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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17h
The fight against the modern far-right will, like Cable Street before it, be a movement powered by people. Whether that is attending a march, leafleting, writing to your MP or a regulator, it will require all of us taking action - together.
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Fighting Farage every step of the way
“The fight against the modern far-right will, like Cable Street before it, be a movement powered by people.”
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Johanna Saunders @johannasaunders.bsky.social · 17h
A little hint at public opinion across the UK towards the Criminal in Chief of the USA. (You don’t have to input your email to vote or see results.) www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
On-brand. 'Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin completed the purchase of an £800,000 Grade-II listed property on the southern coast of Anglesey (Ynys Môn) two days after raising concerns in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities.' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch research contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus * Apparent exodus of super-rich suggests UK is no longer billionaires’ playground When the Sunday Times broke the news that David Reuben, one of the richest men in the UK, had apparently fled to the tax haven of Monaco, there was much pearl-clutching. Reuben had moved from his Holland Park house in London to live full-time in the principality. Labour’s tax regime was blamed, with fears that there would be a cascading effect across the economy with wealth draining from the UK. It was reported across the world that he had probably left because of potential taxes on wealth in the upcoming budget. Continue reading...
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 19h
Well done to @privateeyenews.bsky.social for calling the Tories out on this utter hypocrisy.....
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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: A forever chemical linked to harming fertility and babies in the womb, has been found in rivers and groundwaters across England. Our latest with @watershed-i.bsky.social and @theipaper.com ✍️ @leanahosea.bsky.social and @ellieodonnell.bsky.social
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Toxic ‘forever chemical' found in almost all rivers and groundwaters tested in England
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21h
Why Did Polymarket Trading Surge an Hour Before the Iran War Started? There was a major spike in Polymarket bets predicting the Iran War, an hour before Trump's strikes began, new analysis… bylinetimes.com/2026/10/07/why-did-…
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Why Did Polymarket Trading Surge an Hour Before the Iran War Started?
There was a major spike in Polymarket bets predicting the Iran War, an hour before Trump's strikes began, new analysis finds
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026
Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reform UK want - lower minimum wage - no protection for workers on zero hour contracts - fewer rights for women and disabled people But - tax CUTS for the super-rich meme via UNISON
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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone supporting this motion is, at best, an imbecile. More likely they're a straight up cunt. If Polanski backs it, it would be an outrage. But even his failure to speak out against it is pretty damning. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Greens urge Zack Polanski to take stance on proposed policy declaring ‘Zionism is racism’
The Green leader has not spoken publicly about the motion, which is likely to be debated at the party’s conference in October
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.
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Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Nothing matters anymore obviously, but in the old world of - oh I dunno - a couple years back, this would have been career ending. You'd either have to settle into obscurity or go to the US and start again.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Hilarious." via Barry James
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Does very much feel like the Badenoch Tories are a busted flush.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A second person has reportedly died from the plague, but Russian news articles about the outbreak are mysteriously disappearing from the web.
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Putin’s Goons Scramble as Deadly Plague Strikes Again
A second person has reportedly died from the plague, but Russian news articles about the outbreak are mysteriously disappearing from the web.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'There's no evidence of this' has really made me laugh.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 06/10/2026
"He shouldn't really be involved in this at all. But when he does get involved, his sympathy is for the men." Trump has spoken about the Cornell University rape case – but made it all about himself... www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
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Why is Donald Trump now involved in the Cornell gang rape case? | The News Agents
In 2024, a female student consented to a threesome with two men, but claims she was gang raped by several others invited by those involved. The case has sparked outcry on campus, and resulted in…
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 06/10/2026
RSPCA director chickens out. The body whose sole job it is to look after animals, gives factory farms a badge of ‘animal welfare’ - but the standards are so low, it’s endorsing animal abuse. buff.ly/2XNiZ6M
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 06/10/2026
America's long national nightmare (of overly complicated lawnmowers) is over. Thank God. Now we can all move on.
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“If the wife is fit, you must acquit”
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Two days before Norfolk County Council appointed its committee chairs, Ben Goldsborough MP had written to Reform group leader David Bick urging him to withdraw the whip from Karl Catchpole. Catchpole was subsequently made a select committee chair.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Reform leader says removing whip from Norfolk councillor would be ‘a waste of my time’
Concerns about Karl Catchpole’s social media posts were raised with Reform before his election and subsequent committee appointment
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Dragonrider "Is he dead yet?" 🐠🐟 Try/Me 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @topsyscatmum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He's absolutely batshit.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes indeed I'm rather tiring of the coverage... a convicted perjuror who brazenly lied his way through life and continued to attend the House of Lords even as this poor woman's life fell apart.
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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Watson is only the latest example of the wider revolving door between Westminster and Palantir. citizensreunited.substack.com/p/labour-blo...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just the dumbest collection of halfwit confetti emerging out of that conference. Tax cuts everywhere, paid for with imaginary spending cuts. Huge spending projects with precisely zero utility, except to anchor their 'defence day' narrative. Clowns.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "How long do you think its going to take for people to forget you ran the country for 14 years?" Helen Whateley, "Kemi has published an essay called The Right Way, really thinking about what's gone wrong with the country" 14 years of Tory austerity 🤷‍♀️
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Kerry @kerry10.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't know about anyone else but there is one news article that has scared me this morning. www.reuters.com/business/hea... We all know what Russians do with biological agents around the globe. This scares me!.
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Dozens quarantined in Siberia after plague institute lab worker dies
A laboratory worker at a plague research institute in ‌Siberia fell ill and died in undisclosed circumstances, prompting authorities to quarantine dozens of people and the head of Russia's health watc...
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh This is more than a bit worrying
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He literally set off a bomb in a UK street. If this had been the IRA Pierce would calling for them to be hung, drawn and quartered. This is domestic terrorism pure and simple. A bomb set off to terrorise with the aim of getting a government to change its policy. Literally a textbook definition.
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A retired engineer who destroyed @SadiqKhan ULEZ camera jailed for 15 years. A ridiculous sentence. No wonder our orisons are overcrowded

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Kevin Rees was sentenced to 15 years for causing an explosion likely to endanger life after using a homemade bomb to destroy a ULEZ camera in a Sidcup residential street, damaging cars and property up to 100m away with shrapnel near a child's bedroom.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Russia is working on bio-weapons in Siberia.
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨Public anger at Putin is at a boiling point: at a Communist Party rally in Moscow, protesters chanted "Down with the Tsar", causing a crackdown and mass arrests. 2 weeks ago, the Communist Party leader was warning Putin he was going to lose the war. Interesting times ahead.🍿
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Overcrowding in UK A&E depts and treating patients in corridors linked to hundreds of deaths. Neoliberals urge cuts in public spending, silence on human consequences. Delayed care leads to premature deaths People sacrificed to gods of fiscal policies.
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Overcrowding in A&E linked to 'hundreds of deaths a week', study finds
A review of more than 19,000 adult patients found that for every 10% increase in emergency department occupancy, the chance of dying in the following 28 days increased by 1%.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 05/10/2026
Not so Cleverly isn’t reading the room. London is ber pro EU. London set to become the first battleground over Labour’s push to undo the damage caused by Brexit, with the likely Tory candidate for mayor Sir James Cleverly saying he is ready to fight plans to rejoin.
independent.co.uk
Brexit to take centre stage in battle for London
Exclusive: Former foreign secretary Sir James Cleverly toldThe Independent’s political editor David Maddox why he is happy to make rejoining the EU an election issue in the London mayoral race
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For policy reasons relating to Europe, immigrants and economics Harold Macmillan Anthony Eden Ted Heath Benjamin Disraeli William Gladstone David Cameron Alec Douglas-Home and Winston Churchill wouldn't have been allowed in your cabinet, you feckless wazzock www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
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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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The decision of a growing number of forces to ditch Palantir shows it is simply not delivering value for money on contracts. It raises further questions about the risk:reward ratio of entrusting the company with sensitive data and contracts.
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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Full marks to Bobby J for not bothering to mention that this was entirely due to being given £45 million from the Labour government and told to do it. Even a Reform council couldn't fuck that up.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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cdlane.bsky.social @cdlane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This Week in Palestine: Israeli Settlers Carry Out More Pogroms and Israel Kills Another Gaza Journalist open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Super Idiot Force.
Donald J. Trump f @realDonaldTrump
Following the Historic White House Accord on Super Intelligence, where the World's most important Technology Companies came together, and confirmed their responsibilities to the American People, I am announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF). The Super Intelligence Force is tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans. The Super Intelligence Force will coordinate the Federal Government's engagement with Consumers, Public Interest Groups, Religious Organizations, Critical Infrastructure Providers, and Super Intelligence Companies, and will be led by Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Andrew Ferguson, Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, and Chief Technology Officer, Emil Michael, and Director of the Office of Personnel Management, Scott Kupor, and will report to the President of the United States (ME!), and the Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J.
TRUMP
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I dunno, buying a Tesla in 2024 feels like buying a Mercedes in 1938.
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ALT: a woman wearing a suit and a blue shirt is looking at the camera
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Ukraine Support 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @blue24world.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
US-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies War Criminal #Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with Dictator Trump’s envoys, #Kushner & #Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest 📷:Its author www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cabinet councillor steps aside amid police inquiry www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
GOOD FREAKING MORNING! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials
The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."
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