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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 1h

¡Morcilla! Crikey Have you tried callos?

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10h

UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows. GB News, owned by hedge fund manager, is the propaganda arm of Reform/Farage. Politicians must be scrutinized, and not allowed to present news or current affairs programmes.

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UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows

Analysis of countries’ broadcasting rules confirms Ofcom code is highly unusual, amid concerns about impartiality

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

In preparation for the ITV undercover investigation of Reform UK I am preparing my response: -It was just locker room banter -That’s how people talk outside the Westminster bubble -The person being racist was just a contractor -The investigation was illegal and we are suing them

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

People are claiming that Elon Musk messed with Starlink in Ukraine because Trump asked him. I think a more likely reason is that Ukraine damaging Russian data centers embarrassed Elon by showing how many of his Twitter followers are nonexistent and how much traffic on Twitter is driven by bots.

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Agree 100% We played with ten men (again!) The new legendary squad depth is a bit of an illusion too in certain areas. Top marks for effort to those who actually participated in the game though.

Cover of The Invisible Man novel by HG Wells showing a hat and shoulders of a man with an empty space between where the head should be

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Farage/Johnson/Brexiters hate the Brexit Russia connection… this is why… “Isolation from the rest of Europe is the result that Britain’s enemies wanted in 2016. Sticking to that path is the route they would choose for Britain again today if they had a vote.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Brexiters can’t cope with the fact that Putin was cheering them on | Rafael Behr

Russian meddling probably didn’t affect the referendum result – but the Kremlin’s motives for wanting to undermine the EU still matter, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The first thing I’d do is to check they’re not from battery hens

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ukraine has hit a huge Russian data centre linked to bot farms. In unrelated news, does anyone know why every Reform account on Twitter is getting hardly any likes and shares?

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hmmm… who to believe… Andy Burnham or the compulsive liar who got sacked twice for lying, lied to Parliament, lied to The Queen, cheated on two wives and ignored the Ministerial Code. Tricky one.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm grateful to Justin Webb on Radio 4 this morning for letting Zia Yusuf repeatedly blame all the problems of the NHS on asylum seekers without challenge, as if it is an accepted fact.

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I agree we need to start NOW. But harder and faster. I know it’s tricky. But we need growth, urgently. And anything could happen in the US, so we need strong allies, to be part of the pack as soon as it is feasible.

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ten years is too long, sadly. By then the Tories/Reform may well be in power. They will have vowed to reverse any progress. The EU may already be thinking ‘what’s the point of any negotiations?’ 1/2

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

some of us worked this out a decade ago but it’s refreshing to see a prime minister say it out loud

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Chris Gough @toulousain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Mason is an over promoted, overpaid odious jerk

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Times from ten years ago this week. They were wrong. In fact Brexit is costing the UK economy roughly £100 billion a year. #ProjectFear

Hard Brexit
could cost
£66bn a year

Leaked Treasury papers reveal lost revenue

Sam Coates Deputy Political Editor
Ollver Wright Policy Editor

Cabinet ministers are being warned
that the Treasury could lose up_to
£66 billion a year in tax revenues under
"hard Brexit", according to leaked
government papers.

GDP.could fall by as much as 9.5 per
cent if Britain leaves the single market
and hastorely on WorldTrade Organi-
sation rules for trading with the conti-
nent, compared with ifit stayed within
the EU,theforecasts show.Such a steep
drop in revenue would force ministers
to slash public spending or raise taxes.
The £66 billion drop, contained in a
draft cabinet committee paper seen by
The Times, is nearly a tenth of the
£716 billion that the government is pro-
jected to collect in taxes this year,and is
equivalent to 65 per cent of the annual
budget of NHS England.

Business leaders are_increasingly
worried that the UK could fail to nego-
tiate a deal with the 27 remaining EU
members by the time it leaves the
union, and will face a "cliff edge" of
trade tariffs and barriers,

Several cabinet ministers who sup-
ported Remain are stepping up efforts
to prioritise business concerns and the
economy in Brexit discussions, fearing
that Leave supporters fail to realise the
scale of potential damage, It comes as:;
○ Theresa May faces a potential legal
challenge by a group of Conservative
MPs over the decision to begin Brexit
negotiations without parliament's
approval. The prime minister's spokes-
man ruledoutgiving MPs a voteyester-
day,saying thatitwould"second guess'
the will of the British people.
○ Dominic Grieve, the former attor-
ney-general, said that unless the gov,
ernment could agree,a deal supported
by parliament it would not survive.
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A Tory backbencher suggested that
British companies should hire disabled

Tuesday October 11 2016 | thetimes.co.uk | No 72038

people to do the work of EU migrants
after Brexit.

Mrs May visited Denmark and the
Nethe…

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Trump and his mob have been making the preparations for a long time. A supine Supreme Court, total grip on FBI, CIA and the military. A sickeningly cowardly GOP. Social media under total control. Public officials terrified of him. Be very afraid.

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Her scene with Stan’s specs had me in floods of tears. I’m sure it still would.

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

May probably knew the truth but was too cowardly to reveal it. Johnson had his own power agenda and Russian pals… Sunak and Starmer too frit to reveal the truth. Truss irrelevant. Well done Andy Burnham!

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Feel the same. It’s a lovely day though - get some fresh air and build up your strength for a tough game on Tuesday! How long can the fun last?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In the least surprising news of the century, vast majority of racist flag shaggers who go about brandishing crosses and saying that we're a Christian country... don't pray, or go to church or read the Bible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report

Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I thought you were reasonable and I genuinely thought we’d had it until Cissé scored - it was backs against the wall. The goal totally out of the blue. I was surprised that our players could even find each other though, given that we were in camouflage gear.

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I can see that…. Here’s who she was apparently based on

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was in Waitrose, Menai a couple of months ago and someone reached across me as I was perusing the sandwiches to put something back on the shelf (sushi I think) and apologised quite nicely. I turned and it was her! Now we know what she was up to!

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They look really good. And uniform too with perfect browning. Can’t get decent oatcakes locally - it used to mean a 20 mile trek to Tunstall but the quality at the shop we used to use went off a bit. Time to get the frying pan out! I’ve got the recipe somewhere….

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)

Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.

As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Great photo of a great city. It has a unique atmosphere. I might well be hidden in it somewhere as I was student there in 1978! One of the best MFL courses in the country at the time. I’d love to know where it was taken from and whether any of the large mills shown still stand today.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Far from taking pride in it, the men who killed this magnificent animal should be deeply ashamed. That swift, sleek, wonderful monster, flashing with holographic colours, reduced to a dead black lump. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

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Monster 282kg tuna landed in Brixham is 'heaviest ever' catch

Giant £4,000 Bluefin tuna caught off Devon coast could be heading to Michelin-starred restaurants

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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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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fascinated by the Jack Smith/Eric Schmitt thing because I can’t grasp how desperate you would need to be to ‘own’ an opponent to end up in such a humiliating mess. I ‘think’ it’s because Trump loyalists have been so grossly dishonest that they have to convince themselves that the other lot are too.

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He should be arrested for being in possession of those offensive eyebrows alone.

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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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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Auto enrolment won’t particularly help older workers though. Too late. And obv it won’t help those already relying on a state pension. I’m all in favour of the Scandinavian model of higher taxes for better social support. I do think this may start creaking soon with aging populations though.

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

£12,548 - that’s if you’ve made full contributions - is still a pittance though.

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even more so now they’re being released on bail

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mike Clancy @prospectunion.bsky.social - #Brexit the greatest disaster to befall the UK short of war. We need to go back into the EU #RejoinEU

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Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

britmap · 27 SEPTEMBER 2026 ● 100 ● 89 ● 99 ● 84 ● 100 Total: 939/1000 · www.britm.app

britm.app

britmap

The daily British history map puzzle.

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nigel Farage is now a desperate man. Chasing every headline; no low too low; the politics of the gutter, racism and fear embraced. His pronouncement on Fairford trying to link with ZERO evidence to asylum is beyond pathetic.

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