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@stevexe.bsky.social
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Husband, dad, counsellor and Exeter City!

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 15h
Trump needs a strait-jacket
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 15h
For real 👇
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15h
Ben Meiselas: And here's a compilation of Trump saying many times that if any country bought oil from Russia, he would go after them...
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Stephen Unwin @stephenunwin.bsky.social · 15h
It’s not Ukraine that needs a new President. It’s the United States.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h
Democratic turnout this election is going to be off the charts for a midterm. Rage is a powerful motivator.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15h
Ridiculous person Ridiculous party Ridiculous people Watch
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h
Nithya Raman failed to deliver results for her district, leading to frustration among constituents after missing thousands of votes. And Karen Bass does not hold back🔥 “I think that there is a lot of comparison between the two of us, and one of the main comparisons is I show up, she doesn’t.”
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Steve @stevexe.bsky.social · 21h
Perfect result with the perfect scorer!
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 21h
BRB, just adding "More popular than Suella Braverman" to my LinkedIn.
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Forza Bahab @forzabahab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I mainfain that London 2012 enraged them so much that they stepped up their efforts to destroy it.
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Lizzy Price @lizzyjprice.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Absolutely spot on. Let’s instead pause on these words by @iandunt.bsky.social in respect of London in the context of today’s byelection. “They hate it because it is beautiful, & it works, & that success provides a comprehensive refutation of their worldview.”
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Amen.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
From Exec Summary... 'The most recent MHCYP survey estimated ADHD prevalence at 3% among 5–15-year-olds in 2017. We estimate by projecting from the existing MHCYP data points that the current prevalence among 5–15-year-olds might be around 3.8%.' Hardly 'out of control' www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: final report
Final report detailing the findings of the independent review into the prevalence and support for mental health conditions, ADHD and autism.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
‘Mob rule’ is also, of course, an insulting way of referring to democracy.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Dear Right Wing, Quick Reminder: Trump is your guy.
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Jo 🕊️💚 @i-do-despair.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Dear America. Impeach or 25 him. Or both. We have had enough. With friends like this, huh?
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Richsrd North, once a mainstrean Eurosceptic, wants to ban the newly elected Holborn MP and Kemi Badenoch (along with Zia Yusuf & Suella Braverman & deputy speaker Nus Ghani Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg from elected office). He would want two British-born parents to be the test of eligibility!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Exactly what “standards” are those, Robert? You collude with pornographers over property deals. You take dodgy donations. You whore for racists and christofascists for personal gain. You betray your political allies, friends and your country to sniff at power. You have no standards. You’re poison.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
2015: Global condemnation of ISIS executions on YouTube 2026: And we go live to Pete Hegseth with this week's live stream of a firing squad.
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Hugo Clement Reporting for Quotidien
ALT: Hugo Clement Reporting for Quotidien
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As Trump gifts Putin a financial and propaganda victory, let's take a moment to remember all those British politicians who have endorsed the US President and repeatedly hitched themselves to his egregious bandwagon.
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Nigel Farage Finds It Boring
ALT: Nigel Farage Finds It Boring
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
*Useful idiot* doesn't do this abject dunderhead justice
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wrote about this in Notorious. Peru has more "Hitlers" than anywhere else on Earth. None in Austria and Germany and the surviving members of the dictator's family changed their name.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021–2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an “exodus” of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times, 2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners’ firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners’ savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms. Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...
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Gloria Pan @glopan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump, ICE, and Republicans could not care less about human life -- this is evil. ICE will "open a child & family detention facility on an airpark in Alexandria, LA, [that will] house children & families...where contamination levels are 5,000 times higher than recommended limits." #MomSky
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He and the US are now directly responsible for the murder of Ukrainian patriots.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump is a goddamned coward and a traitor to his country
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Odd to be writing this on the day that a public, live-streamed execution is being announced by Handmaid’s Tale wannabe Pete Hegseth 😬.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don’t actually see how Trump gets to election day without insurrection act or similar stunt.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So sorry to hear this. You have all done such great work over the years. Absolute respect for everyone at @ukandeu.bsky.social. Wishing you all the best
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What these guys did was bigger than Brexit. They showed how you could produce work of an academic quality and distribute it through the media, to improve the standard of national debate. I wish more organisations would learn from what was accomplished here.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 09/10/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Reform have conducted an independent inquiry and announced they won the Holborn and St Pancras byelection.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026
what a grim and mean little quote
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Well, the Tories didn't lose their deposit in Holborn & St Pancras, but George Galloway did, meaning he's not getting 56,361.35 Rubles back.
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Meanwhile congrats to the times on today’s weirdest headline
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026
the president demanding that one of the primary engines of the country’s economy — thousands of companies, trillions of dollars — rename their core products to suit his whim is tinpot dictatorship shit, and the only reason it doesn’t feel like it is because no one is listening to him
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#CostOfTrumpsCorruption Remember to vote in 26 days! Vote blue down the ballot! #momsky#sheshed
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
Don’t forget: billionaires are using their grip on social media and the news to convince us that peaceful protests don’t work, our vote doesn’t matter, and that both parties are the same. They’re spending billions on it.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Brutal thread
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wall-to-wall praise for the policy in today’s papers but they either don’t understand it or don’t care. We’ve been here before, of course. Bexit, Boris Johnson, Truss… all bigged up by the media despite, all obviously awful.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
‘Keminaissance’ is pure wishful thinking on the part of a rightwing media that furiously peddled pro-Farage propaganda until it became embarrassingly obvious that he was a raging liability and they needed to go back to the Tories as their weapon of choice.
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markawaring.bsky.social @markawaring.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
👍 although C4 News were saying the Tories are claiming it’ll boost economic growth, which makes no sense to me. Anyone with a basic understanding of economics would conclude encouraging folks to tie up even more capital in their home rather than more productive assets is anti growth!
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is worrying news. But anxiety is not a strategy. Join @indivisible.org's midterm election protection program to help make sure we're ready for whatever tricks Trump tries to hold on to power. indivisible.org/campaigns/ou...
MS NOW: Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Refusing to pick a side" is very much picking a side, Glen, hope this helps
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yup! #USDemocracy #Pinks
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/10/2026
Multiple nights a week, Nigel Farage hosts his hour-long show on GB News But Ofcom says politicians cannot be used as newsreaders or reporters in a news programme So we're pushing them to investigate. bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 07/10/2026
Fantastic Michael Crick episode of Panorama on Jeffrey Archer from 25 years ago. Really underscores just what a disservice it was to readers to use the lazy "led a colourful life" platitudes in many of the obituaries. youtu.be/z8E-aBGJ3tQ?...
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Jeffrey Archer - A Life of Lies (2001)
YouTube video by Culture Of England
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