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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Net migration is at its lowest level, outside of the pandemic, for fourteen years, small boat numbers are collapsing and yet you still can't move for 'migrant crisis' stories in the British media

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The Singers is a work of genius

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

@brettroberts.bsky.social wondering if you're in this picture somewhere...

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Flat coats are basically just giant spaniels and all the oddness and risks that implies

2 dogs on a sofa and one is a flat coat retriever, whose front legs are on the floor while rear end is lying down on the sofa

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Richard Tice consistently claims to be standing up for "Christian values", on the basis that "we are a Christian nation". If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.

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Bimblinghill @bimblinghill.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Most people are decent. Would be nice to see that truth reported

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

As noted elsewhere in this thread, Isaac from Crystal Clean Windows York Limited came over and cleaned the restaurants windows for free and helped remove the graffiti. That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified… …once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’. Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/08/2025

Nigel Farage has, inevitably, said that this ruling means “Illegal migrants have more rights than the British people under Starmer”. The court’s short summary makes it explicit in two separate places that didn’t even enter into its reasoning, which centred on criteria for injunction.

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eek @eke.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

yo this guy is cooking

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Journalists, and the public, really need to learn the difference between an asylum seeker and refugee, and stop using the terms interchangeably.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 27/08/2025

I appreciate the posts from Labour activists about the vital work they are doing on the ground to oppose Reform but Starmer and his Cabinet seem far closer in rhetoric and in substance to Reform than even a centralist Labour government of the past like Wilson's or even Blair's.

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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

These were National Front talking points when I was young, and attacked by everyone except extremists. BNP when I was older: the BNP was run off for being racist cunts. Now The Times is cheerily discussing what might happen “if the population was to be sieved.” Also “camps” is very deliberate.

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Dear Labour government. Please grow some balls. The collective racist madness is not representative of most of the electorate. Please start calling it out.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!) Epping: 100-150 London: 20 Birmingham: 30 Stevenage: 30-50 Norwich: ? anything of any scale Manchester: ? anything of any scale Dudley: ? anything of any scale?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

This is so embarrassing. Just an absolute nonsense.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Worth reminding everyone in the UK Farage=Trump

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/08/2025

Following the Trump-Putin summit I now know it's possible to be disappointed with something you had absolutely no expectations for. I am in other words I am now fully equipped to empathise with @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com when she finally reads my book.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The Never Ending Parcel My package is on the way It started in Tamworth, in the UPS depot Now to Abingdon, our local depot It's out for delivery hooray it'll be delivered between 11 & 3 today 3 came and went, now end of day that'll work I say

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Finally, as I've already pointed out, the "up to 1.2 million illegal migrants" number on which Thames Water and the Telegraph based their false claims, and which included legal migrants, has officially been retracted by Pew. No journalist should be using it. www.pewresearch.org/global/fact-...

The ONS data on legal immigrants that we used in our report did not include those with “indefinite leave to remain” (ILR), a group legally residing in the country. Including the ILR group among legal UK residents results in lower estimated total numbers of unauthorized immigrants for both the United Kingdom and Europe in 2017 and other years. The updated estimates for the number of unauthorized immigrants in 2017 (without waiting asylum seekers) are 700,000-900,000 for the UK and 2.8 million-3.5 million for Europe

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I've read some bad takes in my time but this one...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13/08/2025

Trump is sandblasting away at the foundations of finance and markets are like 'lol nothing matters, number go up' me, 300 free clicks, etc: on.ft.com/3HcyVIJ

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Investors are frogs in a Trumpian pot

[FREE TO READ] People are looking at becalmed market conditions and writing them off as the result of a quiet summer

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

What do you call a shellfish that can't get what it wants? ... A frustracean

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

And this data again confirms claims recent migrants are either not working or on low wages - a staple of right-wing "thinktanks" like @cps.org.uk or CMC and parroted by ignorant politicians- are based on a complete misreading of the data, deliberate or otherwise docs.google.com/document/d/e...

This note analyses the recent well-publicised CPS paper on the fiscal impact of migrants, which purported to build on the recent OBR analysis to show that over the lifetime of those recent migrants who can be expected to go on to remain permanently (that is to obtain settlement) there will be a large net fiscal cost (£234 billion in the base case). It explains the two clear errors the CPS made (as a consequence of their misunderstanding of the OBR analysis) and recalculates their projections; these actually imply a large net fiscal benefit (about £125 billion in the base case). It concludes with some discussion about the remaining (large) uncertainties

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Delivery madness... First they send a message with a 2 hour delivery slot, attempt to deliver early in the slot but nobody was in (by about 5 minutes). Unfortunate, but happens. Next business day is redelivery. They send a 12 hour slot the day before. Wait until the van would have left the depot

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The week in which it's going to be 34 degrees celsius would of course be the same one we are asked not to attend our air-conditioned offices due to an elevated far-right threat. It would be easy to only blame the fascists for all this, but the Labour government has played a huge enabling role.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Trump puts Washington DC police under federal control, deploys National Guard to relocate homeless people . Assumes homeless people are criminals, hasn't looked at causes of petty crime. In the 1930s Nazi Germany relocated beggars, homeless, and the unemployed to concentration camps. What next?

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Trump puts Washington, DC, police under federal control, deploys National Guard

Trump in a social media post on Sunday declared that "the Homeless" in Washington, D.C., will "have to move out."

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Once the language of hate is normalised this sort of incident becomes inevitable

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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

So Texas Republicans have now set up a TIP LINE to rat out the Texas Democrats So PLEASE, for the sake of the public, DO NOT FLOOD THIS NUMBER with tips on Bigfoot sightings, UFO sightings, or asking why Trump is on “the list” 1-866-786-5972 Thank you!

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Dr. Mansa Keita @rasmansa.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The media, second only to Republican members of Congress, are the greatest enablers of Trump's authoritarianism.

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

“Military deployed onto streets of capital city by troubled regime, atmosphere calm but tense” (with apologies to that Nigerian twitter account that used to rephrase western headlines in this way)

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Trump deploys National Guard to tackle Washington crime

US President Donald Trump has said he was putting Washington's police department under federal control and ordering the National Guard to deploy to the nation's capital to combat what he said was a wa...

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Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Absolute shock and sadness at news of Our Lady's Abingdon closure, and understand the anxiety students, their families and teachers must be feeling now. We are engaging with OLA and the County Council as to what support is being offered for students now looking for new schools.

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

“We have had the police knocking on every door,” said a dog walker and resident of Dean, as a helicopter buzzed overhead. “They wanted the names of everybody living there and details of their social media. I know several people refused. We asked them if they were protecting us, or Vance. At least they were honest and said it is for him and that it will all be passed on to the American security people.”

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Letter of the day (in the Times)

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I'm getting predictably wound up by stupid attacks on the UK as failing. People who can't remember endless strikes, over 3 million unemployed, rampant football hooliganism, crime rates a multiple of current levels, desolate inner cities, pensioner poverty, actual race riots need some perspective 1/

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Find 5 minutes to read this. Strong on the gallows humour, would be funnier if it wasn't real.

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 08/08/2025

The current UK government's policy of "We must be as fascist as is necessary to stop people voting for fascists" seems to be predicated on the idea that fascists are bad people, but fascism itself is fine.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Just because you think your cause is worthy doesn't excuse you making stuff up to support it. Remember many Brexit and Reform supporters also think their cause is worthy.

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Just went to find a slow cooked brisket recipe. Most recipes I found were machine generated, certainly not tested. My favourite "say what now" repeated across several sites was 2-fold. Firstly several of these were claiming to be UK sites but cooking temps only in F - you can get an oven in F?

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Chris Puttick @putt1ck.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My child is fighting summer holiday boredom by choosing to listen to music. On a portable hi def music player. With over the ear headphones. He's currently listening to @itspetergabriel.bsky.social's Scratch My Back and singing along to a few tracks. He's six. My work here is done.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Dear media (here, @financialtimes.com), please don't go this road. Open source carries risks, but that's irrelevant here. This genie is out of the box long time ago, anyway. For the "cannot be easily recalled" it can be simplified to "cannot be". But that's a feature, not a bug.

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