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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 5h
NEW: We are one! The @thenerve.news is celebrating its first birthday today!!! With the news that we are financially sustainable!!! THANK YOU so much to the many, many people who helped us get here. Your support is everything! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-ner...
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The Nerve reaches 5,000 paying subscribers in first year
Newsletter-led newsbrand from ex-Observer journalists now said to be financially sustainable.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7h
A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7h
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12h
Burnham on Social Care in July: "I ask the media, can we not let the country look at this in a clear-eyed way without all of the overwriting? On this issue, please, can we not have a factual debate? Allow people to weigh up the options and come to a considered view based on the facts?" The media:
Daily Mail: BURNHAM'S TRIPLE SHOCKThe Daily Telegraph: TRIPLE LOCK SCRAPPED BY 2030 (with a monstering photo of Burnham)Daily Express: IT'S A CRYING SHAME FOR OUR NATIONThe Sun: LOCKY HORROR SHOW
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 12h
I have policy criticisms (they're not hard to guess) but Burnham is, so far, obviously good at politics. Successfully selling an idea everyone said was politically toxic is one example. Rebooting a failing government another. Making an impressive speech another. Almost the anti-Starmer on that level
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Survation. @survation.bsky.social · 12h
With the Triple Lock reform set out accurately and the savings hypothecated to a National Care Service, a clear majority back it: 64% support it and 15% oppose: net +49. 7/9
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Survation. @survation.bsky.social · 12h
Of the 55% of the public who had seen or heard something about the speech, 55% have a positive impression vs. 23% negative 2/9
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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 12h
And of course, 'social security' as an ideal isn't a new coinage, but a restoration The social security programmes of FDR and Beveridge were part of a broader push to banish the old anxiety of destitution
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 29/09/2026
Al Jazeera did a lovely summary of the Manchester City cheating scandal.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 23/09/2026
🔴 NEW - UAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated –Report The Gulf petrostate is forging alliances with radical right-wing parties across the world. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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UAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated – Report
The ties between Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been described as “extensive and troubling” in a new report. The analysis by FairSquare, a non-profit which researches...
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lhur.bsky.social @lhur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am personally shocked that a football team owned by an authoritarian petro-state would be unethical BBC News - Manchester City charges: Premier League confirms club guilty of all charges related to financial rule breaches - BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Manchester City charges: Premier League confirms club guilty of all charges related to financial rule breaches
The Premier League confirms that Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18.
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Today the Mayor set out his vision for dockless e-bikes in London, with new @TfL powers expected to pave the way for improved regulation and safety 🚲 www.london.gov.uk/mayor-vision...
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lhur.bsky.social @lhur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just read this as an example of why over-hyper AI can be. Guy gives access away to an LLM. It predicts its next step based purely on whatever previous language patterns it knows. It has no concept of what "being in" means in the context of the conversation. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really weary of how UK reporters are tiptoeing around the fact that the US president talked absolute shit about the RAF Fairford incident and arrests. "It's possible Trump was talking off the cuff" - no, it's in fact very clear that Trump was just lying compulsively because that's what he does.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most astonishing thing about the Fairford event? That anyone believed a word Trump said about it. He lies ALL THE TIME. Why would this time be any different?
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump clearly saw the Fairford story developing and decided to fabricate a story with him at the centre. That's worrying enough, but watching politicians on both sides of the Atlantic indulge his fantasy is even even worse.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/09/2026
The degradation of British politics has either made Suella Braverman – a former *attorney general* – this stupid and irresponsible, or else entirely indifferent to appearing as such to those who know the law if it gets her applause from her online fan base.
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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That's correct: 1. In brief: www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo... 2. In detail: marylebonewestend.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
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Oxford Street: two new bike routes for cyclists banned from pedestrianised area
The removal of traffic – buses, taxis and bikes – is a central part of London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan’s vision for transforming the famous street
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reform figures, including Farage, had ignored police requests to not speculate about the identities of the five suspects, who have since been confirmed as British men in their 20s.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026
Brilliant @amyremeikis.bsky.social piece here - absolutely gut-wrenching that Nepal PM's speech got buried under the nonsense of AI doom-hype. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
“We have built a world with flawless logistics for war, and broken logistics for food, and this is not Nepal’s private misfortune. Ask Bangladesh, ask Bhutan, ask India, ask the Maldives, ask Pakistan, ask Sri Lanka, ask any other country in our region, and you’ll hear the same account.

“Hit by the climate, we did not warm, and again hit by the wars, we did not start.”

Shah is right. Nepal contributes less than 0.1 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. It does not have the institutional or global power to force change, even as its people are swamped by the consequences of inaction.

“Our glaciers are retreating, our mountain slopes are becoming unstable, our rivers are becoming less predictable and every major disaster threatens to erase years of development,” he told the UN.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As well as books, posters, games and all sorts, I also do editorial illustration. Here's some of my work for the independent, (award-winning!) news site londoncentric.media Thanks to editor @jim.londoncentric.media for being a pleasure to work with! #illustration #art
londoncentric 5ghacker londoncentrictiktok londoncentricshard londoncentric
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lhur.bsky.social @lhur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If the Trump administration thinks its ok to join a lawsuit with a private company to stop the EU regulating to stop social media disinformation, the EU should just ban X. End of. BBC News - US backs Elon Musk's bid to overturn €120m EU fine against X www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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lhur.bsky.social @lhur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes again, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social way ahead of everyone else. Today the DG, Matt Brittin, announced he would be happy for the BBC to make programmes and have them presented entirely by AI "within guardrails". See link below bsky.app/profile/caro...
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 25/09/2026
👀London's newest section of Cycleway!! This section of the Cycleway 4 extension - between Gallions Rd & Charlton Church Lane - is due to open this week. We've expanded our network of Cycleways from 90km in 2016 to 450+km today. And cycling across the capital is soaring🚲🚲🚲
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held “off-site meetings” with the billionaire media mogul in August bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's certainly quite the position for someone who has ended up leader because their predecessor was arrested on suspicion of assault and coercive/controlling behaviour. I think the BSL interpreter has captured the tone very well.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Really interesting report on how renewables are now so old and established that a wave of projects are going to need replacing, and that could deliver a big boost to the global clean energy transition. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...
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How a global push to 'repower' ageing wind and solar farms could transform the clean energy transition
Ageing wind and solar capacity that is approaching the end of its initial lifespan is set to have 'profound' implications for the global energy transition, according to Wood Mackenzie
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 25/09/2026
'How do you think people like Jacob Rees-Mogg end up in the House of Commons?' @mrjamesob.bsky.social discusses the social impact of attending a public school.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Are Reform UK *sure* they want to yoke themselves to people like Daniel “Danny Tommo” Thomas? Nigel Farage was adamant for years that most voters instantly recognise and intensely dislike football thug types like him and Tommy Robinson.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tice isn't as clever as Farage, who understands that he has to at least pretend not to support these thugs
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rupert Lowe of Restore Britain on Mr Daniel Thomas, who he calls Danny Tommo. Thomss claims he is assembling a powerful "electoral bloc" in 'Patriot Patrol' but associating too closely with it could certainly polarise + alienate too
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lhur.bsky.social @lhur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is one of many far right protesters who will be jailed in the coming days. Not a day too soon either. Total thugs, as the judge said. BBC News - Man jailed for bottle throwing at Eastney migrant protest - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BBC & Sky confirm the charges. This had been shared by Tommy Robinson & other sources that the crowd (of a few hundred) are likely to follow online www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas charged after dinghy slashed in Channel
Anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas is charged in connection with an incident in the English Channel.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
After marching in a group, masked, to the police station, the options appear to have been to get arrested if staying masked, or to run away when told that (as some did) or to take off masks & stand shouting "free DT" [until given a time to disperse]
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The men arrived masked but police have insisted those who want to be or stay there must remove masks or face arrest.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good luck to the Hampshire police. Requiring those present to be identifiable could be one key to deterring disorder
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lhur.bsky.social @lhur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I genuinely can't get my head around why a Labour government with a massive majority is letting our national public broadcaster collapse. The alternative is GBNews. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
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BBC ‘risks entering inescapable doom spiral’ as further cuts hit TV and radio
Warning from union comes as corporation cuts local specialist correspondent roles as part of plan to save £500m
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Brand-new polling by YouGov with Best for Britain 🚨 Labour pledging to rejoin the EU could prevent a Reform UK government #RejoinEU #StopReform Read more here: bestforbritain.org/eu-membershi...
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David Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Daniel Thomas, aka Danny Tommo, has been arrested by Hampshire police over boat slashing incident in the Channel.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good. And shame on every politician who didn't decry this thug before now.
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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an individual did this, we'd treat it as a crime. We should treat this as a crime too, and hold OpenAI liable for what its models, under its supervision, did. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
Anthony Albanese says he has spoken to the Open AI chief executive to express his concern about the incident and the length of time it took the tech company to inform the government of the breach.
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