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Mike Holland

@thedutchmeister.bsky.social
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A big, hairy epicurean dandy. Turns out I’m quite proud to be European. And bloody furious at Brexshit fuckwittery. #FBPE

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 5h
The budget for promoting Brexit in Scotland and NI was spent in England. Gisela Stuart has been quite open about the fact there was no campaigning in Scotland. It was clear that if England mainly voted in favour of Brexit, Scotland would leave anyway.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 6h
Much of the coverage today is absolutely nuts. The facts are on Wikipedia. The full Intelligence and Security Committee (Russia) Report is online. Tory media & politicians once again banking on their average consumer/voter being too daft/busy/blinkered to notice...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15h
Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services?
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 21h
Given His Holiness is about to undergo lung surgery, this is probably a smart call.
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Chris2fur1943 @chris2fur1943.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Andy Burnham has said it is clear Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham says it is clear Russia interfered in Brexit referendum
PM says he asked question upon entering No 10 but does not reveal who gave him ‘clear answer’ Russia meddled
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LuxJude352 @luxjude352.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“Burnham said he had asked whether Moscow had attempted to influence the referendum and received a confirmation that it had.” Vindication for the Remainers who were told “you lost just get over it.” Russia changed the entire course of direction of the UK. #Brexit #r4today
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham says it is clear Russia interfered in Brexit referendum
PM says he asked question upon entering No 10 but does not reveal who gave him ‘clear answer’ Russia meddled
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"Seamus O'Reilly" 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇦🇺🇬🇱 @jimbobuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In the observer; Andy Burnham has said "UK authorities are “clear” that there was Russian interference in the Brexit vote: this is the first time a prime minister has confirmed Kremlin involvement in the 2016 referendum." Finally.... What we all knew...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
At last! Big congrats to all including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social As MP I was proud to join a court case to try to force ministers to hold an inquiry into the impact of Russian disinformation on the Brexit vote & other recent elections - their lack of curiosity, from Boris onwards, was stunning …
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Jerome Persaud @swingingbunt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Wow, good for Burnham. We can only hope for charges…maybe the vacating of the referendum results? Not sure they (or any govt) has the guts for that. But daylight shining on the problem is a good start!
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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Everybody knew Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum - the evidence was there - but people were too afraid of Farage’s mob to say it. So it’s good to see Burnham finally speaking the truth.
observer.co.uk
From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...
The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum
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Michael Adzema @sillymickel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
*PSYCHOLOGY OF APOCALYPSE: Ecopsychology, Activism, & the Prenatal Roots of Humanicide* (2018) by Michael Adzema. Ch 4, p. 37 for free pdf copy: drive.google.com/file/d/1gewW... 8/ 🧵👇 💡📚💙 #PA ☮️🔥🌍🌡️☢️ #PACH4 📖 #TruthWarriors ❕ #Psychology ☮️ #Climate 🔥🌍 #ecopsychology 🌍☮️ #ecocide 🔥 #Existential😱 #FBR
With these atrocities we can now include the creation of the ultimate evil that can be committed while in flesh — the killing of the planet and of all life on it. For their denial of it and support of the forces working against us do more than hobble our efforts. From their centers of darkness they do all they can, unconsciously, to try to satisfy that death wish — that Rapture — they long for. As one of them, James Watts, the Secretary of the Interior under Ronald Reagan once put it, addressing the Congress, protecting the environment did not matter since Jesus Christ was soon coming. This was public testimony. He said that “after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.”2 No, this was not a joke. Such folks believe the world as we know it is not real, that the real world is an invisible one soon to be known, and that The Bible is literally true. Remember, this is a man who was in charge of protecting America’s wilderness and here he was looking forward to the last of all trees laid to waste.

I ask again, how can such insanity be ignored when it has the power to bring such horrible unrealities into the real world we live in, into our…

4. HUMANS WANT TO DIE

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Zelenskyy is the greatest Western leader of the modern era. Trump is the worst. Zelenskyy is the leader of the free world. Trump is its most treacherous betrayer. Zelenskyy saved his democracy. Trump destroyed his. Слава Україні! 🇺🇦
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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dollyz.bsky.social @dollyz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Xavier Becerra @xavierbecerra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A 45-day ICE sweep across California, timed right up to the midterms, targeting people with no criminal history. Donald Trump is trying to rig the November election by intimidating voters and suppressing the vote. California won't be intimidated by his threats and thugs.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026
oh my god I was going to joke "he's actually centre-left" and turns out he IS
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kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tories never were very good with sums, ask Liz Truss.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/10/2026
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. The apparent error appears in a chapter on net zero in The Right Way, a 100-page policy document produced for the Conservative conference in Birmingham. Badenoch repeatedly used the phrase in her main speech. Continue reading...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Appalachian Blue @republicofcascadia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 08/10/2026
Here’s a new idea - people get stripped of honours for doing dishonourable things - let’s add tax dodging to the list. buff.ly/6zFAOmn
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just wondering where and when are the riots over this White Paedophile Gang, just convicted? Did I not get the memo? Did I miss the Invite?
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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Louise @bombaycrone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He makes a good point.
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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In boost for Burnham, Labour wins Holborn and St Pancras by-election after racist attacks on their candidate. Greens under-perform despite throwing the kitchen sink: maybe Burnham's popularity, maybe their internal troubles. Galloway humiliated.
Bar chart showing Labour and Greens well ahead of other candidates.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?
THE TIMES

Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m
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AJ 🦋 @andjamwar.uk · 08/10/2026
Exactly what it’s designed to do. Keep protecting the most fiscally protected generation in human history.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fuck me, this Badenoch speech is awful. Bitter, angry and weird. She’s going on about Burnham taking us back to the days of British Leyland, most aren’t going to know what’s she’s talking about? The only difference between the Tories and Reform is Badenoch knows black people can be English?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Journalist, "You called Margaret Thatcher a genius. Was one of her biggest mistakes the privatisation of England's water networks?" Kemi Badenoch, "Privatisation was a success" She then explains exactly how privatisation was not a success - shameless gaslighting, utterly disgusting.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's true that not a lot of people are hit by the £100k childcare thing, but the thing is, all of the people who are live in about 100 seats, 40 of which the Tories need to win from the Liberal Democrats, 20 of them they have to prevent the Liberal Democrats winning next time.
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Dr Len Blue @llblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
International Political Cartoon, 3 October 2026 by Steve Jones (Great Britain🇬🇧)
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Whistleblower and former banker Simon Andriesz, 57, has died by suicide, The Banker reports. Andriesz exposed US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s past links to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Nobody knows more about demonstrating the Dunning–Kruger effect than me.” —Donald Trump
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Years of extremist media using phrases like 'Sadiq Khan's hated ULEZ cameras' in their headlines surely contributes to people like this becoming radicalised to commit terrorist acts?
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
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Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This 👇
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fascinating. Kellner combines @yougov.co.uk's latest MRP with its new survey research on tactical voting to suggest that Reform would do much, much worse (and Labour and the Tories considerably better) than the MRP suggests. Deets here: kellnerp.substack.com/p/how-tactic...
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is astonishing and wildly improper behaviour from a member of the House of Lords, albeit one on sabbatical.
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