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Lorraine Rogerson

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Trying to make it make sense.

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 9h
The state pension will continue to rise every year at least by prices or 2.5% and will hold its value relative to earnings. So it will never be less than 30% of average national wage. It’s the solution previously put forward by Resolution Foundation, previously led by MP Torsten Bell.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 9h
Andy Burnham is coming for your pension! By... er... increasing it by slightly less. Whereas Reform will scrap it completely.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 13h
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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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I await the first time a politician proposing some nuts new immigration restriction is asked what is otherwise the media’s favourite question: how are you going to pay for it??
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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 12h
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 12h
I think an enquiry into the Brexit options is a good idea. Suggested it to Nick Thomas Symonds in his valedictory CER event this summer. It would help if the civil service did some reports on its effects.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 14h
We found immigration courts have issued more than 10,000 removal and voluntary departure orders each month for immigrant minors — nearly four times the rate as Trump’s last term. With legal representation disappearing that pace could accelerate www.propublica.org/article/unac...
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These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 15h
#epsteinclass #rapeculture
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 19h
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 17h
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 20h
This two tier policing is disgraceful. It's as if there is one approach for people who helpfully film themselves committing crimes and another approach when there is insufficient evidence.
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Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺 @marksugrue.com · 28/09/2026
You'd never guess from this @theguardian.com headline that Le Pen's party came joint 7th in this election.
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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 19h
Agree about the triple lock: it was always an electoral bribe (old people vote). But note also this. bsky.app/profile/prem...
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 19h
It’s time to stop being polite about the triple lock. It's not fiscally sustainable for the State Pension to grow faster than earnings indefintiely. State Pension spending accounts for nearly half the projected increase in social security spending by 2029-30 ➡️ buff.ly/FY93tV6
chart showing that State Pension spending accounts for nearly half of the projected increase in social security spending by 2029-30. Of a total £30.5bn social security spending, the state pension is projected to be £13.8bn, with £2.2bn spent on pensioner other.
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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Healy on ITV just now saying we have a system which asks "how much are you entitled to" and that's absolutely not true, the welfare system in the UK has loads of conditionality to look for and find work, it's so weird Labour keep pretending otherwise
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 20h
Important to remember that the debate around social care right now is about *free* care - ending the lottery of life that means some are financially ruined by care costs as they age. It is not about providing *better* care, which would require spending of another order…
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 21h
Saw something in the news, wanted to make the something about himself, inserted himself into the news cycle, and then when they were released is doubling down on that because it keeps him in the news. Classic Donald pattern tbh
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21h
For all we know at the moment, the 5 men arrested near RAF Fairford might have been on a stag night. But the wild claims by Trump and Rubio suggest that, if they'd been apprehended in the US, they would have been denied due process. I hope our government tells them to butt out of our justice system.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 20h
A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22h
Burnham edges Labour closer to finally, maybe, being sane about Brexit. Over 10 years, £Billions of cost, thousands of business failures, mountains of red tape, wasted resources and lost opportunities later…. our govt may, at last, cautiously, start to be honest about the Brexit moronathon. Yay.
The Independent front page headline: 

Burnham edges Labour closer to rejoining EU
After Ed Miliband tells party conference Britain's future is at the heart of Europe, ministers say it is 'not if but how' prime minister will include Brexit reversal in next election manifestoThere is growing optimism that a way back into the EU could be put to voters at the next election after the prime minister and senior ministers made it clear they believe Brexit has been a failure at this year's party conference.
When The Independent asked Mr Burnham about whether Rejoin would be in Labour's next election manifesto on his recent trip to the UN in New York, he refused to rule it out - having said a year ago when he was
Manchester mayor that he believes the
UK should rejoin the EU.

Andy Burnham has already warned about the 'drift and division' in the decade since Brexit (Getty)
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21h
imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21h
Still putting ‘bomb plot’ in headlines in the glaring absence of any bombs. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford bomb plot
The US secretary of state offered no evidence for his claims, and also said many people were ‘disturbed’ that the five suspects had been released on bail
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ahhh if this turns out to be about red diesel, one of my remaining rural obsessions, I will be so happy
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Danny Kodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Things that demonstrably generate growth and that this government has ruled out doing or actively worked to reduce: - Immigration - Free trade with Europe - Universal basic income schemes - Higher education
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@jdportes.bsky.social and others have been highlighting this for months: falling migration *already* is blowing holes in the budget and Mahmood's reforms would create further issues. Good to see this finally being highlighted in the mainstream press.
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You know what’s more dangerous than a trans athlete? 7 Frat boys at Cornell University.
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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sorry but this is bullshit and not a reason anybody should leave the country of their birth. But frankly this guy has a track record of working abroad, having been in the US for 20 years and having set up a private equity firm in the US.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action bestforbritain.org/petition/far...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This was a striking bit about Rushdie’s upbringing where ‘people would talk about everything’
He says at one point in the film 'it didn't occur to me that I wasn't allowed to say these things' by which he means to treat Islam with the roughhouse lack of solemnity with which he treats everything else. "That's because I grew up in a very free-thinking, secularised, Indian-Muslim family, in which people would talk about everything. My father and his friends would sit around in the evening and talk about everything. They liked talking about philosophy. They would discuss the existence of God - and non-existence of God even. Some of his friends were communists and certainly didn't believe in religion.
Others were quite theological. But everybody argued about everything, and, eavesdropping on these conversations, 12-year-old me thought you could talk about whatever you want, and I still think that?
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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Indeed - and the fact that people smugglers and cocaine smugglers are competing for the same short-sea routes explains some of the latter's violent hatred of the former.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/09/2026
‘The weaker he gets, the more dangerous he gets’: Trump lashes out as his power wanes
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‘The weaker he gets, the more dangerous he gets’: Trump lashes out as his power wanes
Trump tries to dominate at the UN as his approval ratings plummet and even some Republicans distance themselves from him
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rayner is correct: these proposals are economically damaging and politically counterproductive. Pretty clear that view is now almost universal in the Cabinet/Labour Party and the informed public. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Angela Rayner condemns Labour’s migrant visa crackdown
Speaking before the party conference, the housing secretary says Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans would affect care workers
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Andrew Whiteley @andrewwhiteley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Harborne and Farage are up to their armpits in this crypto money laundering swamp. Why is the UK government not taking action against Tether?
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 25/09/2026
it's been less than a year, and already the socialists are forcing people to go to the opera
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don't miss GB News to hear me spout Reform propaganda and talk absolute bollocks completely unchallenged because for some reason I'm the only MP allowed to get away with this.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
More details and all links are in my Substack: monkdebunks.substack.com/p/no-more-f... It's free to read and subscribe, but paid subscriptions and coffee (or tea in my case!) donations (buymeacoffee.com/MonkDebunks) can support me in doing these debunks!😊 33/33
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We already know what the "protect our women" crowd are like. (And yes - those are 2 different Raise the Flag founders - one charged with murder and the other facing 14 charges!) The last thing Piddington wants is these guys roaming their streets... 31/
Headline: Most people arrested during Henry Novak protests had been reported for domestic abuse.Headline: One in five people arrested over 2024 riots have been reported for domestic abuse. Raise the Colours founder denies murder as second leading activist faces child abuse image charges.Leader of group behind flag campaign in England charged with 14 offences.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
EXC - We *also* have an MRP out today - which has some very striking findings. Progressives who vote tactically to stop Nigel Farage’s Reform UK could push his party into FOURTH place. The poll also shows Burnham’s Labour is winning back left-leaning voters. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It is disappointing that the Government have broken their pledge to seek legal advice towards recognising a genocide of Uyghur Muslims in China. I urge the Government to honour this commitment and waste no time in raising concerns over human rights abuses. www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Britain... It's a class act. 🎩 Privately Educated: Senior Armed Forces 63% Senior Judges: 62% House of Lords: 52% Foreign Office Diplomats: 53% Newspaper Columnists: 50% Political Commentators: 47% Leading Podcasters: 45% BBC Executives: 38% General Population: 7% elitistbritain.suttontrust.com
elitistbritain.suttontrust.com
Elitist Britain 2025
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is the lowest that Reform UK have polled with YouGov in well over two years
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
London's schools are running out of kids - rpt by @chris-smyth.bsky.social. My 16 yr-old was in one of last cohorts in Hackney where there were expanding primary school numbers. But property prices saw families leave after 2nd kid. Now 8 primaries have closed in the area www.ft.com/content/5b01...
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Well. That looks systematic 😳 Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international banks have handled billions of dollars from a Kremlin-backed fintech company that tricked its way into the global financial system with a vast document forgery operation. www.ft.com/content/3848...
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Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks
FT finds thousands of Russian payments handled by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The extent of the PISA gap between England and other western European countries in particular is extraordinary In reading, the 25% most disadvantaged young people in England outperformed the average for all students in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway and many other countries
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Every action needs to be assessed in the context of his psychological dysfunction, his cognitive decline and his untethered relationship to reality—rather than the typical framing of a sane president managing the nation’s affairs.” www.americaamerica.news/p/america-we...
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We Are Facing a Psychiatric Emergency
The media needs to step up. Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm pretty sure there's more job losses in academia than in oil and nobody seems to give a shit
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