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My greatest #jeffreyarcher story. I was a lobby correspondent Archer was selected as the Tory London mayoral candidate in 1999...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2h

Archer came and spoke to my school in the 1980s. Charm personified. Bragged at length about his many achievements and then... something bizarre happened. 1/3 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jeffrey Archer obituary

Politician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7h

Losing a parent to Alzheimer's is a double loss and it's bleak as hell. Good people don't joke about things like that. But Archibald Graham long ago gave up on being a decent human being. metro.co.uk/2026/10/04/m...

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Mike Graham filmed making 'hideous' jokes about Andy Burnham's dad's death

His comments were 'the lowest of the low'.

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Posh Nigel @nigel-hewlett.bsky.social · 8h

+ No road safety + No environmental protections + No safe haven for the world's refugees + No safety net for the poor + No NHS? The rule of the thug is where they are heading (see also Reform UK).

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8h

Deep into another edit of my next book and thus being a bit less active on sm than usual... I'd say "enjoy the silence" but it could backfire... normal service will resume

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8h

"The war on children's safety" continues at Tory conference

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A statement from the head of the @boell.de Foundation, the political foundation behind the German Green Party. 👇

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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am deeply saddened that the "Zionism is Racism" motion has passed.

As Greens, we will always uphold universal human rights.

We will never tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment.

We will continue to stand in opposition to genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and the illegal occupation.

We will continue to call out the heinous crimes of the Netanyahu government.

And we will continue to work to ensure that the Green Party is an anti-racist party in every way.

We know there is no conflict between supporting the rights of Palestinians and the rights of Jewish people.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I lost friends over antisemitism in Labour. I tried to argue that the fact that people on the right were trying to use antisemitism as a weapon against Labour (and they were, in bad faith) did not mean that antisemitism did not exist in Labour (it did). This argument still echoes.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion

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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Morning Womble! I'm on TWISTED PIKE by @davidmbarnett.bsky.social, with audio from @ottoenglish.bsky.social's NOTORIOUS and an eye on @clairesnonsense.bsky.social's MANEATER next...

Cover of David Barnett's Twisted Pike. Central red-on-black illustration is a wolf-like creature with a long scorpion tail

Audio cover of Otto English's Notorious, with images of Al Capone, Henry VIII and (I think?) Oswald Mosley

Cover of Ellie Graves' Maneater. Central image is a white wedding cake in a fridge. Cross-section of the cake reveals it's made of raw marbled meat

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..

Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

No idea what this image shooting tax payers with arrows is supposed to represent.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 03/10/2026

I am not very worried about about the Tory Tapestry’s misuse of “doth”. What worries me much more is this sequence of panels which seems to show a small boat full of brown-skinned people followed by a plague of rats running riot and then a lot of dead white people labelled tax payers.

Detail from Conservative Party mock Bayeux Tapestry showing 1. A boat full of brown skinned people. 2. Enormous rats chasing cats. 3. White-skinned “tax payers” dead in the streets.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Truly vile. At a public event, Mike Graham mocked Andy Burnham’s father for having Alzheimer’s, less than three weeks after Roy Burnham died and apparently on the day of his funeral. Just the lowest of the low.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How did the "quiet neighbour" turn into "Exterminator" on FB and a bomb maker? Radicalised, wound up to past the point of insanity, by the likes of Pochin and her fellow travellers.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Massive news. Notorious is 99p on Kindle for just this month. HUGE bargain and people love this book www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2FHD18...

Book cover showing Eve, Capone, Mosley, Henry 8, Vladimir the Impaler and NOTORIOUS

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

By Braverman’s definition: I am not English (half Armenian) nor is the mother of my kids (parents Welsh). In fact of my kids’ great grandparents — only one is English What do to do, Suella? There are probably 80 or so descendants of my great grandparents which by your benchmark aren’t English

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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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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In addition to being the UK's most Kremlin-sanctioned newspaper, Byline Times has now been banned two years running from both Conservative and Reform UK party conferences. Judge us by our critics, and subscribe to support our work: subscribe.bylinetimes.com @peterjukes.bsky.social

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Watching #totp and realising that my older sister must have watched this episode in 1979 and gone out and bought everything she'd seen.

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Jim @jimllmixit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If we're going back that far then The Celts are probably the indigenous people, even though they also migrated here. The story of humans is the story of migration, we've been doing it for millenia.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

By Suella Braverman's definition of Englishness as being "a lineage, an ancestry, a connection to the heritage of this country which dates back a few generations," I'm no longer English. So where shall I go and live when Reform comes knocking?

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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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SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I just finished Notorious this morning and yes, I loved it.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

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James Leakyboots Batty @jamesbatty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hard to see that as a choice. It's your roast dinner against Braverman's turd sandwich.

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

She’s blowing all the dog-whistles in an attempt to flog her book.

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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Explaining to my mum why Danny Tommo is like Winston Churchill. Come see me on tour: rosieholt.seetickets.com/tour/rosie-h...

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timmycb5.bsky.social @timmycb5.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Listen to her describing it earlier. Talking about invaders and dreaming about deportations and describing her book by using the words “my struggle”.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Suella Braverman's book PATRIOT came out today. It's 503 grams, costs £30 and tells the story of one politician's struggle against reality. Mine is currently 99p on kindle. Weighs nothing. Is all about traitors and villains... And people love it. Choices www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2FHD18...

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Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter

Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter eBook : English, Otto: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, I think the best way to avoid botched executions is to stop executing people.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Adam is my friend, so I'm biased. But he's a darned sight better than the rest of them. Which presumably is why Badenoch fears him. Which is presumably why he's banned.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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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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LuxJude352 @luxjude352.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Menacing 92 year olds in the middle of the night, whose side do these people think they’re on? #Fascism #Crowborough

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The whole "eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" which the principles of the death penalty stem back to... originate on the 4,000 year Code of Hammurabi... alongside other progressive ideas - like cutting off your son's hand if he lashed out at you.

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

No civilised country has the death penalty.

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John @john-trig-sab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They still don't understand what a continent is and how it's the "crust" which also extends beneath the sea. And how this makes us 💯 Europeans.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Such an ahistorical, geographically illiterate, and all-around dimwitted take from Harwood. He's one of those entitled people who are so imbued with self-confidence that they rattle crap off, and their followers just accept it to be true.

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Aoife @blackcataoife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You want to read this

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Richie Daiches Barlow @thedogwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a great book, and as I don’t bring you false news, I command you to buy this masterpiece! 👇🏼

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