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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Absolutely beautifully put. 👇

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Once again… This is not a vetting problem. This is a Reform problem. This is a Farage problem. Only grim losers like this are going to sign up to a racist, misogynistic, extremist, mass-deportations and tell-the-Royal-Marines-to-murder-people-at-sea kind of party. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

Inside Reform: Councillors and candidates' extreme and racist views on camera
POLITICS REFORM UK
• Wednesday 14 October 2026 at 7:32pm
Daniel Hewitt
Investigations Editor
Warning: This report contains racist and offensive language.

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Philip Lymbery @philip-ciwf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Octopuses are remarkable (8 legs, 3 hearts, blue-green blood & much more) & proposed farming of them is completely at odds with everything we understand about the species & what we know to be morally right. We must END.IT #WorldOctopusDay 🐙 @ciwf.org.uk

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pauline Cumming, Scottish creator of quirky ceramics with feminist themes and humour #womensart

White plate with blue design including a central historical female and song lyrics from a Smiths song around the border

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Eileen Blair, from South Shields, UK, was believed to have had a large influence on her husband George Orwell's writing. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four's title and idea is thought to be inspired by one of her poems - 'End of the Century, 1984' #womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman, head and shoulders, with wavy shortish dark hair and wearing a blouse

Book cover, Penguin Edition of Orwell's '1984' in ornage and cream with a penguin publisher's motif

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)

Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.

As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.

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Philip Lymbery @philip-ciwf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On #WorldAnimalDay 2026 please remember the #Factoryfarmed animals that are out of sight and out of mind They are sentient, feeling creatures that give their lives for our food & deserve a life worth living & our love and respect No animal should ever be so cruelly confined or caged @ciwf.org.uk

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…

Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important

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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Night night sweet dreamies Some days you’ll have the strength to take on the world. Other days, you’ll need to curl up, shut the world out for a little while and just rest. Both are okay. Learning to listen to yourself, rather than always pushing through, is important.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the Convention [ECHR]. It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to” Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...

The Law Society
Gazette

In short, if Britain were to leave the ECHR, it would not be
'taking back control. It would be surrendering influence over the rules and institutions that help keep us safe.
The debate about the ECHR is too often conducted as though it were a choice between national sovereignty and international law. That is a false choice.
The Convention advances British interests because it reflects British values: liberty under law, democratic government and the accountability of power.
Walking away would not make Britain freer. It would make Britain weaker.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday Don’t underestimate the difference you can make simply by being you. A kind word, a little patience, checking in on someone, or simply making them smile might feel like nothing to you,

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There was a chance here to look more grown up and it is entirely unsurprising that Badenoch did not take it.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham made Farage seem “angry, thin-skinned… absurd. What we witnessed today was a masterclass in political communication which makes Farage look like an amateur” Finally. The confidence that comes with emotional intelligence. It could make all the difference. iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...

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Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment

It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt

Photo of uneven knitting with much larger amounts of red yarn than green

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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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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Chris Mason (BBC) reports on his “interview” with Nigel Farage. It’s not an interview. It’s an idiotic, moany rant from Farage about how he’s being picked on cos he reckons he’s a threat to the establishment. And Mason just folds like a wet cardboard box in the face of this delusional bollox.

Farage pictured with his innocent face on… (it’s hideous - my opinion)

Nigel Farage insists he's 'broken no rules'

He added: "The point is, we live in a complainants' society. If you complain about me, automatically that triggers an investigation."
He said that political parties were "constantly writing to all the authorities", meaning Reform was "under investigation every day for virtually everything we do".
"There's a big picture here. The old two-party system that has dominated since the end of the First World War feels for the first time it faces an existential threat.
"There is a whole ecosystem with a century of development around this. And we come along from virtually nowhere and threaten the whole thing.”

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sen. Mark Kelly is here spitting facts! #ProudBlue 📹: nowthisimpact

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Democracy for Sale will continue scrutinising money and influence in our politics, wherever we find it. "Reform can stop us going to their conference. But Farage and his friends can’t stop our journalism." New by me, on being banned by Reform democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ive-been-b...

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I’ve been banned by Reform. But this isn’t really about me.

My press accreditation for Reform’s conference was revoked. This should concern us all.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This should be a “no brainer” Burnham can see health and social care needs to be a long term cross party process So should climate change measures SURELY Labour Lib Dems and Greens can cooperate on these…and practise cooperating for a proportional Gov system www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Cross-party talks needed to tackle climate crisis, say Lib Dems

Andy Burnham urged to seek consensus over response to extreme heat and forthcoming ‘super El Niño’

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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Calvin and Hobbes really called it, didn’t they?

A black and white drawing from a Calvin and Hobbes strip. They are sitting together on a tree branch. Calvin says, with a furrowed brow, “isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?”

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This - from the Private Eye's Eco Chamber/Wilbur - requires no explanation Pay attention @andyburnham.bsky.social

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 24/08/2026

The party that only recently (disgracefully) described Vodafone as “putting women and girls at risk” - for donating SIM cards to charity - is putting boys as well as girls at risk due to it’s net zero ideology….. thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour Yogi Bear?"

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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I wish I could give flowers to everyone fighting the good fight.

sophia bray

in english we say
"i'm tired"
but in poetry we say:
i have been
holding up
entire skies

with hands
that were only
ever meant
to hold flowers

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Calandra Lark 17-20 cm KNOWN for their melodious song Breeds in Mediterranean, Turkey, Iran S Russia those from Russia migrate to Egypt and Arabian Peninsula. Diet insects in the summer season Seeds, grains and grass in the winter Monogamous pairs build a nest on the ground and share duties.

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"I'm making a quiche, Lorraine, what does it look like I'm doing"

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yet another Reform UK speech earns a speedy backlash with thousands of people pointing out that Nigel Farage getting £98,599 as an MP whilst guilty of chronic absenteeism from both Parliament & constituency is part of the 'something for nothing' problem, not the solution meme via Shelagh Taylor

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"We're meeting at 9, is that OK?" Me: "AT NIGHT???"

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Latest Politico cartoons

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Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Farage is an old Alleynian son of a stockbroker, former |City trader and hedge fund bro, whose mythos was largely created by the BBC. He's right: vote against the establishment. Vote Binface.

ReFarage UK Ltd Tweet: "It's time to vote against the establishment", with a picture of the establishment, in the form of Nigel Farage.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Vicious, snarling, dangerous: Zia Yusuf is a true product of the social media age, a man whose every utterance appears to be subliminally guided by what will get him the most likes on X inews.co.uk/opinion/true...

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The true face of Reform is snarling and dangerous

Ian Dunt: Zia Yusuf trades in extremist rhetoric and proposes extremist ideas

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Mariah 🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋 @mariahbrown.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Remembering Robin Williams on the anniversary of his passing. His humor, kindness, and incredible talent continue to touch our hearts and inspire us every day. (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014)

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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Keep a little kindness in your pocket today. 🧡 You never know when you might meet someone who needs a bit of it. A smile. A kind word. A little patience. Give some away whenever you can

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“Lowe's language is the language of expulsion… So while Lowe struts around his acres, people in Thetford are having their windows smashed and facing chants of "we want them out".” It’s Farage’s language too though. Two cheeks. Same arse. www.independent.co.uk/voices/ruper...

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Rupert Lowe is becoming the most dangerous useful idiot in Britain

Nigel Farage has been given some brief breathing room in the race to the bottom of Britain’s far-right thanks to his nemesis, Rupert Lowe, writes David Aaronovitch

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