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This sounds about as unlikely as finding Amelia Earhart survived on the island on a diet of papaya and coconuts as is the world's first 130 year old woman. #r4today

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 19m

Could #R4Today, Labour, or perhaps somebody with a brain explore how Reform would close down the asylum system and deport tens of thousands of people to countries who would either not accept them, or accept them and submit them to repression? Naah, let's go for headlines.

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 14m

They did this last year too, even earlier as the Budget was a month later. It's far more a pressure campaign than actual news reporting.

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 33m

The country with the most iconic golf courses will be first on the list of spoils.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 11h

Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.

The prime minister told The Rest is Politics podcast that upon arriving in No 10, he had asked about possible Russian interference in the 2016 vote, adding: "I've had the clear answer that, yes, there was."

"I think we've been too much on the back foot on that actually and we haven't informed people sufficiently about the extent to which people are seeking to disrupt the political process from overseas," he added.

Burnham did not provide further details about the type or extent of Moscow's activity during the Brexit referendum.

Britain Unbound, a pro-Brexit campaign group, said Burnham's comments were "another crude attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the decision that the British people made in 2016".

It said that foreign interference in UK elections was "obviously unacceptable" but added: "There is no good reason to believe that Russian intervention influenced the outcome of the referendum in 2016.

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 11h

There are a number of things to say about the Prime Minister's public statement that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Andy Burnham says it is clear Russia interfered in Brexit referendum

PM says he asked question upon entering No 10 but does not reveal who gave him ‘clear answer’ that Russia meddled

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.

Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 13h

"The diesel has landed" will have to wait for future dockside reporting of the historic event, then.

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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 14h

Why did five Prime ministers in a row deny this? Why did they hide the role of a hostile power in a referendum that has had profoundly negative impacts on the UK, and on our relationship with our closest allies? We need to reverse Brexit and rejoin the EU! www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership

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European Movement

If you believe in a brighter European future for our country - for the economy, for opportunities, for our security, and for our human rights - join the European Movement today.

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 14h

BBC News giving this the big swerve right now, for some strange reason.

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 17h

Did Russia interfere in the 2016 EU referendum? Theresa May: No comment Boris Johnson: No comment Liz Truss: No comment Rishi Sunak: No comment Keir Starmer: No comment Andy Burnham: "Clearly." The first time a PM has confirmed Kremlin meddling in Brexit. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Burnham confirms Russia 'clearly' interfered in Brexit referendum

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IS HE DEAD YET? ..Dave hater of racism , ignorance and hypocrisy @davehaterofracism.bsky.social · 14h

and this means every British government since 2016 has known this including the ones that pushed Brexit through

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 15h

The UK and Europe being squeezed from the east by Putin and by his ally Trump in the west. And they have all their fifth columnists embedded locally too. As you say, dangerous times.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 17h

"Christian nationalism" in the UK is essentially a post-religious identity. Unlike the evangelical right in the US, it has no theological content, does not require belief in God & demands no moral or religious commitment. It reduces Christianity to a cultural "heritage" to be "defended" from Islam

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 20h

The Republicans Abroad guy - has his alternate reality talking points lined up all in a row.

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 20h

This Trumpist appears to be talking out of his ass, @lbc.co.uk

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23h

The more people that read Stephanie Lamy’s breakdown of the far right activist network that hunted Jason Arday (it includes Orr himself) the better for the future of our society. These people must be stopped from manipulating our public sphere. share.google/hvlCBiW0F9Bk...

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Comment un réseau d’élite a chassé Jason Arday

Le racisme scientifique est une pseudoscience qui abreuve la propagande d'extrême-droite, dont masculiniste. Longtemps relégué aux marges, il s’installe dans les universités et cherche à imposer ses …

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 21h

Set like jelly in a trifle.

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Random Hajile @elimodnar.bsky.social · 21h

Inheritance tax is not a double tax! Andrew Griffith is clearly lying. The person getting the inheritance hasn't paid any tax on it until they get the inheritance. Inheritance is unearned income, and unearned income is always taxed. #bbclaurak

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 21h

Griffiths got to finish rather more of his sentences than Streeting, but said nothing any Tory shadow Chancellor of the last 60 years wouldnt have said. #bbclaurak

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 21h

He's illustrated this week that he couldn't lead his way out of a recyclable paper bag.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is the best analysis out there about Putin's "diesel deal" with Trump, which really isn't about selling diesel at all. It's about an insurance policy for the Kremlin, and Trump realigning himself against NATO and for Moscow. From Phillips P O'Brien.

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This Is About Much More Than Just Diesel

What Really Matters From The Last Few Hours

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Perhaps he can change his name to Juan Diego Vamos.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Home Secretary seems to be fighting a war on intelligence on behalf of racism.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Death by a thousand cuts as universities revoke international offers "en masse" of prospective students from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan to avoid losing ability to recruit international students. More job losses and course closures predicted in consequence. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban

Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Has he claimed "The American fjords" yet?

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The name "Tom Watson" is really taking a pounding this week.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It is WILD to me that a generation after all the adults told us that watching TV would rot our brains, we turned around and invented a tech that actually will. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Bjg Time Chatlie account seeking to identify & incite vs RNLI staff as traitors was run by a recruitment consultant in Worcestershire who is a Restore donor & Cromwell Club member. He hss now deactivated the anon troll account after being publicly identifird www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists

Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Plug THAT into your discounted cash flow model. $SPCX

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

His insights when interviewed last month by Axel Springer's man-mountain Matthias Dopfner tended to be rather banal - apart from the totally mad ones, that is.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...

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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst

A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Good piece. The line that really caught my eye here was this one: "Lobby journalists, while being supportive in print, are typically unimpressed with Badenoch in person". It speaks volumes about how the Tory press sees its role, and its attitude towards the truth of what it prints.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The entire theme of ADHD and Autism is an obvious right-wing hobby horse, which Anna Foster then rides into as the next segment. #r4today

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nick Robinson: "Mr Farage, how much of your party's recent £72m windfall was spent to get 1600 people in Holborn and St Pancras to vote Reform?" Will never happen on "Our BBC". #r4today

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having confirmed that the Greens had a zakastrophic night, theyll now move onto telling Labour's Brigid Phillipson their byelection win was also no big deal either. #r4today

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It may also set a precedent for doing this to enemies of the Trump regime - some of whom will only be exercising their constitutional rights to oppose them. #r4today

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I dont think much of ZP either, but Id love to hear Chris Mason talk with the same withering contempt and anger about Nigel Farage. This is almost certainly never going to happen on the BBC. #r4today

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Steve Rosenberg needs to give Sarah Smith lessons about how to report properly from a savage repressive country.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just imagine if the UK had some sort of national broadcaster that had a duty to act in the public interest.

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peterkellner.bsky.social @peterkellner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ignore the Greens’ misleading claims. It was a catastrophic night for Zack Polanski, and a remarkable victory for Sagal Absi-Wali kellnerp.substack.com/p/the-figure...

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The figures that make Sagal Abdi-Wali’s victory remarkable

Ignore the Greens’ misleading claims. It was a catastrophic night for Zack Polanski

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NEW | On good reviews for a bad speech… KEMI-CHARMED LIFE Praise for Kemi Badenoch’s Tory party conference speech shows the British right-wing press engaged in an act of collective fantasy. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/kemi-charm...

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Kemi-charmed life

Praise for Kemi Badenoch’s Tory party conference speech shows the British right-wing press engaged in an act of collective fantasy.

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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The missing pages of the Das Kapital have been found

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