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Paddy Magill

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CWU- Standing Orders Committee. Likes Liverpool FC, Celtic. 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?'

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15h
Oli Dugmore puts it perfectly. It really shouldn't be any more complicated than that. "I would just say we treat them as our fellow human beings would be sort of the baseline place that I would start. It doesn't need to be more complicated than that."
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 21h
Amble (Northumberland) Council By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 38.8% (+0.4) ➡️ RFM: 33.5% (-10.9) 🌳 CON: 21.0% (+3.8) ◼️ RES: 6.7% (New) Labour GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 21h
Hirst (Northumberland) Council By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 50.1% (+7.0) ➡️ RFM: 30.0% (-20.0) ◼️ RES: 10.3% (New) 🌳 CON: 4.1% (-2.8) 🔶 LDM: 3.9% (New) 🙋 Ind: 1.6% (New) Labour GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025.
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
01-10-1919 UK: The transport, postal workers, printers, shipyard workers unions all decide to send a delegation to the Prime Minister. After 9 days of massive strike, the government ended up looking for a compromise.
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In search of the real Andy Burnham at Labour Party conference #Lab26 My new column for @insidecroydon.bsky.social ... insidecroydon.com/2026/10/01/i...
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Inside Croydon goes in search of the ‘real’ Andy Burnham
ANDREW FISHER has spent the week at the Labour Party Annual Conference in Liverpool, where the new Prime Minister continued to confound political editors and expert pundits A Blairite, a Brownite a…
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Emmett Initiative @emmett.click · 30/09/2026
there’s an old military yarn about a soldier who pulled the pin on a grenade and threw the pin instead of the grenade
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Day 4 of the Garvaghy Road dispute
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington: We have failed to live up to the command in Deuteronomy, “you shall not violate the rights of the alien or the orphan,” and to the words on the Statue of Liberty. And so “we are losing our soul as a nation.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-los...
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‘We Are Losing Our Soul as a Nation’
What we saw in Springfield, Ohio.
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Darran Marshall @dmarshall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Secretary of State Chris Bryanthas warned that a resolution to the #Drumcree parading dispute was "not going to be easy" but said the government would "go the extra mile for peace". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Labour conference: Drumcree parade resolution 'not going to be easy', says secretary of state
Sir Chris Bryant says the situation is "tense" and that "nobody wants Northern Ireland to return to the 1990s".
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our podcasts are one of the very best ways to learn about how trade unionists around the world are facing the same issues and challenges. Check it out! www.buzzsprout.com/2313632
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LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net.
LabourStart is the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement.  Founded in 1998, we are the web's best source of trade union news, uploaded by our volunteers in dozens...
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
at some point governments are going to start demanding reparations from the united states for all the theft, coercion and attack by trump.
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
🚨 Ed Miliband: "Europe is not just our geography, but so much more. "And on economics, on defence, on security, I say to this conference: our future lies in a stronger, deeper partnership with the European Union."
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 28/09/2026
#OtD 28 Sep 1846 British troops opened fire on starving food rioters in Dungarvan, Ireland, killing one. The Great Famine lasted until the 1850s, killing around a million people and forced even more to emigrate, while food was exported for profit stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1005...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026
Britain seeks compromise over blocked Orange Order march in Northern Ireland reut.rs/4yjd0EO
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Britain seeks compromise over blocked Orange Order march in Northern Ireland
Britain's Northern Ireland minister will on Monday meet residents who blocked a Protestant ​parade from marching through a Catholic area of a Northern Irish town, and hopes ‌to find a compromise to reduce tension.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.
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CNN @cnn.com · 27/09/2026
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham called for calm in Northern Ireland on Sunday after a contentious parade was given the go-ahead by the High Court in Belfast in a late-night sitting. cnn.it/4ykO9Rh
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Statement from the Government of Ireland in relation to Drumcree
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)
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Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These investment bankers trashed the economy in the 2008 crash and now they are back to their old games whilst the rest of us are staring down the barrels of a cost of living crisis and a massive climate change crisis. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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London’s investment bankers and lawyers make more than £1bn in takeover frenzy
Bumper fees paid in the year’s mergers and acquisitions spark anger over high City pay during cost of living crisis
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Belfast Telegraph blog reporting from Drumcree. At 215am high court upheld the decision to allow the Orange Order march to proceed along the Garvaghy Road, from around 8am this morning, where protestors of the march are gathered www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/area/armagh/...
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First members of Orange Order arrive at Drumcree Church as PSNI read out warning to Garvaghy Road protesters
DUP MP Carla Lockhart hails ‘seismic night’ for rule of law
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So, overnight, the Orange Order's appeal was allowed. The parade is due to commence imminently. Blesk is not the word.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The hit the poor and cut corporation tax (CT) brigade are out in force. UK headline CT rate is 25%. Companies pay about 10% less as govts give them numerous reliefs which reduces taxable profits. Companies also dodge tax by shifting profits to tax havens. obr.uk/box/corporat...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Only 10% of the richest 0.01% of the population paid close to the top 47% (45% income tax marginal rate + 2% NIC) rate on earnings. A quarter of that group paid an effective average tax rate of 20% or less. The tax system appears to be progressive for some but is frequently not so at the very top
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Only one in ten top UK earners pay close to top tax rate, says CenTax
CenTax says equalising capital gains tax with income tax could raise £19.7bn by 2030, as HMRC data shows few top earners pay the 47 per cent top rate.
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Ireland is behind us"
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Sienna Rodgers @siennarodgers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
EXCL: My interview with Ed Miliband — why Keir Starmer had to go and “we were right to make the change” — ex-PM’s future in foreign policy — Burnham’s culture reset in govt — David Miliband’s advice — Falklands, sanctions and more www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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Ed Miliband: “Andy Has Given Us The Permission To Be Heard Again”
Ed Miliband has landed a Great Office of State – not as Chancellor but as the new Foreign Secretary. He talks to Sienna Rodgers about why Keir Star...
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CNN @cnn.com · 26/09/2026
On board the papal plane, Chicago-born Pope Leo was asked whether he had helped the White Sox's 'miraculous' recent victory.
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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“If Farage will do you a Cameo for seventy pounds, just ask yourself: what would he do for seventy million?”
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Advertisers like IKEA – who claim to care about the climate, and say they want to ‘change the narrative’ around refugees – need to put their money where their mouth is and stop funding this toxic channel.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
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How toxic Talk become Britain's most investigated channel
Ofcom has 10 open investigations into News UK’s broadcasting arm and its diet of anti-immigrant bile and climate denial
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/09/2026
Manchester City found guilty of breaking Premier League’s financial fair play rules
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Manchester City found guilty of breaking Premier League’s financial fair play rules
* City face sanctions after more than 100 rule breaches * Club insists it is innocent and is expected to appeal Manchester City face substantial sanctions from the Premier League after an independent panel found they had acted in bad faith and broken numerous rules over financial fair play. The Premier League did not issue a statement but sources confirmed to the Guardian that City had been found guilty on almost all of more than 100 charges. City are surprised at the timing of the news because they say the process is ongoing. It is understood the club intend to appeal against a guilty verdict, confident of winning. Continue reading...
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 25/09/2026
New Bradwell (Milton Keynes) Council By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 54.2% (+19.7) ➡️ RFM: 23.4% (-3.1) 🌳 CON: 8.5% (-2.6) 🌍 GRN: 9.3% (-12.5) 🔶 LDM: 4.6% (-1.5) Labour HOLD. Changes w/ 2026.
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RTÉ @rte.ie · 25/09/2026
During his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Taoiseach said the world has "failed Palestine" www.rte.ie/news/2026/0925/1592895-t…
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Taoiseach says world has 'failed Palestine' in UN address
The Taoiseach has said that when the true horrors of Gaza "are finally and fully revealed, it will shame the world".
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some powerful comments on our petition urging Ikea to pull their ads from Talk Radio - add your voice here: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik...
Graphic showing this text from a petition supporter: "I am RNLI crew and former full-time HM Coastguard officer. Daniel Thomas’ actions are inexcusable and are the culmination of the unchecked dissemination of far-right propaganda. Anyone associated with this should hang their heads in shame" - Gareth
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sign the petition. Let water companies go bust. Ofwat approved 36% bill increases for 2025-2030, companies want more. Prices doubled - in real terms - since privatisation. We got sewage in rivers, water outages, hosepipe bans. Need public ownership.
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We're telling Ofwat: let water companies go bust!
consultation to reject proposed water company bill increases. Ofwat.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Around 40% of the world's dirty money, proceeds of corruption and crime, is laundered through the UK, its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. Successive govts promise new laws and enforcement but they make little impact. Why do govts continue to fail? Watch the Minister's reply.
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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The cost of outsourcing 💷 £129 billion estimated public spending on outsourced services in 2024/25. 📈 £6 billion estimated operating profits from those contracts in that year. 👷‍♀️ Approximately 1.12–1.32 million workers in publicly funded services outside direct public employment. #InsourceNow
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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Really important report from colleagues @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social 👇 The education selection process in #NorthernIreland is all about those with money keeping it that way - hurrah for the middle classes while 10-11 years olds are stressed out of their minds! www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...
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Featured Research
A new study has found that academic selection at age 10 -11 contributes to educational inequality, places unnecessary pressure on children and families, and is sustained more by social and political f...
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hampshire police say man was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or endangering their safety under the Aviation & Maritime Security Act 1990, criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, & conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Merchant Shipping Act 1995
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Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Polish army: #Russia military helicopter from Kaliningrad crossed 300 meters into #Poland for 42 seconds "The nature of the incident suggests that Russia is once again testing the readiness of our air defense" #UkraineWar
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Institute of Employment Rights @ieruk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Teaching unions secure fully funded teacher pay offer after long battle with Government. Schools in England are to get around £500million in extra funding towards the teachers’ pay award this year: www.ier.org.uk/news/teachin...
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Teaching unions secure fully funded teacher pay offer after long battle with Government - IER
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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On this day in 1459, the battle of Blore Heath took place. Dr Simon Payling discusses the battle, exploring what happened as the earl of Salisbury’s Yorkist forces faced up to those led by the Lancastrian Lord Audley.
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‘He knewe the slaightes, stratagems, and the pollecies of warlike affaires’: Richard Neville, earl of Salisbury, and the battle of Blore Heath
On 23 September 1459 the battle of Blore Heath took place. In today's blog, marking the anniversary of the battle, Dr Simon Payling from our Commons 1461-1504
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Boasting of an illegal war and the war crime of pillage.
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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thanks to everyone who has provided information for the Downthetubes "TG Jones Closures: The Winners, The Losers" page, which is now being circulated among MPs: downthetubes.net/british-comi... - more shops added to the list this morning
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TG Jones Closures: The Winners, The Losers
Keeping tabs on TG Jones, Britan’s last newsagent high street-based chain store
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