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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 8h

So a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 8h

A barbaric idea, beneath our dignity as a country. Push back on this.

Trump admin wants to televise an execution

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 8h

It's particularly obnoxious that he should characterise getting Palantir out of UK state activity as 'mob rule'. It's precisely to ensure that we can operate as a sovereign democracy that we need to keep companies like that away from anything important.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 8h

Palantir is owned by fascists with strong links to a geopolitical adversary - the US - that is funding far right activity in the UK. It already has dangerous leverage over critical UK state functions. Tom Watson is a piece of shit who has ruined what reputation he had.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15h

Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.

theguardian.com

Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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1895.bsky.social @1895.bsky.social · 12h

On This Day: 2021 Super League XXVI Grand Final: St Helens 12 defeated Catalans Dragons 10 at Old Trafford www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ5N...

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Grand Final Highlights | Dragons v Saints, 2021 Betfred Super League

The Dragons and Saints face-off at Old Trafford in the #GrandFinal to be crowned 2021 #SuperLeague Champions

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

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Alistair Caird @alistaircaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can any producers at #newsnight tell me the last time that GB News invited a BBC journalist on to one of their programmes? Or is this more of a one-way type of arrangement?

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milominder @milominder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Touching words from Badenoch about the late bigamist, perjuror, convicted fraudster, shoplifter, plagiarist and *checks notes* Tory Lord Jeffrey Archer.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sensational. Can’t believe it dropped just after I filed a column about her epic ridiculousness, though.

Kemi Badenoch describes herself as captain, coach and owner of the Conservatives.

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 07/10/2026

Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 29% (+2) RFM: 24% (+3) CON: 21% (-1) LDM: 10% (-1) GRN: 7% (-2) RES: 4% (-2) SNP: 2% (-1) Via @moreincommonuk.bsky.social, 3-5 Oct. Changes w/ 25-29 Sep.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 06/10/2026

Winners from the current system of housing taxation are concentrated in London, while the rest of the country is more likely to be losing than winning 👇 buff.ly/SAUyopI

chart showing Proportion of households winning and losing from current property tax system compared to a proportional one, by region: England, 2030-31

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 05/10/2026

Broken housing taxes mean Londoners are under-paying by £3.1 billion – with the rest of England over-paying in return ⤵️ buff.ly/okMiNLc

Chart showing Tax revenues as a proportion of the value of the housing stock (left axis) and the average market value of dwellings (right axis), by region of England: 2024-25

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Conservatives have commissioned an 88 foot contemporary Badenoch Tapestry for their party conference

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Joe Bond @joebond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well that's the end of the Green Party. Zack managed to destroy a valuable political vehicle, practically a UK institution, in 13 months. I hope someone can bring it back but I'm not holding my breath.

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Old Greens, meet your new masters and future. This response to Caroline Lucas says everything about where the party is going

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Andrew Rait @andrewrait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But I enjoyed the current Govts comms dept response 😂

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry, whilst having some funny moments, is basically cringe. What is unforgiveable is the racism. #ToryRacism [H/T @eberlmat.bsky.social @generalboles.bsky.social @seanjones.org]

Part of the border of a scene from the Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry
Migrants who are clearly not white in a small boat
Rats from the small boat chase cats
Tax payers lying on the ground dead
The implication being the migrants brought disease with them

A scene from the Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry
Keir Starmer giving money and a key to some non white people

A scene from the Conservative party's joke Bayeaux Tapestry
Kemi Badenoch giving a key to a white couple

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Worried about welfare costs? Bet they’re also in favour of the triple lock for the state pension which is a welfare benefit.

There are plenty of Conservative MPs who don't view this as a problem. "I've not heard any colleagues say they were worried about the nasty party stuff, one said. "In contrast, a lot of constituents say they are very worried about welfare costs."

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just so dispiriting to watch the Greens be corrupted by the same poison that took over Labour. All the same shit: the excuses, the mealy-mouthed justifications, the tortured position statements, the deafening silences. Like a historical reenactment.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The radicalisation of the middle aged and elderly needs addressing. Many believe every single word on Facebook and X.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence

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Mike Critchley @mike-critchley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The winning end and losing end at the Grand Final 5 minutes after the final hooter

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fuck-, and I cannot emphasise this enough, -ing hell! That is some nazi shit right there.

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Phil Lowthian @phillowthian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you are an opponent of sportswashing then you really ought to oppose all sportswashing not just the Manchester City kind.

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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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Labour Party are now polling on average ten points higher under Andy Burnham than they were at the turn of the year under Keir Starmer. Reform are polling on average eight points lower than they were this time last year.

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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Poor Sir Simon. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 'remarkable national recovery' he refers to is a myth. The 1980s was when our national decline started. I wonder where he gets his information? 99-percent.org/back-to-the-...

A post suggesting that the 1980s saw a national recovery from the previous period -- entirely inconsistent with the facts.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Stuart Hoddinott @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW: Burnham made a strong case for adult social care reform at conference, but pushed the National Care Service into next parliament I argue he should get on with it, use his majority and 2024 mandate and establish the NCS in this parliament 👇 www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/comm...

instituteforgovernment.org.uk

Andy Burnham should establish the National Care Service this parliament | Institute for Government

There is no reason to delay plans for potentially three years.

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Forty20LIVE @forty20live.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today in 1967: Australia beat Warrington 16-7 at Wilderspool. #RugbyLeague

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Esther Rantzen hosts Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of children from the Holocaust youtu.be/OqqbM1B-mPY?...

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Holocaust hero Sir Nicholas Winton (That's Life - 1988)

YouTube video by Tops of the top

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saying isn't doing. But Burnham lifted the omertà on: Electoral reform Wide-scale nationalisation Triple lock pension Brexit So now they're all in play. And that's all positive

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Faragists rely on the narrative of "men on boats" creating a de facto Fifth Column in the UK to feed their agenda and to stir up hostility and to win votes and ultimately power. Suckers fall for it. Media boosts it. We've been here so many times before and you'd think we'd all wise up but hey ho

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It never stops being important that, no matter what the subject, politicians like Farage, Trump & Rubio are entirely untethered from the most basic requirements of honest discourse. They might turn out to be telling the truth sometimes but only ever in the spirit of stopped clocks.

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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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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 29/09/2026

It’s time to stop being polite about the triple lock. It's not fiscally sustainable for the State Pension to grow faster than earnings indefintiely. State Pension spending accounts for nearly half the projected increase in social security spending by 2029-30 ➡️ buff.ly/FY93tV6

chart showing that State Pension spending accounts for nearly half of the projected increase in social security spending by 2029-30. Of a total £30.5bn social security spending, the state pension is projected to be £13.8bn, with £2.2bn spent on pensioner other.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I must say I’m very disappointed in the police over their dealing with the RAF Fairford incident. By announcing that the suspects are British nationals, they have completely undermined the stream of made up bollocks from myself and every other right wing gobshite on Twitter.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026

absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Burnham today v impressive. The idea itself, the scale of what is being proposed, the determination to push ahead despite how vulnerable it makes him, and the big fundamental point behind it all: that mainstream politics will only survive if it proves it can solve big problems.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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