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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The party has also said it would look closer at whether parents' earnings and savings should be factored into welfare payments for their children" So according to the Tories, it's wrong to means-test benefits for boomers... but totally fine to do so for their adult children children.
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Conservatives pledge 'tough love' benefit rules for under-25s
The party says it would bring in new work requirements for young people claiming Universal Credit.
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes
I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is outrageous in and of itself. It's also outrageous that the government isn't doing anything about it. There's a constant political refrain that 'the first duty of government is to protect its citizens'. So do it.
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River @riverlorien.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
'Not long ago, Just Stop Oil activists were given long sentences for simply discussing blocking infrastructure. In contrast, the balaclava-wearing gangs now do much the same with apparent impunity. One could almost call it two-tier justice.'
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We don't need to play by Elon Musk's rules. In the Commons yesterday, I commended Lisa Nandy on her decision to leave X and take DCMS off the platform. I left more than a year ago, for reasons that will be familiar to people on BlueSky. I would like to see the whole government follow her lead.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When blackshirts are marching through the streets of Dover and Portsmouth, the focus shouldn’t be on the disruption they cause, but on their fascist ideology and deliberate intimidation of migrants and people of colour. [1/2]
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/09/2026
If every statement about Extinction Rebellion had opened with "Climate change is the single biggest issue facing humanity, and we understand why people have legitimate concerns the world isn't doing enough to tackle it…" this approach might be *faintly* defensible. But they didn't, and it isn't.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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pictonpip.bsky.social @pictonpip.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Got caught up in this trying to get to a parkrun. Minimal police presence, despite it obstructing a major transport hub. Two tier policing indeed.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Look, unless they're holding signs saying they oppose genocide, there's nothing that can be done x
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026
1) This is an attack on infrastructure and they should throw the book at all of them. 2) This is an absolutely outrageous response from a Reform councillor and shows how deeply unserious they are.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How many front page articles and opinion pieces will there be?
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Amazing. It seems that plagiarism is only a problem for The Times when black people do it
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king
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Greensleeves @greensleeves.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The BBC is promoting RefUK as a govt in waiting, when RefUK have 8 MPs, only 3 elected, the other 5 defected from the Tories. Lib Dems have 71 MPs but are ignored. Ofcom is supposed to ensure impartiality of the BBC - the national broadcaster - so clearly Ofcom is complicit in this political bias.
Text 'Reform says it will prioritise British-born young workers for social housing'.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'd say "Something for nothing" culture is getting paid £100,000 a year of public money, plus expenses, for a job that you then fail to turn up to for months on end
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Orbinho @orbinho.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Your exam results, good or bad, do not define you nor your future.
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It'S Not Done Declan Rice
ALT: It'S Not Done Declan Rice
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025
Farage: epic grifter
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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
SUVs are higher at the front and three times more likely to kill a child when they hit them. SUV drivers drag the child under their vehicle, and then they crush the child to death. It's incredible that SUVs don't have higher tax, and why not lower speed limits. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar
Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar
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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We are in a climate emergency and it is killing people. Stop illustrating these stories with old timey cute beach huts and other faux boomer memorabilia. This is serious and we are in trouble. Start treating it as such.
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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“I am the most verbally and physically attacked public figure or politician of modern times.” The disgraceful Nigel Farage. Remembering Labour MP Jo Cox, born 1974, murdered 2016.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Please leave that terrible site
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🧵1/ I've spent more than a decade working on anti-bribery and corruption. I know a red flag when I see one. That's why I’ve reported Nigel Farage to Parliament’s Standards Commissioner. (H/T @rowenamason.bsky.social and @tomburgis.bsky.social).
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Nigel Farage reported to standards watchdog over ‘crypto lobbying’
Commissioner asked to investigate Reform UK leader after private meeting with Bank of England governor
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
So it turns out the massive scandal here is that Bridget Phillipson's mum bought a council house for £9k in 1990 and then sold it *33 years* later for £99k. That's the entire story
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
More of that 'pure cold rage' they called for
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Kemi Badenoch are headlining a conference next week, speaking to a crowd of anti-abortion activists, far-right politicians and oil executives 👇🏻
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Senior UK Politicians to Mix With Oil Execs, Far-Right Figures, and Anti-Abortion Activists at London Conference
Dozens of British MPs and peers will rub shoulders with politicians from the European far right, Trump donors and American climate change deniers at a major right-wing event returning to London next w...
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I can't take the government taking a moral stand on social media for under-16s whilst it still posts, and encourages people to use, on the hate-filled cesspool of X
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Wrighty @wrightsnake.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Nice thing to see on my way home.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Of course the prime minister is posting on X about how bad the riot organised on X is. Fucking of course he is. An expression of complete subservience to the men in Silicon Valley and the White House who have instigated this moment.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Migrant homes and businesses being set alight by “protestors” in Belfast tonight. Musk has helped start another pogrom in the U.K. Yet still our Gvt won’t leave X.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 10/06/2026
I assume the government has banned X and issued an international arrest warrant for Robinson and Musk?
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Government still posts on a platform that produces and distributed CSAM on industrial scale. Maybe get off that as a first step?
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Thomas Ableman @freewheeling.info · 29/05/2026
🚨 THIS COULD NOT BE MORE IMPORTANT 🚨 One man (a single human being) has decided to tilt this country towards fascism, has the power to do so and the Government is doing nothing. IT WIILL SOON BE TOO LATE
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Climate change is real and it's happening and it's only going to get worse until everyone wakes the fuck up. By far the biggest threat to us all. We don't have another planet we can go to.
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Arsenal FC @arsenalfc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.
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Haris @afcmhr.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Max Dowman becomes the youngest player ever to win a Premier League medal. 🏆
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.
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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It cannot be said enough: everyone responsible for this, voters and politicians, should hang their heads in fucking shame.
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