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Liz

@meejahoar.bsky.social
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Yanq-Aussie | longtime UK resident | recovering lawyer | anti-Brexit | pro-EU | liberal progressive | Harris-Welz 2024 | ally | GSOH

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Liz @meejahoar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
in case anyone else is moved to sign act.38degrees.org.uk/act/water-bi...
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The People’s Sewage Refund
💷🌊 We pay for sewage to be properly treated. Yet our waterways are still being polluted. If the service isn’t being delivered, why should we keep paying for it? Demand The People’s Refund. Add your na...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/09/2026
Chris Wright now says there may be no deal with Iran after all: "There may not be a nuclear agreement. It may be simply destroying their capabilities to do it. An agreement may await the next administration in Iran. We simply don't know that."
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Liz @meejahoar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off” – the late Gloria Steinem RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It seems odd that law enforcement appears to be unaware of this guy's activities
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Liz @meejahoar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
soooooooo hope this is true
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Alastair @as-j.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I'm generally happy to give someone like Burnham a bit of time to get things in order but I'm already pretty impatient for an explanation why an octogenarian holding a small protest placard gets a criminal record but 200 people dressed as paramilitaries blockading Dover can just get the train home.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
2) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad.
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Liz @meejahoar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social @rafaelbehr.bsky.social love Vince Cable & edited his Demos pamphlet “The World’s New Fissures” in 1993 but did giggle uncontrollably when he rode straight over your comparing UK membership of TTIP with Australia competing in Eurovision podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
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“Brexit has left us at Trump’s mercy,” says Sir Vince Cable – Weekend Bonus
Podcast Episode · Oh God, What Now? · 6 September · 53min
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
💥 Yes it’s been one of those highly entertaining days but you don’t want to miss our regular edition with the amazing Baroness Beeban Kidron on her fight to protect kids from big tech. 💥 With @jasonhazeley.bsky.social @nndroid.bsky.social & @jamesrball.com 💥 Listen linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🩵 YOU’RE NEVER GOING TO BELIEVE THIS KLAXON 🩵 Guess who’s been taped by C4 agreeing to donations that break the law? WE KNOW, RIGHT?? 🩵 @rmcunliffe.bsky.social & @jacobjarvis.bsky.social are shocked, SHOCKED on our Emergencycast… OUT NOW 🩵 Listen now – linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
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Liz @meejahoar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
dear Political Fixers, they’re Waspi Women – they may or may not also be ladies but best not to assume FAO, from a loyal longtime listener @lucyfisher.ft.com @robertshrimsley.bsky.social @pickardje.bsky.social #PoliticalFix podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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Burnham vs Badenoch: Commons showdown
Podcast Episode · Political Fix · 4 September · 34min
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
there are now no fewer than five separate financial scandals engulfing Reform UK www.ft.com/content/0426...
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The five financing scandals facing Reform
Nigel Farage and his party are facing growing scrutiny over transparency and the source of donations
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Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Susan Sontag wrote “Notes on ‘Camp’” in 1964 -- the year Dolly Parton graduated high school and moved from the hills of East Tennessee to Nashville. Today, the essay reads as an homage: as.ft.com/r/89788b64-3...
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Bring back proper political journalism at the BBC, like this spectacular example from 1975 youtu.be/Sad7CoNTzjE?...
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The Goodies- Puppet Government
YouTube video by RandomNostalgicTeenager
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 04/09/2026
‘Clear’ breaches of rules by Reform UK pollster, says industry body ft.trib.al/qb4g6fY
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‘Clear’ breaches of rules by Reform UK pollster, says industry body
British Polling Council seeking further information from JL Partners following Channel Four News investigation
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Some good news. Government announcement today: "[We will] now allow victims who entered the UK legally and [who] have been recognised as victims of modern slavery, to undertake work in any occupation for the remaining duration of the visa validity." Aim is to reduce exploitation from rogue bosses
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Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.
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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social tell the story of Section 28, the 1988 legislation that cast a chilling shadow over the lives of gay men and lesbians in the UK for the next 15 years ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Parliamentary motion against Mahmood's vicious immigration reforms gathering further signatures. Think it's pretty clear there's going to be concessions but they'd need to go very far indeed for the plan to be even halfway acceptable inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Mahmood's 'hardline' immigration reforms hit by growing rebellion
More Labour MPs to publicly oppose Home Secretary's changes to indefinite leave to remain
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I can't quite believe I'm saying this but PMQs just became appointment viewing. It's basically a parable about whether one man can change the system or whether the system will change him inews.co.uk/opinion/hope...
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Hopeless Badenoch is a terrible leader – but she got one thing right about Burnham
Ian Dunt: Andy Burnham promised to change PMQs. Then reality bit
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Liz @meejahoar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
intriguing… “Bayeux Tapestry deal could pave way for Parthenon marbles loan, says British Museum head” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Bayeux Tapestry deal could pave way for Parthenon marbles loan, says British Museum head
Institution will ‘always remain open for dialogue’ around contested artworks, says Nicholas Cullinan
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/08/2026
"Against Canada, Trump is fighting a trade war that very few Americans support, under leadership that most Americans reject, to achieve results that virtually all Americans would dismiss as pointless if not crazy" Read David Frum: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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How to Lose a Trade War
Trump’s bullying of Canada is failing.
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Liz @meejahoar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
@alexpodyssey.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social first thought this said “authentic Greek gods & coffee” which arguably would be more fun… #Margate
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wow. Just wow.
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🎫 Want £5 off tickets to our live show in London on Tue 1 Sept? 🎟️ Sign up as a Patreon backer for an exclusive discount. Your first month’s support could pay for itself! 👉 www.patreon.com/originstoryp...
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
gets incredible air here
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today is Venn Day, in celebration of the mathematician John Venn, born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn Diagram.
Poem title: At the Intersection
 
The poem is divided into two overlapping circles.
 
The left-hand circle is titled ‘me’ and the text reads:
the day we
went out to have
an ice-cream, we said nothing
just let our silence melt in
the air as we walked across the common
our love never tiring at all
 
The right-hand circle is titled ‘you’ and the text reads:
we should
have talked it over but
nothing ever seems to get
in your fat head. You are so
common that I wish we’d never met
at all and I’d married Tim instead
 
In the intersection of the poem (where the two circles overlap), the text reads:
we
have
nothing
in
common
at all
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
America The Titanic 🤝 Iceberg effed them up
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Well done The Daily Mail! 👏 Burnham must be held to account for the failures of his regime so far. His removal of VAT from electricity bills has already come far too late & could’ve been done yesterday. If he hasn’t solved the cost of living crisis by Friday then he must go! 😡
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
On my way, Clacton.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What’s that, Dale? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Lights out and away we go! #Clacton
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Liz @meejahoar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@financialtimes.com would be amazing to be able to queue up articles for reading aloud in your iPhone app, at the moment it just randomly chooses the next article linked to by you, giving the reader no choice. is this in the works? 🙂😊
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Ha ha! Discuss. Legislation www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw2/7/0...
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A Statute forbidding Bearing of Armour (1313)
A STATUTE forbidding Bearing of ARMOUR
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
A UK presenter shouldn’t crow about an audience’s ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism 🥺 ?
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns
Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection
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FinjaReloaded @finjareloaded.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
seriously, 52 : 48 for binface would be the funniest thing ever
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It would be great if Binface won Clacton and then turned out to be a remarkably effective local MP who served several terms
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Any Clacton residents who want to nominate your friendly neighbourhood intergalactic space warrior, ping me a line!
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
You know Farage is in trouble when GB News starts doing journalism 😂
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 07/07/2026
That Farage statement in full
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Left: Nigel Farage, "Over the last two years I've really enjoyed the job of being an MP" Right: Nigel Farage has missed 63% of Commons Votes
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Live footage of the Farage statement
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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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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thanks to the crew on @quietriotpod.bsky.social the Quiet Riot podcast for alerting me to this. Back in the '90s, I was a writer-actor, erstwhile band manager and music journalist, heavily into the arts scene in Sheffield. Legislation was dire. Many artists... musiciansunion.org.uk/news/ireland...
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Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts Scheme to Become Permanent from 2026
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme follows a successful pilot set up in 2022 to help Ireland’s arts and culture sector to recover from Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns.
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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Car mechanic looking at car with crazy stuff under the hood: “here’s your problem: the cartoonist has no idea what the inside of a car looks like.”
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
TEMP REQUIRED for an office based in Central London – apply in writing to Number Ten. Previous experience not essential – you’ll be out of there by five pm.
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