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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just as a counterpoint to some of the obituaries this morning, here's the start of the Archer chapter in my history of political lying, The Lies of the Land:

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

somehow the game played in Australia with a team that showed up 5 min before kickoff with a coach who thought jet lag was a liberal conspiracy and another coach with a concussion was higher quality than this one

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chinese Govt owned Syngenta to cease operations at Grangemouth, 400 jobs at risk. Previously oil refinery closed. England-based British Steel rescued. What would govt do now? UK govts oppose state ownership but let foreign govts own infrastructure. Why? Any industrial strategy?

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Chemical firm to cease operations at Grangemouth site putting nearly 400 jobs at risk

The move comes just over a year after Syngenta, owned by state Chinese firm Sinochem, was given more than £2 million in Scottish Enterprise funding to expand its Scottish site

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🔴 Manchester City is what happens when the rich and powerful believe money trumps any rules or regulations I've written about club football's biggest ever scandal, and interviewed the brilliant @migueldelaney.bsky.social, for Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/manchester...

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Manchester City: club football's "biggest ever scandal"

I spoke to author Miguel Delaney about the UAE, industrial-scale cheating and football's “financial wild west.”

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CosyGapko @cosygapko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So UAE threatening the UK by saying investment will be affected in future if Man City charges are upheld…. Basically “let us cheat”. Integrity not a thing then. Laughable, if they’re not expelled then the games done with.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was thinking to myself earlier this week that it's better for the economy and the world to have 1,000 people who can afford a Rolls Royce than one person who can afford 1,000 Rolls Royces. It's weird to see a similar message in a political ad as if I manifested it. I agree with this 100%.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think this will be one of the defining images of the Premier League's void years: a proudly working class fanbase celebrating that the ruling family of an oppressive regime had hired a barrister on £10,000-an-hour to try and prevent them suffering consequences for their cheating. Embarrassing.

A bunch of mugs celebrating their perceived impunity

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wouldn’t disagree with much that Burnham said today in what was an excellent speech. But… 90% of the substance is focused on England catching up with Scotland (Bus fares, rail nationalisation, water in public control, free social care and PR in elections). Not much for Scotland except Unionism!

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The purpose of these schemes was found to have been to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900 million." That is an absolutely massive sporting fraud. www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...

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Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC

An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Why have we reached a stage where people call in to @natashadevon.bsky.social and say they want people to drown? Well headlines like this don’t help. Let’s forget that numbers are way down on years previous and just keep stoking fear and division. This is why the RNLI is under attack.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great photo from NYT’s Doug Mills appears to show authoritarian Xi Jinpeng gesturing toward the WH wall where Joe Biden is depicted as an autopen. Xi’s expression, to me, says “even I couldn’t get away with this shit”

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: Trump appointed judge orders the White House to immediately restore press credentials.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Two times Conservative British Home Secretary Suella Braverman here... X-ing away without an apparent care for the paradox

The invasion has reached Gosport- just
next door to Fareham,

Why?

Because successive governments have
made Britain a soft touch.

Only Reform UK will stop the invasion,.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A characteristically coruscating thread from Mr Snow.

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Captain Thugwash 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Laura Kuenssberg asks if it bothers Labour's Bridget Phillipson that people who create jobs and pay a lot of tax, citing, Jim Ratcliffe, move abroad - except, that's not the full story. My View: Did you know companies owned by Jim Ratcliffe have received public support worth around £630 million?

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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I didn't know any of this. Of course, none of it matters to someone who supports Trump.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fixed that story about Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the BBC.

Picture of man smiling with tea-mug. Headline reads: "Non-Billionaire who actually lives in the UK and pays its taxes says he has lost confidence in the super-rich", with sub-header: 'One of Britain's taxpayers says he has lost confidence in billionaires, describing them as "on the take"".

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Alexander Laufer @alexlaufer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Even just replacing "AI" by "software" paints such a different picture. "our software broke out and hacked some organisations". Who's reponsible now?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Spot on.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ok, so Liz Truss has taken up a job in Florida to talk about how to get Britain - the country that thinks she was a monumental failure - "back on track". Staying there would help...

Screenshot of a post on X by Liz Truss (@trussliz, verified account), timestamped 19:53, 17 September 2026, with 14.6K views, 9 replies, 15 reposts, 81 likes and 1 bookmark. The post reads: "Great to kick off my Semester as Senior Leadership Fellow at @FIU talking about British Politics and Government and how to get the country back on track."
It quotes a post from The Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom (verified account, posted 15 hours earlier), which reads: "We were thrilled to officially welcome our Fall 2026 Senior Leadership Fellows for an engaging conversation on leadership, public service, and the experiences that have shaped their careers. This conversation m…" (the text is cut off).
The quoted post includes a photo carousel. The main visible photo is a close-up of Liz Truss, in a navy blazer and a white high-necked blouse, holding a microphone in her right hand and gesturing with her left as she speaks, looking off to the side. Behind her is a navy backdrop bearing the FIU and Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom logos.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone

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WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront

ALT: WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here

the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.

I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 17/09/2026

1/22 Two stories in #TheHormuzCrisis caught me this morning. The first is the reported US-Houthi understanding over Red Sea shipping. The second is Saudi Arabia finding a new way to move crude through Oman after damage to its Red Sea export route and Yanbu.

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

2016: Nigel Farage says that if we Brexit other countries will also leave the EU 2026: Canada's Mark Carney accepts the Ursula von der Leyen's invite to explore becoming the first Associate Member of the EU My commentary follows, including a clip of Liz Truss saying Brexit will make us poorer

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Party that wants to retrospectively change rules so as to remove migrants also says retrospective rules on party funding are "dictatorship tactics".

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 15/09/2026

There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Okay, so let’s get one of those.

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Andrew Howard @amhoward.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This annoys me greatly, you’re the fucking government, you have the power to do something about it.

Labour email begging for donations, forgetting that it has made the choice not to include individual donor caps in the current legislation.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

US Justice Dept and Reform donor Ben Delo. Pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act. Built a company designed to flout US law; willfully failed to implement and maintain even basic anti-money laundering policies. $10 million criminal fine. 30 months of probation, waived by Trump.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

UK politics has never been a level-playing field financially. The Conservatives have always outspent other parties, & smaller parties invariably struggle for cash. But this is a different order of magnitude. It's the difference between having a larger army & an atomic bomb. Parliament *must* act.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

UK electricity grid update needed to accommodate renewables energy. National Grid paid £28bn+ in dividends since privatisation, lack of investment. Upgrade will add £100 a year to household bills. Companies raising funds from customers, not shareholders.

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Speed up electricity grid upgrade or else face higher bills, warns UK watchdog

National Audit Office says failure to implement £70bn modernisation would also hold back economic growth

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

South East Water aborted £200m bond issue after attracting insufficient demand. Expect more customer fleecing. England water companies are financially, environmentally and morally bankrupt. Up to one-third of your bill covers cost of debt. Public ownership is the only viable future.

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Embattled South East Water abandons bond issue as investors flee sector

The company, which has left thousands of customers in Kent without running water on several occasions, told investors this week that it would not proceed with the debt issuance, Sky News learns.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There were many ways in which the US and its allies could have responded to the horror of 9/11. But by building extreme security states, launching pointless forever wars and restricting domestic dissent, successive governments inflicted more harm on their nations than the terrorists could have done.

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