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Neill Waters

@neillwaters.bsky.social
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Northerner. British. European. Curious, introverted. Interested in politics, current affairs, tech, net zero transition, EVs, NHS. He/Him

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The government needs to learn there is no way of housing asylum seekers that will please a large section of the population, and even less so the hard right They should house people in the most practical way while focusing on processing claims fairly and efficiently, and maybe talk about it less
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 12/09/2026
Good lord exactly what everybody said would happen happened
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s not too late to stop this madness - the government has said the uk mega donors are a problem. The lords can bring in a cap on UK donors to stop any attempt to buy the next election. Share this and ask your MP to join us protecting British democracy.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org
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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 25/08/2026
Someone in a big blonde wig with a big heart on their chest handing out books to kids with the words “always be more Dolly”
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton on trans rights. God I loved her.
When looking at the issue of anti-trans legislation, Parton said that “I try to get into the human element of it.” Pointing out that she has people in her life who identify as queer and trans, the 77-year-old star said it was important to hear what they’re saying.

“I know and love them all, and I do not judge. And I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are,” she said. “I know how important this is to them. That’s who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there’s something to be judged, that is God’s business. But we are all God’s children and how we are is who we are.”
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
More than half of accounts posting about violence in Belfast & Southampton on X were based overseas. Only 4 of the 12 most-seen posts were from the UK. X is now "“a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking & divisive content". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
"Nearly a third of all 43,000 posts on X relating to the two incidents contained racist or anti-immigration comments. Almost one in 10 relating to Belfast contained calls for violence or paramilitary or vigilante action.

Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, said the data demonstrated that X had become “a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking and divisive content.

Their goal, he added, was “to amplify local tragedies and crises, intensify racist narratives, and incite violence in communities they have never set foot in and to whom they have no real connection.”"
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/08/2026
Chris Hohn, billionaire hedge fund manager: ‘All these people who say we can't afford net zero - they're completely misunderstanding the gravity of the situation.' www.thetimes.com/article/de38...
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.
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Neill Waters @neillwaters.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Completely agree with this. I hope the BBC greenlight a second season.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is the equivalent of asking how a £1.5m turnover company is going to pay for £100 of drinks at the Xmas party.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wow. The Department for Education has just published new projections which estimate that the number of pupils in state-funded schools in England will plummet by more than 9% by 2031 amid falling birth rates And yet this issue receives probably 1,000th of the coverage the immigration debate receives
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Actual footage of every penalty run up in the World Cup.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I bet she wishes she knew somebody who had the power to regulate X, so she didn't have to just turn her back while it continues to poison society.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
At this point, climate change deniers should be treated like flat-earthers. What more evidence would a reasonable person need?
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
credit to Sally Nugent who just, in normal circumstances, brought Nigel Farage's political career to an end. If polls don't plummet after this, I will be truly astonished.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The only World Cup footage you need to see today. 📹: YouTube Rudy Janssens
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is nuts. Yes we need better protections online, but this is a massive overreach by Starmer. For many young people, especially marginalised ones such as trans and neurodivergent, online spaces can be a safe place for them to develop a genuine support community www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Starmer to announce ‘Australia plus’ ban on social media for under-16s
Sources say hardline measures will also prevent young users from being to talk to strangers on gaming apps
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
UK tax has gone up significantly over the last 25 years But the tax paid by the average UK worker has not This apparent miracle was achieved by taxing “other people”: higher earners, capital, property, banks, etc The strategy has run out of road A 🧵 on what happens next.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
X is currently full of posts falsely naming Christi Hill and another officer as having arrested Henry Nowak. One names and pictures the other PC, saying, "Wanted: dead or alive". It gives his address. What more exactly will it take to get UK MPs, ministers and departments off that hellsite?
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
assuming a lifespan of 80 years, the length of the entire human civilization is only about 70 people old. The US Civil War was two people ago and the Ottomans sacked Constantinople seven people ago. Not very long!
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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Your regular reminder that PoliticsUK is a fake account owned by a Reform councillor Bailey Nash-Gardner who also works for Reform MP Andrew Rosindell. ***Stop following and sharing their stuff***
a screengrab of the account Politicsuk.com
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.
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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I've said it before but we need to somehow restore the social cost of racism. It's always been there but it's spreading at least partly because people aren't made to feel ashamed of it any more.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
So the EHRC guidance has been updated from "Fuck trans people's rights" to "I'm terribly sorry but fuck trans people's rights", and it remains glaringly obvious that the government's response to the Supreme Court judgement should have been to fix the law rather than cower in fear of bigots.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This is a failure of journalism, on a really basic level, but it is also a failure of political leadership. It was going to fall simply in the basis of what the previous govt did. But Starmer somehow conspired to actively spread the impression it was rising.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
There are few more important decisions in politics than who should lead the government. Changing PM mid-term is a completely normal part of parliamentary government. Yet Labour has a process that is almost structurally designed to produce dither, dysfunction, panic and blind decision-making.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This policy, the replies to this, Keir Starmer’s ‘the petrol retailers are being naughty’ statement, Ed Davey’s fuel duty tax cut, Kemi Badenoch’s fuel duty tax cut, John Swinney’s price controls…is there anyone in British politics who understands “the Iran war means we have less stuff”?
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Exclusive footage shows the White House Correspondents Dinner security.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 17/04/2026
A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Birds of a feather 🏳️‍⚧️ @robinyourgrave.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The electrical revolution is happening - across several domains - faster and further than almost anyone dared predict. And any country that does not embrace it will be left in the fossil age.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A single line in this piece just made my day: “The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.” Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval
Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 03/04/2026
Will new drilling bring UK energy bills down? No Will it increase reliance on fossil fuels and contribute to climate change? Yes So thank goodness any speculation is unfounded. news.sky.com/story/specul...
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Speculation Miliband will approve drilling new oil and gas field 'unfounded' government says
There are calls for more drilling to take place as the UK deals with the energy price shock from the Middle East war. The UK government has not ruled out approving the field.
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Could really use this messaging in the UK rather than blindly thinking we can get through a supply crisis by pretending the issue is just prices and not the supply.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 31/03/2026
Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...
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UK to receive last tanker of jet fuel from Middle East this week
Industry warnings of disruption contrast with government calls for calm
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz
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