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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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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2h
Ofcom rules are clear: broadcasters cannot use politicians as newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in any news programmes. So why is Farage allowed to have his own show on GB News? Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action.
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 8h
This tweet is from 500 days ago. Apparently the "really bad things" that would happen to Putin and Russia if they refused to stop their war would be Trump lifting sanctions on them and paying them billions of dollars for less than a days worth of America's diesel needs.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 6h
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
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The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trevor Poutine is a Canadian history professor. This is on public executions and why they were stopped. Once.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
FFS, lost my concentration on a walk again and mistakenly took the path that said "1826" instead of the one that said "2026".
A horse drawn carriage progresses towards me down a bridleway on Dartmoor, prior to asking directions to the Exeter branch of TK Maxx.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProud @malcolmburtt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No doubt that consultation was polluted by family voting.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Questions remain for Green Party Leader Zack Polanski” says Chris Mason but he has no questions whatsoever for Reform leader Farage, thrashed by Greens with only 1,612 votes vs 8,928 🤷‍♂️ Are voters turned off by #FaragesFishyFiveMillion by all the sleaze & corruption Nah that’s not important to BBC
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tom Watson on phone hacking "Consumer boycotts do impact [and] it's up to the public to decide whether they want to put up with that kind of nonsense" www.abc.net.au/pm/archive/a... So it's legitimate for the public to want boycotts when it's The Sun, but "mob rule" when it's Palantir.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anyone who uses the term ‘Super Intelligence’ in serious science or academia will be determining the end of their career.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
With great power comes no responsibility
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Billionaire David Reuben says he quit UK for Monaco ... actually already there since 2014. Worth £28bn, objects to non-dom tax changes. Doesn't want to be taxed on the same basis as UK residents Super-rich happy to make profits in the UK, want special treatment, hold govts to ransom.
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mick Lynch "Zack Polanski isn't inciting hatred for Jews he believes he is an agent of peace and that Israel is carrying out Mass Murder in Gaza and the West Bank, and I believe that too." When Mick Lynch speaks sense, he speaks sense.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"I have to tell you know that no such declaration has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with hedgehogs"
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is, I think, the data equivalent of every politician going on television naked and telling you that fire is wet and shite is shampoo, while you try to ignore their crinkled arses and saggy ballsacks
NEW: Home Office stats released today reveal that arrests for "terrorist-related activity" in the year ending June 2026 were up 1,553% on last year and 94% of the arrests (3,630 of 3,867) were linked to showing support for Palestine Action.
Figure 1.1: Arrests for terrorist-related
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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 · 08/10/2026
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.
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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
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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...
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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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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
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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...
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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...
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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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Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProud @malcolmburtt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hence the laughter in the audience when she loudly proclaim that the Tory government failed on immigration. It's almost as if she has forgotten who was in the Home Office.
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Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProud @malcolmburtt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dr. Evil currently trying to burnish his British ancestry
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Dr. Evil's Iconic Evil Laugh
Alt: Dr. Evil's Iconic Evil Laugh
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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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Malcolm Burtt #IStandWithUkraine #WokeAndProud @malcolmburtt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of our councillors moved to Tasmania without resigning his seat.
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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?
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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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