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TensegrityFan🐝🍯 @tensegrityfan.bsky.social · 19h

Online radicalisation is a much, much under explored subject bsky.app/profile/lbc....

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 19h

the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 17h

RIGHT.......💪🏻

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 9h

On the importance of asking the right questions in politics.

We are measurably lonelier. We feel less productive, and yet more burnt out. We're less satisfied in our jobs. We are less fulfilled in our personal lives. We're taking up fewer hobbies. Engaging in less culture and art. We miss our real communities. But we're going out less. Our trust in our institutions has plummeted. We're having fewer kids. We're politically more volatile. We're believing more lies. A younger generation is going on fewer dates. And they have fewer friends. Opportunities for human contact are shrinking.
Anxiety is up, and yes, that overall happiness metric is falling.
Sorry to be a downer, but then you knew all that already. We all feel it.
Instead, we are pursuing a race to "growth". But what kind of growth, and to what end? An AI data centre in a hollowed-out postindustrial community might provide 30-odd jobs and create numerical growth on a Treasury spreadsheet but does it materially address the lack of meaning, purpose or agency many feel in their lives?

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13h

Private Healthcare. You don't want it.

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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 9h

A second Brexit referendum is a truly stupid idea. Straight to rejoin. No fucking about. There’s no logical argument, economic or otherwise, for not rejoining. The British electorate has proven that they don’t have a clue and are easily duped by disinformation campaigns and foreign interference.

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Dr Johnson's House @drjohnsonshouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Come on in and explore Dr Johnson’s House, discover the rooms where Samuel Johnson lived and worked, and enjoy a little literary history in the heart of London. We look forward to welcoming you! We are open Tuesday - Saturday 10am – 5pm Sunday 12pm – 4pm www.drjohnsonshouse.org

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it's a fun clip but Barnier used the staircase analogy as part of a presentation explaining to british negotiators that the EU is an ecoysystem - it's not really about cherry picking. I'd recommend a properly run EU referendum instead of regurgitating 10 year old talking points.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It really is wasted on the young….. #BookSky

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah right… Says man with net favourability rating of minus 45, a shitload of investigations into possible corruption, a team of utter inadequates and with every constituency bar 4 favouring rejoining because we all know how crap Brexit is now. Bore off. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Burnham’s reopening of Brexit debate is ‘biggest boost in my career’, says Farage

Reform UK leader tells supporters PM’s move has ‘opened up a huge flank to us’

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Only Reform will take £5 million bribes, accept illegal foreign donations, let convicted fraudsters bankroll them, buy houses in their girlfriend's name to avoid tax, help crypto billionaires get richer and do fuck all for ordinary people. 😊

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Russia is a terrorist nation. Russia will be defeated. 📸: yosafata3

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Luckiiyu🍀🍀🍀 @luckiiyu7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This!! 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 bsky.app/profile/demo...

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Avg GDP growth 1945-79: 2.8% Since then: 1.6% And this apparently "broken, economically stagnant" basket case kept its AAA status right through the Winter of Discontent We lost it under Cameron, and it fell again under May, then Johnson, and then Truss: i.e. the whole time Clarke was in govt

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

First EU reactions to Burnham suggestion that UK might rejoin EU: French President Macron: “Welcome back” Spanish PM Sanchez: Brexit was a “huge loss” for both the UK and the EU, and if Britain takes a decision to rejoin, Spain will “open its arms” again to the British people.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎯🎯🎯

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump's Full Of Lies And Bullshit....

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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andy Burnham finally telling it how it is on Brexit is a welcome dose of truth. Admitting leaving the EU ruined our global standing, wrecked the economy, and left us with zero control is long overdue. Why did it take political leaders ten years to state the obvious? (1/2) 🤔 #FBPE

theguardian.com

Burnham vows to seek new ‘long-term’ relationship with EU in emotional Labour conference speech

PM also confirms plan to end pensions triple lock to pay for national care service and pledges to put electoral reform in Labour’s manifesto

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Dave The Artist @coloradofaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So True… 👇 Vote Blue… 🌊 😎✌️

Oddly, you never see a country with universal health care trying to repeal it.
fb.com/
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It's almost as if it works or something.

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Jessica, Jess, Jesse 😊 @atalossgirl1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/miag...

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Farage is certainly no friend of working people ...." via Wanda Lozinska

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 26/09/2026

Josh Babarinde MP: "Our volunteer lifeboat crews. These are people who put their lives on the line for us" 👏 "Anyone who should get in their way is pathetic, unpatriotic, and un-British. We're a country that prides ourselves in bringing people together."

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Nathaniel Greene @nathaniel1776.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When TRUMP is gone the next POTUS should freeze all of Trumps assets

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Tim Hannan @timhannan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Only a severely broken country would continue to allow Donald Trump to stay in power. He’s shows everyday that he’s completely unhinged and uninterested in making life better for Americans.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tom Tugendhat in Sunday Times insists on leaving the ECHR to tackle “soaring” immigration. What a miserable rat. Lying to us all. Betraying our country’s best interests. Threatening to flounce out of our human rights framework, trashing our treaties and torching our protection from abuses of power.

The Tories are planning to make the ECHR a dividing line at the next election. Last week the party announced plans to deport every foreign criminal, apart from those convicted of the most trivial offences, and said their plan for ECHR withdrawal meant only the Conservatives were equipped to take on the problem of soaring immigration. One of the problems withdrawal would create is a legal dispute over whether it breaches the Good Friday agreement, which committed the UK to fully incorporate the ECHR into Northern Ireland's justice system. Tugendhat said the issue had not yet been raised in his conversations with lawmakers in the US, adding:
"There's a lot of work to be done."

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If your "patriotism" relies on foreign dictators using deepfakes to influence British voters, you aren't a patriot, you're an asset. #ReformRussians

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"REFORM FAILED TO WIN ANY OF THE SIX BY-ELECTIONS THEY CONTESTED THIS WEEK." via We loathe Reform UK Ltd

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you could take a minute to read this and, if it takes your fancy, then re-post it… I’d be so grateful. 🙏🏻 I’m doing my utmost to #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax & far beyond, and I need all the help you lovely lot can give me. Thank you! x www.canncomms.co.uk/post/actor-a...

canncomms.co.uk

Actor and long-standing Patron, Reece Dinsdale fronts new campaign to save Halifax’s Square Chapel Arts Centre

Photo credit: Reece Dinsdale in the cinema/studio space at Square Chapel (photo by Ant Robling)Reece Dinsdale leads Square Chapel rescue mission: “It’s time to bring it home”Award-Winning Actor, Write...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What’s your legacy Johnson? Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this. The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure. You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin.

Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson
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It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate from the people. He has no real ideas, and no plan.
BORIS JOHNSON: UK is defenceless against migrants without...

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've never seen so many speeches attacking Israel at the UN. It must be clear to everyone now that Netanyahu and his fellow travellers have descended into barbarism. Criticising his war crimes and ethnic cleansing isn't "antisemitism". It's simple humanism. All it takes to understand that is empathy

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LorriefromCanada @lorriefmp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

😵‍💫😏

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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A different way of saying Brexit made us vulnerable. One of the major reasons for the EU being created was middle-sized countries becoming able to stand up to larger countries. There are compromises, but it's worked. The EU is now the worlds dominant global standard-setter. #UKPol #RejoinEU

independent.co.uk

Brexit has left Britain ‘impotent – a bobbing cork in the sea,’ says David Miliband

Exclusive: Former foreign secretary adds to mounting pressure for a new UK deal with EU to repair Brexit damage

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is simply far-right terrorism. And right now it’s being done with impunity.

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wey hey!! Two cheers. Hurrah! I’m almost, but not, quite, mildly excited that something might not be ruled out in a few years time. Way to go, Andy. Bold, bravely ambivalent, solidly ambiguous, resolutely vague leadership, at last. 🙄🙄🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Andy Burnham does not rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto

PM says immediate focus is on rebuilding bridges with EU as he prepares for first meeting with Ursula von der Leyen

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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So fed up with maybes, hints & innuendos. Surely it's time for plain speaking, honesty & transparency when the future of our country/economy is at stake. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Burnham refuses to rule out rejoining EU

It comes as the prime minister prepares to tell world leaders in New York that Britain is entering a new era after Brexit ‘turbulence’

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The most important jobs like Teachers, Childcare Workers, Nurses, Builders, Care Workers barely pay a livable wage. While fake jobs like Banker, CEO, Portfolio Manager, 'Investor' and 'Consultant' pay millions or billions for doing nothing.

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