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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 19h
I'm gobsmacked by ministers' failure to defend Burnham's claim about Russian interference in Brexit (and Tories' claim that he has no proof of it) when there were well-documented troll farms, funded by Russia, spewing out aggressive pro-Brexit attacks on social media at the time
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Anybody who does this deserves the outcome
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pastyface43.bsky.social @pastyface43.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I thought it was just me. Can we start a support group.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🚨Under the Ending Importation of Russian Oil Act 2022, Russian diesel CANNOT be imported into the U.S. unless the President certifies to Congress that Russia has withdrawn from Ukraine, acknowledged Ukraine's sovereignty & no longer poses a threat to NATO.🚨 (Credit: @jayinkyiv.bsky.social)
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nothing is more important than intimidating asylum seekers
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
NEW: This is Zaporozhzhia, Ukraine last night. Family homes bombed by Russia. 5 adults and 3 children killed. 16 people were injured, including children. 12 people are missing. Trump and the United States might as well have dropped the bombs themselves. (🎥 Office of the Ukrainian President)
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham on Social Care in July: "I ask the media, can we not let the country look at this in a clear-eyed way without all of the overwriting? On this issue, please, can we not have a factual debate? Allow people to weigh up the options and come to a considered view based on the facts?" The media:
Daily Mail: BURNHAM'S TRIPLE SHOCKThe Daily Telegraph: TRIPLE LOCK SCRAPPED BY 2030 (with a monstering photo of Burnham)Daily Express: IT'S A CRYING SHAME FOR OUR NATIONThe Sun: LOCKY HORROR SHOW
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sweet nostalgia, they’re playing the oldies from 2010/11. Except we’re now in a vastly worse position, thanks to these clowns getting their way back then.
The Times and Sunday Times O l @thetimes
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Andy Burnham must cut welfare or UK will head the way of Greece
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Count Binface not standing, apparently, as *one joke of a candidate from outer space is enough*
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
SCOOP: A group of staffers from the right-wing think tank, America First Policy Initiative, have been detailed to the Census Bureau, where they have access to sensitive data +contributed to a public report that bolsters conspiracy theories undermining trust in elections www.wired.com/story/a-trum...
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The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Actual headline: “Farage sold himself to one foreign based crypto millionaire & has now sold his party to yet another one”. What a surprise that a party with little concrete policy has very specific policies on… crypto tax cuts
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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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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2026
How it started / How it's going
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2026
This is an amazing way of saying that you pled guilty to breaches of US anti-money-laundering law (and were subsequently pardoned by Donald Trump)
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is what Trump did on 9/11.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On Germany: something I can’t stand is the idea that the Left and the Green parties haven’t offed arguments about the cost of living. They have! It’s just that they haven’t offered *hate*. The AfD have offered hate, that is their most passionate offering, that is primarily why they are thriving.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...
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Sovereignty for sale
Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 08/09/2026
The RNLI has some cuter planters and today would be the day to spend some money in their shop shop.rnli.org/collections/...
RNLI boots as plantersLifeboat as planter
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 05/09/2026
Our grandparents knew how to deal with fascist thugs on our streets
Red wall plaque reads:

Tower Hamlets Environment Trust
THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.
"THEY SHALL NOT PASS"
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Got a news alert this morning telling me that small boat crossings had fallen to the lowest level for 6 years and I think it’s really important to note that even though this is very arguably a success in dealing with the situation, it won’t matter one iota to the people who have made it their thing.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I do wish any of these pieces that criticise tax rises in favour of "welfare reform," would engage in the 16 year long experiment in welfare reform that has culminated in marginal savings and an increase (until recently) in child poverty. Truly, a mugs game. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Andy Burnham warned over ‘stupid’ tax raid on capital gains
Lord O’Neill of Gatley, who declined a role as the PM’s economic adviser, says raising taxes in the budget would show ministers were not serious about growth
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
After a donation, Trump intervened to let Live Nation-Ticketmaster off the hook in its monopoly trial. After Bezos buttered him up, Amazon got a slap on the wrist for allegedly tricking people into Prime accounts. After cutting business deals with them, he pardoned crypto felons. See a pattern?
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In a world full of greedy, cruel, predatory people… be a Dolly Parton. Embrace the good. Give back to the world. Care about literacy and marginalized people and leaving this planet a little better than you found it. RIP Dolly Parton. One of the greats.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80
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Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80
Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes Dolly Parton, one of the greatest singer-songwriters in country music who was also much cherished for her philanthropy, has died aged 80. Her death was announced by nephew Brian Seaver on Instagram. Continue reading...
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pastyface43.bsky.social @pastyface43.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh no. Thank you Dolly
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.
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Sam Joiner @samjoiner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New: How Israel is making southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’. @rayajalabi.ft.com and Aditi Bhandari worked with @lighthousereports.com to reveal the IDF’s destruction of critical infrastructure — damage that has made returning near impossible for thousands of displaced people. as.ft.com/r/9680cc7f-8...
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Last night, the GOP members of the Senate approved Trump’s effort to destroy the rule of law in the US, wreck the Justice Dept., enable rampant corruption, defend pedophiles, and attack the president’s enemies. And they know they did those things. An egregious violation of their oaths of office.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 08/08/2026
Think this also fulfills my prediction that the rise of Restore allows the right to nod at a cordon sanitaire, but one with Reform on the inside.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 07/08/2026
👀 (from 2023) www.ft.com/content/ae7f...
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Cambridge professor remains in post despite plagiarism
History academic published an article containing large parts of essays copied from one of his students
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Hazel @hackneyhaz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Kemi Badenoch on Today defending the neo-Nazi council candidate by saying that it is right to give those who have previously been radicalised a chance. Badenoch on Shamima Begum, whom was groomed by Islamic State when a child, "Citizenship is a privilege, she forfeited it." 🤔
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The man Badenoch thinks should be a candidate because "the Conservative Party believes in second chances". So you can be literally convicted and imprisoned on multiple accounts of antisemitic harassment and get the all-clear from Kemi
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Rachel Gilmour, MP for Tiverton and Minehead @rachelgilmourld.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Exclusive: Some EU citizens in the UK have been contacted by the Home Office to say they were granted settlement status after Brexit "in error". If you know anyone this happened to contact me on lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’
After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain
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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Can't be the first to say this, but (and yay UEFA - brilliant) this works equally well if you swap out "football" for maybe "water" or "a stable climate". Look at me being the revolutionary socialist. "No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation."
The moment external investors acquire ownership interests in
FIFA competitions, football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. Investor expectations become a daily pressure. From that moment onwards, every decision on the international calendar, every decision on competition formats and every decision shaping the future of football is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.
This model has no place in world football. Football's future cannot be dictated by the expectations of those whose first duty is to maximise financial return. Nor can the interests of national associations, leagues, clubs, players and supporters become subordinate to investor returns. Football cannot mortgage its future for financial gain.
Europe's position is clear. We will never lend this model our legitimacy. No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No shit!
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Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“A fortnight ago, Reform-led Suffolk County Council voted to rescind motions on climate emergency…and removed references to the climate emergency from council policies, strategies and communications “where appropriate”.”. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Hundreds evacuated after ‘apocalyptic’ wildfire near Suffolk nuclear power station
Major incident declared, with Sizewell B power station monitoring blaze and RSPB nature reserve badly hit
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I know it's not news Kemi Badenoch is not across the detail, but this is an absolute shocker. She says the UK's net zero plans are 'perversely increasing carbon emissions'. In 2019 when net zero targets were adopted emissions were 45% below 1990 levels. Last year they were 54% below 1990 levels.
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Robin Kirby @robinmk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The guy that they want you to be terrified of (Mamdani) is making sure kids in NYC are fed all summer and people have access to cheaper groceries, all while they take food away from kids getting SNAP. Just sayin, feeding kids should make you the good guy.
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pastyface43.bsky.social @pastyface43.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Not serious people
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 27/07/2026
Yikes
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
One of the great photos of our time. Captured by Maximilien Lamy for AFP.
Smoke is seen in the distance across an expanse of water caused by a fast-moving wildfire near Lacanau in  southwestern France. In the foreground a middle aged couple are seen from behind relaxing on their beach loungers under a sun umbrella - as if it’s an entirely normal holiday. It is a very good visual depiction of life continuing amidst extreme climate change.
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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.
DAVID FROST

I too have a 10-year plan – but unlike Burnham's, mine works
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 22/07/2026
🎯 @stephenkb.bsky.social nails it on bus fare subsidies / VAT cuts. www.ft.com/content/31f4...
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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Kevin Keegan: he hated fascists
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 20/07/2026
The gap between Fantasy Andy Burnham and Actual Andy Burnham begins to appear.
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