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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 59m

What Badenoch said: ‘If he’s not calling an election, why is he talking about things happening in 2030?’ What Badenoch meant: ‘I’m incapable of thinking beyond today’s hot topic on X’

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 19h

So true. In my experience, few in England (including my own otherwise highly political friends) have any interest in the dynamics of the Union. An independence declaration from Piddington attracts more interest than a meeting of three first ministers with a shared determination to leave the UK.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finland’s greetings to Lukashenko in today’s UEFA nation’s league football game. The text says your day will come

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An ex-PM, an ex-AG and an ex-Justice Secretary have spent today undermining the police on social media and siding with a blackshirted fascist and a woman who called for people to be burned alive in their beds. They all strike me as candidates for referral to Prevent. Just another normal day eh?

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you asked AI to capture in a sentence the essence of the modern right, it couldn’t better this. 👇 ‘The reopening of the scheme is likely to attract criticism from the right, especially as women and girls and people with disabilities are the most likely to be dependent on the welfare state’.

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you were making Jenrick from 1 to 10 on the shamelessness scale, you’d have to give him 20

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the3million @the3million.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“I can lose my job, I maybe don’t have the right even to rent the property that I’m living in now, because of course I have to prove my right to live here." This is the real impact of the Home Office's granted in error policy, and why we are challenging it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status

Home Office faces legal action after 1,473 people living in UK before Brexit told settled status was granted in error

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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1473 EU citizens living in UK pre-Brexit have been told their settled status was granted in error. Home Office now facing legal action for "a clear breach of the Withdrawal Agreement". That's not going to aid the rebuilding of relations with the EU! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status

Home Office faces legal action after 1,473 people living in UK before Brexit told settled status was granted in error

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My local "TG Jones" closes today. Might seem unimportant, but besides the OAPs lining up for the Mail & Express, it was the only place to buy The Wire, Electronic Sound, Jacobin, whatever. So one more portal into a a different world - and reading - collapses, and back to the net's moronic inferno.

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Suilven looking a bit unwelcoming

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have a feeling that the reason some people are getting quite as exercised as they are about the boats is because they want to be able to say it’s ok to kill strangers and to be given a pat on the back for feeling that way.

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Even in the world of stupid bigots, is there anything more stupid than saying in the same breath that ‘none of these people are refugees’ and ‘these people come from some of the most dangerous countries on earth’?

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Let me guess. They didn’t want to be forced to do this. This is all the fault of the lefties.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trump regime has killed at least 234 people by bombing boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since last September. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. This is a danger to us all.

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Over in the cesspit, Tommy Robinson is trying to help his friend by saying ‘Danny didn’t stab that boat for himself. He stabbed it for all of you!’

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1)how to create an illicit fags & booze economy run by spivs that'll deprive the Treasury of tax revenue 2)you don't get people "back to work" by making their lives impossible (note cut of a third to long-term benefits). It makes the problem worse 3)you bastards

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea .

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just another everyday story of the Home Office working against UK national interests. Listen. It will make your blood boil.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow. Wtaf

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not all heroes wear capes. #ShowMeTheStats

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Whisper it but I think she might be talking about people’s skin colour.

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a remarkable, haunting story.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And what did he do on that livestream, huh, BBC? What did he do?

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The major problem with this reporting - beyond its fundamental inaccuracy - is that when arrests are eventually made there will be no proper context and therefore it will seem like the state is smothering free expression.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is simply far-right terrorism. And right now it’s being done with impunity.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today a bunch of fascists in the Channel risked multiple lives, and were possibly guilty of attempted murder, in addition to massively wasting the time and resources of UKBF and RNLi. It must be all over the BBC online headlines. Isn’t it?

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Most important bit of a thread we should all read. Note the words ‘attempted murder’.

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I still don’t think calling fascists what they are would be electorally damaging to a government. But if you let things go too far, the time might come when it would be. Once that’s in their calculations, democracy is already as good as dead.

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When is this violent criminal going to get locked up?

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is devastating - like watching an old friend being knifed. @dgfrier.bsky.social

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This from a party with liberal in the title. Zero moral leadership from either Labour or the Lib Dems on this issue

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Denmark well understand here that the key to getting Trump to go away is convincing him that something he already had was some huge political win. Such an old fool. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Denmark and Greenland say US military agreement will not compromise Arctic territory’s sovereignty

Statement sought to clarify Trump’s announcement that US will have ‘permanent control’ over Greenland’s security

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

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Ali Catterall @alicatterall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Comparative screenshots of X and BlueSky taken a few seconds ago.

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

‘Since 2 September 2025, the US has killed at least 230 unidentified people in 69 boat strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, some hit multiple times, even after being shipwrecked’. This is a compelling article about what the breakdown of international maritime law would mean for us all.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A really key point. Where EU-Can is going to land is very unclear, but what's *driving* the discussion is entirely clear. Meanwhile, in the UK, there seems no sense of urgency & to the extent there is any discussion it's stuck in 2016 - which in geo-pol/econ terms is a different era.

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