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This isn’t my full time job. Just happen to be politically curious/engaged (damn you Brexit). Centrist Dad & proud to be so. Just because I’m anonymous doesn’t mean I’m any less responsible. Honesty is an underrated quality in politics.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why does the UK press continue to treat Trump like a normal politician when he is demonstrably wicked and insane inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"The US conflict with Iran looks ike a Nolan film, in which the timeline has been scrambled: the US goes to military action first, then informs allies, then backwards to economic sanctions, then a warning, then diplomacy - all to get a deal that it already had with Iran, before any of this started."
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
There is a difference between scrutiny and entertainment. Jason Arday’s career posed questions, but they shouldn’t have become obsessional. Journalism should seek truth, but not public humiliation.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I must say, there is something very satisfyingly Terminator 2 about the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner site simply making this update at 8am this morning.
Commissioner's list of active investigations, on 13th August, showing Farage probe suspended. Commissioner's list of active investigations, on 14th August, showing Farage probe active, and "opened 13 May" as if by-election had never happened.
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Rachel Gilmour, MP for Tiverton and Minehead @rachelgilmourld.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Diane Abbott here speaking at a Stop Some Wars rally, calling Putin's continuing brutal war against Ukraine "the NATO campaign against Russia". FFS. youtu.be/SMBjoiMskxA?...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
Opposition Leader Kemi Badenoch and Shadow Home Office Secretary Chris Philp, in high-vis police jackets enjoy a photo opportunity.
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Richard Barfield @richardbarfield.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There’s been no serious attempt by government or opposition parties to convey economic benefits of immigration & UK’s critical need for it. Politicians’ fears of FOM are out of date: EU immigration is negligible. Burnham could aim to restore reciprocal FOM to benefit voters - young and old.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/07/2026
Today, almost all new electricity is coming from clean energy Once clean-energy growth consistently exceeds demand, fossil-fuel power will start to decline Source: IEA
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We're just at the end of your last ten year plan. Not gonna lie, the results ain't that great.
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I too have a 10-year plan – but unlike Burnham's, mine works
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Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The new prime minister is about to run out of prison spaces. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. But once again, there are no easy answers and just cancelling early releases is not a solution. The focus must be on public protection - including better protection in the community. 🧵
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The government must focus on public protection when it comes to prison releases | Institute for Government
There are no easy answers to meeting the prison capacity challenge.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I don't think I've ever seen a group of people take a joke quite as badly to heart as this lot have this week
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 09/07/2026
“When you’re bathing in a sea of radicalisation and extremity, stuff like that starts to slip out of your mouth.” Lewis Goodall says Rupert Lowe should apologise for his ‘insulting’ comments about the Dunblane massacre
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
LBC Callers Savage Robert Jenrick Over Farage's Decision To Trigger By-Election www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lbc-ca...
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LBC Callers Savage Robert Jenrick Over Farage's Decision To Trigger By-Election
The party's Treasury spokesman got a rough ride as he hosted a phone-in.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Very proud. 😊
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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unbelievable, just when you think they can't sink any lower Sky news have doorstepped Count Binfaces family😆
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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Straight out of the Trump playbook Trying to discredit the media, institutions and those who play by the rules If Farage wants to associate with such narcissists and crackpots such as Liz Truss then so be it Farage is nothing more than a charlatan www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Farage launches preemptive attack on Commons standards committee, claiming it won’t judge him fairly – UK politics live
Reform UK leader also tells the Daily Mail he did not anticipate main parties would not stand candidates in Clacton byelection
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I have donated to Count Binface. I think this is the first time I have donated to a political candidate. Ko-fi.com/home/coffees...
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Ian Dunt just supported Count Binface on Ko-fi! ❤️
Ko-fi lets you support creators you love with tips, memberships and shop sales!
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 08/07/2026
Police launch investigation into £37,500 donation made to Robert Jenrick campaign trib.al/7b4NvZn
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Police launch investigation into £37,500 donation made to Robert Jenrick campaign
Scotland Yard is now investigating a political donation made to his campaign to become Conservative leader in 2024
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 09/07/2026
Read every word of the latest from the great @annaisaac.bsky.social carefully and closely. Journalism at the highest level. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Millions of pounds and many, many questions: the untold story of why Reform figures face NCA scrutiny
Exclusive: The details behind the financial transactions that bankers have flagged up to the National Crime Agency
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The prospect of Nigel Farage fighting a people vs the establishment by-election in which the only other candidate is Count Binface - is too hilarious for words.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Game on, Nige.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Has any other politician ever called a by-election on an explicitly anti-transparency, pro-sleaze ticket before?
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Yet again, the Telegraph ran a spoiler of this public interest story - based entirely on a briefing from Reform. The same as they did when Anna Isaac broke the original story. We all know whose scoop this was @annaisaac.bsky.social
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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Today the UK celebrates 250 years of independence from the tyranny of the United States of America. Imagine living in a society where the leader can repeatedly break the law and nobody stops them!
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 26/06/2026
This is remarkable.
Bar chart which shows y-axis running 0-8000, and x-axis showing years 2019 and 2024. For 2019, a light orange bar runs up to just over 6000, with a darker orange running up to 8000. For 2024, a green bar runs up to 4000, with a dark green running to about 5000. The text "40% lower" is on the lighter green bar. Text at the top of the graphic reads "Estimated air pollution deaths are down by around 40%. New analysis estimates deaths associated with air pollution in London reduced substantially between 2019 and 2024." Text at the bottom of the graphic reads "Note: darker shading shows estimated ranges. Data based on a comparison of estimated mortality burden using updated methods and a scenario-based analysis where only air pollution changes. Source: london.gov.uk/aqmortality". The Mayor of London logo sits in the bottom right-hand corner.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
How conventient for political journalists, to all be gathered in Downing Street once more, so they can interview each other, to ask "how did this happen?", without ever acknowledging that, at least in part, they themselves are how this happened.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nigel Farage Listens to the News
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/06/2026
WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
You can give angry bitter people everything - money, power, their long-cherished dreams - but they will still be angry bitter people. Despite everything, he's so wonderfully unhappy.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 01/05/2026
Daily Mail, Jan 2009 on the "great lightbulb revolt" "Millions of Britons are finally waking up to the fact that their beloved lightbulbs will disappear…" Since then, LEDs helped UK cut peak power demand by equiv of 2x nuclear power plants (!) interactive.carbonbr... 2/5
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?
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European News @eunews.social · 07/06/2026
Speaking in Madrid yesterday, Pope Leo XIV stated: "I encourage you to nurture the process of the European Union, which is not merely a counterweight to other powers, but a gift to humanity."
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
One of the obvious problems with a under-16 social media ban is that it won't work. (60%+ of Australian under-16s are still using these platforms). But it will make people feel like something has been done so they won't tackle the content, which is the real issue.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/06/2026
🚨Former foreign secretary David Miliband: Brexit was an act of “sabotage” that has made Britain up to £30bn a year worse off. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/polit…
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Brexit ‘sabotage’ has cost Britain up to £30bn every year, says David Miliband
Exclusive: ‘We are suffering a punishing Brexit tax every day’ says former foreign secretary in withering assessment of
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Rightly angry piece from @iandunt.bsky.social about the Populist Right BS that followed the awful Henry Nowak murder case and how the media/national conversation has been drawn into it. iandunt.substack.com/p/an-abysmal...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
John Major is a better former PM than Tony Blair will ever be iandunt.substack.com/p/john-major...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Has anyone actually tried to win this sort of area by being honest? Wouldn't that be real leadership? To say: "I know why you voted for this, but it's turned out badly and I think you know that. You now have a choice. Trust the next easy solution the same conmen offer you, or fix the damage." 4/
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
😂 Sam Coates makes an ABSOLUTE TIT of himself. Calls PM photos "fake news" then finds out they're from the Press Association. If you make a spurious, inflammatory point you never made about any official photograph before, to pitch yourself as the only reliable source, at a minimum check your facts.
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This is 100% correct. Outrageous that our democracy is handed to partisan, tribal, ever changing group of people with absolutely no responsibility to anyone. MPs represent 100% of their constituents. That is the only democratic vote that should count. Said the same last time under the Tories too.
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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I actually can't believe that Farage and his party of xenophobic shitbags are running and polling so high and that the media are just treating it like it's normal. It's nightmarish to watch.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
An absolutely poisonous party run by absolutely poisonous people.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 25/04/2026
I have no idea how many times we have to dance this dance. It really isn’t high risk, high opportunity at all. Trump will probably be on his best behaviour. Everyone will gush. Praise as a triumph. Then a few days later Trump will forget about it. And go back to normal.
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