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Ken Ferrett @kenferrett.bsky.social · 11h
12 arrests at last night's "peaceful protest" by pissed and coked-up dinlos in Gosport. Local politicians need to stop making excuses for this thuggery, and those, like Madgwick, who actually instigated and incited it, should receive the bill for policing it.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 9h
I'm increasingly of the view that the entire Telegraph comments section should probably be referred to Prevent.
 Police diverted from 999 calls to deal with anti-migrant protests

Commissioner says around 200 officers from seven forces were pulled off crime-fighting duties to police Gosport demonstrations Why are we stopping the British from protesting about being invaded? Surely we should be stopping the invaders?
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 8h
Thick racist morons
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Twelve arrests after Gosport protest over migrant boat arrival
Flares were set off and there were a few scuffles with police during the stand-off in Gosport.
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PWCoghlan @pwc50.bsky.social · 8h
Once again #BBC #SouthToday platforms the reprehensible Zia Yusuf & vox pops from every local mouth they can find, where they express their views on the occupants of a dinghy landed at Gosport Hard to know if they represent the population of Portsmouth, but given those interviewed, we'll never know
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 7h
Beating up pensioners and vandalising curry houses in Gosport is not 'an expression of legitimate concern'
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 6h
Remembering the late great LEONARD ROSSITER — who left us 42yrs ago today, aged just 57.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 7h
I mean it’s an interesting line to take…. www.itv.com/news/meridia...
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 8h
Zack Polanski’s absence from the ‘Zionism is Racism’ vote “doesn’t look like leadership, it looks like cowardice”, says Jon Sopel. "If Polanski wants to lead the party, he should lead in support of the motion. "If he opposes the motion, why isn't he leading in opposition to it?"
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Metro North Capital @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 12h
What?
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John Ferrett @johnferrett.bsky.social · 7h
He's quite patently mad - as my late friend and Portsmouth raconteur Richard Hartington used to say "you can see it in the eye's mate".
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 7h
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Tory Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith wanted Boris Johnson back as PM & says previous Tory Governments ‘failed to make case for free markets & deregulation’
Andrew Griffith was recently appointed as Tory Shadow Chancellor by Kemi Badenoch Some of his back pages are known. He was one of the architects of Liz Truss’s autumn 2022 Mini-Budget. Some o…
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 7h
It is beyond baffling to understand that the Tories think cutting back on heat pumps and solar panels on new homes is a vote winner. What next? Cars without power steering, engine management systems, door mirrors, rear wash wipes......
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 15h
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Monty Python at 57(Sunday 5th October 1969). From Comedy to Social History
Monty Python at 57 The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus was broadcast on Sunday 5th October at 10.55pm on BBC1. It was the last programme before the weather and close down for the nigh…
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 8h
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Cost of Royals 24/25 £52m to 27/28 £100m(Mountbatten Windsor’s legal costs not included)
MPs approved a new Sovereign Grant in mid-September 2026 and it is now in the Lords Sovereign Grant Bill: 14 Sep 2026: House of Commons debates – TheyWorkForYou The Sovereign Grant is the amo…
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 9h
Like so much else, this should result in the prosecution of everyone involved.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h
There will never be enough quality candidates for a rightwing party if you make it a condition for entry that you sign up to a position that almost everyone earning above 70k disagrees with:
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John Ferrett @johnferrett.bsky.social · 9h
I'm sure Dame Penny Mordaunt would never sign up to these commitments.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12h
I particularly love the distance travelled in a month by the Mail's Jason Groves, from "living in the past" to "old school values".
Britain's problems? I blame Thatcher and Brexit, says Burnham: No wonder Kemi mocked him for 'living in the past' as the 'Messiah without a mandate' made his Commons debut as PM
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Spare us the history lesson, Burnham...
By JASON GROVES, POLITICAL EDITOR
PUBLISHED: 23:43, 1 September 2026 |Kemi's common sense blueprint: Unveiling policy blitz at party conference, she hails 'old school values' on economy, law and order and borders as the key to election victory
By JASON GROVES, POLITICAL EDITOR
PUBLISHED: 01:46, 5 October 2026 |
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12h
Badenoch, last month: Why is PM obsessed with Thatcher? SO WEIRD! I was not even born. He wants to take us back to the 70s. Badenoch, this week: I'm like Thatcher, a new Thatcher, possibly possessed by Thatcher, LOVE Thatcher, Thatcher was right, and I'll take us back to the 80s. Tory Conference:
Actual Thatcher outfits on display.Priti Patel displaying Thatcher merchandise.Limited edition Thatcher toby jug, £47.50Telegraph: "BADENOCH: I'LL TURN BRITAIN AROUND LIKE THATCHER"
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Tenchi Ohki🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦#FBPE #REJOIN @tenchiohki.bsky.social · 14h
Shouldn't Pierce be arrested for supporting a terrorist? That's how it's supposed to work, right?
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h
There's a student pro-Palestine demonstration in Central London on **October 7th** 🙃🙃🙃https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwkg5220l577o
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Met Police urge pro-Palestine students to move 7 October protest
The Met said it had tried to contact the University of London Coalition to postpone its protest.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 13h
Can you imagine the derisory coverage and outright mockery if any other party with single-digit MPs decided to "declare a General Election" and go on a bus tour? Yet when this outlandish nonsense comes from Farage, it is treated as somehow brilliant. "Subscribe to continue..." No thanks. I'm good.
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Reform leader to begin in Yorkshire next week where party sees ‘many Cabinet scalps to be had’ in Labour heartlands

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Nigel Farage campaigning in Southend-on-Sea for the local election in May
Nigel Farage campaigning in Southend-on-Sea for the local elections in May Credit: Geoff Pugh for The Telegraph
Nigel Farage is to “fire the starting gun” on Reform UK’s general election campaign with a nationwide tour beginning next week, The Telegraph can reveal…
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14h
And now Hannan supports Suella Braverman on English ethnicity. FFS.
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Tony Iles @tonyeye.bsky.social · 18h
Tories going full-on Trumpian. Heat pumps, insulation, etc. do not add £50k to house cost. Scrapping the EA extraordinary. I presume Tories want completely unregulated pollution of our air, water, & land? Or do we rely on the corporate responsibility demonstrated by the Water Cos? #r4today
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Nigel Farage’s Proper F*cking Lunch, October 2026 Update
Nigel Farage is known for his Proper Fucking Lunches, a habit he picked up while working in the City of London in the 1980s. It was not uncommon, I also worked in the City in the 1980s. Most of us …
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you still believe “the antisemitism crisis in Labour wasn’t real” pls look at what’s happened to the Greens, and what happens when these people do when given a free rein
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A statement from the head of the @boell.de Foundation, the political foundation behind the German Green Party. 👇
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Tim Snyder on Trump's fixation with Putin: If you believe in countries, the United States is a much more powerful country than Russia. But if you just believe that it’s gangster on gangster, well then sure, Putin is a much better gangster than Trump.
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Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I knew we'd get there eventually. If you believe in a two state solution you're a Zionist. And also, according to the Greens, a racist.
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John Ferrett @johnferrett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Like Labour electing Corbyn as leader, when The Greens chose Polanski they decided extremism and anti-Semitism was more important than being seen as a serious party.
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It is now essential Zack Polanski does not win the Holborn & St Pancras by-election. Say no to racism, Camden.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jacob Rees-Mogg is emerging as a serial defender of foundational boundaries against a radicalised right, with Carlson combining a defence of Putin with a 'who cares' view of WW2 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Tucker Carlson of ‘verging on defending Hitler’
Former Tory minister defends UK decision to enter war in podcast with US rightwinger and Putin sympathiser
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Margaret Beckett: I blew up my party as a cautionary tale Zack Polanski: At last, we will recreate blowing up our party from the iconic “Labour party”
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John Ferrett @johnferrett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You have made your choice and have decided to side with the anti-semites. Shame on you and your racist party
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A pre-fame JOHN TRAVOLTA in a 1974 ad for HONDA Motorcycles. “Good things happen on a Honda”
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John Ferrett @johnferrett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You have made your choice and have decided to side with the anti-semites. Shame on you and your racist party
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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John Ferrett @johnferrett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Like Labour electing Corbyn as leader, when The Greens chose Polanski they decided extremism and anti-Semitism was more important than being seen as a serious party.
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John Ferrett @johnferrett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Racist c**ts
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 04/10/2026
This is the key bit.
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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"We ask women why they don't come forward when sexually assaulted. It's because we live in a world where an abuser can become president.
Disgusting. Trump says he feels bad for the seven Cornell students accused of rape, and his biggest worry is that they "won't get a fair shake" with Letitia James as special prosecutor.

Not one word for the victim.

THE WHITE HOUSE LIVE 14:02 PM 

BREAKING NEWS

NOV: TRUMP TAKES QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
passing the "zionism is racism" motion on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street is a bit on the fucking nose isn't it
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John Ferrett @johnferrett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Greens have shown their true colours today - foul anti-semites who are every bit as racist as their fellow extremists in the Reform Party.
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John Ferrett @johnferrett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Badenoch mentions the number of canals in Birmingham and how it has been referred to as "the Venice of the Midlands". The boorish mob in front of her start guffawing and Kemi gives them a serious look and her best censorious voice says "they do!" #cpc26
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John Ferrett @johnferrett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Greens have shown their true colours today - foul anti-semites who are every bit as racist as their fellow extremists in the Reform Party.
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John Ferrett @johnferrett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Still feels like a neverending summer 😎
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John Ferrett @johnferrett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Badenoch mentions the number of canals in Birmingham and how it has been referred to as "the Venice of the Midlands". The boorish mob in front of her start guffawing and Kemi gives them a serious look and her best censorious voice says "they do!" #cpc26
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Patricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
But look at the people of Ohio cheering. (Leaders don’t appear in vacuums)
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John Ferrett @johnferrett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am so sad that I have found live coverage of the Tory Party Conference on YouTube. Two Tory MPs being interviewed by another Tory MP. If you ever wondered what purgatory was then this has to be it.
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