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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17h
Trump backs out of deposition in his lawsuit against BBC, has not suggested new date - BBC asks court to get him to comply www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...
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BBC asks judge to force Trump to sit for deposition as part of his $10bn lawsuit
BBC asks US federal judge to compel Trump’s lawyers to schedule deposition after his team canceled initial session
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 22h
I was on the telly.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I like Emily.
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Scrap Brexit without a second referendum, says senior London Labour MP Emily Thornberry — The Standard
‘I don't think we need to have another referendum, but what we can do is have it in the manifesto, and then people can have a choice,’ says Dame Emily
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
2026: Labour MP Jonathan Hinder says 'nobody thinks that was going to happen,' that Brexit would mean, instead of migrants from the EU, we'd get migrants from outside the EU 2016: Labour's Heidi Alexander explained exactly that; one of many politicians and commentators to do so
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This morning, #r4today chose to highlight Jenrick's question to the PM about stopping the boats. Did they mention anything about his racist demand for the Royal Navy to murder refugees? Nope. You can decide for yourself what that says about the BBC.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We’ll tell you what’s boring, Farage and the BBC… honking out Reform’s latest anti-asylum seeker bollox, as if it’s workable or wanted, and without any meaningful scrutiny. Yusuf on #r4today like a firehose of fascist idiocy, when this is the ugly truth behind their desperate outburst…
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Nigel Farage's latest announcement comes as Reform UK continue to struggle with falling poll ratings (O Gary Oakley/PA Wire)
Nigel Farage hits panic button and vows to ban all asylum seekers for five years after Reform poll plunge
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban
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davidej2025.bsky.social @davidej2025.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One of the greatest presidents has returned to help defeat the most corrupt person in US history.
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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mostly agree as SM has to be top priority but Freedom of movement again would be great.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Email just sent to today @ bbc. co . uk #BBCPM #R4Today
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Freedom of the press?

The Today programme will be covering the Conservative party conference next week. Will there be any mention of journalists being barred from the event? This year Josiah Mortimer of Byline Times has been refused a pass. This follows two journalists from the same paper - one a current and one a former member of the Parliamentary lobby - being refused passes for last year's conference; and is just weeks after Kemi Badenoch called Reform’s decision to bar several journalists from their own conference "authoritarian" and an attack on the "free press".

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/kemi-badenochs-conservatives-ban-byline-times-from-conference-after-condemning-reform-for-journalist-ban/

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Newspapers: We're going to have to pay for Burnham's social care plans! Also newspapers: Social care costs took all my savings! We're already paying for social care, just less fairly and probably less efficiently. #R4Today
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cheers, Nigel Farage is crying now
Headline: men arrested near RAF airbase are UK citizens from London
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
His name is Daniel Thomas. #R4Today
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyone wondering what ‘two tier policing’ was? Now we know.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rebuilding our relationship with the EU “is the cheapest way to boost the economy, the fastest way to unite Europe in the face of security threats and the best way to get leverage on a global system that no longer has an American anchor.” So obvious it hurts. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Brexit has left Britain ‘impotent – a bobbing cork in the sea,’ says David Miliband
Exclusive: Former foreign secretary adds to mounting pressure for a new UK deal with EU to repair Brexit damage
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As we suspected:
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marancat.bsky.social @marancat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I know! I'm feeling the same, tho' I got there a few week before you! x
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Farage being deliberately misleading by pretending the Govt have only announced that the donations cap will be retrospective as a response to Refuk's recent £76m. In reality, Govt made clear in March that the cap would apply from then. Perhaps if Farage sat in the House more he would have known...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Steve Reed on 25 March explaining that the £100k cap on donations "will therefore apply retrospectively, so it includes all donations from overseas electors received from today". Yes, but how are people who never bother going to Parliament supposed to know that?
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John Marsham @johnmarsham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Why do BBC headlines always seem to be "What Reform says about what's happening", not "What is actually happening"?!
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Nigel Farage and his friends, allies and company.
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D. D. Syrdal @ddsyrdal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Constantly linking to sites that require a subscription to read them seems like a waste of time.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/09/2026
RNLI volunteers put themselves in harm’s way to save lives. They should never face abuse or threats for doing so. That includes the crews based on the Thames, who respond to hundreds of incidents every year. They deserve to be thanked, not attacked.
bbc.co.uk
Abuse of RNLI volunteers 'wholly unacceptable', chief says
Peter Sparkes says there has been "deliberate misinformation" spread about the charity.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'd like to thank this lady. Reform would be nowhere at all without people as unutterably stupid as her.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/09/2026
I wonder how the percentage of asylum seekers with criminal records compares to the percentage of people's patriots with criminal records.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This risks repeating the same mistakes Starmer made on the far right. Sometimes you have to call out racist thugs as racist thugs.
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Make no mistake, this is a portent of what Law enforcement will look like under these fascists - freedom of speech if Reform Ltd approves of you, a thorough beating if it doesn't.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I for one have had enough of people who can barely speak English, living on benefits, ignoring our laws and wearing weird clothes that cover up their faces. So it was disappointing to see a few hundred of them gathered in Dover today.
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RichLBI @richlbi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Now that is responsible journalism. Chances are 100% of what Trump says are lies anyway.
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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What the lying Liar said just after the referendum...
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Happy #SocialistSunday comrades ✊🏻
Four-panel political cartoon. An older white man in a suit warns two workers, one Black, one white, "Careful. That foreigner wants your cookie." While he distracts them, the workers wrestle the plate of cookies away from him and ultimately share them peacefully together.
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R1ch1e5 @r1ch1e5.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Breaking: Shooting yourself in foot results in self inflicted wounds. #Brexit #Labour #FaragesEconomicDamage
yet another Brexit report shows it to be a disaster for exports in both EU and non EU zones
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Toxic politics - toxic men. Police data has “consistently shown that a significant proportion of men arrested during far-right riots are already known to the police for domestic abuse” www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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James English: one of many men with far-right ties accused of domestic violence
Podcaster James English is one of many men with far-right ties to have been found guilty or accused of domestic violence
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Labour showing it isn't impossible to run the asylum system (even if it isn't easy)...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/08/2026
The Empire State Building went pink at exactly 9:25pm for Dolly Parton. Because of course they made it 9 to 5. That’s how you honor an icon. 🩷
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80
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Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80
Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes Dolly Parton, one of the greatest singer-songwriters in country music who was also much cherished for her philanthropy, has died aged 80. Her death was announced by nephew Brian Seaver on Instagram. Continue reading...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I mean… this is a painful watch. Here we are, Brexit Britain, in our not-so-splendid isolation, being battered on trade, less secure, less reliable, less trusted… just so much less… Canada wants in and we still can’t admit what arrogant, clueless fools we were for throwing it all away.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It’s been literally every poll, every week, for over a year. Including every Fox poll. This guy is completely isolated and insulated from the real American public and when he isn’t lying he being lied to by court jesters and sycophants.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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marancat.bsky.social @marancat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Be OK if nobody tells them. I am not going to tell them...!
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
lawhimsy.com/2017/09/13/w... #R4Today
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper...
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