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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

History is written by the victors. Thatcher broke the power of trade unions by mass unemployment, industrial restructuring, frittered away N Sea Oil, laid the foundations for the current housing crisis, decimated local bus services, hollowed out local government and introduced the poll tax.

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Andy Burnham seems to remember a different 1970s to the rest of us. Britain in 1979 was utterly broken - ravaged by unaccountable trade union power, economically stagnant, the sick man of Europe.
The 1980s saw a remarkable national recovery based on free enterprise, the rule of law and championing Western values. And it is this that our Prime Minister rails against...

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"A senator in Vermont has noticed who is buying Reform. Why do you think so many British papers haven't?" via Very Brexit Problems

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Tom Jamieson @tomjam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You always think Reform has displayed all their stupidly to us...and yet somehow we're always wrong.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Over the past months, I've seen a lot of headlines/news coverage written like this: "WH does [fill in the blank] *despite* court order." No! It is *in violation* of the court order. "Despite" makes it seem like their choice. It is not!

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@geoffmcgivern.bsky.social @gmcgiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

said anything about attacks on RNLI and its' volunteers and their property? I ask because I've seen nowt.

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The vast majority of our media has been complicit in normalising fascism - “gentle centrist celebrities” have told us not to overreact and now people who volunteer to save drowning children are in fear of their life (and I think of all those bullshit “free speech” comedians who’ve helped too)

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@geoffmcgivern.bsky.social @gmcgiv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Burnham uttered a word? or is he too busy tik-toking about his tea consumption.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sir James Ratcliffe has as much right to tell us what's wrong with modern Britain as any other elderly white reactionary billionaire parasite who lives in Monaco.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.

Reform UK
Follow
@reformparty_uk
Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news

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@geoffmcgivern.bsky.social @gmcgiv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Andy Burnham?

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Genuinely: where is the Prime Minister? Critical infrastructure has been occupied by a fascist paramilitary, volunteers who save people's lives have been threatened and it seems to have gone unremarked upon.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster

Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Street fascism doesn't start with beatings. It starts with an intimidating show of force. To call that "peaceful" is absurd.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If "legitimate concerns" were considered to excuse illegitimate methods, then nobody from Just Stop Oil or Palestine Action would have been arrested. So we know it doesn't. In fact that phrase is only ever used in one context. Only in that context is uniformed mob intimidation "peaceful protest"

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I warn you, this is all going in my report. *gestures angrily at everything, everywhere*

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A dictator on day one. We’ve seen how this played out in the US. We’ve seen what it means. The people, politicians and media of the UK have been given several years’ prior warning. There’s no excuse for claiming exaggeration or alarmism now, or surprise or regret later.

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National Nurses United @nationalnurses.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

HCA’s partnership with Palantir is making patient care less safe all to make executives more profits. Nurses are calling it out: Palantir out of our hospitals!

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Dear government, don’t send startling, high-pitched alerts about wildfires to ordinary people's phones. Send them to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies and make them impossible to switch off until they stop the destructive plunder that's contributing to climate change.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I'm not saying he did nothing wrong. He definitely exaggerated achievements and made some false claims. I'm not sure what to make of the plagiarism allegation. But, as we confront environmental, political and economic emergencies, on a scale of 1-10 the importance of this story is roughly 0.01.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The chase was begun by racists, who saw his fabulations and alleged plagiarism as a great chance to slap down uppity Black people, and to advance their efforts to stifle equality of opportunity. Then most of the media seemed to take leave of its senses. How was this a headline story, day after day?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The treatment of Jason Arday was massively out of proportion to his faults. People who have committed terrible crimes have received less scrutiny, yet I don't believe anything he did or said even crossed the threshold of criminality. How many of us would have survived what he was put through? 🧵

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

You could say the same about any public service, or anything at all of public interest. The demands of capital owners trounce all other considerations, degrade the service and transform it into something with an entirely different purpose. UEFA's succinct critique of capital should be framed.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Wow, the AI entities are getting pretty good at escaping from their enclosures and doing bad things. Thank goodness the companies behind them aren’t being run by sociopathic narcissists with the moral values of a feral toddler on a sugar rush, or anything like that.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I made y'all a guide so you can decide whether to post your reply, inspired by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.

A flowchart diagram outlining a decision-making process for replying online, featuring six yellow rounded rectangular boxes stacked vertically on the left. Each yellow box contains a question with an accompanying emoji: "Is the reply insulting or abusive? 🤬", "Is it performative idiocy? 🤡", "Does it make false accusations? ⚠️", "Is it pointless conflict? ⚔️", "Is it racist, sexist, or other forms of prejudice? 🏳️‍⚧️", and "Does it contribute meaningfully to the discourse? ⚖️". Answering "Yes" to any of the first five questions leads via black arrows directly to a red oval on the right side that reads "Don’t post! 🛑". Answering "No" moves down to the next question in sequence. For the final question, answering "No" also points to the red "Don’t post!" box, while answering "Yes" is the only path that leads to a green oval at the bottom right that reads "It’s safe to post, but consider not posting anyway! 🚦".

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The Times front page today: attacking Net Zero over a story about the #climatecrisis driven wildfires in Europe. Cynical or stupid, you decide.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Literally everything Brexiters said about Brexit was unadulterated bollox. It’s immensely tedious and foolish to keep pretending it wasn’t.

EUROPE
UK firms could lose out as
EU gets better tariff rates

By Holly Williams
Donald Trump's latest tariffs have raised fears that British exporters could lose out after the EU secured more favourable terms, although the President launched a scathing attack on the bloc.
The UK is facing a 10 per cent tariff that replaces an equivalent levy that expired yesterday, having been declared illegal by the US Supreme Court in February. The EU rate was reduced from 15 to 10 per cent.
William Bain, head of trade policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, said that, while it would be
"business as usual" for most British firms exporting to the US, the UK must continue negotiating with the
US over tariffs.
"There will be concerns about the loss of the UK's competitive advantage over the EU and other countries which have secured a more favour-able deal in other sectors," he added.
A government spokesperson said:
"The preferential access secured under our agreement with the United States remains in place."
Trump later accused the EU of viewing America as a "piggybank," and called for an investigation into practices such as fining US tech firms that he claimed were "robbing
American companies"
"The EU will pay a very big price for this illegal and highly unethical conduct," he said.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
President Trump will be our greatest ally after
Brexit
Freed from ties to the EU, Britain can build a truly special relationship with this US
president
Tuesday May 1 2018, 12:01am BST, The Times

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Prisons are full, but of the wrong people. While greedy polluters laugh at us from gilded boardrooms and fraudsters sunbathe on yachts, vulnerable people rot behind bars for being poor, for being addicts, for protesting injustice or for suffering poor mental health. That’s the root of overcrowding.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just to recap: Calling Nigel Farage “an unflushable poo” = dehumanising hate speech. Calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire = guest of honour at party conference. Bless those non-racist free speech warriors.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Blaming teenagers for consuming toxic social media instead of penalising the people who create toxic social media is like banning you from walking along a street because it's covered in dog turds instead of doing something about the problem of dog turds.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.

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Jo Caulfield @jocaulfield.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Hello all - I'd be tremendously grateful if you could help spread the word about a small Scottish tour I’m doing. I’m taking my ‘Bad Mood Rising’ show to small-ish Scottish towns that often get bypassed on tour schedules. Any shares would be hugely appreciated. Thank you so much!

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Why did we even need a Voting Rights Act anyway? Well, maybe because a sitting U.S. senator in 1948 called on white Mississippians to use "whatever means are necessary" to deny the vote to Black people. To today's Republicans, those were the good old days. 1/2🧵

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

How the world works in a nutshell: giant corporations profit from an illegal war whilst the governments who wage them tell the rest of us to tighten our belts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices higher

The energy giant said it had seen an

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Reminder.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I can’t get excited by our next journey to the Moon when this is what is happening on Earth.

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Stef @announcer-stef.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

For many years, the US government persuaded most of its own citizens - and many others - that its intentions and behaviour were benign, despite the perpetual wars, coups, murders, resource grabs, the ecocide and neocolonialism. If Trump has done one thing for us, it is to rip the mask away.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Most of the media reflects neither reality nor public opinion. It reflects the views and demands of those who own it: the Oligarch Class. They employ editors and journalists to channel their demands and sell their fictions. Hence the endless attacks on net zero. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Rightwing narrative fuelling false belief UK public oppose net zero, study finds

Reform, Tory and some media rhetoric runs contrary to poll showing far more voters for net zero than against it

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day but give a monkey a beer and some fireworks and the weekend starts here.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I miss the days when we worried about Friday 13th in case something bad happened.

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