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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Love this: Méditerranée Sans Frontières Sabine Réthoré 2011 Seen in the MUCEM museum, Marseille.

A map of the Mediterranean with the entrance at the top, cities named but no national borders marked.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This chart published by the Economics Laboratory, shows that the UK social spending is 23% of GDP, covers NHS, social security and support services. It is a useful rebutal to neoliberals calling for cuts to the NHS, state pension and other benefits. www.linkedin.com/posts/charto...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Trussell Trusts Helen Barnard: "Universal Credit already falls well short of what people need to afford the essentials.. if we see those cut any more we'll see more people driven into severe hardship" Which is exactly what those who propose cutting it want. They want a return of the workhouse

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Sleepy Amy @sleepyamy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If the idea of PIP being stuff instead of money bothers you, Benefits and Work are running a very short survey where you can have your say: benefitsandwork.co.uk/personal-ind...

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Timms survey

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

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Lacks the Necessary Aptitude. @theoccasionaltog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Dan Thomas story is hidden away under the Wales section on the BBC News website. The leader of one of the home nations of the party who want to form the next govt and the Beeb don't think it's an important enough story.

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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyone who has ever had a dog knows this look. It's the one they give you when they can tell something is wrong, and they have decided they are not leaving your side... This beautiful painting is called Fidelity, and it was made by British artist Briton Rivière in 1869.

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Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Labour and Burnham have been silent on capping political donations while Reform gets £72 million from Farage's billionaire mates. We need @zackpolanski.bsky.social in Parliament to hold Labour to account, not another Labour backbencher to wave through Burnham's policies without scrutiny.

A quote from Rachel Millward, Deputy Leader of the Green Party. It reads, "Reform is a vessel for the super wealthy. They will always act in the interests of the super wealthy. Labour could have stopped this years ago by capping donations. Burnham promised to do it then backtracked. Will he now admit this was a mistake? Burnham and Labour have been quiet on a donations cap for the last 24 hours. The public needs to know where he stands."

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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Political parties that have spent years calling for cuts to spending on disabled people’s benefits have stayed silent in response to new research which shows the public have ignored their rhetoric and strongly oppose any such reductions. #ReformUK #PIP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uk-an...

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Reform UK and Tories silent after research shows their own supporters oppose cuts to disability benefits

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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Labour government risks alienating voters if it ignores new research which shows the public strongly oppose cuts to spending on disability benefits, disabled people’s organisations warned the PM this week. #DisabilityBenefits #TimmsReview www.disabilitynewsservice.com/burnham-must...

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Burnham ‘must pay heed’ to new research which shows public do not back cuts to disability benefits

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Lacks the Necessary Aptitude. @theoccasionaltog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Disabled people can't be trusted with cash payments. This is just a rehash of the Tory green paper that wanted disabled people to choose what they need from a fvcking catalogue. Tell me again how Labour aren't right wing.

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Lacks the Necessary Aptitude. @theoccasionaltog.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Justin Webb and Emma Barnett on R4Today. I'm sure this is going to be three hours of balanced reporting.

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Lacks the Necessary Aptitude. @theoccasionaltog.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Blimey, that's him on the naughty step for the forseeable.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’

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Lacks the Necessary Aptitude. @theoccasionaltog.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A completely normal and rational response from the genocidal maniac.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I run an MA programme on conflict studies and one of the first things we teach is conflict escalation and, well, the UK government is now an active agent in conflict escalation as it is clearly suggesting that violence is a way to have your political concerns listened to.

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David/Trout 2.0 @trout61.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Farage posted then deleted this. Threatening to prosecute RNLI volunteers. He is absolutely disgusting. 🤬🤬🤬

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

hello liberal democracies around the world, i hate to say it but you need to take a look at how successful the funding of fascist media in america has been for the far-right and you need to start counteracting this with your own dollars funding progressive media here

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Foxyfunderburd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇺🇦 @foxyfunderburd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Danny Tommo, the man who organised the blackshirts rally, openly telling us a foreign American think tank wired him £30k for his very first street protest. Foreign money is propping up the British far right

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katie @supermathskid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jeremy Vine on radio 2 inviting comment on the thugs last night, literally suggested that you might phone in if "you think they've got a point, because the government clearly isn't doing enough to curb the small boat crossings". How fucking dare you use my licence fee for this fascism

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Half-expecting government to announce VAT cut on balaclavas to help with cost of living.

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Lacks the Necessary Aptitude. @theoccasionaltog.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Natalie Munchetty has just asked a guest from Hope Not Hate if calling these people intimidating and far right 'is ramping up the rhetoric and is unhelpful' Every text she read out was in support of these people. Balance and impartiality in one direction only.

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Lacks the Necessary Aptitude. @theoccasionaltog.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My local FB group is a sewer of lads/heads ( led by known drug dealers with multiple convictions ) talking about 'getting organised' and 'the bizzies agree with us' Comment with the most likes 'No coke, no ale lads, we do this the right way, lets smash the dirty fvckers. Take our town back'

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TfL Barbie @chaff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’ve read that telegraph article on disability, and I think the author’s real view, under all the other justifications they throw in there, can be neatly summed up by this final paragraph - disabled people are too visible now and some even look happy at times

“If there is a sickness identity, there needs to be a recovery identity - not just one that exists to sell people more products. A chronically "sick" person does what a chronically sick person is supposed to do: they withdraw from regular life, struggle with previously simple tasks, receive support and condolences, and rarely, if ever, get better.”

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I knew today was going to be big. I didn’t know we’d have so many volunteers that we’d leaflet the ENTIRE constituency in just two hours (!!) - 80,000 leaflets. And we got to speak to so many people on their doorsteps. This is how we win this campaign. Thank you, everyone. 🙏🏽

Huge crowd on Primrose Hill with Vote Green signs

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.

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Lacks the Necessary Aptitude. @theoccasionaltog.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Today's politics section on the Beeb's website. Party of 8 MP's, polling at 20% ( so they can't even use the polling excuse as the reason why they receive so much coverage anymore )

The entire politics section on the BBC News website given over to Reform and Farage. And the cowardly BBC won't open up a single story for their Have Your Say comments section. A full party conference where policy announcements were made and the Beeb have not allowed their licence fee payers a say on any of it.

Fvck the BBC. Fvcking cowards.

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Lacks the Necessary Aptitude. @theoccasionaltog.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Farage says again 'He was stopped from going on stage by counter terrorism police' and Laura K says fvck all, no pushback. She can't not know the police said it was bollocks.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.

Photo from the telegraph. Red background with a roll of wheelchair stickers on white paper. Text reads “how having a disability became cool”

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Lacks the Necessary Aptitude. @theoccasionaltog.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Someone just told me the BBC aren't opening HYS on any Reform/Farage story because they've dropped in the polls the public aren't interested. No need to have the cunts face all over their news coverage then if that's the case. An entire party conference and they didn't open up a single story.

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Lacks the Necessary Aptitude. @theoccasionaltog.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not in to doxing but his address has been posted and the good folk dog walkers of Sutton Coldfield have been throwing their dog shit bags in his front garden😂 He's been reported to the DWP by hundreds of people on Instagram apparently just in case he's claiming PIP/ Health Element of UC.

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Tory Fibs @toryfibs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

West Midlands Police have published the police incident number for those who wish to report witness statements for the women who were physically beaten and assaulted at by Reform Members at their party conference yesterday.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Who would ever have thought that the BBC’s political editor would put out a single source claim that was both false and also great propaganda for Reform…

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b3lt3r @b3lt3r.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So pensioners with cardboard are terrorists but cosplaying IRA thugs are ok?

The darke meme
Not ok: pensioner with a cardboard sign
Ok: masked IRA wannabes

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Lacks the Necessary Aptitude. @theoccasionaltog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Andrew thinks The Greens are scaremongering about climate change & this is the same as Reform thugs blocking infrastructure, assaulting a woman at their conference, lying about counter terrorism police telling Farage to delay his speech &accepting foreign donations. And that's just the last 24hrs.

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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.

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