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Croatia have been one of the best teams in the world for many years but they have relied on particular players who are now getting on a bit. Very good from England though. #CROENG

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 13h

Isn't this the #BBC's Laura Kuenssberg presenting as face value Kemi Badenoch's interpretation of her Tory leadership? That is not journalism. That is aiding the Tories.

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David H @scarfwearer2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Triple lock, social care, possible EU rejoining, voting reform.... Beyond the issues and details, what the PM did the other day was to seize the political agenda. The previous regime seemed to be constantly reacting to the shifting, crazy rantings of the Telegraph and Mail. Now it's a new game.

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David H @scarfwearer2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#bbcqt marks out of 10. Audience : 10 Labour rep: 8 New Statesman fellow: 7 Fiona Bruce: 5 (PB !) Tory rep: 1 Braverman: 0

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David H @scarfwearer2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Finally the Tory makes an interesting point about small businesses. Worth debating in relation to paying for the re-investment in public services needed following years of Tory austerity. The question has always been 'can the private sector bear the cost of this definite change of approach?' #bbcqt

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neilp @neilp78.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#BBCqt Suella Braverman sounding as daft as Helen Whately

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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Braverman so desperately trying to avoid saying 'white' when asked what she thinks makes someone 'English' when that's clearly what she means. And yes, Suella that IS a racist opinion. #BBCQT

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David H @scarfwearer2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#bbcqt lots of things in politics are open to debate but the prisons debacle is obviously the responsibility of the previous Conservative government.

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David H @scarfwearer2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#BBCqt Braverman has a general problem with logic, but racism is fundamentally illogical anyway, so she is the perfect spokesperson for it.

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David H @scarfwearer2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The fellow at the opposite end of the #bbcqt table from bonkers Braverman has fallen into the trap of inter-generational comparisons of ordinary people. The right wing media love this because it deflects from ideas like wealth taxes.

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Trevor Stables 🇫🇷🔶🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @trevor0257.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Abolishing the #triplelock to index state pensions purely to CPI would save the UK government an estimated £2 billion/ year but completely abolishing higher-rate tax relief on private pension contributions would yield a significantly larger £10 billion to £15 billion per year for the Treasury.

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Alan @recyclist.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@iandunt.bsky.social Alternatively, the pension tax relief given to the highest-earning people in this country, at rates above the basic level of income tax, costs at least £15bn a year – vastly more than costs attributed to the triple lock.

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Jenny Edwards CBE @jennyedwards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UK and Iteland right at the bottom of the list. Media anti triple lock campaign could be designed to force Labour into a deeply unpopular and unjust policy position.

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Bruce Annett @bruce22.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lots of discussion about the triple lock on UK pensions today, but not a word about how it is the lowest in the civilised world! 🤨

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Krys Kujawa @krys.kujawa.co.uk · 29/09/2026

The news this morning suggesting that the UK pension triple lock is under threat to fund a care service for England. One of the worst pensions in Europe will get even worse, and Scotland won't even get any benefit from it. Pensioners are the most union-positive group, remember.

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Robin-DeBowler @robin-debowler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The UK pension is one of the lowest in Europe The triple lock just about maintains a continuity of survival for millions of pensions. Who is Burnham signalling to when he says it is under review. The welfare paid to corporations is a magnitude larger than pensions www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Burnham is told axing pension triple lock would be ‘electoral suicide’ as he prepares to address Labour conference – UK politics live

Union leader says getting rid of triple lock not ‘the right thing’ as the PM prepares to lay out his ‘hope comes from honesty’ vision in Liverpool this afternoon

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Labour is dishonest when is uses the slogan “hope”, which, tellingly, it nicked from the Green Party, while touting a policy to make pensioners even poorer than they are already. The irony of having the slogan “Hope again” alongside headlines about Labour’s policy of making pensioners poorer…

HOPE AGAIN
UK POLITICS
Minister refuses to rule out scrapping state pension triple lock ahead of Burnham speech
• Burnham's deputy refuses to say if he will scrap triple lock - live

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David H @scarfwearer2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fans understandably analysing why England lost to Spain but worth noting that England are recently involved in the most entertaining matches - Croatia, Mexico, France and now #ENGESP . We remain round about 3rd or 4th best in the world but now far more interesting to watch!

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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What a ridiculous question. Once again the BBC drives a nail into it's own coffin.

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Ben Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is not patriotism. It is intimidation. Hundreds of masked men in black storming Dover Port, blocking nationally critical infrastructure and chanting “I’m England until I die” is a disgrace.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Students using ai is basically the outcome of subconsciously saying that outcomes matter over the process of learning. I'm not blaming educators for sending that message because it's the result of myriad accountability pressures but it is worth acknowledging the mistake and trying to repair it.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026

Keep hearing Starmer failed and wasn't prepared for Government. 30 bills completed the legislative stages in the 2024-2026 Parliamentary session, 70+ out of 95 manifesto pledges have been delivered or an in progress. If you don't like him just say that, don't pretend he hasn't delivered.

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Annnd it’s started❗️After BBC’ reporting Chinese whispers about Starmer being in his way out and they get to work on Burnham Kuenssberg takes the baton trivialising him as Labour’s best bet.. her “report” waffling tat She continues to studiously avoid Farage’s £5 million bunge as it’s no biggee 🤫

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David H @scarfwearer2.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

#ENGCRO After a nervy first half the Tuchel plan for England becomes clear. He wants England to overpower the opposition. If England really are the fittest, fastest, biggest and strongest team in the competition then maybe it can work. Some of his selections make sense in that context.

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David H @scarfwearer2.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I was amazed to see that one of the main headlines on BBC news last night was about a random bloke shouting at the Chancellor as she was being interviewed at a petrol station. What sort of process leads to this bizarre editorial decision?

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Jacg @jacg1.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

To a degree, I agree with you. After 14 years in Opposition & the sheer extent of problems left by Tories salting the ground, then within a few weeks, having to deal with FarageRiots, Trump re-election & Jeremy Hunt withholding info from the OBR in order to give a tax cut ahead of the GE, not to…

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Dave Cooper @coops1991.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Just an opinion, but I think the media want drama, chaos, panic, it’s their bread & butter. They loved the referendum & its outcome, even though many of them were repulsed by the result. They celebrated Johnson being in govt & the repulsive way he acted. Truss was a gift from the media gods! Now we

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Glenn Povéy @glennpovey.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Today's media circus is focused around sound bites and personalities. Some people seem to be that way too. They are often ignorant of policies, mainly because it takes effort to find the information. I couldn't care less who is the Labour PM. Policies are much more important.

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Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

People unable to put a coherent voice to the values of the great liberal enlightened that has created the most egalitarian, prosperous and free societies in history. Instead allowing the voices of division and barbarism take over

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm so happy for Daniel Radcliffe. Making the transition from a child actor, especially one thrust into the glare of the global spotlight with a huge franchise, to a constantly working adult actor, and without scandal, is itself an achievement! abcnews.com/GMA/Culture/...

abcnews.com

Daniel Radcliffe, Luke Evans, Rose Byrne lead 2026 Tony Award nominations

The 2026 Tony Awards will take place June 7 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026

A few posts this morning saying Starmer has no charisma, when did we decide the PM had to be charismatic, we had that with Johnson, how did that work out. Never mind his charisma or lack of this is what his Government has achieved in under 2 years, unprecedented and unreported by our 2nd rate media.

Status of the Government's King's Speech bills, parliamentary session 2024-2026

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David H @scarfwearer2.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

If the leader of a government is as important as the media make out then there should be a mandatory General Election if the government party decides to change its leader. It was the previous ridiculous government that established the silly idea that changing leaders endlessly was worth a try.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Reform is a racist party. Voting Reform is a racist act. We must not shy away from calling this out. They don’t get to hide behind “legitimate concerns” and feel sorry for themselves. Their hatred and inadequacy has made them very ugly indeed.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Vote Reform. Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you. It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.

Today we announce a new policy:

In order to deport all illegal migrants in
Britain, Reform will need to detain tens of
thousands at a time.

Migrants will not be able to leave these
detention centres, and each will be held
there a couple of weeks before being
deported.

So here's our promise:

A Reform government will not put any
migrant detention facilities in any
constituency with a Reform MP.

Nor will we put them where Reform
controls the council.

And of the remaining areas, we will
prioritise Green controlled parliamentary
constituencies and Green controlled
councils to locate the detention centres.

Put simply, if you vote in a Reform
council or Reform MP, we guarantee y

Put simply, if you vote in a Reform
council or Reform MP, we guarantee you
won't have a detention centre near you

If you vote Green, there's a good chance
you will,

This is an important exercise in
democratic consent, not just for our
mass deportation policy, but for where
the detention centres are placed

Given @ZackPolanski openly advocates
for open borders, I look forward to their
warm embrace of this policy

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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

😡😡😡😡 Now you see how the Nazis managed to do what they did. The fact that anybody could ‘announce’ this, publically, and millions will be greeting it with glee, says how low this country has sunk! Yeah right not YOU! But here it is. And after the Reform concentration/ICE camps - who will be ‘next’?

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Rick Johansen @eclecticblue.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I've been accused of all sorts of things for describing Reform Party UK Ltd as a fascist company masquerading as a political party, but what more proof do people need?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This is the offence of "undue influence" under the 1983 Representation of the People Act. Its potential applicability to these electoral communications may depend on the scope of the prohibition to "intimidate in any other way"

Undue influence
(1)
A person is guilty of a corrupt practice if the person is guilty of undue influence.

(2)
A person (“P”) is guilty of undue influence if P carries out an activity falling within subsection (4) for the purpose of—

(a)
inducing or compelling a person to vote in a particular way or to refrain from voting, or

(b)
otherwise impeding or preventing the free exercise of the franchise of an elector or of a proxy for an elector.

(3)
A person (“P”) is also guilty of undue influence if P carries out an activity falling within any of paragraphs (a) to (f) of subsection (4) on account of—

(a)
a person having voted in a particular way or refrained from voting, or

(b)
P assuming a person to have voted in a particular way or to have refrained from voting.

(4)
The following activities fall within this subsection—

(a)
using or threatening to use violence against a person;

(b)
damaging or destroying, or threatening to damage or destroy, a person’s property;

(c)
damaging or threatening to damage a person’s reputation;

(d)
causing or threatening to cause financial loss to a person;

(e)
causing spiritual injury to, or placing undue spiritual pressure on, a person;

(f)
doing any other act designed to intimidate a person;

(g)
doing any act designed to deceive a person in relation to the administration of an election.

(5)
For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3) an activity is carried out by a person (“P”) if it is carried out—

(a)
by P,

(b)
by P jointly with one or more other persons, or

(c)
by one or more other persons on behalf of P and with P’s authority or consent.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 03/05/2026

This is grotesque on multiple levels.

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Rob Richardson @drrobrichardson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Notwithstanding some really important issues, the ‘high street’ is becoming an increasingly mythical construct. The high street from say the 1970s, before out of town shopping centres and retail parks, and well before online retail, is long gone www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Don't ignore plight of High Streets, voters say, as local elections approach

Failing High Streets fuel a wider sense of political discontent which could prove crucial in the upcoming elections for English councils in May.

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Meanderer @meandering12.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

That’s the universal, far right ‘populist’ con job the world over. Funded by the non-tax paying rich, parroted by dishonest charlatans, boosted by deceptive media barons.

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Andy Conlon @andyht.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

All achievements will have an impact on your life. Some direct, some indirect. Change and achievement is about improvement for all.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The last thing someone who dances like this needs is a ballroom.

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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is what the Media want. This is what they are campaigning for. It’s not about you. It’s not about your community, your bills, your wages, your potholes. It’s about them. And keeping more of their money by ripping you off. #VoteLabour

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