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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 9h

'Brexit in its current form has caused more harm than good and I think around 60% of the British public now hold that view' Andy Burnham says rejoining the EU could be among options the government could examine to reshape the UK's long-term relationship with Europe

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14h

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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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh god yes. The naysaying on this… and in fact on anything hopeful… is beyond tedious. Where does anything start? With persuasion. Not the end product. We can’t know all the answers now but we can enthuse about the campaign, the idea, the hope… Why stamp so pedantically on that?

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have now slowly re-read the ruling, and it is even more damning than at first reading. The ruling pretty much sets out Manchester City was fraudulent on a systemic long-term basis. Not just mere non-compliance, but ‘concealments’ and ‘disguises’. Also some MCFC witnesses were ‘dishonest’.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And thirdly, he has to get off the immigration buzz when talking to and about Europe. All they want is for us to take asylum-seekers off their hands. The sole beneficiary is the UK. I can't see lectures on this meeting with approval at all; quite the opposite. 3

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026

Exclusive: Donald Trump supports a new plan to offer Russia sanctions relief in exchange for the release of political prisoners—a move likely to outrage Ukraine, Europe, and even some of his allies in Congress, @shustry.bsky.social reports.

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A Most Trumpian Plan to Make Nice With Russia

Trump’s envoy wants to trade Russian political prisoners for U.S. sanctions relief, creating a path to business deals before the war in Ukraine ends.

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wirralexpat.bsky.social @wirralexpat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These aren’t the immigrants Farage is looking for Previous SKY news anchor thinks it could bring the government down What on earth has happened to these people?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.

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Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

John Le Carré missed a trick. He never realised the sublime sexiness of having subtly malign foreign operatives drive around in white transit vans.

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Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

John Healey’s email to me as a Labour voter is not just toxically ideological, it’s also offensively stupid. Read the country, mate. Your reactionary masturbatory fantasy about “the British working man” is a reactionary masturbatory fantasy. You call it hope. It call it despair.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/09/2026

Almost all of Meta's PR about Muse was about how careful they had been to set it up not to do things like this, how they delayed the launch by months to carefully design it so it could be trusted. And then...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.

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Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the fundamental difference between Labour and the right. The latter craves power and relishes using it. Labour is terrified of it because of an imposter syndrome rooted in the belief - shared by the right - that England is a right wing country which sometimes allows Labour to govern.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tom Tugendhat in Sunday Times insists on leaving the ECHR to tackle “soaring” immigration. What a miserable rat. Lying to us all. Betraying our country’s best interests. Threatening to flounce out of our human rights framework, trashing our treaties and torching our protection from abuses of power.

The Tories are planning to make the ECHR a dividing line at the next election. Last week the party announced plans to deport every foreign criminal, apart from those convicted of the most trivial offences, and said their plan for ECHR withdrawal meant only the Conservatives were equipped to take on the problem of soaring immigration. One of the problems withdrawal would create is a legal dispute over whether it breaches the Good Friday agreement, which committed the UK to fully incorporate the ECHR into Northern Ireland's justice system. Tugendhat said the issue had not yet been raised in his conversations with lawmakers in the US, adding:
"There's a lot of work to be done."

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 27/09/2026

A new, publicly-owned bus company for London - with routes, fares and timetables set for the benefit of Londoners and visitors, not for private profit. The first route run by Buses for London will start next year. www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...

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TfL confirms when new publicly owned London bus company will launch

Sir Sadiq Khan has described it as a "bold new approach" for London's bus system

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Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A very good thread on the Labour Party’s craven terror of acting.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So no amount of polling showing freedom of movement or rejoin is popular is going to be believed by the cautious of the Labour Party, which is many of them at high levels. Added to which few of them know or care much about the EU, they just took it for granted.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Since I'm not going to Liverpool this year to discuss, a short state of play on UK EU relations and the Labour Party. The very short version - they're terrified. And trying to find ways to avoid the question none of which will work.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For years I've heard people like this complain "we aren't allowed to say what we really think". This is presumably the kind of thing they used to feel obliged to keep to themselves.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The clip here. via @matthewstadlen.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/paul...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What’s your legacy Johnson? Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this. The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure. You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin.

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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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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 26/09/2026

Putin claims that the rights of Russian speakers in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are being violated. We’ve heard that about Ukraine before the invasion. And no, nobody is violated.

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Simon Pease @simonpease.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a perfect example of leadership failure. No that’s too complimentary. Complete absence of leadership. Here is a British politician saying plainly that all they can do is follow the mob. They cannot put a different case for consideration. Abject cowardice. No sign of any thought.

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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Half of that BBC panel should be in jail for the way they discussed Brexit. Andrew Neil even tried to blame Remainers for not stopping the Brexit HE SUPPORTED! #Bbcqt

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Andrew Neil: Remainers should have stopped us! - Brexit Question Time

YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lethargy in place of strategy. New post on my fortnightly Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at the urgent lessons from the Reform mega-donations, Piddington, and the growth of the far right; reset inertia; and the real lessons from Canada & Carney: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/leth...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The scorpion has gone rogue again, says the dying frog.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hampshire police say man was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or endangering their safety under the Aviation & Maritime Security Act 1990, criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, & conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Merchant Shipping Act 1995

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reform would only be the third largest party in a hung parliament, were an election held today, according to a new YouGov MRP. Labour would likely need the support of the Lib Dems and SNP in order to govern

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just to make the point, I don’t think Shabana Mahmood is appeasing the far right because she thinks it’s electorally sensible. She’s doing so because she believes what they believe.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Evan Davis on PM asked if ‘Danny Tommo’ “had any kind of point” by puncturing a dinghy with a knife because “the [authorities] should be doing that themselves”. He went on to describe it as “vigilante action”.

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Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reading this LRB piece on Freud’s pathological mendacity I immediately thought of Trump: the ability to believe that you are preternaturally gifted and that no evidence however damning could ever contradict that fact. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

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Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen · How a Fabrication Differs from a Lie

‘Was Freud a liar?’ Ever since Frank Cioffi had the audacity to ask this question in 1973, it has continued to rock...

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Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The shocking thing about Labour governments is that they shamelessly only ever enact policies that are appealing to Labour voters .... Hang on, I’m getting a message in my earpiece. Well, this is very strange.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026

I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.

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Andy Squibb @squibbmeisteruk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It 'speaks' volumes that Shabana Mahmood has immediately called for an investigation by(?) Border Force into a second boat reaching the UK without interception; but, unless I've missed it, she has said bugger all about anything being done about the terrorist (not fucking activist!)… Daniel Thomas.🤬

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

With big thanks to @doctorofmusic.bsky.social, here's my discussion today with Lord Jackson about North Sea oil and gas. Tape your jaw to your face before watching. Really.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NEW | I’m not surprised, but I am livid. BBC NEWS, ‘DANNY TOMMO’ AND THE DINGHY ATTACK THAT DISAPPEARED While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bbc-news-d...

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BBC News, ‘Danny Tommo’ and the dinghy attack that disappeared

While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts.

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Waiting for the government to proscribe Patriot Platform is interminable. They could give the Police the powers to shut this down, but they won't, and so every incident will only be considered on its own narrow terms.

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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reform UK in Sunderland have pulled support for Show Racism the Red Card, calling them ‘a politically-charged organisation with an agenda’. That agenda is driving racism out of football. Sunderland stands against racism, even if our Reform council doesn't. www.sunderlandecho.com/news/people/...

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Charity hits out at Reform decision to withdraw support for Show Racism the Red Card

Charity and city MPs call on Reform led Sunderland City Council to reverse decision

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thread on the incident in the Channel.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Quick take on the Ed Davey speech: It's just not good enough. And everyone in that hall knows it. iandunt.substack.com/p/ed-davy-sp...

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Broadcast media and higher education are soft power -- important enough, you would think, for a government of a small country trying to punch above its weight internationally -- but they can also be EXPORTS, something that no modern government seems to understand?!

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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