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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip?

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 07/09/2026

"hahaha noooo your right 😄 and we agree with you in fact 😘 and we're trying sooo hard for you 😮‍💨 but we know its still not good enough 😔 and your right to be angry 😡 because we're working so hard and your still not happy 😓 but please dont take matters into your own hands 🥺"

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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/2026

29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Note here how the terfs, the newspaper columnists, rabid Trumpers and the hyper-online race science Nazis are all on the same page, repeating exactly the same drivel. Their actual numbers are few, by the way. Even together, they are badly outnumbered by the rest of us.

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Barry M @barmas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A couple of years ago I wrote an article for @ciderreview.bsky.social : Planting an Orchard in an Age of Change. It was shortly after we’d finished planting a new meadow orchard... 1/10

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Planting an Orchard in an Age of Change

Barry looks back at what led him to plant an orchard of rare and endangered perry pear varieties, and worries for the future.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.

Sorry Zack Polanski this long hot summer is not the apocalypse - it's like a gloriously long holiday in France
..with village green cricket thrown in good measure

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

what an interesting story in here about a ~*Cambridge professor*~ open.substack.com/pub/thefence...

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Off The Fence: David Cameron's Black-Tie Ball

And a real buffet of archive treats, too

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Andy Churnwell @churnwell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If you see this, reply with a picture that illustrates what it's like living in the UK.

Question Time "gammons" looking miserable.

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.

These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need.

In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

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

A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party

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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...

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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

The new fediverse.info is now live 🥳 it's a lot better than before, much more useful, take a look!

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Rob Galpin @robgalpin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

July The cat sleeps in the open suitcase. We turn and turn the rusted wings of her broken birds. #fragmentsfriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Controversial take perhaps, but I think you can install air-conditioning and shutdown data centers at the same time. maybe even steal all the air-conditioning units from the data centers and install them in public housing. Then run them off solar and battery while taxing the hyper rich to death

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Could there be anything suspect about the prominent role for The Crimes Guy, who got busted for snooping on Times reporters and trying to shop them to the security services in order to kill their story about a huge undeclared bung his mates used to wage a secret dirty war against their own party 🤷🏼‍♂️

Some of the left wince at the thought of Josh Simons, who gave up his seat in Makerfield so Burnham could run, being an influential figure.
Simons previously ran the thinktank Labour Together, which one critic called "a vehicle to take control of the party and destroy the left".
The former minister resigned from government after he was revealed to have falsely linked reporters to a "pro-Kremlin" network in emails to GCHQ.
"I think the left would be wise to be very wary given these names," said one veteran. "Those hires are huge red flags."
There are other grumbles. The leftwing MP

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“Just go somewhere cooler” France’s hottest night on record has coincided with at least 40 drowning deaths as people sought relief from extreme heat. Climate change isn’t a future threat. It’s reshaping daily life, and tragically costing lives, right now. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

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France records hottest-ever night as 40 drown trying to escape heatwave

France struggles with extreme heat and power grid challenges as temperature records also smashed in parts of UK, Spain.

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John Duncan @johntheduncan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

In June 1920, Mussolini sent squadrismo to border towns to "cleanse" them of the Slavic "eternal barbarian." The fascists burned down buildings and attacked any apparent racial "other" for the "health of the nation." This border fascism pioneered other forms of fascist violence

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Palantir wrote a fascist company manifesto which was pretty explicitly "the purpose of this company is to do fascism" and I'm not sure why that shouldn't be an automatic deal breaker for them getting government contracts

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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Why do I have to go to the local news section to find this story? Where are the protests demanding an end to the epidemic of white Brits murdering minorities? Will there be a national debate on the ills of cocaine abuse amongst white men?

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Man who stabbed student to death in Cambridge is jailed for life

Chas Corrigan, 22, will serve a minimum of 22 years for the murder of Mohammed Algasim last August.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This may look inconsistent and hypocritical but the things that connect them are a) very right wing reactionaries horking up idiotic panics and scandals for political gain, and b) absolutely *fuck you*. So they are in fact 100% consistent and there’s no hypocrisy to call out.

How race ideology captured Britain's police
Questions over officers' treatment of Henry Nowak are being linked to the rise of DEI training

All NHS staff to undergo anti-Semitism training
Health Secretary acts after Jewish patients left frightened by pro-Palestinian badges

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

classic “me-first” socialism, an idea that makes Perfect Sense

Leaders Our cover
How to fight back
against Gen-Z socialism
The me-first doctrine is a threat to prosperity

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Note that even if this unsubstantiated claim were true, as in, Hampshire officers said that, *it would be a lie*. We know that’s a lie because the cops gave that exact same lie during the grooming gangs scandal, cops almost always lie, and cops are notoriously racist (as the Met was forced to admit)

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The point of these attacks is twofold: 1. Flood people with nonsense until it feels true. 2. Grind people down until they lose hope. We know the answer to that: fight back - with hope & a plan for change. There is absolutely no way they win this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

The daily telegraph. Polanski is a power hungry mercenary

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Old housemates, old school friends, family members, - they even asked a local launderette for an itinerary of what I've had washed! All this from billionaire owned media because they don't want a party to continue growing that challenges power & wealth. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Hi. I'm a journalist with X in Westminster. I understand you used to live with Zack Polanski. Would you be up for a chat to help with some research? If you can help, you can reach me any time on x. Many thanks.

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

why is the BBC putting on a promo for the AI industry under the banner of their political debate show

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Oh wow, well, that is certainly very fortunate timing, isn’t it. And oh look, who does that nice lady Laura work for? I’m sure nothing has been storyboarded and choreographed, and the stars have simply aligned this week by natural means, like an eclipse or a meteor shower.

BBC Question Time •
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Tomorrow, Question Time is in Dulwich for an Al special
Joining Fiona on the panel are Darren Jones, Julia Lopez, Mo Gawat, Laura Gilbert, and Victor Riparbelli
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

What's really striking about this clip is that I laid out some of the nonsense against me - and why it was disproportionate. Journalist agrees some of it is "overcooked." But none of my explanation nor the danger around my personal safety has made the cut....!

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A non-problem intentionally turned into a national travesty by the world’s most malignant media outlets, who recognised the self-radicalisation of their nastiest colleagues was an excellent opportunity to push back hard against ideas like equality and inclusion, and to beat down people they despise.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This headline is fuel for the right-wing anti-migrant reaction machine, but the article reveals the employer knowingly brought her to the UK under a visitor visa to employ her, then denied her a work permit—and most importantly!—refused to pay her any wages. This looks approximate to modern slavery

Migrant with no right to work in Britain wins employment tribunal
Malaysian hotel manager succeeds in discrimination case despite immigration status ‘tainted by illegality’

Charles Hymas
Home Affairs Editor
Charles Hymas

Published 18 May 2026 2:26pm BST

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Lads, what are we doing here?

Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood's immigration changes, allies say

Exclusive: Greater Manchester [Mayor] understood to support home secretary's push to limit legal and illegal migration

Faisal Islam: Burnham seeks to call markets by committing to fiscal rules

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has committed to sticking to the government's existing borrowing limits, known as its fireball rules.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

… And all of this going on right under the noses of the most important people in the country and our irreverent, irrepressible, iconoclastic media outlets. Somehow, without anyone noticing anything odd about it. It all looks pretty incriminating for quite a lot of people, doesn’t it?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Incredibly, they’re still going with this

Times Radio @ @TimesRadio • 24m
Boris Johnson's former deputy chief of staff defends MPs drinking before votes:
X
"The vote is whipped in advance...so as long as you can stand...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Water privatisation has been outright theft. Whoever is next PM must commit to ending this scandal and take our water back into public ownership. No more failed regulation. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Billionaire Trump donor in line to make millions from Thames Water bid

Paul Singer is founder of a leading creditor in the hedge fund consortium locked in talks with the UK government

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 15/05/2026

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain. One in five children is growing up in poverty, public services are crumbling - and the 10 richest families and individuals have grown £11bn richer in just one year. Enough is enough. Tax wealth, not work.

Green Party graphic showing Nigel Farage with text 'Tax Wealth' and a cleaner in scrubs with text 'Not Work'.
Green Party - Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I go back and forth on the extent this was caused by “We are for real too stupid/belligerent to see the most obvious shit in the world, stuff a smart child might work out” vs “Fuck you, we’re doing this regardless of how disastrous it is, because it’s what we like and want to do”.

Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social • 41m
The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Interesting that a Labour MP sitting behind Keir Starmer in the commons right now has a copy of "The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Labour Together, and the Crisis of British Democracy" by Paul Holden, in their hands..

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

You will note the Prime Minister didn't hold a panicked press conference where he spoke at length about the importance of defeating Islamophobia and that the press didn't engage in a full scale hysteria operation.

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Fun fact: the magical child safety solution which Jess Philips cited in her resignation letter is a vendor-specific offering, which benefited from an intense PR and lobbying campaign, and was previously praised by ... Prince Andrew. I always keep the receipts. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/20/t...

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The Prince, The Paedo, The Palace, and the “Safety Tech” app – Hi, I'm Heather Burns

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Obviously. You wouldn’t expect Emu to start a bold new solo project after Rod Hull fell off that roof, would you?

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There's no case for keeping Starmer. It's over. The only pertinent question is how to replace him.

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Wes Streeting just gave your address, your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, if you are cis or trans, if you've ever had an abortion, an addiction, are disabled in anyway and a million other pieces of info about you, to a far right tech company the UK government has no control over.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Yes: they haven’t been creating an even bigger engine of cruelty to hand to Farage, just for a laugh. They do that because they want to, and because they think it’s good.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I again point out that none of this was organically arising, and that none of it had to happen. The Starmer project was a bullshit fraud worked out offscreen by a tiny clique of the most horrible people in the Labour Party, working hand in hand with our utterly abysmal media outlets.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

They have zero ideas. There's just nothing there.

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