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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19h

Rachel Millward, "Imagine for a second that instead of new technology being owned by Silicon Valley proto fascists, it was owned by us?" "AI that serves communities" "Instead the the billionaires that buy our democracy"

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19h

Rachel Millward calls for the re-nationalisation of water without compensation as water companies are insolvent and we ought to own our crucial water infrastructure.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18h

My Mum forgot the code to her key safe. I just opened it after watching a lock-picking tutorial on YouTube & will henceforth only answer to the name ‘Fingers’ O’Brien.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's quite hard to believe she's still managing to keep the Tory score below Sunak levels despite Labour losing two years, fiscal mess, and Farage being cosmically unpopular.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“The Conservatives will win the next election” is one of those mathematical equations that we’ve all known is almost certainly right since November 2024, but “everything Kemi says or does” continually gives you a “maybe I should check my working again” feeling:

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

JFC the attention-seeking, victimhood-mining Farage Pity Party will be UNBEARABLE, won't it.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Agree with this. Curtice has worked very closely with organisations committed to proportional representation (including the ERS when I worked there). No serious democracy group endorses the (2 preference) Supplementary Vote system *over* PR. It's better than FPTP sure, but that's not saying much.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are people calling this conviction "two tier policing." Er - no. If you set off a politically motivated bomb in a public area and if shrapnel flies about that is terrorism. news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...

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Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion

Kevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

By the power of Grayskull - or £98.95 at Boots Nearly five times the price of the flu booster at £21.95 🤷 Health is wealth, look after yourselves 🙏

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026

🚨 Naomi Smith: The people of Scotland, like the rest of Great Britain, are of one mind when it comes to the UK and the EU: they know it’s been a disaster and they simply want to be back in.

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Poll: Scottish Labour would hold onto most of its MPs if PM promises to rejoin EU

Scottish Labour would hold onto most of the 37 Westminster seats it won in the 2024 if the Prime Minister pledges to

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..

Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm furious about the two Iranians who came across as part of the surge in small boats created by my Brexit and under a Home Office run by my MPs Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are many challenges; a different UK&EU to 2016, a rogue US, 🇫🇷elections, the demands that could be made of us, our own fear of Brexit wars, Farage weakening our negotiating position BUT… At least Burnham “has created the political space to have a conversation” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Does the EU want Britain back?

Burnham has reopened the Brexit debate. That doesn’t mean the UK will be welcomed back on its own terms

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What a week. We've seen the news agenda rescued from the grip of the far-right. We've seen astonishing levels of competence in government communication. And we've seen the outline of a radical policy programme. It's a v.exciting time to be involved in politics iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...

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Some disparate thoughts on a historic speech

For the first time in two years, we freed ourselves from the far-right’s strangle-hold over the news agenda.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 02/10/2026

👀 "Nearly 10 years ago, Nigel Farage told LBC he would leave the country if Brexit were not a stunning success. For reasons that no one can quite fathom, he is still here."

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Welcome to the new Reform roadshow. Same as the last but more desperate | John Crace

Nige is not rattled that the UK likes its new PM. Or that Reform is second in the polls. Oh no. Because Nige believes in

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We know exactly who these people are: the type that made Jews feel unsafe in the Labour party. Now the same thing is happening in the Greens. Requires a firm, principled response which Polanski is obviously incapable of demonstrating.

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 02/10/2026

This is Britain under Reform - same as the US under Trump - journalists that write critical stories get banned, it’s censorship, the act of authoritarians. buff.ly/Fdc3kQM

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

What is the fkn point of Ofcom? #GBNews @ofcom.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/stop...

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Pochin's pretence is that she is concerned about white representation in TV adverts ("your average white person is not represented", ads are "full of black people"), but as I've shown that is false. What Pochin is actually saying is that she hates seeing black & brown faces. Period.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

See also in UK politics: Priti Patel Suella Braverman Kemi Badenoch Zia Yusuf (& literally any poc in the Reform Party) Trevor Phillips and on and on it goes.

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

Suella Braverman's book PATRIOT came out today. It's 503 grams, costs £30 and tells the story of one politician's struggle against reality. Mine is currently 99p on kindle. Weighs nothing. Is all about traitors and villains... And people love it. Choices www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2FHD18...

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Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter

Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter eBook : English, Otto: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We need someone to do a count of how often he uses the phrase "far" or "radical" left this morning. #r4today

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Braverman blathering on about who can be English, Farage starting his me-me-me tour of the country telling audiences he’ll fix the country in 100 days or they’ll all sack themselves… apart from him… and Yusuf fanboying that racist thug who got refused bail… A moron festival. Come on, UK. Enough now.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yeah, let's give drug dealers and other scumbags a way of easily laundering their criminal swag into US dollars. I mean why would anyone with legally earned funds want to hold this rather than actual dollars? Makes perfect sense. #CryptoScam #C4News

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Someone should note to Suella that if this idea of Englishness wins (along with all the other Hard Right ideas that come with it), then either... a) the mob she has enabled will come for her – 'not one of us'. b) the mob will celebrate her as their greatest useful idiot. What a position.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, I haven't seen them even attempt an answer to the dodgy manager contract. It's not clear to me what an answer would even look like.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"A big petro-state did it and ran away"

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is a widely accepted definition of Zionism, and this is not it. I've voted for the Greens on the grounds of man made climate change since some time before 2015. I cannot, and will not, vote for the party if this motion becomes policy.

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"If I had a penny for every time I've been told I'm not English even though I was born here, I'd be a very rich man." Suella Braverman was called out by a member of the Question Time audience after she repeated her nonsense claims about Englishness.

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Suella Braverman dismantled by audience member over 'Englishness' comments

Suella Braverman was called out by a member of the Question Time audience after she repeated her nonsense claims about Englishness.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Politicians who demand we leave the ECHR and don’t actually believe in freedom of speech or a free press. What could possibly go wrong for the rest of us with that?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban 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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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A very good start. The unions should make clear that there should be no retrospection - any changes to settlement should only apply to new arrivals. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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How migration reforms could be watered down - as Mahmood plans talks on concessions

The Home Secretary is weighing up how to soften indefinite leave to remain changes

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

His speech, which was clearly made to set out the broad policy direction of his 2029 manifesto, has given the combined forces of the right three whole years to attack his plans in the media. It will be constant. By the time we get to 2029, how much of his manifesto plan will survive?

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Having slept on it, I think I'm going to moderate my optimism a little. Burnham would be mad to call and early election, under almost circumstances, but if the polls bounce from his speech the pressure will be huge, because why should the nation be made to wait three years for delivery? And...

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

No ifs and no buts, no caveats or provisos. Things are happening here which we haven't ever really seen before. Burnham is saying the things that are considered unsayable and doing the things which are considered undoable.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Christ alive, I'm 20 mins in and I'm ready to join* the Labour party. Been fooled too many times before though. Wait and see. *Not going to, obvs, but I am a sucker for a good political speech full of hope & policy promises that would radically change this country for the better. #Burnham

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is excellent - and, if I may say so and if it's not the kiss of death, @alanrenwick.bsky.social would be an excellent choice to serve on the commission.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2023: Nigel Farage who started campaigning to leave the EU in 1992 finally admits, "Brexit has failed" 2026: Andy Burnham, "Brexit has done more harm than good.. Brexit hasn't given us control"

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's quite hard for Americans to understand that our instinct with anything other than genuinely tragic stories is to take the piss.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 30/09/2026

The difference between Burnham and Starmer's conference speeches? "Let's be honest, it was a Jaguar vs Robin Reliant." "Today is vindication for Labour's decision to get some guts and replace Starmer."

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