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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Narrator: it wasn’t mind-boggling. It was entirely predictable.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What’s your legacy Johnson? Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this. The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure. You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We should ask ourselves why this is something a Labour Prime Minister feels the need to refute. After 16 years of austerity, a tax and spend socialist is just what we need.

Burnham says budget will be ‘challenging’ and denies he is just ‘tax and spend socialist’ - Guardian headline

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don't be fooled into thinking that a "free market" only exists when corporations get to "self-regulate" and do whatever they want. And don't be led to think that the government is "intruding" into the market when it crafts laws to protect the public. The real issue is power — and who has it.

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Rich Neville @richneville.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Systemic hypersensitivity puts me at risk of anaphylaxis - that’s why I’m getting a beard of bees”

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A third of nurses and a third of doctors were born overseas. Without immigrants the NHS would collapse. You are more likely to be treated by an immigrant than to be behind one in a queue. Massive underfunding of our NHS and lack of social housing were a political choice.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reform say they'll force school children to sing hymns. Only 5% of Britons go to church. So what we have here is a religious minority forcing their wishes on the majority, and refusing to integrate with Britain's culture. They should go and live somewhere else. According to Reform.

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Secret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If they want the Bible to be taught in school, then I want science to be taught in church.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It’s not fantasy. It’s lying.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🔴 MAGA’s harassment of Fauci is a medieval witch hunt driven by scientifically illiterate bullies desperate to feed the mob. Any country that believes in modern medicine, vaccines, and reason should stand with Fauci against this tirade of ignorance

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The UK should offer political asylum to Fauci

Notes on a nauseating show trial...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Yes. Johnson absolutely couldn’t have wise MPs in his party. His ego couldn’t hack people who saw him for what he really is, rather than what he pretended to be. His whole Brexit fantasy couldn’t be torched by truth-tellers either. It’s been a swift plummet into far right lunacy from there.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If you want to talk about 'learning' from the pandemic, the starting point is showing that you yourself have learned something from the pandemic, rather than that you've absorbed misinformation. #SubPost

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Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org · 02/08/2026

For many of us, the point of Basic Income is to end poverty, by giving everyone a financial floor to stand on.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We're just at the end of your last ten year plan. Not gonna lie, the results ain't that great.

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I too have a 10-year plan – but unlike Burnham's, mine works

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Stuart Hemingway @stu31.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Maybe just abolish it and have a refresh as Johnson has destroyed any integrity it had.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

He's not as funny as Allister Heath's pitch-perfect caricature of a hysterical right-wing crackpot, granted, but that's a high bar for comedy

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It’s not a ‘difficult decision’. It’s a barbaric decision. A *wrong* decision.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 03/07/2026

Incidentally, this highlights a general problem about people who confuse respect for the right to hold their beliefs with respect for those beliefs. Within the general bounds of politieness, I don't have to respect anyone's beliefs. I can think you are stupid and wrong.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Just saying, when looking at immigration and asylum policies, ‘electoral effectiveness’ should never be the first consideration. Start with basic humanity, then international law.

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’m fed up with politicians saying we need to “respect” the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum. A decision by a narrow majority 10yrs ago, that turned out to be a costly mistake, does not have to be “respected”. If a democracy cannot change its mind it ceases to be a democracy.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Impartiality is not ‘due’ where one side is lying. Impartiality does not mean promotion of popular ignorance or dishonest bigotry.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 18/05/2026

Yeah. I don't know how exactly you define progressivism but surely pretty central is the idea that the government has a role to play in improving the lives of people WHO MIGHT NOT BE YOU.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Back when administrations understood the value of vaccines 🧪

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Agree. UK media in general is letting us down. BBC is only apart of this. It’s just that, when the BBC lets us down, it is worrying since it’s all we have against the billionaire-owned propaganda machine. We desperately need a properly functioning BBC, un-nobbled by rightwing Tory appointments.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Brexit costs the UK between £180 billion and £240 billion per year, according to a huge study from Stamford / Kings. This is a bargain.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Interesting reference just now to "the left-leaning Daily Mirror" on the Today Programme. I hope this practice is going to become routine, & that we'll be reminded of the political affiliations of The Daily Telegraph, The Mail, The Sun, The Express & The Times. It would actually be quite healthy.

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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

“We found two of the worst men in politics to replace one woman who was competently doing her job”

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Well that’s remarkably stupid.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Nah. They were a terrible approach in 2024 too.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Claims and ideas which happen to favour the ruling class don't dominate public life by accident. They're paid for by oligarchs and corporations then promoted by media outlets other oligarchs and corporations own. Once they've been drummed into our ears enough, they're internalised as "common sense".

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

It’s not that hard, really. Stop chasing the Reform voters by being nastier and nastier to immigrants is the starting point.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

They'll hurt adults too: adults will have to compromise their privacy in order to 'pass' the age verification systems, passing on critical data to untrustworthy companies. Some will be chilled away from using services or visiting websites at all. This does not just harm kids. It harms everyone.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I’m quite angry about this. Neither the ICO nor the government care about children’s *or adults’* privacy in any real way. They’re pushing age verification, inherently privacy-intruding, denigrating encryption, and much more. It’s either hypocrisy or stupidity.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This is discriminatory, however they want to frame it. One driver out of 300 doing 117mph does not provide a good enough reason for this. When you have a scheme aimed solely at disabled drivers then by the very definition of it it is discrimination. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Motability drivers 'horrified' by compulsory black boxes

The boxes will monitor driving habits, such as speed and braking, and will provide a weekly rating.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The UK government is exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract, the FT reports. A big and absolutely correct step.

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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Bookmarks under “Won’t be huge”

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

No-one should care about anything Galloway says about anything.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The men who want their wives to obey them are exactly the men who should never be obeyed. Or married.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

That’s not how human rights work. They’re rights that you have because you’re human, not because someone thinks you’re good enough.

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Saying “I don’t like the Tories, Labour etc so I’m going to vote Reform“ is like saying “I don’t like burgers so I’m going to eat a toxic waste tip instead”. Admittedly, for many years, we have had to vote for the least bad Party. But there is no reality in which Reform is the least bad Party.

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

You know what helps make the streets safer? Paying your taxes

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Breaking news: Kettle has strong thoughts about blackness of pot

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The BBC has never followed its own rules. ‘Due impartiality’ is paired with ‘due accuracy’, because impartiality should not override accuracy. They think too much about impartiality and not enough about accuracy.

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The sheer cheek of the Tories joining Reform to be banging on about broken Britain when they were part of the Tory governments over the past 14 years that did the breaking!

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Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Brexit hasn’t failed because it was “betrayed”. It’s failed because it was based on fantasies that collapse on contact with reality. No amount of time, grit or patriotism fixes bad maths, worse trade, and fewer rights. Reality won. Brexit lost.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

James Dyson has said he may not be able to pass his business down to his children because
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