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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 01/07/2025
I’ve made tackling violence against women and girls a top priority. I joined Sir Mark Rowley in the Met’s Forensic Crime Lab HQ to see revolutionary new technology, backed by support from City Hall, that makes it easier to visualise bruising on victims of violence.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Sir Mark Rowley and the Met team in the Met’s Forensic Crime Lab HQ.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/06/2025
In London, you don’t just find stability and certainty.   You find a city which stands strong as a bastion against hate.   And a city which shines bright as a beacon of hope, progress and possibility.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the security minister, and Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, will have assets frozen and be banned from entering the UK www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Britain sanctions Israeli ministers over Gaza comments
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the security minister, and Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, will have assets frozen and be banned from entering the UK
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 26/05/2025
Merseyside Police say they are treating the multiple pedestrians injured at the Liverpool FC parade as an 'isolated incident' and 'not being treated as terrorism' trib.al/IT4qaaF
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
If only there were someone in a senior position of power in this relationship
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeney www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-foundi...
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The Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeney
Reports of Keir Starmer's chief adviser's supposed campaigning genius do not appear to match up with the facts
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Who is actually in power? Keir Starmer or the unelected Morgan McSweeney?
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Toughening migration rules doesn’t challenge Reform. It validates them.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Keir Starmer denies pushing anti-migrant policies in order to chase Reform, saying that "I'm doing this because it is right, because it is fair and because it is what I believe". A reminder of what he said he believed when he was running for Labour leader.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
All those apologists for Starmer? You can do one.
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
everyone's said pretty much all there is to be said on the 'island of strangers'/'incalculable damage' stuff, so just sharing this by a migrant care worker on how it feels to hear yourself discussed like this while looking after people's loved ones www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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Opinion: Migrant workers prop up the UK’s social care system. Now…
Labour’s crackdown will break a promise made to workers like me – and leave the system in disrepair
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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Morgan McSweeney is wrong and is now effectively a facilitator for the UK's political slide towards full fat fascism. There is a progressive, kind, tolerant majority in the UK,abandoned by Labour and hampered by FPTP. Morgan McSweeney! You are the problem, not the solution.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 09/05/2025
"In Leo XIV, the Catholic Church has elevated an American citizen to the papacy…It is difficult to think of another pick that could have caused more trouble for Maga. "God famously works in mysterious ways. So, too, it seems, do the cardinals of the Catholic Church."
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The new Pope has already put JD Vance in a difficult position
US Vice President, a Catholic convert, has now been publicly contradicted by not one, but two, popes
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
It’s worth recalling *who McSweeney is*. He was Labour’s millionaire bribes-solicitation officer, and he fought for years to wrest his party back from a member-funded model to one that is wholly dependent on massive bungs from private donors. By any means necessary.
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I think a big issue is MPs case load - the Blackpool south mp for eg described people turning up in tears- and so many MPs ...more
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Anushka Asthana @AnushkaAsthana
As well known- Morgan McSweeney is determined the party is on side of voters not members. But we did have interesting More in Common polling that suggested welfare is pretty unpopular (although winter fuel worse) 5/
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Labour ministers admit that Downing Street is so controlling that they can do nothing to manage the country. How long can this government last in that case? youtu.be/f1pLi3hpZUA?...
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Labour is so dysfunctional that it cannot govern. How long can it last in that case?
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Labour losing one of its safest seats shows what happens when a government cuts disability benefits and winter fuel payments, keeps the two-child benefit cap, and panders to anti-migrant rhetoric: Reform wins and always will. This isn’t the change people voted for and it shows.
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 01/05/2025
Welcome to Brexitland, US, in which waywardness is described as "strategic uncertainty", restrictions on trade boost performance and self harm is lauded.... Spoiler, it does not end happily www.ft.com/content/342d...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Nigel Farage still insisting that he has "never ever, ever suggested anything other than the NHS should be free". Here's what he's said in the past behind closed doors
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“Labour…pointed out that the Tony Blair Institute works for the government of Saudi Arabia”
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I have never seen a situation so dismal that Tony Blair couldn't make it worse.
Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 29/04/2025
100 days on from Trump's inauguration, and following last night's results in Canada, one thing is clear: Licking his boots has consequences. Watch out Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 29/04/2025
Congratulations to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on their election victory. The bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
incredible polling chart from Canada
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
SCOOP: Labour chair Ellie Reeves tells HuffPost UK that the Tories have stopped campaigning in the Runcorn by-election, effectively "gifting" it to Reform UK. Reform say a Labour loss should be "unthinkable", but has Reeves already conceded? www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
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Exclusive: Senior Labour Minister Accuses Tories Of 'Gifting' Crunch By-Election To Reform UK
Ellie Reeves says the Conservatives have stopped campaigning in Runcorn.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This administration is now deliberately targeting our own most vulnerable children to score political points with its base.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A company that supplied hundreds of millions of pounds of unusable COVID tests saw their profits surge to £178 million after lobbying a Conservative peer for contracts Their turnover jumped by 6800% after supplying tests which were later deemed “unfit for public use” bylinetimes.com/2025/04/28/v...
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Company That Supplied Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Unusable COVID Tests Saw Profits Skyrocket to £178 Million After Lobbying Conservative Peer for Contract
Primer Design’s turnover jumped by 6,800% after supplying tests that were later deemed “unfit for public use”
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/04/2025
Shad Home Sec Philp worries that agreeing high food standards with the EU will compromise our ability to negotiate lower food standards with the US, even though he would never want lower food standards. Except for word salad, which seems to be liberally imported from the US. ~AA
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/04/2025
Mark Carney is asked how the lessons of Brexit apply to Trump's tariff policy. "When you break off or substantially rupture trade relations with major trading partners... you end up with slower growth, higher inflation, higher interest rates, volatility, a lower currency, a weaker economy." ~AA
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Fifteen years later and it feels like every single Labour strategist, since and to this day, is still trying to apologise to Gillian Duffy, for something that turned out to be a fairly accurate assessment.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Why Labour's strategy of endlessly alienating its natural supporters, while conceding almost every argument to its opponents on the right, is a recipe for defeat www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/five-years...
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Five Years Hard Labour
Labour's strategy of endlessly alienating its natural supporters, while conceding almost every argument to its opponents on the right, is a recipe for defeat
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 26/04/2025
Tens of thousands gather to say farewell to Pope Francis
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Tens of thousands gather to say farewell to Pope Francis
Tens of thousands of people have packed St Peter's Square as the funeral of Pope Francis begins.
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 26/04/2025
Applause broke out in St. Peter’s Square as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived for Pope Francis’s funeral. #skynews #Zelenskyy #PopeFrancis
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 26/04/2025
The Pope's funeral: In pictures
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The Pope's funeral: In pictures
Tens of thousands are in The Vatican for the Pope's funeral, with world leaders joining the public and clergy from around the world to pay their final respects in St Peter's Square.
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The economic illiteracy is disturbing, the claim to ownership is sinister. The combination is standard Trump.
Quote from a Trump interview comparing US economy to a department store
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 25/04/2025
🇺🇸 American dream or global nightmare? The American dream, is now an individualist, consumerist charter, no longer fit for purpose: America and the world need new aspirations By Martin Brooks @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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American dream or global nightmare?
The American dream, is now an individualist, consumerist charter, no longer fit for purpose: America and the world need new aspirations
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Reminds me of David Davies showing up in Brussels with no paperwork. Is it really just him and a translator?
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The American president did not spell out the details of the deal. . . #wato
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The fact that Putin has not won as he wanted is not a reason for Ukraine to suddenly feel sorry for him and give up what he's occupied so far. Bad logic, even fr interrogation, Mr Dymond. #wato
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Peter Sturdgess @petersturdgess.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
So the proposal is to split Ukraine. History tells us partitioned countries end up in protracted tears and centuries of conflict.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This is pretty concerning. It would be crazy to let this policy fail for the sake of of £50-100 million extra funding. Especially as Labour have nothing else to talk about on child poverty.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 23/04/2025
Formula E will return to London next year 🏁 The ABB FIA World Championship will race at ExCeL London until 2026—a thrilling event that also champions cleaner air through cutting-edge EV tech. A win for sport, and for a healthier city.
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Excel conference centre to host 200mph 'eco Grand Prix' race for another year
50,000 spectators attended two days of racing in the Royal Docks last year
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Republican Speaker of the house Mike Johnson claimed to be a prophet of God, saying God has "appointed me to be Moses and John the Baptist" to Donald Trump. Does that mean Trump has become Jesus now? How long has Mike Johnson been hearing voices in his head? These people are insane.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
now *this* is the anecdote of the day
While many Chinese businesses are reeling from the trade war, Qi, the Maga merchandise maker, brushed off any suggestion his might suffer.
Trump supporters, he said, were willing to pay any price for items bearing the image of their beloved president - and US suppliers were making such a huge profit on them that they could afford to partially absorb the tariff impact.
A Trump baseball cap, for instance, cost only Rmb7.50 ($1) to produce. Tariffs might raise that cost to Rmb2o, but the caps were being sold for $50 in the US.
"American sellers could even use the tariffs as an excuse to raise the price to $60 - yet the extra cost will still be borne by the US consumers,
" said Qi.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 10/04/2025
The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
We have a winner!
The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Bearly Politics (@i_ratus
). The tweet reads: “‘Yes, you’re wearing a suit, BUT DID YOU EVEN SAY THANK YOU?!’” Below the tweet, there is an image of three individuals in a formal setting, with two of them seated on ornate yellow chairs and gesturing with their hands. A penguin is standing on one of the chairs, dressed in a small suit. The background includes a fireplace, a flag, and other decorative elements, suggesting a formal or official room.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
NEW: The government has confirmed it will miss the deadline it had set to introduce a new Hillsborough Law to time with the 36th anniversary of the disaster www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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Government confirms it will miss Hillsborough Law deadline
Letter to families confirms pledge to bring in new law by anniversary on April 15 will be missed
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Boris Johnson thinks reforms to academy schools/VAT on private education are a bigger issue than Andrew Tate and online influencers. Writing in the Mail, the former PM places no emphasis on the commitment or presence of fathers for bringing up sons, unlike other writers on this topic.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Keir Starmer orders UK economic reset amid Donald Trump’s tariff mayhem. It must not mean more austerity and benefit cuts. Must mean direct state investment in infrastructure, not PFI. Must mean redistribution of wealth to boost spending power of the bottom 50% of the population.
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Keir Starmer orders UK economic reset amid Donald Trump’s tariff mayhem
PM ready to ditch ‘old assumptions’ and is debating possible changes to fiscal rules to boost growth
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