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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11h
‘For years the Observer tried to get to the truth of Russian interference until we sacked the reporter involved for participating in union activities’
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11h
It comes after years of cover-ups & denials not least from Boris Johnson who was in charge of MI6 as foreign minister at the time & whose first act as PM was to ennoble the Baron of Siberia. But it also went beyond Johnson & Starmer continued it too. We now finally need some sunlight. 2/
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11h
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 11h
This. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The more Putin escalates his attacks on Europe, the more Europe should support Ukraine | Timothy Garton Ash
Moscow’s imperialist strongman believes decadent European democracies can be cowed. Our job is to prove him wrong, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11h
Russia has been at war with Britain for years and the EU referendum was an open goal which they exploited. That doesn't mean that "Putin made Brexit happen" but his troll farms and media operations certainly played a part Brexiters may hate to hear it but to deny it is to deny a dangerous reality.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h
Here's something the media is hardly talking about. This Government is set to oversee the steepest fall in living standards in modern times - unless they change course fast. In less than two weeks Labour faces a stark choice - will they tax wealth and back the majority?
Under current projections this is set to be the worst parliament on record for living standards growth - and a bar chart demonstrating it
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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A senior Ukraine official told the Financial Times that Kyiv will continue long range drone strikes, and will burn Russian refineries despite Trump’s agreement with Putin for Russia to supply diesel. Ukraine has vowed to destroy all Russia refineries to ensure they don’t get exported to the US.
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The same happens in Australia the Greens are crucified and the redneck racist twat parties are given free reign to create hate and division..Murdoch stenographers that decipher smoke rings coming out of Rupert Murdoch's arse.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
At times like this, the mask really comes off the British media. There is no pretence - at all - about their impartiality or objectivity towards the Green Party. It is a blatant naked partisan cross-media assault against the Greens.
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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We need to start properly looking at the position of US bases in UK/Europe. What are they for, who do they really help and can how soon can we get rid of them?
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Gildy Stern 🇺🇦 @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Those brave Ukrainians, deserted by this traitor. The USA should never be allowed to forget this treachery, absolutely shameful.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’m always surprised to find that my hatred of Trump can rise to new levels.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We’ll be discussing this later on the show…. (Not the Badenoch bit but whether Polanski’s Greens really are toast in the way several corners of the media seem to have already decided).
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
… “A brief timeline of a long-established Israeli practice of sabotaging negotiations and violating ceasefire agreements to advance their goals.” mondoweiss.net/2026/10/a-br...
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A brief history of Israeli ceasefire violations, from 1948 until today
Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the so-called ceasefire in Gaza, we look at a brief timeline of a long-established Israeli practice of sabotaging negotiations and violating ceasefire agreements t...
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Merlyn Edwards @allmanbros2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The damage being done to teachers, and pupils' education, cannot continue. Longtime @greenparty.org.uk policy is to abolish Ofsted www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ofsted faces fresh calls to halt graded school inspections in England
A second head teachers' union says it is "increasingly concerned" about members' "welfare and morale".
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If it's Boeing, I'm not going. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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London to Chicago BA flight declares emergency after dropping 28,000 feet
British Airways Boeing abruptly lost altitude over Ireland due to ‘technical issue’ and returned to Heathrow
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 05/10/2026
Here is my talk last week to the Fallbrook Climate Action Team. It's about 30 minutes, followed by Q&A. youtu.be/dhDmOt7B_v8?...
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Straight Talk on Climate Change
YouTube video by Fallbrook Climate Action Team
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you to everyone who came out to campaign in Holborn & St Pancras today! The election is feeling incredibly close from the thousands of conversations today. We need to keep it up for just a few more days. Every conversation matters. Join us: linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To those who somehow don't seem to understand: Which part of authorising weapons sales to a state committing genocide, banning the protest movement trying to stop these sales, using the RAF to provide surveillance flights for Israel and providing major diplomatic and media support is NOT complicity?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please watch this crucial discussion about the scale of Earth's energy imbalance. The numbers are shocking. Thanks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tCR...
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12 Hiroshima Bombs Every Second
YouTube video by Facing Future
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 01/10/2026
Here's to rocking your Thursday. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC7V...
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Terminal Velocity: we're so cooked
YouTube video by Tony Weston
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💥 Well done everyone! We have now covered all 650 MPs in the UK - and some MPs have received over 100 emails from you! Keep getting family, colleagues, friends to send emails to their MP with this link —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The oceans are on the move. Governments have been cutting key monitoring programs at a time when we need them more than ever. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California
The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast
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Dr Ella Gilbert @drgilbz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New vidéo with @justhaveathink.bsky.social looking at the effects of El Niño on Antarctica. Check out the companion vid on Dave's channel where we investigate the impacts on the Arctic. youtu.be/j8pOLNWWkgc
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El Niño is reaching Antarctica, but not how you think
YouTube video by Dr Gilbz
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour already have a huge majority. Another Labour MP putting Thames Water "on notice" isn't going to lower our water bills or protect our rivers. Nationalise Thames Water. Vote Green on October 8th. 💚
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 27/09/2026
Breaking News! Code: FUBAR!!! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature for September 25th was 29.822°C. This breaks the previous highest temperature ever recorded in the region of 29.815°C, set on November 17th, 2015. The Climate 8-ball is exiting, stage right.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
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ZACK 4 MP | Linktree
Everything you need to get involved! Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of Zack Polanski (The Green Party) c/o PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is what the path to winning looks like - but only if we keep the numbers up. More people came out to volunteering that there's no way of getting a photo angle to show them all! This is a huge moment - time to get it done. 10 days left. Sign up below 👇🏽
Huge crowd smiling with vote green signsHuge crowd smiling with vote greens signs
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Between that and AB: "I think it's right to listen to what people say during the consultation and then decide on the right way forward." LK: "It sounds like you're not up for it." ... a decent boss would be telling Kuenssberg to start polishing her CV. Lucky for her she only has indecent bosses.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We're having the best time in Holborn & St Pancras! The opportunity to win and push the Government on housing costs, tackling the climate crisis and for international justice. And so much more. We can't stop now. This is it. Sign up for the final 12 days below 👇🏽
Huge crowd smiling at the camera Zack greeting a resident on her doorstepZack walking with Faiza and her absolutely cutie of a child!Zack with the Southampton Greens
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank you to the hundreds of volunteers for spreading our great energy across Holborn & St Pancras. This election could not be closer and every single volunteer brings us closer to electing our 6th Green MP. We can win this election - but only together. Sunday sign up below!
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of the best accounts to follow on Bluesky: @premnsikka.bsky.social On point analysis and commentary on British politics 👍
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In 2021, income tax personal allowance was frozen at £12,570. If aligned with inflation, it would now be £16,070. A minimum wage earner in England will pay extra £980 in income tax & NIC in 2026-27. Govt can easily increase personal allowance by £3,000, worth £600 to basic rate taxpayer.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Great response on the doorsteps in Holborn & St Pancras this evening - more & more people recognising that @zackpolanski.bsky.social will make a brilliant local MP. One more Labour backbencher changes nothing - the best way to make this Labour government braver, bolder & better is to #VoteGreen
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 25/09/2026
Best 'bonus moment of doom' ever? "we’re heating the planet 10 times faster than ever before in planetary history. And this fact alone means that scientific models are hampered, likely incomplete and inaccurate, because there’s no precedent for what’s happening."
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Elites Have No Plan for Climate Collapse
Bill McGuire, emeritus professor, Geophysical & Climate Hazards, University College London is unique within the scientific community. He claims that
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BritWeatherSvs/Jim N R Dale @britweathersvs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Serious flooding in Bangkok, in the past 48 hours. many roads & residences now underwater. This is the No.1 city to potentially sink due to climate change. A city built on reclaimed marshland.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'll never forgive journalists' complicity in Israel's genocide. Honoured to be interviewed about my new book The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It by the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Oli Dugmore
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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Right fuck this. I have reported Danny Tommo’s YouTube video and I implore others to do the same. They are platforming a man who live streamed himself essentially committing a crime and he will be making money off of it as well. Please please report the video www.youtube.com/live/lkeZbk8...
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And there’s this -
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Back from a break....my chat with @mrjamesob.bsky.social this morning on @lbc.co.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNoe... More from me tonight on Andrew Marr's programme at 6pm UK time.
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'This totally breaches the First Amendment' | Simon Marks
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exxon is now expecting a 2.5 - 3C rise by 2050 But says f*ck you - we are just going to keep right on sucking up as much gas and oil as we can Because even though we know what's coming, we really don't give a sh*t www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline
The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slo...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is the greatest political con of our age. Read the preface to The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/the-greate...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"There’s a dirty big hole in the ground that’s just going to keep polluting forever – or until someone cleans it up". #FossilFuels - a few profit and rest of us pay in so many ways www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A coalmine on Trish’s Queensland farm has been abandoned. Will anyone clean it up?
The state government is reviewing laws introduced to ensure taxpayers are not left footing the bill for rehabilitation, leaving one cattle farmer wondering: what happens next?
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Joe Peacock @brumgreenjoe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On a much more serious note, this is one of the reasons why we need more Green MPs in parliament. We cannot afford more MPs who will be influenced by Palantir and others desperate to keep the status quo. Challenge, not blindly following the government line is badly needed.
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just completed my draft zoning study for the new independent Principality of Piddington. Sadly, most of the houses there will need to be demolished to make way for the essential facilities required by any self-sufficient State, but I am confident the locals will feel that is a small price to pay...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good letters in The Times on Canada’s moves towards the EU. Seems we’re far happier to discuss the strategic sense of Canada rethinking its allies and trade arrangements, than we are to discuss our own not-so splendid Brexit isolation. Looking very foolish again, UK.
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Sir, Gerard Baker is right ("Grin and bear it, Andy, and stick with Trump", comment, Sep 18)……

….The problem is that the US is neither as reliable nor as reliably friendly as it once was. If it is willing to impose tariffs on friends, that economy becomes rather less reassuring. If the US prevents the UK regulating to protect our children, those new industries are not as positively transformative as we may have thought. And if Washington no longer thinks European security is its concern, then all that military might counts for little as far as we re concerned. Ultimately, the UK has little choice but to try and limit its dependence on a partner that is far less reliable than it was, and to do so, in part, by working more closely with its European neighbours. Managing this without further irritating the US president must be the ambition.
Anand Menon
Professor of European, KCL; director, the UK in a Changing Europe

Sir, Mark Carney's address to the European parliament was
extraordinarily impressive. It was a vision of what politics can be when it looks beyond the next poll, election or headline. Carney spoke of Europe and Canada building something together based on democracy, freedom, sovereignty and resilience. He offered both a dream and a practical route towards it: co-operation in defence. energy, critical minerals, technology, Al, trade and education. What struck me most was the clarity and scale of his thinking. He spoke of the challenges confronting western democracies but did not simply complain about them: he asked what could be built in response.
His metaphor of the forest was particularly memorable: a single tree mav be brought down by the storm. but a forest will endure because its roots are interconnected. I am 80 and I cannot remember recently hearing a western political leader speak with quite this combination of ambition, seriousness and intellectual clarity.
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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Of course this is utterly sickening. But it doesn't come from nowhere. That any politicians feel able to gamify people's lives and deaths can only come from years of dehumanising people seeking sanctuary by politicians of all stripes. And it's every politician's responsibility to combat that.
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Reform hits 'sickening new low' as it launches stop the boats mobile game
Reform UK has been criticised after launching a mobile phone game, named Small Boats Scramble, which sees users pretend to control Royal Navy vessels stopping boats crossing the Channel
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