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Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations hack and all round technology geek with some left of centre politics thrown in. #FBPPR malcolmburtt@mastodon.world @MalcolmBurtt

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 9h
Wall-to-wall praise for the policy in today’s papers but they either don’t understand it or don’t care. We’ve been here before, of course. Bexit, Boris Johnson, Truss… all bigged up by the media despite, all obviously awful.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16h
If you’re reading today’s papers and thinking, did I watch a different Badenoch speech, may I recommend our sanity-restoring review? “The same people who could not build a railtrack from London to Manchester for £100bn, will build the Kemi Death Star for 10bn. It’s so ludicrous as to be offensive.”
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
All these glowing write up’s by the usual suspects, Peston, Rigby, Mason, regarding Badenoch’s speech. Not one asking where the money is going to come from for her ridiculous defence dome & billions upon billions of tax giveaways? Considering what Truss did, not pointing this out, is a disgrace.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Badenoch says that Labour "don’t get a clean slate just because they have changed leader". Yet whenever she's challenged on the Conservatives' record in government, she dismisses the question on the grounds that she wasn't leader then...
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My Cloudiest Suit @mycloudiestsuit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Chris Mason on #bbcnews somehow neglects to point out that the average house value in the UK still falls in the nil rate property band for IHT and that less than 5% of estates pay any IHT at all. So the BadEnoch big announcement is just another sop to the rich at the expense of the welfare budget.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.
THE
TIMES
Wednesday October 7 2026

Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hitler’s goons did exactly the same in the 1930s. Attacking people, beating them up, killing them, throwing them in jail or "disappearing" them.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dame Angela Eagle MP, Labour's Environment Secretary, on Kemi Badenoch claiming water privatisation has been a "success": "Kemi Badenoch is living in an alternate reality. How anybody can look at the Tory record on water and call it a success is baffling."
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just watched an SME owner declare because he “took all the chances of setting up my own business I’m entitled to not declare my income or pay tax like other people” in the kind of bold way you only expect from criminals.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026
Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.
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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 1 MILLION UK adults who have never smoked are now vaping. That should set alarm bells ringing. “less harmful” does not mean harmless, and we still don’t know the full consequences of regular use. A public health time bomb being built in real time. buff.ly/rSWJl70
buff.ly
One million UK adults who have never smoked are now vapers
Latest statistics also show, for the second year in a row, more over-16s vape than smoke.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BBC News were asking Conservative voters who they’d vote if the Tories weren’t an option, and it’s really made me realise just how little either I, or self-proclaimed Christians, really understand Christianity and its values.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
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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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nigel Farage wants us to believe that ex-Tories responsible for 000s of austerity deaths who defected to Reform UK are going to fix all the problems they created "This poster was used in the 2024 election campaign 85% of the Tories featured defected to Reform after the election" via Barry James
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
On political parties and antisemitism. Worth remembering this Yougov/CAAS poll carried out in 2025. On the statement: 'Jewish people chase money more than other people do.' Green supporters agree 7%. Reform 24%. Conservative 17%. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/CA...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ruffalo: Keep the bastards away from our most vulnerable people, our beloved, beloved immigrants. Because if you ain’t Native American, you’re an immigrant, a beautiful immigrant.
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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 04/10/2026
Whatever you think of Burnham he is at least not stupid enough to announce “helping people earning over £100k a year with childcare costs so people are encouraged to work harder” as his main policy.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So invading small boats are good now?
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Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProud @malcolmburtt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Disgraceful. I hope he sues them.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 01/10/2026
I wrote a little something about how we should better separate the legitimacy of the challenges people are experiencing from the legitimacy of what they're then holding up as the solution to those problems. dmitryopines.substack.com/p/on-legitim...
dmitryopines.substack.com
On Legitimate Concerns
Problems, Policies and How To Parse Them
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Since Braverman does not identify as English, its strange for her to insist that she could define for others the rules of an in group that she does not believe she can ever be a member of *and* to believe her intuition should trump a broad sustained consemsus amomg those who do identify as English!
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I still remember Esther Rantzen on That’s Life holding up a small ad from a Local Authority in the early 70s advertising for an Equal Pay Officer but offering a lower wage for women. I’m part of generation of teenagers mildly radicalised by amusing trivia.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rich privately educated prick who wasn’t even born until 1984 recasts era of rioting, poverty and mass unemployment as Britain’s golden age. Thatcher was the worst thing that ever happened to Britain
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Simple solution: just don't do it. The US desire to find 'clean' ways of killing people is ultimately to try and absolve themselves of what they're doing: killing people. There is no clean and morally pure way of taking a life - and particularly not of someone whose entirely within your power
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 01/10/2026
If you're on a variable rate energy tariff and don't have a smart meter, don't forget to submit meter readings as soon as possible. (Since the price cap goes up today, you don't want to accidentally be billed for more units than necessary at the higher price.)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?
nytimes.com
OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What’s remarkable is how so much of the coverage of Burnham’s speech today is focused on 2 policy areas: social care and pensioner income. What Burnham set out was far bigger than the policy commitments he made. It was a huge political realignment. Do we not have the capacity to engage with that?
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is an outstanding point
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.
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Medoyid_ua @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burning the academy is the point. Moscow isnt after a building, its after the next generation of Ukrainian minds. Kill the future, not just the present.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well, well, well. Rules only apply to little people.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/09/2026
The BBC is part of the problem...
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Ukraine carried out a massive operation to bring food to starving people in occupied Oleshky. 4,000 kg of food. 100 locations. Delivered by Ukrainian drones. I can’t read this without tears.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Magnificent trolling in Brum
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I reckon if someone made an AI-fake video of Farage on Newsnight saying these exact same words, no one would notice.
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t let brexiteers tell you leaving the European Union has given us more control as a nation over what happens to us or power to stand up for ourselves. Join us this Sunday in Liverpool at the @labour4europe.bsky.social rally fighting for our nations interest and future with Europe.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Zionists and their allies don’t like to hear the truth… What we have witnessed with our own eyes -and what the UN has concluded…. Is that ISRAEL IS COMMITTING GENOCIDE. They think their propaganda will brainwash us. Not a chance
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‘Dear sir/madam, to whom it may concern, we hacked one of your websites.’ Hilarious that OpenAI just sent an email to the public inbox of Services Australia, (and nearly two months after the hack)
Timeline: OpenAl agent hacks
Australian government website
Here is what we know of the timeline how things panned out:
• 18 June - OpenAl's agent accessed both public and non-public information on an Australian website
• August (precise date unknown) - OpenAl said it became aware of a potential breach during a broader review of "misaligned model activity"
• 10 September - An email from OpenAl lands in the public inbox of Services Australia, the general services hub of the federal government, informing of the incident
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just me saying that any effort to tackle misinformation must be an attack on Reform, thereby admitting that Reform are helping Russia to spread far right narratives and create dissent and unrest.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 24/09/2026
We've given the knuckle draggers way too much of the mic and now they've really pissed off the historians
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No, arresting ‘Danny Tommo’ won’t make him a martyr. *Not* arresting him will fuel his agenda.
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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"I am the way, the truth and the code".
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Considering Burnham's attack on Russian disinformation at the UN, maybe we should take another look at this damning verdict on the (old) government's corrupt investigation into Russian influence during the Brexit ref. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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