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South London and proud. #cpfc staunch remainer. Music and drama. Guardian reader.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 02/10/2026
Great way to demonstrate the club isn't state owned and is a totally independent business, honest.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One more time: Inheritance tax *is not unique or even uncommon* in being "double taxation". The coffee I just bought was paid for with wages on which income tax and NI had been levied, but was also subject to VAT. Just stop it.
elen Whately: “One of the problems with inheritance tax is that it's a form of double taxation.
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patdetermined.bsky.social @patdetermined.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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MTDomain 🦋 @mtdomain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Five people climb a gantry in the name of Just Stop Oil and the police shut the motorway, arrest the protesters and imprison them for up to 5 years. Hundreds of people block one of UK's busiest ports in the name of Stop the Boats, and the police do nothing and no-one is arrested. Really? Sigh.
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Here's the trade unions, somehow believing they can outspend billionaires. It's not just moronic, it's actively dangerous. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Look - I believe very firmly- that people's private lives are their own business. BUT when you've left your partner, moved with your kids to Dubai without them and started a relationship with someone who also left their partner and kids... well you deserve nothing but mockery for posts like this.
So you think money is more emotionally
important than the love and stability and
positive influence of being brought up by
both a mum and dad? 1 don't care what
any statistics say. Some things are just
common sense. ISABEL OAKESHOTT
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is remarkable. Marco Rubio stated, "Iranians are thieves. They cannot impose tolls on the Strait of Hormuz." In response, Abbas Araghchi remarked, "Consider the speaker. Approximately half of Venezuela's oil production is now directed to the United States. Who is truly the thief?"
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Here’s a bank saying the thing that everyone else in the EU can see with their own eyes. If you weaken climate action because you want better economic outcomes, your economic outcomes get much worse because of the bad climate change you could have acted on.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
7/ "Lying is wrong" I agree! It pisses me off greatly. And there should be proportionate consequences for it, which might extend to losing a job in serious cases. But seriously: in a world when Trump etc lie massively and daily with real consequences for millions, you're obsessed with *this* guy?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy". As long as the protest is not about Palestine, climate or any other issue that major lobbyists want to shut down. If you're protesting about asylum seekers, on the other hand, your concerns are legitimate, and we're making policy in response.
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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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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
NEW | One woman seems to represent *all* of Britain’s pensioners… OMNIBUS WANKERS AND THE BRITAIN’S ONLY PENSIONER The big problem with BBC vox pops on buses and a case study on VAT. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/omnibus-wa...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Omnibus wankers and Britain's only pensioner
Vox pops in the BBC's coverage of Burnham's bus fares policy and VAT cuts highlight the problems with attempting to represent the public's view on any given issue.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It's so weird. If tax had increased by £50 the vox pops would be finding people saying 'it may not sound much to the liberal elites, but for ordinary decent folk it's a lots of money'. Now it's 'meh, doesn't even buy a meal'.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 20/07/2026
I like to think he's done this to make political journalists look stupid, and honestly I admire it.
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
55% of all welfare spending goes to pensioners. £146bn on the State Pension alone in 2025-26. Nobody calls that "out of control." Nobody suggests means-testing it. The political framing of welfare as a problem is selective. Deliberately so. #bbcpm
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patdetermined.bsky.social @patdetermined.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’m totally baffled by US media. The whole focus of US Strikes now is stopping the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Which Trump caused through his incompetence. Billions expended in munitions, the military weakened, lives lost for nothing. And no one is saying anything.
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Corruption in plain sight. Trump is a crook!
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
So we have the Home Secretary's statement on changes to immigration and asylum, and, despite the attempt to spin it otherwise, they are some of the most regressive measures we have seen. 1/ www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Mahmood: My reforms will save the asylum system for a generation
New safe and legal refugee routes, alongside reforms to human rights and modern slavery laws, to prevent abuse of the asylum system.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Community sponsorship works on a small scale, but to make it a main route, and, again, this is not a "new route", is guaranteed to mean fewer people overall can seek asylum in the UK, especially as Labour has closed such actual safe routes as family reunification in practice. 3/
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patdetermined.bsky.social @patdetermined.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
thefsa.org.uk/news/footbal...
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Football Supporters Europe: "Ban dynamic pricing" - Football Supporters' Association
Football Supporters Europe (FSE) have called on the EU to introduce a ban on dynamic pricing at football – and they are backed by the multinational consumer rights group Euroconsumers.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A massive shift is taking place here. Well-organised far-right terrorism is being treated as ordinary criminality, while conscience-driven protests against genocide are treated as terrorism. A highly conservative (and deeply weird and fantastical) Court of Appeal ruling embeds this shift.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Got into an argument on Sky a few weeks about about banning social media for teens. "But parents want it!" Sure, but that doesn't mean it will work or is a good idea! How about a serious conversation about what social media is doing to all of us, adults included? Or is that too difficult?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Exactly. Wanna do something about harmful social media? Change the law so the platform's owners are classed as publishers, and become responsible for harmful / unlawful / slanderous/ offensive content. Same standards you'd apply to any print publisher. And enforce it with hefty fines.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Despair. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog about how politics is stuck whilst violence intensifies, how ‘the first lie wins’ in constructing political narratives, and how Brexit ruptured the 'cordon sanitaire'. Long and depressing read: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/06/desp...
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🇨🇵 Clare Price-Jones 🇪🇺 @clucksky.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21
Express Headline:

Twenty-seven young foreign workers hired for every one Brit as immigration fuels unemployment crisis.
Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s, according to a shocking new study.
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patdetermined.bsky.social @patdetermined.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The neverending story of Nigel, his house and money: 💩Said he bought his Clacton house himself 💩Then said he didn't need to do constituency work because security services told him not to 💩Then claimed his partner bought the house
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This whole thread is good - but this one about “antagonizing people” just because of who you are really hit me; as I’ve heard similar concerns here about letting another woman, or a gay, or black person, run for President in US for fear of “upsetting” voters. Straight white men always the default.
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 16/05/2026
It didn’t even occur to them that handing the ‘territory’ of immmigration to the Leave campaign, not even engaging let alone fighting for a different vision, could be a bad idea ... Today we know that that decision is one of the main, if not the main, reason for how the EUref was lost.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Keir Starmer's intention to restrict peaceful protest even further is punishment for crimes the great majority of protestors hate and reject. By suggesting that support for Palestinians is an attack on British Jews, he conflates British Jews with the state of Israel, which is wrong and dangerous.
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patdetermined.bsky.social @patdetermined.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Billionaires are attacking our rights, our media, and our freedom. It’s time to resist. I just signed this petition—add your name and be part of the movement: act.gp/3Rqfnlz #TimeToResist
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Fight the billionaire takeover and corporate intimidation - Greenpeace International
Billionaires and corporations are tightening their grip on our democracies — and silencing dissent. They weaken protections for people and the planet, bankroll politicians who serve their interests, c...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If a party talked about "educating the public" today, they'd be monstered as "elitist" and "patronising". The language of education has been replaced with that of consumerism, in which "the customer is always right". The "focus group" has replaced the "pulpit". It's not been a positive change. 2/2
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Incredible really that our media and political landscape is dominated by crisis about Starmer’s fitness for office, while it simultaneously paves the way for corrupt, racist Reform to take power. Do we actually care about integrity at all? Because if we did… this shitshow wouldn’t stand a chance…
President Donald Trump and Reform UK leader Nigel
Farage at CPAC in 2018. Credit:
Shealah Craighead / White House (Public domain)

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal.Reform UK's former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, jailed over pro-Russia bribes
The former MEP had pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery

Dan Haygarth • Friday 21 November 2025 15:42 GMT

TREASON. Involving Russia - our greatest threat and enem...The total tax Tice's companies are known to have avoided through onshore and offshore entities, or failed to pay, in relation to Quidnet now amounts to almost £800,000.Reform hopeful said Nazis were
'real visionaries'
Fintan Hogan, Constance Kampfner - Northern Correspondent
Nathaniel Menday has described himself as an ethno-nationalist
Reform UK has been accused of "systemic failure" in its vetting after candidates were found to have described the Nazis as "real visionaries", complained immigrants bred
"like rats" and encouraged Southport rioters to burn down a mosque.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Precisely far right gets away with corruption, tax avoidance, racism, fascism, bigotry, misogyny, breaking MP’s rules, 17 times in Farrages case Totally ignored Starmer does something which is at best bad judgement at worst, highly unethical and they are all over him like a rash Totally biased
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a man in a denim jacket says " very biased " in black letters
ALT: a man in a denim jacket says " very biased " in black letters
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Lots of stuff out there on the importance of narrative in politics but this short piece (from @peterhyman.bsky.social) is really worth a read, not least because it's got some great practical suggestions for how to generate it.
peterhyman21.substack.com
The sink hole where policy goes to die
In today’s attention economy, the government needs to build a ‘story factory’ if it is to get cut-through.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Is this what really happened in the Mandelson affair? 🤔 📺 "The Rhodesia Solution" from "Yes Minister" 😅😂🤣 #MandyGate
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We should be learning from other countries...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Over the past week, the president posted an image of himself as Jesus, the vice president challenged the pope on Catholic doctrine, and the secretary of defense quoted the speech of a fictional hit man and presented it as scripture.
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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
BBC Brexit Bias is getting WORSE! Nicky Campbell just argued that someone who worked for the IEA & Boris Johnson was more qualified on Brexit than ME, because she had books in her background! It's corruption at this point! Debate with Catherine McBride
youtu.be
BBC Brexit Bias - Has Farage made us poorer?
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Jeez. Labour MP’s have just voted to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state. No protest movement has ever brought about change through one single march or action. How did it come to this?
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
UK ministers are to start removing post-Brexit residency rights from EU citizens who are no longer “continuously” living in the country. - If they really want a ‘reset’ with the EU this is incredibly counterproductive! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK starts crackdown on EU citizens’ post-Brexit rights
Concerns raised over use of travel data in determining whether people are ‘continuously’ in Britain after HMRC fiasco
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Prof Rosa Hoekstra @rosahoekstra.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This is so, so dispiriting. It's difficult to be positive about the UK to international colleagues when we have such an incompetent and mean Home Office
Quote from article in the Times:

Miller said: “We had a young woman from Kenya who had been given a place, she’d been given a visa acceptance, but when she got to the airport she was told that UKVI had changed its mind and had withdrawn her visa. She was literally getting on the plane when her visa was withdrawn. 

“All the sacrifices made, the funding that was found, the dreams were taken away as she was boarding the plane. There is a real human story behind all of these cases.”
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The same copy and paste we get every time from the government when we see yet more tragic and preventable loss of life. All while focused on reinforcing the hostile policies which lead people to be forced into using dangerous irregular routes in the first place. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
A UK government spokesperson said:“We are deeply saddened to hear about the deaths in French waters today. Every death in the Channel is a tragedy and a stark reminder of the dangers posed by criminal gangs exploiting vulnerable people for profit. We will continue working relentlessly with the French and our partners overseas to prevent these perilous journeys.

“The French authorities are leading the response to this incident and we are supporting their investigation.”
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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