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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years.

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Premier League News @plnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

UAE warns Andy Burnham it may pull billions in investment for the UK's proposed Oxford-Cambridge tech hub—dubbed the UK's Silicon Valley—in retaliation over Manchester City's guilty verdict, per The Telegraph.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨🚨European leaders must stop calling #Russian attacks “hybrid,” according to Estonia's FM. They are “terror attacks” and “sabotage attacks,” says Margus Tsahkna and part of a systematic Russian effort against Europe that amounts to “some kind of war." www.politico.eu/article/esto...

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It’s war, not hybrid attacks, says Estonian foreign minister

Margus Tsahkna says Europe must present a united front against Moscow.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Communities Secretary Angela Rayner stands by her criticisms of the Home Secretary's settlement proposals. The govt was consulting on the proposals. The pre-consultation reforms have little support in government (and the Home Secretary had signalled some kind of retreat on care workers at least)

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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Helen Warrell @helenwarrell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

James Orr: Reform’s head of policy, Cambridge theologian, architect of the new British right. Our profile for @ftweekend.com looks at his links to the Maga movement, Silicon Valley & European populists, and his life as a Cambridge lecturer with @ramshodgson.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c2d0...

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James Orr and the gospel of the new British right

Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

French report: Asylum seeker returnees to France from 🇬🇧 showed signs of violence - some very serious- specifically linked to being detained in the U.K. “One A&E medical report from a returnee who arrived in France in such a bad state that he was sent to hospital reads: apple.news/AF3kuiVJ9Q6m...

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‘Signs of violence’: asylum seekers arriving in France injured after being deported from UK — The Guardian

French health service documents injuries including fractures and bruising after detention and return under ‘one in one out’ scheme

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Never pay one of these parasitic firms to find a child trust fund bit.ly/4dibyKr Everyone born 1/9/2002 and 2/1/2012 has one but 760k have not claimed them at 18. Do it yourself free at www.sharefound.org/child-trust-... or go to gov.uk and search child trust fund.

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Claims firms charge £400 to find missing child savings

If you have lost track of your savings account, there’s no need to use a company to get it back. Trace your money online without paying a penny

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/

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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dismayed by defeat of the assisted dying bill. Nothing was won today – no new palliative care funding, no new disability support. And the suffering that brought this bill to parliament remains.

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A Reform government would force schools to sing the National Anthem and if they don't oblige parents will be encouraged to report them to the authorities. Yeah that's not like really scary and authoritarian schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-there...

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Reform: 'There will be consequences for not singing anthem'

Braverman believes parents will tip her off if heads don't follow her anthem and hymns rules

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Right @andyburnham.bsky.social I’m calling you out — Why haven’t you /your Ministers spoken out about 100’s of masked Far Right Wing thugs in paramilitary uniform taking over Dover this Weekend❓ You’re going “to do things differently”, start by getting a grip on Domestic Security Action not words❗️

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Extreme right-wing protesters are in a stand-off with the RNLI in Portsmouth. The group, led by Danny Tommo, are waist-deep in the sea and threatening to go "under the water" if police try to arrest them. Six lifeboats monitoring. Volunteer rescuers giving up their evening for this.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This man was at "The People's Mic" at RefUKCon yesterday, getting praised as a hero by Nigel Farage, Suella Braverman, and Jeremy Kyle. www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-...

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Man charged with public order offences – Oxfordshire

Following a Thames Valley Police investigation, a man has been charged in connection with 14 offences in Oxfordshire.

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It occurred to me just now that many people won’t know the significance of Soweto as the location for ABs v Springboks tonight. In 1976 hundreds of school students were shot in Soweto when they protested against compulsory use of Afrikaans in school.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It strikes me that the least the press could do is be as rigorous and dedicated to publishing details of what we now know about how Arday was targeted and hounded as they were about the original accusations. They won’t, of course, but that’s what would happen in a just world.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If tonight's incredible Channel 4 exposé is the first time you've heard of James Orr, let me introduce you It is impossible to overstate how great his influence has been on the right of British politics, for years He chaired this conference in 2023 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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The ultra-conservative American radicals infiltrating the Tory party

The National Conservatism Conference, which starred Suella Braverman and Michael Gove this week, was disowned by the Tories only three years ago, Lizzie Dearden writes

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And a reminder of @bylinetimes.bsky.social reporting on James Orr bsky.app/profile/josi...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is a first rate investigation of Reform’s dodgy dealings by C4 News. Would be good if other broadcasters did similar.

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Incredible moment in the doc when Farage’s right-hand man Dan Jukes lists several foreign donors who’ve given money to the party via their kids. It’s not just one or two backers - it’s a huge conspiracy cooked up by the party to break the law. It’s bigger than we even thought

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is what asylum sector warned the government about. After small boat sales were restricted in Calais in 2021 we saw an increase in number of people per boat. With increased crackdowns, but no genuine alternative safe routes provided, numbers will only increase. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Channel smuggling gangs resort to 'mega-dinghies' as crackdown limits small boat supply

Once-rival criminal groups are being forced to work together because of a shortage of small boats, a BBC investigation has found.

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Kelly Welles @kellywelles.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Shout out to all those deviants out there who claim it's about protecting women and children but remain strangely quiet when it's white guys doing the abusing.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’

Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gosh. Dolly Parton has died. I knew she’d said she was struggling with health issues she’d ignored whilst caring for her husband who died last year. I’d no idea it was that serious. She came over to me as a force for good.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

And other find from @monkemma.bsky.social: Arday blogged all those marathons in real time. I can’t remember the dozens of journalists who told me there’s no evidence he ran them. Are any of you big enough — or good enough journalists — to correct your error?

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Will Self published a substack re Jason Arday on 17th August, the Monday following the announcement of his death It doesn't pull punches, including naming some of the journalists who didn't do their research. Shame on them and the names won't surprise you 😡 willself1.substack.com/p/2089334077...

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Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media

After the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when the media machine mistakes what interests the public for the public interest.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Long established institutions are never good at holding themselves to account I believe public anger has filled the void created by the media’s lack of reflection, particularly editors, for failing to admit they behaved unethically I have a go at explaining👇🏽 nadinebh.substack.com/p/long-estab...

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

He means USA, doesn't he? ... "Nick Allen, chief executive of the British Egg Industry Council, said hens in the UK had mandatory salmonella vaccinations, but "increasing volumes of imports produced under less stringent regulations' continue to arrive in Britain." #BrexitSalmonella

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10

Lembit Opik tweet:

Burnham's big migration plan: take 4,000 stranded migrants from Ceuta, bring them to the UK and put them up in luxury hotels. Americans look at Europe in despair.

Express Headline: Burnham's migrant, Campbell, 1,000 stranded in Ceuta to be brought to UK. The Prime Minister proposes flying thousands of stranded migrants from Spanish enclave to Britain and housing them in London hotels.

Monk Debunked stamp on top of both

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Please read this and the replies, many from people in a similar position We need to get more people to understand this, to be aware of the issues surrounding it

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

📌 ICYMI — Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty — @iainoverton.bsky.social The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty

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Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty

The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

As you all know, I am not a fan of the Home Secretary. But this is ridiculous. If we're going down this route, we should demand the prior marks for every Home Secretary, not just the current brown one. 1/

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Well, who'd have thought Toby Young and James Orr would be lurking somewhere in the background

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 16/08/2026

"Not just those who pose an immediate threat. There are people there who don’t deserve to live . . . They are not even people.” as.ft.com/r/24f6ccb3-2...

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Far-right Israeli minister advocates killing ‘30 to 40’ Gazans each night

Itamar Ben-Gvir also calls for re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian enclave

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Compendium of Common Household Crimes needs your input. I’ll start you off… Taking only what you need from the clean things in the dishwasher and closing the door again. Putting 3 millilitres of milk back in the fridge. Over to you…

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/08/2026

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for nightly killings in Gaza of dozens of people who he says are ‘not worthy of life’. It’s the latest in a series of attempts at making life unbearably harsh for Palestinians.

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Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

For years we have fretted about tabloid culture in the UK but this was a broadsheet kill

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