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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Chicago keeping art alive:

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: Government watchdog groups file for emergency restraining order in New York to halt Trump taxpayer-funded TV ads "Despite public statements implying otherwise, defendants continue to run partisan political ads, funded by US taxpayers, in this midst of the ongoing.. federal election period"

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 19h

The strategic priority for @greenparty.org.uk leadership should be to reform their internal democracy so it doesn't shoot them in the foot again come the next by- or general election.

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 19h

Without the ZiR malarkey, the increase would have been greater.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 08/10/2026

Stopping #CrossChannelRail trains at Stratford would be possible. But it’s no panacea. 🧵 to explain.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/10/2026

Some people claim that the EU wouldn't want us back. 🚨 But that's wrong. ♥️ France, Spain, Germany and other European nations have already said they would welcome us back.

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I can't imagine that there are many UK citizens who have an opinion on the Euro beyond emotional attachment to pounds and pence. Though a few might manage to grunt something about taking back control that almost amounts to a pertinent point.

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Even amongst proponents, the whole issue is framed as tedious necessity, never as benefit. No one prominent is ever making that case that the UK and its people can take real social, cultural, economic and geopolitical positives from membership of the EU.

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Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why not ask the question: 'How should we address British people's obvious reluctance to join the Euro? Who is going to explain the benefits?' Because right now, nobody is doing that.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There is a rather wider minority for abolishing the Monarchy (about 1 in 5 to 1 in 4) than for the controversy of whether only white people can be English (1 in 10). It is weird the media classes are so rarely across how niche this 'controversy' is - about 1/4 Reform voters, but few others

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pretty Awesome 👍

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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Earlier this week our member Julia Davies spoke to LBC to squash a widely-reported story that a billionaire had fled the country for Monaco because of “threatened tax hikes.”

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 08/10/2026

If the government negotiated a deal to rejoin the EU, 64% of Britons say there should be a referendum before deciding whether to do so (including 54% of those who would vote to rejoin)- only 23% think the government should be able to make the decision without a referendum yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There we have it. Reform officially ditches its pledge - or rather, its 2024 "contract" with voters - to back proportional representation. A clear breach of contract... Via Politico:

In other Reform news: Second-in-command Richard Tice finally admitted that now the voting system Farage has long railed against could help him win a general election, the party no longer wants to scrap it. Farage used to want first-past-the-post replaced with a form of proportional representation.

Here’s the line: “In order to rescue the country from the gravity of the chaos that we face, actually a proper majority is needed from a right of center, conviction-led Reform government,” Tice told Times Radio this morning. Asked whether that meant Reform no longer wants electoral reform, he said: “Yes, because the crisis is so great.”

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That's my boy! He's half German shepherd. 50kg on a good day, obedient when he feels like it and sheds impossible quantities, but is my hiking buddy, provides cuddles for the whole family and is like a celebrity when we're out in town, shaking paws with endless fans.

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, but your source is an AI - the same one I used earlier

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah. I saw and have added to my posts here. Disappointing that these people flood the internet with this crap.

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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

‼️@darrigomelanie.bsky.social Russ Vought,in his official capacity,has the power to interfere in elections by replacing nonpartisan election officials with loyalists,cut critical funding & block independent election oversight. Trump wants to rig the election & he’s shouting the quiet part out loud.

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Irene Wise @irenejuliawise.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No cuts for the bosses though. The boss of Royal Mail’s parent company received almost £7m in pay and bonuses last year – Group chief executive of International Distribution Services (IDS), took home £6.9m in pay, bonus & long-term incentive scheme awards. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs amid restructure and fall in letter deliveries

Postal service says cuts will focus on on head office and ‘support function roles’

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The door is open, We must walk through, #RejoinEU #JoinEU

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seems that the person who drafted the Green party motion came via Your Party and joined - by her own admission - to press this simply because the Greens had a bigger platform. Classic bit of entryism which now threatens the future of the movement.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A US company's sensor helped steer Russia's newest jet drone, Ukrainian intelligence said The upgraded Geran-4 also carried a warhead designed to cut through bridges and power-line supports.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah... Google is full of it, isn't it? This is bothering me now. Sheldon the Drama King content is clearly AI-enhanced, the OP has form on AI videos, and we can no longer enjoy cat and dog videos, so the whole internet is worth nothing.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We need to make Putin understand that he won’t outlast Ukraine. Transferring Russia’s frozen assets to Ukraine would send a clear message

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wrong answers only. My bet: thanks for all the fish.

Newspaper headline: Queen Elizabeth’s Final Diary Entry Contained Only Five Words.

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And it's worth noting that the OP here has form with AI content. Sort it out, @mary1kathy.bsky.social.

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not Earth-shatteringly important on a husky-cuddles-baby video, but it strikes me that @bsky.app need to give us the functionality to assess this.

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And he looks very much like my own husky (only slightly smaller and slightly less astonishingly handsome)

An astonishingly handsome husky laying on a Peak District hillside with a human using them as pillow

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spraindsquirrel @spraindsquirrel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Google says this is not AI generated. It is a well-known viral clip from Sheldon the Drama King.

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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Voyager 1 is running on less memory than a single photo in your camera roll—69 KB. Its data is saved to an 8-track tape & software was developed when "the cloud" was in the sky. NASA sends commands and the old thing answers. And yet your brand new laptop freezes because you opened too many tabs.

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

Serious question (save me from researching their nonsense PR punt): what's left of the Conservative proposal if it's not an Israel -style Iron Dome?

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

The party that left the the UK with the smallest armed forces since the Napoleonic war and a £28bn shortfall to bring it up to standard to meet the challenges of today

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

Show me an industry not dependent on a publicly funded economic environment, from research, through infrastructure and workforce training.

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

Britons don't understand basic research and how it translates to economic outputs, nor how infrastructure and workforce are entirely dependent on public investment. How could they? We have a media for whom discussion of this reality is taboo.

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

It's true that nationalisation might not mean better managed water, but it takes back revenues from shareholders to reinvest in the system and gives us back democratic control.

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

The "Iron Dome" moniker implies that we'd be invulnerable underneath, but the reality is that it's a strategic nonsense, whether it moves by sea, air or a Freedom bus pass.

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

Most of the papers ran with this on their front page this morning. Strategically it makes as much sense as the old Global Britain schtick.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026

NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/

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

Israel is under immediate threat from neighbours. UK isn't. An "Iron Dome" won't help at all against attacks by ICBM or hypersonic missile, and is of limited value against drone or jet airplane.

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

Universal benefits are the bedrock of social democracy

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 06/10/2026

Basically all European states have financial issues and basically all are discussing (further) restricting social services/support/etc for the wealthier. See UK re childcare above £100 000. I totally get it. However: we need to acknowledge that this is creating a social contract problem.

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