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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 2h
When will the bad takes from people who intermittently discover NI's governance arrangements stop?? The Public Processions Act was enacted months before the GFA, to address this issue as a preliminary. The GFA wasn't meant to tackle this. Also NI Bill of Rights was never enacted as the GFA intended:
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 14h
The radicalisation of the middle aged and elderly needs addressing. Many believe every single word on Facebook and X.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🔴 Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years Exclusive: Reform UK’s Sam Journet branded “Britain’s worst councillor” as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council bylinetimes.com/2026/10/02/r...
bylinetimes.com
Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years
Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council
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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 17h
As crooked as felon-father-in-law. A terrorist.
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Bombshell Report Exposes Jared Kushner’s Ties to Company Backing IDF
Kushner, who has been tasked with negotiating peace in Gaza, has a huge financial stake in one of the biggest backers of the Israeli military.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13h
Like the Institute of Economic Affairs were running events and writing articles advocating against football regulator last year Wonder who paid for these? 😱 iea.org.uk/films/is-a-f...
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Is a football regulator necessary?
Is English football broken? Should government try to fix it? And are any of the proposals in the Fan-Led Review … Continue reading "Is a football regulator necessary?"
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 13h
Since Suella Braverman is trying to exclude many of us from England, here’s my family story from seven years ago to push back against this ethnonationalism This is My England, and Yours: Reclaiming Englishness bylinetimes.com/2019/12/18/t...
bylinetimes.com
This is My England, and Yours: Reclaiming Englishness
Now that English Nationalism has been unleashed, Peter Jukes argues that we must all try to restore England's buried civic tolerance and historic diversity.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 15h
From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now that Andy Burnham has reopened the Europe question, free movement will be at the centre of debate. For @arguablymag.bsky.social I argue that it's a big benefit, not a price to be paid for a better trade relationship. www.arguably.uk/p/eu-free-mo...
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EU free movement is an opportunity, not a threat
Progressives need to rediscover the positive case for immigration
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t take my word for it. There’s also Ian’s mum!
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is why you need people talking very positively about Europe and what it represents, and common European identity. Leaders have to do this. It's the only way for UK to go through accession. Still waiting.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sorry, have Cambridge not suspended him?
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Andy Burnham’s announcement of free personal care as part of a new National Care Service will only apply to those over 65, and not to working-age disabled people, No 10 has confirmed, sparking shock and concern among disabled people’s organisations. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/free-social-...
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Free social care is coming… but only if you’re over 65, government confirms after Burnham speech
Andy Burnham’s announcement of free personal care as part of a new National Care Service will only apply to those over 65, and not to working-age disabled people, No 10 has confirmed, sparking shoc…
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was just on LBC with @mrjamesob.bsky.social to discuss Kemi Badenoch's banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social from attending Conservative conference after calling such bans by Reform "authoritarian" and an assault on free speech bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 02/10/2026
Yes. Although slightly disturbing that 40% of the electorate appear to be pretty cool with what is now essentially fascism.
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's worth remembering the Nuremberg Laws said being born in Germany, speaking German and living as a German wasn't enough. Full citizenship required "German or related blood". Ancestry determined whether you truly belonged. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's worth remembering the Nuremberg Laws said being born in Germany, speaking German and living as a German wasn't enough. Full citizenship required "German or related blood". Ancestry determined whether you truly belonged. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's possible for people from minority backgrounds to join the far right while assuming they will be exempt from its oppression. The Nazis persecuted gay, disabled & Jewish people. But Röhm was gay, Goebbels was disabled, and Emil Maurice had Jewish ancestry. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #LBC
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"It is hard enough to be a carer for your own loved ones. The tenderness I dispensed to my mother, came from a battery she had charged with five decades of love. Being able to muster the energy and patience it takes to care for a complete stranger... Well, it's magical. It's a sort of superpower."
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WARNING: The Ellison family is about to own CBS News AND CNN. A judge just cleared the deal. Closing: days away. When one family controls what tens of millions watch, democracy loses a watchdog. Independent media isn't a luxury. It's your last line of defense.
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The research on this issue is fascinating @mrjamesob.bsky.social Short prison sentences perform badly. A MOJ analysis found people jailed for under 12 months were about 4 percentage points more likely to reoffend than comparable offenders given a community sentence. @lbc.co.uk #lbc
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Impact of short custodial sentences, community orders and suspended sentence orders on reoffending
A study examining the impact on adult reoffending outcomes of short custodial sentences, community orders and suspended sentence orders.
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The research on this issue is fascinating @mrjamesob.bsky.social Short prison sentences perform badly. A MOJ analysis found people jailed for under 12 months were about 4 percentage points more likely to reoffend than comparable offenders given a community sentence. @lbc.co.uk #lbc
gov.uk
Impact of short custodial sentences, community orders and suspended sentence orders on reoffending
A study examining the impact on adult reoffending outcomes of short custodial sentences, community orders and suspended sentence orders.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He has basically copied his new policies from Scotland and made them look like his own the mans just another fraud, instead of being honest and saying these are good policies in use in Scotland and we should adopt them in England, they can’t have Scotland looking more progressive than England.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is why Braverman had to go as Home Secretary, here. Not because she’s an especially egregious bullshit artist - other do the same stuff, with more panache - but because she’s so astonishingly bad at it. Deeply and obviously insulting, and painfully cringe.
Suella Braverman @SuellaBraverman
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You've called me racist this evening- albeit in a contorted way- but in doing so, you've lowered the tone of the debate with divisive and inflammatory language.
And absurdly, you're suggesting that I'm being racist against myself.
It's because of irresponsible language like yours that we in Reform need security.
The left can keep smearing us as racist for challenging the cosy consensus on mass migration but we will not be bullied into silence.
Oli Dugmore
@OliDugmore • 10h
Tonight on Question Time, I debated Suella Braverman on what it means to be English. I think there's one word for her position
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One Irish person was refused citizenship recently over the language test after a six-year process despite doing the whole thing in Swedish. The same person teaches at university level in Swedish, and has published academic texts in the language.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, low wages, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. Enriched by public money. How many have politicians on payroll?
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£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year
We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
remarkable thing to admit
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It lectures on Australian taxation but pays none itself. News Australia Holdings racked up 10 years of paying zero tax. It earned $1.89 billion in revenue, made more than $300 million in profit (a record for the past decade) & contributed zero. #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/01/n...
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News Corp celebrates more than a decade of paying zero tax in Australia
News Corp continues to make serious money in Australia while paying no tax. But even the Murdoch monolith isn't the nation's worst tax dodger.
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Israel... Isn't part of NYC...
A NYT article titled "Mamdani announces plan to fight antisemitism, without discussing Israel"
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘If you’ve got £1 million or £2 million to spend on political advertising, forget it,…. If you’ve got £8 million, you can make people believe anything you want.’ I wrote about Britain’s broken political finance system for the latest @lrb.co.uk
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Is this…hope? 🏠 Burnham, social care & the triple lock 🧸 Reform closes 10 nurseries "to help women and girls" ⚽ Ireland's most dramatic day in football (vs Israel) 🧡 Plus my David Dickinson tan New Trawl podcast live - listen now 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/39tK...
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Is This... Hope? Labour Conference, Ireland's Stand-Off & Reform's Balls-Up
The Trawl · Episode
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The combination of profound mediocrity and delusions of brilliance is what makes Badenoch so annoying. Not mad like Truss or ruthless like Jenrick, just a vacuous bullshitter with a cruel streak conservativehome.com/2026/10/01/k...
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Kemi Badenoch tells ConHome - 'It's a new team to face a new opponent. We're ready, you'll see it at Conference, but prepare for hard work' | Conservative Home
Kemi Badenochs talks to our Editor about Conference, her 'new generation, new team, new party' vibe, and tackling Burnham not Starmer. She takes on criticisms from our readers, both Conservative and R...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🔴 Protests against Palantir across England today. In July, we published this deep dive into Palantir, its lobbying in Britain and the myriad problems NHS staff have had with its software. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...
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"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure
Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham’s electoral reform commission could have implications for almost every other reform he announced @mrjamesob.bsky.social Housing, care, water and social care are important policies, but electoral reform changes the machinery that determines which policies are enacted. @lbc.co.uk #lbc
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Michael Caine "I voted for Brexit... I'd rather be a poor master than a rich servant... You get lost, and then you find your way, and it will be alright." This Brexiteer lives in LA, has never been a poor anything, and there are zero consequences for his actions on him.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the problem with trying to imitate the opening speech from Patton is that you're actually trying to ape George C. Scott. And I don't care who you are, you will never sound tougher or more manly than George C. Scott. It's a fool's errand.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WHICH WAS NEVER THE POINT I WAS MAKING. The point I was making was that much of social media is owned by the same oligarch class/corporate interests as huge swathes of legacy media but one presents itself as the antidote to the other. THAT. WAS. MY. POINT.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mine earlier today with @mrjamesob.bsky.social youtu.be/V6aYumK9Xic?...
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'Even Republicans are concerned about this' | Simon Marks
YouTube video by LBC
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Amichai Chikli, minister of diaspora affairs in Israel says British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood (like New York Mayor Mandami) is a dangerous Islamist. The occasion for this prejudice is new phase of community sponsorship of refugees (begun by David Cameron 2016) + Likud's election campaign
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chikli previously celebrated Tommy Robimson, & he also called the Board of Deputies woke, pro-Palestinian lefties (because BoD & Jewish Leadership Council called Robinson "the worst of Britain" and saying this s Chikli "minister for the diaspora in name only")
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here's the full story that the Tony Blair Institute doesn't want to answer questions about, on Democracy for Sale
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Tony’s minor tantrum: how Blair’s institute responded to fresh “cash for access” questions
We asked TBI about allegations of £500,000 corporate memberships and a logo that vanished at Labour conference. They said they’re not talking to us anymore
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Public attitudes to electoral reform can be fluid + cross-pressured. See this BSA trend on Keep vs Change over 3 decades Change the system was 60-36 (+24) in 2024: ahead 2021-24 Keep the system we have peaked 66-27 (+39) 2011, the year a referendum held on the Alternative Vote (which lost 68-32)
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”
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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Protesters have remained at the Garvaghy Road in Portadown as talks between the Garvaghy Road Residents Committee and the Secretary of State continue. tinyurl.com/yp76txcv
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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Exactly this ⬇️
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham’s electoral reform commission could have implications for almost every other reform he announced @mrjamesob.bsky.social Housing, care, water and social care are important policies, but electoral reform changes the machinery that determines which policies are enacted. @lbc.co.uk #lbc
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