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Sally Brooks

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20h
Andy Burnham confirms what previous PM's - May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer - failed to, that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Less 'plan' more the latest publicity seeking brain fart of someone who has already shown he has no understanding of the world whatsoever. Yeah, tariffs on Afghanistan, that'll show them, except there's barely any trade.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 19h
The 2016 Brexit vote was targeted by Russian “state-sponsored interference”, Andy Burnham has said, as he warned voters in France and Germany about Kremlin-backed attempts to influence their countries’ politics.  www.ft.com/content/4fcb...
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Russia ‘interfered’ in 2016 Brexit vote, says Andy Burnham
UK prime minister calls for European voters to be better informed about efforts to disrupt democratic process
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Sally Brooks @sallyhbrooks.bsky.social · 18h
Finally it can be said out loud. Only took 10 years…
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19h
This is a truly grotesque "trial" of a vaccine known to be safe and effective. It will in practice randomly withhold that treatment from a percentage of children to see what happens. It is absolutely the reverse of good practice.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 22h
The Home Office is now responsible for research funding (aka overseas students) in the UK.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Russia has been at war with Britain for years and the EU referendum was an open goal which they exploited. That doesn't mean that "Putin made Brexit happen" but his troll farms and media operations certainly played a part Brexiters may hate to hear it but to deny it is to deny a dangerous reality.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It comes after years of cover-ups & denials not least from Boris Johnson who was in charge of MI6 as foreign minister at the time & whose first act as PM was to ennoble the Baron of Siberia. But it also went beyond Johnson & Starmer continued it too. We now finally need some sunlight. 2/
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/10/2026
Incredible lead photograph on a story that feels like it really should've been getting more attention, even though there's a lot going on in the world...
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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s World Mental Health Day and if you’re fortunate enough to be in good mental health today please show your gratitude by refusing to stigmatise those who happen not to be.
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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Andy Burnham says UK authorities are “clear” there was Russian interference in the Brexit referendum as @catneilan.bsky.social reports in today’s @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...
The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
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The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In the least surprising news of the century, vast majority of racist flag shaggers who go about brandishing crosses and saying that we're a Christian country... don't pray, or go to church or read the Bible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Opposing violence against trans women is unacceptable to the BBC, which, like every part of British media in 2026, believes being able to do violence against trans women is a human right.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 11/10/2026
This is something I was thinking about wrt Nick Robinson’s hectoring of Polanski. Polling has shifted so drastically on Israel in the US in three years that if the next Dem Presidential candidate is even pro-Israel, they will be the last. The UK is on a similar trajectory, and will follow the US.
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I know I'm old, but I remember when the entire media lost their minds over a caricature depicting a Jewish person with a big nose. The Telegraph is now basically Der Stürmer. Doesn't stop the BBC platforming the scum who shill for it at every opportunity of course.
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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Right yes, "protect are women" by preventing a long-planned fundraiser for Cancer Research... Bastards.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🚨Trump apparently made a deal with Putin to buy Russian diesel weeks ago, around the time he signed the Graham Act into law. A shipment of diesel departed St. Petersburg September 22nd, and is about to arrive in the US. Will history call this the Dmitriev-Witkoff pact?
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Reform announcements are reported by BBC News as though the party is a government in waiting. Reform has 8 MPs. Do they report Hartlepool United's plans for their victory parade in May after winning the FA Cup?
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When I say the politics will become increasingly obvious... I mean look at this. If you want to unite the left/centre and split the Tories, without a big spending committment there's no better option.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just on my way out to do something culturally British* *whip up a moral panic about a minority group then hang some flags upside-down from a lamppost
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 08/10/2026
BREAKING US execution by firing squad of Fort Hood shooter to be livestreamed: Pentagon official
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Mark Cantrell @man0words.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lord Watson of Palantir tells the peasants to stop ganging up on his oligarch employer... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts
Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 09/10/2026
Will be interesting to observe the reaction to this after everyone tripped over themselves to applaud Machado last year.
OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
My U.N. Commission's Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide
Sept. 16, 2025
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Listen to this article • 6:41 min Learn more
By Navi Pillay
Ms. Pillay is the chair of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Navi Pillay last year: "The commission finds it is genocide" Pillay has just won the Nobel peace prize.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026
just got my flu jab! hate needles but was very brave! go have your flu jab! 30 pounds is an annoying amount of money to spend but "the flu" is even more annoying than that!
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A rather sad announcement from @anandmenon.bsky.social on the future of UK in a Changing Europe. ukandeu.ac.uk/announcement...
UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE) was founded 12 years ago. We hired our first member of staff on the day of the 2015 election, the outcome of which guaranteed that there would be a referendum on EU membership. The subsequent period has been tumultuous, yet, throughout it all, we have done our utmost to be a source of impartial, research-based analysis.
We were initially supported by the Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC), who generously funded the organisation for over a decade. Their foresight in recognising the need to bring social science to the attention of external audiences in this area was impressive. 
Our ESRC funding ended in April 2025. Since that time, we have kept going courtesy of the generosity of King’s College London and donations from numerous other sources including the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Amazon Web Services and the Spanish Government. I’d like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all those who have contributed to the organisation’s longevity.
Sadly, it is now time to bring down the curtain on this act. UKICE will cease to operate at the end of this year. This is – for us at least – a sad occasion. However, we will soon be able to inform you of the exciting ways in which our work – blogs, reports, lunchtime seminars and more – will continue. The website, containing its rich treasure trove of blogs, reports, videos and the Brexit Witness Archive will, of course, remain accessible thanks to the generosity of the Policy Institute at King’s College London. 
I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished over the last decade and of the way we have assessed the Brexit process, the development of the United Kingdom since 2016 and the evolution of UK-EU relations. UKICE has attempted to bridge the gap between social scientists and what some people call the ‘real world’. We have shown a new way of doing social science – engaging, accessible and impartial. While it would be too much to claim to have shaped the debate, I g…
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Peter Holmes @pholmes8.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Very sad. Just at the point when the the situation in Europe and our relations with it are changing more than ever. Thanks, Anand, for all you have done - and will continue to do.
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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.
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Max Haiven @maxhaiven.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The book, "The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to Twenty-First Century Fascism," is now available for free from MIT Press. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 08/10/2026
*Looks at UK universities* I can answer that, but you're not going to like it.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And 26% lower than in 2023... To which the response will be to push the prices even higher.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics
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🫶🏻Layla🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“AGAIN”
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026
what a grim and mean little quote
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Former Labour Deputy Leader Lord Thomas Watson, now Senior VP at Palantir UK, wrote to me defending their public contracts. Instead of trading letters, I’ve challenged him to an open, public debate. He can defend Palantir’s ethos; I’ll argue for public accountability. Will you accept, Tom?
Formal letter from Clive Lewis MP, Member of Parliament for Norwich South, to Lord Thomas Watson of Wyre Forest, Senior Vice President of Palantir Technologies UK Limited, dated 7 October 2026. In the letter, Lewis challenges Watson to a public debate regarding Palantir's role in government contracts and public institutions. Lewis rejects Watson's claim that criticisms malign software engineers, stressing that elected officials must scrutinize corporate power, democratic control, and public accountability. He proposes a debate with an impartial chair, equal time, and audience questions.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
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Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Out on patrol nice and early. Pleased to report no fascists spotted on the beach again. Happy days x
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026
Remember when Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public executions? www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
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Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you’re reading today’s papers and thinking, did I watch a different Badenoch speech, may I recommend our sanity-restoring review? “The same people who could not build a railtrack from London to Manchester for £100bn, will build the Kemi Death Star for 10bn. It’s so ludicrous as to be offensive.”
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@AlanWalter @alanwalter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m an RNLI volunteer crew member and I invite her to get on a plane from her hideout in Dubai and say that to my face here in the UK
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