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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026
A new mega poll by YouGov reveals that an overwhelming majority of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 constituencies were not sure. It’s time to put EU membership on the table. bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 19/09/2026
This is absolutely horrific. Privatisation turns our healthcare into a for-profit assembly line that doesn't treat us as humans @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social, please, for the sake of our collective health, end this madness Invest and rebuild our NHS and end NHS privatisation
Graphic of a quote from the Daily Mirror: "Women had their breasts unnecessarily removed at an NHS trust which outsourced cancer surgery under a “pay per patient” deal."
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK. Lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties. Demands state subsidies, including for building a Man U stadium. Why do billionaires resent people getting decent NHS, social care, public services?
bbc.co.uk
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. Now, two MORE unvaccinated people have died from measles. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Fun fact"
Since Roe v Wade was overturned, more women have been prosecuted for miscarriages than men for being in the Epstein files.
Over 22 to O.
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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My room-mate is (as so often) right.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NHS backlog fuelled a private equity gold rush in UK healthcare. All part of Tory plan to hike waiting list, under investment and privatisation of healthcare. Profiteering means less available for frontline services. Higher taxes for lower public value. Ban private equity from all public services
cityam.com
How the NHS backlog fuelled a private equity gold rush in UK health market
The latest Spire Healthcare deal showed that private equity interest in the private healthcare market has continued.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Needed saying.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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BAILII (The British and Irish Legal Information Institute) @bailii.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
REMEMBER: BAILII is a site for people, NOT BOTS. BAILII's Terms of Service do NOT permit spidering, scraping, bulk downloading, and/or using automated systems. #law
BAILII 25th Anniversary logo, a purple warning triangle with an exclamation mark in the centre, and text
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 11/08/2026
BIG NEW piece by me. A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I would’ve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.
worksinprogress.co
Every disease is a policy failure
Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 08/08/2026
The UK will experience a partial solar eclipse on Wednesday 12 August. The extent of the Sun's coverage and the timing of maximum obscuration will differ across the country. Never look directly at the sun; use a pinhole projector or certified eclipse glasses to view it.
Map on UK showing how much of the sun will be obscured by the moon, at maximum, during the solar eclipse on Wednesday 12th of August. this ranges from 88% in the east to 98% in the southwest.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trump govt offers grants of $500,000 to change UK politics. Foreign money for right wing groups. Disguised as “public education” it promotes MAGA propaganda on abortion, regulation, hate speech, climate change, diversity and more. Is UK the 51st state?
theguardian.com
US accused of meddling in British politics with $500,000 grant for ‘public education’ courses
Documents published on US embassy’s website prompt claims of attempt to export Maga propaganda to UK
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
53,800 of these bad boys are landing in Clacton. Ain’t they beauts? #VoteBinface
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Good Lord! Water leakage losses FAR exceed the water saved even if a hosepipe ban were imposed nationwide. The latter would 377 mill- 572 million litres a day if the restrictions were applied across the whole of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v the 2.6 BILL litres lost every day through leaks apple.news/AN8mQDIXOTiO...
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Water farce as firms lose 2.6bn litres a day… more than hosepipe bans save — The i Paper
Leaky infrastructure means companies imposing hosepipe bans are losing enough water to supply millions of people
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Dr Negrin's Victory Pills @dr-negrin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 31/07/2026
In our latest press release we take an early look at the July stats: just how dry has it been? bit.ly/45xyDEF
A map of the UK for showing the total rainfall amount for the 1 - 30 July 2026 compared with the average for the full month. 
You would normally expect a total of around 97% of average at this point in the month, but the UK is currently tracking its third driest July on record with only 35% of average rainfall. 

England and Wales have seen less than 20% of their average rainfall for the month.
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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.
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The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
IPSOS: "31% currently say they’re likely to consider voting Labour at the next election. But if Labour were to offer a 2nd referendum in its manifesto, this rises to a 45% – the only EU policy pledge tested that makes a meaningful difference to the party’s support" www.kcl.ac.uk/news/the-bre...
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The Brexit vote 10 years on: study shows desire for closer EU relationship – but trade-offs temper rush to rejoin | King's College London
More people – though still not a majority – now think the referendum was a mistake
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Francis Egerton, duke of Bridgewater, opened Britain’s first purpose-built industrial canal on this day 1761 between Manchester and his coal mines at Worsley. Engineered by James Brindley, it halved the coal price in Manchester and sparked canal mania.
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Brian Wernham C.Eng. @brianwernham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
High intensity focal ultrasound treatment (HIFU) introduced as standard for localised prostate cancer in prostate gland: 🇫🇷 France from 2003 🇩🇪 Germany from 2004 🇺🇲 United States from 2016 🏛️ University College London 2003 🇬🇧 Rest of UK? Still not available 14,000 UK men/year suffering unnecessarily
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Water companies reclassify bonus as retention payments, circumvent rules. Anglian Water CEO gets £1.3m retention pay. AW won't meet its regulatory targets. 44% rise in customer bills, sewage in rivers, 182m litres a day lost to leaks, criminal convictions. Govt/Ofwat do nothing. archive.ph/kmZz8
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Anglian Water hands chief £1.3mn in retention pay despite bonus curbs
Nearly two-thirds of £1.9mn pay package paid by parent company unregulated by Ofwat
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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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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Another stupid Mahmood idea - getting “trained” members of the public to decide asylum cases - is ripped to shreds here by someone who knows what they’re talking about… Politicians have truly lost their minds on immigration. It’s making us a very wretched and angry place.
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Sir, Muddled government thinking is contlating the law, resources and the judiciary ("Public to decide asylum appeals as Mahmood jettisons judges", Jun 29). Nothing except its own ambivalence prevents a government with a large majority from changing the law on immigration and human rights, and nothing except its own misplaced expenditure priorities prevent it from funding the courts and tribunals system to eliminate the backlogs.
The task of the immigration judiciary is to decide whether, on return to their home country, an asylum seeker faces a real risk of persecution. This can mean torture and death, so immigration judges exercise the nearest that the UK now has to a capital jurisdiction. That responsibility, which I exercised for 20 years, requires accumulated legal training, skill, experience and judgment. Replacing a body of people exercising those proven attributes with one that lacks all of them and will not be operational until the end of next year is nonsensical. It will imperil appellants and will undoubtedly increase the number of applications to the High Court for judicial review. We have only to imagine a proposed crash course for applicants from different backgrounds with no medical knowledge for surgical hospital positions.
Dr Jonathan Lewis
Designated immigration judge (ret'd), Pinner
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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Best argument ever.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Just 11 of 632 constituencies would vote to stay out of the EU in second referendum www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Mapped: Just 11 of 632 constituencies would now vote to stay out of the EU
Ten years on from the 2016 referendum, nearly half of Britons say they would vote ‘rejoin’ should they now be given another choice
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. In earlier incarnation, he supported the Iraq invasion; was chairman of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. What next?
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff
Decision is one of Makerfield MP’s most significant since his Westminster return as he builds his team for government
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Wednesday marks 10 years to the day since Cameron resigned to let Brexit usher in a new era of stable self governance. Since then we've burned through: 5 more prime ministers 8 chancellors 8 home secretaries 9 foreign secretaries 10 education secretaries 10 defence secretaries Masterful work.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Fewer than half of Americans can afford healthcare, the lowest rate since 2021. We’re saddled with the highest healthcare costs with the worst health outcomes among other rich countries. Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All? We do not have to keep living like this.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Asda losses grow to almost £1bn as it fends off Aldi. Sales down. Losing market share. Wealth extraction by private equity through interest payments, royalty, management and other charges, low asset investment. Staff/Wage cuts, less products, asset-stripping evident. Bleak future for Asda.
news.sky.com
Asda losses grow to almost £1bn as it fends off Aldi
The UK's third-largest supermarket chain is investing in a bid to arrest a customer shift towards rivals who are snapping at its heels.
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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 21/06/2026
Something no one has ever seen before: a Met Office forecast for somewhere in the UK (in this case, Reading) with two consecutive days of 40°C Whether or not this happens, the fact it is within the range of possible scenarios should give a loud warning of the climate we are now in
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Robert C. Fried (Bob Fried) @robertcfried.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Result of Tory/Labour freeze of personal allowance at £12570 since April 2021. Number of income tax payers: 2021/22, 33m; 2025/26, 39.1m. Basic rate payers: 2021/22, 27.4m; 2025/26, 30.4m Pensioners paying income tax: 2021/22, 6.74m; 2025/26, 8.72m. More poor people paying income tax.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts
Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU
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Abdallah 🇩🇴 @abdallahnr2.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"The Premier League title race would have entered the final match round with Manchester City two points clear of Arsenal, according to The Athletic’s analysis of key match decisions made by referees and their video assistants." www.nytimes.com/athletic/731...
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How referee calls shaped the Premier League: What the table could have looked like with correct decisions (Gift Article)
We analyse every decision flagged by the key match incidents panel in 2025-26 and how they affected your team
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“It is young UK performers, and in particular those from a working-class background, who have been most hit by the loss of the EU for work and experience.”
theguardian.com
‘Catastrophic for creative industries’: Brexit barriers shut UK actors out of EU jobs
Casting shifts to EU talent as paperwork delays and visa limits make hiring British crews less viable
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 30/05/2026
“An internal briefing prepared for NHS leaders in February 2026, seen by Democracy for Sale, says that even after ‘optimisation’, ‘processing time is reported as taking 4-5 minutes’ while similar processes take only ‘30 seconds’ with current systems.” goodlaw.social/i108
goodlaw.social
BREAKING: Palantir software is 10 times slower than NHS tools | Good Law Project
Palantir claims its software saves medics time they can spend on patient care, but an NHS leak shows the spy-tech firm’s products put doctors and nurses in the slow lane
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Dr Ciarán O'Carroll @climateciaran.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
🔥𝐌𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲’𝐬 𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬: why should a family in Ireland pay more for electricity so a billion-dollar tech company can pay less? 💵
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The ECHR has protected British people from abuses of power by its own government. Nigel Farage wants us to leave it. Please think about that youtu.be/Fhrb5Z7ScME?...
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THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTS US ALL - WE MUST DEFEND IT!
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Michael Woolley @michaelwoolley.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Be good to see Como in UCL.
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
As a survivor of nearly drowning when I was a child, I'm reposting this free article on the warning signs to look for in people who are in distress.
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Pie Thagoram @piethagoram.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#Notts #COYP I'll be there
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
All opinion pollsters concur: Brits want the UK to be part of the EU again: www.whatukthinks.org/eu/opinion-p...
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Another post Andy Burnham Mirror poll Should the U.K. rejoin the EU 62% for Yes at present. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'll be talking about 'These Isles' at a fantastic non-fiction event at @serenitybookshop.bsky.social on Friday 22nd May 6.30pm, with authors @drjamesbailey.bsky.social, @thelrm.bsky.social and @jamie-woodward.bsky.social. Book here: www.ticketsource.com/serenity-boo...
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