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Professional science teacher. Amateur singer and guitarist.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4h
The public already backs rejoining the EU. It's time for our politicians to make the case for EU membership. Use our tool to ask your MP to attend the debate: bestforbritain.org/take-action/tell…
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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🔶 Ben (Lib)Dempsey 🔶 @benedictdempsey.bsky.social · 9h
The Conservatives have effectively committed to even more unsustainable development. Building homes cannot be at the expense of our environment. We should overhaul the planning system to make our communities more sustainable. These plans would do the opposite. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h
"The prosecution case is that Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate used and threatened physical and sexual violence in order to maintain control and compliance." Where are the voices from the self appointed defenders of women and young girls who would usually be on this? www.reuters.com/world/uk/tat...
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Tate brothers used 'lover boy' model to exploit women, Britain says
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate used a "lover boy" model to lure women with the ‌promise of romantic relationships before coercing them to create online pornography, British law enfor...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5h
The hypocrisy 👀 Sarah Pochin MP bought an £800,000 second home on a Welsh island two days after raising concerns in Parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities.
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communiti
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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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Vince @vincexy798.bsky.social · 6h
Tim Tugenhardt,just a reminder Russia saw through you as the Tories cut defence by up to 22% wined & dined Russia oligarchs post Crimea invasion. That sends a signal of weakness! In contrast Labour are increasing funding by an extra £34bn.It's Labour stepping up, the Tories only stepped down!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 6h
The UK's 117 day long streak of somewhere having at least 20c every single day has ended today. This record trashes any previous year and proves beyond any doubt that the UK is suffering serious Climate Change.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 6h
Apple and Google must do the right thing and remove Reform UK's app from their stores. Use our tool to write to them - it takes less than two minutes: bestforbritain.org/take-action/tell…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7h
🎯 @pimlicat.bsky.social: "Half-baked calls to enter a customs union or join the single market won’t bring the economic heft to avoid further decline or the political payoff to prevent Nigel Farage’s Reform UK gaining power. "The choice Burnham must face is whether to go big – or go nowhere at all."
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Could the UK really return to the EU? | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union
Britain’s new prime minister has said that Brexit was a mistake and Britain should have a much closer relationship with
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10h
I wonder why Badenoch couldn't say that London benefitted from Brexit 🤔 The reality is that neither London nor any other region in the UK has benefitted from Brexit - the opposite is the case. That's why our polling with YouGov shows that 628 out of 632 constituencies want to rejoin the EU.
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Kemi Badenoch refuses to say if Brexit has benefitted London
The Tory leader insisted that voters were not interested ‘in having a row’ over the debate to rejoin the EU
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Sustainable Us @havantenviro.bsky.social · 10h
"One of the UK's biggest oil refineries spilled pollution into local rivers and the Mersey Estuary on dozens of occasions in 2023 and 2024, documents shared exclusively with the BBC suggest." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK oil refinery broke toxic pollution limits dozens of times
Pollution was spilled into local rivers and protected sites, documents shared with the BBC suggest.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10h
Even as Jeremy Clarkson's farm is destroyed by Climate Change he is still denying it, because he is a Right Wing moron. Look on the bright side Jeremy if your farm is worthless the Inheritance Tax won't be very much.
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Vince @vincexy798.bsky.social · 10h
James Cleverly will fight rejoining the EU. It's costing the country £18.5bn p.a in additional loan repayments, 8% in GDP 15% in investment ,4% in productivity & increased col by 3%.We are all poorer by Brexit lies,propaganda,false promises & scaremongering by foreign media, supported by tax exiles!
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Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform.bsky.social · 10h
Why does politics feel so divided? Part of the answer is how we vote. First Past the Post rewards parties for firing up their base, not for reaching across the divide.
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How First Past the Post turns politics into tribal warfare
Poll after poll and headline after headline in the U.K may leave you with the impression of a country more divided than ever. This is never more obvious than in the seemingly daily polli
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Should the U.K. rejoin the EU and reverse Brexit? Get voting! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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The American Geographical Society @americangeo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#UnitedKingdom: Tracking Turbine-Bird Collisions A study found that more than 99.8% of migratory birds avoided offshore wind turbine collisions, though risks and mitigation success vary. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/... #windenergy #birdmigration #offshorewindfarms #wildlife
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18h
Resistors report arrests and injuries, including being pushed into barbed wire. CBP confirmed that all four cottonwoods marked for removal there are now gone. Centuries of life destroyed for two parallel walls cutting through the borderlands. We’re heartbroken and we’re angry!
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 9h
A newly elected Reform UK councillor has been arrested on suspicion of making false statements in nomination papers. Reform UK is haemorrhaging the people it recruits. We keep track of all of them: bestforbritain.org/reform-uk-defect…
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Reform councillor arrested over election paperwork
Elected representative for Nigel Farage’s party arrested on suspicion of making false statements in nomination papers
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11h
More than 9,600 have already taken action and called on Ofcom to investigate Nigel Farage's GB News show. A party leader and sitting MP should not be allowed to host their own news show. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. ⬇️
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 14h
As Reform UK, Restore Britain & Patriot Platform convulse with rage ... "A bronze statue of a lifeguard is set to be installed at Porthmeor Beach in St Ives to mark the 25th anniversary of the RNLI lifeguard service" 'Cornwall Council approved plans for the commemorative artwork ..' bbc.in/4za9Y5R
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Statue of lifeguard set to be installed on beach
The bronze sculpture due to be installed in St Ives was made by Zennor-based artist Holly Bendall.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have heard rumours that Richard Tice heads a company called Britain Means Business, that has no employees and sells no products but takes in very large donations from foreign based people and forwards them to Reform UK Ltd. I can't believe this is true, but if it is it should bring down Reform.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 14h
Reform UK Group Leader in Huntingdonshire Ryan Coogan was arrested on suspicion of making false statements in nomination papers. A year ago we reported some other false statements he made. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13h
Shadow chancellor vows to cut tax in every Tory budget As always, it would be tax cuts for the rich. No mention of corporate welfare, equitable distribution of income/wealth. We haven't recovered from previous Tory follies. NHS queues, potholed road, crumbling schools. What will they cut next?
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Shadow chancellor vows to cut at least one tax in every Tory budget
Shadow ministers unveiled a series of policies on day two of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 12h
I am pleased with this evolution of our energy policy. Renewables remain our top priority. This isn’t about fast-tracking new nuclear, but about recognising that in a climate emergency we should be using all the existing infrastructure we have to move off fossil fuels.
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Patrick Robey @pat-beauclerc.bsky.social · 12h
No doubt about it, the decision to rejoin would be in the UK's best interest', and thus Labour's. We've waited 10 years, now woe betide the politician who thinks he/she can fob us off with more lies or half measures
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15h
I’ve said this before, but it’s sort of insane that no British political party is willing to champion Games Workshop, one of the country’s most successful, British born and run companies, and would much rather simp for Palantir or OpenAI
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reform Councillor and group leader Ryan Coogan has been arrested for making false statements on nomination papers. It’s a mystery why a party whose leadership are under investigation by the police, NCA and Parliamentary Commissioner seems to attract so many dodgy characters...
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 15h
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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Paul @pauljer.bsky.social · 13h
Done mine a while ago. Don't forget to do yours.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NHS England waiting list hits 7.33m appointments for 6.21m individuals, rises for the third time in 4 months. Privatisation by stealth. NHS capacity neglected. Thousands suffer. Private sector profiteers. www.oecd.org/en/publicati... Hospital beds per 1,000 population, Comparison 2013 and 2023.
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Chickyholic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @chickyholic.bsky.social · 23h
Will be interesting to see what happens. Can't help feeling the MPs, especially those who have gained from being out of the EU, will be against the idea, but will they have listened to constituents preferences?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"There are parts of Luton – and the police will tell you this – that are no-go areas where white people won't go" Police say that's false But this Tory shadow-minister still uses false claims to justify "a consensus on the right" that immigration is a disaster www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’
Blake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
In one week, MPs will debate rejoining the EU in Parliament. Rejoining the EU would boost our economy, and the majority of Brits want it. Use our tool to ask your MP to attend:
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Tell your MP: 628 constituencies want EU membership. Only 4 don't. - Best for Britain
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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today’s high temps the 24.2C at Heathrow is +6.7C above recent 30-year average for October 5th. The July average max is 23.9C!
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 05/10/2026
A thunderstorm stranded exhausted migratory birds in Malta, leading hunters to kill hundreds of protected and threatened species. Conservationists report illegal shooting continued even after hunting quotas were reached. “Protected-species legislation only works if it is effectively enforced.”
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Hunters reportedly kill hundreds of migratory birds stranded by thunderstorm in Malta
A multi-day thunderstorm over the Mediterranean Sea struck Malta, stranding hundreds of passing migratory birds on Sept. 14, 2026. Hunters in the country then shot hundreds of those birds, including…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
"Politics should be about expanding opportunity, not narrowing it. "That means being honest when policies are not delivering for working people. And having the confidence to revisit decisions when the evidence changes. On Europe, that moment has arrived."
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He literally set off a bomb in a UK street. If this had been the IRA Pierce would calling for them to be hung, drawn and quartered. This is domestic terrorism pure and simple. A bomb set off to terrorise with the aim of getting a government to change its policy. Literally a textbook definition.
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A retired engineer who destroyed @SadiqKhan ULEZ camera jailed for 15 years. A ridiculous sentence. No wonder our orisons are overcrowded

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Kevin Rees was sentenced to 15 years for causing an explosion likely to endanger life after using a homemade bomb to destroy a ULEZ camera in a Sidcup residential street, damaging cars and property up to 100m away with shrapnel near a child's bedroom.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can you imagine the derisory coverage and outright mockery if any other party with single-digit MPs decided to "declare a General Election" and go on a bus tour? Yet when this outlandish nonsense comes from Farage, it is treated as somehow brilliant. "Subscribe to continue..." No thanks. I'm good.
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Nigel Farage campaigning in Southend-on-Sea for the local election in May
Nigel Farage campaigning in Southend-on-Sea for the local elections in May Credit: Geoff Pugh for The Telegraph
Nigel Farage is to “fire the starting gun” on Reform UK’s general election campaign with a nationwide tour beginning next week, The Telegraph can reveal…
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victoria1921.bsky.social @victoria1921.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Had to look for this, but he is still being questioned about donations from overseas crypto billionaires. He clearly believes that he's above the law, untouchable. Nathan Gill is paying for crimes, in my view, less serious than crimes Farage commits daily against UK uk.news.yahoo.com/nigel-farage...
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Nigel Farage interviewed by standards commissioner over £5m gift
The 30-minute interview took place in the Palace of Westminster last month, he said.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
More than 2,500 people have already emailed Apple and Google to demand that Reform UK's app be removed. Let's flood their inboxes so they can't ignore us ⬇️
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Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Haven’t seen any breaking news alerts about this
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Solar 20.8% ☀️ | 🌬️ Wind 35.3% bsky.app/profile/mygr...
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Europe is doing it right - Isn't this just fabulous!? 40,000 young people born in 2008 can apply for a FREE travel pass to explore Europe sustainably. 🚂 Sadly, the UK is not included this time, fingers crossed we can take part in the future 🤞
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michaelholder.bsky.social @michaelholder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
While waiting for Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith to speak at #ConservativeConference, we're being treated to Jeremy Clarkson complaining about how bad the weather, fuel & energy costs have been for farming, but without anyone mentioning the culprits: climate change and fossil fuels
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Denmark has built so much wind power that its grid now regularly produces more than the country can consume, and on the windiest days the wholesale price of electricity falls below zero." via Amazing Maps
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Elaine Wyatt @elainewyatt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pioneering project reveals how nature’s rhythms are shifting due to climate change. Nature’s seasons are changing, and a pioneering project is helping to measure what that means for the plants, wildlife and landscapes in the UK’s National Parks. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
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Earlier spring in the UK: How nature is responding to rising temperatures
Pioneering project reveals how nature’s rhythms are shifting due to climate change.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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The National Museum of Computing @tnmoc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BONUS OPEN DAY! 🎉 We’re open an extra day this week - Fri 9th Oct! See the new additions in our PC gallery, meet volunteers & view our working collections in action, grab a treat or souvenir from the shop & visit the IEEE Milestone plaque on the Tommy Flowers mural. ow.ly/Pgor50ZUm1I
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