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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The sense of relief I feel at Burnham’s approach to the failed Brexit is almost overwhelming. I hope and believe we will rejoin and that the vast majority of the U.K. will share that emotion. Let us hope he will see this through and reverse the disaster by rejoining. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

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Road to joy | The Observer

Andy Burnham’s speech on Brexit and Europe could be historic, offering a chance to make the positive case for EU membership that was missed in 2016

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jeffy objects to being included as an example of a right wing countryside ‘black Labrador’ trope. He is definitely left of centre.

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I saw the de Gaulle liberte film 2 and I thought it was the best WW2 war film I have seen in decades. Not since Patton ‘Lust for glory’ have I enjoyed one so much. It depicted battle scenes, complex politics/ diplomacy and resistance movement interactions so well. Great film.

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Is @FraserNelson right? Will the spectacle of reform being bought by cryptocurrency millionaires with all the negative connotations this has actually unite most of the electorate in determination to defeat reform by voting tactically against them? frasernelson.substack.com/p/farage-may...

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Farage may be about to discover what £72m can’t buy

After two megadonations, Reform UK is now flush as Nigel Farage himself. But can money really buy votes?

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This by @NickCohen4 puts the danger of crypto currency very clearly. I feel I have been asleep at the wheel like many in not appreciating its use both for money laundering and as a vehicle for Russian propaganda. UK politics should stay clear of it. nickcohen.substack.com/p/never-has-...

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Never has a British politician received so much from so few

What crypto wants from Farage

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New York State is about to ban Data Center construction. The rest of the world need to follow suit.

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Joe Segal - Create Positive Solidarity @joesegal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Data centers should be charged 2-3x the rate for electricity, and residents should be charged greatly reduced rates wherever they exist. Data centers must be zoned outside of all residential and public commerce areas and subject to all environmental impact report requirements & regulations.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

FIFA has appointed Ismail Elfath to referee England v Argentina. He has refereed 5 matches with Messi in them. Messi won all 5. This World Cup is being fixed for Argentina.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Left: Lisa Nandy complains about a lack of regulation on social media Right: Lisa Nandy quitting Twitter because of a lack of regulation on social media Lisa Nandy has been paid an extra £135,010 ministerial salary for the past two years to not do her job of regulating social media and run away

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Really not beating those 'gone into hiding' rumours

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 18/06/2026

Nigel Farage has attracted criticism recently for avoiding the media. In the latest example of this, the man has posted a two-year old picture and used it to pretend he was out last night watching the football: He's given up. Reposting an image from two years ago; www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

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Farage posts years’ old photo to pretend he watched England game

Nigel Farage supported England back in 2024; why support them again when he can just keep posting the same picture?

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Is the Farage posting a 2yo photo to pretend he was watching football in the pub last night thing definitely kosher?

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Telegraph expose reveals Restore is full of...the sort of people who write columns for the Telegraph.

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I do think this is an important article by one of our best historians @James1940 about how there is a route map prepare Britain’s defence is swiftly and without bankrupting the nation. It needs leadership I showed by FDR and WSC. open.substack.com/pub/james194...

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How To Rearm in a Hurry

It's possible, even now, and history is there to help...

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The Billionaire oligarchs and their media dominating shills are not going to support these fair & climate saving proposals. But we could. 👇 ‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival

Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The clarity of this piece is striking. It is hard sometimes to forgive the charlatans who delivered Brexit and to overcome my impatience with delay in returning Disaster of Brexit is a warning against simple solutions to hard problems | Richard Partington www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Disaster of Brexit is a warning against simple solutions to hard problems | Richard Partington

Alan Milburn says youth unemployment has no quick fixes – an idea with an important lesson for those thinking about how to rejoin the EU

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

If you do not listen to anything else, Please listen to this magisterial takedown, by the incomparable Steve Richards, of the Blair ‘which’ project essay. Blair is full of fine Cameron sounding concepts without proper detail for practical implementation. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

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What does Tony Blair mean by the ‘radical centre’?

Podcast Episode · Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards · 29 May · 46min

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Darren Jones MP is on the media round for Labour and appearing on @TimesRadio after 7 am. I think Darren is the coming man in the Labour party and government. An outstanding performer. It will be interesting to see how he handles this very difficult moment. He is usually superb.

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

Lucas is full of integrity and genuine conviction. An example of what politics can be.

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The labour party has nothing to lose now from adopting a bolder agenda such as suggested by Polly Toynbee here. Roll the dice. 👇 What does Britain need from Labour? Not another new PM, but a government with the guts to take radical action | Polly Toynbee www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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What does Britain need from Labour? Not another new PM, but a government with the guts to take radical action | Polly Toynbee

There’s no point searching for a saviour without a genuine change in direction. Real courage is necessary – because Labour still has time to fix what is broken, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Outstanding and logical argument here from Neil Kinnock. I wish labour leadership well but their caution on rejoining is self harming. It should be part of the general election manifesto. It would be a positive game changer for labour and tactical voting. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

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Neil Kinnock: The British people know Brexit has failed t...

No amount of political noise can hide the fact that leaving the EU has been a disaster. Britain rejoining is a case of when, not if

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The most really dismal aspect about the debate today is the way some conflate delay on rape trials with juries when the two are unconnected. They are willing to sacrifice the democratic right to trial by jury on a false premise. Delay is the enemy of rape victims not juries.

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I hope @UKLabour MP’s will defend the jury system today. The proposal is a slippery slope on the way to destroy the peoples right to take part in their own judicial system. It is an undemocratic proposal. Juries predate universal suffrage. They have resisted unjust prosecutions1/

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We desperately need to restore Britain’s defences to deter aggression. I speak from a left of centre point of view. We can do this without breaking fiscal rules and generate massive activity in the economy leading to growth and a virtuous economic circle. mintedlaw.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/w...

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We can rebuild our defences and defence infrastructure.

I very much support the historian James Holland in his analysis of the failure of successive administrations to maintain both a defence force and infrastructure. See:- His excellent article which d…

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

think this article by James Holland is important. I think it should be discussed widely. Please help by sharing it. 👇

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This is an excellent article by the historian James Holland, which makes the case powerfully how we can successfully fund the regeneration of the UK defence industry and armed services. I hope all political parties pay attention to this before it is too late. open.substack.com/pub/james194...

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SLEEPWALKERS

Churchill Was Right in 1938

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Reminder that the US military budget is larger than the military spending of the next nine largest countries combined. Over half goes to private defense contractors. This is the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned of — on steroids.

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Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

1. Thread 🧵 Freedom of Movement wasn’t just a policy. It was a simple freedom: the ability to say yes. • Yes to a job. • Yes to love. • Yes to a new life in another country. When that freedom disappeared, something subtle but important changed.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Pretty funny that Michael Gove is dunking on me now he’s editor of the Spectator to promote its ‘bias-free’ reporting when as a politician he wouldn’t answer any of my press inquiries on the massive Brexit fraud he oversaw as Vote Leave’s co-convener

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/03/2026

From FT comments

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them. I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

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Robin Murray @robinthemint.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

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End the sewage pollution scandal

We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

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Schmandle @schmandle.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

But at a time when Russia is invading Europe and the US is causing conflict all over we need defensive solidarity. If NATO fails it needs to be replaced by something similar amongst the sane countries.

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Schmandle @schmandle.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

My only major problem with the Greens (so far) is that they want to withdraw from NATO. Seems like a ridiculous idea

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datolson.bsky.social @datolson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

It would be nice if the Greens talked about green issues rather than trying to outdo George Galloway.

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James Scott @jamesscott998.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Man I guess Iran had a unreacted copy of the Epstein files.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Once again, a single cartoon tells more truth that the entire US Congress. Thanks to Rick McKee for making our current situation easy to understand.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026

Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Newspapers that told their readers austerity, Brexit, Johnson & Truss would be brilliant are attacking the British Prime Minister for not unquestioningly following a lunatic President into an illegal attack. And on social media, he gets attacked from the other 'side' for doing the precise opposite!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If there has been one consistent rule over the last year it was that those who have argued that Trump might be ok, not so bad, convinced to do the right thing, etc....have been completely and utterly wrong time and time again.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Thank god. A great win for Hannah Spencer and the Greens, for #GortonAndDenton and for progressive voters. Made even greater by the huge Reform sulk. And the fact that the hateful Goodwin got whooped. Now Labour, look to your left because you will not win from the right. We’re sick of that failure.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 27/02/2026

Blue Labour as a concept needs to go in the bin, alongside the idea of Lexit. Cut the twin cancers out. Brexit should go on the scrap heap of history. FPTP has had its day too. Roll on PR, and a full-throated and unashamed campaign to negotiate with the EU to rejoin ASAP.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

"David Davis has called on the home secretary to urgently introduce a grace period to allow hundreds of Britons to continue to travel on their 2nd passport while their British passport is processed." That's David Davis core Brexiter. Who caused this catastrophe www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Passport changes prevent British dual national from visiting dying mother

New Home Office rules causing ‘stress upon stress’ for British woman living in Netherlands trying to enter UK

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

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