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Jamie Zerfahs

@jayzee.bsky.social
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Born and bred Hebridean. Engineering, Scotland, woodwork, watching the same programmes on TV many, many times.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hmmm… who to believe… Andy Burnham or the compulsive liar who got sacked twice for lying, lied to Parliament, lied to The Queen, cheated on two wives and ignored the Ministerial Code. Tricky one.
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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · 09/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax proposals are myth-based policy making at its worst. That's the verdict from @jillongovt.bsky.social following the leader of the opposition’s conference speech this week. Read the full comment here: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/kemi...
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Kemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax proposals are myth-based policy making at its worst | Institute for Government
The leader of the opposition’s conference announcement was not well thought through.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn… …seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺 @marksugrue.com · 28/09/2026
You'd never guess from this @theguardian.com headline that Le Pen's party came joint 7th in this election.
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's been happening forever, and will happen forever, that rich people fuck off to lower-tax areas and frame it as political defiance of some law they personally don't like. 'Seatbelts in cars make it impossible for me to deliver wealth.' 'Without smoking in pubs, how am I meant to...'
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The great tragedy of UK fiscal policy is that it was too tight in the 2010s when we could borrow at negative rates to fund infrastructure, and it's now too lose just as debt interest costs have surged. www.arguably.uk/p/fiscal-haw...
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Fiscal hawks of the left, unite
How Burnham can win over the bond markets
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Public Sector wage growth: 6.3% Pension growth: 3.9% Private Sector wage growth: 2.9% This isn’t sustainable.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 12/09/2026
In this week's Top of the Charts, we've thought about the Government's nerve-janglingly-specific pledge to deliver growth in every postcode. We’ve plotted how the last Parliament performed on living standards growth in each postcode - 100 per cent would be a considerable step up⤵️ buff.ly/s8wGf6Z
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Britain is just looking on as a handful of tax hating billionaires buy our political future.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
2.5 weeks ago. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What neoliberalism did to the UK. 25.3m people, including 14.9m working adults and 7.7m children, live below minimum income standard. Richest 1% has more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 families hold more wealth than 34m people. Can't grow economy on mass poverty.
leftfootforward.org
Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
To see the sausage being made, look at this front page, then watch last night's Sky News "Wrap". Tony Diver co-wrote the piece, was preceded by Ed Conway explaining with charts that this was a global reaction. Diver agreed, yet NOBODY challenged that front page. Today, it had become Badenoch's PMQs.
The Daily Telegraph: MARKETS TURN ON BURNHAM
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Britain could cap political donations tomorrow Burnham said he supported donation caps So why is his government briefing against Stella Creasy’s proposed amendment to cap donations? For shame
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has been urged to explain why it has 'never' reported the cost of Keir Starmer’s flights to sporting events after covering extensively the controversy around John Swinney’s World Cup junket 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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Microplastics Inc. @microplasticsinc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yeah bro, I'm baffled. www.ft.com/content/daaf...
ft.com
The UK should resist calls for infrastructure public ownership
Privatisation is not the solution for every situation but it can be highly effective in many cases
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 23/08/2026
The story here is that BBC Breakfast… reported the news.
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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The @scottishgreens.org won more voters under 55 than Labour in May because we actually stand for something. We believe in protecting our planet, redistributing wealth & power and protecting the LGBTQ community. Without hesitation. Scottish Labour really, really hate the SNP... and thats about it.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Very decent of the BBC to report our £50bn savings claim as though it's a fact, rather than the made up load of old bollocks that it actually is.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's not just that this is, of course, an insane lie—it's that *just thinking about it for ten seconds*, without looking anything up, should make it screamingly obvious that the claim couldn't possibly be remotely close to true. You have to actively shut your brain off to say stuff like this.
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is precisely how the Overton Window moves. Not through dramatic moments. Through a thousand small normalising decisions by mainstream broadcasters.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This is properly bonkers
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Another wrinkle that Hallett mentions in passing that is quite important to understanding the £10bn PPE story. It's often argued that £billions was wasted because the NHS ordered faulty PPE that couldn't be used...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
- First country to industrialise, which gave us an enormous, unrepeatable advantage - Oh shit other countries all caught up, now we are nobody special - Quick, sell everything to our rich friends - Oh no we sold everything and now we have nothing and we are fucked.
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The recent story of Britain:
World King: 1814-1914
Superpower: 1914-1945
Decline: 1945-1982
On the up: 1982-2008
Stagnation: 2008-present
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
UK Tax returns have gone digital, which is fine in principle. What is not fine is that pretty much only paid solutions are acceptable for submitting a return. If electronic tax returns are mandatory, the government should be providing a cost-free means. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Create a government-owned, free software for Making Tax Digital (MTD)
With the roll-out of Making Tax Digital going ahead, HMRC must provide an in-house, government-developed, fully-functional software that allows easy and confident compliance with MTD. Self-employed pe...
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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026
Have been through over a dozen cities on this trip. Paris is the only one which makes you download an app which requires another app. Even the Japanese metro now lets you just tap a credit card everywhere to access public transport!
Tickets

Service installation

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Google Play Store.

lt will be used to store your tickets.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The Conservatives are for "the super rich" says Robert Jenrick, whose own campaigns have been funded by a billionaire Israeli mining heir and a firm controlled by a sanctioned oligarch
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.
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Bruce Taylor @barrabirder.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Non-native Gunnera, Isle of Barra. From 1 plant in the late 90s to 700+ today, this wannabe Triffid is thriving in the damp peaty soil but shading out native flora including rare Irish Lady's Tresses. There's talk of an eradication scheme; it can't come soon enough. #InvasivePlants #wildflowerhour
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I think we just passed oops.
A timeline of climate change concern.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
People in Starmer’s team colluded with the right wing press to dispatch their enemies. Even some of Corbyn’s team did this. Given his understand of #Hillsborough and the toxic combination of state power and media lies, I really hope @andyburnham.bsky.social ends this practice of collusion
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 19/06/2026
Not to downplay the seriousness of this but... I don't think this is the all-time high for antisemitism in GERMANY
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Antisemitism hits all-time high in Germany: A Record 8725 antisemitic incidents in 2025
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Exc: First Government department quits Twitter over racism and violence concerns Richard Hermer sent a directive to staff last week saying the Attorney General's Office would be coming off the platform observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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First government department quits X over racism and viole...
Concern about the spread of misinformation from right-wing figures prompts Richard Hermer to pull Attorney General’s Office off platform
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Am I having a mini-stroke or has ITV really put the only woman on the commentating team in a kitchen? 😬
Emma Hayes with a blackboard to commentate on tactics, in what appears to be an open plan kitchen...
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Daniel/Moxco @leedsista.com · 15/06/2026
In case you're wondering how Bielsa is coping with those moving portraits all the players and coaches have to do for the World Cup line-up graphics
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
There was something almost comical about the panel on #Newsnight tonight. Here are six people with decades of direct experience in the area of knife crime... aaaand a Telegraph columnist with oPiNiOnZ. WHY?
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 29/05/2026
Citadel Securities posts record $4.3bn in trading revenues on Iran volatility ft.trib.al/8Z1JX3b
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Citadel Securities posts record $4.3bn in trading revenues on Iran volatility
Market maker earns $1.9bn in first-quarter net income as oil prices and Treasury rates seesawed
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A majority in the Scottish Parliament has just backed our call to devolve energy powers to Scotland. We can’t afford being tied to the failed policies at Westminster. Scotland’s energy should work for Scotland - with the powers we need to help bring people’s bills down.
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Lisa Power @thisislisapower.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Today’s the anniversary of the passing into law of Section 28 in 1988, the first homophobic legislation in a century. Politicians and media said it was our own fault, told us to shut up and give up. We didn’t. Dont you dare give up now on trans people.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Andy Burnham says land in the UK is ‘undertaxed’ - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... There wasn't any kind of battle of idea in GE2024 and now we're getting one. I know people are irritated at all the turmoil but this is at least a positive.
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Andy Burnham says land in the UK is ‘undertaxed’
Potential Labour leadership contender points to ‘big case’ for reforming property levies
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Tesco boss’s pay rises by more than £1m to £10.8m. 3m Britons skip meals, can't afford to buy food. Tesco profits hit £3.15bn. There are no controls of fat-cattery. Shareholder votes are advisory, not binding. Workers have no say. Customers have no say.
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Tesco boss’s pay rises by more than £1m to £10.8m after market share surge
Ken Murphy’s pay could rise even higher following scrapping of food waste target and weakness of rivals
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