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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If you like data, here is something interesting for you: Bridget Phillipson interview on LK: 9m 40" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 31 Richard Tice interview on LK: 8m 23" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 9
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samxsam33.bsky.social @samxsam33.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Transparent Action . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...
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Transparent Action
Transparent Action are parents of trans, non-binary and gender-diverse children and adults of all ages. They have come together to form a collective voice to take action in support of their children ...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
On the anniversary of the UK leaving the EU, it is worth hearing once again the many benefits of Brexit, clearly articulated by those who voted for it.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
ICE agent punches man in face who has his hands up. And there's blood on his forehead from when he hit the ground Lady shouts out "What the f*ck you hit him like that? What the f*ck you smack him like that" Why is this level of violence being normalised? Please do better America 🙏
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Robert Jenrick helpfully lists all the things he didn't do during his 10 years in government.
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
How it started ... How it's going
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/01/2026
Pieced together the surveillance video, including the new angle dropped by CNN (added slow-motion), and the condition of the officer after Renee Good was shot. What do you observe? Vehicles were able to drive around her with plenty of clearance. 1/2
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
"I write this letter, as I wrote my original letter ... simply because, in the light of having worked for nearly fifty years in education and mental health, I regard these pupils’ accounts to be painfully authentic and sadly consistent with Farage’s previously recorded views and behaviours."
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‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims
Exclusive: Chloë Deakin tells how she wrote to Dulwich college master to argue against Farage’s nomination as prefect
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Oh
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post. "Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
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Looming election takes centre stage in Budget week
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Rachel Reeves and Jeremy Hunt
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Political editor, BBC News
Chris Mason
The choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget invariably involve public performance before the curtain formally rises and the chancellor takes to his feet in the Commons.

The acts in advance, whether briefed out intentionally or leaked - or a combination of the two - turn a single-day event into a sprawling thing over a week or more.

Plans, or even just options, can be floated, commanding more attention than they would individually get, amid the cacophony of the big day itself.

Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted, or so a chancellor might hope.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The OBR says that the VAT charge on private schools has raised more money than expected because fewer pupils have gone into the state sector Never believe the Tories and their media.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 22/11/2025
“Over 150,000 Twitter accounts based in Russia tweeted about Brexit during the referendum, an investigation found..Britain "knows" what Russia is doing” but Tories were bankrolled by Russian money & compromised. www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
businessinsider.com
Russia used a network of 150,000 Twitter accounts to meddle in Brexit
Russian-based Twitter accounts focused their attention on the Brexit referendum in the days leading up to the vote, data scientists have concluded.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all. Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks. And every day we are growing. Join.greenparty.org.uk
Sorry kids, greens fantasy politics don't add up
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 12/11/2025
Thx to Julie Ivory on Facebook for a great meme
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Oddly enough despite the ‘toxicity’ alleged in Downing Street, Labour continue to deliver time and again every single day. These 11 are all announcements from this week. Impressive no?
1. 5m extra NHS appointments delivered
2. Military driving examiners mobilised to cut test backlog
3. King Charles III coast path now runs through Hampshire
4. Billions to be redirected back into patient care with NHS reform
5. New law to tackle AI child abuse images at source as reports double
6. Tough new laws to strengthen the UK's defences against cyber attacks on NHS, transport and energy
7. Education Secretary sets roadmap to improve attendance levels
8. Tough new powers to clean up local politics  and mayorships
9. Office for the Impact Economy to partner with philanthropists, social investors and businesses
10. Animal testing to be phased out faster UK unveils plan for alternative methods
11. Veterans support centres to be rolled out across the country
12. Independent investigation launched to tackle rising youth inactivity
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ᑕ ᕼ ᓰ ᗷ 〇 ᒪ 乇 @chibole.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
CONGRATS to The Netherlands, who just ditched their Trumpian leader, and instead just voted for the youngest and first openly gay leader in Dutch history. 💪🇳🇱
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Though the report contains the facts, this headline and standfirst misreport what happened. The junior whip Katie Lam correctly stated the policy: revoking ILR retrospectively was Tory policy from May 5th to yesterday. The leader has ditched that policy. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Shadow minister spoke ‘imprecisely’ about Tory settled status plans – Badenoch
Katie Lam appeared to indicate that some people already granted indefinite leave to remain in Britain could have their residency taken away.
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
How sexual perversion flourishes in the American church. Pastor is arrested for abuse or child p0rn. Apologizes, says, “I sinned.” Says, “forgive me.” Says, “send me money.” Rinse. Repeat. Christians continue to act righteous in their melting pot of deviance and evil.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Man in grey humiliates Matt Goodwin after his anti migrant rant #BBCQT "Do white British people not also commit these violent crimes? Is your narrative not that these crimes are only committed by asylum seekers and refugees"
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform.... Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally. It's time for Proportional Representation. www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
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'Just getting started': Zack Polanski reacts as Greens SECOND in new poll
ZACK Polanski has welcomed a new poll putting his party in second place at Westminster.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this. At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
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samxsam33.bsky.social @samxsam33.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I really love #riotwomen it’s moving and meaningful and funny and angry and so much more
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I know it’s a cliche, but… Do you believe that the headline would be about a “nerdy scientist” if he had not been white? If there was credible evidence that “Christians turned his stomach” or that he fantasized about driving into a Church and turning them into mincemeat? 6/9
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Evan Davis misrepresents the Rwanda scheme, as many others do. Rwanda wasn't "offshore processing". It was offloading. And the way Evan Davis describes a proposed Kosovo scheme, that wouldn't be "offshore processing" either. And Reform can't vote anything down. There's five of them. #BBCPM
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I've written for the Metro on how Starmer's latest attempt to look 'tough' on asylum seeker hotels has exposed him as a coward. A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
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Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward
The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
“Racism has become thoroughly detached from “serious” politics” It has been reduced to language. So, instead of fearing accusations of racism, politicians now exploit them as petty, name-calling distractions from what really matters. It’s an ugly, cynical deceit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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No shame, no opprobrium: racism is priced in now. Of all the right’s victories, this one has been critical | Jason Okundaye
In this age of Tory nativism and Faragist populism, the question isn’t ‘is this person a bigot’? Now it is ‘does that matter at all?’ says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Costs of asylum accomodation are down to firms making vast profits off of providing poor quality for people seeking safety and Home Office cruelty and ineptitude. It is not the fault of those forced into using them by a system which doesn't give them a choice. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Home Office 'squandered billions' on asylum accommodation, MPs say
"Flawed contracts" and "incompetent delivery" left the department unable to cope with demand for asylum accommodation, a report by MPs suggests.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 27/10/2025
“we’ve paid billions to banks for money we created during QE. That waste ends today. The Bank will adopt a tiered-reserve system, saving taxpayers £20bn a year. This will help to end austerity and fund public services. And, yes, we will introduce a bank tax.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on the budget: what a Labour chancellor should really say | Editorial
Editorial: Rachel Reeves needs her address to restore confidence, rebuild capacity and bury the tired orthodoxy that has held Britain back
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
This is a good example of the "very clear" rule of political interviews. When a politician says "I've been very clear" it always means they're wildly obfuscating. Never fails.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"..our health & social care system only functions bcs nursing staff of every ethnicity, nationality & faith make it so. We're urging govt & politicians of all parties to recognise their role in tackling racism...that must include an end...of anti-migrant rhetoric" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%
Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
From a Daily Express journalist calling for my deportation to a Reform MP saying it “drives her mad to see adverts full of black and Asian people”, the mask has truly slipped. This poisonous politics fuels far-right violence against minorities and migrants. We all must unite against it.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I think that any potential damage to the social fabric of the UK caused by a massive programme of council house building would be massively outweighed by the actual benefits to the social fabric of the UK of there being enough homes to go round. Have a referendum on that dick heads
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Nadine Dorries, "Do we want to be in the European Union, because their economies are sinking like stones" Fiona Bruce, "Do you think the governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey is wrong to say that Brexit will have a negative impact on the foreseeable future?" It's a car crash from there
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include: -Amazon -Apple -Coinbase -Lockheed Martin -Google -Meta -Microsoft -Palantir -Tobacco companies -The Adelson family Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
"At this moment in time, of course, the release of the TRUMPSTEIN Files is really the public's main priority."
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Adil Ray, "Prince Andrew has given £12 million of his mum's money to someone he has never met before" "Has renounced all his titles for something he didn't do" "With the same person he's never met before" "At the house of someone he was only friends with" "To be polite" #HIGNFY
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samxsam33.bsky.social @samxsam33.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
#traitors the only thing the Faithfuls could look out for, and which so far they haven’t done, is to look for who never hang out together on their own. The Traitors avoid each other
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This from Mason suggesting Reform 'barely existed a few years back' really is just wrong. Reform are the clear successors to Nigel Farage's UKIP - who won over 12% in a general election a decade ago.
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Chris Mason: Extraordinary Caerphilly by-election humbles Westminster's big beasts
Plaid Cymru win 47% of the vote in a record turnout, while Labour and the Tories manage just 13% between them.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24/10/2025
Kemi Badenoch’s ability to plant political time bombs that blow up in the face of the party she leads is truly unparalleled. What’s particularly impressive here is she could have found this out herself before raising the profile of this issue at PMQs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Key China spy case witness removed 'enemy' from evidence under Tories
Security adviser Matthew Collins says the term
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I wrote for @theipaper.com about the Caerphilly by election and why Reform is no longer Starmer's only problem inews.co.uk/opinion/refo...
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
When you read shit like this and then remember half the country think the biggest problem is people who’ve been invited here to work or people seeking asylum getting £8.86 a week to live on. Open your frigging eyes and minds!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Prince Andrew took money from firm linked to ripped-off pensioners
The King's brother was paid thousands by a businessman linked to a wealth management firm which ripped off pension savers.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/10/2025
Thames Water ranked worst supplier in England as firms’ ratings hit record low
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English water firms’ ratings hit record low after sewage pollution soars
Environment Agency rates eight of nine companies as poor and needing improvement
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Home Sec describes a widely held public perception (UK is the destination of choice for asylum seekers in Europe) + endorses it as true. Home Office data shows it is not true. Whatever merits of her policy change, should not make false factual claims www.thesun.co.uk/news/3709465...
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Migrants come to Britain because they think we're Europe's most generous country
TODAY’S small boat numbers are shameful, and the British people deserve better. They contain a lesson: we must go further and faster to secure our borders. Under the last Conservative Government, t…
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