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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wow, this Keir chap is quite the political operator. Forensic, cunning, setting heffalump traps his opponents can’t help walking into. The party should find him a seat. Reckon he might be leadership material.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

these portraits are so intriguing. how does this man have £200,000 in savings. why is he so interested in war. why can't he remember how he voted in 2024. how does he square his enthusiastic support for Kemi Badenoch with his support for trans rights.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I suspect the sane Green members are learning why Labour is the way it is.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Aaaaannnndddd Zack is liking tweets telling people who oppose the Zionism is Racism motion 'sometimes things don't go your way' and 'to move on'. Right.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

new wolfenstein looks like shit

its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We need to humiliate and banish crankery from all the mainstream parties of the centre and left. And Labour under Starmer and Burnham is by no means immune from the charge. Antisemitic crankery has been replaced by transphobic crankery (in some cases propagated by the same people!)

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 02/10/2026

I think I just fundamentally believe people are what they do. There is no inherently good or bad person, born or made. Our actions do not leave moral stains on our souls. We must have the agency to stop causing harm. To repair what we can. And to be better people. And I want that for everyone.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sorry, have Cambridge not suspended him?

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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We have a new icon - MP Miatta Fahnbulleh

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My favourite thing about these is trying to work out what their actual jobs are

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

These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.

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Eddie Robson is at Fantasycon @eddierobson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I find it strange that some people refuse to believe this is the way our decentralised culture works now, that it's possible to be completely ignorant of hugely popular things that don't match your tastes and interests. People aren't lying about that because they think it makes them look cool.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Congratulations to me for reaching the point of paper writing when — all of a sudden — it seems to make no sense at all but in a way that’s not determinable.

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

AB: "I don't think you get the welfare bill down with crude cuts. It plunges people into crisis and they show up in other parts of the system which end up costing more." LK: "Yeah, you've said this before, but I'm looking for a specific commitment you will cut the bill by the next election." WOW

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Arguably a big difference is that the likes of Milburn have thought through their positions, and thus aren't immune to arguments for compassion or imperfections. Whereas if haven't thought through you just take the posturing hardline surface. A cargo cult where don't know *why* want to be tough.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The actual fuck.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

If they arrested the RNLI for saving lives I'd be out to protest. I hope lots here would be too.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why are Gen Z more anxious and less workplace ready? It’s a mystery.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/09/2026

can't believe I've been so thoroughly won over by Yank Pope, complete 180, rarely have I changed my mind so entirely

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think people like Kraft (and some responding to Ed Miliband's statement here last week) just haven't grasped how much sentiment has shifted in the last few years.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/09/2026

oh man, lmao

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As I keep pointing out, does no one understand Ricardian comparative advantage anymore. FACT: China produces over 1 million engineering graduates per year FACT: To date, China has not produced a single internationally marketable game show format Where does it look like our advantage lies?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm probably a dinosaur, but I wish students were allowed more time just to be students: to study, to read, to think, to talk to each other, to have big ideas - maybe even to have fun now & then. I'm not convinced turning unis into training centres is going to fix bigger problems in the jobs market

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Winston Churchill (inevitably) presented welfare policy in explicitly military terms. Here he is in 1909, when he was a Liberal battling for the "People's Budget".

The greatest danger to the British Empire and to the British people is not to be found among the enormous fleets and armies of the European Continent, nor in the solemn problems of Hindustan … No, it is here in our midst, close at home, close at hand in the vast growing cities of England and Scotland, and in the dwindling and cramped villages of our denuded countryside. It is there you will find the seeds of Imperial ruin and national decay – the unnatural gap between rich and poor, the divorce of the people from the land, the want of proper discipline and training in our youth, the exploitation of boy labour, the physical degeneration which seems to follow so swiftly on civilised poverty … Here are the enemies of Britain. Beware lest they shatter the foundations of her power.
Then look at the other side, look at the forces for good, the moral forces, the spiritual forces, the civic, the scientific, the patriotic forces which make for order and harmony and health and life. Are they not tremendous too? Do we not see them everywhere, in every town, in every class, in every creed, strong forces worthy of Old England, coming to her rescue, fighting for her soul? That is the situation in our country as I see it this afternoon—two great armies evenly matched, locked in fierce conflict with each other all along the line, swaying backwards and forwards in strife—and for my part I am confident that the right will win, that the generous influences will triumph over the selfish influences, that the organising forces will devour the forces of degeneration, and that the British people will emerge triumphant from their struggles to clear the road and lead the march amongst the foremost nations of the world.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sometimes, on certain policy, the UK public is just wrong and even if a poll showed 90% in favour it would still be wrong. Plunging hundreds of thousands of children into poverty and destitution is one of those.

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 09/09/2026

He who fights with Labour might take care lest he thereby become Labour. And if you gaze for long into a selection meeting, the selection meeting gazes also into you.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It might be a good idea for a senior politician to talk about the AI alignment risk at some point given I suspect the vast majority of the population have no idea it exists, except maybe in a jokey sci-fi sort of way.

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milk bottle champion @stepheniscowboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

nimbys remained unmatched

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement.

Neo Nazi attempts to target RNLI volunteers

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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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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 07/09/2026

But we need (i) a new law, (ii) a minister for this, and/or (iii) to add it to the National Curriculum

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

'Question' at Lobby today: "You seem to be just looking at the negatives of [the slave trade] which is of course appalling, but we do have to say about a positive side...we ended it. Don't you accept that?" No 10: "It's difficult to acknowledge the positive side of the transatlantic slave trade."

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

theres genuinely a way to be an authoritarian bastard home secretary that you can use to rebuff far-right agitation, and i genuinely think mahmood is incapable of making use of it because shes just not very good

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

obviously the issue starts at the top with burnham setting the tone but i genuinely do think mahmood is indefensibly bad at her job and is creating a bad pattern when responding to this stuff. at least say youre gonna send everybody causing trouble to jail regardless of their beliefs!

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Look, there's an avalanche of crappy news out there, all day and every day. So here's something good on your timeline for a brief second. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I feel like the government’s mealy-mouthed response to this, which is very bad and should be condemned because they are, y’know, the government does serve to distract from how world historically awful the tory and reform responses are

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

NEW: Andy Burnham will refuse exclusive interview/written article requests from the Sun, it is claimed today. @TomBaldwin66 cites 3 sources stating Burnham will give "no special favours" to the Murdoch paper. Says “consternation” within News UK over it. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

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Hurt over Hillsborough prompts Burnham to block out the Sun

The PM would become the first national leader since Labour’s James Callaghan in the 1970s to not co-operate with the paper

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

2) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 06/09/2026

AfD media relations: 61-year-old journalist writing for Politico says she was physically assaulted and dragged to police by an AfD security guard after attempting to talk to the AfD’s lead candidate She was told “mainstream” press were not welcome at the AfD event www.politico.eu/article/ulri...

Beyond the conviviality of the sausage line, the mood can sour fast — as I discovered when I sought to speak with Siegmund in Lützen, only to be told "mainstream" press were not welcome. I was roughly jostled aside, my arm twisted by a musclebound heavy flanking Siegmund, who sported an earpiece and a lavishly tattooed neck.
"Move or I will take you to the police," he barked. We had a short, unproductive debate about the constitutionally guaranteed right to report freely in public places.
Another hard arm twist and shove ensued, ending with me stumbling over a curb and being dragged to a police car. No one seemed much bothered by this.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026

A large group of co-ordinated, masked men blockading a piece of significant infrastructure is a security threat and should be dealt with as one. There should also be serious questions about why police/intelligence services didn't pick up on it in advance.

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Channel 4 reporter: Hello. I am Mr. Alias and this is my extremely suspicious comically large donation that i can only make in the form of a bag of money with a dollar sign on it. every other reform guy: seems legit! let me tell you every single way in which i and my boss have broken the law

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I can’t put into words the fury this reporting fills me with. How more indignity must trans people be spoken be subjected to by our national broadcaster?

One patient, Sion Jewell, had been due to have surgery to remove their breasts and had packed to go to hospital, only to be told in a phone call 24 hours before it that it had been called off.
The 29-year-old from Anglesey, who is biologically female, had waited five years from their initial GP referrals and the surgery had been postponed twice already for mental health reasons.
The surgery would be irreversible and would mean, for example, that Jewell would not be able to breastfeed in future.
"When I found out I was heartbroken - I was distraught and completely disheartened," they said.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“I heard obviously what Andrew Harper’s family were saying. I mean, who couldn’t?” Again, really not keen on Andy Burnham tweaking policy specifically because he’s listened to one emotionally resonant family. Politics via high-profile case is a bad way to run anything, let alone the justice system

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If you're forcing a clergyman to seek police protection from far-right agitators, you're probably not really "standing up for Christian values". Richard was our curate at Mary Mags years ago. Sending solidarity and best wishes.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I got served this on Threads and accidentally woke my (very annoyed) husband from laughing so hard when I got to The Point.

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