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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 03/10/2026

I am not very worried about about the Tory Tapestry’s misuse of “doth”. What worries me much more is this sequence of panels which seems to show a small boat full of brown-skinned people followed by a plague of rats running riot and then a lot of dead white people labelled tax payers.

Detail from Conservative Party mock Bayeux Tapestry showing 1. A boat full of brown skinned people. 2. Enormous rats chasing cats. 3. White-skinned “tax payers” dead in the streets.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 5h

Feels like City's proxies have got up off the canvas and are coming out swinging. It's quite some mental judo - just two days after the journalist who did most work to put City in the dock wrote about the abuse and threats he suffered from their fans - to try and turn this back on the media.

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I don't care if we get relegated or if we don't win another trophy for the next 10 years as much as I now care about Man City suing the football media and the journalists who have been stoking up hate against the club and it's fans.

Irresponsible and dangerous.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6h

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5h

It seems unlikely that a BBC editor who e.g. made a film that “accidentally” accused Tory staff of screaming “Hitler was right” at colleagues and later quietly clarified this wasn’t correct, in an election year, would ever work in current affairs again.

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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 9h

Manchester City are now officially guilty of sustained corruption over decades. What next? sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/manchester...

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Manchester City are now officially guilty of sustained corruption over decades. What next?

This post will be short and not particularly sweet.

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe I'm being lazy, but I'd say people who keep being found cosied up to people with far-right views might not mind those views too much www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Recent lobbyist for Palantir had key role in helping Andy Burnham become PM

Exclusive: Martha Dalton worked closely with Burnham’s team on byelection that secured his return to parliament

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

From a historical perspective it's a genuinely strange state of affairs that the Church of England turns out to be too woke for much of the modern right. But really it just feels like: having a consistent moral code that demands taking Lessers and Outgroup seriously is impossible for populist right.

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Sid Lowe @sidlowe.bsky.social · 11h

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Treacle @nessggd.bsky.social · 22h

Arresting your granny for holding a sign at a peaceful protest against genocide will stop the fash. This woman is either stupid or thinks we are or both.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Keep going lads. Keep doing this shit, right in front of a public that watched this system do more or less fuck all about years of fascist mobs rioting in the street, seizing ports and burning houses. Show everybody what you are.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What an amazing country this truly is.

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Adam Wagner KC, barrister who led the case which concluded Corbyn's Labour broke equalities law, said there is "a strong risk that the motion as passed contravenes the Equality Act 2010... as it will discriminate against and harass people who hold Zionist beliefs and Jewish people more generally."
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Adam Wagner KC, the barrister who led a case which concluded that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour broke equalities laws over antisemitism, said that such a case would have a good chance of success.
"I think there is a strong risk that the motion as passed contravenes the Equality Act 2010, which applies to political parties, as it will discriminate against and harass people who hold Zionist beliefs and Jewish people more generally.," he said.
"Zionism, defined in the broad sense of supporting the establishment, development, and protection of a Jewish nation state in its ancestral homeland, the land of Israel, is likely to be a protected belief under the Equality Act 2010."
He said there was a strong risk that the policy, especially if it resulted in disciplinary action, "will create an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating, or offensive environment for both Zionists and Jewish people therefore harassing them".
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I can't believe the debate around racism in this country has got to such an awful, primitive level that hard right politicians are having to earnestly discuss whether they're actually English or not because they're not white. 1/2

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Seems like if you’re on the left in Britain you’re condemned to sit between the most cynical, reactionary wing of the Labour Party and a bunch of idiots who think student union politics is a great model for running the country

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This should not have needed to go to court. It remains a tragic reality that for many people that is the only way in which they can seek safety though, and one which Labour is desperately trying to deny as many as possible www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Court quashes block on mothers and children in Gaza joining families in UK

Immigration court judge finds ‘unsafe journeys’ policy was applied unlawfully to two families

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Well shit, that’s a bit on the nose

Still from Children of Men. Clive Owen stands by a broken window in an abandoned school, while outside the window, Kee sits in a dilapidated swingset

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026

Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.

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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One and the same for some time, though those running the game remain out of their depth in many aspects of this. I've covered this regularly in my Morning Star columns over the years and wrote this back in 2023.

IN SELLING itself to the highest bidders, which now happen to be sovereign states, rich monarchies and the tools of exploitative global capitalism, top-level football has entered the world of politics by default.

From the economic politics of capitalism to the geopolitics of state ownership and the increased intertwining of the two, football is part of these systems because it is now owned, directed and influenced by them.

Combine this with its own inherent political geography and power dynamics, created by various divisions, tournaments and confederations within a global structure, plus its links to society, communities, businesses and its own economy and workforce, and football is now almost a branch of political science itself.

In recent years, the sport has increasingly sold its way into the realms of other branches of politics, such as economics and international relations.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They’re still going. Can you imagine the response, if the Guardian or the Independent had flown someone out to interview Slobodan Milosevic or Saddam Hussein, and promoted their denunciations of the government as urgent, pressing news content?

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Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to NATALIE LISBONA in an exclusive interview: 'I don't know how many lives we've saved by giving Britain information about impending attacks.
But under Burnham they're a rogue state'

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Club Announcement Spurs 🤦‍♂️ @markscrivens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is why you don’t allow authoritarian foreign states to put you in a position where blackmail is an option.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pretty much as predicted: when telling the public about what the Greens were doing and saying failed to induce the expected hilarity, revulsion and unpopularity, the lads reverted to 2018 tactics - ignoring them almost entirely except for things that could be used to boot them in the testicles.

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social • 4m
Polanski once hoped to replace Labour.
Where has it all gone wrong for the Greens? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When I get down about what has become of journalism, of speaking the truth, I think of Jamal. I lost my Washington Post job. Jamal lost his life. Both of us — all we wanted to do was write and help people.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Manchester City are appealing, but also are not.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's perhaps worth recognising how much worse things could've been had Starmer not removed from the Independent Football Regulator legislation the Tory's requirement that ownership tests "have regard to the government's foreign and trade policy." Burnham can genuinely plead the IFR's independence.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"UAE officials caution that a negative outcome could damage improved relations with the UK, according to two people familiar with the matter." Man City's owners continue to make the case for preventing countries, heads of state or their proxies from owning clubs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Manchester City Verdict Hangs Over UK’s Relations With Emiratis

Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces an awkward moment when a commission finally rules on the Premier League club’s legal saga.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seems to me that calling a journo a fucking wanker for asking you about your egregiously dishonest campaign for benefit cuts is worse than e.g. rolling your eyes at the 92nd hack who shouts “How much Nazi gold did you steal, you donkey-fucker?” at you, but I am not an expert.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Always fun to see who does and doesn’t acquire a rep for being spiky and huffy

Milburn eventually stopped, clearly angry, and said:
"Hey, hey, HEY! I said no! Just stop! I said no, and told Pring to go through "the correct channels" if he wanted an interview.
When Pring said it was "perfectly legitimate" for a reporter to challenge him about such an influential report - which carries significant safeguarding risks - Milburn said: "It's perfectly legitimate to fucking doorstep me, is it?"
He then added: "Fucking wanker."
Milburn then told him again to "go through the right channels" and nudged him with his arm.
When Pring objected, he said "Oh, don't be so sensitive...
Milburn then walked away with his assistant.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A small example of how Labour Conference works- the "Transport Reception " with the Secretary of State isnt held by Transport Unions, its funded by Amey , a privatiser "named and shamed" for breaking minimum wage laws this year. The "shame" doesn't stop Ministers doing their gigs.

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Similarly, the conference "Young Labour " disco , a fun event with the Sugarbabes with DJ sets from Emily Thornberry + Culture Sec Lisa Nandy was funded by TikTok. They pay for access, Nandy is in charge of u16 ban/regulation of TikTok

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is it more clear now? Do we see why all the pundits are overjoyed and throwing their pants, and the right wing papers are not screaming in terror about being forced into labour camps.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Remember how that guy said: it’s all about creating a permission structure for cuts? He didn’t mean “get it past you, the public”, he meant “convince Labour MPs to vote for it”.

EXCL: Ministers are working up sweeping plans for welfare changes including scrapping key disability benefit for under-25s & replacing it with multibillion pound package of support to get into work.
Whitehall sources said changes under debate were much bigger than previously thought, as Andy Burnham's government hopes to persuade more people on benefits back into work.
But the move could be fraught with political danger after last year's dramatic welfare rebellion by Labour MPs. Ministers have spent | weeks trying to persuade them the plans are about reform not cuts & feel confident opposition has waned.
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Sometimes I miss important nuances of new policies, in the political mayhem. Here is one such. When I heard Andy Burnham say the triple lock would not be reformed until 2030, l assumed it would be a battle for the next general election campaign. But in fact the government has committed to legislate for the change in this parliament (see attached Downing Street statement). That will cause an almighty parliamentary row, which the UK's creditors will be watching - but should counteract the charge that Burnham has no fiscal backbone, because in theory the cost savings will be guaranteed long before the huge costs of his social care ambitions are being incurred
The current Triple Lock will be maintained throughout this Parliament, increasing the State Pension by over £2,000. From April 2030, the adjusted Triple Lock will mean the State Pension continues to rise by 2.5% or inflation - whichever is higher - and by even more if that is required to maintain its value relative to earnings. This will ensure the living standards of pensioners keep up with the rest of the population. For example, if the value of the State Pension is around a third

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Neil Atkinson @knoxharrington.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Final push for me on all this and, as ever, some of the feelings. Written before the Prime Minister just couldn't keep his powder dry.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 01/10/2026

He has fucked up, from our viewpoint, but he's also close to the City owners so from his pov he's done good.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Liquid Bluesky

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Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.

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James Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’

Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is naive of Burnham. If ADUG's investments in Manchester were profitable, somebody else would have made them. And if they're not, it's reputation laundering. Luckily, there's no precedent for there being any corruption in urban regeneration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Andy Burnham 'really concerned' if Man City owners sell up after rule breaches

The prime minister compares the allegations against Man City to the plight of his own club Everton.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's a handy guide. If the media are saying a politician is doing socialism, they're not doing socialism. If a politician is doing socialism, the media is telling you they're doing islamic terrorism, destroying western civilization, turning your kids gay and in league with china.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think Burnham is fortunate that he said this in the same week he said so much other stuff that is giving him positive headlines, because this is a very ill-judged intervention for a Prime Minister. He should never have even entertained the question. He can't blur lines like this.

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Andy Burnham 'really concerned' if Man City owners sell up after rule breaches

The prime minister compares the allegations against Man City to the plight of his own club Everton.

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Ian Byrne @byrno.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I miss ght be wrong, but I’m pretty sure @davidallengreen.bsky.social has taught me to spot a strongly-worded’ statement that doesn’t say anything at all. And this is one. Like you say, it seems more self-owning than anything else.

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Youngy @mancversusfood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is just further proof of the bent nature of the sponsorships. No regular sponsor would threaten to sue the Prem for the reputational damage of a report they arent even named in. They would just cut ties with the club www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But belated credit for following through on an investigation that burst into public view and carrying on with it in the face of what panel described as efforts to stymie it by City, other voices calling for it stop and UEFA’s abject failure in dealing with it over multiple years.

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whole thing relies on what can only be described as a code of trust between the league (which is a company owned by the 20 teams) and the teams. They clearly were not able to drill into details or preferred light touch arrangements in the Scudamore era. Enforcement/rules should be taken out of PL.

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