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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just dawned on me that we lost two officers of the Red October in a month

Tim Curry saying “you’ll receive the order of Lenin for this, Captain!

Sam Neill saying “I would have liked to have seen Montana”

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bin Day cometh.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Great analysis. Let me add pattern-recognition. I wrote this for the Guardian in 2013. The current Tory/Reform/Restore 'falling out' that RW media is meticulously performing serves in part to move Farage to the acceptable side of a cordon sanitaire in case a Tory/Reform pact or coalition is needed.

There is a pattern of behaviour here. Robinson is doing what leaders of far-right movements have always done and continue to do. Like shady businessmen, they set up one firm that serves their goals, then declare it insolvent and set up another one with a different name – each time creaming the profit of press coverage and a small shift of the political landscape. This is precisely how the constant formation-denouncement-repackaging cycle of far-right movements works.

By making a very public announcement of his disassociation from the EDL, Robinson gets up from a space he himself has created along the crowded bench which is our political spectrum and sits somewhere else. He repositions himself, notably, in relation to his previous position. His views do not appear to have changed one iota. Yet, magically, he now appears more moderate in comparison with his former image: an image that he created, then labelled extreme. In the process he makes everyone else on the political bench scooch up or scooch down.

This is exactly the modus operandi of such factions. From the British Union of Fascists to the British People's party, the Action party, the National Front, the Flag Group, the New National Front, the BNP and the EDL, the far-right throbs and expands, blooms, then folds into itself and subdivides like an amorphous but sentient blob from a 1950s B movie. It reinvents itself constantly until it finds the marketable packaging, charismatic personnel, economic conditions and public mood within which it can thrive. In the process it creates new and unusual vacant spaces in our political consciousness that existing or newly formed parties scramble to fill. The entire manoeuvre is designed to inexorably drag the Overton window to the right, making the intolerable, accepted and the intolerant, acceptable.

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Marc Wintermute @marcwintermute.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I feel sad. I think this country finally had a good government and the media and social media algorithms have gleefully torn it down within two years. We are fucked

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Victoria @beaniest.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I've just watched this old episode of HIGNFY from 1992 with comedy royalty Peter Cook and Douglas Adams. If you want to get really arseholed play a drinking game where you drink every time somebody mentioned/pictured has died. youtu.be/8_ieICHDNXA?...

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Television Archive: Have I Got News For You December 1992 Peter Cook Douglas Adams

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers here laughing and giggling as the host makes homophobic jokes about the Russian-backed arson attacks against the Prime Minister. What has happened to this party?

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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.

A quote from a Kemi Badenoch interview in the Spectator, comparing Bridget Phillipson to a Gestapo officer.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16/06/2026

A picture is worth a thousand words.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Buttigieg: We didn't know it, but we've all been trusting our lives to the restraint of whoever the president might be. And now we have a president who is completely unrestrained. And so the only answer to that is a functioning Congress. It turns out we do not have a functioning Congress.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

BTC: "Trump wants to leverage Americans' pain to pass a voter suppression bill. Democrats put forward 9 standalone bills to fund TSA. Trump rejected them." "Why was it OK to fund ICE under Biden and Obama, but now it's a problem under Trump?" "Because ICE can't stop shooting and killing people."

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

How Kemi Badenoch's spokesman responded when I asked if she agrees with her Shadow Lord Chancellor that Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square is an "act of domination"

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I'll tell you this for free, a lot of the people on the airwaves as Iran experts and Russia experts are the same people who got basically everything wrong on everything that has happened in the last 15 years. And yet, they are still on the airwaves presented as experts.

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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Poor Matt Goodwin. All he ever wanted was to be a hard working MP/academic/tv presenter/commentator/writer/pollster/wealth adviser/women’s health guru and you all ripped that away from him. A shame

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

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Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️)

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The View from Westminster newsletter has gone out. Free sign-up here www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Nothing says "smash the political establishment" quite like begging the Prime Minister to put your mates in the unelected House of Lords.

In the summer I wrote to @Keir Starmer
to ask that Reform have some
representation in the House of Lords,

He didn't give me the courtesy of a
response, despite Reform winning the
elections in May.

This makes me more determined to
smash the political establishment than
ever

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Wow! So it's now 5 who recognise the experience and commitment of Jess Phillips, verses 5 who wants her out - a group which includes at least 1 which is working with Reform. This is now nothing more than Reform trying to destroy the inquiry and undermine the Labour government.

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Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Rural pursuits #rtept

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

fair to say Kemi Badenoch’s last interview on BBC wasn’t a storming success

CM: Help our viewers then understand who you are as a Conservative. You referred to previous Conservative leaders.
Your shadow chancellor yesterday, Mel Stride,
eviscerated Liz Truss and his argument being that she trashed your party's reputation for economic competence.
Why not-... throw her out the party? We saw Keir Starmer throw Jeremy Corbyn out the party as a badge of saying the party has changed. Why not do the same for Liz Truss?
KB: Is she still in the party?
CM: Well, you tell me.
KB: Well you tell me. You're the one asking the question.
CM: You're the party leader.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Even Putin would be embarrassed by this.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The right-wing reaction to Labour securing a difficult Indian trade deal is a useful reminder. Even if this government was performing better, they'd still brand it a failure. Absolutely no reasoning with the modern British right at all.

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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

It used to be a newspaper

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Marc Wintermute @marcwintermute.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

His boundless and insatiable coveting of material vanities has brought nothing but despair upon my sense of self.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

Leon Rengel was briefly held at East Hidalgo Detention Center, a private facility in La Villa, Texas, used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Then — nothing. His alien number, a way to track his whereabouts, vanished two days later from ICE’s online system. He disappeared. ICE agents told Gutierrez her boyfriend had been deported to his home country. But the family has searched in Venezuela, and he isn’t there, she said. “I’ve been to the ICE office. I’ve contacted the FBI. The DEA. Everyone told me the same thing: He was deported,” Gutierrez said. “But where to? He never arrived in Venezuela.” It’s possible that the Trump administration deported Leon Rengel to a mega-prison in El Salvador, where hundreds of other Venezuelans were sent last month — but there is no official record to confirm it.

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Apogee Entertainment @apogeeent.com · 22/04/2025

It will cost you $0 to RT our work 💪

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

He’s got away with untold crimes, lies & offences. He’s achieved the highest office in the land. Twice. He’s lining his pockets on an industrial scale & persecuting his enemies for fun. But he’s still a miserable, bitter, humourless & furious man. Because deep inside, he knows *exactly* who he is.

Donald Trump’s unhinged & hate-filled Easter message.

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Marc Wintermute @marcwintermute.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Presumably, him dying in Easter means he's guaranteed to rise from the dead in three days, and bring with him chocolatey salvation from the Great Rabbit himself?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

One man is standing up for the rule of law in Britain. His reward is to be savagely attacked by right wing think tanks, newspapers & politicians. They understand where the battle against populism is taking place. And they've marshalled their forces accordingly. iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...

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