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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 17h

Sorry at what point do the government feel the need to do something about BBC funding, or are they just going to watch it be salami-sliced to extinction?

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Once again, the culture warriors deeply misunderstand the deep underlying psyche of the British people. The British people were offered nice animals and they overwhelmingly favoured nice animals.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I keep coming back to the Golders Green tweet, which was hardly the first poorly judged retweet on Zack Polanski's part, wasn't the first remark he had made either on issues of anti-Jewish racism or policing that was ill-judged...it just happened to be the one that did the damage.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Call me old-fashioned, but I just think that if you are announcing £10bn of spending, then if the Shadow Treasury team and the leader's office are doing their jobs properly, the leader should have clearer answers to these questions:

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European Greens @europeangreens.eu · 05/10/2026

Our statement on the recent Green Party of England and Wales motion 'Zionism is Racism'. europeangreens.eu/news/egp-pos...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 04/10/2026

The "zionism is racism" motion that has just passed on the Green Party's conference floor is truly gross, and deeply racist. The party's MPs deserve some credit for opposing it, though they should've done so more stridently and sooner. This is now a millstone around the party's necks. Deservedly.

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A common theme that drives me absolutely wild with elections/polling these days: 1. Right wing wrecks everything 2. Left of centre figure elected 3. Left of centre can’t fix all the damage in 5 seconds so the right wing, who have got 10x worse in the meantime, lead polls again/win next election

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're repeatedly told that asylum seekers pose a threat to the good people of our country... Reading about the threatening and violent treatment of elderly and open minded locals in Crowborough I get the impression that the real threat comes from closer to home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

On Facebook and other platforms, people
who are known to support the asylum
seekers have been threatened with acid
attacks, petrol bombs and rape. The dossier.
which has been seen by the Guardian, also
claims that several local businesses have
been threatened by far-right agitators, along
with a church where some asylum seekers
worship. One man was punched in the throat
after he held up a "Love Thy Neighbour"
sign, while an elderly couple were falsely
accused of supporting sex offenders. In yet
another case, a 92-year-old church volunteer
was reportedly woken at 3am for two nights
in a row by a man standing outside her
home, shining a torch through her window
and shouting abuse

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 30/09/2026

Amateur hour: even if you hate the proposal, you surely join the commission, play spoiler, and engineer a reason to walk out that makes the government bad or factional (insist on including party finance reforms Labour would hate, etc) Just saying "no" outright is surely what Burnham *wanted*.

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

such a good eg of why political argument matters - polling previously showed over 60% support for keeping triple lock. Argue to unlock it *for something people also want* & numbers can change. (Obv can change back again if someone makes a good argument against, but either way, politics=argument)

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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

10/10. No notes.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Labour Party is having a moment My analysis of the speech, the most radical from a prime minister in more than a decade www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well that appears to have been the best received political speech in (sort of) living memory.

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think it is very good that the PM is being so publicly vulnerable about grieving his father. That is also a form of leadership

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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t like “we will hope again” but that was a corker of speech. That last bit was key. Some people might not like his ideas but at least he has some

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most striking of all is that this is explicitly a very *pro-politics* speech, a direct rebuttal to the anti-politics that is so widespread. And rightly so: politics can change things, it is an admirable thing to choose to engage in and a duty for us all to step forward and pursue.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good shout out to RNLI from Healey in his speech to HUGE applause

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Agree with this. The equally annoying counterpart are the people in Eddie’s replies going “I’m proud not to have heard of it!” You shouldn’t be proud not to know something! You should just go “it’s a big world”.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Next time someone tells you off for going to BlueSky and says you should have stayed and fought show them this.

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Terrie McCann @terrie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can he pass this on to the Home Secretary please?

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 26/09/2026

To be serious, think the December election talk was, like a lot of other Westminster pathologies, a result of politics that purely looks at Comms and nothing that is actually happening in the world.

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 26/09/2026

I disagree with much of this by @modernlockey.bsky.social, but I think the points he makes tell us something interesting about the shortcomings of the Starmer project and the problems that Labour faces today.

futureoftheleft.substack.com

What is politics for?

Do we still live in a material world?

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can anyone explain to me why this article doesn't mention anywhere that small boat crossings are down 42% from last year? That doesn't mean it's not an issue 781 people arrived in one day. But it seems like the sort of context a reputable news source might mention www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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No 'switch' to stop small boats, Lucy Powell tells BBC

Labour's deputy leader was speaking to BBC local radio ahead of the party's annual conference

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026

I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve written to my MP, the Home Secretary and the PM this morning demanding that the government take action to defend the RNLI and clamp down on these far-right “activists”, who need to be arrested and charged for the criminal offences in this thread alone, as well as others in recent weeks.

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Evan Maple VO @evanmaplevo.com · 22/09/2026

it’s been said a ton already but I really do appreciate mamdani so throughly dismantling the core democrat ideology of “we actually can’t ever do anything helpful or good because of. circumstances”

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Again, stop conceding the talking points of the right. The description 'unvetted' comes up in right wing Facebook posts constantly. This really isn't about security checks. Have we 'vetted' masked men intimidating RNLI volunteers?

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Although the cost of housing in London is insane and makes life difficult for anyone under 50, youngsters are mostly unaware much of the city used to look like this

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Emily Graham @emilyagraham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Looking forward to our event on Sunday at Lib Dem conference. Details below - hope to see you there! We'll be marking the 75th anniversary of the Refugee Convention, and exploring how well our international refugee protection system is upholding up in today's connected, unstable world 👇

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026

It is incredibly important that political violence does not succeed. The far-right mob that shut down Portsmouth wanted this outcome. If the state wishes to avoid more of these actions, it needs to make sure this RNLI branch reopens *immediately*, or as close to that as humanly possible.

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These are thugs being thugs, not legitimate protests

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The original reporting of what happened in Portsmouth was a joke. This is just a hate mob that has been whipped up who are now targeting the RNLI. Throw the book at them.

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RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests

RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore

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Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our @thinklabour.bsky.social report on the Greens challenge to Labour is in the Guardian today. Our diagnosis of why Labour's vote fell in cities is high housing costs for young people, plus progressives worried that Labour doesn't reflects their values. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Greens just four points behind Labour in urban areas, poll reveals

Exclusive: UK’s Green parties could take 40 seats if result replicated at next election, according to Labour-linked thinktank

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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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Terrie McCann @terrie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wait, Widow's Bay Katie Dippold is the Babadook tweet lady? This is incredible.

A tweet from Katie Dippold, creator of Widow's Bay in which she says "TBT to Halloween when I dressed as the Babadook but my friend's house had more of a grown up drinking wine vibe". It's accompanied by a picture showing this scenario.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/09/2026

As I wrote yesterday, the press have hugely downplayed the seriousness of this, and it is partly driven by the government doing the same. bsky.app/profile/joxl...

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Fundamentally, this just cannot be allowed to continue.

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Ilikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 09/09/2026

the government really should think about having a minister to oversee this sort of thing, a kind of culture secretary if you will

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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The worst part came before that when he described Ed Miliband as "of Jewish heritage". The word he was looking for is: Jewish. Disgusting. Many (most) journalists would be sacked for this and rightly so. I hope Miliband makes a formal complaint.

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