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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“There’s nothing so powerful in 🇬🇧politics as the rightwing unreality machine... It’s a place where Brexit will be cost free, Ed Miliband is a Marxist, Liz Truss was a serious political figure”…and Badenoch is shielded from her own X-fuelled mediocrity. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-strang...

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The Strange Myth of Kemi Badenoch

Why does she have the best press in politics?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?

THE TIMES

Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If the Times was a credible newspaper and not just a Broadsheet Right Wing Tabloid their headline would read Tories “will make the top 10% better off” And while they’re at it for sake of being complete, they should add in brackets (As would Reform UK Ltd)❗️

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

MD’s latest on the Lucy Letby case, only in the new Private Eye, out now. ➡️ Previous parts of our special report into the Lucy Letby case are available online: www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...

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Special Report: The Lessons of the Lucy Letby Case

After Lucy Letby was convicted in August 2023 of murdering seven babies, a number of experts contacted Eye columnist MD because they

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Joel Dilley @okiedharmabum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

47 years? Good thing I decided to dip my toes into the water (checks watch) the day before yesterday. (Catchy!)

The cover for The 2 Tone Story CD that drops 3 tracks from the double LP version

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Does very much feel like the Badenoch Tories are a busted flush.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 06/10/2026

Kemi is once again confronted by her arch-enemy, ANY DETAILS AT ALL. thecritic.co.uk/kane...

Unfortunately, like, I don’t know, the results of a charity fundraiser for the Kurds, the Tory claims for what they’re proposing grew a little in the telling. Newspapers everywhere were calling it a British “Iron Dome”, referring to Israel’s comprehensive – and expensive – system.

Nick Ferrari of LBC, a man who is to political weakness what Godzilla is to a Tokyo suburb, was doubtful that it would be possible to build a missile defence network that would defend the whole UK. “Well, because it’s mobile, it can,” Badenoch said, faltering slightly.

The LBC man closed in. “Is it moved by sea? By land? By air?”

“I do know that it would move,” the Conservative leader said. “I think certainly by sea.” She tried to explain. “It’s not one thing that’s sitting in one place.”

Ferrari wouldn’t let go. “How many units are there?” If the Daily Star’s barrister had been this good, Archer’s political career might have ended in 1987.

“How many units?” Badenoch repeated. “I can’t…” She resorted to

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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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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is absolutely what’s going on with Badenoch’s polling improvement. She is very much not getting any better or any more popular or electable. There is no (shoot-me-now) ‘Keminaissance’. It’s just that Farage has got even worse. And rightwing money needs a horse to back…

I can see only one major reason for this.
Various media owners, secretive sponsors of tax-averse "think tanks" and climate change-denying plutocrats, who seem determined to see normal service resumed in Downing Street as soon as possible, are having serious doubts about Nigel Farage's electability, and Badenoch remains their only other option.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Call me old-fashioned, but I just think that if you are announcing £10bn of spending, then if the Shadow Treasury team and the leader's office are doing their jobs properly, the leader should have clearer answers to these questions:

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Delighted to be joining @NewScientist.com Live again this year with Megan – get your tickets at live.newscientist.com

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John Prendergast @prendy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No queues, empty seats and the worst speech ever heard: welcome to the Tory conference | John Crace

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Albumism @albumism.com · 05/10/2026

R.E.M. released ‘Automatic For The People’ in the UK 34 years ago on October 5, 1992 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/REMautomatic @remhq.bsky.social

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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Letter printed in The Times today

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)

Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.

As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the Convention [ECHR]. It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to” Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...

The Law Society
Gazette

In short, if Britain were to leave the ECHR, it would not be
'taking back control. It would be surrendering influence over the rules and institutions that help keep us safe.
The debate about the ECHR is too often conducted as though it were a choice between national sovereignty and international law. That is a false choice.
The Convention advances British interests because it reflects British values: liberty under law, democratic government and the accountability of power.
Walking away would not make Britain freer. It would make Britain weaker.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watch this in its entirety. A team went through their final 18 games winning 16, scoring 54, conceding 9. And it wasn't enough to win the league ahead of the biggest cheats in the history of world football. The following season, the squad was ridden with injuries due to this exertion. Farce. Get rid

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Mikel Arteta & Martin Odegaard address the Arsenal crowd after Premier League title heartbreak 💔🔴

YouTube video by TNT Sports Football

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Listening to Willin’ by Little Feat. I notice that the pedal steel is by Sneaky Pete Kleinow. He did the stop motion FX for The Terminator. Meaning that my brain is now imagining the oncoming articulated rig in T2 has got Little Feat on the radio, happily chirping about trucking while stoned.

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Rohan Patel @gunnerohan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I get that it's a civil case, however the findings of financial ("Sham") deception isn't just a sporting breach; it borders on actual corporate fraud, no??? At what point do the authorities stop treating this like a private disagreement and start a criminal investigation?

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "Homes, water, energy, transport, care, broken up and sold off." "The British right talk about taking back control. Never let them forget they are the ones. That gave it away in the first place."

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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 29/09/2026

Al Jazeera did a lovely summary of the Manchester City cheating scandal.

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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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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Each week you think: Braverman will never outdo this. She'll never say something madder than what just came out her mouth. And each week, she proves you wrong. Just the maddest fool on earth.

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most striking of all is that this is explicitly a very *pro-politics* speech, a direct rebuttal to the anti-politics that is so widespread. And rightly so: politics can change things, it is an admirable thing to choose to engage in and a duty for us all to step forward and pursue.

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The mood shift at Labour Party conference on rejoining the EU is palpable. Let’s hope, for the sake of the country, that Andy spells it out tomorrow…

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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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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do sometimes wonder if the political history of this period, when written, will mainly conclude: “Many people lost their way simply by spending too long on X.”

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham edges Labour closer to finally, maybe, being sane about Brexit. Over 10 years, £Billions of cost, thousands of business failures, mountains of red tape, wasted resources and lost opportunities later…. our govt may, at last, cautiously, start to be honest about the Brexit moronathon. Yay.

The Independent front page headline:

Burnham edges Labour closer to rejoining EU
After Ed Miliband tells party conference Britain's future is at the heart of Europe, ministers say it is 'not if but how' prime minister will include Brexit reversal in next election manifesto

There is growing optimism that a way back into the EU could be put to voters at the next election after the prime minister and senior ministers made it clear they believe Brexit has been a failure at this year's party conference.
When The Independent asked Mr Burnham about whether Rejoin would be in Labour's next election manifesto on his recent trip to the UN in New York, he refused to rule it out - having said a year ago when he was
Manchester mayor that he believes the
UK should rejoin the EU.

Andy Burnham has already warned about the 'drift and division' in the decade since Brexit (Getty)

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Original Statement: In Summary:

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026

These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)

A complex, swirling pattern of lighter and darker clouds. One large system, angled to the upper left in this scene, is a tawny brown colour and is elongate. Another, more circular storm system is at lower centre, and is a grey–greenish colour. The background swirls are various shades of grey to blue; small, white features dot the scene.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s a pathetic bit of lashing out from Johnson. But it reveals him. He knows he pissed his own mandate away. He’s just a tabloid troll now, talking shite while better people than him may get to make the kind of difference he never could. Hope that haunts him forever.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Dear Diary, I'm still furious about Burnham's plan to tackle disinformation. Doesn't he know that one man's disinformation is another man's essential stream of bollocks and lies to spread hatred and division in order to fuel his rise to power?"

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Phil Costa @philcosta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hearing Mikel Arteta has actually won four Premier League titles

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Matt @thefleeb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nigel Farage is a foreign asset and an English asshole

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel

Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If these people were not so very dangerously stupid this would be very funny indeed. Jaymey McIvor of Reform insisting people from Chingford and Woodford are claiming asylum in Ongar.

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Alex M @thealexm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The media is full of Farage will do this, Farage will do that. Who gives a fuck? He is leader of a tiny party that is 3rd in the polls and slipping. Totally crass political propaganda

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“His time is up. He had his chance and he blew it with his own crippling incompetence. For the next two years the world can watch him wither away, still causing chaos, still failing, but everyone will be looking to what comes next.”

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Last Days Of Trump

The decline and fall is now underway

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And there’s this -

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That thug sabotaging rescue efforts, racist riots, flags on lampposts, pink ladies wanting to burn down hotels, doxxing charity workers, ICE-style deportation plans, threats to scrap the Equality Act and leave the ECHR… “legitimate concerns” No. A tornado of hate and prejudice set off by Farage.

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