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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 9h

after all, those reforms are profoundly illiberal, probably have more deeply felt opposition than support among Lib Dem voters, and opposing them doesn't entail public expenditure (the opposite, if anything)

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Two things which stand out from the full Reform policy document on ending asylum. 1. It would be a hostile environment on steroids. There would be migration checks everywhere. This would, inevitably, be vast numbers of other people caught up in it.

Embedding immigration enforcement throughout the state
A Reform UK Government will direct every organ of the British state, both local and national,
to make it impossible to live in Britain illegally. This will involve several large policy shifts,
and many smaller changes. Overall, we expect it to produce a major increase in voluntary
departures.
Currently, Immigration Enforcement capacity is extremely weak. Just 12,791 illegal-working
visits were conducted in 2025.36 By contrast, there were 350,000 food hygiene visits,37 51,020
non-domestic fire safety audits,38 and 13,200 HSE workplace inspections.39 There were tens
of thousands more across trading standards, environmental health, housing and licensing
inspections.
Currently, these visits do not include an immigration check. But this could be easily incorporated.
Immigration checks do not require highly technical qualifications, and the officials that conduct
these visits should be trained to also conduct a basic migration check. This would increase
Immigration Enforcement capacity by a factor of at least 10, and up to 40.
These checks would feed data back to Deportation Command and the Migrant Identification
Centre, increasing their ability to identify illegal migrants, leading to a large increase in
voluntary and enforced departures. Revenue shared with local governments generated via
fines on those employing illegal workers will encourage local cooperation, which in turn will
generate more data for Deportation Command.

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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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Selling out Ukraine to side with Russia in order to marginally reduce the negative impacts of his dumb war with Iran

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch, who is currently purging the Tory candidates list, tells Today she stands for "uniting the country" and wants to "bring the country together". She then laments the Coalition years when "we had to make concessions". It's amazing how often "unity" means "everyone must agree with me".

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided

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Joël Reland @jreland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's that Andy? You want to look at the different options for the UK's relationship with the EU? If only someone had set them out already... ukandeu.ac.uk/introducing-...

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David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Politically, the best option would be to keep the name of the 'triple lock' but change the formula - say, to the middle of the three components rather than the top one. Too many people will confuse 'scrapping the triple lock' with 'scrapping increases' or even 'scrapping the pension'.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How about considering the voters of today - in hospitality and creative industries and education and the wider services sector and the gig economy - who actually exist and are the working class we actually have rather than trying to bring back the fantasy working class voters of the past?

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In other decent predictions of what was to come later - it was also pretty obvious that the migration figures would be lower than OBR had initially forecast. @jamesbowes01.bsky.social had done sterling work on that.

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Peter Maxson @petermaxson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rather interesting refereeing performance at Oldham. Don't think I've ever seen him have to summon players back out after blowing up early

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just me saying that any effort to tackle misinformation must be an attack on Reform, thereby admitting that Reform are helping Russia to spread far right narratives and create dissent and unrest.

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Peter Maxson @petermaxson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Awful idea, would get drenched after every goal

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No, arresting ‘Danny Tommo’ won’t make him a martyr. *Not* arresting him will fuel his agenda.

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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;

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Peter Maxson @petermaxson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

England again proving that maybe it would be useful playing 50 over cricket a bit outside of internationals.

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Neil Fawcett @neilmfawcett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Has someone in the policy unit been at the sherry again? If we've got a few billion to spend, I'm pretty sure there are more important priorities than tax cuts for the top 20% of earners. Like, you know, the NHS, SEND, transport infrastructure, or even carers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Ed Davey promises £17bn income tax cut if Lib Dems are elected

Growth created by rejoining EU single market and customs union would fund change, Davey tells the party’s conference

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Office Gorn @simian60.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We have cheap, and getting cheaper, renewables. We have cheap, and getting cheaper, storage. We can, at some expense, build enough of them plus nuclear to stop burning stuff for power. The sooner we do this the less expensive future climate mitigation becomes. The less risk there is of +ve feedback

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lib Dem pledge to cut fuel duty by 10p is depressingly bad policy: poorly targeted, expensive (£5bn), and it weakens incentives to switch to EVs and reduce usage.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026

I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026

A new mega poll by YouGov reveals that an overwhelming majority of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 constituencies were not sure. It’s time to put EU membership on the table. bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ratcliffe gives no particular idea of what he wants. But, given that earlier error, and his saying "nobody's doing that" in the new interview, it is a reasonable hypothesis that he just does not know that net migration has fallen from 800k in year to July 2024 to 171k in 2025 (and lower in 2026).

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monaco

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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Imagine being a top class Portuguese footballer in your prime, continuing to have your international career hamstrung by your football association and coaches forcing you to play around a geriatric superstar who was ready for the glue factory 4 years ago.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Too late to change now, but the above should really be: Criminal law should be enforced against those committing criminal acts, says minister responsible for enforcing the criminal law against those committing criminal acts

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am curious. At what point in George's life does his mother plan to stop tracking him? Will she be following his progress to work every day for his first job? Keeping an eye on him when he goes on dates and noting if he ends up at someone else's place? Virtually gate-crashing his stag-do?

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Peter Maxson @petermaxson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Although we may have them next so hopefully this won't be posted back on you!

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Peter Maxson @petermaxson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And it's team not tram on no 2

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Peter Maxson @petermaxson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Officials deal with a goal in a sport, completely different. But from outside seems some similar sort of training is needed to enable challenge to avoid 'disaster'.

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Peter Maxson @petermaxson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For Webb to wash his hands and throw the VAR tram under the bus negates his role. Airline pilots have training in cabin resource management to overcome the stress and hierarchy issues when difficulties occur. Obviously this is different in scale, they deal with potential loss of life.

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Peter Maxson @petermaxson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Both of these are systemic and come from the top. I don't know the training received but there clearly needs to be more on having the confidence to intervene especially as refereeing is very hierarchical. The urgency comes from RefPro but also wider industry stakeholders.

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Peter Maxson @petermaxson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What is really apparent is both the urgency/speed of the decision making process and the lack of involvement from the rest of the team. Both of these come from the top. The urge towards speed should not be at the expense of accuracy especially where a number of steps are needed.

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Peter Maxson @petermaxson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The extended VAR debate has focussed on completely the wrong things. So the decision was wrong, although not as black and white as the media has it. Sure they, and players, have never made a mistake.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Tories have attacked appointment of TUC chief Paul Nowak as a director of Bank of England, saying: "The last thing our country needs is a trade union leader helping to run the BofE." And yet it was a Tory government that in 2019 appointed the then TUC chief Frances O'Grady to the same role

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If Totnes decided, in an unofficial referendum, to join the EU, I wonder how many pages of coverage the BBC would give to a cat that can play a banjo?

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Party that wants to retrospectively change rules so as to remove migrants also says retrospective rules on party funding are "dictatorship tactics".

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 13/09/2026

referees should not be rewarding the team whose player committs the foul, then kicks the other player on the ground, and then pretends he's been shot after light contact

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Peter Maxson @petermaxson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

How haven't they both been sent off there. Clear first kick by Fernandes

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The ability of the richest & most powerful men in the world to position themselves against "the elite" - a category that excludes the world's richest man, its biggest media magnates, the UK's richest party & the biggest donors in UK history - may be the most effective lie in modern political history

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Gravekeeper Failure 🪦 @ptrtlrwrts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Won't raise taxes to improve public services, won't defend immigration as a societal benefit, won't cap political donations, won't enact electoral reform, won't protect vulnerable minorities, won't condemn fascists, won't legislate against a literal CSAM platform, and won't support universities.

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