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Saying “Man City won those titles on the pitch” is like saying Lance Armstrong should have kept his titles because he wasn’t injecting himself while riding his bike.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sharon Graham has been siding with Reform in her gleeful embrace of fossil fuel billionaires destroying our environment. So no surprise here.

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

These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.

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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🥳 UK economy grew more than thought in the second quarter. • GDP +0.5% qq versus a previous estimate of +0.4% (same with GDP per head) • Strong business investment growth (see 👇) • Current account balance (exc. precious metals) smallest in 5 years at 1% of GDP thanks to services exports

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Evening, #Ofcom. A British politician is advertising, in advance, that his "full verdict" on the Prime Minister's speech today will be given in his own programme, which carries his name, on GB News tonight. Aren't News channels supposed to show due impartiality? 🤮 x.com/Nigel_Farage...

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Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) on X

I will give my full verdict on Andy Burnham’s speech LIVE on GB News at 7PM tonight.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a program to inflate house prices without delivering increase in construction. It's the exact opposite of what we want. That's what Help to Buy did before. Is Andy Burnham incapable of thinking up new ideas? Insanity is trying the same thing again and again and expecting different results.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You have to get a very long way through this BBC report before you learn which party runs the council which took the decision to close all these nurseries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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South Tyneside Council nursery closures decision 'devastating'

Councillors confirm that all 10 Stanley's nurseries in South Tyneside will close by July 2027.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anyways: the basic failure of Starmerism was that it was A) predicted on a theory which doesnt work in the modern era and was hard to deliver B) Told its core base to fuck off culturally. That was the vibe failure: something you actively created and sought.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wouldn't normally be pleased to see a public split; but it's heartening to see Rayner live up to the faith I had in her. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/cabine... Burnham failed to stop Mahmood of his own will. So decent people in the Labour Party have to push him towards doing the right thing.

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Cabinet Splits Erupt As Angela Rayner Condemns Shabana Mahmood's Immigration Crackdown

A former cabinet minister has also accused Andy Burnham of not doing enough to grow the economy.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This man is so obviously in mental decline that he needs a gentle intervention by people who care about him. It's absurd that the Republican Party are allowing him to remain in charge of one of the two most powerful countries in the world.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The existence of the USSR is apparently the equivalent of getting kicked in the head for Russia scholars because they are just fundamentally incapable of grasping the continuities that exist because a red coat of paint got slapped on the Russian Empire for 70 years

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Others will have their say about this, but I think it’s worth pointing out that this - or laundered versions of it - are accepted wisdom amongst a big chunk of our political and media classes and it is simply bad for society when the elites have little or no understanding of *the systems they run*

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16/09/2026

i think nations shouldn't go around conquering each other

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can anyone explain to me why this article doesn't mention anywhere that small boat crossings are down 42% from last year? That doesn't mean it's not an issue 781 people arrived in one day. But it seems like the sort of context a reputable news source might mention www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

No 'switch' to stop small boats, Lucy Powell tells BBC

Labour's deputy leader was speaking to BBC local radio ahead of the party's annual conference

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The idea that mongrel=bad is obviously downstream of dog breeding connotation but like, purebred dogs are also the ones with brain bleeds and tongues too big for their mouths and high cancer rates so

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Andrej @tepid.meme · 23/09/2026

The obvious reaction memes aside, I don’t think it’s great that JRM is getting ratioed at the Nazi Bar for expressing a sentiment the likes of Defoe and Churchill have expressed and which would have been supremely uncontroversial even a few years ago

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thank fuck. Finally. Maybe the law in this country actually can be applied to violent fascist thugs after all.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In more enlightened times, people were hanged for this.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Arrest this thug and proscribe his organisation. It’s a dangerous criminal conspiracy.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble

Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is simply far-right terrorism. And right now it’s being done with impunity.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I do not say this often but - well done Lib Dems. Actively pushing liberal values for a change. The Guardian article unfortunately is all but openly editorialising to support transphobia. (Calling it "realism", and portraying anyone who's against a recent, very right-wing policy change as fringe.)

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hang on a minute. I've seen this movie before.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But more of this sort of thing from ministers please

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You know what? Fuck it. If Rishi Sunak is willing to say the thing before any ostensibly progressive politician, he deserves the credit

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The two most revealing questions one can ask about American politics and foreign policy today are: 1. How would we describe this if it were happening in a country of the Global South? 2. How would we describe this if the person doing it were Russian?

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The only thing we learn from this is that Adam Smith anticipated the BBC: the "disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful...is...the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?

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Pete Bangert @peterjbangert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If, as has been stated, the volunteers are being targeted and attacked, either personally or in property, the police need to prioritise this immediately. This is by definition terrorism and the perpetrators and their organisers need to serve maximum sentences.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026

It is incredibly important that political violence does not succeed. The far-right mob that shut down Portsmouth wanted this outcome. If the state wishes to avoid more of these actions, it needs to make sure this RNLI branch reopens *immediately*, or as close to that as humanly possible.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fuck. Awful. Every single person who attacks the RNLI, in word or deed, is a horrible person. If hell is real they're all going to hell.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Say what you will about Carney, but he sure doesn't lack for boldness. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/w... Canada has a leader who understands how big the geopolitical problem (the USA's parting ways from the free world) is, and isn't afraid to take actions fit for that scale. I'm jealous. Ah, if only.

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Carney Calls for E.U.-Canada Pact Amid ‘Ferocious Storm’

Prime Minister Mark Carney told European lawmakers that an alliance would help to secure sovereignty and independence for his country. The moves come amid a historic low for U.S. ties with Canada.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/09/2026

Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.

Chart showing global annual temperature abnormalities between 1880 and 2024

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

European gas is above €82/MWh - the highest since late 2022. Hormuz remains largely shut and gas storage is at 68% going into winter. None of this started in Europe but we pay for it. The only exit is using less gas. Heat pumps, electrified industry, insulation.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And to yet again point out the obvious, only one of these behaviours carries a realistic risk of killing or maiming another human being. It’s not morals, just kinetic energy.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A bit of shutting the barn doors after the horse has bolted. But better late than never.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Help, my narrative it’s very sick.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Who's ready for Lord McSweeney? He'd be making Lord Glasman too if the man wasn't already one. Every trumped-up, useless, failing-upwards Blue Labourite must be feeling the thrill of anticipation and hope.

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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It still pisses me off that there were calls to reform party financing laws after the 2024 riots and Musk saying he’d give Reform £100 million, but Labour briefed against doing anything because it might lead to people thinking Reform was being singled out unfairly

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