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Quelle surprise a super-rich exodus recent story is shown to be complete bollocks This billionaire said to have quit Britain over fears of a potential Labour wealth tax actually moved to Monaco in 2014 when the Conservatives were in power. Next. 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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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Any solution to the crown court backlog that relies on pumping thousands more cases into magistrates' courts is bound to fail.

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I understand your reference here!

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And he didn't do it alone.

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rozenberg refers to Ed Miliband's Lab Conf speech. There is nothing in that speech that tends to undermine judicial independence.

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I rate much of @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social's commentary on legal matters. But he is dreadfully biased in his coverage of Palestine / Israel, & outrageously so in his latest for Law Soc Gazette in which he unjustly attacks Ed Miliband for (somehow) undermining independence of judiciary. False.

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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Like so many things in the Trump era, you can thank .. John Roberts for this entire mess. Had the worst chief justice in history not overseen the wholesale degradation & kneecapping of the lower courts, we wouldn’t be here. Just as much as Todd Blanche, Roberts owns this.." Important read:

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The United Kingdom of Great Breturn and not to forget Northern Ireland.

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thread. Surprised it took so long, honestly.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.

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Alexandra Endres @alexandraendres.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Vor zehn Jahren haben die damalige kolumbianische Regierung und die Farc-Guerilla einen Friedensvertrag unterzeichnet. Ich erinnere mich noch gut an die Hoffnung im Land. Heute ist die Gewalt zurück. Die neue Regierung setzt auf militärische Repression statt Versöhnung. #Kolumbien

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was just about to mention the Glass Bead Game and add that its comic content or effect is, er, limited...

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spouse of 'Baron' John Mann, Wikipedia tells me. In which case, it all makes sense.

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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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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

CARTOON OF THE DAY…

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hopefully he'll put an end to this destructive project which does nothing for the country but diverts resources from useful investment purposes.

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The self-styled 'nasty party' out to prove it can be the Much Nastier Party.

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Appalling decision. The Daily Telegraph will be delighted, therefore.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Marco Rubio: “Iranians are radical religious lunatics.” Also: Have you met Paula White, the White House faith advisor?

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 23/09/2026

Pogroms. Jewish terrorism. Ethnic cleansing. “These are not the words of outsiders. They are the words of people who once ran the Israeli state,” writes Alan Rusbridger

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Confronting Jewish terrorism is not an act of Jew hate

Many members of the Israeli establishment vehemently oppose what is happening in the West Bank. You wouldn’t know it from the criticism aimed at Ed Mi...

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

... in flagrant breach of international law, which requires decolonisation, not creation of new colony. In 'creating' BIOT, the UK government also nicked a bit of Seychelles, but that was returned when Seychelles became independent. High time to return the rest of BIOT to Mauritius.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just to remind everyone, since many reporters and politicians seem to have forgotten, Iran was not close to having a nuclear weapon. And it was negotiating when Trump and Israel attacked it back in February. The nuclear weapon story is just a Trumpian lie.

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"I am the way, the truth and the code".

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Then we need to get BBC News to stop being propagating biased rightwing material that is essentially pro-Reform advertising. Much of the rest of BBC is fine and valued - but the 'news' is dragging it down.

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This assumes that Trump's war of aggression (and choice) was right. A wholly false premise.

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not yet confirmed but election results in Berlin with a significant increase in the vote for Die Linke underline that the left can provide an alternative to the right & far right

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

BBC News is becoming outrageous. All day plugging the ultra reactionary outpourings of tax-dodgy immigrant (to Monaco) Jim Ratcliffe

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

He pretends that the opposition to his welcoming fascist authoritarians is reducible to a protest about Israel

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

‘We cannot allow race to be reintroduced into our politics. We cannot allow Briton to be set against Briton.’ Bravo Rishi Sunak www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...

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Rishi Sunak: Britishness must not be turned into a DNA test

I worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...

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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed

GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Isn’t Sir Jim Ratcliffe an immigrant to Monaco? Happy to be corrected on this of course …. And do British people abroad only consider themselves “expats?” And never “immigrants?”

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Given he moved to Monaco to dodge his taxes in 2020 (after supporting Brexit) he seemingly lost faith in the UK some time ago ... Jim Ratcliffe, bigoted billionaire, gets another platform to waffle on about a country he doesn't live in www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Time to stop the stupid (and counter-productive) efforts by the British government and political establishment to criminalise support for the rights of the Palestinian people.

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The UK has lost confidence in Jim Ratcliffe.

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Remember when he earlier quit the UK to avoid paying lots of VAT his company owed? I think he fled to Switzerland that time. Hope Monaco enjoys having him these days, the old grump.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Supreme Court's "shadow docket" allows justices to effectively make rulings in secret without explaining their decisions. Is it any wonder why so many do not trust the Roberts court? www.propublica.org/article/supreme-…

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The top 'prince' seems to be yet another vile autocrat. Trampling on the population not just family!

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