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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 12h

You have to make a lot of noise to be thrown out of a library these days.

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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 12h

The Jaguar Type 01: a £150k gargantuan getaway vehicle utterly useless in the city Too costly for most, too large for UK car parks, and wheels bigger than a warlord’s pickup truck. But it does come in ‘London red’ www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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The Jaguar Type 01: a £150k gargantuan getaway vehicle utterly useless in the city

Too costly for most, too large for UK car parks, and wheels bigger than a warlord’s pickup truck. But it does come in ‘London red’

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"

Misleading statement by "journalist" Andrew Pierce

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@AlanWalter @alanwalter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m an RNLI volunteer crew member and I invite her to get on a plane from her hideout in Dubai and say that to my face here in the UK

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14h

From the new Private Eye

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 20h

Today Kemi Badenoch is going to tell #CPC26, and the media circus, that this is a new Conservative party, under new leadership, and getting back to core Conservative values. This lot. New leadership? New values? I shit you not. #r4today bsky.app/profile/josh...

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Paul Murphy @paulmurphy.bsky.social · 21h

Hope someone on #R4Today will be asking how Badenoch hopes to increase defence spending, policing, & prison expansion while delivering all those tax cuts?

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Malcolm LibDem🔶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @malcolmdw.bsky.social · 19h

A party with no soul battles for the soul of the nation! Well it's NOT getting my soul!

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 06/10/2026

The Conservative plan for an Iron Dome defence system is yet another gimmick from a party that has lost all credibility on defence. The Liberal Democrats are calling for a Growth and Defence Partnership with Europe - to make us stronger, richer and safer. @JamesMacCleary.bsky.social

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch proudly unveils the Tories proposed £10 billion air defense system called “Britannia Shield”

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aldtu.bsky.social @aldtu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols buff.ly/6ldTs7x Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement @marisharay.bsky.social @libdemwomen.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk

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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols

Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 06/10/2026

13.8 billion years of cosmos. 4 billion years of life Earth. All of it led here, to you.

Carl Sagan. Cosmologist and humanist. 'Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. How to be a happy human.

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Sarah Dyke MP 🔶 @sarahdykeld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek, I’m celebrating the creativity and different ways of thinking people with dyslexia bring to our communities. Everyone deserves the chance to thrive. That means recognising dyslexia and ensuring schools and workplaces provide the right support.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is such a sick, evil thing to say. Especially because he’s not saying this as a joke. Just as sick that his supporters are laughing at it

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thing about Badenoch is her immense self-confidence does communicate itself to voters and is one reason her ratings have improved. But you've got to think during a campaign more people would notice it is entirely unjustified.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I continually struggle to reconcile “Kemi Badenoch, who as business secretary went ‘getting rid of all retained EU law would be the act of a nutty arsonist’ and backed Rishi Sunak in 2022” with “almost everything Kemi Badenoch does and says as leader of the opposition”.

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Tony Robertson @socialliberaltony.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Tories decimated the prison & probation services & they left us defenseless. Now they have hugely expensive plans to sort out the latter (Britannia Dome indeed) & the former is somehow nothing to do with them and they're angry at the state of things! You literally couldn't make this up.........

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Welcome to the serious fiscal responsibility party, where we believe that what the United Kingdom needs is its own version of the Iron Dome.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own

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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Badenoch on #R4Today claiming the Tories’ problems started with the Coalition when they “had to make compromises” and were perceived as “not proper Conservatives”. Cameron/Osbourne absolutely steamrollered the Lib Dems, got all they wanted, and left Clegg &c. as patsies. What is she on?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Voters loathed the Tory party when they booted them out in 2024.They really needed to shake off their disgrace with humility and better ideas. They haven’t. They’ve doubled down. More Brexit, more austerity, more anti-immigration ugliness, more tedious arrogance… and no good reason to vote for them.

Party seems to have learnt nothing from 2024 defeat
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The Conservative Party is keen to show it is now ready to return to government, two and a half years after a
historic defeat.

Their self-soothing explanation posits that defeat came from not being able to do what they wanted

No such pivot is happening at the current conference. The Tories have come to Birmingham calling for a return to orthodoxy, with similar lines about cutting benefits and regulation. Even so, they seem trapped by the same contradictions
- pledging to cut benefits, but not the winter fuel payments and triple lock on pensions that go to their voters.
There is no "hug-a-hoodie" moment in Birmingham. The Conservative Party is not indicating that it has changed or seeking to broaden its appeal. It is doing the opposite: it is a party returning to its core, restating all the old ideas voters have rejected but louder.

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Daniel @deargodwhaat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I feel like someone along the line should have noticed this

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Sean Kemp @seankemp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yep, when I catch up with other former Lib Dem Spads we just sit around cackling about how we destroyed the Tories by making them compromise on key issues. ‘Wow we totally screwed their electoral chances for a decade’ we say as we laugh into our drinks.

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Tony Robertson @socialliberaltony.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not sure how the Tory leadership has twisted itself into being anti-environment or indeed why. Only reason that comes to mind is parroting what Reform stands for.

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Tony Robertson @socialliberaltony.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Greens have been taken over by the socialists who left Labour recreating the party in their own image.

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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What Trump and Hegseth are saying is that one of the most powerful squadrons in the US Air Force, the most power air force in human history, has been scared off by 5 half wits in a transit van. Trump is turning you into a laughing stock, lads.

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Aprilciate🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @aprilciate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All this Green Party stuff just illuminates the need for the Layla Morans out there. People with key lived experience that aligns with their political ambitions- these issues seemingly bolster agency to many who are not as qualified

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Tony Robertson @socialliberaltony.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Indeed, but Ed found it difficult to say this for reasons I can't understand.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Tory party is fundamentally unserious

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Tony Robertson @socialliberaltony.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My Dad was a 'classic old school Conservative' & he'd no more recognise that in Badenoch than he'd vote Labour! He died in 2009 bemoaning the state of his party & what it was becoming. So, no, Kemi you're no 'classic old school Conservative'. I'm a Liberal I might add - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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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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Rebecca Jones 🔶🇪🇺 @rebeccajones03.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Excellent statement by the party on this. We must build a longstanding peace, and the only way we do that is with a two state solution. Any other idea will not protect Palestinians, and it will continue to make our Jewish communities feel unsafe and unwelcome. We must all do better.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch takes a rather different view. For her, being the Nasty party is a badge of honour. An aspiration. People had had it far too good with austerity, Brexit, Covid and the Liz Truss mini-budget. The country needed a reality check; a return to old-fashioned unpleasantness.

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For Kemi, being the Nasty party is not toxic but a badge of honour | John Crace

The Tory leader says the party’s plans to cut people’s benefits are no more than ‘common sense’

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If Badenoch could replicate the popularity she enjoys at the BBC with the rest of the country she'd win the next election by a landslide. The uncritical nature of the puff piece by ##bbclaurak is embarrassing.

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Gravekeeper Failure 🪦 @ptrtlrwrts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is absolutely mental.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Despite appearances, the Conservative Party is not a cult. Cults are good at recruiting new members.

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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Only white people can be English - Suella Braverman Every single black and brown person in the UK will be in danger if Reform UK ever wins an election.

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Suella Braverman accidentally exposes Reform UK racism - BBC Question Time

YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!

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Tony Robertson @socialliberaltony.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe it should have read STV (Single Transferable Vite) as that is the only really proportional voting system.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Burnham has called for proportional representation. SV is absolutely not a proportional representation system. It is not clear if Burnham knows this but it is pretty certain that those appointed to an electoral reform commission charged with considering a move to PR will know this.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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Tony Robertson @socialliberaltony.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A workplace pension should be what workers are keen to join as it will be a good investment in their future. But pay people so little they consider not joining/even leaving a workplace pension scheme & poverty in old age is very much on the cards, together with higher welfare bills for government!

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Tony Robertson @socialliberaltony.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes indeed, simplistic left-wing populism, the Greens are on a path which could easily return them to the political wilderness.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Will the Greens also cap the mortgage market for 3 years? This is when you realise the Greens simply arent a serious party and havent thought things though properly. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Zack Polanski to call for three-year cap on private rent rises

In his speech to his party's conference, the Green leader will frame housing as a key issue of generational fairness.

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2 October 1869. Mohandas K Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India. He was the key advocate of non-violent resistance to British rule in India. His method of non-violent protest inspired other movements for peace, civil rights and freedom across the world.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations to Suella Braverman for her Question Time appearance - I didn't think it was possible for her to come across as any more deranged and stupid than usual, but she somehow managed it.

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Tony Robertson @socialliberaltony.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The UK right-wing media try to make out that PM Burnham's a socialist. He very much isn't. As a Social Liberal I'm likely to be to his left in many areas. Calling anyone who is slightly progressive in the UK a socialist is as daft as progressives being dubbed 'Liberals' in the US.

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Tony Robertson @socialliberaltony.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a Tory crime. They closed prisons/did not build new ones. No one else to blame; they should hang their heads in shame as the party once of law and order! I carry no candle for Labour as a Social Lib of the left but on this Labour is not guilty, case dismissed - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Hundreds of criminals leave prison under early release scheme

Around 4,500 inmates are expected to be released early by June 2027 under a scheme designed to stop prisons becoming full.

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