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I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.

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Boothby Graffoe @boothbygraffoe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've just killed a fly with a copy of the Daily Express. I read it the editorial and it flew into the washing up bowl and drowned itself.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You know that Fourth Lord Rothermere bloke? The billionaire who inherited the fortune the Third Lord Rothermere inherited from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere? Well, it turns out he's against inheritance tax.

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IGN @ign.com · 22/07/2026

Count Binface, a man who is famous in the UK for standing in local elections while wearing a trash can, has called on Sega to make Shenmue 4. bit.ly/4wWXwoP

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Farage just called a referendum on the concept of objective reality iandunt.substack.com/p/farage-jus...

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Eoghan Sweeney @eoghan.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

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DR Congo superfan denied US visa to support team at World Cup

Michel Kuka Mboladinga is iconic for his motionless tribute at DRC games, but a US World Cup repeat has been denied.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 25/06/2026

Seems to be a lot of selective memory in UK's right-wing newspapers about schools not closing during the 1976 heatwave. I just checked and, yes, many schools did close early as well as allow parents to "keep their children at home if they wish". This clipping from London Evening News, 29 June 1976

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The World Cup is proof that if not for our leaders, the vast majority of the world's people would get along just fine.

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Mark Bolar @mcbolar.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Absolute rubbish. Current arrangement incentivises getting into the top 2, and works in favour of the genuine community clubs against the city-boy funded vanity projects. If you want to change, just scrap play offs, make the team that finishes top champion www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

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Prem Rugby play-off semi-finals set to move to neutral venue

The Prem Rugby play-offs are set to move from home advantage to a neutral venue from the 2029-2030 season.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Two-tier policing is real and ever-present. Black and Brown people experience it. Women experience it. Pro-Palestine and green protesters experience it. But the last people who would ever experience it are right-wing white men. They are the people with whom the police instinctively align.

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Please excuse me from gym @excusemefromgym.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

No idea why Tuchel is getting all the hate over his squad selection. Toney's experience playing in half-empty stadiums under an authoritarian regime could prove invaluable.

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Mark Bolar @mcbolar.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

You’ve got to be completely deluded if you think Slot can turn this around next season

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The great irony of the Welsh success of Reform, run by millionaire ex-public schoolboys, is that one the greatest Welshmen, & founder of the NHS, warned of this “How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies whole art of Tory politics” Aneurin Bevan

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 07/04/2026

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

1973 BBC - Ascent of Man. A dazzling series looking at science, religion and philosophy. 2026 BBC - A contestant from Traitors goes to Rome in the hope of giving a Chelsea shirt to the Pope. Bit of basic Catholicism on the way.

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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

He also had no security when he absconded to a mafia party hosted by the Russians

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Kevin @emptymindz.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Sadly, there are two aspects to football; on the ball & off the ball. We played well in one aspect, but over the course of that half, our frailties were exposed in the second aspect. Football at the highest levels is decided by split seconds. We’re too often on the receiving end of that.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime | George Monbiot

Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Important for understanding the context for Farage’s witless opposition to ‘net zero’.

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Raf M. Niezabitowski 🌍 @niezabitowski.com · 23/03/2026

The hardest part of a “three-day war” is the first two years. Surprised Putin didn’t mention that to Trump.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Trump is not just unfit for president. He’s woefully unqualified to be a member of the human race.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

No one who is genuinely interested in fighting against discrimination and for liberal democracy should work with the ADL.

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Mark Bolar @mcbolar.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Tottenham are going to sack their manager and get a new manager bounce on Sunday. It’s written

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

They'll cheer on the war then complain about the refugees it'll create.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.

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Patrick Webb @patrickwbb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

My current enemies are not in Iran, they’re in the Epstein Files.

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Mark Bolar @mcbolar.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Went to the bottom club and played for a point. Didn’t get one. Liverpool aren’t a sacking club, and that is going to cost us hundreds of millions of pounds

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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead

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James Mellor @jamesdfmellor.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".

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Mark Bolar @mcbolar.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Love the way Chris Mason is trying to spin the main takeaway of yesterday as being “reform beats Labour into 3rd place”, as if he hadn’t been talking up reform as the coming force in uk politics for the last 2 years whilst barely acknowledging the greens existence

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

“Tommy Robinson” is not just a violent racist, he is a serial criminal with a string of convictions for a broad range of crimes. In other words, exactly the type of “criminal alien” the Trump administration pretends to want to prevent from entering the U.S.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Let's be clear: if you or your kids go to university in states like Florida and Texas, you/they will probably NOT get the best education possible - particularly if you study Humanities or Social Science. And, to be clear, this is despite the wonderful and world-class faculty that still work there!

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Mark Bolar @mcbolar.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Never thought I’d find myself cheering for the USA in any context, but here we are…….

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Bad Star Trek is like a two hundred page essay explaining an inspirational poster. Bad Star Wars is like watching a dog drive a moped off a cliff.

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Mark Bolar @mcbolar.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Worst unbeaten run in football is over. Would love to delude myself into thinking Arne can turn this around, but he gives no indication of having any sort of plan whatsoever

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Kengraving111 @kengraving.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Nigel Farage has breached the MPs' code of conduct 17 times by failing to register financial interests on time. Angela Raynor once Who was hounded by so called unbias media outlets?

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Mark Bolar @mcbolar.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Say what you like about Lance Armstrong: at least when he cheated he won

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

if Nigel Farage is lazy enough to record a message for paedophile Ian Watkins in exchange for money, what else might he do for money without thinking too hard

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The richest individual on Earth should not own the keys to the largest disinformation machine on the planet. It's not censorship to switch X off. It's common sense. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Musk says X outcry is 'excuse for censorship'

The government is urging Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

A headline to sum up our times:

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