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Malcolm Sleath

@malcolmsleath.eurosky.social
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📍North Londoner. British by birth. Irish by descent. European in outlook. Views probably pre-owned.

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 18h
No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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JUSTICE @justicehq.bsky.social · 1h
In this letter to @thetimes.com, Lord Carlile, @bricksilk.bsky.social and Sir Max Hill explain why the ECHR is a national security asset. The three former Independent Reviewers of Terrorism Legislation wrote the foreword to our recent paper on the subject: justice.org.uk/news/former-...
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1h
The Tory Bayeux Tapestry is very funny and a great skewering of most of the main characters, apart from Angela Rayner who looks absolutely iconic in every image
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kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For years I've heard of a large bloke in a red suit flying around in December, being pulled by a herd of reindeer, who breaks into peoples houses, strangely I don't believe that either🙄
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not beating the genocide allegations
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The magic of an Irish rainforest
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23h
Well said 👏♥️ "Without immigration, we would be much poorer, actually, as a country as a whole, not just as a city."
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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Two minute exposure of clouds moving over Colpoy's Bay, Ontario shortly before sunrise for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #3rdPlace #BrucePeninsula #BruceCounty #ECK #photography #TenMinutesFromHome #LongExposureProject
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What a week. We've seen the news agenda rescued from the grip of the far-right. We've seen astonishing levels of competence in government communication. And we've seen the outline of a radical policy programme. It's a v.exciting time to be involved in politics iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...
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Some disparate thoughts on a historic speech
For the first time in two years, we freed ourselves from the far-right’s strangle-hold over the news agenda.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 02/10/2026
Community Fibre are really good, and a third of the price.
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 02/10/2026
It's October, which can mean one thing - time for the flu and covid booster jabs. Yay for vaccines and science saving lives. PS: My arms hurt.
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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People forget how xenophobic the UK was in the 1930s and instead pat themselves on the back for the Kindertransports, which were not actually organised by the state at all.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We know exactly who these people are: the type that made Jews feel unsafe in the Labour party. Now the same thing is happening in the Greens. Requires a firm, principled response which Polanski is obviously incapable of demonstrating.
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🎯 @georgemonbiot.bsky.social was spot on ….
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Excellent news. The good thing is that Palantir isn’t unique and there are many options, all of which will save the taxpayer money. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Andy Burnham searches for UK alternative to Palantir
Prime minister’s ‘Buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The sheer magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
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Infinite Monkeys @infinitemonkeyshq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Writer to writer.
:A letter from Ernest Hemingway, to F.
Scott Fitzgerald:
Key West
28 May 1934
Dear Scott,
For Christ sake write and don't worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what.
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit.
I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it-don't cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist.
I'd like to see you and talk about things with you sober.
You were so damned stinking in NY we didn't get anywhere.
You see, Bo, you're not a tragic character. Neither am I. All we are is writers and what we should do is write.
But Scott, good writers always come back. Always. You are twice as good now as you were at the time you think you were so marvellous. You know I never thought so much of Gatsby at the time. You can write twice as well now as you ever could. All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is. Go on and write.
Anyway I'm damned fond of you and I'd like to have a
chance to talk sometimes.
Always your friend,
Ernest
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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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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We rightly give Home Office ministers a hard time here for many things, but in their defence, not one of them has ever ordered the Identity & Passport Service to mail out passports in envelopes that might as well be printed with the words ‘Important identity document enclosed: please steal’.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This deserves an honourary knighthood
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🌹 BONUS BURNHAMCAST 🌹 The PM stuns and rouses Labour’s Liverpool conference with a bold address promising to usher in a new era. Have we just heard the “Wonderwall” of political speeches? The New World's political editor @jamesrball.com and @nndroid.bsky.social weigh in ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
> @variety.com variety.com/2026/digital...
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 29/09/2026
A video falsely claiming to show a long queue of Muslim women waiting to sign up for free childcare has been liked thousands of times on social media. But the clip actually shows the women waiting in line for a modest clothing sale in Amsterdam.
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Video shows Muslim women queuing for a clothing sale, not free childcare – Full Fact
The video has been widely shared on social media alongside the false claim that it shows women in headscarves lining up to enroll their children into free public daycare.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We can all argue about Burnham's speech but it meant girl twin asking me what the triple lock was and boy twin asking me what my preferred form of PR is. So it's done its work.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...
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Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment
It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.
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Tairāwhiti Doc @tairawhitidoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
View tonight of Mt. Hood, a plane departing from PDX, and the Columbia River.
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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Johnson knew Brexit was going to bankrupt us. The OBR told him how much GDP was going to be lost due to falling migration, so he massively boosted rest of the world migration. The dishonesty on the right about the real trade offs is disgusting.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'
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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's something amazing about being in a peloton of 40+ bikes on the cycle lane heading home. Every driver at the front of a queue of side-street traffic... every person peering out of a bus window... every passer-by gets the message: "Oh wow, yeah, people are using this stuff". Never gets old.
My view travelling home by bike: Loads of people cycling on the South City Way cycle lane on Victoria Road in Govanhill in the Southside of Glasgow, during evening rush hour. A woman in front of me wears an incredibly fetching gold coloured helmet.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24/09/2026
"The early days of Andy Burnham’s government have made Starmer’s look positively energetic: a PM who usually loves nothing more than being on camera has studiously avoided saying a word as he loses control of law and order in Britain, and his home secretary seems determined to appease the thugs."
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If Shabana Mahmood is tough, why is she so slow to crack down on Danny Tommo and the far right?
Weeks of what looks like blatant lawbreaking have finally resulted in an arrest. But the home secretary seems happy to look elsewhere
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is how you fuel antisemitism.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And what did he do on that livestream, huh, BBC? What did he do?
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm from Johnson City, Kansas, about 100 miles southwest of Dodge City. This is horrific. The only light in this situation is seeing so many people not okay with it.
Aaron Estabrook.


Dodge City is my hometown. What's happening there today is hard to watch.

ICE is conducting what residents describe as a multiday operation across Southwest Kansas, including Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal. The Liberal, KS Vice Mayor reportedly watched as many as 60 of her neighbors were detained and taken away on buses today. Educators in Dodge City are worried about students returning home from school to find their parents gone.

Think about what that means for a child they ask.

Residents report large white buses staged in these communities and ICE agents stationed at meatpacking plants during shift changes, spreading panic through an industry already under stress. Unmarked vehicles recklessly cutting across the cities, pinning cars on main routes and back alleys.

Peaceful protesters have gathered along Wyatt Earp Boulevard near El Capitan, with people also gathering at the fairgrounds in Garden City this evening.

There are deeply troubling reports and images of agents breaking car windowsThere are deeply troubling reports and images of agents breaking car windows while babies were inside in car seats. Families are also sharing videos they say show ICE detaining someone born and raised in Garden City. Those accounts need independent verification and answers. We still don't have a confirmed regional count, and I cannot verify suggestions that hundreds were detained today.

But the accounts coming from these communities describe parents, grandparents, neighbors, friends and employees being taken away. Calling an operation a crackdown on "the most dangerous criminals” does not establish that everyone swept up in it fits that description.

Of course, some people are pleased to see this day come. I am not. Federal agents tearing families apart in our state inspires nothing in me but grief for those involved, especially the kids.

And who benefits from the damage left behind?

Removing workers and frightening entire communities risks making agricultural labor harder to find, disrupting meat production and putting more pressure on food prices. Small businesses lose customers. Families lose income. Schools are left helping children cope with fear andare left helping children cope with fear and uncertainty. Local governments lose too. Immigrants pay taxes; sales, property, income.

For my entire life, immigration has been part of Southwest Kansas. Immigrant families have worked in our packing plants, helped sustain our farms, opened businesses, raised children and made these communities their home. They are part of the place I grew up. I loved being neighbors with them and growing up with their children.

I want to know how many people were taken, why they were detained and what is happening to their children. These communities deserve answers, and every person detained deserves due process and humane treatment.

I grew up understanding that people came to Southwest Kansas to work hard and build a life. Watching families who did exactly that being torn apart feels foreign to everything I have known about home. This is beyond politics. It's human decency. I pray that no tragic event occurs and human dignity is honored by all involved.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mind-blowing story in Private Eye about how the Telegraph's chief reporter reached out to James Orr (or meant to) after the Channel 4 donation revelations


...within hours of journalists on either the *Guardian* or *Sunday Times* contacting Reform for comment on the same stories ahead of them publishing their own investigations. Reform deputy leader Richard Tice and his fiancée, supposed journalist Isabel Oakeshott, even crowed online about their spoiler tactics.

Not that the *Telegraph* doesn't do its own leg work when reporting on Reform. After James Orr, the party's head of policy, had to resign after a sting by *Channel 4 News* (see "*Right Orr Wrong*, p14"), *Telegraph* chief reporter Rob Mendick texted Orr: "I was hoping to talk to you entirely on background," he schmoozed. "You must be feeling very bruised and I totally Appreciate [sic] the sensitivities. I suspect you deserve better and I wanted to see how I can put the record straight in some way." Alas, instead of the Reformer and Cambridge theologian, Mendick messaged someone else, who shared it with the *Eye*!
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Isn't it funny how the headline isn't "Anti-migrant protestor jailed for throwing bottle"...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026
Yeah, what psychopath would want his name on a building associated with an assassinated President
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
‘Interactions.’
AP headline 

Six Palestinians have been killed this week in interactions with Israeli settlers
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Slow marching being an obvious threat to public safety meriting prosecution, unlike blocking ports and knifing boats with someone still on board /s
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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI
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Polly Smythe @pollysmythe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great to see the FT picking up @londoncentric.media's story on the curious sale of Nick Candy's mansion to Suneil Setiya www.ft.com/content/1ca6...
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Labour MPs call for end to loophole that trimmed billionaire’s tax bill by £18mn
Quadrature Capital’s Suneil Setiya would have been liable for higher rate of stamp duty had he not bought five flats together with London mansion
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The BBC of course are not bothering to live report what is going on right now but apparently believe this is news...
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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We are witnessing the growth an increasingly well-organised fascist movement that openly and flagrantly uses criminal violence to achieve its goals. The response of British state? Nothing. Law enforcement either can’t or won’t do anything, and our political leaders refuse to condemn it
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