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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/10/2026
Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply diesel
Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 09/10/2026
Trump started a stupid & illegal war in Iran that has driven up diesel prices. Now he wants to bankroll Putin's illegal war against Ukraine by buying diesel from him.   One strategic disaster after the next. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel, suggests US may buy amid surging fuel prices
The move comes weeks ahead of the midterm elections.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026
Trump’s deal to buy Russian diesel from Putin just weeks before the midterms funnels money directly into Russia’s war machine. Trump is now facing calls for Congress to block the deal and impeach him. Meanwhile, energy analysts say it’s unlikely to even make a dent in fuel prices.
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Trump Announces Russian Diesel Deal Ahead of Midterms
Trump campaigned against foreign oil.
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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Andrew Lloyd Webber has been awarded the Freedom of the City of London. Read more 👇
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Andrew Lloyd Webber awarded Freedom of the City of London
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Peter Cannon @peterjohncannon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Will the plonker football pundits who called for Thomas Tuchel to be sacked for “only” taking England to 3rd place in the World Cup now eat humble pie? Somehow I doubt it.
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lott @lott24m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Greens rejected this amendment btb. So that should tell you everything. Even Labour under Corbyn never went this far and they where just as bad. BTW you can call out the Genocidal Actions of Israel in Gaza without attacking all Jews. In fact it's very easy not to! Zack Polanski is a failure.
A green party motion voted down."The motion shall not be used to pressure, proscribe or discipline members based on affiliation with Jewish community institutions, such as synagogues, community centres or denominational groups, that describe themselves as Zionist or used to discipline or sanction Jewish members for expressing views that would be non sanctionable if expressed by non Jewish members
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lott @lott24m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Zack Polanski had a chance to take the Greens in a whole new direction. Instead he let in the crank far left and this is where we are.
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Andy Gibson (@AndyGibsonTV) / InformingBritain.com @informingbritain.com · 03/10/2026
"THE ROAD BACK FROM BREXIT" @RachelSylvester.bsky.social for @ObserverUK.bsky.social Prime Minister Andy Burnham has astonished colleagues in Labour Party with a plan for the road back from Brexit, which The Observer says could prove a historic opening to Europe. #TheObserver #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Peter Cannon @peterjohncannon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?

Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.

You’re right, that does sound grim.

Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.

I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.
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Peter Cannon @peterjohncannon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very fortunate to see the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum. From 1066 to 2026, one of the most famous objects and some of the most recognisable images in English history. As for the Tapestry itself, it doesn’t hold back.
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Peter Cannon @peterjohncannon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Impressed by the adaptation of ‘20,000 Streets Under the Sky’ by Patrick Hamilton at @swkplay.bsky.social Great performances ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🎭🥃🕛🔔
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The Wilder Way: Starring Patrick Wymark @harrydobermann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"absorbing, funny, warm and heartbreaking.." Dr Terror on the new stage adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's 20,000 STREETS UNDER THE SKY. wymark.org.uk/streetsplay....
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/09/2026
George Osborne calls for UK to rejoin EU customs union and boost trade
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George Osborne calls for UK to rejoin EU customs union and boost trade
Ex-Tory chancellor says economy has ‘fallen off a cliff’ since Brexit but rejoining union could be ‘quite simple’ Former chancellor George Osborne said Britain’s economy has “fallen off a cliff” since Brexit and that rejoining the European Union’s customs union would be the fastest route to recovery. Osborne, who resigned as chancellor after being part of David Cameron’s cabinet at the time of the referendum, said it was important to rebuild links with the EU. Continue reading...
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I love the Last Night of the Proms. Think I’ve been watching it for 50 years, since a young thing. And lucky enough to be there live twice.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 12/09/2026
I *love* the Last Night of the Proms. It's so gloriously moving, and could only happen in the UK.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/09/2026
What is this comment from the Labour MP? No, the issue here isn't that the attempted pogrom had the wrong targets!
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I believe the RNLI are responding to legitimate concerns that people might drown.
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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Remember Rick Rescorla, the rare born soldier. He was a British paratrooper during the Cyprus Emergency. He got out, joined the Met. He hated it, quit, went to America, joined the Army. He became a legendary platoon leader in Vietnam, renowned for his bravery, humor, & compassion.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 11/09/2025
“Stop crying,” Rick Rescorla told his wife, on September 11, 2001. “I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I’ve never been happier. You made my life.” #NewYorkerArchive
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The Courageous Life and Death of Rick Rescorla, a 9/11 Hero
The Vietnam veteran helped save hundreds of lives on September 11th, before he was swallowed by the South Tower collapse. “For Rick Rescorla, this was a natural death,” his best friend said—a hero’s e...
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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Time to take on the far right – piece and podcast from me on why Labour should grow a backbone
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Time to take on the bully boys
Will the real Andy Burnham stand up?
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Peter Cannon @peterjohncannon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Three women fighting over Max Branning is the height of ridiculousness 🤣 #Eastenders
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Striking how the nationalist funding networks are so international.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Falklands have been British longer than California has been American.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Chilling and unacceptable" - Telegraph editorial. "The authorities should not permit any group, whatever its politics, to bring chaos to the nation’s streets" www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026
Have the PM or HS said anything yet?
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moyragrant.bsky.social @moyragrant.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This has all the hallmarks of a uniformed private army. They're illegal in the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I distinctly remember Calvin being an amusing sideshow. Think we can cross “amusing” off the list
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Peter Cannon @peterjohncannon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not sure what Zia Yusuf’s point is. There were MPs in the 19th century born in India. We’ve had prime ministers born in North America.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The old order is not coming back. From the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, and more just.
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Andy Burnham needs to keep his feelgood factor going www.independent.co.uk/voices/andy-...
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Andy Burnham must keep his feelgood factor going
Consumer confidence is rising and business is more positive – the new prime minister understands the importance of optimism, writes John Rentoul
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lyssa ✨ @lyssahh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
rest in peace tim curry 😢
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Tim Curry Laughing as Pirate Captain
ALT: Tim Curry Laughing as Pirate Captain
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Nigel Farage is struggling to present his party as a credible alternative govt – but on standing up for Ukraine, on welfare, and even on stopping the boats, he is failing www.independent.co.uk/voices/vladi...
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Putin is an open threat to the UK – will his admirer Nigel Farage finally say so?
Moscow’s warning of ‘consequences’ for Britain if it continues supplying drones to the Ukraine war effort has put the Reform leader in yet another tricky position, says John Rentoul
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Catch-up: the full list of 400 books in the 10 Downing St library, & who donated them, is here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Starmer donates biography of himself to Downing Street library
The former PM and seven of his ministers have added to the collection, which began in 1931.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is the quality of online discourse behind inventing "Yookay" as a pejorative for Britain & ethnic minorities who think they are British. But we now have peers & MPs starting to use it bsky.app/profile/sund...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I invite followers to ask themselves how our political/media class went in maybe six or seven years from “even the suspicion of racism is utterly intolerable” to MPs publicly using fash activist terms that mean “British passport holder, but not properly British at all”.
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The fact that the state has also given 81% of these social tenants born abroad Yookay citizenship (as well as a million quid of lifetime rental subsidy) isn't really the counterpoint you think it is.
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Yes apparently if you passports to these immigrants in London they get carried away and start running political parties. Yookay away!
Current Tory position is about citizenship. If you guys want to deny council housing to naturalised immigrants, then say so.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Uses AI to write an article justifying his use of AI for previous articles. Quite remarkable. But the question for me - if the claim about the amount of time he spends on articles written by AI is true - is why doesn't he just write the bloody thing? What is he gaining? Certainly not time.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Also the self-description "thought leader" is the biggest red flag I have ever seen. Of course, maybe he didn't use the term, maybe the LLM did.
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Peter Cannon @peterjohncannon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Surely the Greens are leaving an opening for other parties to appeal to people who care about climate and environment, but aren’t interested in all the other weird and extreme causes the Greens attach themselves to.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
He sends love & heaps praise on his buddies in N. Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia & China, then declares a trade war on our lifelong friends & neighbors, Canada. 🇨🇦 Up is Down & Down is Up in the Bizarro MAGAverse! 🤪 #MakeItMakeSense shorturl.at/FO8Nn
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Mark Carney Says Canada Is Now ‘at War’ with U.S.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada was "at war" over trade with the U.S. after President Trump "miscalculated" by escalating his tariff attack," the Financial Times reports.Said Carney: "You're at...
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Spreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Mark Carney remains the only leader in the West who seems to understand how you have to deal with this White House
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PolskiFederalistaEU @polishfederalist.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026
No matter how this turns out, Canada has what the EU so sorely lacks: a backbone—or, as they sometimes say, balls. Canada ‘at War’ With U.S. After Trade Talks Collapse, Carney Says www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: Canada ‘at War’ With U.S. After Trade Talks Collapse, Carney Says
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada spoke to reporters on Saturday after trade talks with the U.S. collapsed late Friday.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Canada will match the U.S.’ new tariffs dollar for dollar in order to protect Canadian workers, farmers, families, and businesses. We take this step confident that it is in the best interests of Canada.
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
'A view of the Thames with Saint Paul's Cathedral from Blackfriars' (c.1850) by Henry Pether (Private collection)
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Theatre Weekly @theatreweekly.com · 12/08/2026
#BreakALeg to everyone at the West End transfer of the critically acclaimed production of Abigail’s Party, starring Tamzin Outhwaite and Kevin Bishop which begins performances tonight at the Harold Pinter Theatre theatreweekly.com/abigails-par...
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Abigail’s Party to Transfer to West End Starring Tamzin Outhwaite and Kevin Bishop - Theatre Weekly
A West End transfer has been announced for the critically acclaimed production of Abigail’s Party, starring Tamzin Outhwaite and Kevin Bishop
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
'Gordon's Wine Bar at Night', Villiers Street by Marc Gooderham marcgooderham.co.uk
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 19/08/2026
I remember a lot of MPs at the 2023 conference telling me as I was crazy for saying they were going to be on 100-150 MPs, that there was a real chance of a slim majority or a minority government. Anyway, none of them is an MP now.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think the ultimate test of this is actually Boris Johnson. Boris *was fired from his first job* for making up stories, only to go on to be hired into a prestigious role at the Telegraph and spend years lying about the EU at Brussels. And I mean literally lying here; not bad punditry.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So many of Reform's woes can be explained with reference to Patrick O'Flynn's description of Nigel Farage: 'snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive'.
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Reform UK suspends Tory defector Tim Montgomerie after criticism of Nigel Farage
Board member called out party leader last week for failing to appear at Clacton by-election count
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Fur pyjamas @furpyjamas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Alex Massie: “Free speech is universal or it’s worth nothing” www.thetimes.com/article/591c...
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Free speech is universal or it’s worth nothing
Those who want to police the press appear to like the idea of freedom of expression for themselves but not for others
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