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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10h

Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection

Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics

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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 · 22/06/2026

I have lots of bags but none which are perfect!

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Marc Wintermute @marcwintermute.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

haha, thats the one. I wear long wool coats even in summer because they have two inside pockets for my phones and I can't handle changing my carry.

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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

YouTube video by palimpsest2011

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Marc Wintermute @marcwintermute.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Palestine action are fucking terrorists though.

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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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Marc Wintermute @marcwintermute.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Hmmm ok, How about getting all the free corporate swag? Literally every pen down to the last colour and design? I did that last week lol.

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

A picture is worth a thousand words.

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Marc Wintermute @marcwintermute.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Drink black coffee until you get a headache

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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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Marc Wintermute @marcwintermute.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I had no friends before it was cool.

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

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

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Marc Wintermute @marcwintermute.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Oh yes, me too. What a great space whilst it lasted.

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Marc Wintermute @marcwintermute.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Generally or specifically? Because I understand.

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Marc Wintermute @marcwintermute.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

grenoside woods is quite good. Not many bluebells but a nice walk around.

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Marc Wintermute @marcwintermute.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I found loads of bluebells in Ecclesall woods last weekend. It was great.

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Marc Wintermute @marcwintermute.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My only worry about that is that if Trump was positive about her then it must mean that he could benefit from her somehow.

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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 🕉️)

YouTube video by Avie Sheck

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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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Marc Wintermute @marcwintermute.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I bloody loved zool. But I preferred superfrog.

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