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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Of *course* the ‘AI boom’ will make us poorer. It’s a ‘boom’ created by tech bros for tech bros, and they’re pretty much the worst human beings on the planet. How could it possibly do anything else?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.

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🔶Rebecca🔶 @mkcatlady.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How do you get people to pay for something they think will be provided for free by the state? This is the dilemma with social care in England. Many people think it is already free, like the NHS, so they don't save for the cost and resent any taxes to pay for it. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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What ‘Choosin’ Texas’ tells us about Burnham’s social care obstacles

Convincing the British public to pay higher taxes for something they wrongly assume the state provides will not be easy

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The ‘harm’ from immigration is illusionary. The harm from too little immigration is all too real.

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🔶Rebecca🔶 @mkcatlady.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The fundamental question is: Why are men and women not coupling up? - Is it true that young men and women people don't socialise together? - Have young men become so unattractive to women that a solitary life for a women is preferable? - Are women happier living on their own or with other women?

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 24/09/2026

MRP | Labour 54 Seats Short: 🌹 LAB: 272 | 28% ➡️ RFM: 153 | 24% 🌳 CON: 85 | 20% 🔶 LDM: 69 | 11% 🎗️ SNP: 40 | 3% 🌼 PC: 8 | 1% 🌍 GRN: 3 | 10% 🙋 Oth: 1 | 4% Via @survation.bsky.social, 20 Aug - 4 Sep.

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🔶Rebecca🔶 @mkcatlady.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Burnham Labour Govt wants to move fast and break things. The consultation process is one of the things it wants to break. I disagree with this approach. www.accountingweb.co.uk/tax/hmrc-pol...

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Government to ban most consultations

Under the heading of simplification and efficiency, the government has decided to abolish the consultation process for most changes to UK law and

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

SPOILER ALERT: Don't waste your time trying to convert far-right extremists by "debating" with them. Most are so deep inside their cult by now that they're lost for good. Instead, spend you're time and energy on trying to mobilise non-voters and the undecided. They're the ones who decide elections!

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just imagine how much disinformation and micro targeting £72m gets you… Shame on the leaders who did nothing to protect democracy from the assault coming its way …as if we learnt nothing from Brexit.

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🔶Rebecca🔶 @mkcatlady.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In Sunday School @quietriotpod.bsky.social ask: How will AI kill us all. The answer is dead grass. One day an AI model will develop something to kill grass and it will spread throughout the world on the wind and by birds, killing all types of grass it finds. 1/2

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 12/09/2026

Unlimited donations from unaccountable sources are a threat to democratic integrity. We're calling on the Government to introduce emergency legislation to cap political donations. Last week we raised this in the Commons. This week we've chased the minister again, because this cannot wait.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.

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🔶Rebecca🔶 @mkcatlady.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm sorry.... HOW MUCH???? The UK elections have just been bought by 2 crypto billionaires. The total donations are about *four times* the amount raised by the Tory and Labour Parties combined this year. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Reform UK receives two record £36mn donations

The combined £72mn gifts from crypto billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne are the largest donations in British political history

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🔶Rebecca🔶 @mkcatlady.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This changes the game. Reform UK will be able to out-spend any other party. And they will spend this money on any election from now on, local or national. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Reform UK receives record £36mn donation

The gift from crypto billionaire Ben Delo is the largest donation in British political history

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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Suz Brinkman-Wordle @firmlyaground.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ninety short years ago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

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Battle of Cable Street - Wikipedia

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🔶Rebecca🔶 @mkcatlady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Are you unhappy with the politics around you? Then DO SOMETHING! - volunteer with a local group - deliver leaflets - join a political party - knock on doors - talk to your neighbours about politics, even if its only about local issues. You will feel better if you do something positive.

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🔶Rebecca🔶 @mkcatlady.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@quietriotpod.bsky.social Where is Sunday School this morning? The pod is normally live by 5am ....

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Trump’s lizard brain took him down a dark and dangerous path this week. The rest of us are going to pay the price. How long will Americans put up with it?

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

💥 New polling by @yougov.co.uk shows that 53% of MPs support a review of Westminster's voting system - a National Commission on Electoral Reform. First Past the Post is long past its sell-by date. The country is ready for change - it's time for PR 💪

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Labour MPs will push Burnham to back voting reform in first 100 days

Exclusive: Nearly 100 Labour MPs support commission on changing the system used for Westminster election

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Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Andy Burnham has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to truly change British politics for the better. The current voting system creates democratic deficits that lead directly to disillusion in politics up and down the country. We need a National Commission on Electoral Reform.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The depressing thing about the US isn't Trump really. He's just a grotesque. It's the complete failure of all the things liberals believe in: Congress, the judiciary, the press, voters themselves, all persistently unwilling or unable to stop him. It's the failure of an entire society.

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🔶Rebecca🔶 @mkcatlady.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Does this increased time alone contribute to the sharp rise in mental health issue for people aged 16-34?

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 25/08/2026

Young people in the UK are spending more time alone. Those in poor health and with the highest incomes have seen the biggest increase in time alone – three more hours alone each day, in a little over a decade. Read our latest analysis for more 👉 buff.ly/v7pfxOa

Number of hours of non-sleep time per day spent alone by personal characteristics among 18-29-year-olds (left side) and 60 and above (right side): UK

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The @stephenkb.bsky.social column this week is a deeply necessary, clear counter to most of the discourse on the future for tax and spend for the British state. There are three options - there's no point in pussyfooting around with myths and not opting for one of them. www.ft.com/content/9102...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I see Farage has honked out another one of his ‘racist ideas for idiots’… Don’t solve the problem by building more social housing, make people in the queue angry with each other instead. What a little racist shit-stirrer with his £5mill and 5 homes, whipping up hatred to make himself richer. (Times)

Put working Britons first in housing queue, says Reform
Matt Dathan
British-born workers under 35 would be placed at the front of the queue for social housing, with priority given to married couples with children, in a new pledge from Reform UK
Nigel Farage's party has announced radical plans to overhaul the way such accommodation is allocated,
with
veterans also given preference.
Those on benefits would be regarded as a lower priority under the new policy, to be announced by Richard Tice, Reform UK's deputy leader.
The party has already pledged to bar foreigners from social housing and said they would be evicted after a "short grace period. Reform UK estimates that 540,000 social homes are occupied by foreign citizens and that of the 1.3 million people on waiting lists, 15 per cent - about 195,000 households — are foreign.
Tice said: "There are now 1.3 million people waiting for social housing in Britain. The vast majority of them do not have jobs. In terms of the social houses we have, less than half of households are in work and over half a million social homes are currently occupied by foreign nationals.
"Meanwhile, young British men and women, who are working hard, can't afford to move out of their family home… It is time for us to prioritise young British workers, and that is what our policy is about."
A Labour spokesman described
Reform's plans as unserious and unworkable. "Access to social housing is already tightly controlled. Illegal migrants, asylum seekers and migrants on student or work visas are not eligible for social housing," the spokesman said.
"This policy would go after long-term
UK residents that have contributed to our country but are not British citizens, including NHS staff. It would leave more families at risk of homelessness and drive up use of temporary accommodation at the taxpayers' expense. It would also mean renegotiations with the EU, resulting in years of wrangling"

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yes, it does sound familiar.

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🔶Rebecca🔶 @mkcatlady.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This article is sickening. Remigration is a virus that is spreading through Europe’s far right and is already in the UK as policy of Restore Britain - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

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Remigration binds Maga to Europe’s far right

Once-taboo idea of mass expulsions returns to European nations after Trump embrace

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?

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🔶Rebecca🔶 @mkcatlady.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Research shows that younger people are not socialising. Is this a contributing factor of the increase in mental health issues of those aged under 35?- giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

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Pandemic lockdowns never ended for some people

For too many young people, disrupted social ties have never fully recovered

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hahahaha. Farage now whining that he was badly advised by his overpaid team into calling his stupid by-election. Confirming then that he’s incapable of working it out for himself. Too busy counting his money. Honest to god, Clacton. Don’t be the constituency dunces he needs you to be. (Times)

One senior source said they believed Farage had been poorly advised over calling the by-election in Clacton.
They said that "young advisers" around Farage had not checked whether the standards' commissioner's investigation would continue in the event of the by-election and they had incorrectly assumed it would not. They also criticised "massive salaries" paid to staff who they said were "letting Nigel down".

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/08/2026

This is one aspect of the problem. Litigants in person use AI to generate often excessively lengthy pleadings and submissions that can seem superficially plausible but which require to be sifted through minutely to identify what is real. It’s common for LiPs not fully to understand what they submit.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 01/08/2026

He's planning to do it AGAIN.

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Elon Musk rigged the vote tabulation
computers in the swing states to ensure Trump
won the 2024 election, & he's obviously
planning on cheating again in the midterm
elections. He should be hauled into jail by the
FBI for his post below:
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Follow
No one needs to worry about Democrats winning
the midterm elections.
J have a plan.

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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just adding my recent thread on mandatory voting in Australia, to give some context. It is something the UK should absolutely consider. bsky.app/profile/marg...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This would be a very good move. I'm a recent convert to mandatory voting and increasingly messianic about it open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

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🔶Rebecca🔶 @mkcatlady.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The rules of what actually happens in social care.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:

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🔶Rebecca🔶 @mkcatlady.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Everyone in England needs to read this explainer on how the care system works for adults. taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/07/27/s... It's broken and it will take every penny you have, if you are unlucky enough to need residential care.

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How social care costs work in England - and why it’s mad

One in seven of us will face care costs above £100,000, decided by luck rather than need. We explain how England’s social care charging system really works.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's being reported that Andy Burnham might replace council tax and stamp duty with a 0.48% annual property tax. We'll have a complete report on this tomorrow, including an interactive map showing the impact across the country.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Burnham: Social Care is a huge challenge that demands a proper longterm solution. It can be done if parties work together. Most parties: PM is right and we'll work with him for a solution. Tories: PM is right and we'll work with him for a solution. BUT ONLY IF HE CAN DO IT FOR FREE. Grow TF up.

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