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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12h
just when you thought it couldn’t get worse
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The Economist @economist.com · 09/10/2026
A nasty strain of antisemitism has quickly come to dominate the Green Party of England and Wales. We explain how the former Ecology Party came to care more about Zionism than the environment
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Britain’s Greens are now a hard-left, antisemitic party
The former Ecology Party cares more about Zionism than the environment
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026
Hardly an original take but it is Quite Annoying to imagine how much the UK (and me, and you!) would all have more cash today if Donald Trump hadn't decided to start bombing Iran for *reasons*. Where's the White House impact assessment on my nursery fees. www.ft.com/content/2cb1...
ft.com
Iran war blows near-£12bn hole in Britain’s public finances
FT estimates show inflation and soaring borrowing costs have slashed chancellor John Healey’s headroom in half
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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 07/10/2026
Sources: the BBC and Channel 4 have held early talks with the UK government on a JV combining Channel 4's ad sales, E4, Film4, and VOD with the BBC's UKTV (Amy-Jo Crowley/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
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Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 07/10/2026
Models which have the Conservatives ahead of Reform may be jumping the gun. See how Britain Predicts compares... www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As a Jew I think what the Greens have done is appalling. As a political commentator I think Andy Burnham is a lucky man.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Opinium latest poll for Observer with Labour 30% (+2), Reform 25% (+1), Conservatives 17% (-), Green 11% (+1) Libdem 9% (-1). This pollster last had Labour at 30% in November 2024. 30/9/26 after Labour conference. www.opinium.com/resource-cen...
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 02/10/2026
How popular are European leaders in their own countries? (10-21 Sep 2026) 🇬🇧 Burnham +6 net favourability (+1 from Aug) 🇩🇰 Frederiksen -6 (-2) 🇮🇹 Meloni -22 (-4) 🇪🇸 Sánchez -35 (-2) 🇫🇷 Macron -60 (-6) 🇩🇪 Merz -73 (-7) yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/10/2026
Pennsylvania measles cases near 1,000 as outbreak spreads reut.rs/4hVZMIp
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Pennsylvania measles cases near 1,000 as outbreak spreads
Pennsylvania's health department reported 977 measles cases as of Friday, according ​to its website, as the ‌state continues to battle a fast-growing outbreak of the disease.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Our paywall is down until Monday, which means you can read @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social's always beautiful column (which will make you think anew about living life) for free www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/lives/...
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Mindful life: My annus horribilis
Looking for patterns in catastrophic events is a deeply human tendency
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The silver living, to a very big cloud, if you’re sitting in HMT today is that amid a global bond sell off gilts aren’t being hit the hardest. Which feels a bit different to other recent sell offs.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
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Exclusive: Ex-NATO chief calls on UK to urgently test its disinformation defences
Former NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson, talks to Athena about information warfare, Britain’s vulnerabilities, and why we must prepare before disaster strikes
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mind-boggling, indeed.
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 30/09/2026
🇮🇷 💊 Medication prices are soaring in #Iran and some treatments have become hard to find, leaving patients and their families scrambling. It comes as a #US blockade and stepped-up sanctions squeeze the country's pharmaceuticals industry. Watch the story ⤵️
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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 30/09/2026
The Nerve, founded by former Observer journalists, says it reached financial sustainability in its first year, with £600K in income and 5,000 paying subscribers (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 29/09/2026
A video being shared online supposedly shows an “asylum seeker” saying he wants “more money and more freedom”, and isn’t happy with how he’s being treated in the UK. But the clip is AI-generated. Here’s how we know 👇
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Video of ‘asylum seeker’ saying he wants ‘more money and more freedom’ is AI-generated – Full Fact
A clip which has been shared online contains a SynthID watermark, suggesting it was made with Google’s AI tools.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 28/09/2026
Bose introduced a $99 pair of wired noise-canceling earbuds, offering a rare feature at a time when corded earphones have seen a resurgence among younger shoppers.
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Bose Returns to Wired Earbuds With New $99 Noise-Canceling Pair
Bose Corp. introduced a $99 wired pair of noise-canceling earbuds, offering a rare feature at a time when corded earphones have seen a resurgence among younger shoppers.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 28/09/2026
Also - they say the moon is made of cheese, but I went to the cheese aisle and they weren't selling any moon. What the hell?
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Blimey. Baroness Margaret Hodge - the Govt anti-corruption champion, on the £72m donations to Reform recently: "I think it came from the Russians." She's speaking at a Fabian event on donation caps
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mélenchon gaining momentum in French presidential polling while the centrist field remains fragmented and weak ⬇️
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Superb and fascinating chart.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our paywall is down until October 5th! Plenty of time to read your fill of @prospectmagazine.co.uk So why not start with my deep dive on Israel's election, a central question being: how much will change, in Gaza, in the West Bank, if Netanyahu does lose? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Inside the battle to oust Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel is more divided than ever, perpetually at war, a global pariah— and it’s going to the polls. The alternatives may not offer that much hope
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
EXC - Shabana Mahmood will announce a new legal route for refugees that prioritises Afghan women and girls and Palestinians, unfreezing a scheme that will put the most vulnerable refugees on a faster path to permanent status. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians
Exclusive: Move by Shabana Mahmood comes after closure of Afghan scheme last year but experts say numbers too small to deter Channel crossings
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Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is incredible news - ministers are going to crack down on bogus self employment! About time - this is huge for every business - from Royal Mail downwards - under pressure cos they directly employ their staff but are undercut by disreputable operators
mirror.co.uk
Nearly one million workers in 'bogus self-employment' to benefit from clampdown
EXCLUSIVE: Nearly a million workers stuck in 'bogus self-employment' that denies them basic rights are expected to benefit from a clampdown on abuses unveiled at Labour’s party conference
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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘Nigel loved her’: the mystery woman looking after Reform’s billionaire backers Former Cameo executive Katie Lewis has flown under the radar since working with the party’s crypto donors, with online posts that mention her name being swiftly deleted ✍️ Catherine Neilan bit.ly/4xScOvp
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‘Nigel loved her’: the mystery woman looking after Reform...
Former Cameo executive Katie Lewis has flown under the radar since working with the party’s crypto donors, with online posts that mention her name being swiftly deleted
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Joining #BBCLauraK Prime Minister Andy Burnham MP Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp MP BBC Director General Matt Brittin Sunday 9am #BBCOne #BBCiPlayer
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The Economist @economist.com · 26/09/2026
With hotels unpopular and expensive, and a large network of camps little more than a Home Office fantasy, the British government must find a better way to house asylum-seekers
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By housing asylum-seekers so badly, Britain is harming itself
Most will become citizens in time
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 25/09/2026
Max Wilkinson told the Liberal Democrat conference that “not a single small boat crossed the Channel” before the Brexit referendum. That’s not true. Small boat crossings have risen significantly in recent years, but they did happen before June 2016.
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Small boat crossings didn’t start after the Brexit referendum – Full Fact
The Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesperson wrongly claimed that “not a single small boat crossed the Channel” before the vote to leave the EU.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thank God Reform is standing up for masked, knife-wielding, ex-cons. Society's most marginalised group.
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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most British people’s idea of the real crime rate is enormously out of whack with reality… but extreme politicians and rightwing newspapers have zero interest in enlightening them. This is a brilliant edition that you really should share with any Reform-curious or Daily-Mail-afflicted relatives.
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh look good quality journalism makes money
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 25/09/2026
You may have seen social media posts misrepresenting the Labour candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, Sagal Abdi-Wali, as an asylum seeker. Ms Abdi-Wali came to the UK as a child refugee in the 1990s, and is now listed as a British citizen. fullfact.org/politics/Sag...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A 42 yesr old has got a prison sentence after a guilty plea for throwing a bottle at the police in Portsmouth while with the "patriot patrol" group. He faces a trial for assault of the police, having pled not guilty. Four other men chatged. www.itv.com/news/meridia...
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Man jailed for bottle throwing at Eastney migrant protest
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Man jailed for bottle throwing at Eastney migrant protest
Del Somerville, 42, pleaded guilty to violent disorder following an overnight protest at Eastney.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's Rupert Lowe MP's payments from X Corp over the past year. This man is making serious cash from Musk's platform. Payments surged over the summer, during UK 'unrest', and when Musk was frantically re-sharing Lowe's posts... Bleak, lucrative work if you can get it.
Line chart plotting 21 payments from X Corp to Rupert Lowe MP, as declared in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. The x-axis runs from 3 September 2025 to 16 September 2026; the y-axis shows the value of each fortnightly payment in pounds, from zero to £12,000.

Payments run between roughly £1,100 and £2,200 through late 2025, rise gradually through spring 2026 to around £3,000–£3,800, then jump sharply to £11,724.97 on 10 June 2026 and £10,265.50 in July. From there they fall in five consecutive steps — £4,412.76, £3,126.35, £2,885.36, £2,542.04 — to £2,413.89 on 16 September 2026, a fall of 79% from the June peak.

Two things worth carrying with the graphic whichever version you use.

The July point is marked with an asterisk because the register gives its received date as 7 August 2026 while recording it as registered on 15 July. Plotted it at the likelier 7 July.
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Daniel Thomas arrested over video of dinghy slashing
bbc.co.uk
Daniel Thomas arrested over video of dinghy slashing
Police had been looking into footage appearing to show the man, also known as Danny Tommo, slashing at a boat in the English Channel with a knife.
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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 24/09/2026
Wondered what would happen after the posting of that video showing the apparent stabbing of a dinghy in the Channel? Read my story about the arrest of the man who posted it: as.ft.com/r/115f09d2-3...
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Anti-migrant protest leader arrested after posting video stabbing a dinghy
Rightwing activist who calls himself Danny Tommo was also one of the organisers of a recent blockade of Dover
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
bbc.co.uk
UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told
The head of the RAF says the UK faces "unprecedented threats" from adversaries in space, as a new unit is created to defend Britain's satellites.
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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Farage has released a video whining that Burnham's anti-disinformation unit will be "like George Orwell's Ministry of Information". He doubtless means the Ministry of Truth in 1984, but the MoI was a part of Churchill's government.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🗣️🇬🇧 PM Burnham: Kremlin spends around £1.3 billion each year on manipulating information. We’re talking about an insidious campaign that reaches into people’s homes and twists what they feel about their own country and community, creating a narrative of decline, stoking division and sowing despair.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/09/2026
Six arrested after anti-migrant protest at marina in Hampshire
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Six arrested after anti-migrant protest at marina in Hampshire
Hundreds of protesters turned out at Gosport thinking that asylum seekers were arriving there Six people have been arrested after anti-migrant protesters gathered at a marina in Hampshire in the mistaken belief that a small boat was due to arrive. Heeding calls from the far-right campaigner Daniel Thomas, hundreds of protesters gathered early on Tuesday evening at Gosport in Hampshire, aiming to disrupt any disembarkation of asylum seekers. The Border Force vessels carrying them landed instead in Dover early on Wednesday. Continue reading...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I watched it live on TV. I'm pretty jaded about watching politicians spew nonsense and make mad decisions, but when Kwarteng announced the 45p rate cut I did shout out loud "what the fuck are you doing!?"
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔴 NEW Nigel Farage-Backed Bitcoin Firm to Buy Gold Dealer That Paid Him £685,500 By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Nigel Farage-Backed Bitcoin Firm to Buy Gold Dealer That Paid Him £685,500
The deal would put the Reform leader's gold bullion 'brand ambassador' fees in the hands of a crypto company he part-owns
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you're following the news around Andy Burnham's speech at the UN General Assembly on how Russia has "amplified far right narratives" and "tried to stoke tensions and unrest", here's a handy article on the targeting of the migration debate inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...
inews.co.uk
How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain
Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
bbc.co.uk
UK to fight Russian disinformation and push new global AI standards, Burnham says
The UK could act as "an honest broker" on AI and other global challenges, the prime minister tells world leaders at the UN.
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Richard Morley @sevenworldscollide.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyone in my timeline who says Burnham wants to see migrants drown gets an automatic block.
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Burnham leads comfortably in gross approval (38%), followed by Badenoch (33%), Farage (25%), Davey (20%), Polanski (16%) and then Lowe (16%). The % saying Burnham has done a ‘very bad job’ has risen to 17%, suggesting more partisan polarisation but this is still far lower than Polanski & esp Farage.
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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#BBCNews - Rich nations must cut debt as global shocks push up borrowing costs, IMF chief tells BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rich nations must cut debt as global shocks push up borrowing costs, IMF chief tells BBC
In an interview with the BBC, Kristalina Georgieva says economic shocks had pushed "debt levels up like a staircase not to heaven".
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