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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ll keep saying it … the old are far more vulnerable to social media lies and conspiracies than the young. They also have a lot more time in which to be brainwashed.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Taking a trip to Italy and we've decided not to hire a car as unfortunately in my experience cat hire companies are all scams. Every time I've hired they try to get out of giving you an actual car. I don't know why they're not banned or properly regulated.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Everyone already knew James Johnson was dodgy, right? I mean his analysis has always been poor and biased. Worth contrasting him with Luke Tryl, one of the very best political analysts. World of difference.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If Burnham does call an early election, it'll be fine if we get MORE of this!! 🤣

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've enjoyed Helen Lewis' writing in the past, but this is really poor. Misses the reason people are upset completely. You'd have to live in a bizarre bubble to write this: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The Jason Arday Truthers

The concerted effort to airbrush the late fabulist’s life

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silviallopis.bsky.social @silviallopis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

El hombre al que no quería perder Dolly Parton era Carl Dean. Estuvo casado con la autora de "Jolene" desde 1966 hasta que murió en 2025.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Carney is the boss.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

All the more galling when we already found out the best way to counter Nazis between 1939-1945

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Can anyone explain why all these academics have come out in support of a guy who is clearly neo-nazi? What does it achieve for them? Makes em look stupid and a bit racist. So why on earth do it? Half of them aren't even smart enough to understand why he has been suspended!! 🤷

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026

This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hasan only able to make his (very strong arguments) because Riflind gave him time and space to answer properly.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social (who I'm not a big fan of) is absolutely bodying @hugorifkind.bsky.social (who I'm a big fan of) on Times Radio. It's great radio. Hugo is scrupulously fair and a great interviewer. Hasan rock solid in his arguments.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Israel looking more like a fascist state every day

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 17/08/2026

Scoff all you like, but do you have any idea how hard it was to type this while in a hotdog costume?

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Oh no not kraken’s bonks

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

For a long time I said it wasnt a genocide. I was WRONG!!

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My God! Andrew Neill on Times Radio very clearly blaming the family for Jason Arday's death! Time for that old fascist to be fired.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I used to love watching Bill Maher, but he's gone a bit mad now. The other week he said "Mamdani is a Marxist" (yeah Bill, there are no private businesses in New York now, it's true! 🤣🤣) and this week he said "all the Europeans were amazed at our supermarkets during the world cup!" 🤣🤣

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I can’t shake off the image of our press, like a pack of sharks smelling blood or a horde of mindless zombies, going in for the kill without pausing once to think of the consequences.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/08/2026

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Cambridge's failings in terms of recruitment and oversight, which turned an internal HR mess into a widely reported and then politically instrumentalised issue, will need substantial internal investigation. But so much Anglosphere Right wing discourse in these cases comes down to projection

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It was quite telling how at a time when an authoritarian American President and a reactionary American tech oligarch clearly left the bounds of sanity so much of the Anglosphere Right became obsessed with the frailties and blunders of a relatively obscure black British professor

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Guto Harris on Times Radio saying this was inevitable 😬

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

At least 80% of the Westminster lobby will be cracking open the champagne today at the news of Jason Arday's death. Look at the Telegraph coverage. This was always their goal. The crisis in British media continues unacknowledged...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Good moment to say something nice about Binface I suppose. The thing is, he's really very funny. The whole thing would have worn out horribly if he wasn't. Just a genuine source of joy in an otherwise grey landscape.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Just went very dark in the restaurant...bit weird...

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 12/08/2026

🇿🇼 At least 44 people drowned after an overcrowded ferry capsized on Zimbabwe's Lake Kariba, police said on Wednesday, releasing an updated toll a day after the disaster ➡️ u.afp.com/SHeX

File image shows the Kariba Dam and Lake Kariba in January 2020

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Chris Philp being interviewed on Times Radio by Stig Abel, about boats and prisons. He at no point mentions that both these problems arise during the Tories 14 years in government. One day I will get an answer as to why UK media have memory holed 2010-2024?! Why??

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I guess it's not a huge surprise that the men who wrote Basil Fawlty and David Brent as characters for themselves turned out to be insufferable pricks.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Talking to my nephews and nieces who are 12 and 9, and I find out that they are watching videos of old people believing AI videos to be real, and laughing at them. We desperately need a social media ban for the over 60s 😬

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Always thought, as most do, that capitalism is the least bad system. Perhaps I was wrong 😬😬

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

We have a really serious problem with judges in Spain. They should retire everyone over 60. All Francoists.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Meloni has fucked up so bad the only way out is complete surrender. She'll keep these checks for a few weeks, until they look utterly absurd, then they'll be pulled, and she'll be humiliated.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Does anyone know why British journalists turned on Carol Cadwalladr years ago, but are now praising Gabriel Pogrund for recycling her stories? Why is it wrong for Arday to steal other people's stuff, but ok for Pogrund to do it??

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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Ha! Spain has already reestablished frontier controls from Italy. After Meloni's reply Pedro - currently sipping a negroni by the pool in a state residence in Lanzarote - decided enough is enough and not to wait till next week. Correct decision

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I had cause to make this remark earlier today but I lot of people should spend more time applying the test “is he a good writer or do I just agree with him?”, because half these tributes to Liddle would, if not disappear, at least he a lot shorter if they did.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If ten Russian ballistic missiles landed on Barcelona, would Europe do anything? Yes of course! The Danes, Finns and Italians would demand we be kicked out of Schengen, and that's about it 😬

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I really don't see how this nightly bombing of Kyiv is sustainable for Europeans. We can't just sit here and watch. People are going to think "if our leaders accept one massive city being bombed, will they accept us being bombed?"

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yet another reason we Europeans need to have nothing to do with these so-called 'americans'. They're just deeply immoral people.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm listening to Babymonster's feed on SoundCloud, and my god, pop music has drastically improved in my 50 years on this planet. My daughter has a few 80s / 90s hits in her Spotify feed and they sound very ropey these days.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Peter Caldwell lying about Cueta on Times Radio. Of all the immoral right wing propagandists in the UK, he's easily one of the worst.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Can anyone please please please explain to me why Finland would want a situation where 50,000 men can storm across a border and the only response from the EU would be to kick them out of Schengen? I mean, there's a high likelihood 50,000 men WILL cross their border 😬😬

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Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We should stop talking of "Europe" and "Brussels" like its a monolith and see the concrete coalitions and networks of power. The EU is not an anthropomorphized entity but institutions filled with political actors

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The British right wing have no idea how to respond to a normal bloke being PM. Their responses look unhinged and weird. Odds on for a Labour win again in a few years.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🇺🇦❗️ Today, Lviv shuddered from a massive direct hit directly on high-rise buildings: the enemy directed 22 (!) missiles at the city and at 4:45 a massive strike was delivered – more than 21 residential buildings were damaged, Sadovyi noted.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Just feeling sorry for @robfordmancs.bsky.social because there's going to be so much more early election chat.

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Stephenbc @stephenbc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Can anyone explain the Kemi Badenoch thing to me please? Her poll ratings have gone nowhere, the Tories have improved slightly only because of Farage's troubles. A compulsive liar, comes across as quite an unpleasant character. Constant negativity...I do not understand why she is a party leader!

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