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kathyr17.bsky.social @kathyr17.bsky.social · 3h
Martínez has drawn back the curtain on Manchester United’s ruinous ownership | Jonathan Liew www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Martínez has drawn back the curtain on Manchester United’s ruinous ownership | Jonathan Liew
Defender may not be blameless in team’s struggles but his criticism goes to the heart of what has gone wrong at the club
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 18h
Do you feel betrayed? Zelensky: "Really, yes... It's a pity we are losing a strong partner." You think you're losing America? Zelensky" Yeah... It's not about business for us. It's just our life. And this our country, our body, our home, our children... This is not the right side of history."
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23h
French Far Right Rassemblement National leader and Putin puppet Marine Le Pen told the FT she would end French financial aid to Ukraine within six months of becoming president, oppose Ukraine’s EU membership and reconsider EU sanctions on Russia.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.
"I can confirm that tonight SpaceX has implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals while in motion.

The limit currently applies to the StarShield “military package” and is set at 100 mph.

Our defense forces were not given notice of this limit, and this has resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.

It is clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation."
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Businessman in the Eye: Tax exile Ineos boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe loves complaining about anything – from high energy prices to taxes – that doesn’t suit him. But he’s more forgetful about the British economic policies and fortuitous conditions that have bestowed vast riches on him.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026
In 1987 Trump visited Moscow. Since then, "He has changed his mind about abortion and crypto, he has supported different political parties, but his dislike of America’s democratic allies and his preference for Russia have remained remarkably consistent." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In the latest RUSI Commentary, Professor Derrick Wyatt KC argues that Europe should start “talking over Putin’s head” to his potential successors, offering a political and economic reset in return for a just peace for Ukraine.
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Talk of Russian Regime Change Could Inspire a New European Peace Strategy
While Putin doubles down to defeat Ukraine and Trump calls for regime change in Kyiv, the NATO Allies should pitch an off-ramp to Putin’s potential successors.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When I say the politics will become increasingly obvious... I mean look at this. If you want to unite the left/centre and split the Tories, without a big spending committment there's no better option.
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bunty & I have had our legs tattooed too. She has a Val Doonican collage on her left & on her right a dramatic portrayal of Liz Truss trickling down. My legs are covered in moths & conkers with pictures of Norman Tebbit & calligraphy featuring lyrics from Chaka Demus & Pliers.🦵
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ukraine responds to Trump’s deal with Putin by striking russian fuel export terminal in Rostov.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed
Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:"Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas
Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to"
Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy. Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. I am also preventing, on a constant basis, a War between South Korea and North Korea, and Japan and North Korea. Add China and Taiwan, and numerous other hot spots, which have not been involved in Wars, only because of President Donald J. Trump, and the United States of America. I am responsible for having NATO countries increase spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defense, another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries"Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries in Eastern Europe. Additionally, I have brought 196 hostages HOME from captivity, from all over the World, and did it without having paid a ransom, unlike Biden and Obama who would pay Billions of Dollars. On top of it all, I have created a soon to be very prosperous Arctic. Despite all of this, the Nobel Prize was given today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. In all of the Wars that I have settled, I never spoke to the United Nations—they were of no help. The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t. This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten. The Nobel “Peace” Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
American "free speech defenders" pressure other people not to exercise their right to free speech www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Should lay this myth to rest finally, one assumes.
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The King’s cut from your electricity bill bit.ly/4yx46ng he gets 12% of crown estate profits through the Sovereign Grant
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Crown Estate sea bed auctions could add £38 a year to energy bills
The business that manages the King’s land has put wind farm projects at risk with move away from capped fees for developers, a University of Oxford study warns
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.
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kathyr17.bsky.social @kathyr17.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The football horse that Andy Burnham rode in on is now bucking his vibe | Barney Ronay www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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The football horse that Andy Burnham rode in on is now bucking his vibe | Barney Ronay
PM’s contortions over the Manchester City verdicts have landed him with an early test of what he wants to stand for. Realpolitik, or real values?
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kathyr17.bsky.social @kathyr17.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There is a way to look after people, the planet – and Britain’s growth. It’s what we call the ‘wellbeing economy’ | Jamie Driscoll www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There is a way to look after people, the planet – and Britain’s growth. It’s what we call the ‘wellbeing economy’ | Jamie Driscoll
Imagine the UK with a 20-year investment plan, with green homes and fast transport. We already have the tools to make it happen, says Green party politician Jamie Driscoll
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sunak in 2021/2 wanted National Insurance rate to be 5 points higher than Sunak left it in 2024
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
File this under shocking but not surprising
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: 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 Cadwalla...
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stand by what I said in July on #PoliticsLive on the triple lock. It's affordable, justifiable, and there are much better targets for saving money (even on pensions) than modifying the triple lock
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
maybe you can't just do what you want www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Manchester City case shows us how the global mega-rich now expect to operate with impunity | Jonathan Liew
When transnational alliances have scarcely been weaker, the way the club was allegedly run offers a bleak vision of a world driven by brute power and wealth, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Offered without comment, because what can you possibly say? www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Super cool. Here’s a class traitor dispatch: when you start to make more money you start to pay more taxes. The size of the checks you send to the govt have big numbers on them. It’s unsettling. You need a strategy & that strategy is SUCK IT UP MOTHERFUCKER.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.
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Meta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera
De cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Streisand Effect, Activate.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 27/09/2026
Just for once I'd like one of these "why I quit Britain" pieces to say "I hate poor people and I want to keep all my money, it's all miiiiiine, screw you guys"
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Mr Rogers' Unexpected Response
ALT: Mr Rogers' Unexpected Response
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is extremely, extremely good.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pervert glasses now brand your temples so people know you’re a pervert even when you’re off duty.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
All he does is win
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Christopher Steele @christophersteele.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump’s invitation to Putin to attend the G20 in Florida in December is outrageous and totally undermines Western solidarity with Ukraine. This US govt is enabling autocracy, and arguably colluding with Putin’s despotic regime. Other Western leaders mustn’t be party to this. They should not attend.
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Too big and important to tax, part 94 bit.ly/4jbxpa6 betting boss says don’t tax betting. Toys, Throw. Pram. There’ll be a lot more of this over the next 39 days!
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Britain’s top taxpayer cuts sports funding in gambling tax row
Betfred tycoon Fred Done says he will no longer financially support rugby league and threatens to pull horseracing sponsorship if Labour hikes levies
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And yet she can't persuade her own colleagues and government to get the eff off X 🙄
ulture Secretary Lisa Nandy branded Elon Musk’s X “disgusting” for swerving a summit about social media attacks on the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. She fumed to the Electoral Dysfunction podcast that while other firms took part, X failed to turn up or even reply to the invite. “I think it says a lot about how they see their — well, how they don’t see that they [have] a moral and social set of responsibilities to us all.”
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Faversham Sarah @favershamsarah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This desperation to conflate donations from unions (representing the interests (conditions, terms, wages, etc) of their members) and two very, very wealthy individuals (only representing the interests of *themselves*) is beyond ridiculous #politicslive
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 14/09/2026
Crypto eh? Great bunch of lads, always said that
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Crypto billionaire. Convicted in the US. Pardoned by Trump. Trashing our democracy by buying Reform. Does anyone think this is to improve our NHS, our schools, our public services…? Of course it fucking isn’t. It’s to make Ben Delo and Farage richer. That’s it. That’s all they care about.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Great this is going on with no government oversight anywhere.
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Anthropic blocks 'malicious use' of AI that could develop biological weapons
The revelations in Anthropic's threat intelligence report come after a former top researcher at the company warned of the risks of AI to humanity.
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Despite Covid, despite absences, despite social media, despite NEETs England’s kids doing well where it matters- maths, reading, and science bit.ly/4x8zarZ
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England’s teenagers outperform peers in most countries in maths, reading and science
OECD test sees results dip in almost all member nations and warns of ‘digital distractions’ eroding academic skills
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Brandy @3dogz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Someone else said it for him. Love him. Miss him.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We are at the jail our enemies stage of British fascism
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals.
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