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Public servant for 45 years, now retired. Born 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 half 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 & absolutely pro 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 & 🇵🇸 We must leave a positive legacy for our children & grandchildren. #FBPE #RejoinEU #ProportionalRepresentation No DMs please.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11h
The vested rightwing self-interest is becoming very shrill now. Still not enough for some voters to dump their tribe for betraying the country and letting us all down so disgracefully.
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Wycombian @noahbeery.bsky.social · 9h
Very many happy returns & please do take care of yourself
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h
“A process of creolization has already taken place among us French people, simply because we change places and adopt one another's jokes, tastes, cuisine and music. “All those dreaming of a static world are dreaming of something that no longer exists and will never exist again.”
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
F*ck me Rupert Lowe-Life may give anyone over 60 a bad name churning out such bollox No Whooopert we don’t want London to regress to your misty eyed version, with horses &carriages on streets, gas lamps & regular folk having to doff their hats to elitist scum like you It’s fine as it is End of❗️🤷‍♂️
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Billionaire David Reuben claiming he quit Britain for Monaco over potential wealth taxes—when records show he already moved years ago—exposes the myth of the "super-rich exodus." Threats to flee are just economic blackmail to block fair taxation.
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Perfectly put.
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Putin celebrated his birthday by killing 26 Ukrainians, including five children. Trump is celebrating Putin's birthday by accepting a call from his master to receive further orders.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Iranian lawyer Bahareh Aghaei, who is being held in Qarchak prison in Varamin, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
A dark-haired woman. Headline: Iranian lawyer sentenced to 20 years over support for protesters
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump’s sons have recently invested in dozens of defense companies. Those companies have now raked in a staggering $6 BILLION in current or future government contracts. Corruption? Or coincidence? You be the judge.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius: “There was a time when Putin was saying that they would not invade Ukraine. “So you can never predict what’s on their mind and how they will actually proceed. “They’re talking one thing, but acting very much differently.”
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How can something be so frightening and yet so funny at the same time?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reports of another Russian who’s fallen ill.
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WHO demands answers from Russia about ‘second plague victim’ — The Telegraph
Pressure increases on Moscow to disclose information about lab worker’s death following reports of another employee contracting the disease
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just five giant conglomerates now control 90 percent of the media. The reason this is so dangerous might not be what you think.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hegseth: “Theocratic regimes should never have access to nuclear weapons. Trump recognises that.” The man who last week was manifesting the Christian god in the Pentagon and calling for a crusade.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is absolutely what’s going on with Badenoch’s polling improvement. She is very much not getting any better or any more popular or electable. There is no (shoot-me-now) ‘Keminaissance’. It’s just that Farage has got even worse. And rightwing money needs a horse to back…
I can see only one major reason for this.
Various media owners, secretive sponsors of tax-averse "think tanks" and climate change-denying plutocrats, who seem determined to see normal service resumed in Downing Street as soon as possible, are having serious doubts about Nigel Farage's electability, and Badenoch remains their only other option.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kudos @mrjamesob.bsky.social 🙏🏼
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good overview. In essence, you can trust the Russians and everything’s fine, or you can’t trust them at all, one or the other.
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Russia Needs to Tell the Truth About a Plague Death — The Atlantic
After an apparent lab accident in Siberia, Moscow is reverting to its old Soviet ways.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Two top Trump advisers James Blair and Chris LaCivita travelled to Bosnia’s Republika Srpska to provide election advice to its Putin-friendly government, the NYT reports. They were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.
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Wednesday October 7 2026

Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'
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Wycombian @noahbeery.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This should brighten up a wet miserable morning! 👏🏻https://mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/mark-francois-tory-conference-diary?r=2713at&utm_medium=ios
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Mark Francois’ Tory Conference Diary
Birmingham 2026 - as it happened
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Wycombian @noahbeery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I mean… How stupid and hypocritical are these people? Is it even possible to measure? Pochin seems to manage to plumb Mariana Trench type depths…
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/10/2026
Andrew Griffith delivers one of the all time rhetorical stinkers. My Tory conference SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/an-h...
On reflection, it would have been better for Andrew Griffith if he’d abandoned his speech when the announcer got his name wrong. He is the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, supposedly the second most important figure in the Conservative Party. If they don’t even know what he’s called, he should take the hint.

It was an oration that party managers will describe as a cautionary tale to generations of MPs yet unborn

He didn’t, of course. Perhaps he thought that after such a slip, things could only get better. If so, it was a judgement in which he was profoundly mistaken. He was about to give one of the all-time terrible party conference speeches. It was an oration that party managers will describe as a cautionary tale to generations of MPs yet unborn. Some speeches are written terribly. Some are delivered terribly. This one was so terrible in every way that it should be sealed in lead and buried at the bottom of the ocean.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Brexit has been a Tory masterclass in ideological madness. It’s widely accepted by the country as a barrelling shitshow but *still* their entitled little reps strut about insisting we can’t be allowed to vote on it again. Who TF does this person think she is? And why TF should she decide anything?
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Wycombian @noahbeery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He used the word ‘cleansing’ - just in case any of us were in doubt… 😡
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Beating up pensioners and vandalising curry houses in Gosport is not 'an expression of legitimate concern'
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Conservative Helen Whateley, "Tax cuts have to be funded.. I'm doing work on what is the right way to bring down the welfare bill" My view: Why is the answer always more hardship for people who are already struggling, while vast wealth can be hoarded almost untouched?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
DHS reportedly collected data about anti-ICE protestors in Maine, uploading their photos and license plate numbers into a database. That database was built by Palantir — which may be the most dangerous corporation in America. Watch.
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The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.
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Wycombian @noahbeery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Always worth a read & in these times; humour is the best tonic…! mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...
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The PNG Courier on words
Back to England, where up has become down, black is white, and Christianity is epitomised by masked mobs who confront boats full of refugees.
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nigel Farage insists he is a working-class anti-establishment champion, right up until he gets interviewed by the standards watchdog over a £5,000,000 gift from a crypto billionaire! 🤡 Absolute peak populist ethics: railing against corrupt elites while quietly taking their cash! 🎪
theguardian.com
Nigel Farage questioned by standards commissioner over £5m gift
Reform UK leader was interviewed for half an hour last month over money from crypto billionaire
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Alberta separatism and Quebec separatism are politically illegitimate and treasonous against Canada. They have the same influencers and are as poisonous as the Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics” and the “Novorossiya project” that fascist Russia concocted invading Ukraine.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Russia is working on bio-weapons in Siberia.
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Wycombian @noahbeery.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Always with the negative waves…
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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.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tax dodging, financial migrant Isabelle Oakshott has the gall to call herself a Journalist churning out this BS Her next expose probs.. “For years I heard rumours of flights by Santa at Xmas delivering presents & migrants. I never believed it and still don’t. If true, it’ll bring down the Govt❗️ 🤡
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ll modify Kemi Badenoch’s post for accuracy sake “Brilliant to be here in Birmingham for Conservative Party Conference with just client journalists, avoiding proper journalistic scrutiny by @bylinetimes.bsky.social @adambienkov.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @josiahmortimer.bsky.social etc
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With the rise of the Far Right, we’re in a situation where every election could potentially be the last one. No excuse not to vote with rigour.
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Wycombian @noahbeery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My ghast is flabbered…!
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
but the right wing press only mentioned one. Weird innit
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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also… as her book is called ‘patriot’, maybe that’s an easier thing to define. I’d say it’s not getting sacked from high office twice, not endangering our police by whipping up sustained far-right attacks on them and not being part of a political party that will only ever damage our country.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m old enough to remember ppl in UK being proud to have put racism👇behind us to judge others not by colour or ethnicity but by actions & behavior.. racist were a minority looked down on Oh how far the UK has fallen in the recent years with Farage leading the way I find it most depressing 🤦‍♂️
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump fell asleep - for a full four minutes - on camera - during tonight’s White House media session. The monkeys around him had to keep jabbering to fill the embarrassing silence.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The two Iranian men charged over the alleged terror plot against Jewish people in Manchester entered the UK by small boats. In 2020 and 2023. When the Conservatives were supposed to be watching the borders.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
McDonald's is now reportedly pressuring franchisees to use AI to price food. Its CEO raked in $20.6M last year, over 1,000x the median McDonald's worker pay of $19,020. And they remain one of the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients. I'm not lovin' it.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are people calling this conviction "two tier policing." Er - no. If you set off a politically motivated bomb in a public area and if shrapnel flies about that is terrorism. news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...
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Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion
Kevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s a badge of honour for @bylinetimes.bsky.social to be banned from Reform and Conservative conferences - like being banned by Russia or China, it says more about them, than the journalists. Also, so ironic that the parties which waffle on about freedom of speech are the most scared of it.
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