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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

New on our Substack: The rise to power of Andy Burnham, a vocal critic of first past the post, has put reform back on the political agenda. @robfordmancs.bsky.social explains what this means, and the necessary conditions for reform. thepoliticalquarterly.substack.com/p/has-the-mo...

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Not beating the Putin-lover allegations

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14/10/2026

You're a guard at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park and Donald Trump is being mauled by a tiger. You can either save the president or shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo; do you select high contrast color film, or do you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

*opens leaflet for painkillers* "Let's see, side effects may include dizziness, nausea, constipation... and calling for regicide based on racist conspiracy theories, yes it is on there"

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

An undercover investigation by ITV Exposure into Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has found multiple elected councillors and party candidates expressing racist views and using offensive language, calling Muslims “parasites” and describing black children as “animals”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Reform UK councillors and candidates filmed making racist and extreme comments

Party faces fresh crisis as three councillors quit after ITV undercover filming exposed violence, misogyny and racist views

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

So Trump not only disarmed Ukraine by removing the Starlink/Starshield capability with defensive drones (the system only operates in Ukraine), he blinded it too with withholding advanced warnings of Russian missile attacks. How evil, cowardly and craven. Is Kash Patel still in Moscow

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farawaywatcher.bsky.social @farawaywatcher.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Mr Trump - it continues because Russia occupies parts of Ukraine and wants the whole. Ukraine is still fighting to avoid becoming part of Russia. You fight bad and dirty to remain in power in your country. Why don’t you stop fighting release the Epstein files and take what’s coming. It’s the same

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

…. And then it’ll be like that poem. By the time they come for you there’ll be no one left to speak for you. Ps unless you are an EXTREMELY wealthy non-disabled cishet white man they’re probably already coming for you.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Absolutely dying laughing at 'heavily medicated' at the time. Yeah, I remember when I hurt my arm and was on codeine, I too started seeing secret Muslims whenever I looked at the Royal Family.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Oh well. Nevertheless.

Not an easy piece to write. But only Trump is likely to jolt the EU out of its malaise. My piece for
@politico.eu

Headline: Europe should hope for a Trump victory

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:

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Ukraine blindsided by Starlink restrictions and intelligence gaps

Moscow ignores Donald Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ while Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I basically think if you've ever written a 'defence spending has to go up' column (and I've written a fair few), you have no business asking any one else to take a hit from *that* if you won't even take the hit of not being on X.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Just a thought about the FBI director and Russia… Now Wikileaks is back, has it got another October surprise via Russian intelligence services? Assange keeps banging on about the Epstein files. Have the GRU given him something which would make Trump comply with Putin? Just a thought

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

They got me to film a video for Instagram to promote this. Hateful filming yourself but needs must. still, always nice to give anonymous racists something to shout at of an evening, eh?

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The way we – and institutions such as the BBC – frame these cases is of such great importance, because it helps set the tone around what is happening but also because it holds a mirror up to (at least part of) our society. Ugly reflection, I'd say

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They last time we knowingly withheld a standard of care from impoverished Black people to understand progression of disease was the Tuskegee study. Let’s not do it again. SIGN OUR PETITION TO CONGRESS TO STOP THE “STUDY” NOW: www.standupforscience.net/petition-to-... @standupforscience.net

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Sign the Petition to Congress to Stop RFK's Guinea-Bissau Study — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Join with SUFS to sign the Petition to the US Congress to demand they take immediate action to halt the quack science "study" RFK intends to launch in Guinea-Bissau, which will intentionally withhold ...

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Environmental Pillar @envpillar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Environmental law is being unravelled at EU level & nature needs your voice! We demand that our European leaders defend the laws that protect people & nature, not bow to polluters & vested interests. Speak up for nature – sign the Hands Off Nature petition www.environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...

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Hands OFF Nature! - The Environmental Pillar

Europe - Don’t turn your back on nature! Behind the EU’s ‘simplification’ agenda, crucial environmental safeguards are being quietly dismantled. We’re not calling deregulation by name, but the reality...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/10/2026

I would be EXTREMELY annoyed to discover my PR is "AI"-generated, and as someone bombarded with dozens of "AI"-generated emails daily, I assure you the stink of "AI" is immediately noticable and immediately dismissible. Publishers are not doing their new books any favors in using it.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Caught red-handed with sensitive national defense documents he was not legally entitled to possess, Trump obstructed justice by moving them around to evade detection. Now, he has the audacity to blame the investigators. His mentor, Roy Cohn, would be proud. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...

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How the White House Manufactured a Narrative About a Trump Aide’s Call Logs (Gift Article)

A release of selected records from the classified documents inquiry is a case study in how omitting context can create political ammunition.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Times from ten years ago this week. They were wrong. In fact Brexit is costing the UK economy roughly £100 billion a year. #ProjectFear

Hard Brexit
could cost
£66bn a year

Leaked Treasury papers reveal lost revenue

Sam Coates Deputy Political Editor
Ollver Wright Policy Editor

Cabinet ministers are being warned
that the Treasury could lose up_to
£66 billion a year in tax revenues under
"hard Brexit", according to leaked
government papers.

GDP.could fall by as much as 9.5 per
cent if Britain leaves the single market
and hastorely on WorldTrade Organi-
sation rules for trading with the conti-
nent, compared with ifit stayed within
the EU,theforecasts show.Such a steep
drop in revenue would force ministers
to slash public spending or raise taxes.
The £66 billion drop, contained in a
draft cabinet committee paper seen by
The Times, is nearly a tenth of the
£716 billion that the government is pro-
jected to collect in taxes this year,and is
equivalent to 65 per cent of the annual
budget of NHS England.

Business leaders are_increasingly
worried that the UK could fail to nego-
tiate a deal with the 27 remaining EU
members by the time it leaves the
union, and will face a "cliff edge" of
trade tariffs and barriers,

Several cabinet ministers who sup-
ported Remain are stepping up efforts
to prioritise business concerns and the
economy in Brexit discussions, fearing
that Leave supporters fail to realise the
scale of potential damage, It comes as:;
○ Theresa May faces a potential legal
challenge by a group of Conservative
MPs over the decision to begin Brexit
negotiations without parliament's
approval. The prime minister's spokes-
man ruledoutgiving MPs a voteyester-
day,saying thatitwould"second guess'
the will of the British people.
○ Dominic Grieve, the former attor-
ney-general, said that unless the gov,
ernment could agree,a deal supported
by parliament it would not survive.
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A Tory backbencher suggested that
British companies should hire disabled

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people to do the work of EU migrants
after Brexit.

Mrs May visited Denmark and the
Nethe…

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Bosphorus Observer @yoruk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump has been hiding his Russian diesel deal for over a month: the deal was announced yesterday, but it was likely agreed when Witkoff and Kushner visited the Kremlin on 5th September. While Trump was signing the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 on 18th September,…

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Was not the fault of Brexit but of the world to be what the proponents wanted it to be, whatever that actually was.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas
Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy. Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. I am also preventing, on a constant basis, a War between South Korea and North Korea, and Japan and North Korea. Add China and Taiwan, and numerous other hot spots, which have not been involved in Wars, only because of President Donald J. Trump, and the United States of America. I am responsible for having NATO countries increase spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defense, another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries in Eastern Europe. Additionally, I have brought 196 hostages HOME from captivity, from all over the World, and did it without having paid a ransom, unlike Biden and Obama who would pay Billions of Dollars. On top of it all, I have created a soon to be very prosperous Arctic. Despite all of this, the Nobel Prize was given today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. In all of the Wars that I have settled, I never spoke to the United Nations—they were of no help. The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t. This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten. The Nobel “Peace” Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 10/10/2026

if I'm being entirely honest, there is a small but nevertheless present part of me that would, if it were possible, watch both De Gaulle movies back to back again tomorrow

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If Americans view, clip, share, and permanently enshrine an American public killing in a million ways on the internet, we will move towards fascist rituals of violence. snyder.substack.com/p/four-wrong...

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Four Wrongs of a Public Execution

Psychological, Historical, Political, and Ethical (Video and Text)

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Following US regulatory models is looking less and less attractive

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Pete @ouch-that-hurts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

All the media are currently ignoring how he's clearly acting against Ukraine and Europe. The US are a clear and present danger, meanwhile the UK government is still handing over political and commercial control to American companies

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 10/10/2026

⚡️️️️️️️'Will only lead to more slaughter' — bipartisan backlash erupts in US over Trump-Russia diesel deal. Lawmakers from both major parties argued the move would undermine recent sanctions, provide Moscow with billions in revenue, and contradict efforts to pressure Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

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'Will only lead to more slaughter' — bipartisan backlash erupts in US over Trump-Russia diesel deal

Lawmakers from both major parties argued the move would undermine recently enacted sanctions against Russia, potentially provide Moscow with billions of dollars in revenue, and contradict Congress's e...

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I would laugh but it‘s actually not that funny

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is not the time to ease pressure on Russia, and Europe won’t. On Monday, EU Foreign Ministers intend to approve the biggest set of sanctions listings targeting Russia’s war machine since the start of the war.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 10/10/2026

WOOOHOOO I FEEL ALIVE walked into the Institut Français at 11am and just left it now (aside from a brief break to launch myself at a jambon beurre at 2pm) WHAT a way to spend a day, fucking hell, cried so many times I actually had entirely dry eyes by the time Paris actually got liberated

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

July 31: Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran to launch assaults on US troops October 9: Trump is doing a diesel deal with Russia (which can now use that money to provide intelligence to Iran in launching assaults on US troops)

Donald J. Trump O @realDonaldTrump

a I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel. Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP 117 ReTruths 323 Likes

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Anecdotally what seems to be happening is that the Home Office is refusing all student visa applications from certain countries. The Treasury should have told them to knock if off years ago but at this point the FCO needs to tell them to stop trying to cause an international incident.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Huge respect for Caroline Lucas this week, repeatedly standing up to antisemitic entryism while remaining staunchly critical of Israel and the government's failures on that front. You can see why she used to be leader

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Makers of cars, airplanes, tobacco products and opioids have all been forced by lawsuits to change how they do business. They made their products safer, restricted access to them or both."

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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

..also "nobody knows anything about this woman" is hilarious. Navi PIllay is a legend in international law and human rights. More than 30 years of service. EVERYONE in this field knows her.The fact that this idiot does not speak about him, not her. Hilarious, the arrogance and idiocy of it all.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

i don't want a unifying Dem who promises to return to good government. i want an angel of death who promises the government the reconstruction amendments promise.

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Sojourners @sojo.net · 09/10/2026

"There’s so much that has been done before. Activists feel like they have to reinvent the wheel when there’s been so much work done in the past that we can learn from." sojo.net/articles/int...

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Why Libraries Are Crucial to Faith and Justice Movements

Keegan Osinski on how libraries can help churches and how churches can help librarians.

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Lizzy Price @lizzyjprice.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Absolutely spot on. Let’s instead pause on these words by @iandunt.bsky.social in respect of London in the context of today’s byelection. “They hate it because it is beautiful, & it works, & that success provides a comprehensive refutation of their worldview.”

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Simon Seligman @oybat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am so sorry that this tide of effluent, from pig-shit ugly, prejudiced, emboldened racists, which you’ve had to deal with (with incredible patience & dignity) is still rising, & impacting on your life. I fear we are entering a(nother) decade of profoundly shameful times as a country on this issue.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘Culturally British by my standards’ is one of the most chilling phrases uttered in British politics. Entirely unsurprising to me who it’s from.

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Andy Prentice @andyprentice.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Think Uk & EU should make any contracts in crypto unenforceable. No complex legislation required and reduces crypto ‘value’. File under things that should but won’t happen.

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Debating Room @debatingroom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The whole point of crypto is that it avoids regulation. That's what makes it so attractive to tax avoiders and authoritarian regimes. Cryptocurrency only ever funds the cancers of society.

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Peter Deacon @peterdeacon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Delo and Harborne are the definition of creepy

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