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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives have blocked Byline Times from attending their party conference, just weeks after she condemned Reform UK for banning critical journalists. Byline Times chief reporter Josiah Mortimer says his application was rejected without a specific reason.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I find it very satisfying to do this to my iPhone every now and then IYKYK

Image shows a paper clip partly unfurled to create long narrow point, and a small piece of fluff.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No specific detail, just a veiled threat to prosecute academics as spies if they keep working with them. This is the same MI5 which repeatedly lied in court to protect a neo-Nazi agent who attacked a woman with a machete, and which could yet face contempt charges, yes? Sure, trust them

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't mean to speculate, but if for the sake of argument this RAF Fairfield thing was a bid to bomb a critical military installation that would make the perpetrators terrorists and cut from the same criminal cloth as those who declare "I support Palestine Action", would it not, Andy Burnham?

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Best thing about this story is that Australia shipped parts of an ultra-secret $120m supersonic F-35 stealth strike fighter to the US using UPS parcels service. Lol 🤣🤣🤣 www.investing.com/news/economy...

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UPS diverts F-35 parts to Hong Kong, China takes possession - Bloomberg By Investing.com

UPS diverts F-35 parts to Hong Kong, China takes possession - Bloomberg

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is either a joke about garages or an astute commentary on the state of the world

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Satya Gunput @hisnameissatya.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This completely misrepresents the history of the Chagos Islands, the exile of Chagossians and the path towards Chagossians being able to return to the islands once again. The significant community of people with Chagossian heritage in Mauritius have been instrumental in this process so far.

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Lindsey B @kibalchich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My 95 year old Spanish friend, who lived through the Spanish Civil War, and who is a true Socialist, said to me this week 'Why is no one talking about Cuba? Look what Trump is doing to the people with his sanctions but no one says anything '. She's right. #HandsoffCuba and #F*ckTrump

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I watched Tony Blair criticise supporters of Palestine in a speech at the preposterous 'Board of Peace' today. He looked and sounded quite frail and ill. Good. I hope he is. He belongs in The Hague, not Gaza.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Currently in the air, RAF surveillance drone RFR7331 returns to Akrotiri after overflying Israel, the West Bank and Jordan. I wonder why. H/t @flightradar24.com

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was today years old when I learned that the name of Diana Rigg's character in The Avengers was created because the writers wanted someone who had 'man appeal'. That is, 'M-appeal'. So, Emma Peel. I think it would have been more true to life if they had called her 'Free beer'.

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Avengers Diana Rigg

ALT: Avengers Diana Rigg

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"The judge interrupted several times in the first few sentences, telling Olax that references to Genocide were inadmissible. Court security were then ordered to remove Olax to the cells, and the judge summed up the case and sent the jury away to deliberate..." realmedia.press/olax-acquitt...

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Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter - Real Media - The View From Below

Dutch human rights activist, Olax Outis had no “lawful defence” and was stopped from give a closing speech – but was acquitted by the jury in a verdict seen as a snub to a system complicit in Genocide...

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

US military “almost started a war” with China by preparing to board a ship wrongly identified as carrying nuclear components. They had used AI , which gave “entirely false”intelligence. One day the Pentagon will be the end of us. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Well done, Ed - as far as it goes. But it doesn’t absolve you of culpability for all the government action taken in the last two years which runs counter to this, and enabling the ethnic cleansing you claim to oppose.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SPADS with their noses in the same sort of trough where their bosses already wallow. Colour me surprised.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s been a real bummer news day if @news.sky.com is leading its 6pm bulletin with live coverage of Charlie and Camilla visiting the Bayeux Tapestry.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

That Maureen Lipman who told Gerard McCarthy to "grow up", slagging him off as "cowardly" because he refused to work with her due to her pro-Israeli views, is that the same Maureen Lipman who said in a Guardian interview in 2020 that she wouldn't work with pro-Palestine actors?

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dear @lbc.co.uk getting pronunciation right can be difficult, so can you tell me whereabouts in Glasgow is ‘Saucey Hall’ street?

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JCMartinofBA @jcmartinofba.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Left- Israel restricts Palestinians in Gaza to oxygen which is essential in a hospital anywhere. Right- Israeli IDF shoots 14 year old, Palestinian boy and then waits 45 minutes for him to bleed to death while watching him die. The UN Commissioner of Inquiry official, Chris Sidoti, reported this.

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

11 months ago. I'm not Nostradamus. I've just been paying attention.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A very clear exanple of a national media outlet always looking for an UP/spike/high headline (with immigration down, asylum down, boats down, hotels down). Settlement at +5 years is up after 2021-24 migration peak www.thetimes.com/article/7f2a...

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Number of migrants applying to settle in UK at 16-year high

Reforms set to be introduced this autumn by Shabana Mahmood will double the time migrants must wait to obtain indefinite leave to remain

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justiceseer.bsky.social @justiceseer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Are these "kids" gonna GET PAID for stacking #Sainsbury's shelves?🤔 ...Or are they just being used an "unpaid, #SlaveLabour" for #Burnham's, #FilthyRichDonor - #LordSainsbury?🤑🤦 #JustAskin!💅💄👄

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Johnny Depp as Ed Wood: 'Those people are parasites'

ALT: Johnny Depp as Ed Wood: 'Those people are parasites'

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Work experience is good but isn't Sainsbury's - whose boss is Andy Burnham's biggest donor - just taking on, in the run up to Christmas, 10,000 temporary unpaid staff they would otherwise have to pay for, and they still get the PM's praise? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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UK politics: Burnham announces plan for 10,000 work experience placements for young people – as it happened

Prime minister spoke to press while on visit to a Sainsbury’s supermarket in London this morning

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

People on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social telling us to stock up on essentials. Try telling the hundreds of thousands of people who struggle to put food on the table every day that they should stock up on four to seven days supplies "in the event of of an emergency". Get real. #bbcnewsnight #newsnight

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I saw @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social 's political editor Nick Watt say the govt is so worried about Russia that it updated the War Book for the first time since 2004. But I thought the War Book was replaced that year by the Civil Contingencies Act, and it is the military's wish to re-launch it.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is a travesty as much as the British government's proscription of Palestine Action, which was a political act of silencing opponents of Israeli genocide. Actions like this are a way of disarming dissent., rather than protect us from terrorists

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This may be controversial, but I think Christmas stuff like advent calendars and selection boxes on sale in supermarkets in August is the pits of commercialism.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A Metropolitan Police armed response unit was scrambled to the offices of the Daily Mail tonight after reports of gunfire, but was stood down after it emerged it was multiple champagne corks popping.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Two sides of the Jason Arday tragedy 1. Knee-jerk media critics blaming journalists 2. Journalists clutching their pearls This @carolecadwalla.bsky.social blog puts events into context, and hints at what old school journalism, of which I was part, has become. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

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A Digital Lynching

A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nationalise the water companies without a penny of our money. Here's how with Feargal Sharkey youtu.be/MPo3_0DjgyU?...

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The Water Industry Scandal

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Anyone expecting the Mail to blame a nature reserve for burning down the houses in Stourbridge?

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Is there such a thing as an #eclipse rainbow?

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Remember, it’s dangerous to look at the Sun directly and can cause long-term damage to you, so buy a Morning Star instead. Also, there’s a solar eclipse tonight.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

When people like Wes Streeting and Yvette Cooper are asked about the six-figure sums they get from firms operating in the fields covered by their ministerial responsibilities, their answer - that it is in the rules - is exactly that given by venal MPs during the expenses scandal.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they? Colour me surprised.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Worth remembering that AI takes things literally, and in this case was no help in locating a cinema

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Outrageous. Make coppers pay for any children they eat, that’s what I say.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s not just Trump to blame, the spineless Senators are responsible for what happens from now on

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

When did the standard metric for the size of a wildfire, at least in the U.K., become football fields?

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Women For Survival @wmn4srvl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We need a political party willing to regulate corporations so they don’t harm us. Isn’t that democracy?

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You wrote this four days ago, and I've just checked and it's still not been changed.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wish someone would just stage an intervention and put Trump out of our misery

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 25/07/2026

The climate crisis may have caused the excessive heat, but it is NOT the reason for the hosepipe ban Privatisation is the one true cause of the hosepipe ban Scotland - where water is in public ownership - has not had a hosepipe ban since the great drought of 1995 Public ownership of water NOW

Graphic that says "For every 1 litre of water you save during this hosepipe ban, the private water companies waste 5 litres from leaks they failed to fix because they took out billions in dividends and failed to invest in our water infrastructure."

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