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Love going on holiday, musicals, afternoon teas with friends and watching far too many episodes of New Life in The Sun.

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FOHF @fohf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You know what to do: rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Welcome to the most important job you'll ever have @andyburnham.bsky.social Cartoon brilliance by @bjennings90.bsky.social for @theguardian.com
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reform’s problem, and it is a very significant one, is that women vote open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The bad news: the UK's fiscal position means Burnham/any new Chancellor will have little/no room for manoeuvre on tax/spending/borrowing. The good news: there is a. progressive policy agenda that is pro-growth *and* fiscally credible. www.ft.com/content/7235...
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Three ways a new Labour leader could change the politics of growth
The UK needs to confront the policies that have made us poorer
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Meanwhile, I'm still reeling from the fact that Richard Tice can't find it in him to condemn someone for saying that Nigerians should be melted down to fill potholes.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖘 𝕬𝖌𝖔… The Eye delved into Christopher Harborne's background - his dual identity, his cryptocurrency connections, his enormous political donations - long before his undeclared £5 million personal gift to Nigel Farage. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1511, December 2019.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🔴 NEW: Reform UK's £4m crypto donor Ben Delo has dismissed his US conviction as a "non-crime" But we got the court docs - and found a different story US federal prosecutors said he "thumbed his nose at the law" and had led a "criminal enterprise" democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m...
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Reform's £4m donor "thumbed his nose at the law", US prosecutors said
Ben Delo has called his US conviction a "non-crime". Prosecutors said the Farage-backing crypto billionaire was a “leader of a criminal enterprise”.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Unimprovable headline From the latest Private Eye, out now.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures techcrunch.com/2026/... via TechCrunch
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Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures | TechCrunch
Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."
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🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @methu.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Well this is some truly creepy shit I'd missed. As you read this remember Palantir are not your friend, they want your privacy and your compliance nothing more techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p...
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Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures | TechCrunch
Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
‘How dare The Atlantic accuse me of drinking on the job. I’m gonna sue you as soon as I find some Tylenol and a couple Bloody Mary’s…’
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Sharon Osborne was ▶️an immigrant into the USA in the late 1970s ▶️an immigrant into Ireland in the mid 1990s ▶️an immigrant into the USA again from 2002 to 2005 ▶️and then again from 2010 to 2020 She has been an immigrant for approx 48 of her 73 years www.nme.com/news/tv/shar...
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Sharon Osbourne indicates she will join Tommy Robinson's anti-immigration march
Sharon Osbourne has suggested she will be joining Tommy Robinson's anti-immigration 'Unite the Kingdom' march.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The authorities have been alerted after a seemingly innocent couple landed an enormous cheque amid claims they were friends of Nigel Farage. “These accusations are an outrage,” said winners Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott, of Taxfree Apartments, Dubai. From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Number crunching: Iran war From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We've reached the point that they're using the Epstein files to cover up Iran
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The Cat @lornathomas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Impeach Trump now USA. Before its too late.
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
JD Vance, standing next to Orban, criticises the EU for interfering in elections. Irony is dead.
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Nate Silver Tweets @natesilver538bot.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken. Original post
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This is essential reading. It makes clear that the Conservative government had left the NHS in a precarious position by starving it of funding and that its inept handling of the pandemic almost saw it collapse completely
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Coincidence corner: JCB and Reform UK From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.
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ealdwine @ealdwine.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
A photograph Robert Jenrick being painted over by Mickey Mouse
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people. If only there were a word for such a party.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The primary aim must be getting the govt off X. This offers the possibility of a cascade effect taking journalists etc off it. We need to seperate the national debate from the extremism engine.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Lib Dem leader Davey: “The Government needs to block any future contracts with Tesla, and block Musk from being granted a license to supply energy to British homes “Ministers should make clear that if you are egging on violence on the streets of the UK, you are not someone we can do business with.”
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 17/04/2025
Bannon the latest in the “Britain doesn’t manufacture anything” brigade. It’s a lazy trope you hear repeated in the media a lot. In fact the UK remains the 8th or 9th biggest manufacturer in the world. 10% of our GDP with some of the most advanced manufacturing anywhere.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Number crunching: Value of reduction in US tariffs for UK companies per year as against EU members v fall in UK exports per year due to Brexit From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
These mega corps are the reason America is struggling. $278,000,000,000 in avoided tax. Not the poor. Not immigrants. Not workers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Silicon Six’ accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years
Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The sad part about this is that it does not shock anymore. It is clear now that the US and Europe have parted ways in the strategic assessment and aims for Ukraine and Russia.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Welcome to our everyday hell, fund managers.
An article from The Independent under the section "News > World > Americas > US politics" with the headline: "Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’." The subheading reads: "Some fund managers concerned ‘that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology’." The article is authored by Gustaf Kilander in Washington D.C., published on Thursday, 10 April 2025 at 16:31 BST.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Quick reminder: Le Pen wasn't found guilty because the French courts hate democracy. She was found guilty because she broke the fucking law. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Russia demands to keep captured territory The new Private Eye is out now
A photo of the front cover of issue 1645 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "On shelves now." The headline reads "RUSSIA DEMANDS TO KEEP CAPTURED TERRITORY" in bold white text on a red background. The cover features a photograph of Russian President Vladimir Putin sitting at a desk, speaking on the phone with a smirk. A speech bubble adds dialogue, with Putin saying, "Including the White House."
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 13/03/2025
Surprised to see so many headlines from news outlets suggesting Putin has agreed to a ceasefire. He’s done no such thing. He’s basically said he would do in theory, providing his conditions are met, on his terms. Which is just a variation on what he’s always said.
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Institute for the Study of War: "Russia will likely take advantage of the suspension of US military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine to intensify its long-range strike campaign and deplete Ukrainian air defense missiles." Trump works for Putin.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”. The man is a fraud.
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Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We’re no mugs
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The Cat @lornathomas.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Hard not to think the World is descending into chaos.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Many of the scientists that the Trump administration is defunding and persecuting will be working on strategically important technologies and research areas. The UK and other European countries should urgently establish programmes to bring those researchers here.
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The Cat @lornathomas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I skied once in Canada (Banff). Loved it. Loved the people I met. I'm team 🇨🇦 Canada
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
American media in particular need to stop equivocating and speaking in euphemism and tell Americans that they are aligned with Russia now. They owe the people that honesty.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
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The Cat @lornathomas.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
@jonsopel1.bsky.social are you only posting on twitter now
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is why the media gives people like Donald Trump such an easy ride and people like Keir Starmer such a hard one iandunt.substack.com/p/journalism...
A clip from the article. It reads: "Many journalists are instinctively hostile to Starmer and Biden not so much out of political opposition, but because they're bad for business. And they love Boris Johnson and Trump not so much because they agree with them, but because they’re good for business. They provide more content. More fuel for the news engine."
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The Cat @lornathomas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Twitter shows me the inner thoughts of people's minds, and you know what, I suddenly find that I am justified in not liking a lot of people.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion” From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 23/01/2025
Opinion | You have to perform contorted intellectual gymnastics to avoid the word "fascism" which explains the phenomenon we see in front of our eyes 🖋️ @iandunt.bsky.social 🔗 inews.co.uk/opinion/look...
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