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Retired, interested in politics, art, theatre and of course Arsenal. Slowly finding my favourite twitter peeps.

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cornwallhistory.bsky.social @cornwallhistory.bsky.social · 12h
There are 4 times as many pensioners in poverty as pensioners who are higher rates tax payers. The purpose of the triple lock is to increase pensions. Many women pensioners lost 6 years money when age was raised. I support properly funded NCS like NHS for people all ages, and better funded pensions.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 7h
Hungary set to drop veto on extending EU/Ukraine accession talks to two more 'clusters' of topics, if Ukraine passes minority protection law - www.euronews.com/2026/10/07/h...
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Hungary set to lift veto on Ukraine's EU membership talks
Hungary dropped its veto on two clusters of Ukraine's EU accession talks on Wednesday. The next phase depends on Kyiv's parliament passing a minority-rights law. #EuropeNews
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 9h
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 9h
During Andy Burnham’s tenure as mayor of Manchester, the city was transformed. Now, with the Manchester City scandal spilling into global politics, could its stain tarnish Burnham too? Hear the full conversation here: linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9h
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch research contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus * Apparent exodus of super-rich suggests UK is no longer billionaires’ playground When the Sunday Times broke the news that David Reuben, one of the richest men in the UK, had apparently fled to the tax haven of Monaco, there was much pearl-clutching. Reuben had moved from his Holland Park house in London to live full-time in the principality. Labour’s tax regime was blamed, with fears that there would be a cascading effect across the economy with wealth draining from the UK. It was reported across the world that he had probably left because of potential taxes on wealth in the upcoming budget. Continue reading...
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 11h
Anti-migrant activist Levi Mason is set to speak at a demonstration in Telford on Sunday. The event is organised by Telford Patriots and Alexandra Whyte, whose sister, Rhiannon, was killed in 2024 by an asylum seeker. But Mason's violent past cannot be ignored. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/07/c...
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Convicted Domestic Abuser Set to Speak at Telford Demo – HOPE not hate
Warning: This article contains a graphic description of domestic violence.  Levi Mason, an anti-migrant activist from Liverpool, is set to speak at a Telford ‘Enough...
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David Ornstein @david-ornstein.bsky.social · 11h
🚨 BREAKING: Tonda Eckert given suspended 6wk ban by Football Association after investigation into ‘spygate’ scandal. 33yo Southampton head coach also handed fine having been charged with bringing game into disrepute. No #SaintsFC punishment @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/762...
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Southampton’s Tonda Eckert handed suspended six-week ban for role in ‘Spygate’ scandal
The German coach has also been handed a small fine, having been charged by the FA for bringing the game into disrepute in July.
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magnetron21 @markwolves.bsky.social · 16h
Completely unfair competition, no level playing field, race to the bottom continues. Workers suffer, the public and businesses get a poor service. The connections between Royal Mail, EVRi, the USO....they remain misunderstood. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs amid restructure and fall in letter deliveries
Postal service says cuts will focus on on head office and ‘support function roles’
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 19h
This is *very* awkward for the casino industry, which is in the midst of a fight to prevent the Treasury hiking slot machine tax in the Budget. Grosvenor Casinos operator fined £5m for issues incl. failure to check on customers losing tens of thousands.
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Grosvenor Casinos Limited Public Statement
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Amy Lawrence @amylawrence.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Look at that team repping Arsenal at Robert Pires’s Jubilee match at Metz tonight. First two goal scorers? Henry and Vieira Come on Lord Bendtner
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Ben Bradshaw @benbradshaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Conservatives are looking so amateurish. Badenoch can’t answer simple questions about her “flagship” iron dome announcement & would-be London mayoral candidate James Cleverly won’t give straight answers on Heathrow, Net Zero or Europe. 🤷‍♂️
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Mark Savage @mrdiscopop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What an amazing life and career www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Blue Planet and Gandhi composer George Fenton dies aged 76
The musician received five Oscar nominations, and soundtracked dozens of memorable nature films.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📌 ICYMI — Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think…
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Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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Adrian Clarke @adrianjclarke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here's a brand new Handbrake Off! It's me, @amylawrence.bsky.social & @ianstonecomedy.bsky.social answering some questions, talking 114, the looong break, Gyokeres, Eze and lots more... Audio version available in usual places. Here is the YouTube link youtu.be/6lCe82gMvmU?...
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Do Wenger's Arsenal deserve more credit?
YouTube video by Handbrake Off
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One of the most passionate opponents of fox hunting was the woke left winger Ann Widdecombe.
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rachel Jupp announced as BBC's new director of news after Deborah Turness exit
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Rachel Jupp announced as BBC's new director of news after Deborah Turness exit
Jupp is a former deputy editor of BBC Two's Newsnight and has also served as Panorama's editor.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Let's cut the shit. Merz needs some good PR right now. Germany could mass produce long-range ballistic missiles and explosive drones for Ukraine by commandeering factory production lines (all those carmakers) and help end this war within months. But Germany isn't.
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BBC Expert Says There Is 'Panic At The Pentagon' After US Removes Its Bombers From UK Base www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bbc-ex...
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BBC Expert Says There Is 'Panic At The Pentagon' After US Removes Its Bombers From UK Base
Around a dozen B-1s have returned to America from RAF Fairford.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When anybody tells us they intend to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, there is no excuse not to challenge them on how that would affect the Northern Ireland peace process and the UK-EU trade agreement, and how it would hamper the next Hillsborough campaign. #R4Today
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#empireworld is available for 99p as a kindle deal innit amzn.eu/d/0aaF6wLd
amzn.eu
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 04/10/2026
founder member of the new Abu Dhabi Premier League?
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The MPs should leave the party and form a new one with a proper constitution that would prevent this dumb shit.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"it's your own time you're wasting" #CPC26
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy, co-leads of The Movement for Progressive Judaism, said: "A party that votes against protecting Jews while debating whether their self-determination is racist is practising the racism it claims to oppose.” www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/greens...
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Greens Branded 'A Racist Party' After Passing Anti-Zionism Motion
Zack Polanski has also been criticised for missing controversial conference vote.
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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In July last year, we revealed that Manchester council had signed a 10-year deal giving Man City's Abu Dhabi owners "right of first refusal" on the sale of council land across whole stretches of East Manchester. Today, it's on the front page of the Sunday Times, crediting us.
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Mike Gapes @mikegapes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Greens have become a dustbin for extremists, cranks and racists. The Green Conference vote today shows that they are now an antisemitic racist party. There is no way that there should be any cooperation at any level between Labour and the racist, antisemitic Green Party.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm told the Zionism is Racism motion passed at Green Party conference by 1022 votes to 830
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exc: Abu Dhabi has held talks with at least one minister since reports of the Man City verdict first surfaced Foreign office minister Stephen Doughty is among those understood to have been called by UAE officials, along with some of the UK's most senior diplomats observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Burnham’s former deputy says Manchester City ‘will prove ...
The former deputy mayor of Manchester criticises the Premier League investigation into the football club’s finances, after it was found guilty of numerous breaches
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Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
. Brexit A Democracy Can Change Its Mind
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Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The crisis has pushed Burnham to confront the glaring contradiction at the heart of his project. To come out and bat for Real Manchesterism — the very successful, morally compromised, rather neoliberal doctrine whose success became his success. manchestermill.co.uk/man-city-bur...
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A very Mancunian scandal: How Man City forced Andy Burnham to face his past
We tell the inside story of a city's relationship with Abu Dhabi, including notes that show a council official saying: 'You don’t criticise the council’s relationship with the football club’
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Ian Moss @ian.allenmoss.co.uk · 03/10/2026
Ofcom should make one telecoms code change. That the person you call in a mobile help centre "must" be able to deal with all aspects of your case and act as case manager. They are then responsible for all inter-company interactions until the problem is solved with a simple fine structure by hour/day
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
WTAF? John Healey isn't Jewish, but depicting him with big pointed ears is a visual trop indicating 'non human' or Untermensch (subhuman). Boat full of men with darker skin is obvious. The arrows, slain people and rats all speak of hate, violence and prejudice. Conservatives rotten to the core.
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Alexander Brown @alexofbrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
EXC: Kemi Badenoch attended a fundraiser for a hunt who have a member now being probed over an alleged fox-killing by hounds. Footage appears to show a huntsman recovering the body of a fox, with blood and organs found at the scene. Police looking into it. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Kemi Badenoch branded 'out of touch' for stance on fox hunting after vile video
EXCLUSIVE: Footage shows a Heythrop Hunt kennel huntsman climbing into woodland near the village of Lower Swell to recover the body of the fox and then running away with it
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He hasn't used AI-generated synthetic focus groups to test public opinion, though, has he. For the same reason that I couldn't use Grand Theft Auto to drive a car.
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
BBC management now cutting specialist journalists at the very regional BBC news services which garner the most viewers. Reporters in each cut from 8 to just 2. The masochism strategy in action. Genius. @michelepaduano.bsky.social: “If it’s going to go online it’s got to go online distinctively…”1/
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have heard some bonkerooney from the Tories in recent years, but this is off the charts. As a sensible policy, it is up there with making it a legal requirement for people called Jacob to wear trousers while taking a shower. That level of madness. Let’s break it down.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Another shining moment for Reform UK Durham… Volunteers threatened with legal action for restoring parks freedomineverydaylife.org/volunteers-t...
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Volunteers threatened with legal action for restoring parks – Freedom in Everyday Life
Since 2017, volunteers from Hemp Garden Community Association have worked to transform a neglected green space into a thriving community park. Elvet Green in Durham has been transformed from a…
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In our clear economic interest. In our security interest. The public are broadly behind it. Against: something, something about division (ie angry right wing people will spit in a camera on tiktok). It will be a fight but we've got a responsibility here. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Half of UK wants to rejoin EU and backing it could drive up Labour vote, megapoll finds
Exclusive: Findings will bolster those in No 10 who want to negotiate on re-entry but some senior figures remain wary
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump fell asleep - for a full four minutes - on camera - during tonight’s White House media session. The monkeys around him had to keep jabbering to fill the embarrassing silence.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨 NEW: Manchester City’s chairman privately met Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds in No 10 to discuss current and future UAE investment in Britain days before the club's guilty verdicts were announced www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🔴 Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years Exclusive: Reform UK’s Sam Journet branded “Britain’s worst councillor” as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council bylinetimes.com/2026/10/02/r...
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Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years
Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council
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Jake Kanter @jakekanter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We've reached the stage of BBC cuts where BBC staff are now defiantly posting laughing emojis during management calls about job losses. deadline.com/2026/10/bbc-...
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BBC Staff Revolt Over Job Cuts By Posting Laughing Emojis During Call
BBC employees expressed defiance over job cuts by posting laughing emojis during a management call this week.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Shout out to all the other authors who have to exist in this godforsaken attention economy and who don’t get invited on GMB and Question Time to publicise their book because they aren’t a complete moral vacuum/desperate Pick Me.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
*** BREAKING NEWS *** The grounds for #ManCity to appeal have just been leaked on X by a highly placed Manchester source
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pep's having a proper week www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Real Madrid submit "substantial" dossier to Uefa over Barcelona corruption allegations
Real Madrid have sent Uefa "evidence of extraordinary gravity" relating to payments made by Barcelona to a former vice-president of Spain's referees' committee.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reform-led Gateshead Council refuses to light up bridge red in support of anti-racism campaign www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Are these the sort of numbers you want 4 1/2 years into your imperialist invasion of a far smaller nation? Asking for a friend.
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Alison McGovern @allymcgovern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Correct, Jurgen.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not seen an org chart like that since someone tried to analyse the Lib Dem party structure bsky.app/profile/mpau...
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