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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 02/06/2025
The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 14/04/2025
I've been a journalist for 25+ years and I'm not sure I've witnessed as much wilful (and v likely coordinated) disinformation from certain corners of the UK media than over past few days. Sun, Mail and Telegraph have been truly awful - and seemingly shameless www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Rightwing media falsely blame Ed Miliband for UK steel crisis, experts say
Net zero and clean energy can actually help save the steel industry, experts point out
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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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ElleO 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @ellohhlo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Muskrat's gonna love this one.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Every single one of the Trump supporters sounds like a domestic abuser. "You should've let him hit you, you shouldn't have complained in public, you're never grateful, you never say thank you."
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. The agony in his face…he looks overwhelmed with disbelief at the sheer cruelty.
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Kai @underantares.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. —W.H. Auden
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Ukraine represents truth. Russia represents lies. Every time we speak the truth, we support the war effort. Every time we reject lies, we help defeat the enemy. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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The lies are the point
The Ukraine war has never been entirely military, or even territorial. It is epistemic.
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Every accusation this irredeemable piece of human garbage makes is projection. Every single one. www.dw.com/en/ukraine-u...
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Yrotitna @yrotitna.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Best comment on this I’ve seen so far is “rapist says Ukraine shouldn’t have worn such a short skirt.”
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@davidgauke @davidgauke.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
If you’d asked AI to write a piece of Russian propaganda in the style of Donald Trump, this is what you’d get. Well done America, you’ve elected a Russian asset as your President.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 18/02/2025
A Trump shill on Newsnight claims there are more people in prison in UK jails for freedom of speech violations than in Putin’s Russia. These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 18/02/2025
Putin insisting on elections in another country, when he hasn’t had anything approaching a fair election in his own country in years. Yet more irony atop of irony. He has a long track record of interfering and manipulating elections to get an outcome he wants, in foreign countries and his own.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13/02/2025
Victoria Derbyshire slams Trump's senior director for counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka on #Newsnight. He can't handle it. SG: "We stand with any nation that wishes to implement its sovereignty & which shares our values." VD: "But not the women killed in the maternity hospital in southern Ukraine?"
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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Burger-eating surrender monkeys.
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Luke Harding @lukeharding1968.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Trump says he will begin negotiations with Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Any "deal" will be scripted by Moscow: Russia keeps territory it has stolen, no Nato membership for Kyiv, US military assistance ends. In short, a recipe for betrayal and further war www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump says he has spoken to Putin and agreed to negotiate Ukraine ceasefire
US president says he called Russian leader and agreed to have teams start negotiations immediately
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 10/02/2025
We revealed Nigel Farage’s voting record to his constituents in Clacton. They weren’t happy.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We need to banish the phrase "claimed without evidence" from journalism. Because 100% of the time it means "This public figure told this lie, but my news organization's conventions prevent me from saying it's a lie, even though it's an obvious lie." Calling a lie a lie ought to be the convention.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
“You realise you’ll go down in history as America’s worst ever President?” “You think there’ll be historians any more?’
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Between the tariffs, the idiotic threats to Canadian and Danish sovereignty, the destruction of USAID, and the undermining of NATO, it's hard to see what the Trump administration would have done differently in their first 2 weeks if their aim were to destroy US power and global influence.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Was just disinvited by @bbc5live.bsky.social to a discussion of Brexit 5 years on- on the entirely reasonable/correct grounds that I know what I am talking about and would give an expert, objective view. What they actually wanted was a "hard Remainer" (to balance a know-nothing Brexiteer). FFS.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 29/01/2025
💥 NEW: Disgraced former government advisor Andrew Sabisky - who quit in a 2020 race science scandal - has built a hidden network of 60 Tory researchers, think tank staffers, and journalists to continue pushing politics in a more radical direction. investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/andrew-sabis...
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Unravelling Westminster’s secret influence network | HOPE not hate
An ex-Tory aide linked to race science has created a group of political allies to craft policy in the shadows
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Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
After building a career pushing anti-vax views, Robert Kennedy said today (at his confirmation hearings) that all **his kids are vaccinated**. Don’t look at what he says (anti-vax is a lucrative position)- look at what he does.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 22/01/2025
Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )
Picture of the Tesla gigafactory in Berlin with Elon Musk projected and the words Heil Tesla
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is so inspirational. Saying the words to his actual face
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Nessa ✨ @nessathewriter.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
anyway
Indiana Jones punching a Nazi
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"Your sacred cities are made a wasteland ... Jerusalem a desolation". As the world's flagship democracy prepares to kneel before Donald Trump, here's some music by William Byrd: a composer who knew what it was to see the things in which he most believed laid waste. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWAy...
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Civitas Sancti Tui - William Byrd - Tenebrae Choir, conducted by Nigel Short
YouTube video by Tenebrae Choir
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Russia: Invades Moldova ‘92 Flattens Grozny ‘99 Uses polonium UK ‘06 Cyber attacks Estonia ‘07 Invades Georgia ‘08 Invades Crimea & Eastern Ukraine ‘14 Downs MH17 2014 Flattens Syria 2015-24 Uses Novicok 2018 Invades Ukraine more 2022-.. Trump: why does Ukraine want to be NATO?
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
We have to stop seeing news broadcasting as a traditional format for providing information. It's now just Reality TV based around trending topics: "Nigel is in the kitchen, slagging off Keir to Beth. ... Laura's in the bedroom, bitching about Rachel to Kemi." Understand that, and it all makes sense.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
A quick look on the racism site shows that Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick is apparently outraged at the delays in the criminal justice system. Y’know, the ones caused by the policies that he consistently supported. The ones that he was absolutely fine with when he was in government.
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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Today the National Trust launched a 10-year strategy with ambitious plans for nature & climate. Almost every paper reported positively - from the Mirror to the Express. Even the Mail. Only one outlet used the word ‘woke’ & framed climate as a ‘culture wars’ issue. The BBC. Why? California’s burning.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
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A little bit of hope after a terrible week
A survival guide to the next four years.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/01/2025
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Very well said. The man's a hypocrite. Musk’s war on America’s allies on.ft.com/4fLUf2Y
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The Trump philosophy, which is shared by the Tories, is easy to understand. Trash all the social ties that bind us together and accumulate as much wealth as possible. The rest of us are losers and merit nothing.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Boris Johnson, 2019: “awful lot of money & an awful lot of police time now goes into these historic offences...£60m I saw was being spaffed up a wall on some investigation into historic child abuse...what on earth is that going to do to protect the public now?” www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
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Boris Johnson under fire over remarks about child abuse inquiries
Labour criticises suggestion that investigating ‘historic’ offences is a waste of money
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
2025: Chris Philp, "It is not true that the last government took no action" 2019: Boris Johnson criticised the police for investigating historic child abuse cases saying that that money is wasted: spaffed up the wall
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
maybe I’m missing something but seems curious that Nigel Farage hasn’t turned up for the House of Commons debate on grooming gangs
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Your reminder that neither the Conservative Party nor Reform UK called for a new inquiry into grooming gangs in their manifestos just six months ago. I won’t bother searching for editorials from the same period but I don’t imagine such calls were there either
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
This is a superb piece of writing and analysis by @stephenkb.bsky.social in which he takes apart Tory opportunism and pandering to Elon Musk over the grooming gangs and compares it to Farage’s consistent red line on Tommy Robinson. Compulsory reading.
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Good morning. I hope you were able to have a good restorative break. My thanks to Jim, Robert, Miranda, Lucy, Jen, Jude, Chris and Georgina for minding the fort while I was on holiday.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
A cautionary tale for the rest of the world that should be studied for decades. The country that imposed economic sanctions on itself.
Front page of The Independent showing various figures representing the cost of Brexit. Includes £30 billion cost of divorce and £27 billion loss of trade.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The economic cost of Brexit to the UK now exceeds what it paid into the EU over its entire 47 years of membership. A colossal, unprecedented act of economic self-harm sold to a nation by grifters and snake oil salesmen.
A photo of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Amazing how many Brexiters who wanted to take back control from unelected bureaucrats and foreign billionaires - are suddenly totally in thrall to an unelected billionaire, huh
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Of course the right wing howler monkeys have gone nuts at Sadiq Khan being honoured. Didn’t hear a peep when it was Charlotte Johnson, Shaun Bailey, Hannan, Coffey, Cameron, Frost… You know…*actual* failures, non-entities, losers and liars who’ve done untold damage to our democracy and our country.
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