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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 10/10/2026

You know it’s bad when even the bloviating sack of lies that was our Prime Minister becomes a sensible voice in a conversation.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel

Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Signs of Fascism" originated in my town. (Sequim, WA) I filmed it. I remember getting a call, "hey your video got 5,000 views." By the end of the day it had 60K. Over 100K in a few days from just one platform. Then my DM blew up! Everyone wanted to replicate the signs. Nice to see the signs today.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Farage is a really nasty misogynistic menace. An inadequate schoolboy racist who’s never properly grown up and never got over his own seething resentments. Now grifting his grubby little arse off to be in with the crypto- and MAGA richboys. As you say, his defeat is essential.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When you let loose at a school performance 😊 Zoomies on Drums 🥁 🌟

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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🇬🇱🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🧵1/2 Petition: Require all car park operators to build green roof and solar panel parking shelters which could reduce the need to use farmland for solar farms and support biodiversity. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77... Deadline 4 February

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Martyn @martyns5.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

@russincheshire.bsky.social Just started Baby's Breath. "Mold"?! "Favor"?! So disappointed in you.

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"Sandra! You're home early!"

Skinny dog in a very compromising position with a black-and-white cat, both looking a bit shocked…

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Martyn @martyns5.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Bien jugado España. Argentina lose but football wins. Anti football Argentina. Glad Mbappe gets golden boot and not that little rat.

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Martyn @martyns5.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What is this crap? It'd not the Superbowl for God's sake! #InfantinoOut

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Martyn @martyns5.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Why the hell did he take Gordon off? Ridiculous. #England

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Compare and contrast: Ian Dunt and @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social considering the profound social and geopolitical implications of the Brexit damage to us all… And then the arrogant, petulant swagger of 2 Brexiters who won’t take any responsibility and are still honking on about the Covid vaccine.

lan Dunt: It devastated our economy and nation
It has been almost exactly as bad as we expected it to be. The big economic organisations said in the run-up to the 2016 referendum that it would be a disaster, specified roughly quite how disastrous it was likely. to be, and were proved correctly. The economic impact of the decision itself was not as bad as expected, but the economic impact of actually leaving the EU played out as per expectations
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research - one of those much derided experts which Michael Gove detested so much - found that by 2023, UK real GDP was 2-3 per cent lower than it would have been if we had remained. These effects will escalate, reaching some 5-6 per cent of GDP by 2035.
This is money we all urgently need right now. We deprived ourselves of it.
In the end though, the worst impact was not economic but social. Brexit carved the country into two warring cultural tribes, with Europe representing a symbolic encapsulation of their divisions which then went on and tainted completely unrelated matters like National Trust reports and single-sex loos. Once that split existed, there was an incentive for politicians to speak to one part of it and to pitch voters against one another, instead of trying to stitch together broad electoral coalitions. It encouraged extreme rhetoric rather than moderation.

$Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We were made the enemies within Brexit was a car crash. It caused multiple social fractures. Some will never heal. Think back to the way the UK proudly projected itself in the 2012 Olympics. Every racial, religious, ethnic minority, disabled and able- bodied, poor and rich, LGBTQ + folk, the white majority, the political left and right together, cheered the participants and hailed the diversity and energy of our capital and country. Boris Johnson, London's mayor, was the loudest of the cheerleaders. Back then the shape-shifter was a liberal, modernist mayor. In 2008, he was seriously considering an amnesty for undocumented immigrants in London. Just four years on, Johnson had joined the gang of Brexit instigators who wanted to get the UK out of the EU, stop free movement and make these isles small, mean and nativist again. They succeeded. After decades of struggling to get treated as equals, and, just as importantly, to feel we belonged, Brexiters made us into enemies within. First the targets were EU workers, then asylum seekers, then those with work visas, now it's all migrants of colour. It will get worse. Nigel Farage and his lot and small nation Tories destroyed the ties that bound us to each other and the EU. And despicably blame foreigners for breaking Britain. Nauseating.$

Julie Burchill: Brexit's biggest problem? We didn't get enough of it
We are a small, inventive, dynamic nation; we need to comprehend the weaknesses and strengths of this situation, not hide in being part of a big power bloc.
We can move fast and change when the facts do; look at the success of the Covid vaccine roll-out.
At a time when devolution is called for everywhere from Cardiff to Catalonia, it makes no sense to have one's laws made by bureaucrats in another country.
I was lucky enough to grow up in the constituency of Tony Benn, who said in 1975: "For people who don't have money or power, it is the vote that is their main safeguard."
As we are about to get rid of an unsatisfactory prime minister, we should treasure this human right; not fritter it away dreaming of being part of the shoddy Potemkin empire which is the European Union.
The only thing that's wrong with Brexit is that we didn't get enough of it.

Mark Wallace: Doomsters have been proven wrong
Leaving the EU was a decision to take back control from unaccountable officialdom and place it in the hands of British voters. The 17.4 million people who voted Leave wanted the fundamental right to choose, hold accountable and fire those who set the rules which impact our lives.
Democratic self-determination doesn't come with guarantees - indeed it means accepting people may choose things you dislike - but it does offer the best chance to navigate a turbulent, fast-changing world.
We already have plenty of examples. Some I support (like our renewed global trading relationships, our ability to achieve such rapid vaccination, and flexible innovation on Al and tech) while others, such as Andy Burnham's plan for greater state action in the economy, or VAT on school fees, I don't. But it's thanks to Brexit that we have the right to decide the best way forward ourselves.

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Martyn @martyns5.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

BBC "news" spending 100% of its evening instalment on a northern city's football team having an open top bus parade for coming second in the league! Madness.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Please repost if you agree that the BBC has been undermining democracy and enabling foreign interference in our politics by promoting and protecting Farage.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥 French Senator Claude Malhuret says what the majority of the world is thinking

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Martyn @martyns5.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

England just aren't at the races. #SixNations

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Martyn @martyns5.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

England just coming up short in so many areas. #EngIre #M6N

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Bluesky Jan @janetleicester.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I've never known anyone who was obsessed with immigration who wasn't an out and out loser and an absolute racist bigot. I'm saying it because it's simply not said enough.

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone. He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein We have published it in full. www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

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Peter Mandelson issues secret notice demanding press leave him alone – read in full

LATE on Friday evening, this notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news…

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 24/01/2026

Board of Peace - Season 1

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 13/01/2026

Zahawi, having stood down at the last election knowing voters were about to give him a thorough bollocking, has now joined the growing roster of Tory rejects finding comfort in Reform’s failed MP support group. Yes, there’s a voiceover (I’m practising).

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Nadhim Zahawi Defects to Reform, or: How the Tories’ Rejects Found Their Forever Home

A short guide to Britain’s angriest political afterlife

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11/01/2026

With the growing outrage about the government being a tyranny because they’re considering shutting down X, which recently started producing non-consensual sexual images of women and children not as a bug, but as a feature, it’s worth asking - why? What do they gain from X? I think I know why.

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They Say They "Protect Women and Children". X Paid Them Nearly £68,000

Four MPs. 691 hours. A platform facilitating abuse. And a silence that tells you everything.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Sky News on Renee Nicole Good murder: "There are deeply conflicting accounts of what happened." REALLY? Gonna both-sides this? One "account" can be seen on video and is confirmed by a dozen eye-witnesses. The other is a social media post by history's most notorious pathological liar. Grow a spine.

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Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 08/01/2026

I regret to inform Leila Cunningham that Londoners do not need her “pity.” What it needs is for fewer people to talk about it like it’s a haunted theme park - I live here, and it is, despite its issues, a fabulous place to be.

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Apparently, I’m Supposed to be Pitied for Living in London

A Londoner’s response to Reform UK’s weirdly patronising pitch to the capital

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/01/2026

Imagine, given what is happening right now, being "afraid" of getting closer to the only power-centre that has not abandoned reason, democracy, and the rule of law. ~AA

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Zelensky on Venezuela: “About Venezuela? How should I respond to that? Well, what can I say? If… If it is possible to act with dictators like this, it means the United States knows what to do next. Thank you” Omg I love it.

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Simon's Cat @simonscatofficial.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Little copy cat! 💖

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 10/12/2025

Debunking Brexit Benefit 1: turns out “we got the same trade deals for free” is… not a thing. Side note: I can already hear Brandolini somewhere laughing at me.

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Debunking Benefit 1: No, We Didn’t Get the Same Trade Deals "For Free"

When “we kept what we already had” becomes a triumph, you know the bar has been dug into the earth’s crust.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 06/12/2025

Just for some context - the house mentioned in my post below cost £4,000 to purchase in 1970. If it had changed in value by inflation, its price now would be £55,000. Just saying.

Your results
£55,387.01
What cost £4,000.00 in 1970 would cost
£55,387.01 in October 2025.
Change in value:
Average annual inflation:
1284.7%
4.83%
Shortcuts
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10 years ago
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Martyn @martyns5.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Reflections of Autumn. Calke Abbey Derbyshire

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Fairly certain Kemi Badenoch is hoping that nobody has noticed this. Pretty brazen...

Kemi Badenoch
says welfare
spending is
unchristian

Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative
Party in the United Kingdom, has revealed that
she no longer believes in God.

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Simon's Cat @simonscatofficial.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The OG Simon's Cat film!

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 21/11/2025

Nathan Gill; A traitor who was at the very top of Reform UK, aiding and abetting Russian adversaries, has been sentenced today. Reform UK should be ashamed. Britain deserves better.

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Martyn @martyns5.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Lost and Never Found. The third DI Ryan Wilkins novel by Simon Mason. Best book I've read this year (out of 28). Recommend starting from book 1.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 15/11/2025

GB News hosting Trumplethinskin so he can have a fannywobble about Panorama is the most utterly deranged media crossover of the year and is absolutely peak 2025. Reader Discretion - I went sweary.

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Trumplethinskin Goes After the BBC - Because Facts Keep Hurting His Feelings

The man who demanded people "fight like hell" now insists the real injury was a slightly compressed quote on Panorama.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Without asylum: Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist Queen would have been without a front man The other queen wouldn't have had a husband Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh. news.sky.com/story/migran...

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