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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10h

Do you see this? This is lots of people who saw clearly that The Day Of Reckoning was coming, and wanted to do something to prevent it. And the world’s most poisonous, ugliest, most horrifying media class told the public it was a “carnival of hate”, and similar things www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

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Labour conference: Members fill hall with Palestinian flags

Delegates unfurl Palestinian flags at their conference hall - and Emily Thornberry delivers a fiery speech.

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Peter Furmedge @peterfurmedge.bsky.social · 8h

As the USA is an ally of Russia, shouldn't we be looking at the threat from the enemy within? Russia doesn't have military stationed in the UK and Europe, Russia's western ally does. Or do we carry on pretending that the geopolitical realignment of the USA doesn't really matter?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And I mean, it is not like we don’t know how to prevent billionaires and billionaire criminals buying up the means to cripple and direct democracy. We know very well how to do that, and anyone who makes any headway advocating for it gets crushed by our politicians and media outlets, acting together.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I notice that everything the press doesn’t like is “social contagion” now, except for the escalating crankery of the press, which is an organisation of a couple of thousand people mostly concentrated in one city, who largely all know each other - one thing that definitely *is* social contagion.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This all sounds nice, but the party remains under the control of people who regard e.g. slashing benefits, giving the US a zillion pounds for missiles and AI bullshit and war, and those people have a proven track record of blowing up any attempts to achieve any of this kind of stuff.

theguardian.com

Labour’s last chance? The people shaping Andy Burnham’s grand plans for Britain

The long read: The new prime minister has declared he wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism. But is he really prepared to be that radical?

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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We have closed all safe and legal routes. This is all that's left. We can fix this by opening safe and legal asylum claims from the other side of the channel, breaking the criminal gangs overnight. That's just not racist enough. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent

The arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Shows you how naive I am: I really thought things like the Leveson inquiry, the Iraq War report and the Grenfell fire were too big, too ugly to ignore, and that there would have to be serious consequences and fundamental change. But LOL no, straight in the bin it all goes, and we continue as before.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I will remind you that all of the pundits unified on the position that the Labour Party taking small donations from members of the public, which secured their finances years in advance, was a terrifying and anti-democratic imposition of minority enthusiasms on the people.

Pippa Crerar • G @PippaCrerar
X.com
NEW: Reform UK has received a record single donation of £36m from cryptocurrency billionaire Ben Delo in what will be seen as the Americanisation of British political funding.
The astonishing sum comes after Andy Burnham last month dropped his support for capping the amount a person or organisation can give in a single donation. The PM may be regretting that now.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If we want to suppress the wave of extreme far right radicalisation shittifying the country, then we need to send Prevent into public schools and elite universities, as well as the offices of the Times, the Telegraph and the Spectator and several cash-rich thinktanks. That’s where it’s coming from.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Rod Hull, time traveller. Villa Romana Del Casale.

Roman mosaic depicting man carrying a large bird like an emu.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just spitballing here, but maybe it shouldn’t be legal to allow a private company owned by Nigel Farage to impersonate a political party

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Les Tudor @majikmijit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Really looking forward to seeing every penalty we concede being checked for offside in the build-up.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A great opportunity for everyone to ask big questions like “How come a man with few friends, a tiny number of allies, no political experience and zero ideas became not only leader of the opposition but Prime Minister, mostly by lying like fuck to one audience or another”.

Pippa Crerar • O @PippaCrerar
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BREAKING: Keir Starmer announces he is standing down as an MP, prompting a byelection in his North London constituency.
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Starmer tells his local paper @NewJournal he feels it's the "right time" to leave the House of Commons and focus on international affairs, after his ousting as prime minister by Andy Burnham.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fine words from Alastair, who is in a position of some authority on the topic of the British press jointly hounding members of the public to death in pursuit of an utterly malicious political agenda.

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL O @campbellclaret
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I never met Jason Arday, and know nothing about him beyond what I have read, seen and heard in the media.
As the debate around him raged in recent weeks, I stayed out of it, precisely because it struck me as one of those occasional frenzies in which facts get lost and humans cease to be treated as humans. I now wish I had reached out to him, tried to encourage him that "this too shall pass."
Many people today, those who knew him above all but also many like me who didn't, will be feeling sadness and anger that this has all led to his death, a family suddenly without a father, parents without a son. None of us will ever know exactly what was going through his mind, but it is hard to disagree with @MayorofLondon that Jason Arday faced "an unacceptable public hounding and campaign of abuse ... pernicious public shaming that other people in his position wouldn't have faced."

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It really is quite something to come out with this stuff when your party made both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss Prime Minister.

Neil O'Brien
@NeilDotObrien
X.com
The Arday scandal revealed the rot in our universities - a guy producing reams of meaningless garbage was promoted & praised to high heaven. But he's not unique. My new piece looks at the growth of DEI / critical theory rubbish in our universities, using large datasets:
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What proportion of UK thesis titles contain EDI / critical theory terms
Rate per 10,000 theses
- EThOS - 13 repositories (all) - - 13 repositories (doctoral

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“It’s in Morocco” feels like the only bit you need, really

Mehdi Hasan • @mehdirhasan.bsky.... • 18h
"The Fake 'Invasion' of Spain: What You Need to Know"
9 things you should know about the so-called 'crisis' of Moroccan migrants forcing their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta
- and the hysterical response from the right in the U.S., UK, and EU.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If the new leader is performing better than the previous Prime Minister, because he’s a politician and the previous PM was a Sooty glove puppet for Peter Mandelson and five guys in a trenchcoat: does that not raise questions about how a talentless glove puppet came to be PM?

The Observer ®
@ObserverUK • 6h
Andy Burnham is a professional politician - and that's working wonders for him

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I mean, come the fuck on, lads. Who is terminally online, when the major all-channels terror-scandal of the last decade was the political class on Twitter dot com, angrily bullshitting themselves into believing they were persecuted and bullied by a bunch of nice nurses, social workers and bar staff

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Brian Blessed Is Enraged @micbbbrad.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A shameful display of urges for violence in our politics. Jail everyone involved. Then we can get back to the British standard of encouraging people to burn migrants to death by spreading racist conspiracy theories.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Again, the net benefit for the UK committing lives and huge sums of money to the War On Terror was: Tony Blair got some sweet photo ops with George Bush II; Tony Blair got a standing ovation from Congress, and Tony Blair turned that into a lucrative influence-peddling project.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sally Jameson when asked about letting the US use UK bases to bomb Iran: "The govt will always act within the best interests.. of the British people" How is it in our interest to help the US wage an illegal war that's slaughtering Iranian children & pushing up our energy prices?

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Jack "O' Lantern" Liu @teflonslinky.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I mean I care about it insofar as it demonstrates their lifelong commitment to nothing ever getting better and our society slowly collapsing

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I encounter the odd person in real life who quite clearly drove themselves apeshit on Facebook during the pandemic, but they’re all people who would’ve been voting Tory or Reform regardless. Would we say the hateful extreme viciousness of the era is an organically public thing, or an elite project?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If the nominally left party is *roared* to power by all of this country’s most savvy, liberal Sensible Moderates and it immediately sets into a programme of extremely aggressive, belligerent Powell-esque flag-humping and anti-migrant crackdowns, then I don’t think we can blame that on nasty Nigel.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 26/06/2026

the "how dare you care about gaza but not sudan" crowd (david lammy) didn't care about sudan either

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

What happened between 2015 and 2020 taught me that, should that awful day come and we, settled EU migrants, become the target of Reform, the Great British Public will do nothing to protect us. Friends will be appaled but powerless. A few marches, some nice, principled words, that'll be all.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

See also: why Johnson was got for getting pissed at lockdown parties, and not - say - because all the residents in your gran’s care home all died of COVID 19 in the space of about three weeks.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It has to be the individual involved who is entirely to blame for whatever embarrassing disaster it is, purely because of their terrible, exceptional personal flaws. Whatever it is, it’s never the institution; a series of similar embarrassing disasters can only be individual failings.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

You can laugh at this but it’s fifty years of reactionary politics at a glance. Yes, they got everything they demanded; yes, they’re angrier than ever and yes, they want more cruelty, vandalism and idiocy. As I told you in the 2010s: they will always be like this, they can’t be pleased or appeased.

Today marks 10 years since Britain voted to leave the EU. As Starmer finally falls on his sword and Britain faces a lurch to the left under Burnham we call for politicians to finally believe in Brexit and deliver the will of the people
EXPRESS CRUSADEN GIVE US A PROPER BREWIT

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Starmer has no politics because *he is nobody*, he is a bonnet ornament chosen by Morgan McSweeney and Peter Mandelson as the type of clueless, malleable dim bulb who would help them to destroy their enemies and get on with the real business of government: accepting lots of lovely bribes and gifts.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

That’s two general elections in a row where the winners were abysmal and deeply malicious people, cranks who owed everything to the press putting their huge thumbs on the scales to all but throw them through the door at Downing Street. And both times, swiftly crashing to hated public enemy status.

Pippa Crerar
@pippacrerar.bsky.so. • 3m
The lectern has now been brought outside
No 10 for Keir Starmer to make his announcement

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 13/06/2026

Here is a question I would like a journalist to ask themselves and individuals connected to this: If Morgan McSweeney is no longer officially employed at 10 Downing Street but continuing to be intimately involved in Starmer’s day-to-day operations, then who is paying him?

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 10/06/2026

People can continue to rail against 'the Left' for producing the state the country is in, but at some point they are going to have to confront the fact that at no point in my entire lifetime has 'the Left' held political power in any way, and so responsibility for this lies at someone else's door.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Comical really that we had years of squealing about how large numbers of members of the public funding a political party led to extreme and unrepresentative politics, in a way that taking big bungs from billionaires and companies presumably does not

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The reports into the grooming gangs in England found cops and officials paid little attention to them because nobody gives a fuck about kids in care with chaotic lives, but that didn’t prevent fifteen years of hysterical all-channels screaming about liberalism and multiculturalism as ethnic treason.

Police are so well protected when they handcuff a dying man, their superiors want to blame anti racism guidelines, not their absolute cruelty and fucking idiocy. None of the officers involved should have jobs right now. But we're discussing paperwork they prob haven't even read

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This one slid by yesterday but: if my country is irrevocably chained at the neck to an ailing empire that has now slid into fascism, then I’d ideally like to be told exactly why our continued subservience is mandatory and non-negotiable. Even just to put my mind at rest, you know.

Tim Shipman, explaining why Tony is right: we are deeply embedded with America in ways which the public does not understand and cannot be told and however joyous it makes us feel to hate Trump, disengagement at the deep state level is not only wholly unrealistic but also undesirable

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I’m afraid that after (bullshit PR stunt) (with national newspaper) we now have no choice but to (whatever we wanted to do in the first place) (reason we did bullshit PR stunt) - Me, (in national newspaper)

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 22/05/2026

At some point people are going to need to come to terms with the fact that the aim of Labour Together was to restore and solidify the party as a fiefdom for pigs, slobs and worms; that it succeeded fully in that goal; and that every person who remains in or affiliated with the party is irredeemable.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Just ignore her and nobody will notice, it really isn’t like you haven’t all had lots of practice pretending that you can’t see inconvenient things and you can’t hear awkward statements

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X
The most pointless sort of populism. All of the major issues she could ask the Prime Minister about and she thinks the big problem is MPs having a pint.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

You could just ignore her, lads. Nobody is forcing you to repeatedly make a big red spanked arse of yourselves, where the public can see.

Tim Stanley
@timothy_stanley
X.com
19th century temperance league lady launches campaign against public fun.
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MP's groaning and jeering as Hannah Spencer points out her constituents have to pay the full price for a pint whereas MP's get their alcohol subsidised #PMQs

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

And this goes for the whole reactionary politics thing: the racists won’t tolerate Sensible Labour, nor will the Mail and the Sun, nor the crank terfs or the wacko war partisans. Every form of right wing reactionary these clowns thought they could impress absolutely *fucking despises them*.

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Silent Stars @markbrophy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Ask Labour to stand down in a by-election so Polanski can get a seat and see what they say

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We’ve been here before, haven’t we? Everybody believed Iraq had those weapons. All of us borrowed too much money before the 2008 crash. We all thought brutal austerity was essential. We all just wanted to get Brexit done. One avoidable disaster after another, and nobody to blame for any of it.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Look. When all these dorks keep saying “Oh no, the country is simply ungovernable”, do you notice how the follow up is not “And so your leaders and their various creatures must now change their behaviour”? Do you see how quickly and easily that will morph into “We need a Man of Will to impose order”

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