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And he’s got it wrong saying time for Ukraine to get a new president when it’s the USA that needs one!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone should read Robert Harringtons substack entitled ‘Russia, Russia, Russia!’ to understand Trumps relationship with Putin and Russia. No doubt Trump would call this ‘fake news’.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Leadership is often about judgement. So to put your leaders neck on the line in a vote and lose indicates poor judgement. Then also not to attend or to vote as the leader in a crucial policy vote demonstrates shockingly poor judgement. So one can understand why his leadership is being questioned.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Although Badenoch’s support of the England football team in the early 90’s may be questionable choosing Barnes and Wright over e. g. Saka and Bellingham might indicate who she is aiming her message at and thats not the current ‘young’ England supporter. Also interesting that she focused on football.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Acc. to ChatGPT Gillian Keegan tonight on Newsnight was wrong about inheritance tax in countries, wrong about the record of Labour v Tories on Youth unemployment and defence spending yet she wasn't picked up on these claims. The worrying thing is a loud, fast and assertive voice might seem right.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Badenoch was largely living in Nigeria when Barnes and Wright played for England so one wonders about her claim about them. Also why did she not refer to any current English players when she says she is such a fan?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Obviously laughable. But a reminder of how these people would behave in power: Financially benefiting the journalists and pollsters who do their bidding, legally pursuing those who do not.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This was their major announcement and yet again this leader does not know her stuff and has no eye for detail. She should have done her prep before the interviews this morning.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good riddance B1’s and B52’s. What (or more recently under Trump) the Americans ever done for us?

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Paradoxical! On the one hand Leveson stating the justice system is too slow and on the other ‘Prince’ Andrew reported to be getting a court hearing this Thursday.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Now is the time to stand up to Trump. No iffs no butts. Its clear all he’s bothered about is the US or should I say him and his family.He ain’t bothered about the UK. He aint borhered about about Europe.He ain’t bothered about Canada. Wake up! Do a Canada and be prepared.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

US removes all bombers from Fairford. This is monumental politically.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So when asked about death threats against politicians Badenoch only remembered the murder of Airey Neve, who died a year before she was born, not Jo Cox or David Amess. And also said threats against Nigel Farage and 'even' Keir Starmer were not on.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026

Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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Bill @williamquatman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trump, the most criminal and treasonous president in our nation's history.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Braverman not being "racist against myself" on her own identity To say Sunak & Marcus Rashford can not be English without at least English grandparents= an exclusionary racialised worldview, whether the MP saying it is white or Asian, just as saying they should be barred as MPs withoit one would be

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Theres absolutely no excuse for violence but when you encourage it, laugh about it, stoke divisions and hate and inflame tensions it surely cannot be a surprise that it leads to some indulging in it.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Watched Question Time and Braverman and her view that she is British not English and wondered if she thinks her children are English. And also if Scotland and Wales became independent would she suddenly become English or remain British when Britain would be no more.

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Bob Shields @robbo03.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage actually typed this into the internet. Please don't adjust your irony meter.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He didn’t double down on the £5 million being for security. Instead he came up with other reasons for it and in fact, showed that he was so in need of security that, he said that he could buy a Ferrari with it if he wanted.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Theres absolutely no excuse for violence but when you encourage it, laugh about it, stoke divisions and hate and inflame tensions it surely cannot be a surprise that it leads to some indulging in it.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The president has repeatedly exhibited bizarre conduct in the public eye. Not only does that include taking naps during public events, but also erratic behavior, slurred speech, appearing lost or disoriented, and sporting mysterious bruises.” newrepublic.com/post/215938/...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He's so thick and lacking anything intelligent to say that all he can do is rename things - technology, centers, lakes, gulfs etc. So shallow!

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He's so thick and lacking anything intelligent to say that all he can do is rename things - technology, centers, lakes, gulfs etc. So shallow!

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25/09/2026

This is what Reform UK do when they're in charge.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I bet Trump didn’t make adverse comments about Xi’s dress.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I bet Trump didn’t make adverse comments about Xi’s dress.

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 24/09/2026

"We've got a child leading chants of 'let them drown!' in the United Kingdom in 2026." James O'Brien is disgusted by the 'incremental fascist decline' of the country.

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Sue Carr @scarr54.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve been saying exactly this for over a year.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So the US is “working on a deal” to buy Potash from a dictator allied with Putin instead of Canada.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

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Stephen Ball @sdball16.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Police arrest 17 people in Teeside and probably say 'you cause the death of our colleagues and we will get you, you bastards!'

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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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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That has prompted me to share this - written by Will Self in the New European a while back - but it absolutely sums up the infantile inadequacy of Mogg and his general inability to cope with life and get over his own ridiculous prejudices….

Much has been made in the past of how close Jacob Rees-Mogg's relationship has been with his former nanny, Veronica Crook. She's been known to canvass for him at elections - and has gone on to be nanny to Jacob's own children; when he was at Eton, she came weekly to change his sheets for him: he doesn't do domesticity in any way, shape or form, while retaining other obviously neotenous characteristics now well into middle age. A friend quoted by Ashcroft says of him: "He hates foreign food. He hates bananas. He hates showers. He hates hotels. He is not a linguist. He seldom, or never, even holidays in Europe. He genuinely believes England, not Britain, is the best country in the world and that Somerset is the best county in England."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/09/2026

Trump miscalculated on this one.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21/09/2026

Breaking news: CNN, MS NOW and Politico say they are suing the government after President Trump banned the news organizations from the White House in recent days.

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CNN, MS NOW, Politico to sue over White House bans

President Donald Trump banned the news organizations from the White House in recent days, calling them “fake news.”

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

His brain is completely broken. What the actual fuck is this nonsense

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