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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is *not* the result of "the success of Mahmood's reforms", but of earlier measures/other factors. Her proposals could make it considerably *worse* in future years. A few other points linked below.. archive.ph/0psJ8

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.

Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration significantly undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana Mahmood’s reforms, which have seen net migration cut to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.

Labour sources familiar with the budget process, however, said that the figure was now closer to £6.5bn. The OBR’s migration forecasts have been consistently higher than real numbers in recent years.

Treasury officials, who have long expected Mahmood’s reforms to cause a hit to headroom, described the number as “pure speculation” but did not deny that Healey would have to contend with a larger funding gap than expected because of falling migration

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 23/09/2026

Weren’t the people saying they weren’t terrorists relying on the fact they hadn’t committed or threatened to commit any of the specific actions under the Terrorism Act? Well… Four out of five of boxes ticked now. You may now proceed to proscribing Patriot Platform.

The Terrorism Act 2000 defines terrorism, both in and outside of the UK, as the use or threat of one or more of the actions listed
below, and where they are designed to influence the government, or an international governmental organisation or to intimidate the public. The use or threat must also be for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.
The specific actions included are:
• serious violence against a person;
• serious damage to property;
• endangering a person's life (other than that of the person committing the action);
• creating a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public; and
• action designed to seriously interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 23/09/2026

“Danny Tommo” should be done for attempted murder.

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Ben Barclay @benbarclay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I thought all the betting shops on high streets were a sign of decline. Now it turns out it’s terrible if they close.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 18/09/2026

Somebody from Greenland / Denmark needs to explain what’s _actually_ been agreed, if anything.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 17/09/2026

I’ve come to realise that whilst AI makes dumb mistakes, so does the average person. And I fear the average person also ‘thinks’ as well as AI does. (Ie regurgitating half recalled things they’ve heard, with added randomness)

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Most of the shit the US is dealing with is directly as a result of Trump not understanding words like asylum and deficit mean different things in different contexts…

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was asked "What do other countries do about big money in politics?" Canada is a useful case study as their parliamentary system closely mirrors the UK's (for obvious reasons) - except they've totally clamped down on mega-donations.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 15/09/2026

“Book ‘em Lou - one count of being a bear, and one count of being an accessory to being a bear.”

Barney and a bear lie face up on the floor, eyes rolled in the back of their heads, whilst Chief Wiggum and Lou stand over them with the Chief pointing at them.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 13/09/2026

It came of a Utd player’s toe so Haaland wasn’t offside. #manchesterderby

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 13/09/2026

Where’s the red for Bruno? How’s kicking someone up the arse while they’re on the floor any different to pushing someone away with your feet into their stomach? #manchsterderby

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 12/09/2026

Based on the fact that this weekend one friend impulse purchased a second hand EV for £10k (she doesn’t know what make or model, it’s Chinese) & two other female friends have asked for advice on £10-15k second hand and new EVs (Dacia Spring etc), there’s a huge market for super cheap EV second cars.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/09/2026

These people are all over UK institutions. In many cases they are running them. bsky.app/profile/writ...

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 12/09/2026

Waiting for Donald to try and squeeze his name into it.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Crypto billionaire. Convicted in the US. Pardoned by Trump. Trashing our democracy by buying Reform. Does anyone think this is to improve our NHS, our schools, our public services…? Of course it fucking isn’t. It’s to make Ben Delo and Farage richer. That’s it. That’s all they care about.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

‘In other words, he’s more like a con man, sitting pretty atop the postmodern pyramid scheme that is late capitalism.’ He’s a hateful, genocidal and evil con man whose contempt for brown and Black people has led the world to some already dark paths. And it’s going to get worse.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In honor of Uber shutting down in Nigeria this week, here’s my favorite story about Uber in Nigeria.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 07/09/2026

Big fan of how Russia can shut down a major UK port for half a day with just 5kg of cocaine and 100 severely divorced men.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It nevers tells you you're wrong just gets increasingly passive aggressive and sarcastic.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 07/09/2026

It even says inspired by Starship Troopers uniforms, which was a parody of fascism. So they’ve literally based it on a deliberately fascist uniform.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 07/09/2026

This needs nipping in the bud.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 07/09/2026

This might be my fault - I told them on Facebook they can “get in the sea”… Guess they took it literally! 🙃

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fundamentally, this should not have happened given that Tommo should have already been arrested for his part in the last stunt.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am very reminded, when I talk to Tory people who want this, of normal Republicans who even in 2024 were convincing themselves Trump would be a standard GOP govt and he'd be restrained by the party. Partisanship is one hell of a drug

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Posted this yesterday and since then we’ve had masked fascist thugs blocking roads with zero arrests and video footage of Reform pensioners assaulting a peaceful protestor with no immediate action.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"masked fascist paramilitary seizes port" just isn't the sort of thing the uk media would ever say, is it

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 05/09/2026

They’ll likely all be wanted on domestic or sexual abuse charges, which is why they’ve covered their faces. Nonces to a man. Blackshirts, basically. Bussed in?

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 04/09/2026

Nothing dictatorial about that at all

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Zia Yusuf demanding a cabinet role whilst knowing he will never be selected, let alone elected, as an MP…

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 31/08/2026

Having enough diesel to last 2.5 years doesn’t make sense when diesel has a shelf life of 6-12 months tops, and starts to degrade after just 28 days… You don’t want ‘gummy’ fuel.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wait, he gets to go immediately but a family with a 7 year old and a pregnant mom who was trying to self deport is held for a month?

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 29/08/2026

Make your favourite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Two out-of-work actors go on holiday by mistake.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 29/08/2026

Shit, I think I’m the “previous generation” of which they speak. When did that happen?

"Cherki felt like the difference because his goals came at an important time. He is a genius. The things he can do with a football are absolute genius.
"There aren't many Premier League players l've seen that can do this on the first goal.
"Eden Hazard possibly, he was that kind of player.
Georgi Kinkladze, there'll be Manchester City fans from a previous generation who'll remember him, who could get past people in a telephone box. This was very similar.
"Once Cherki is in the box, they are so scared to touch him. It's absolute genius. He's an absolute bargain at £30m and gives you a new dimension. He gives you that 'X-factor'. He does things differently.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 28/08/2026

Beating Reform here was no mean feat! (Thanks to Restore? Love to see it 😂)

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 27/08/2026

We recently stayed at an Airbnb which had this portrait on the wall. The owner was ex-army in the ‘Green Howards’ and this guy was a famous Green Howard; led them on D-Day and later ran a pub he renamed The Green Howards in Middlesborough. But I’ll be damned if he’s not related to Jordan Pickford…

Portrait of a soldier, brass plaque says
WO2 (CSM) Stanley Hollis VC
6th June 1944

With “Green Howard” ensignia

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 25/08/2026

She was a pretty decent guitarist too

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was an uncredited producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When she learned the only female producer was making less than her male counterparts, Dolly cut her a check for the difference, on the spot.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In report findings that surprises no-one 👇🏼

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indiana

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentucky

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouri

iarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington

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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“Never shy at expressing her Christian faith, Parton was also a public supporter of the LGBTQ community who advocated for marriage equality and spoke up in defense of transgender people.” Rest in peace, Dolly. ❤️ NBC News: Dolly Parton, country music icon, dies at 80 www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

nbcnews.com

Dolly Parton, country music icon, dies at 80

In May, she announced she was canceling a Las Vegas show and said she’d been undergoing treatment for kidney stones for several years.

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 25/08/2026

She once said “I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.” She also said “I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde." Legend. Sharp as a whip.

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