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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We're going to see a lot more of this. Reform splashing huge amounts of crypto-billionaire cash outside of the regulated election period (where spending caps apply)
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This should set off a siren in every defence ministry in Europe: there needs to be much more urgency about developing autonomous capabilities, not subject to US caprices, for early warning of attacks, countering ballistic missiles, communicating with forces or controlling offensive weapons.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
‘For years the Observer tried to get to the truth of Russian interference until we sacked the reporter involved for participating in union activities’
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Apart from the most powerful people in the world encouraging, sanctioning and legitimising homophobia at every given opportunity and context I cannot possibly think of a single reason why there are more young people in the closet. I mean it’s a total mystery.
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
From April.
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Newcastle landmarks to be lit up for Show Racism the Red Card after Reform councils pull support www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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Landmarks to be lit up for Show Racism the Red Card after Reform pulls support
Newcastle City Council has confirmed plans to light up the Tyne Bridge and the Civic Centre to support Show Racism the Red Card, after two Reform-led neighbours pulled their backing for the charity
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Rachael 😷💉🌍🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @rachaelunderwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What is the movie that came out before you were born that you've watched the most times?
Elizabeth Allan and Thora Hird in Went the Day Well? (1942)
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is worth reading, whenever you fear existential angst creeping up on you - about the climate, AI, world war three, social collapse etc etc.
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Rachael 😷💉🌍🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @rachaelunderwood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At the age of 2 or 3, burst into tears in the ABC cinema, Monkseaton, at the sight of the White Rabbit, and was hastily removed by Mum.
Film poster for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Me on the Brexit debate second time round ukandeu.ac.uk/here-we-go-a...
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I do think people really need to start believing again that good things can happen - otherwise life is just one painful retreat after another.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.
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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 27/09/2026
How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe The Hate Review reveals how the anti-gender movement has taken root and evolved in Europe over the last 25 years, it traces how far the anti-gender movement has spread through society and how deeply it has reached into laws and institutions.
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The Hate Review
How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Private Eye:
London Fascist
Week begins
YES, it's that time again when the Fascism scene returns to London and this year black is very much in vogue.
Our models are sporting trademark black shirts twinned with black shorts and the very latest in balaclava chic.
The models sashayed through
London to the Daily Mail offices where they showed off the best of British Fascism for the World to see. A leading Fascism designer says, "You'll see this great new totally unthreatening look everywhere - Portsmouth, Dover, London. It's coming to a town near you soon, and we know where you live!"
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can you help us reach more people than ever before? Respond to our Trans Lives Survey today, and share on your social media, so we can get a full picture of the experiences and views of trans people in the UK. form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3
A pink and blue graphic with a black and white cartoon of some people on the bottom. 

Text reads: TransActual is launching its biggest survey for the trans community yet!

TRANS LIVES SURVEY

2026

We want to hear about your experiences as a trans person living in the UK.

It's quick, anonymous, and will help us campaign for our community!
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Rachael 😷💉🌍🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @rachaelunderwood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If we don’t act now, many child refugees could be left in war zones or unsafe camps, away from their mums and dads. Sign the petition to stop the attack on refugee family reunion – it only takes a minute >> act.safepassage.org.uk/sign-petitio...
act.safepassage.org.uk
Sign the petition: Stop the attack on refugee family reunion
Fleeing war and persecution in search of safety is already unimaginable. But for too many refugees, reaching safety means separation from the people they love: a parent unable to bring their child to ...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can only agree: "Governments must treat the climate as they would other threats to national security, such as sabotage by hostile states." Richard Nugee, a retired general and security expert. Why would such a report be suppressed? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every minute spent arguing about where exactly the boundaries of concepts like Britishness and Englishness is time not spent defending the principle that everyone should feel free to define their own identity as they choose - no-one else - and so doing the haters’ work for them
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hampshire police say man was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or endangering their safety under the Aviation & Maritime Security Act 1990, criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, & conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Merchant Shipping Act 1995
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Gijs Brekelmans @gys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta removed a video by a satirist wearing Meta glasses asking unrecognizable Meta personnel about Meta glasses. Meta's ground for doing so - and please appreciate the irony here - is... harassment.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is disgraceful and wilfully misleading that the BBC do not report that Danny Tommo was filmed slashing the boat.
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Migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
Protesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 23/09/2026
[a british journalist, as they are led up the gallows steps with their hands tied and a hood over their head]: a lot of everyday people support this, you know
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Over 3,500 people are currently facing terrorism charges in the UK for holding signs saying "I support Palestine Action".
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New Substack - Getting it Wrong - when challenging extreme ideas normalises them. tashthinks.substack.com/p/getting-it...
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Getting it Wrong: How to Respond to Extreme Ideas
On Saturday I got a caller to LBC to admit, live on air, that they were happy to see asylum seekers drown in the channel.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This year’s El Niño is on course to be the largest in at least *1,000* years. That’s going to drive excess heat into the atmosphere and combined with man-made heating will make 2027 the hottest year ever recorded. #climatecrisis
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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Great to see @financialtimes.com following up @lucasamin.bsky.social and @samgelder.bsky.social ‘s excellent reporting on how English police forces are dropping Palantir
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🏳️‍🌈Alex Vander Veur💙🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇵🇸🇻🇪💙🇺🇸💔 @alexvanderveur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Post by Shon (@gayclackvet):

Say you're in a room with 400 people. 36 don't have health insurance. 48 live in poverty. 85 are illiterate. 90 have untreated mental illnesses. And everyday, at least 1 person is shot. But 2 are trans so you decide ruining their lives is a priority. That is what's happening right now.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:

TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...

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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]

TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created. 

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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...

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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash. 

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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?

TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns 

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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...

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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?

TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats

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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?

TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them

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[we see one of the boats  is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.

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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.

[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING 

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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone 

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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!

[They all leave the museum]

[ends]
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Note that the BBC fails to point out that immigration has dropped considerably, or to obtain a quote from someone from a different perspective
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Margaret Busby: ‘My friend Bonnie Greer fearlessly spoke out and forged connections’ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/…
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Margaret Busby: ‘My friend Bonnie Greer fearlessly spoke out and forged connections’
The writer and editor shares memories of a creative powerhouse who was generous with her time and expertise
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Rachael 😷💉🌍🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @rachaelunderwood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Such a loss. RIP Bonnie.
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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Lots of lovely ways to say 'white supremacist Christian extremists' in this article without using these actual worlds. Fantastic. Well done everyone 👏🏾
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And this has been the case for quite a while. This is properly existential
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Rachael 😷💉🌍🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @rachaelunderwood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Urgent: the government is soon to decide whether to give the green light to Rosebank, a move that would lock us into decades more climate-wrecking oil. @friends-earth.bsky.social tool helped me ask my MP to say no to new oil and gas – will you do the same? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/deman...
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Demand an end to climate-wrecking fossil fuel projects
Take action The fight to stop new oil and gas is heating up. And it’s a fight we can’t afford to lose. After a summer of record-breaking heatwaves, climate breakdown is impossible to ignore. Yet Prime...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/09/2026
If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of?
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 08/09/2026
Excellent thread - liberal democracy needs unabashed defenders right now, and we are basically letting it die through social embarrassment.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Tomorrow night, Channel 4 Dispatches airs the findings of a year-long investigation into Tommy Robinson’s finances. Watch it. Then come back here. We’ve got more to show you.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/09/2026
Easy to follow guide from the British press
An elderly lady being carried away by the police, labelled intimidating, and two black clad, balaclava wearing men standing in front of someone’s car, staring at them.
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Saint Helena Island Info @shislandinfo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'd become a Trillionaire overnight!
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since 90% of British political media is now a digest of "what politicians and the public say online" this is an extremely easy system to game. So you have every party leader commenting on the Litter Tray Hoax a few years back. The same people now alarmingly reluctant to comment on racist thugs.
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