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@steveellis24.bsky.social
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Post little, here to learn. Long Covid (mild fortunately) - still try to run, ex cyclist & karateka. Recently became a Snorthern when I moved to Sheffield from Essex😅. Lovely wife and 3 wonderful kids - proud of all of them

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 4h
Years of extremist media using phrases like 'Sadiq Khan's hated ULEZ cameras' in their headlines surely contributes to people like this becoming radicalised to commit terrorist acts?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1h
Hegseth: “We just launched the Office of Religious Affairs. We're going to elevate the Chaplain Corps because I do believe that spiritual fitness is just as important as physical fitness.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 56m
Trump’s entire National Security team, chaired by Vance, met in an unannounced meeting at Camp David to discuss the Middle East, Axios reports. Trump is now considering intervening in Yemen *as well as* Iran.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 3h
‘Rupert Lowe, who set up the far-right party Restore Britain after falling out with Farage, earns about as much from posting about mass deportations and rape gangs on Elon Musk’s X as he does from being an MP.’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on party fundraising. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: Funding Reform
British politics has long been complacent about the power of big money. The relatively low price of access to...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 3h
Very disturbing that a political party has moved from saying that there should be no penalty for encouragement to violence, to calling for reduced penalties for literally blowing things up. A party manifestly not fit for political office.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Q: What do you say to those who are struggling to afford gas, groceries, diesel? Trump: We have the greatest economy in the history of our country
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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 4h
Byline Times has an unusual distinction: sanctioned by the Kremlin and banned from Reform’s conference. Watch Farage say: “I’ve never met the Russian Ambassador.” He had. There’s a Russian Foreign Ministry photograph of Farage meeting Ambassador Yakovenko in 2013.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1h
“So many people came out to see me in Alabama last night. The Fire Marshall threatened to shut the rally down because we were so bigly over capacity. And I was told that there were over 300,000 outside, crying because they couldn’t get in to hear me. We could hear them all crying from inside. Sad.”
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 4h
Russians funding our super secret military bunker.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 4h
Bessent is not an idiot, so this makes him a liar.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h
The leading bidder is a group involving Trump donor Todd Boehly, Qatar-based investors with business ties to Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, an Abu Dhabi fund linked to Sheikh Tahnoon and the US government. Putin sees it as a way to cement ties with the US.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h
The endless grift continues. The Trump administration has been talking to Russia about a multibillion-dollar deal for Lukoil’s international assets, NYT reports.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 9h
the Conservative government permanently closed 23 prisons (representing over 7,500 cells or places) between 2010 and 2024, according to official Parliamentary records.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 6h
Investigation into Nottinghamshire group linked to Reform UK councillors that allegedly had '£10,000 of debt' www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 6h
Laila Cunningham wants Londoners to live in tiny flats that are incredibly expensive, an overcrowded Underground and extreme July/August weather?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h
Prison chief in Christa Pike case oversaw five ‘botched’ executions, lawyers say
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Prison chief in Christa Pike case oversaw five ‘botched’ executions, lawyers say
Frank Strada facing mounting questions after Pike survives injection with lethal drugs in Tennessee Tennessee’s prison chief is under fire for the failed execution of Christa Pike, which lawyers say was the fifth “botched” execution under his leadership across two states since 2022. Frank Strada, the commissioner of the Tennessee department of correction, has faced mounting questions about the state’s highly secretive death penalty protocols since Wednesday evening when Pike became the first death row prisoner in the US to to be injected with lethal drugs and survive. Continue reading...
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 6h
Hi Richard Tice, tell us about your friend Councillor James Sawkins who was raided by police and on entry allegedly found a quantity of unlicenced prescription drugs and class A drugs.
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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 6h
As the disappointingly agnostic son of a C of E vicar, I’m not sure anything could ever make me feel more Christian than the double-header of this absolute madness and the racist right’s attempted co-option of the Anglican Church
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 6h
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 5h
"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 5h
Is it because they cost a wanktwillion quid, your neighbours will be equally money-grubbing bastards always banging on about house prices, and you'll wake up every morning living in a noisy, smelly, angry rats nest? I haven't read it, so this is just a guess. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...
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‘People are deserting it’: why are London mansions struggling to sell?
For decades, the capital’s house prices raced ahead of the national average – but now they are falling in prime areas
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 8h
“Far from tackling violence against women, far-right activity has actively disrupted frontline women’s services – and ultimately left victims more vulnerable.” Including services aimed at providing protection against domestic violence. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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‘Fear is part of our life now’: women’s groups thrown into disarray…
Anti-immigration protestors are disrupting services aimed at those they claim to protect
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 7h
Is that meant to be wee Bobby Jenrick on the floor crying?
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19h
Sidcup man gets 15 years for home-made bomb blowing up Ulez camera - luckily failimg to injure or kill anybody with damage in a 100 yard radius news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...
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Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion
Kevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 8h
Honestly guys isn’t this a bit weird? This is a bit weird
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 7h
One aspect of Manchester City story massively underplayed is that England now has an independent football regulator Premier League lobbied against it - even hired Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm Global Counsel Tufton Street think tanks lobbied against it But now the regulator exists - and can act
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 17h
The 2028 Republican nominee, everyone:
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9h
Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
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Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appearing to chat to a gull
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8h
Rachel Johnson who was interviewing her didn't push back at all and even seemed to be agreeing with her. Here's a fuller account from the police. Absolutely scandalous that an MP is not condemning this act of terrorism
Detective Chief Superintendent James
Derham, who leads local policing in the
Bexley area, said: "It was miraculous
that nobody was killed or seriously
injured in the large explosion caused
by Rees


"He showed a complete disregard for
the welfare and safety of the people
who live in, or were travelling through,
the area at the time of the explosion -
all because he was unhappy with the
ULEZ scheme


"CCTV from a bus travelling down the
road at the time shows how it narrowly
missed the blast of debris by seconds
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8h
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 7h
This is what happens when you start excusing things under the banner of “legitimate concerns”
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Candice Holmes @candiceholmes.bsky.social · 6h
If the UAE is really threatening billions over Manchester City, that’s exactly the kind of political influence that demands scrutiny. When wealth and power get special access, ordinary people deserve accountability.
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Michigan Democrats @michigandems.bsky.social · 20h
Mike Rogers "is dodging questions about why two pastors from the Living World Church—the subject of recent child sex abuse lawsuits—are on his Faith Leadership Coalition." newrepublic.com/post/216114/...
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The Church Sex Abuse Scandal Mike Rogers Won’t Talk About
The Michigan GOP senate candidate is dodging questions about why two pastors from the Living World Church—the subject of recent child sex abuse lawsuits—are on his Faith Leadership Coalition.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h
I guess he missed Hegseth’s speech at Quantico this week.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 12h
Trump raised Medicare premiums by $200 www.cms.gov/newsroom/fac... so that he would have money to send seniors a $100 election bribe www.newsweek.com/trump-announ... It's very MAGA!
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2026 Medicare Parts A & B Premiums and Deductibles
2026 Medicare Parts A & B Premiums and Deductibles2026 Medicare Part D Income-Related Monthly Adjustment AmountsOn November 14, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 20...
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 12h
This explains a lot.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 12h
I will be infuriated if they give it to Trump. All he's done is start wars and alienate allies. There is not a single valid reason to give it to him.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 12h
And if you believe this you don't have the mental capacity for an intelligent conversation on any subject and should be muted and ignored.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 11h
TBF, it's not like Melania wants this job. 🤷‍♀️
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 10h
More Trump election bribes…
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 10h
Another attack overnight on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. This is the 6th attack this week, and still getting almost no coverage!! The human price for transiting the Strait seems to be being priced into business costs.
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
EXCLUSIVE Reform MP Sarah Pochin asked a question about the impact second homes have on rural areas, just 48 hours before buying a £800k second home in Wales… willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/reform-mp-...
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Reform UK MP buys £800k Welsh second home just days after questioning their impact
Is this a case of politicians saying ‘do as I say, not as I do’?
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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If GB News were a normal commercial venture, like Talk TV, it would have been binned long ago. Since September 2020, it has spewed out hateful far-right propaganda, paying high salaries to people such as Nigel Farage. Ofcom has abjectly failed to address this threat to democracy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 02/10/2026
A look at the human rights violations committed by Saudi in the time after the Newcastle United takeover  | Peter Sagar
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Five years of brutal oppression in Saudi Arabia
A look at the human rights violations committed by Saudi in the time after the Newcastle United takeover
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 9h
There's a loophole allowing foreign billionaires to spend unlimited sums influencing UK elections 👀 goodlaw.social/fpnk
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 20h
Katie Lam just said the secret but inevitable bit out loud - Conservatives opposing our reform of the Triple Lock are actually on track to scrap or means test the State Pension www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 22h
Add another to the file.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 20h
Trump defends the men in the Cornell gang rape case, saying he “feels bad” for them and they won't get a “fair shake”
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