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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think there’s a misunderstanding of the term “EU Accession negotiations”. Negotiation, in this sense, is primarily over how and by when an applicant will implement or align with each area of EU law (Acquis Communautaire), and then whether they‘ve done that. It’s not over *whether* they will.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Although it feels like I am shouting into the void about this sometimes, I want to share some further thoughts on the “Zionism is Racism” motion which the Green Party is due to debate in the next 16 hours. Just to address various points which I think people in general should know. A thread:

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 01/10/2026

"Pensioners say that they have contributed and are entitled to big increases in benefits. But the contributory condition has been weakened over the years... Someone born in 1956 is expected to withdraw over 30% more than they contributed." 👇 buff.ly/YJr933z

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The triple lock is a symbol of a society that has stolen the young’s future

The baby boom should not be a bust for future generations

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jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kurt Schumacher described the Nazi modus operandi (to their faces) as “the relentless mobilization of human stupidity”. That is the essence of (right-wing) populism. Nothing to do with “legitimate concerns”; everything to do with stirring up envy, spite, malice, resentment etc.

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

A genuine humanitarian. All those children. All those young refugees. Separated from their parents because the Daily Mail, politicians, and others in 1930s UK, refused refuge to their parents, thousands of whom died in the Holocaust.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is your semi-regular reminder that pensioner poverty: a) is real b) is significantly less prevalent than working-age poverty and half the rate of child poverty, and c) is such that a pensioner is statistically more likely to live in a household worth over £1 million than to live in poverty

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Most housing benefit goes to private landlords. A big chunk of universal credit subsidises underpayed workers. The so-called welfare bill could be seriously reduced by fixing these underlying issues, not cutting actual welfare.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Roses are red Their stems are quite narrow

Daily Record headline: Drunk woman steals 45ft ferry while shouting 'I'm Jack Sparrow'. Subhead: ALISON WHELAN drank Lambrini and ate poisonous nightshade before boarding the ferry and drifting up a river on the tide.

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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Somebody in Nato, Denmark or Greenland seems to have spotted that telling Trump he can have an enormous victory + then offering him the status quo of the last 25-50-75 years is an off-ramp

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Phoebe Judge from the podcast Criminal has a fabulous episode called "Iceland Noir", which includes an interview with that pathologist (and the prime minister, who also writes crime fiction).

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Episode 233: Iceland Noir (8.25.2023)

Iceland is one of the most peaceful countries in the world, but people there love to read about crime.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace. It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well this explains some things. Sheeran’s played Robert Kraft’s wedding three years AFTER Kraft was arrested for patronizing massage parlors staffed with sex trafficked women, and described Kraft as “super sweet.” 🤢 www.soapcentral.com/entertainmen...

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Ed Sheeran performed at Robert Kraft’s wedding and described billionaire as “super sweet” four years before dropping Macklemore from tour

Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One more time: Inheritance tax *is not unique or even uncommon* in being "double taxation". The coffee I just bought was paid for with wages on which income tax and NI had been levied, but was also subject to VAT. Just stop it.

elen Whately: “One of the problems with inheritance tax is that it's a form of double taxation.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Party that wants to retrospectively change rules so as to remove migrants also says retrospective rules on party funding are "dictatorship tactics".

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 11/09/2026

Happy #CloudAppreciationDay! ☁️✨ Today is the perfect excuse to look up and admire the skies above us. From fluffy fair-weather cumulus clouds to towering, dramatic cumulonimbus, they do more than shape our weather. They spark curiosity, inspire creativity, and connect us to the natural world.

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This... isn't true. Afaict the £330m figure is from the Sunday Times tax list, which "include corporation tax, dividend tax, capital gains tax, income tax and some payroll taxes". It's him and all his company activities, not his personal residency www.thetimes.com/business/eco...

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Britain’s latest billionaire exit to cost tax of 38,000 workers

Departure of hedge fund magnate Chris Rokos to Greece leaves a £330m hole in public finances, the chancellor is told

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

every time carbon removal gets posted about there's a certain "we have trees at home" genre of response. which I get, on some level, because the forces of fossil capital are indeed that comically evil and dishonest. but: 1) actual scientists also research these things 2) they thought of that

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Curiously, the French translation of the Reform ‘agreement’ doesn’t say that France will take back small boat migrants intercepted in British waters.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just want to point out if people had been beaten up at the Green or SNP party conference and their leader had cheered it on. It wouldn't just have been on TV, it would have been on TV non-stop until the election. But for Reform, it barely got mentioned.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

just got arrested for going up to a police officer while wearing meta glasses and saying "computer, transfer $100,000 from this officer's bank account into my account" and then waving my hands like a magician

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Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Speaking on behalf of FX people everywhere, we neither have the time nor the crayons to explain this to him.

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 01/09/2026

History Prof with a question...

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Tanja @tanjainthegreen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yup, this is a sensible take. NATO member too. This is not like Brexit at all.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

The more users, the faster we can fix the little things and democratize features.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The year is 2035. Flock cameras are everywhere. You step out of your home and hear a voice coming from somewhere overhead, possibly close to the streetlight next to you. It's me. "Collar gap."

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just remembered the Dolly Parton bus.

The National Express 925 bus service between Woking Station and Heathrow Airport.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

if it takes out mar-a-lago i’ll start going to church

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Tanja @tanjainthegreen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Why is the US CIA chief visiting Moscow?

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Reminds me of the old joke that everyone's got a novel in them and for most people that's where it should stay

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I do think that the Right's obsession with 'owning the libs' is driven by them being owned by the libs (and their pesky facts) on an almost daily basis. A bit like waking up every day and being told you're effing stupid. You'll soon become motivated to get back at your tormentor, no matter what.

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Tanja @tanjainthegreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Perhaps they could distribute these leaflets in all the local pubs too.

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Saddletramp🇪🇺 @saddletramp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It’s become increasingly common for high-profile figures in Reform to feature heavily in the media despite not holding a seat in the House of Commons. Zia Yusaf, Tim Montgomerie, Matt Goodwin, Calvin Robinson, Laila Cunningham are not MPs, despite talking and acting as if they are.

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Tanja @tanjainthegreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This needs commas. Also, this is perfect as it is.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You can't claim long-term benefits if you're able to work. And you HAVE to be looking for work. You can't look for work if you're cleaning high streets all day. And making people clean for benefits undercuts wages of people who currently get paid do it. Idiocy www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Jenrick says Reform would make long-term benefits claimants clean up high streets – UK politics live

Party’s ‘welfare to work’ policy would force long-term claimants to do community work or face losing benefits

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Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · 14/08/2026

Rewilding is the buffer we need now. 🌳🦫 In response to the Daily Mail's recent piece on wildfires and land restoration, our CEO Rebecca Wrigley has written directly to set the record straight: f.mtr.cool/wohxycndfw 🧵(1/4)

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Rewilding is the buffer we need now

A response to the Daily Mail from Rewilding Britain CEO, Rebecca Wrigley, addressing recent misinformation about rewilding and increased wildfire risk.

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