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Laurie S

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/10/2026
Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
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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 Christian nationalism in Britain is being driven largely by people who rarely attend church and are more concerned with defending the country’s Christian heritage, according to research. The report, by the thinktank Theos, identified five different groups within the UK in a survey that looked at their attitudes to Christianity and Britishness. Continue reading...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026
NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence.
A vertical graphic on a white background displays an October 9, 2026, joint statement from the foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The full statement, presented in black serif text, reaffirms unwavering support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), strongly opposes U.S. sanctions against the Court, warns of their impact on its work, staff, and families, and pledges continued support for international justice, accountability, and the rules-based international system.Marco Rubio, mouth agape, as he announces sweeping sanctions on the ICC to try to punish them for acknowledging Bibi Netanyahu’s war crimes
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/10/2026
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. The apparent error appears in a chapter on net zero in The Right Way, a 100-page policy document produced for the Conservative conference in Birmingham. Badenoch repeatedly used the phrase in her main speech. Continue reading...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Let me try this once more. It was a choice. EITHER the Greens adopted a slogan. OR they could have joined the next govt, where they could push for an end to arms sales, sanctions, support for the arrest warrants etc. It was never going to be both. Which one makes a material difference? #GazaGenocide
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is very good from Rob Rinder. The comments are a complete binfire, not sure why there are so many horseshoe Greens on a Nazi's site, but there we are.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 01/10/2026
How Man City’s owners wooed Andy Burnham, from property deals to football chats trib.al/TGix5Af
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How Man City's owners wooed Andy Burnham, from property deals to football chats
The former Manchester mayor praised the club's owners for their investment in the region, saying he was 'concerned' they might leave the UK over cheating case
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 01/10/2026
"Is all the money clean in any Premier League club? There's associations with regimes around the world - that's the way it is." In 2023, Andy Burnham said no one would be "completely comfortable" if Man U was owned by Qatar. Today, it's Man City caught in a funding scandal...
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:
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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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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 20/09/2026
Daniel Thomas, whose Patriot Platform group caused havoc in Dover and Portsmouth, had purchased the vessel to interfere with Border Force operations
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Danny Tommo’s boat for policing Channel accidentally sinks
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
‘We cannot allow race to be reintroduced into our politics. We cannot allow Briton to be set against Briton.’ Bravo Rishi Sunak www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...
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Rishi Sunak: Britishness must not be turned into a DNA test
I worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Laurie S @lozis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He could've set the record straight at any point but didn't. I agree what happens in a marriage should remain private...but maybe CS could apply that principle to his book.
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Laurie S @lozis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think you mean realist. He has 3 divorces, about 7 kids and an expensive estate to pay for. If he was such a devoted brother why wait 30 years to write a tell all book? And sell your serialisation to the newspaper taking your nephew to the cleaners for £9.5 million.
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Laurie S @lozis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nothing say 'telling the truth' like selling your story for serialisation in the daily mail 🙄
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Baldockboro 🇫🇷 📎 @baldockboro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Earl Spencer is very clear, and very angry, about what Charles said. So much so that he sat on it since 1997 until The Daily Mail came calling... Grifting cunts all of 'em.
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Laurie S @lozis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Maybe we can detect grifting easier... somebody that waits almost 30 years to publish these accusations, so they can flog a book, that's serialised in *checks notes* the Daily Mail (not like them to love a bit of dubious gossip) 🙄
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 16/09/2026
Opinion | 'The village that "roared" has swallowed the far-right’s lies' 🖋️ Ian Dunt trib.al/0aa2ych
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Exclusive: Russian intelligence agents are “hijacking” online networks of violence-obsessed children and offering them money, guns and coaching on making explosives and poisons, new research suggests At least two incidents have been claimed by the networks in the UK inews.co.uk/news/russian...
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Russian spies 'recruiting UK teenagers' to carry out acts of violence and sabotage
Russian intelligence agents are “hijacking” online networks of violence-obsessed children and offering them money, guns and coaching on making explosives and poisons, new research suggests. Law enforc...
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
8pm and at #BBCSounds File on 4 Investigates discovers Chinese state money and influence reaching far into UK companies and universities as China targets British chip and blockchain technology, and asks whether enough is being done to mitigate the threat to national security.
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File on 4 Investigates - China and the UK... after the 'Golden Era' - BBC Sounds
Examining Chinese state influence in UK public life.
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Laurie S @lozis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That’s so true. So many think they’re experts without having any experience of actually living here.
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Laurie S @lozis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As an actual resident of Wales the current independence discussion online is bizarre especially from those outside the country. I live in Powys and healthcare provision is diabolical and worsening under Plaid, so i'm sure their time could be better spent fixing issues rather than grandstanding.
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Laurie S @lozis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As a resident of Wales...nothing will happen. It's the time old distraction from failings in their own backyard.
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Laurie S @lozis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Agree...I live in Powys and healthcare provision is diabolical and actually becoming worse under Plaid, so i'm sure they're time could be better spent.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The ‘British values’ brigade in action.
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 05/09/2026
These CEOs earn seven-figure salaries and insist their water quality is 'excellent'. Yet they have suddenly become very hard to reach... Read more: trib.al/mROVfP4
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We invited 9 water firm bosses to swim in their local bathing spot. Zero said yes
These CEOs earn seven-figure salaries and insist their water quality is 'excellent'. Yet they have suddenly become very hard to reach...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/08/2026
UK to warn citizens to stock up on food amid threat from climate crisis and hostile states
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UK to warn citizens to stock up on food amid threat from climate crisis and hostile states
Government resilience campaign aims to ensure people can cope in a national disaster, in order to free resources for most vulnerable UK citizens will be told to stock up on tinned food and take steps to ensure they are prepared for national emergencies as part of a new government campaign to improve the nation’s resilience. The new campaign from the Cabinet Office will set out ways people can prepare for extreme weather events and potential attacks from hostile states, including stocking up on bottled water, sources told the Guardian. Continue reading...
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 24/08/2026
Ollie Watkins has torched his Aston Villa legacy trib.al/khy2ARN
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Ollie Watkins has torched his Aston Villa legacy
I can count the amount of friends and family who watch the Saudi Pro League on no hands
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Russia is escalating a sabotage campaign against European defence factories supplying Ukraine, The Telegraph reports . Western intelligence says local criminals are recruited online and paid in crypto, giving Moscow plausible deniability while keeping attacks below NATO’s Article 5 threshold.
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When the British government privatised the water companies we were promised enterprise and investment. We got cynical loading of debt onto the public and decades of neglect leading to horrible problems of pollution. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Pollution behind coracle fishing in Carmarthenshire river's decline
The tradition on a Carmarthenshire river once fished by US President Jimmy Carter could be coming to an end.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Serco employee charged with misconduct in public office for sharing asylum-seekers' addresses www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Man charged with sharing asylum seeker addresses in Thetford
The 62-year-old man is remanded in custody and will appear at Norwich Crown Court on 14 September.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reminder of those in British politics who supported Trump. • Boris Johnson • Liz Truss • Suella Braverman • Andrea Jenkyns • Jacob Rees-Mogg • Nigel Farage • Lord Frost • John Hayes • Robert Jenrick • Sammy Wilson • Ian Paisley • Jake Berry • Kwasi Kwarteng • Tim Montgomerie
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🔎 From the archive: What’s Going On a Cambridge? The tragic premature death of Jason Arday puts the university and its safeguarding policies back in the spotlight
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Downing Street's press release for Burnham's "emergency" Cobra meeting on the drought didn't even mention climate, with the Prime Minister blaming the growing numbers of wildfires on disposable barbecues. He's since appeared on GB News this afternoon to talk about migrant camps
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/08/2026
Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK
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Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK
Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were located overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US More than half the accounts that posted on Elon Musk’s X about the rioting in Belfast and the civil disorder in Southampton in June were based outside the UK, an analysis by the Guardian can reveal. Of the 8,672 accounts whose combined posts about the events exceeded 1,000 views, just 45.3% were shown as from the UK, according to the social media platform’s own location function. Continue reading...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
From the media group which used rhetoric that did a great deal to encourage it.
Allister Heath • @AllisterHeath • 22m
We are witnessing the emergence of a 21st century British fascism
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MOSLE
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The US is reigniting conflict over Greenland www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Journalists attacked with rocks for reporting on racist rioters waging a pogrom whilst calling for refugees to "have their f**king heads chopped off". These are the "protesters" with "legitimate concerns" we keep on hearing so much about www.edp24.co.uk/news/2644352...
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I've been attacked as a journalist twice in a year... I'm just trying to do my job
I was attacked for a second time in a year while covering the Thetford riots, here's what happened and why I'm going back.
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 06/08/2026
🔺 BREAKING: Police officers evacuated five men from a house in Norfolk after a mob of 100 people attempted to force their way into three properties which they claimed housed asylum seekers
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Men taken to safety after Thetford mob targets ‘asylum seeker homes’
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Can this really be true? Astonishing if so. If this lasts it's a very bad sign indeed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
New: A business that made a six-figure donation to Reform UK received interest-free loans of £67m from unnamed “related companies” in the months before, raising questions about the possible origin of the funds. observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £6...
Nigel Farage’s party is facing questions about the lack of transparency over £100,000 in funds donated by a management consultancy
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Esther Bintliff @estherbintliff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
NYT reporters Jason Horowitz and Carlos Barragán are in Ceuta and have spoken to several Moroccans who say they were encouraged to cross by Moroccan authorities www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This statement by UEFA on FIFA attempting to sell off the World Cup gave me goosebumps, what a statement - the beautiful game deserves no less “As so long as Europe has a voice, it will never be for sale.”
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Don't think Americans on this and the other site fully understand how far Trump's capture of FIFA has the potential to fuel further anti-Americanism in Europe
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The World Cup without UEFA means no Mbappe, no Bellingham, no Haaland, no Olise, no Yamal It means no England, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium It means no Zidane, Tuchel, Klopp The World Cup this year without Europe would have just been Argentina & Egypt in the final 8 UEFA must hold firm
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