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If the far-right dominoes all fall in Europe, Katya, why would they not want the UK back in - especially if we have a far-right PM? #wato

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I used to say on Twitter we should have a Brexit Truth and Reconciliation Commission and, 10 years on, no better off and with Brexiters still lying to us on the BBC, we still need one. #wato

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This is the sound of the BBC chucking barriers in the way, the main tactic left for Brexiters after "we voted" and "old racists and idiots still love it" are deployed. #wato

No young people in Makersfield, obviously (i.e. under 50). #wato

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"What he said is still our largest market." Either it is or it isn't. #wato

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The most notable thing of the last so hours and the Schmitt-Hawkeye screw up of epic proportions, is how Trumpites are primed to pump out any narrative handed to them without thought or reflection. It’s Putinesque.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

Using SI for AI has all the persuasive power of renaming linesmen "referee assistants." @lbc.co.uk

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A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 30/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: The EU will open its vast economy to countries waiting to join its ranks, provided they agree to stand with the bloc against hostile states and industrial rivals.

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EU to offer single-market access to candidate countries

Economic benefits would be conditional and can be taken away if non-members backslide on democracy or share sensitive tech with unfriendly governments, the plan says.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”

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Crises, what crises, Mr Robinson? #r4today

Rolling Tumbleweed in a Desert Landscape

Now the Labour Party conference is over, the BBC can start the mad scramble to find some journalists in Broadvasting House who can cover next week's Tory one with the same degree of scepticism and negativity. #r4today

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ALT: Rolling Tumbleweed in a Desert Landscape

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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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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A personal view, borne from investigating illegal betting networks, is that one of the best ways to fight financial crime is to criminalise the enablers; the lawyers, accountants and trust managers who are perfectly aware of the criminal nature of their clients' activities but choose to look away.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...

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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II

A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Perhaps the most damning document in English football history. resources.premierleague.pulselive.com/premierleagu...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"

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bootifulgame @bootifulgame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How much does Man City owe your club? • Pick their punishment. • Rewrite 18 Premier League seasons without them. • Hand their trophies to the teams they beat. • Add up the bill. passmode.shop/asterisk

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asterisk — the Premier League without Manchester City

Set Manchester City's punishment and watch 18 Premier League seasons rewrite themselves: new champions, cup winners, European places and relegations.

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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 29/09/2026

Al Jazeera did a lovely summary of the Manchester City cheating scandal.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Faragists rely on the narrative of "men on boats" creating a de facto Fifth Column in the UK to feed their agenda and to stir up hostility and to win votes and ultimately power. Suckers fall for it. Media boosts it. We've been here so many times before and you'd think we'd all wise up but hey ho

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Right-wing newspapers will be stationing reporters at the gates of prisons on Thursday hoping to get a quote from career recidivists off to commit a crime. If not, they'll make one up. #r4today

Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BBC have now upped "the majority" to the "the vast majority" in its reporting of Man City's charges. That's currently reported elsewhere as 114/115, or 99.1%. #r4today

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sharon Graham, leader of Unite, continues to be wrong on the major issues of the day. Listen carefully to what she is saying about the triple lock on #r4today. She has no evidence for her "electoral suicide" claim. She was also wrong about new fossil fuel exploration but that's for another day.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Those who think AI is going to largely automate white collar jobs in the next couple of years don’t understand the nature of work - @sarahoconnorft.ft.com nails it www.ft.com/content/4aad...

It is not obvious that AI agents could eliminate the need for this type of work, since it involves persuasion, contestation and the exchange of tacit knowledge and experience that is spread across different departments, and often exists inside people's heads rather than in a neatly codified handbook on the intranet.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really weary of how UK reporters are tiptoeing around the fact that the US president talked absolute shit about the RAF Fairford incident and arrests. "It's possible Trump was talking off the cuff" - no, it's in fact very clear that Trump was just lying compulsively because that's what he does.

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Emma Reynolds answered Sarah Montague's adequately enough on #wato, but now poor Sarah is pretending it's some kind of scoop. #bbcpm

Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Much of this is one-eyed and based on continual, active myth-making - Wilson and Healey inherited a tremendous mess from the Conservative Govt of 1970-74. No one ever reflects on that, certainly not one-eyed BBC news presenters. #bbcpm

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Blimey. Baroness Margaret Hodge - the Govt anti-corruption champion, on the £72m donations to Reform recently: "I think it came from the Russians." She's speaking at a Fabian event on donation caps

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Now imagine how Evan wouldve reacted if Presidents Biden or Obama had said something so deluded. #bbcpm

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It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026

BBC running an advert for Musk as news again. Is he paying some kind of super BBC licence fee for all this, #bbcpm ?

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Oakeshott has joined the chat. I’m assuming that there will now be requests for the Domesday book to be brought out for a search. I can’t imagine what she’s going to do when she realises they’re out on bail.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/09/2026

It is genuinely quite weird seeing Unite pick up the political agenda of the Lib Dem Orange Book authors. As a policy agenda, it's much closer to Thatcherism than a traditional social democratic agenda, let alone democratic socialism.

A Unite TV monitor calls for “fair tax thresholds” for higher rate UK taxpayers, saying it should be set at £66,000 instead of £50,270

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Farage and Johnson connived to just get out via the 2019GE, hence the terrible deal. Getting out was designed to make it seem impossible to ever go back. #wato