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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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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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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think I know where this is heading i2-prod.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/art...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anyone remember that time when two fighting aged men living at those barracks ran amok and assaulted a member of the public.... why didn't Piddington declare independence then I wonder? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2324828...

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Soldiers banned from every pub in Bicester after 'dreadful' attack on civilian

Bradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Why can't i see the statue of Nero?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Some very strange arguments, if he was useless as a politician surely its a good thing that he's leaving?

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.

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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

How’s your Friday going?

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My point was a degree can also bring power or at least more determination over someone's future.

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

An observation from manufacturing, consultants with university degrees turning up to explain to managers with university degrees that the business could be far more profitable just by cutting the pay of skilled workers who wear overalls and do not have university degrees.

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Actually in all legislation pertaining to weights and measures Canada still uses the US imperial system but since 1814 these are converted into Canadian units for everyday usage.

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Hes too experienced and young to stay on the backbenches and would be seen as a threat to many in the AB faction if he was in the government, what else are they going to do with him?

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

He was in the wrong faction so not much he can do to control his future, he might as well have some fun. If AB does well he will be purged, if AB fails the PLP will go feral and that will bring leadership opportunities.

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

That Burnham would have welcomed the input, probably already sent Jones a thank you note 'cheers DJ, almost pulled a Truss there'

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Burnham did say he wanted more input from the backbenches, that MPs should be free to raise issues and that the threat of party discipline should not be used to stifle debate.

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Maybe his resignation was less a principled stand and more a career move?

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Trevor is ainm dom @trevorlfc01.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Saved this one for such an occasion

A blue and white striped flag with a crying face emoji

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Back in the day you had to let the TV warm up a bit

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

He'll be remembered as winning an election outright, a pretty rare achievement for a Labour leader, one of only four to do so.

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I made this because as far as I can see nobody else has?

Skegness is so bracing but I've made him into Count Binface and it says Clacton is SO Binface

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The accusation "She does FA work" makes sense now

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Farage’s Reform UK & newcomer Restore Britain have gone to war…not just over Makerfield by-election but claims of a ‘quid pro quo’ by Farage & Johnson bankrolled by Harborne. @thenerve.news investigates the hidden history of Brexit & the £££ behind it 2/ www.thenerve.news/p/christophe...

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Crypto, peerages, or political self-sacrifice – why did Farage gift Boris the 2019 election?

Part two of the Nerve’s investigation into Christopher Harborne’s influence on UK politics brings us to the 2019 election – which took the UK out of Europe while dumping 300 Brexit party candidates, l...

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Am racking my brain to think of ways we can all keep the pressure and heat on this story. Meta & Mark Zuckerberg - one of the richest men in the world - are putting unfathomable legal and financial pressure on whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams. Pretty sure most people are on her side - not their's

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This is doing Burnham a favour. The money is needed but Starmer doesn't have the authority to force ministers to make the necessary cuts. Burnham will have lots of eager MPs desperate for a top job and he can use that to get the budget cuts he needs to raise the money.

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 26/06/2026

Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.

The Café and The Coffee Shop in Tesco will be offering one free Kids Hot Meal Deal, Kids Breakfast or Kids Pick ‘n’ Mix deal with any full price adult purchase when they scan their Tesco Clubcard. **The adult purchase could be something as small as an apple costing just 65 pence.** And with no limit to the number of Kid’s meals you can redeem, families of all sizes can benefit too.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Steve Clarkson @steveclarkson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Previously he has flounced out of interviews when questions got difficult, usually claiming some minor appointment is more important than talking to a journalist. Interesting that he didn't feel confident enough to do that this morning. Something has changed.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

If Starmer goes it will be five PMs in four years. Unprecedented?! No. The post pandemic 1920s saw a new challenger party, and a tousled haired, lecherous, corrupt leader succeeded by a burst of PMs. Five PMs… from three parties …. in two years and a month.

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