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Liam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 14h

Counterpoint; You can hate him because he was the absolute embodiment of the sort of self serving, lying, psychopathic bastard who was happy to trample all over the lives of those he felt were "beneath him" in order to satisfy his own greedy aims that have infested UK politics for the last 50 years.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?

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Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m

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Ashwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The best reform would be to switch around the rates so that rates go up with income rather than falling when you get to £125,140 and there aren’t additional penalties for having children. /5 🧵

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Ashwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

However, it is perfectly possible to remove this cliff edge without offering a giveaway to higher earners: simply adjust tax thresholds downwards so the change is revenue neutral. This will effectively be a redistribution from high earners without children to high earners with. /2 🧵

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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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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dobropillia had 28,170 residents before Russia’s full-scale invasion. Now the city has been destroyed. Russian propagandists still call this devastation the “liberation of Donbas.”

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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So, Russia bombed another bridge in Kyiv today that connects left and right banks . It’s the 5th attack on bridges in Kyiv in these 4 days . People left stranded , can’t get to work or get back home . Nothing military about it . only Russia trying to terrorise us into submission .

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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

This mindset is the least we deserve from a leader. Of course it has to be turned into action. But this kind of ambition and love for the country, this kind of personal but positive vision is what takes people with you. How feeble-minded Farage and Badenoch seem. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Photo of Burnham waving to the audience in front of HOPE AGAIN backdrop

Burnham was not going to die wondering. He knew he might be delivering one of the longest suicide notes in history, but he did it anyway. Because he couldn't not do it. Better to go down remaining true to his principles than being slowly airbrushed out of history like the previous six prime ministers. Failures all. Andy was prepared to burn through all his political capital right there in Liverpool, right then. Not just for his own legacy but for a country he wanted to rebuild. It was the only way he could look himself in the mirror.
Honour his parents.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The editors of The Express are utterly reprehensible. Andy Burnham teared up when having the courage to pay tribute to his dad, just two weeks after he died, in front of thousands of people. And they use it to attack him. They are devoid of basic decency and humanity. Poisonous for our discourse.

Express: It's a crying shame for our nation.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And recall: “one piece of evidence of failure [of Brexit] would be if we are still debating this in five- or six-years’ time in the same way. I think [if] it is to succeed it needs to settle in the British polity.” David Frost (2022). Pretty clear we now have that evidence of failure.

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

Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Farage (et al) literally panting for Fairford to be linked to asylum seekers and, as usual, the ludicrous demand for immediate information with totally irresponsible implication that the absence of such information is suspect.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The ‘harm’ from immigration is illusionary. The harm from too little immigration is all too real.

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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why does Tugendhat want to discuss the impact of the UK leaving the EU on Northern Ireland with US lawmakers? It's not for them to decide. Leaving the ECHR would breach the UK's commitments under tge Good Friday Agreement. ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/t...

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The European Convention on Human Rights and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement - UK in a changing Europe

Joelle Grogan and Alice Donald explain the relationship between the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the European Convention on Human Rights.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes, there are technical, formal legal reasons why terrorism law is applied to protesters carrying placards, but not to political activists slashing boats. But stepping back, there is something wrong with a legal regime which criminalises one more than the other. A triumph of form over function.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea .

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Think this gets at something quite important: 'If sustained evidence of changing public opinion can justify reopening a fundamental constitutional question in Northern Ireland, why shouldn’t [it] at least allow us to reconsider Britain’s relationship with the EU?'

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Desperate vulnerable people crossing the channel are not a significant problem. Violent thugs marauding on our streets are a significant problem.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And now more than a thousand reposts of this. Thank you all. Yes, there is perhaps a technical reason why one is ’terrorism’ and the other is not, but sometimes one has to stand back and see the law as simply being the wrong way around.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Will the AfD winning in Saxony-Anhalt I've taken the paywall off the post I wrote last year about how memories of WW2 are being distorted by them and other radical right parties. "Never again?" samf.substack.com/p/never-agai...

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Never again?

Memory entrepreneurship and the radical right’s assault on the postwar order

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I plead with people not to propagate their "it won't make a difference; his supporters love him" gloom. Actually, Farage is on the ropes and he didn't get there by himself. He's there because people continue to believe resistance does make a difference. It's also wrong on the facts. 1/3

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?

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Elinor Elliot @elinorelliot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That smirking fuck is still smirking at us from beyond the grave.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 01/09/2026

This is sad news indeed, the theme music must live on, as performed in the back room of a pub in Manchester youtu.be/6bRcYfpcUjM?...

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Ski Sunday - Dream Themes

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David McGuinness @davidmcguinness.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

fantastic - no surprise you couldn't fit the words in too youtu.be/hCIWyKey0BI?...

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Ski Sunday!

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I love that this is how I found out Starmer stepped down as an MP

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 31/08/2026

Conservative policy: - Demand criminals get long sentences - Don't build prisons to house them - Oppose early release of prisoners - Cut prisons budgets so that fewer people are rehabilitated 👍

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Officially, the water industry in England is regulated. Practically, it's unregulated. There's no difference between what it does under the eye of the Environment Agency and what it would do if the EA did not exist. The EA is completely useless, by design. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny

Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.

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Daniel/Moxco @leedsista.com · 26/08/2026

I usually just want to forget the Carabao Cup as early as possible, but this time I'm keener it should count: Dan James, James Justin, Lukas Nmecha, three goalscorers in a 2-0 win. Read about #LUFC at Forest (again)

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Nottingham Forest 0-2 Leeds United: They all count

I usually just want to forget the Carabao Cup as early as possible, but this time I'm keener it should count: Dan James, James Justin, Lukas Nmecha, three goalscorers in a 2-0 win.

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Having been to the shops, I have a question: who decided that everything needed to have hot honey in it, and how do we stop it?

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

So grim that this week Nathan Cofnas is the most discussed philosopher in the world.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just imagine a political system in which small extremist parties end up dictating the policies of the larger parties

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Those demanding a public inquiry for any reason should be careful what they wish for. Inquiries are easily rigged and often delayed and their recommendations ignored. Inquiries are not magic. theemptycity.com/blog/2023/05...

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Why who controls the flow of evidence is crucial in any public inquiry

30th May 2023 Techies have a phrase for the principle: GIGO – garbage in, garbage out. In essence, outputs tend to depend on inputs. With legal(istic) processes – trials or inquiries &#…

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Modest proposal: companies trilling 'Our lines are busier than usual' on an ongoing daily basis get fined £1000 per minute for each caller kept on hold over 5 minutes.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just a thought, but is it perhaps time for a responsible news media to stop reporting the dribbling arseblurts of these fools? Seriously, this is on a par with “Bloke down the pub says it’s a well-known fact that there’s no actual evidence that smoking is bad for you.”

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The momentum of this issue is in the wrong direction. The line should be: We're roasting, we're exposed to wildfires, we're experiencing drought, and these nutters aren't prepared to keep British people safe.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Reform put this crap out for attention and in order to appear like a serious political outfit. They're in fact DEEPLY unserious and should be treated as such. Far too many people start to engage with what is essentially a game of pigeon chess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Reform UK benefits ban for foreign nationals would include EU citizens

The move would require renegotiating the UK's Brexit deal and could risk stripping British expats living in the EU of similar rights.

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 16/08/2026

It is really depressing to read that choice of headline when living under russian drones and missiles thrown at civilians everyday. Those false equivalence headlines make me want to quit my job.

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