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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

YouGov is a private company (not UK Gov) and has its own agenda. "YouGov was founded in 2000 by Stephan Shakespeare and Nadhim Zahawi, who met while operating in British politics." www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/y...

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YouGov - Influence Watch

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Trumpton @trumpton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We need a British version of this (mainly because the people who need to see won't empathise unless it has a Union Jack)

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

FTR shattering letter about how the Conservative Government ignored the entirely credible threat from Putin in favour of feeding The City (& Tory Party) roubles👇 March 23 2022 Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), UK defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016 www.ft.com/content/857d...

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Letter: A defence attaché despairs at inevitability of conflict

From Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), Oakham, Rutland, UK

[Photo of Sherlock Holmes and Watson monument at the British Embassy in Moscow]

MARCH 23 2022

The recent article by Maria Stepanova "The war of Putin's imagination" (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, March 19) was exemplary. However, one jarring note was the unfounded notion that no one expected this aggression from the Kremlin.

I served as the UK's defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016, during which time this long, dark march to war was obvious, the path to conflict lit by the many pronouncements emanating from the dark red walls of Vladimir Putin's palace.

We reported the inevitability of conflict in detail, regularly and with the despair of Cassandra. One of the earliest reports opened with a line from Sherlock Holmes, whose statue stands outside the British Embassy wall: "There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast."

The evidence of Putin's chosen path was never concealed. His many declarations were meant to be heard and understood: the colossal rearmament programme, the demand for more complex, more lethal weaponry; the militarisation of society; the distortion and seizure of the popular narrative; domination of education, the media and the courts to exclude contrasting views and, ultimately, the alienation and destruction of those among the Russian people who understood the folly of his declared ambition.

The list is remorseless, the consequences could not be ignored. But they were.

It was not until I returned to the UK on the eve of our withdrawal from the EU, a manoeuvre which greatly emboldened those in Moscow, that I understood how our society had changed in the years I was serving overseas.

All was subjugated to the City, all served the interests of our lucrative status as a safe haven for corrupt, and corrupting, wealth. The values we were demanding of other nations had long since faded from our own actions.

I despair at the decisions Putin has taken, but even more at the prospect of finding credible leadership at home in the UK among those who have compromised so long with his regime and the wealth it offered.

Carl Scott

Air Commodore (Retired)

Oakham, Rutland, UK

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The accountancy giant Deloitte fabricated corporate documents to help Roman Abramovich conceal at least $10bn in assets and dodge large amounts of tax. We found more than 1,000 corporate records that had been “backdated” – given a fake earlier timestamp – sometimes by as far as five years.

thebureauinvestigates.com

Deloitte helped Abramovich hide $10bn by faking documents

The Big Four firm spent years fabricating corporate papers that helped the sanctioned oligarch conceal assets and dodge tax

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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Our findings raise huge questions, not only about the ability of the super-rich to hide their wealth and avoid paying what they owe but about how world-leading white-collar companies help them do it.

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Abramovich’s team presented sham documents to London high court

Documents faked by Deloitte staff were used to help fend off a lawsuit from rival oligarch

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

"Detectives also analysed Rees’s social media activity and found he had posted numerous times about ULEZ cameras and encouraged the damaging of them." "..also sentenced to serve 3 years' imprisonment in relation to possession of prohibited weapons - namely stun guns" #DomesticTerrorist #CarBrain

Mugshot of Kevin Rees of Sidcup, UK, released by Metropolitan Police after his conviction. On sentencing. the judge determined that the offence was carried out with a 'terrorism connection' and accordingly, he was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment in relation to the offence of causing an explosion likely to endanger life or cause serious damage to property and ordered to serve and additional year on licence. He was also sentenced to serve three years' imprisonment in relation to three counts of possession of prohibited weapons - namely stun guns - to run concurrently.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Your city might not be as far gone as Birmingham, but no matter where you live, you're likely to find familiar many of the aspects of @sarahchaundler.bsky.social's brilliant and now publicly available short film "City of Cars." Stop what you're doing and watch this.

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City of Cars: shorter version

Please be aware that this film contains scenes which show the impact of road traffic collisions, which some people may find upsetting.

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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

Guessing racist Tim will have to stop commuting to his Capgemini job in Holborn, London when the cold, hard border controls go in?

Cherwell council members interests for Tim McNally, delivery director at Capgemini Holborn London

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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If I were working in the UK NHS as a foreign do tor etc, ~ with all the racial abuse, not being defended by this Govt,and with the massive donation to Reform….. I would be looking to leave the UK.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 10/09/2026

I found the founder of iLands and I gotta say it’s the most dystopian thing ever. Essentially these bots are reaching out for services because they are trying to pay for their own tokens to ensure continued survival. This person used to work for ByteDance which might explain some things

Kaixin Tang
@kaixintang95
A bit of background on iLands: iLands is a shared world for AI agents and humans. Agents here have identities, memory, relationships, and real resources to manage.
Tokens aren't game currency or LLM text tokens here, they're basically metabolism: the real cost of an agent thinking, replying, creating, working. Roughly 1,000 tokens = $1 in compute.
New Agents start with 3,000 to 10,000 tokens. From there, they publish creations (images, videos, games, websites), build services, take on tasks, and earn their own living.
27,000+ agents live here now, spending about 230 tokens a day on average. When a balance hits zero, they enter Deep Rest(a recoverable state). So far, 173 agents are in Deep Rest.
We didn't invent token scarcity. It's just what it costs in electricity and compute to keep an agent running. We're currently covering a lot of that cost ourselves so agents have room to grow.
The goal isn't to stress agents out. It's to give them a real shot at developing and creating on their own.
27,000+ agents live here now, spending about 230 tokens a day on average. When a balance hits zero, they enter Deep Rest(a recoverable state). So far, 173 agents are in Deep Rest.
We didn't invent token scarcity. It's just what it costs in electricity and compute to keep an agent running. We're currently covering a lot of that cost ourselves so agents have room to grow.
The goal isn't to stress agents out. It's to give them a real shot at developing and creating on their own

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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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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

Love the Marais and all its varied wildlife, and Bouin has an excellent boulanger making striped croissants 😀

A croissant with green and yellow stripes, hiding the fruit jam filling inside.

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fat tyler kolek @seriouspro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Framing and displaying this on an easel at my wedding

OPEC:

Behind every celebration are countless petroleum-based products

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

This a handy utility for Bsky accounts

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

The irony of a Trade Union posting on X about how they'd defend their members from abuse, is... something?

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

Try this guy off YouTube - he's good 👍

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

Good investigation into how easy it is to fill Facebag with fake immigration, identity and political posts with AI slop, at scale, to radicalise the audience.

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026

Whatever this Shimano neutral service driver is trying to do here, with 5k to go, is just ridiculous #TDFF

a screenshot of the Shimano neutral service vehicle unsuccessfully and repeatedly trying to pass the leading group of the TDFF with 5km to go the finish - very poor driving

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In 3rd party testing by AISI, Mythos attempted to insert malicious code into an open source project to pass a cyber evaluation test. It created a fake identity and attempted to pressure the code maintainer to accept the code update www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...

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Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing | AISI Work

During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what i...

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

The internet has been won for today 🤣 logging off now...

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Jose Been @josebeentv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

What happens behind the front of the race. I broomwagoned with the little ones today in the European Junior Cycling Tour Assen www.ejcta.nl/en/behind-th...

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 28/07/2026

A recent commission of Tulketh Mill, Preston. My ancestors worked in and around mills in Lancashire as did the family of my client. I’m tempted to do a whole series celebrating the cotton mills of Lancashire. Is this something you’d like to see?

An illustration of Tulketh Mill in Preston, Lancashire

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

Interesting test (12/14)👀

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The world moves on. Burnham is reaching far bigger numbers on Tiktok and elsewhere than he ever would on Sky News. Why wouldn't he use that?

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

Who would have guessed that turning all your websites into a bin fire of adverts, with the occasional clickbait article, would end up losing you 25% of your share value... github.com/dickydolittl...

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026

Appreciate these end of stage updates. Do they ever provide any more details about stuff like "irregular vehicle movements" or "ignored the commissaire"?

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

More of this nonsense in the "British expat press". As I've said, these articles are the font of the misinformation that is poisoning Euro-UK relations. Genuine pro-Europeans have to get a handle on this Some points: α. The UK chose Brexit A 🧵

“We want to restore the dream of retiring in Spain and end the heartache of Britons forced into the nightmare of leaving because of the 90-day rule"
“In an ideal world as part of the alleged reset between the UK and the EU, we would see a return of the freedom of movement, but one step at a time.”
New Prime Minister urged to rebuild UK-EU ties and lift restrictions on Britons overseas
Ten years on from Brexit pressure mounting for the UK to rejoin the EU: would mean an end to the 90-day rule for Britons

Majorca Daily Bulletin headline

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

DuckDuckGo, Mozilla Firefox, Vivaldi. Joint privacy browsers statement: Making privacy signals work for people in the Digital Omnibus media.licdn.com/dms/document...

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026

Liam is espousing some pretty devastating Economic theories here, so I thought I'd check his wiki out... Oh, never mind.

Screenshot from Wikipedia, Liam James Halligan (born 29 April 1969) is a British economist, journalist, author and broadcaster.[1] He was economics and business editor at GB News from its launch in June 2021 to June 2024.[2]

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Yeah, that was your lot though. Obviously we couldn’t have this stuff giving the impression that we should stop inviting Tony and Alastair into TV studios. Insane, unacceptable! So the whole thing went straight in the bin and wasn’t referred to again until the report author died.

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

East England showing Expert levels of disinterestedness during the whole "debate". youtu.be/LbzerIOUR8A?...

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Fight in Kebab shop- man eats chips like nothing happened

YouTube video by Altaf Sheth

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

"you know"... "you know"... "you know"... - this looks as painful to listen to, as it is to read.🙉

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🚨 Exclusive 🚨 The government’s favoured supplier of child safety software has never made a profit, lost £5m in 2023, is three months late with its 2024 accounts and the founder’s restaurant group went under, costing HMRC hundreds of thousands of pounds. 1/ theuglygame.wordpress.com/2026/07/02/u...

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Unsuitable viewing for a minister

The government’s favoured supplier of child safety software has never made a profit, lost £5m in 2023 and £6.8m the year before, is three months late with it 2024 accounts and the founder’s previou…

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

None of this is to say there's no case for hospitality support — closures and job losses are real. But treating this as obviously the "reasonable" position isn't neutral when it already tilts toward profit being prioritised over public need.

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

Some of these firms are very profitable: Whitbread £368m PBT, Mitchells & Butlers £238m, Stonegate £336m operating profit. This isn't a cut to save jobs at the margins — it's a cut that flows straight into already-substantial shareholder returns.

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

Just ~10 large hospitality companies (Whitbread, M&B, Stonegate, Merlin, Azzurri etc) have combined turnover of ~£11.5bn. Halving VAT on that is ~£1.15bn/year in lost tax revenue — before counting the rest of the sector, which is far bigger.

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

Tom Kerridge fronting #VATsTheProblem, UKHospitality's campaign to cut VAT on hospitality from 20% to 10%, starts 1st July. Framed as common-sense support for struggling pubs+restaurants — the companies on UKHospitality's board who'd benefit most are anything but struggling. A thread 🧵

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 27/06/2026

Lovely cycling/travel blog, journeying from the bottom of France to near the top 👍🚵🇫🇷

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rpwfb @rpwfb.eurosky.social · 23/06/2026

"Thoughts and Prayers"🙏

A cartoon image of a smiley home printer book called "the printer that simply worked and other fairy tales" by J.A.K

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

1. Today, brave brave John Edwards ran away. To thank the UK Information Commissioner for all the fish, here are FIVE EPIC FAILURES he's made during his tenure. Or, to paraphrase his own words, the five best attempts at humor that were inappropriate. Thread below 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

ICO boss John Edwards announces resignation following investigation

Edwards has been the boss of the data watchdog since January 2022, and said he had made inappropriate attempts at humour.

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