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"We were dragged on the city streets. Multiple women have sustained bruises. This shows that the Modi government is completely scared," says a protestor detained in Pune. Divya Aslesha reports

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 5h

A thread - of racist attacks in Glasgow that received no media attention whatsoever

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 7h

You know those ‘spot the difference’ puzzles? I’m thinking of launching a ‘spot every racism in this political cartoon’ alternative….

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Sal @salarora.bsky.social · 7h

Exactly. English is not an ethnicity so up to individuals and should be without any condemnation. Racists have a cop-out because we have British as an alternative. Most countries don't. What do the French racists do? Is Zizou Algerian and not French, Is Mbappe Cameroonian despite being born in Paris

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 7h

I still find it mental that there are guys on the British right trying to claim no one in this family is English

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Sal @salarora.bsky.social · 7h

Times changed for a couple of decades but it seems like we are almost back there again. So sad to see the direction of travel and seems even more sinister now as it is an acceptable position with openly racist politicians and media. The NF/BNP were widely condemned back then but mainstreamed now

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Sal @salarora.bsky.social · 7h

To be avoided at any cost for fear of verbal and on many occasions physical abuse. You are not like them and must steer clear of them. Hence identifying as British Blacks or Asians almost as a defence mechanism rather than English despite being born here. They do not accept you or want you here.

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Sal @salarora.bsky.social · 7h

Not defending Cruella in anyway but many 2nd generation immigrants consider themselves British and not English. It stems from the racism seen in the 70/80s. Many were taught by parents to avoid the 'English' as they were the rioting skinheads/football hooligans in the shirts hanging the flags.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘Culturally British by my standards’ is one of the most chilling phrases uttered in British politics. Entirely unsurprising to me who it’s from.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 8h

If you’re thinking that *this time* they will have to admit Trump’s depravity & their hideous folly in supporting him. Then I’m afraid you’re in for another nasty surprise…

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Sal @salarora.bsky.social · 8h

He focused on fascism and war crimes in the first year and a half. Now progressing to horrific terrorism naturally. From world protector/policeman to a war mongering/sponsoring and terrorist state is some journey in under two years . Almost impressive in some ways...

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12h

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 9h

If you are looking to fiscal policy to make people "feel better off" then you are looking in entirely the wrong place. There needs to be some luck in geopolitics, some leadership on the EU and some strategy on sovereign AI. Then things might shift. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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‘If voters aren’t better off by the next election, we’re screwed’: Labour insiders voice fears over budget

Some say party risks ‘looking twee’ by focusing on small fixes amid growing nervousness that budget lacks ambition

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Sal @salarora.bsky.social · 9h

It's a debate that is rarely both sidesed like we have see with most things. Even advocates of racism seem to get more coverage than advocates of wealth taxes. It's always a right wing think tank or wealth mgmt firms that are quoted. @patmillsuk.bsky.social do great work but get so little coverage

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 09/10/2026

She fought apartheid, defended Nelson Mandela, and helped change how the world prosecutes sexual violence. Today, at 85, Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What an extraordinary woman. 💜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

Navi Pillay smiling in a red and gold academic gown and black hat, seated at a table signing a book.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11h

Trump just had a massive meltdown over losing the Nobel Peace Prize to South African anti-apartheid jurist Navi Pillay. Trump attacked Pillay, admitted he knows nothing about her, claimed he deserves EIGHT Nobel Peace Prizes, took credit for preventing wars around the world,… 1/

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

Yeesh. 👀 (Bloomberg) - The most likely long-term outcome of the AI boom will be massive capital destruction in the US, with market share going to cheaper open-source Chinese models, according to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 11h

Evidence which will of course be studiously ignored by Britain’s billionaire-owned press.

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Sal @salarora.bsky.social · 9h

So many other reasons to stay in the UK. People are not moving here for low taxes ffs Lies/propaganda are incredible. A wealth & exit tax needed. Even if it does not generate game changing billions the optics towards a fairer system will be significant www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left

TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 14h

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” [the ruling party’s slogan in George Orwell’s 1984]

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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Beatrix Potter warned us about this.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But Meta is doing something even more outrageous. Remember this? When Sarah Wynn Williams was forced to sit in silence at the Hay Festival because of legal threats from FB? Well, there's an update. 3/

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Dean Craddock @dean5150.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

God, I hate Tories.

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Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

www.theguardian.com/politics/201... Tom Watson has a history of taking huge bungs from the Mosley family. £500,000 from Max, son of Oswald Mosley. Now he works for the grandson.

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Tom Watson given £500k in donations by Max Mosley in past year

Register of MPs’ interests shows that former Formula One boss gave money to support Watson’s office as deputy leader and shadow culture secretary

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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Earlier this week our member Julia Davies spoke to LBC to squash a widely-reported story that a billionaire had fled the country for Monaco because of “threatened tax hikes.”

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A gold statue depicting Donald Trump fully naked and perched on the shoulders of a much smaller man has been unveiled in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

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Sal @salarora.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also any UK caught fish you may eat have been fed on a diet of organic human and animal faecal matter... Never been a better time to not eat fish or meat.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you. The prime directive of the Conservative Party is to get and hold power. The idea that it would risk throwing away the opportunity merely because it involved an albeit uncomfortable arrangement with another right-wing party is clearly for the birds.

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Kemi Badenoch: I'd rather have another election than do a deal with Reform UK

The Conservative Party leader also pledged to cut the cost of hiring 21 to 24 year olds.

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Sal @salarora.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He doesn't seem to mind artificial things in his wife. She's mostly plastic by now

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All these glowing write up’s by the usual suspects, Peston, Rigby, Mason, regarding Badenoch’s speech. Not one asking where the money is going to come from for her ridiculous defence dome & billions upon billions of tax giveaways? Considering what Truss did, not pointing this out, is a disgrace.

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Andrew Clifford @tscnewschannel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

8 October 2026: The Daily Mirror leads on Reform UK's internal probe clearing party officials over a donations controversy, prompting accusations of a “whitewash” from political rivals. #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Sal @salarora.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Only poor brown people can be guilty so clearly no crimes committed at reform or man city. Move on nothing to see

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 07/10/2026

If you think of GB News as the media wing of Nigel Farage’s political project, the total subsidy funnelled his way by its owners and his crypto donors (just four men) tops £200m, writes Alan Rusbridger

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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed

GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in ...

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Sal @salarora.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tories still got to Tory whatever may be. Cutting support for the poor to benefit the rich in the blood. Thankfully they will not be anywhere near power for a while. Their disgraceful shameless nature does not rule out a hideous/frightening pact with reform despite current denials so still dangerous

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Obviously laughable. But a reminder of how these people would behave in power: Financially benefiting the journalists and pollsters who do their bidding, legally pursuing those who do not.

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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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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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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?

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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 05/10/2026

It is deeply irresponsible for any politician, let alone a senior Conservative, to peddle the same far-right nonsense about Luton that we see from the likes of Yaxley Lennon and Reform.

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Tory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’

Blake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 05/10/2026

1 in 3 people are now exposed to EXTREMELY HIGH levels of harmful air pollution, fuelled by record heatwaves and wildfires combined with climate-wrecking emissions. Clean air shouldn’t be a luxury, it’s a basic human right. #AirPollution #ClimateCrisis

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One third of world population exposed to harmful air pollution: monitor

Heatwaves and wildfires combined with human-caused emissions this year combined to expose one third of the world's population to extremely high levels of ozone pollution, a European Union report said…

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The UK Daily Mail obviously did not like the results of its own poll. Its own graphic portrays 75% as less than 50%. #UKPolitics #Brexit #EuropeanUnion

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Sal @salarora.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is he wearing the pervert glasses? Cannot bring myself to watch this ridiculous man...

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On the importance of asking the right questions in politics.

We are measurably lonelier. We feel less productive, and yet more burnt out. We're less satisfied in our jobs. We are less fulfilled in our personal lives. We're taking up fewer hobbies. Engaging in less culture and art. We miss our real communities. But we're going out less. Our trust in our institutions has plummeted. We're having fewer kids. We're politically more volatile. We're believing more lies. A younger generation is going on fewer dates. And they have fewer friends. Opportunities for human contact are shrinking.
Anxiety is up, and yes, that overall happiness metric is falling.
Sorry to be a downer, but then you knew all that already. We all feel it.
Instead, we are pursuing a race to "growth". But what kind of growth, and to what end? An AI data centre in a hollowed-out postindustrial community might provide 30-odd jobs and create numerical growth on a Treasury spreadsheet but does it materially address the lack of meaning, purpose or agency many feel in their lives?

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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Conservative Party is “authoritarian” and attacking the “free press” by banning journalists from its conference when Kemi Badenoch called Reform precisely that for doing the same. bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...

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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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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The 'Kemi Badenoch is a good leader, held back by the Conservative brand' is a take that immediately falls apart when you ask 'what was the Conservative party polling in September 2024, and what is it polling in September 2026?'

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