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You can find me in my campervan thinking about another bike ride. #MDANT from across the way.

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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 10h
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 8h
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For Kemi, being the Nasty party is not toxic but a badge of honour | John Crace
The Tory leader says the party’s plans to cut people’s benefits are no more than ‘common sense’
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 15h
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have received the first official estimate of the cost to Scotland's pensioners of the Prime Minister's attack on the triple lock. It will take up to £4bn from Scotland's pensioners. And the Prime Minister plans to use it to pay for social care in England. pensioner in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 £2,000 worse off 👇
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11h
🚨 An online tracker by Best For Britain reveals 51 Reform UK councillors have quit, defected or been suspended since May amid questions about Nigel Farage's leadership.
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Blow to Nigel Farage as Reform sheds 51 newly-elected councillors in five months
EXCLUSIVE: An online tracker by Best For Britain reveals 51 Reform UK councillors have quit, defected or been suspended
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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northernsky67 @northernsky67.bsky.social · 20h
Couple of clicks to generate an email (which you can personalise) to your local MP explaining that you support a closer relationship with the EU. Just sayin, pals 🇪🇺 See - bestforbritain.org/take-action/...
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Tell your MP: 628 constituencies want EU membership. Only 4 don't. - Best for Britain
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Another shining moment for Reform UK Durham… Volunteers threatened with legal action for restoring parks freedomineverydaylife.org/volunteers-t...
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Volunteers threatened with legal action for restoring parks – Freedom in Everyday Life
Since 2017, volunteers from Hemp Garden Community Association have worked to transform a neglected green space into a thriving community park. Elvet Green in Durham has been transformed from a…
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 19h
Reform, Rassemblement National, GOP all love the Nazi concept of Lügenpresse Reform UK-run council boycotts reporter after row over potholes | Reform UK | The Guardian share.google/1SLoyagK4qdF...
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Reform UK-run council boycotts reporter after row over potholes
Derbyshire county council accused of ‘worst kind of double speak’ as it denies banning local democracy journalist but says it will ignore his inquiries
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 18h
Helen Lewis asks the secretary of state for justice if arresting a 94 year old (with an OBE!) for holding up a placard is a good use of resources Norris defends arresting 94 year olds as terrorists for holding up a placard. Tell me again how Andy Burnhams govt represents change
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Count on it 👇
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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riksredguard.bsky.social @riksredguard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thousands of young people could lose key disability benefits Govt could limit the Personal Independence Payment (Pip), and further strip Motability support. Hope the govt sees sense and doesn't repeat Starmer policies. Why not end corporate welfare?
independent.co.uk
Thousands could lose key disability benefits in welfare changes
The plans risk reigniting tensions with backbench Labour MPs over welfare spending
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can someone PLEASE just build Elon a sexbot so he can stop pestering women!
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
republican misogyny
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Capitalism has now reached the stage at which companies openly admit that their products represent 'an existential risk to humanity'. And then invite investors to pump money into them anyway.
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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why is Farage not rotting in prison yet? How badly can this country fail at the most basic things? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham’s reopening of Brexit debate is ‘biggest boost in my career’, says Farage
Reform UK leader tells supporters PM’s move has ‘opened up a huge flank to us’
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Jono @jono-13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m a Dapper Dan man
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To those who somehow don't seem to understand: Which part of authorising weapons sales to a state committing genocide, banning the protest movement trying to stop these sales, using the RAF to provide surveillance flights for Israel and providing major diplomatic and media support is NOT complicity?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More of this sort of thing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Motorists in Wales face fines of up to £150 for idling
The previous punishment for idling was £20 and had not changed since its introduction in 2003.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
South West Water pleaded guilty to sewage dumping, fined £8m, a decade after the events. Yet govt introduced more deregulation. England's water industry controlled by organisations with criminal convictions. None has licence revoked. No exec prosecuted. Customers fleeced.
bbc.co.uk
South West Water fined almost £8m for sewage spills
South West Water previously entered guilty pleas to pollution offences spanning six years.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK law firm partners collect record pay, up to £2.5m per equity partner. Partners treated as self-employed. Firms don't pay employer national insurance (ENI) on profit taken by partners. £150k ENI dodged for every £1m profit shared. Public purse deprived. Must end this tax perk. archive.ph/vJCIj
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Top UK law firm partners take home record pay
Spate of listings in Hong Kong boosted IPO work and related transactions
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Simon Clarke MP was born on 28 September 1984. That's all you need to know. #r4today
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 02/10/2026
More than 34,600 people died in five Western European countries due to heat this summer, as the region posted its hottest June, July and August on record.
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Heat Deaths in Western Europe Top 34,600 During Warmest Summer Ever
More than 34,600 people died in five Western European countries due to heat this summer as the region posted its hottest June, July and August on record, according to a Bloomberg compilation of mortality estimates from different agencies.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Time and time again when I'm knocking on doors people tell me they've still got their kids living at home with them. The extreme cost of housing is putting lives on hold across this country. We need an emergency brake on rents. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Zack Polanski to call for three-year cap on private rent rises
In his speech to his party's conference, the Green leader will frame housing as a key issue of generational fairness.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 01/10/2026
3 NEW GIGS!!! My 2027 expands with 3 new gigs. Joining me on my SW leg of Exeter, Bristol and Birmingham is @jamesadrianbrown.bsky.social and Marina Moore will be joining me at Lewes Con Club, East Sussex. All details at warringtonruncorn.com/live
Gig poster for Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan appearing at Rough Trade, Bristol on 9 April 2027Gig poster for Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan appearing at The Hare & Hounds, Birmingham on 10 April 2027Gig poster for Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan appearing at Lewes Con Club, Lewes on 23 April 2027
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riksredguard.bsky.social @riksredguard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The USA is, parts, a barbarous, third world country, run by religious extremists. How can anyone condone this? Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections
Christa Pike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, was heard snoring 40 minutes after lethal doses administered, witnesses said
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: First Minister of Scotland John Swinney has called on Andy Burnham to row back from his proposed changes to the triple lock on pensions It comes after official analysis found Scotland's pensioners could be almost £2000 a year worse off by 2049/50
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Brexiters should be rejoicing at Burnham’s speech. They can campaign on all the ways Brexit has improved our lives and the fortunes of our country. They can set their case out clearly and with facts for all to see. Bet they can’t wait.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
President Macron, "Brexit has cost the UK 8% of GDP.. Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years" My view: Brexit was sold as a route to greater prosperity: less bureaucracy, more money, new trade opportunities Instead, Britain put new barriers between itself and its largest trading market.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The US has withdrawn from GRECO, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption watchdog, which it has been a member of since 2000, ABC reports. Russia and Belarus are the only other countries to have left the group.
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Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Breaking: the Met Police has submitted charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service resulting from its Grenfell fire investigation. The files cover 54 individuals and 20 companies and cover charges including fraud, misconduct in public office and manslaughter
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 30/09/2026
If Palantir are so trustworthy, why are they intimidating anyone who criticises them? www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewis-tom…
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'We're watching you': MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel's AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously'. By Carole Cadwalladr
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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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Niall Huggan @hugan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This policy/linking is disingenous, neoliberal nonsense. There is no NEED to do this to the pensioners, whilst leaving the very wealthy untouched to continue accumulating more wealth & assets. c. 2million rely on state pension alone & will be collateral damage for this anti-progressive policy.
BBC NEWS website with photo of PM Andy Burnham: LIVE Burnham says existing pension triple lock will end in 2030 to help fund national care service
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/09/2026
“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
‘We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir. (l-r): Clive Lewis, Tom Watson and the Palantir logo, against a pink background
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Join me on GB News where I will be lying about what Andy Burnham said, pretending to give a shit about pensioners and definitely not mentioning any £5m gifts, illegal donations or police investigations.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Evening, #Ofcom. A British politician is advertising, in advance, that his "full verdict" on the Prime Minister's speech today will be given in his own programme, which carries his name, on GB News tonight. Aren't News channels supposed to show due impartiality? 🤮 x.com/Nigel_Farage...
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Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) on X
I will give my full verdict on Andy Burnham’s speech LIVE on GB News at 7PM tonight.
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