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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 14h
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... 🤨
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Ji-sung Eom racist abuse: Millwall boss Alex Neil criticised for stoppage comments
Anti-racism campaign group Kick It Out calls on managers to "set the tone" after Millwall boss Alex Neil criticises halting a game following an accusation of abuse.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14h
Royal Mail has been told that it could save £650m by only delivering things 3 days a week. Did you know that the taxpayer could save £4,000m a year if Royal Mail had never been privatised, or if it was renationalised, and deliver 5 days a week. I'd go with that.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14h
Wow. I mean - just wow.
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 18h
Today Farage said that charities helping people to reach Britain should be prosecuted. If he wants to prosecute, he would be well-advised to look closer to home. My take - free to read. 👇 nicolakelly.substack.com/p/farage-vs-...
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Farage vs Charities
The real criminals are closer to home
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15h
Latest predictions in Spain see Pedro Sanchez getting 31 more seats. If he gets another 24 (176) he will have an absolute majority Government, the first one in Spain since 2011. 🔴 PSOE: 34.0% — 152 seats (+31) 🔵 PP: 22.2% — 94 seats (−43) 🟢 Vox: 17.1% — 63 seats (+30)
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 18h
Domestic political survival and short-term economic pressures including the price of diesel are undermining America's support for Ukraine and strengthening Putin's position, writes Matt Frei. ✉️ Read our latest newsletter:
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Why Ukraine is paying the price for Trump’s political fears
Domestic political survival and short-term economic pressures including the price of diesel are undermining America's support for Ukraine and strengthening Putin's position, writes Matt Frei.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18h
Iran is able to do this because it knows selfish Donald Trump cares more about the midterms than the lives of sailors.
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Nadja Popovich @popovichn.bsky.social · 18h
I dug into EIA data and found a growing divide between electricity prices at investor-owned utilities and public power providers. Then @michellema.bsky.social and I visited two towns that show what that divide means for customers on the ground. Read our story here! www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
One Home’s Power Bill Is $500. A Half-Mile Away, It’s 70% Lower
The stark difference reflects a growing national divide between investor-owned utilities and public power providers
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22h
He's with the Angles now
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h
meanwhile: bsky.app/profile/pale...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h
A Conservative Opposition motion against housing asylum seekers in Bicester *and* leaving the ECHR gained 118 votes, with 309 votes against, a majority of 191 against. 100 of the 118 Conservative MPs voted for their party's motion. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Attempt to quash MoD Bicester asylum housing plans over safety
Piddington residents visited Parliament to see the Tories table a motion ending the plans.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h
I spoke to the New York Times recently about why I think the large-scale sites have downsides on cost, practicality, political polarisation + in creating cohesion flashpoints. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/w...
nytimes.com
A Rural Village Voted to Leave the U.K., Stirring Britain’s Migration Debate
A plan to house 1,250 asylum seekers on the outskirts of Piddington prompted a symbolic independence vote, highlighting a growing dilemma for the government.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18h
This is all utterly mad and the responsibility lies squarely with the British government www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
rte.ie
Sally Rooney's books to be withdrawn from sale in the UK
Faber has confirmed it will stop supplying Sally Rooney's books in the UK, saying it cannot pay the Irish author royalties because of her pledge to support the banned group Palestine Action.
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Clare Shaw @clareshawpoet.bsky.social · 17h
On jealousy, uncertainty and self-belief. My latest Substack, in which I talk about what it’s like when your best pal is a wonderful poet who wins more prizes and sells more books than you. Read it here, for free: shawandmoore.substack.com/p/my-friend-...
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My Friend the Prize-Winning Poet
on jealousy, uncertainty and self-belief.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17h
If we were in World War 2 many countries would not be taking action against Adolf Hitler because he hadn't declared himself guilty of Genocide. So it wasn't happening and they would wait until he did, then they would act.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20h
Greta Thunberg "Our future is being robbed from us." It is and all so disgusting greedy billionaires can get even more wealth they don't need and don't deserve.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Poundland could fall into administration ‘within days’, thousands of jobs at risk. It has been owned multiple times by private equity and never recovered, over £253m debt. Misleading name. Many items priced at more than a Pound. Shoppers didn't return.
independent.co.uk
Poundland could go into administration ‘within days’ risking thousands of jobs
Around 12,000 jobs at 600 stores are said to be at risk at the group that was bought for just £1 in summer of 2025
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 17h
youtu.be/s68cRo0iKyA?...
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Israel Faces COLLAPSE, CIA Report Warns
YouTube video by Owen Jones
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 17h
Plan unveiled to increase share of land farmed organically in England to 10% #Climate
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Plan unveiled to increase share of land farmed organically in England to 10%
Government says ambition for 2036 will be good for food and climate resilience, but concerns remain over funding
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 17h
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This British Man Fought in Gaza...What We Found Was Shocking.
YouTube video by Declassified UK
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Peter @peterforster.bsky.social · 17h
Harold and Carole - Kings remembered for a Tapestry
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17h
Protests have expanded in Spain with striking teachers joining the encampment for affordable housing. Pedro Sanchez is expected to increase his seats in Parliament by 25%. Lets make it 50%, then he will have a solo majority government.
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 17h
I'm sorry, I know this off election message but JFC Dems. Wake the fuck up. ROVING GANGS OF ARMED TRUMP THUGS ARE HARASSING WORKERS. THIS IS VERY UNPOPULAR!! TRUMP IS UNPOPULAR!!! STOP TELLING VOTERS YOU WANT DO A BIPARTISAN OR THAT YOU STOOD UP TO BIDEN!! (BIDEN Forgodssakes#$*(&$!!!)
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Same paper, same journalist, a few weeks apart. I'd say it was cognitive dissonance, but that gives them too much credit. It's simply propaganda in the service of xenophobia and racism
Migrant households receive record 12 bn in universal creditMigrants taking 4 in 5 new jobs
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22h
Asked whether she has read the official report on Russian interference in UK elections, Kemi Badenoch's spokesman tells me "I suspect she has". Pushed again on whether he suspects, or actually knows that she has read it, he replies "I don't know"
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22h
Kemi Badenoch spent most of PMQs pouring doubt on Andy Burnham's claims about Russian interference in our democracy, yet her spokesman can't tell me whether she has yet read the Russia report, which was published some six years ago during her own time in Government
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 17h
For the future of green politics, look beyond the Green party | Zoe Williams #Climate
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For the future of green politics, look beyond the Green party | Zoe Williams
Environmentalists of all political hues must find the language and ideas that turn passion for climate action into impetus, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social · 17h
The Iran war is the cause of the fuel-price crisis, not Ukraine. When will loyal Republicans realise that their mercurial president & his Iran failure are inflicting great harm on America & on the wider world, & that their greater loyalty should be to restoring a stable USA, ...& not to their party?
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
And we could have had blue/black passports in the EU, the burgundy passport was optional Croatia is in the EU, they have blue/black passports And, funnily enough, the blue/black passports were imposed on us by the League of Nations in 1920
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The blue passport is taking back control? No, it was first imposed on us from abroad | James E Baldwin
Brexiters are celebrating the end of the burgundy passport, but the truth is the UK could have had blue passports within the EU, says James E Baldwin, who teaches history at Royal Holloway, University...
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Dave, really 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🐯 ⬛⬜️🟪 @davefr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Funny you should post that bsky.app/profile/dave...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The new black (black dye is cheaper) British passport sums up Brexit perfectly, made by a French Company in Poland and shipped from Germany. That's your sovereignty.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 17h
Republicans are traitors
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Here’s Kimberly Gargoyle reading Trump’s verdicts live on TV. She was forced to admit, one count at a time, that he was guilty on all 34 felony counts.
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Joanne💋💙🌈 🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 @jomommafromtwitter.bsky.social · 22h
She dies a little with each guilty verdict. 💰 💸 💸💸
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17h
Since 2020, electricity bills have risen 34% for customers of investor-owned utilities, but only 19% for customers of publicly owned utilities. Nuking the IOU model & making all distribution utilities publicly owned: people are saying.
bloomberg.com
One Home’s Power Bill Is $500. A Half-Mile Away, It’s 70% Lower
The stark difference reflects a growing national divide between investor-owned utilities and public power providers
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 17h
It’s almost irrelevant whether Russia interfered in the Brexit campaign. Putin still cheered the result. When a geopolitical decision delights one of Britain’s principal adversaries, you don’t need a report to tell you Brexit wasn’t good for Britain.
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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 17h
This concentrated solar project might revolutionize how we produce clean energy. 400 giant mirrors focusing the power of the sun to increase output. We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #Climate #energy #renewables #renewableenergy #GreenNewDeal
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 18h
i am not some wild radical, i am the most boring mainstream parent you could possibly meet that spends most of my life driving my kids to hockey practise - we've fucked up our streets so bad and the narrative so bad that wanting BASIC SAFETY FOR CHILDREN is considered fucking radical.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 23h
No, it can't. #pmqs #politicslive bsky.app/profile/kyiv...
Screencap of Elon Musk replying to a tweet: 

'Donald Trump: "We told Zelensky, you can do whatever you want to Russia, but don't hit the refineries because that's a world problem. And what does he do? He goes and hits the diesel fuel. He better damn well stop".'

'Elon Musk: "Zelensky has gone too far".'
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16h
Without Margaret Thatcher this would have been the UK.
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Adam Hewitt @adamhewitt198.bsky.social · 20h
Yeah I noticed this in that James Cleverly interview clip too. Maybe it dignifies the nonsense too much to engage with it on their terms, but Cleverly kept saying "British", implying that was what Braverman+co were saying. But their mad argument is that British = nationality, English = ethnicity
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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 16h
This is a genuinely insane attack on freedom of expression in the UK. If you are an author who supports Palestine Action, you apparently cannot sell your books here now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Sally Rooney says her books will be removed from sale in UK over Palestine Action support
The Irish writer is best known for novels such as Normal People, Intermezzo and Conversations With Friends.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Drone strikes didn't take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it
A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.
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mycorhizal network communcation @furies.bsky.social · 19h
same with recipes, i am finding baking blogs that had been previously abandoned now filled with slop so they have an air of legitimacy due to historic posts but everything else is things that just will not work
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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · 20h
We're starting to encounter at the hardware store with customers using AI to help them pick paint colors and the colors either: - Don't exist - Color numbers don't match the names - Color doesn't look like what was expected
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
JD Vance: "You ask Ken Paxton a simple question and you will get a direct answer" NARRATOR: Paxton has refused to answer Qs about why he won't debate, why he went to England on July 4 w/ his mistress, why he went to Dubai with his mistress, his 15 homes, or how his net worth has increased 7,000%...
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 13/10/2026
Good to see the BBC and its lawyers playing hardball with Trump over this www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...
theguardian.com
BBC asks judge to force Trump to sit for deposition as part of his $10bn lawsuit
BBC asks US federal judge to compel Trump’s lawyers to schedule deposition after his team canceled initial session
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God @thegodshow.com · 13/10/2026
Mentions of "Fauci" on X have mostly vanished since the data centers in Russia were destroyed by Ukrainian bombs. SMITE!💥
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I was on the telly.
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