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Lorraine Rogerson

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 1h
. @tomswarbrick.bsky.social has just announced this as a talking point for his show. He wants to know what this tells us about the UK, immigration and our job market. He did not indicate that he has any idea that the numbers are complete bullshit. Is anyone surprised? @lbc.co.uk
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 20h
the first MP to take the oath on a Quran was Chaudhry Sarwar in 1997. this isn’t new.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 19h
Meta has censored more than 1,000 pro-Lula accounts during the Brazilian Presidential Election. Evidence shows that the social media giant clearly interfered in the election. paydayreport.com/meta-censors...
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Meta Censors Over 1,080 Pro-Lula Accounts During Brazilian Presidential Election
Evidence shows the social media giant clearly interfered in the Brazilian Presidential Election
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 22h
Top three articles on the Times website are currently a barrage of hate against funding for disabled people, including an attack on Access to Work *which is money to help disabled people find/stay in paid work*
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.
"I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits. I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization as was enacted this morning outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when in our prayers and thanksgivings for the season we are humbly expressing before God our desire to remove the moral evils of the land, I would ask your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out.

I am, Sir, your faithful Servant.
Charles Dickens".
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 13/10/2026
This is an argument for playing down anti-immigration and focusing on good services - often provided by immigrants, who then pay taxes to support those services, which could be a virtuous cycle.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Much of the coverage today is absolutely nuts. The facts are on Wikipedia. The full Intelligence and Security Committee (Russia) Report is online. Tory media & politicians once again banking on their average consumer/voter being too daft/busy/blinkered to notice...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/10/2026
Farage denies Reform would let troops shoot small boats after Jenrick’s ‘lethal force’ claim
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Farage denies Reform would let troops shoot small boats after Jenrick’s ‘lethal force’ claim
Party leader says Jenrick’s comments ‘misconstrued’, after MP said Royal Marines would be allowed to fire at those on boats * UK politics live – latest updates Nigel Farage has denied that a Reform UK government would authorise lethal force against migrant crossings in the Channel, hours after one of his MPs said the Royal Marines should be permitted to fire on the boats. Robert Jenrick, a Reform UK MP who defected from the Conservatives, had told TalkTV that the party would deploy the Royal Marines to take boats back to France. Continue reading...
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
🚨🚨Super important report🚨🚨
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
For more on the UK’s not well enough understood fiscal trajectory, here’s a recent blog: torstenbell.substack.com/p/fiscal-fac...
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Fiscal Fact (and Fiction)
Under the Tories, the UK borrowed more than the G7 average in every one of their 14 years. This year, the UK will borrow less. Here's how we're putting the UK's fiscal house in order.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Second, something way too often missed by commentators: the UK is doing more than anyone else in G7 to strengthen our public finances. We are delivering the fastest fiscal consolidation in the G7 and forecast to have the smallest deficit in 2031
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
New IMF forecasts tell you 2 things about UK economy. Firstly, the British economy has proved resilient in face of the Iran conflict: IMF have UK growth as joint second fastest in G7 this year (forget forecasts, in hard data we’ve seen the fastest growth in G7 so far this year)
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Putin has not funded disruption and chaos across Europe and the UK solely to weaken his enemies. He also knows that disruption and chaos favour the far right. And the far right loves Putin. It will abandon Ukraine and build him a highway into Europe.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Pollsters Redfield and Wilton, which have consistently produced some of the highest figures for Reform of any firm, employed a senior aide to Farage to oversee their political polling, without disclosing his role. A second Farage aide was also used to place exclusive polling by R+W in the press
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Nigel Farage adviser had unpublicised role at polling firm
Exclusive: Chris Bruni-Lowe used Redfield & Wilton Strategies role to develop potential campaign tactics, sources say
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Apart from once again proving himself a dead eyed socipath, Jenrick is forcing Reform down a cul-de-sac. "How about war crimes" is not winning 35% of the vote.
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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 12/10/2026
There’s been some negative comment about Burnham “shooting from the hip” as prime minister But his comments on the @therestpolitics.bsky.social podcast have prompted Farage to opine about Brexit AND Russia – two issues on which he is exposed 1/...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Talk TV interview: Jenrick, as a former government minister, of course knows that the armed forces can't be directed to commit murder at sea, and would have to refuse the illegal order to commit war crimes. But this is a change of media strategy with a challenge from Restore x.com/TalkTV/statu...
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🚨"Deploy the Royal Marines into the Channel. If they need to use lethal force then they'll be able to do so. I think the problem would come to an end within a matter of days." @RobertJenrick says Ref...
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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mitch Benn presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA Lost for 120 years, restored, recreated and completely made up by MITCH BENN STRICTLY LIMITED RUN - FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY 24/25 October www.tickettailor.com/events/circl... #dracula #gilbertandsullivan #operetta #mitchbenn
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This seems like IMMENSE fun.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Let’s look at what Johnson actually said though
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Reform have pledged to return 90,000 asylum seekers in the appeal system immediately to those countries - by abolishing the asylum system - but have now said not where there are risks to torture, death or persecution, which is what the asylum system assseses, if it is not abolished.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There's PLENTIFUL evidence that Russia interfered in the EU referendum. Most sensible people on both sides accept that as a fact. If Farage can counter this obvious truth then he should present his case to us all rather than grandstanding and lazily calling Burnham a "liar".
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Tusk: “Ukraine will not be broken and will not be intimidated. Poland will not be broken and will not be intimidated. “Europe, NATO and the entire free world will not be broken. They will not be intimidated. “This message must come today from every capital, from Warsaw to Washington.”
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Old school Little Englander nonsense about regulations. The reason the UK didn't massively deregulate after Brexit was 1/ because regulations and standards are international norms, and 2/ the people and more importantly politicians even businesses of the UK want them.
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A time of increasingly unstable geopolitics is EXACTLY the wrong time to be cutting support for green tech like heat pumps. We need energy independence to guarantee our national security. BUT there is one problem... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Nigel Farage lashed out at a Sun reporter at his press conference this morning, following this editorial by Trevor Kavanagh, who is known to be very close to Rupert Murdoch. Comes after Murdoch jetted Badenoch and her Deputy out to the Med for a series of meetings bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Latest far right malign effect - unfounded accusations of immigrants stealing wild birds to eat have led to a physical assault on a volunteer rescuing a cygnet. The Greenwich Wildlife Network statement is long, but worth a read - it's thoughtful, courageous and impeccably argued:
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Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
there is minimal evidence that inheritors in their 50s and 60s are desperate to move into their parents' former home. My @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on why Kemi Badenoch's policies are for the world of Downton Abbey - not the one we live in now www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/kemi...
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Kemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax proposals are myth-based policy making at its worst | Institute for Government
The leader of the opposition’s conference announcement was not well thought through.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
All thanks to the tireless work of @peterjukes.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social who were ignored for years, and in Carole’s case hounded through the courts for years. I’m glad the PM is at last speaking the truth; but the real heroes surely deserve a Pulitzer!
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think what frightens me most is that the sheer volume of things to be horrified by has become its own kind of protection for the people responsible. Nothing has to be explained or resolved becuase a story or a scandal or a tragedy only has to survive until the next thing happens in five minutes.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
There is 73% support in Britain for the principle of refugee protection - including in the UK - while 20% are opposed to this. The peak of support was 2022 at 80% (largely because the images from Ukraine had more impact than images from the Channel that year, though boats + migration were high)
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Eight years ago
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Also, I have never heard of Britain Unbound! Honestly, the BBC will just broadcast comments from anyone.
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.
The prime minister told The Rest is Politics podcast that upon arriving in No 10, he had asked about possible Russian interference in the 2016 vote, adding: "I've had the clear answer that, yes, there was."

"I think we've been too much on the back foot on that actually and we haven't informed people sufficiently about the extent to which people are seeking to disrupt the political process from overseas," he added.

Burnham did not provide further details about the type or extent of Moscow's activity during the Brexit referendum.

Britain Unbound, a pro-Brexit campaign group, said Burnham's comments were "another crude attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the decision that the British people made in 2016".

It said that foreign interference in UK elections was "obviously unacceptable" but added: "There is no good reason to believe that Russian intervention influenced the outcome of the referendum in 2016.
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Seriously. This is a big part of the problem. The BBC "both sides"ing absolutely everything. Even stuff like this which is about what our security services know about election interference. It *does not* require any Tufton Street response. At all.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So I checked Russian media this morning, and the war criminals seem to be laying the groundwork to use chemical weapons against Ukrainians again. Specifically in Kramatorsk & Sloviansk
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Is Russia Preparing a Chemical Weapons Attack in Ukraine?
While checking Russian media this morning, I came across something extremely disturbing.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/10/2026
This will kill people. It will kill *children*. RFK Jr has been told this multiple times, and he is doing this anyway.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/10/2026
This is a truly grotesque "trial" of a vaccine known to be safe and effective. It will in practice randomly withhold that treatment from a percentage of children to see what happens. It is absolutely the reverse of good practice.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Someone was sharing this from a few months back. Lola Salem laundering Collectif Némésis in the Telegraph bsky.app/profile/nate...
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🤷‍♂️The Russian Federation does not know anything about the energy truce with Ukraine, - Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Energy. "We all know that Trump often says something so that oil prices do not rise."
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Katie @katieest1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
On Thursday a remarkable woman won a by-election. On Friday a remarkable woman won the Nobel Peace Prize. The coverage has overwhelming been focused on the men who lost. It's 2026. Yet still.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Employment performance of recent migrants: the 2021-23 cohort continue to perform very well and *better* than non-EU migrants before Brexit. [the 2017-19 cohort will have suffered from the pandemic but that will not affect the later years.]
Employment rates among non-EU-born migrants excluding full-time students rise with years since arrival, reaching 80% after seven years for the 2017–19 cohort, while the 2021–23 cohort has higher employment at comparable durations, reaching 82% after three years.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/10/2026
This article offers half a dozen reasons why people have stopped having friends and family over, but it ignores the fact that the women who planned parties and kept homes tidy enough for unplanned guests are now working for pay full-time (usually more than 9-5). www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The dreadful decline of hosting at home: ‘I feel shame any time a friend comes over’
It used to be quite normal to pop next door for a coffee or invite friends over for dinner. But not any more. What’s behind this change – and just how damaging is it?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Everybody knew Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum - the evidence was there - but people were too afraid of Farage’s mob to say it. So it’s good to see Burnham finally speaking the truth.
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From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...
The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum
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Lorraine Rogerson @lorrainerogerson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
‘…If there is dried sweat somewhere in its Pyrex It must be your mother’s…’
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
All Trump’s overseas assets should be frozen. Hotels. Golf courses. Offshore accounts. Should not be permitted to enter the territories of the countries that are parties to ICC.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I want to see empty exhibits in British museums, that contain only the story about what they once contained, and why they had to be sent home. The space would be no less profound for me www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Oxford ceremony marks return home of kiwi feather cloak
The kahu kiwi, given to a British doctor in 1900, was "crying to come home", Māori campaigners say.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.
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