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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 3h

According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 5h

I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175

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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad

James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 5h

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 5h

National heroines the Suffragettes, particularly the elder Pankhurt's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), were responsible for approximately 1000 bombing and arson attacks just FYI.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 7h

It is true, and it is bonkers. My rejection email below

Dear Josiah,

Thank you for your application to attend the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.

I regret to inform you that approval has not been granted by the Conservative Party, and as such, your application has been unsuccessful. A refund will be issued [text cut off at right edge]

If you wish to appeal this decision, please provide additional evidence or context as grounds for reconsideration. please direct your appeal in the first instance to [cut off]

This will allow for a thorough review before a final determination is made.

Should the decision be upheld following your appeal, any further questions regarding this outcome can be directed to the Police National Accreditation Team at [cut off]

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 7h

This is very ‘I was born in 1965 and let me tell you about my experiences of world war 2’ coded.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 8h

New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer

Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 8h

Then fuck off? "If you won't let us do crimes we won't hoover up all your assets and extract rents" ok? So go then.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8h

Latest Badenoch: “If [Andy Burnham]’s not calling an election, why’s he talking about things happening in 2030?” - alarming the extent to which so much of our political class cannot process the idea of “planning for events four years in the future”.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 12h

Putin is going full Netanyahu.

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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Newsom clearly thinks he has a shot at the presidency with big tech behind him. Wait till he finds out the hard way what Obama and Biden did - these companies will burn the US Constitutional order and rule of law to the ground to avoid the lightest hint of regulation or consumer protection.

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kenbruce.bsky.social @kenbruce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thirteen British universities have discussed how to handle pro-Palestine campus protests with the United Kingdom’s largest weapons manufacturer, including ramping up security at events and coordinating responses to criticism. aje.news/7i5a85

aje.news

How UK universities briefed BAE Systems on pro-Palestine campus protests

Several universities discussed protests with the weapons maker, raising concerns about influence and academic freedom.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

we don’t have fraternities in this country but we have university “dining clubs” in posh places and sports teams in all the rest and from what I can tell they have similar effects on male behaviour, although I don’t know about any specific studies (the 3x more likely to rape stat is peer reviewed)

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Members of fraternities are three times more likely to be rapists than male college students who aren’t members of fraternities

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Will never not click on this video.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reading the details of the US execution story from last night and it is absolute barbarism. Like reading a history of the medieval period.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I still worry about the safety of this woman in Crowborough.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Will Farage or "Danny Tommo" condemn the person who twice menaced 92-year-old church volunteer by shouting abuse and shining a torch through her window at 3 a.m.? I'm going to make a wild guess

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're repeatedly told that asylum seekers pose a threat to the good people of our country... Reading about the threatening and violent treatment of elderly and open minded locals in Crowborough I get the impression that the real threat comes from closer to home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

On Facebook and other platforms, people
who are known to support the asylum
seekers have been threatened with acid
attacks, petrol bombs and rape. The dossier.
which has been seen by the Guardian, also
claims that several local businesses have
been threatened by far-right agitators, along
with a church where some asylum seekers
worship. One man was punched in the throat
after he held up a "Love Thy Neighbour"
sign, while an elderly couple were falsely
accused of supporting sex offenders. In yet
another case, a 92-year-old church volunteer
was reportedly woken at 3am for two nights
in a row by a man standing outside her
home, shining a torch through her window
and shouting abuse

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026

Want to learn about the history of our city? Well you’re in luck. This month, we’re hosting a massive scavenger hunt across the city — all about the history of organizing in NYC. Sign up at organize.nyc.gov and come see the city through the eyes of the people who built it.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We've been subjected to "it's not necessarily racist to have genuine concerns about migration" my whole life. This is technically true, in theory, but I have never once observed it in practice.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I first read about the death penalty as a child, I thought it was barbaric. Still do. A state that gives itself the judicial power to kill debases itself and everyone it involves in that repulsive business.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is why I find her fascinating, it's not just that she's wrong, it's that nothing can ever cause her to readjust her priors. She effectively has created her own reality to self soothe and continues to try and assert it over the real world.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Always struck by the Kemi commitment to "we will do the same thing again, but this time it will work because I'll be stricter." It's an opposition that is at war with its own time in Government.

Under current Universal Credit requirements, external, people have to sign a "claimant commitment" to prepare for and look for work or increase their earnings if they are already working - but the Tories claim their rules would be stricter.

The proposals were announced on Thursday ahead of the party's conference starting this weekend.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

bylinetimes.com

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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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brexit revisited. New, unscheduled, post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on why Burnham's conference speech was a significant development in the Brexit saga, the questions and concerns it raises, and why it might come to be seen as a historic moment: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/brex...

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South East London Community Energy (Selce) @seloncommenergy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Helpful explainer on government's GB Grid plan ⬇️

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off.

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Aaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Believe it or not, the Supreme Court was presented as far back as 1947 with the question whether attempting to execute someone a second time, after a botched first go round (then, in a portable electric chair known as “Rusty”), was cruel and unusual.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the more profound takeaways from Mahmoud’s book talk last week was when he said that his green card, which the Trump administration has been trying so desperately to revoke, was the first ID he had ever received in his life that had the word “permanent” on it.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 01/10/2026

I will never forget all the cynical gainsaying and disinformation about the strike on Al-Ahli hospital ten days into Israel’s destruction of Gaza. ‘Fog of war’. Almost three years later, fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals remain even partially functional and there is no fog. Only dust and rubble.

theguardian.com

New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza

Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Free movement *does* benefit migrants by giving them more freedom/options, and improves labour market flexibility overall. These are good arguments for it, compared to a managed system, that I've made many times. Burnham's "it gives us Gastarbeiter" is both false and regressive.

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Debt Justice @debtjustice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Come along on Friday at 2.30pm to hear our @heidichow.bsky.social discuss the rigged global debt system at @greenparty.org.uk conference with @waronwant.bsky.social @meadwaj.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-eco...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The current Conservative party is simply not intellectually equipped to handle Burnham's way of doing politics. That is the bleak reality of it. They'll assume they can do more damage by boycotting and then branding it a stitch up.

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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Where are all the women” ask knuckle dragging far right scum while talking about asylum seekers. Getting sexually assaulted by British men, it would seem.

Female asylum seekers report being sexually assaulted by British men

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Michael Crick is in no mood for Jacob Rees-Mogg’s failed ideas wrapped in a posh accent. Superb. 🔥

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is about attempting to establish a support base (there'll never be a consensus) on a way forward, which you would take into negotiations. No great light is provided by reminding people there will be negotiations.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All this 'well you've forgotten to ask the EU, you won't get your previous deal you know' commentary is so boring and theatrically dispassionate. Everyone knows that.

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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Interesting dilemma for the right-wing media which has noisily spent the last year demanding Labour scrap the triple lock as a test of Labour seriousness. Maybe the oligarch press will now throw their support behind Burnham?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is an outstanding point

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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today Andy Burnham showed he understands the damage Brexit has done and will lead this country back towards a future with Europe. There’s never been a more important time to join @labour4europe.bsky.social to be part of shaping what comes next. Follow them for details of how to do so.

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