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Zac @oshimia.com · 29/09/2026

This is a very poor attack. Pension reform is not an attack on pensioners. The triple lock is excessive, and pensioners will still be protected against inflation.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 29/09/2026

A possible chance of sanity breaking out in Labour? Remarkable.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 29/09/2026

Well. That's remarkable. And would further explain Farage's reaction to the news about attempts to combat Russian interference.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Zac @oshimia.com · 24/09/2026

How are people so *incredibly* stupid still so influential in UK politics?

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Zac @oshimia.com · 24/09/2026

One of the most amazing things about all this is less that he's done it, but that he's done it without compromises that damaged his core messaging. He's shown that it *is* possible to get things like this done without giving up your principles.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I want to support Labour for obvious reasons but again and again they make it impossible, playing directly into the hands of extremists. It’s not like there are no precedents for their appeasement. Aren’t they scared of where we are & their part in that ? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm5yjzj8l5k5o

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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent

The arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes, there are technical, formal legal reasons why terrorism law is applied to protesters carrying placards, but not to political activists slashing boats. But stepping back, there is something wrong with a legal regime which criminalises one more than the other. A triumph of form over function.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 23/09/2026

Pick me! Pick me!

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Zac @oshimia.com · 23/09/2026

Sounds like a good idea to me.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is very hard to satisfactorily describe just how badly the BBC's journalistic standards have collapsed in recent years. Quite completely fucking useless.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble

Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"

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Zac @oshimia.com · 21/09/2026

Wow. The US press are all pissed at the Trump admin at the moment.

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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ed Davey stands with trans rights by backing our motion at Lib Dem conference!

Ed Davey stands with trans rights
Reporter: You want the conference motion [Restoring Trans Rights] to pass?
Ed Davey: I do - I'll be voting for it if I'm in the hall!

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Zac @oshimia.com · 21/09/2026

Turns out people like heroes, and don't like racists. Shocking I know.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Legitimate concerns don’t require politicians to agree with them. They require politicians to investigate them honestly, explain what the evidence says, fix the problems that are real, and stop feeding the fears that aren’t." No paywall russincheshire.substack.com/p/legitimate...

russincheshire.substack.com

Legitimate Concerns

How politicians turned migration into a permanent panic — and why the facts tell a different story

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Zac @oshimia.com · 20/09/2026

Phenomenal artistry. Truly astonishing.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

MPs call for emergency legislation for public control of Thames Water, let govt restore it and resell. Hedge funds want to takeover TW, want exemption from penalties for breaking laws. Neither will do. Profit motive is the cause of the crisis. Need public ownership.

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MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds

Efra committee calls for emergency legislation enabling government to take public control of the company

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Zac @oshimia.com · 16/09/2026

One slightly under looked point in this Ed Sheeran business is that it's clear he's surrounded himself with good people. I'm not defending his actions on Palestine, he's in the wrong. But it does reflect well on him that *all* of the people around him can see that it's wrong.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 16/09/2026

Dropping the red lines would be the easiest economic win. Our Brexit "Red Lines" have been nothing but a detriment to the country ever since we started using them.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good plan, Australia and Canada. Huge sigh, UK. How long do we wait, how much do we lose, how stupid do we have to be?

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was asked "What do other countries do about big money in politics?" Canada is a useful case study as their parliamentary system closely mirrors the UK's (for obvious reasons) - except they've totally clamped down on mega-donations.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hard to shake the impression that the overriding sentiment in Tories and Labour to the Reform donations was envy rather than concern about our democratic system….

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power

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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s not too late to stop this madness - the government has said the uk mega donors are a problem. The lords can bring in a cap on UK donors to stop any attempt to buy the next election. Share this and ask your MP to join us protecting British democracy.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 11/09/2026

This is by far the best way to show support for the RNLI

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

rnli.org

Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Reform mired in scandal. A Labour government that literally cannot do the most basic bits of “are you a state?” i.e. arrest people who blockade infrastructure and intimidate the free press. Literally everyone in politics is optimising towards a Conservative victory other than Kemi Badenoch.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals.

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

FWIW I don’t think masked thugs on the street has anything to do with fiscal policy missteps. It’s the softpawing of the extreme right and the tacit acceptance of norm breaches around xenophobia that have emboldened people onto the street. This is why the “legitimate concerns” frame is so dangerous.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yeah, I think the story here is basically the government having no response to the 2025 race riots, a pretty soft response all summer to attempts to restart them, and this creating the space for the current pattern of coordinated militias attacking ports. It's judicial and cultural, not fiscal.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 07/09/2026

Oh yes, this was clearly completely spontaneous. Nothing organized about groups of men in black balaclavas getting out of trucks used for mass transport at all.

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What the hell is going on here and why isn't this terrorism rather than 'a protest'? All men, all in black, all in masks, storming a ferry port. No more info on it yet but if this is the small boat nonces then they're even thicker than I thought. These are big boats mate they're just far away.

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Dozens of masked men stop traffic at Port of Dover as part of 'protest'

Demonstrators dressed all in black and and wearing balaclavas have bene seen at the site in Kent. Officials say they are dealing with an "ongoing public order incident", with police describing it as...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 04/09/2026

One of the genuinely funny parts about this is that now might have been a slightly better time to resign as an MP. But of course, he can't do that just now...

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 01/09/2026

Under a UK Labour Gov we have: The forced cancellation of all Adult trans + surgeries in Wales The ongoing enforcement of a puberty blocker ban for all trans U18s. A don't say trans style ban on teachers/support staff discussing trans + issues with pupils in English schools.

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Robot Mel @robotmeile.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wales has stopped ALL gender affirming surgeries! Schools have just declared an end to social transition and inclusion for trans kids. I do not think enough people are paying attention to how utterly and quickly trans rights have been stripped away in the uk!

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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 26/08/2026

Well, this was inevitable. Forstater is now using her own case to argue that racism should/is protected as a philosophical belief 🤮

"Even comments which are “serious, severely hurtful and
prejudicial”are covered by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human rights (freedom of expression) which doesn't mean absolute freedom of expression in a situations, but employers should treat beliefs equally.

As the judge said in my case even beliefs that are profoundly distressing and offensive to many others are beliefs that must be tolerated in a pluralist society."

"Cofnas's hereditarian belief has already been found to be "worthy of respect in a democratic society" by a court in the UK.

Though not binding in Belgium, but its anti-discrimination law is based on the same principle.

Still it's better to have a good job than a good legal case.

Ghent uni could string out the suspension - the process is the punishment.

If there are calls for a staff member to be discriminated against because of their beliefs the answer should be No (unless the belief falls below the v low threshold for belief discrimination), not "oh well if 2000 people object..."

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Zac @oshimia.com · 26/08/2026

No. Fuck off. You can fuck the fuck off and keep fucking off to the edge of fuckistan. I could survive one, but fucking two? Get fucked.

image from the Independent announcing the death of Tim Curry at the age of 80. This is within a day of the death of Dolly Parton.

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Valerie.vg @valerie.vg · 24/08/2026

Last week The Lancet, arguably the most trusted journal in medicine, published an editiorial condemning attacks on LGBTQ+ healthcare and vigorously reaffirmed the necessity of gender-affirming care for both adults and minors. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 23/08/2026

“Attacks on LGBTQ+ health are a threat to all”: A new Lancet Editorial. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Cover of The Lancet, 22 Aug issue. The quote reads, “...movements that seek to undermine LGBTQ+ people are those that seek to control all of us—our freedom of expression, our personal medical decisions, and our privacy.”

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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

To answer your question Mr Lowe, I do. His name is Nasser Hamid. He was 16 when he left his village, to escape Sudan's civil war. He could not speak English. Look what he achieved! I admire his courage, resourcefulness and intelligence. All qualities sadly lacking in... certain people 🤮

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