A throwback to Tom Watson’s days as the MP fighting back against Facebook after the Nerve team published the Cambridge Analytica investigation at the Observer 
(Tom’s standing, with investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr on right and whistleblower Chris Wyler 2nd from left)🏁
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
8/ And why does this matter, beyond the most obvious reasons? Well, and this one really is required reading for a Labour peer, as AI expert Mark Coeckelbergh explained in a chilling piece, Palantir’s CEO has published an actual company blueprint for technofascism www.thenerve.news/p/palentir-a...
thenerve.news
Palantir's social media manifesto is a blueprint for technofascism
The surveillance firm’s viral X post calls for hard power, conscription and the end of pluralism. AI expert and academic Mark Coeckelbergh on what happens when technology becomes the gateway to author...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Planet Wild creating the beginnings of a Solarian Renaissance: #AGoodPlace
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
NEW Stewart Lee column ‘Danny Tommo’ and his men of fighting age seek their Passport to Piddington www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
"Piddington is about to be invaded by the very worst Britons this country has to offer
Stewart Lee on the hamlet that voted to secede from the UK"

Stylised green and orange image of sign reading ‘Principality of Piddington’, in a field
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.
Independent front page. 

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position  18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Once again: this shit is not compatible with democracy. Not for Reform. Not for Labour. Not for any party. It has to stop, and the thread below spells out my idea for how to do that. Tell your MP. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge
Exclusive: A total £179m has been donated by wealthy individuals since 2019, research reveals
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tom Watson, former Deputy Leader of Labour and former chair of the Labour party Now Senior Vice President at Palantir? wtf
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Privatisation broke our water system. @labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it. Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: ​https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&​
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