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Pete Moore @paintoolkit.bsky.social · 1h

A couple of announcements - Do you have any questions for me and Keith Meldrum for our In Conversation tomorrow - Gentle reminder about the 1st cancer Supported SelfMgt - Online Worldwide Conference. Next month 21st Nov How to register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1st-cancer... #cancerselfmgt

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20h

This is as treasonous as it gets

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17h

*Useful idiot* doesn't do this abject dunderhead justice

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

UK water companies made £340m by pouring billions of litres of industrial/commercial wastewater into sewage treatment works. Treatment works are not designed to remove most chemicals, leaving pollutants to pass into rivers, seas and farmland. Investment neglected. Practices are mostly unregulated.

theguardian.com

Revealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies

Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 22h

A statue of Nelson Mandela has been unveiled in Glasgow city centre, nearly 40 years after the city renamed a street in his honour 🙌 In a fitting tribute to the revolutionary and former President of South Africa, the sculpture now stands on a plinth of South African granite on Nelson Mandela Place

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.

theguardian.com

Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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Pete Moore @paintoolkit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Find someone experienced to coach you about your pain - Pete Moore: One ... youtu.be/tX9maIPAxhs?... via @YouTube

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Find someone experienced to coach you about your pain - Pete Moore: One Thing Season 2

YouTube video by One Thing

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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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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/10/2026

It was an immense honor to attend FDNY’s Firemen’s Memorial service on Riverside Drive. We remember those who devoted their lives to protecting our city, the families who make enormous, unseen sacrifices, and every member of New York’s Bravest who do the extraordinary to every single day.

Mayor Mamdani, DM Kerson and Fire Commissioner Bonsignore stand with hands over heart while FDNY members salute at the Firemen’s Memorial.

Mayor Mamdani at the Firemen’s Memorial service.

People carry flags at the Firemen’s Memorial service.

Attendees salute and remove their hats at the Firemen’s Memorial service.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tory £6bn inheritance tax cut plan Increase threshold from £1m per couple to £2m+home. In 2024-25, 30,400 estates paid IHT, may rise to 52,100 in 2029-30. IHT cut for the richest, paid by cutting benefits for old, sick, disabled, unemployed. How will it help economic growth, reindustrialization?

bbc.co.uk

Kemi Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homes

Tory leader says her party is "coming back", as she aims to convince voters it has changed after 2024 election defeat.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why have so many people fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because corporations and billionaires rigged the system in their favor — and a bought-off political establishment let it happen. It's time to fix the system.

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Iona Fyfe @ionafyfe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The BBC axing its coverage of the World Pipe Band Championships sends a 'clear message' that Scottish culture is unworthy of investment, Iona Fyfe writes✍️ Read here: www.thenational.scot/comment/2660...

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The latest victim of BBC cuts is nothing but tone-deaf cultural vandalism

At a time when piping is going from strength to strength with worldwide appeal, this will be a devastating blow to the global pipe band community and its enthusiasts, writes Iona Fyfe

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The United States Explained in Three Simple Words: "Follow the money."

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

UK govt plans £1bn energy bills help for poorer households. How about cutting energy profit margins, 100% windfall tax on excess profits before turning to the public purse. UK energy sector is mostly foreign-owned. Dividends paid without any UK tax deduction. End this perk, raise billions.

theguardian.com

Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills

Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From the new Private Eye

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch, "The era for peace is over" "If we want peace, we must prepare for war" My view: This is not serious leadership; it is militaristic fatalism dressed up as strength.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thousands of active UK companies may have fraudulent directors. Anyone can form a company in the UK. Companies need one natural person as a director who can be non-UK resident. Too many small companies are fronts for crimes I have long called for companies to have one UK resident director.

tradersunion.com

UK companies face scrutiny as identity checks expose possible fraudulent directors

New UK identity rules reveal possible fraudulent company directors as overdue filings surge, raising concerns about the accuracy of corporate records.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.

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Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's like watching Bart Simpson doing a classroom presentation in front of Mrs Krabappel after zero preparation.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch on Kemi Badenoch: “I never make gaffes or need to apologize or clarify my statements, as I think carefully about what I say.” Kemi Badenoch on her ‘Britannia Shield’ ‘plan’….

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Voters loathed the Tory party when they booted them out in 2024.They really needed to shake off their disgrace with humility and better ideas. They haven’t. They’ve doubled down. More Brexit, more austerity, more anti-immigration ugliness, more tedious arrogance… and no good reason to vote for them.

Party seems to have learnt nothing from 2024 defeat
John Oxley

The Conservative Party is keen to show it is now ready to return to government, two and a half years after a
historic defeat.

Their self-soothing explanation posits that defeat came from not being able to do what they wanted

No such pivot is happening at the current conference. The Tories have come to Birmingham calling for a return to orthodoxy, with similar lines about cutting benefits and regulation. Even so, they seem trapped by the same contradictions
- pledging to cut benefits, but not the winter fuel payments and triple lock on pensions that go to their voters.
There is no "hug-a-hoodie" moment in Birmingham. The Conservative Party is not indicating that it has changed or seeking to broaden its appeal. It is doing the opposite: it is a party returning to its core, restating all the old ideas voters have rejected but louder.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Devoid of ideas, Tories vow return to Thatcherite policies. They want to cut social spending, build prisons, cut taxes for the rich, free childcare for individuals earning £1m. What will they privatise, sell to foreign investors? No ideas on infrastructure investment, regulation of capitalism.

independent.co.uk

Kemi Badenoch positions herself as modern day Thatcher and vows to revive Tories

The Tory leader dismissed suggestions that her focus on cutting benefits and building more prisons signalled a return of the ‘nasty party’

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Conservative Helen Whateley, "Tax cuts have to be funded.. I'm doing work on what is the right way to bring down the welfare bill" My view: Why is the answer always more hardship for people who are already struggling, while vast wealth can be hoarded almost untouched?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Brexit has been a Tory masterclass in ideological madness. It’s widely accepted by the country as a barrelling shitshow but *still* their entitled little reps strut about insisting we can’t be allowed to vote on it again. Who TF does this person think she is? And why TF should she decide anything?

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "How long do you think its going to take for people to forget you ran the country for 14 years?" Helen Whateley, "Kemi has published an essay called The Right Way, really thinking about what's gone wrong with the country" 14 years of Tory austerity 🤷‍♀️

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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why is Nigel Farage back on air? Ofcom bans politicians from presenting news programmes, but GB News claims Farage's show is just 'current affairs' despite him using it to defend Reform's £72m in donations. Close the loophole now.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Had a brief conversation with a ‘Britain is full’ racist. Sigh. Just one little bit of logic. If you have an ageing population, and at the same time constant population numbers, can you see what that does to working-age numbers? It’s not difficult if you have the slightest grasp of mathematics.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…

Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important

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Pete Moore @paintoolkit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Coming soon…I’ll be recording a video soon with Physiotherapist, Katie Knapton and share exciting news, regarding the Pain Toolkit Academy. paintoolkit.thinkific.com #paintoolkitacademy #inspireselfmgt #meaningfulmovement #pssmw27 #loveselfmgt @physiokatie.bsky.social

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Full marks to Bobby J for not bothering to mention that this was entirely due to being given £45 million from the Labour government and told to do it. Even a Reform council couldn't fuck that up.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Are we living in a computer simulation? Scotland’s Astronomer Royal provides the answer I talk to Professor Catherine Heymans about her new book exploring the possibility that the entire universe is a virtual world created in an experiment My mind is still blown In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

heraldscotland.com

Are we living in a computer simulation? Scotland's Astronomer Royal gives her answer

Could the Big Bang have been the launch of a cosmic computer programme? Scotland’s Astronomer Royal Catherine Heymans explains the science.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

UK diesel price hits record high of £2 a litre. Record profits for oil companies and tax take by govt. Also tells story of deindustrialization: In the 1970s the UK had 18 oil refineries, now 4. We are rightly moving to renewables but economy still left vulnerable. Any national planning?

bbc.co.uk

UK diesel prices top £2 a litre for first time, RAC says

The rise in global oil prices has been pushing up the pump prices of petrol and diesel in the UK.

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