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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/01/2026

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

One of my abiding impressions of Brexit is the way it slammed doors of opportunity in the faces of young people several rungs below Boris Johnson’s countless children on the ladders of privilege & advantage.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The Danish party that inspired Labour’s hardline immigration policy is on course to lose Copenhagen for the first time in more than a hundred years. Among the reasons cited: fatigue and frustration with its hardline immigration policy.

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Centre-left tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history

Political rivals say PM’s divisive politics have encouraged voters to ditch the Social Democrats for the far right

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River Speaks Out ☕💚🌍 @riverspeaksout.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Spot on Boy George!

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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Chris Mason is what happens when a Hospital Radio DJ, whose sole qualification appears to be a sort of soporific inoffensiveness, is somehow promoted to BBC Politics Editor - a position that demands unflinching insight, objectivity, and sharpness. It's like a puddle trying to be the ocean.

It is always perilous for a government when it clearly lacks grip on an issue voters would reasonably expect it to be in control of.

The stand out example of this in recent years has been the arrival of migrants on small boats.

From Rishi Sunak's promise to "stop the boats" to Sir Keir Starmer's promise to "smash the gangs" both have been found wanting and the problem remains huge.

Now the government confronts another example: a justice system that is palpably, transparently and repeatedly failing – and where measures designed to address the issue of letting prisoners out by accident aren't working.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

"Stop...or I'll say 'stop' again!"

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 23/10/2025

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Bloody brilliant 👇

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Climate Change Committee warns we aren’t doing enough to stem/plan for global warming. Meanwhile, in response to proposed solar farm,Tice says they “will do all [they] can to stop investors and developers; nothing is off the table” Reform: a constant whining drag on progress, prosperity and sanity.

UK must prepare for 2C of global warming by 2050, climate advisors warn
CLIMATE GLOBAL WARMING WEATHER
• Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 6:53am
Martin Stew
Science Correspondent
Credit: i-Stock
The UK must prepare for a 2C rise in global temperatures by 2050, according to new analysis from the Climate Change Committee (CCC), commissioned by the government.
The report forecasts that risks from heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires could double over the next 25 years, with some peak river flows increasing by as much as 40%.
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The Times:

Reform vow to fight 'crazy Miliband over solar farm

Miliband has approved plans for Britain's biggest solar farm, prompting Reform UK to say it would fight to reverse the decision.
The Tillbridge Solar project, in Lin-colnshire, would cover an area equivalent to about 2,000 football pitches.
Farage's party said the scheme would destroy valuable agricultural land, but Labour said it was needed to meet green energy targets and reduce dependency on energy from abroad.
Tillbridge Solar is the tenth large solar project Miliband has approved since taking office. Half of them are in Lin-colnshire, prompting opposition from local Reform and Conservative MPs.
Tillbridge Solar aims to generate electricity for 300,000 homes and the scheme would cover about 1,400 hectares of mainly agricultural land
Michael Shanks, the energy minister, said: "Solar is one of the cheapest and quickest power sources we can build. It is crucial in our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower, giving us energy security, good jobs and growth across the country."

A report by the Planning Inspectorate said that the project would lead to the loss of about 1,200 hectares of farm-land, including 11l hectares of the highest grade land, and acknowledged the cumulative impact of other solar arrays in Lincolnshire. However, it concluded that this would not be nationally "significant" , with solar taking over less
than 1% of UK farmland.
It added that the biodiversity would benefit from the end of intensive farming on the land and that crop planting
"could be restored should it be needed in the future" for food security.
In a blunt warning to companies behind the schemes, Richard Tice, Reform UK's deputy leader and the MP for nearby Boston & Skegness, said: "We will do all we can to stop investors and developers; nothing is off the table."

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

OH LOOK, "DIPSHIT" DONNY DUMBFUCK IS SNUGGLING UP TO PROJECT 2025 AGAIN. THE STUPID SHIT FORGOT JUST HOW UNPOPULAR PROJECT 2025 IS AND HOW MUCH PEOPLE HATE IT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY VERY BEAUTIFUL POST IN WHICH I TAKE VERY POWERFULLY LOOK AT IT. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/46SBUyO

Project 2025 — the Heritage Foundation’s shittastic plan to drag American democracy out back to the gravel pit and replace it with Christofascist theocracy — is back in the news.

Donny Convict loves him some Project 2025. seriously, what’s not to adore about a plan that crowns him King Fuckface the First? being king is awesome. you get to scream “off with the Venezuelan fishermens’ heads!” — and there’s always some fuckwad flunky like Nosferatu McGoebbels willing to make it so.

so naturally, during the shutdown, the Mad King has been quite publicly dry-humping Russ Vought, one of the principal architects of Project 2025. Vought is now Donny’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

that’s right, Project 2025 now has a man on the inside.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Carol Vorderman, "Reform UK know they can flog you any b*llocks that they come up with" "We are no longer shocked by Farage and his singing henchwoman Andrea Jenkyns, she's talking about ducks, he's talking about swans"

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 29/09/2025

Detail will be important but this is an important announcement. Since Osborne’s abolition of grants we’ve had the invidious situation where the poorest students have been getting more indebted than richer ones, who are supported by parents. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Targeted maintenance grants for students to be reintroduced

Disadvantaged students studying priority courses will benefit from extra financial support to access and excel in higher education.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

It bothers me that today I had to point out… To former Tory MP @PhilipDaviesUK That the Hillsborough families invoked the ECHR in their fight for justice Because he, like so many, either doesn’t know …or is being disingenuous about the vital protections the ECHR affords us.

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Marie Butler 🌻 📎 @marje54.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

What are the monsters stirring up today?

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Jeremy Hunt literally owning a property empire, sells a number of properties and avoids a huge slice of tax. Nothing said. Angela Rayner buying a house on the coast & it’s absolutely outrageous. Working class girl, getting above her station. Aspiration, only when it suits. This country eh?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

There's no credible evidence asylum seekers commit more crime, or are guilty of more sexual assaults. I am so sick of being force-fed lies by these mendacious thugs in their expensive suits. share.google/WCAREyAQN5TG...

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Marie Butler 🌻 📎 @marje54.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

www.instagram.com/reel/DLyAdyk...

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

If you’re genuinely interested in what happened in a high profile criminal trial, watch it. It’s free. Or read local court reports of the evidence and the legal issues. They’re free too. If you don’t inform yourself, your opinion, I’m afraid, is worthless.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/08/2025

The reality of being a constituent in Fartrage's Clacton seat. Nigel who?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The history of ICE: How Trump constructed an American Gestapo

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

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Marie Butler 🌻 📎 @marje54.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

How come I can watch a 1940's film & I don't need subtitles - but anything post 1980 I can't understand a word being said & the lights are all out!!

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.” Melinda Gates

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Marie Butler 🌻 📎 @marje54.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Days like these I'm grateful I'm not knitting for an octopus

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Keryn12🇦🇺 @keryn12.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Holy shit the government's Restoring Trust in Democracy policy paper is good.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The full document is here www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 15/07/2025

Two governments took The News Agents to secret court for two years via a constitutionally unprecedented superinjunction to stop you from hearing this story. The MoD is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdc6...

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The secret court that silenced the News Agents...until now

YouTube video by The News Agents

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Bernard Jenkin, "Achieving net zero will add 21% of GDP as a cost" Ed Milliband, "The bit in the report you didn't mention, is if we end up in 3 degree world, we add 56% of GDP.. That is the cost of inaction"

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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

When I was a little kid, I used to think "this little pig went to market," meant it was going shopping!

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 10/07/2025

i dno, maybe time to let it go

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Marie Butler 🌻 📎 @marje54.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Will the French get the Bayeux Tapestry back? Or will the Brits hold onto it in perpetuity claiming it as their own (for safekeeping of course).

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I made a book, a very tiny book. On vintage paper with watercolour illustrations and a nonsense verse. If anyone wants to publish it for me I would be overjoyed. This is just a rough to see how it works out

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Nigel Farage, "The main reason this country wisely voted for Brexit in 2016" Heckler, "Because they were lied to" Keir Starmer then humiliates Farage saying he has no interest in solving small boats as Farage and Reform want to milk it

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Oh dear. It seems like the publishers & film-makers truly had the wool pulled over their eyes. Thank goodness for good journalism - well done Chloe Hadjimatheou & @theobserveruk.bsky.social and for exposing The #PorkiePath! observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...

Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...

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Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion @nateturner.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Britt is a sadistic cunt!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

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JewdyGold @jewdygold.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I’m more partial to the Voter Coaster, but it all makes me nauseous. #trump #vote

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/06/2025

"If in the run up to election you say: don't give too much away, be a small target, sneak up on power in a sort of defensive crouch - if you don't talk about these things, that's a really strong incentive to also not think about them." Sharp from @rafaelbehr.bsky.social on Starmer's first year. ~AA

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Left: Susanna Reid announces that kwasi Kwarteng will be on GMB again today Right: Carol Vorderman explains why the public are frustrated with the normalisation of politicians who were an absolute disaster for the country

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🦋Dr. Pokemon🦋 @turnerjoy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

First thing I’ve seen that approaches Claymores having “FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY” on them is military GPS that say: “Warning: Coordinates are YOUR Coordinates”

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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Former business owner here. If your employees need to claim benefits to make ends meet, they aren't the benefit scroungers. You are.

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