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Stuart Basson

@stuartbasson.bsky.social
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Retired former Technical Manager in a UK touring theatre. Luton>Linslade>Portsmouth>Sidcup>Chesterfield. Football stuff: @spireitehistory.bsky.social

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 03/10/2026
'A powerful buffer': How solar saved the EU €37.4 billion since the war on Iran began
euronews.com
Solar has saved the EU €37.4 billion since the war on Iran began
Europe's solar boom is cushioning households from the crippling costs of gas, as the war on Iran continues to highlight the dangers of fossil fuel reliance.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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Stuart Basson @stuartbasson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Paddy Considine, far left, seems to regret accepting a part in Sascha Baron Cohen's new film.
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Alan Falconer @alanfalconer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Larry Ellison’s cash, >£275m, given or pledged to Blair’s think tank has transformed the TBI, aligning it with the interests of a US billionaire who wants access to what he sees as Britain’s most valuable asset: NHS health data. "Inside the Tony Blair Institute." open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
open.substack.com
Inside the Tony Blair Institute
A former PM, tech tycoon Larry Ellison and Britain's data - what could go wrong?
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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"One of the TBI’s biggest sources of cash is the foundation set up by Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder of Oracle and ally of the US president, Donald Trump. Filings in the US show the foundation gave the TBI more than £52m in 2023 and had promised another $218m (£163m)."
theguardian.com
Blair’s net zero intervention invites scrutiny of his institute’s donors
Labour insider rebukes ‘tech bros’ within Tony Blair Institute as critics question past work with petrostates
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy: "For first time in Russia’s history, we now hear that its oil industry is running on fumes. Our target is Russia’s ability to finance this war, to drag it out, to make it more brutal & destructive. Russia’s finances & Russia’s production are what must be stopped if Putin is to be stopped”
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Stuart Basson @stuartbasson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Iran nicking farmers' diesel now, the bastards. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
‘Strong indications’ that Iran played role in RAF Fairford incident, says Burnham
PM also defends decision to release suspects on bail and expresses ‘complete confidence’ in security services
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reform UK Council Leader dined at CEO's hotel before £215k hiring www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Norfolk council leader dined at CEO's hotel before £215k hiring
Reform UK's David Bick says he cannot recall meeting Dennis Bacon at the luxury venue.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mark Butcher is Reform UK's candidate in Claremont, Blackpool, standing tomorrow. He's seen here with a group intimidating a council worker taking flags down. A worker, just doing his job. That's him climbing the ladder. Just think how a he would treat council staff if he was a councillor.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.
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Stuart Basson @stuartbasson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“I invite this court to bear in mind it’s dealing with a 37-year-old man..." Time he started acting like one, then. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Daniel Thomas pleads not guilty after alleged dinghy slashing in Channel
Far-right activist who was filmed appearing to slash boat with blade is refused bail as he denies charges
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Stuart Basson @stuartbasson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Little Tommy's patriot platforms
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“How dare you say that we are lying, corrupt, unprincipled war criminals who have gotten innocent people killed? You are a threat to national security for noticing!” —Donald Trump & Benjamin Netanyahu
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reform-linked think tank calls for abolition of state pension The Centre for a Better Britain’s (CFABB) also proposed £75 billion of tax cuts, predominantly for the wealthy www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
standard.co.uk
Reform-linked think tank calls for abolition of state pension
The Centre for a Better Britain’s (CFABB) also proposed £75 billion of tax cuts, predominantly for the wealthy
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Stuart Basson @stuartbasson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Before all this nonsense kicked off, I thought that patriot platforms were what Tommy Robinson wore on his feet.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Guardian joins the campaign to abolish the state pension triple-lock. Portrays it as a old v young, social security v defence spending issue. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich, maldistribution of wealth, low govt spend on state pension, how future retirees will survive.
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Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don't think it's a coincidence that Trump is banning news outlets the week before a court's deadline for Todd Blanche to release interview notes with underage girls Trump is alleged to have raped and threatened. He'd rather we talk about his censorship than his pedophilia.
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Alex Gallagher @alexgallagher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A thought for the day ....
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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
what an incredibly fucked up thing to say to the UN
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Shaheen: "He seemed to say Russian children have also been displaced & kidnapped, & that's just not true. It's Ukrainian children the Russians have taken back to Russia. They've taken them from their families, thousands of them. It is very clear who is violating intl law here, & it's not Ukraine."
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kevanislay24.bsky.social @kevanislay24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The junk food industry is, in effect, a drug pusher...get people addicted to their sh#t so they can make more and more money. Can you imagine the top management at McDonald's/KFC etc. actually eating the stuff, and 'pushing' it onto their own children? Nah... Junk food tax straight to the NHS please
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lukewarm24.bsky.social @lukewarm24.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reform donor Ben Delo had vote in UK while living in Hong Kong www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The United States, which once freed prisoners from Germany's concentration camps, is now siding with the war criminals—and obstructing those who would hold them into account. Shameful—if this administration had any shame.
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US prepares to sanction the ICC, that indicted Russia's Putin and Israel's Netanyahu for war crimes
Trump is preparing sanctions against the International Criminal Court itself, potentially cutting it off from U.S. banking, technology and services. The US has already sanctioned 13 ICC officials and ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Ossoff: "I think the use of deep fake technology in political ads is meant to deceive voters and is a slippery slope. Mike Collins is using these deceptive tactics because he doesn't want to explain his own record."
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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 22/09/2026
The Oligarch who funded Don Jr.'s wedding is deeply linked to Russia's mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children.
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Stuart Basson @stuartbasson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If it's like other "Raise the..." enterprises, they'll be cable-tieing plastic flowers to lamp posts. This is wide open for grifters and the like. bylinetimes.com/2026/09/22/r...
bylinetimes.com
Royal British Legion Says It Wants 'No Association' With Anti-Migrant Group Behind Poppy Fundraisers
The charity says it never authorised a Hampshire group's 'Raise the Poppies' appeal, as crowdfunding sites take pages down
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🔴 NEW Royal British Legion Says It Wants ‘No Association’ With Anti-Migrant Group Behind Poppy Fundraisers By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Royal British Legion Says It Wants ‘No Association’ With Anti-Migrant Group Behind Poppy Fundraisers
The charity says it never authorised a Hampshire group's 'Raise the Poppies' appeal, as crowdfunding sites take pages down
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Stuart Basson @stuartbasson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
HE SHOULD BE LIVING IN FUCKING BELMARSH.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How the BBC Mainstreams the Right’s Anti-Migrant, Anti-British Agenda www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC Mainstreams the Right’s Anti-Migrant, Anti-British Agenda
The BBC’s platforming of the bigoted views of billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is just the latest sign of a national broadcaster that has lost its way
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sadly, we've had Starmer and Burnham, the primary difference between the two being only that Burnham can more convincingly communicate his love of football and 80s guitar music. Neither seem to have any awareness of the need and their responsibility to reinforce anti-racist norms.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How can it be that I know Andy Burnham disapproves of serving Yorkshire puddings with Christmas dinner but not whether he disapproves of masked fascists threatening members of the RNLI?
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 20/09/2026
This is shocking!! Exclusive: #BylineTimes has identified seven Reform councillors who are listed as members of the masked anti-migrant groups that gathered in Dover and other coastal towns in early September. bylinetimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
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The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked 'Patriot' Anti-Migrant Network
A Reform councillor and campaign co-ordinater urged his followers to join and support the masked group
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Stuart Basson @stuartbasson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Man who chooses not to contribute to the UK's upkeep bemoans the state of the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 18/09/2026
Trump's corruption cannot go unchecked. When Democrats win the majority, we will investigate the worst of it. Any individual or business involved in the Trumps' shady dealings will have to answer to Congress.
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 18/09/2026
“If you’re a US citizen you have no reason to fear” – Markwayne Mullin, responding to a video of a teenage US citizen being repeatedly punched in the face by ICE.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have a trade deficit with woman who used to own my house. I paid her thousands of dollars for her home and she paid me nothing. Now, all I have is a house worth thousand of dollars. I could have saved those thousands of dollars if I lived on a bench in the park. It's just simple Economics.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Man, I wonder why there aren't more headlines about this imaginary thing that does not happen?
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Stuart Basson @stuartbasson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nonce bonnets for goalposts.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Every day the government sits on its hands, the domestic terrorists grow stronger. Without tough action, the threats and marches will inevitably turn into violence against people.
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Stuart Basson @stuartbasson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Are we going about this the wrong way? I mean, for only £80 we can pay Farage to say that he supports the work of the RNLI.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"
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Retire in peace
McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"GOP Showcases 'Animatronic Senator' Technology"
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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...
oxfordmail.co.uk
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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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16/09/2026
Carney is treating the EU as the strategic asset it is, and the UK must do the same, going much further than the status quo to signal our intention to apply for membership. Voters want it, our economy needs it, and Burnham can deliver it.
independent.co.uk
UK urged to follow Canada’s example as it looks set to be ‘associate member’ of EU
Canada’s PM Mark Carney is pivoting to Europe amid his country’s trade war with Donald Trump
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