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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage. I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong. Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole. Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you... (Photos AP)

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

It’s also that very rare thing: a brilliant and influential movie that still feels fresh.

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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Somewhere between Munich and Stuttgart out of the train window a rather splendid Baum des Tages

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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Republicans defending ICE terrorism telling me "there are consequences to breaking the law." That's rich coming from people who knowingly voted for a convicted felon.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

90% of people in China own their own homes. In the UK/USA it is only 65%. The reason, they don't have for profit housing in China and homes are therefore not a ridiculously overpriced commodity.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

UK tourist Becky Burke was arrested by ICE in the USA and kept in handcuffs and chains for 19 days before being deported back to Wales. Her 'crime', doing unpaid work in return for accomodation (which isn't illegal). This is the evil of Donald Trump's USA, DON'T GO.

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 22/01/2026

Weaponised trade, coercive finance and fragile supply chains have changed the game. Mark Carney’s answer at Davos is “values-based realism”: rebuilding domestic strength while cooperating with other mid-sized states to resist pressure together. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

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The Carney Doctrine: ‘live in truth’ not illusion

Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, calls for middle ranking countries to "live in truth", and abandon the useful fiction of a world order

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

let's GO! sorry but public finance outperforms are not seen that often

UK government borrowing lower than expected in December
The £11.6bn shortfall is a boost for chancellor Rachel Reeves’ efforts to keep a lid on the public finances

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

"Look, I get it, he's mental but what the fuck do you want me to do?" - Labour +45%

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 20/01/2026

The UK did this deal, btw, at significant political and financial cost, so that the US could keep operating a crucial regional military base at Diego Garcia. Donald Trump and Marco Rubio both welcomed the deal. There is nothing in it for the UK other than helping the US relationship. So: hmmmm.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

George Orwell "They will have tyranny and they will call it justice, lies and they call it truth, war and they call it peace." 2026 Donald Trump - 'Peace Board'

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Should things escalate further and today goes down in history as the end of American hegemony future UK historians may be surprised to find the papers focusing on the Beckhams falling out.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 16/01/2026

The UK is almost as cheap to influence online as Russia. Cambridge researchers have mapped the bot market. The next move belongs to Parliament. By Fred Lewsey

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Price of a bot army revealed across hundreds of online platforms

The first global index to track real-time prices for buying fake account verifications on 500+ online platforms in every country

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

If this greedy and ridiculous man were to become Prime Minister, he'd be responsible for our security, safety, our NHS, our economy, and the welfare of our children. Meanwhile he can't be bothered to do even basic checks on the Cameos that rake in £141,000 for him metro.co.uk/2026/01/15/i...

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Nigel Farage ‘tricked into paying tribute to Ian Watkins’

It cost £98 for The Reform UK leader to film the clip on his Cameo account

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

if Nigel Farage is lazy enough to record a message for paedophile Ian Watkins in exchange for money, what else might he do for money without thinking too hard

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

And so it begins. Reform has grown, and people with opinions and egos have been allowed into Farage’s one man band. Won't end well... (going to be saying that a lot)

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/01/2026

Pictured: Someone who actually won a Nobel Peace Prize

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moira31mudlarks.bsky.social @moira31mudlarks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Is this why Trump is going after Denmark The greedy guts tech oligarch?

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/01/2026

Brexit failed, and Farage was one of its key architects. "In a sane world, Farage would not be able to show his face in parliament or in a TV studio without being reminded of two things. His adult life was devoted to a cause that his compatriots now regard as a mistake." on.ft.com/4pEaXpC

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How Nigel Farage gets away with it

His two great liabilities, Brexit and Donald Trump, are unmentionable in British politics

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

So this is what Farage wants to do with his precious Brexit ‘sovereignty’: sell out our NHS to Trump’s America and grub for power in the misery of its collapse. Such a cynical, malignant politician. Happy to lie to our faces, weaken our rights and break what we value, if it enriches him. (iPaper)

Fix NHS or extremists Will win, warns Davey
By Nina Lloyd, Sophie Wingate and David Lynch
Populists and extremists will be the winners if politicians fail the NHS, Sir Ed Davey warned yesterday.
The Liberal Democrat leader suggested failing to bring down A&E waits would allow for "disillusionment" to be exploited as he set out his party's plans to give patients a legal right to be seen within 12 hours.
Speaking in London's Chartered Accountants' Hall, Davey attacked Labour and the Tories for their record on the NHS.
"If we don't show we can change things, if we can't fix this crisis, that's when the populists and the extremists will take advantage," he said.
"Not because they can fix it, of course they can't. They're not even interested in fixing it.
"But because populists feed off disillusionment, they thrive when people simply don't believe that any government or any party can really make their lives better."
He singled out the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (inset), who he claimed "doesn't care about the NHS" and wants to "privatise" the service by replacing it with "an American-style insurance system"
Under the proposals, £1.5bn would go towards making 6,000 beds available for care by the end of the year, in an effort to end what Davey called a
"deadly corridor crisis"
Ministers would have a "statutory" duty to limit the time spent waiting to be admitted in
A&E to 12 hours or less, the
party added.
The party said their plan would be funded by scrapping the Government's pharmaceuticals deal with the US, which could result in the
NHS paying billions more for drugs.
Davey told Donald Trump to
"bring it on" as he faced questions from journalists about the prospect of retaliation if the UK ripped up its trade arrangements with the US.

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moira31mudlarks.bsky.social @moira31mudlarks.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

All those marching In London - banging drums in local towns for Gaza - where are they supporting the Iranian ppl. Or is it only ppl living in repressive regimes supported by Iranian money they support?

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Thames Water is going bankrupt, AGAIN. It can be nationalised very easily and for free. Freeze their bills, watch them go bankrupt, takeover water supply as soon as they stop, as the law already states. Job done.

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

BREAKING: US State Dept tells its own citizens to get out of Iran - what is President Trump planning? Join us LIVE 1030pm 👇

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I agree - Hamnet is excellent, beautifully written, filmed and acted, about love and loss … and Shakespeare as a human being rather than some kind of demigod

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Nadhim Zahawi was born in Iraq, today he joined a party that would have stopped him ever coming to the UK. As hypocritical as you can get.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

All I can think is, I wonder what Nixon would say if he was alive today. Probably, "I did 1/1000th of this and I got impeached."

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moira31mudlarks.bsky.social @moira31mudlarks.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Nene flood meadows doing what flood meadows do

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Hats (periwig) off to @barristersecret.bsky.social for The Cut Throat Trial - a most superior courtroom thriller. Smart, insightful, accessible and deftly plotted it effortlessly transports you right into the grit, graft and grandeur of a trial. Unputdownable.

Hardback copy of a book with the title “The Cut Throat Trial” in big yellow capital letters. Next to the book on the wooden table is a red mug of tea

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moira31mudlarks.bsky.social @moira31mudlarks.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

True for me - if the US wants to retreat - let it - we need our own fortification

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"When was the last time you said 'thank you,' Mr. Penguin?"

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

"Maybe the reason I didn’t want any childhood photos is because I didn’t want to understand what my childhood meant." Brilliant guest post from @matt-taylor.bsky.social, on how growing up in care means growing up without photographic evidence of your own childhood

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Guest post: Photographs define a childhood

Matt Taylor from Underclass Hero, on how care leavers are missing an important part of themselves.

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moira31mudlarks.bsky.social @moira31mudlarks.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Fox of the day badly needed to meet my rabbits in the garden

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A fine #FoxOfTheDay from @fionaliddiard today - top work !

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

We sent NHS staff into a deadly pandemic wearing bin liners. Hundreds of them died. Separated from their families for months, they worked unimaginable hours, and saw thousands drown in their bed. And these worms DARE judge them for doing something silly for 5mins to boost morale and keep sane? WTAF

Laura Dodsworth
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While people were too scared to go to A&E, while people died alone at home and cancer diagnoses were missed, this was happening.

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moira31mudlarks.bsky.social @moira31mudlarks.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

What kind of Britain do we want to live in? One where decisions are made for us – or one where we make them together? 75% of people think Britain is getting worse. Meet the people who are making it better. This is Community Britain.👇 party.coop/community?ut...

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Community Britain

It's time to put community back at the heart of politics.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Regular White House reporters would never do anything this courageous.

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Starmer just completely destroyed both Nigel Farage’s faux patriotism and an idiot from GB News in a few short sentences

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Kentish Fran #FBPE @kentishfran.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Vote #ReformUK Get Putin

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"They believe that fundamentally we are now in a world where the bullies can call the shots." FT columnist Gillian Tett tells #Newsnight that the shift in approach from the Trump administration shows that "the post war international order is dead - it's over".

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