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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I know we should seperate the US government from the US people - many of whom voted against this and are suffering as a result of the adminstration - but at times its really, really hard. Relations are going to take a long time to fix

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Look at the graph of US support for Ukraine, and how it disappeared when Trump entered his second term. The Russia hoax was never a hoax

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

Glory to Ukraine

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In June 2017, Emma made history when she was elected Kensington’s first ever Labour MP. Six days after her election, Grenfell Tower fire saw 72 local residents lose their lives in the worst residential fire since WWII. Cuts to "red tape" save money. Regulations save lives. x.com/emmadentcoad...

Screencap of tweet by Emma Dent Coad quoting tweet by Kemi Badenoch.

Emma Dent Coad: "Grenfell - 72 died from the fire, at least five died by suicide, 11,000 have PTSD, concerns about long term effects of toxicity on residents, 11 firefighters with terminal cancer - plus £1bn spent and rising.

That's 'nothing' right?"

Kemi Badenoch: "Cutting red tape costs taxpayers nothing.

It's a common sense solution to get Britain building."

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Royal Mail since privatisation in 2013 - stamp prices up 107% 💰 - failing to deliver letters, missing statutory targets 📮 - now wants to cut 2500 jobs ⁉️ Absolutely disgraceful Andy Burnham must step in and TAKE BACK OUR ROYAL MAIL www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

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Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 head office and support jobs by end of next year – as it happened

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warns energy shock, public debt and AI boom threaten global growth, as Brent crude rises above $101 a barrel and government bond yields rise

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I loathe Farage. But Farage turned his party from an also-ran into the main opposition to Labour. Kemi Badenoch turned her party from the main opposition to Labour into an also-ran. They're not the same.

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t know what’s more implausible here: that Keir Starmer laid a devious political trap or that he did it to help Andy Burnham.

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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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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hi. I'm one of your members. How will this affect people who are already on contracts with that sort of clauses? Do you know yet?

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MarschallvonNAFO @marschallvonnafo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But honestly the UK needs the money from the EU customers to fix it's economy and the NHS. There's no other way to finance the country's expenses. You tried it with a boatload of PMs in a decade. Nothing worked. Numbers don't lie. It's EU or drown in more despair and costs.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Interesting & worth a read in full!

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 07/10/2026

Deform UK ltd’s “internal investigation” into foreign donations has cleared Deform UK ltd of any wrongdoing exposed by Channel 4. The investigators were Deform’s own legal secretary and general secretary; almost like the Nuremberg trials being presided over by Josef Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From the new Private Eye

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is a good thread. The conclusion it drives me to is - this all sounds like it supports universalism, doesn't it? If everyone gets the service - everyone, rich and poor - then that helps willingness for everyone to pay into it. It thus both strengthens public consent and decreases stigma.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's so bizarre to me that this is even a contest. Who wants to be a mistreated puppet state of Donald Trump?

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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can’t lie, the reaction of Man City’s ownership in the last week has radicalised me into wanting the punishment to be as harsh as possible. This time a week ago, I thought some of the punishments being proposed sounded excessive. But the lack of contrition makes me think there should be no mercy

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The thing is, it becoming an accepted "fact" in the media isn't going to change the fact that the great majority of actual voters still think the Tories are crap. I sometimes think people on the left are too doomer about the right-wing press. Yes they're very bad, but they aren't all-powerful.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This article could have been written by Conservative Party HQ. If it were, I think, only about 4 sentences would have been any different. The BBC needs reform root and branch. Starting with Robbie Gibb - but only starting.

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I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch

The Tory leader seeks to echo Margaret Thatcher as she sets out her guiding political principles.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This guy wasn't an Epstein enabler! He was a good citizen who revealed their wrongdoing to the world, then (we're supposed to believe) mysteriously decided to kill himself.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Suicide". ...Sure. If you believe that, I have a wonderful property development scheme in Florida to sell you.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't see how it's good policy to have a simple cliff edge cutoff on ANYTHING. It seems far more sensible to have a simple, linear phase-out.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think this is great news for the Tories

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I mean, Rees-Mogg is right. It wasn't subtle. One may dislike both, but the difference between the right and the far right is important to remember.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Foreign money should be banned from owning football clubs. This sort of thing isn't what football should be about.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We should fine them 20x as much, then.

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A common theme that drives me absolutely wild with elections/polling these days: 1. Right wing wrecks everything 2. Left of centre figure elected 3. Left of centre can’t fix all the damage in 5 seconds so the right wing, who have got 10x worse in the meantime, lead polls again/win next election

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As noted in the story by Tim Bale, politics professor and guru of all things Tory, the party are still polling well below what they got in 2024, a historically bad election loss: "If this is what success looks like, I’d love to know what failure is.”

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The difference is that our centre-right commentariat WANT the Labour Party to be dying, so whenever it's doing badly they'll write about their hopes and dreams with relish. They don't want the Conservative Party to be dying. But it is.

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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If GB News were a normal commercial venture, like Talk TV, it would have been binned long ago. Since September 2020, it has spewed out hateful far-right propaganda, paying high salaries to people such as Nigel Farage. Ofcom has abjectly failed to address this threat to democracy.

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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She is just comically incompetent, isn't she? I haven't been paying much attention because I'm too busy with work rn, but this is the sort of thing a parody of a petty short-termist politician would say.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Brexit was a huge loss both for the British people and for the European project as a whole. If the United Kingdom were to make such a decision, Spain would welcome it with open arms and once again embrace our friends in Britain.” - President Sánchez

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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Samuel Karlin @samuelkarlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wait are you pro David Cameron's triple lock? Really?! Fucking hell.

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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

The government needs to make house prices go down. Which means yes, people will see their houses lose value. Homeowners will lose out. That is the ONLY way. As long as this government is unwilling to make enemies of the haves, the have-nots will continue to suffer.

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

This is the worst policy you've ever done. It's Help to Buy under a new name. All that Help to Buy did was inflate house prices (and thus rents) further - making housing MORE unaffordable for normal people.

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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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