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Alex Briggs

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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 2h
OFGEM here: Listen up plebs. OFGEM's role under Jonathan Brearley is to protect the profits of the electricity suppliers, not consumers. So stop whingeing when we decide to hike the price cap.
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 2h
Who, pray, will assist Tom with his knowledge of geography?
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Andrew Brooks @taxbod.net · 18h
If we get a vote to rejoin the EU, can we also have one to send Hannan back to Peru?
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 9h
In search of the real Andy Burnham at Labour Party conference #Lab26 My new column for @insidecroydon.bsky.social ... insidecroydon.com/2026/10/01/i...
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Inside Croydon goes in search of the ‘real’ Andy Burnham
ANDREW FISHER has spent the week at the Labour Party Annual Conference in Liverpool, where the new Prime Minister continued to confound political editors and expert pundits A Blairite, a Brownite a…
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7h
Reading the details of the US execution story from last night and it is absolute barbarism. Like reading a history of the medieval period.
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Dog Desk Animal Action @dogdeskaction.bsky.social · 7h
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 6h
The USA: where barbarism prevails
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 6h
In the "pantheon" of bonkers commentators, Mr Heath is the foremost and most consistent. His top bonkers piece, imho, was for the ASI, in which piece he told readers the sole path to UK economic growth was to scrap Capital Gains Tax! Yeah. Right. Whatever. "Never change, Allister", said no-one
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 17h
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 20h
Brilliant from Crick, but he should have gone further. Ian Gow was Thatcher's PPS, then Housing Minister, as Right to Buy peaked in 1984. A 2013 Mirror investigation found his son Charles Gow & wife owned at least 40 ex-council flats on one London estate, which they leased at huge rents. 🧵 #C4News
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 21h
I'm sure the decision to hold Danny Tommo on remand will soon be reversed, now that a couple of dozen knobbly-kneed wife beaters in nonce bonnets have walked under an arch.
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 18h
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/09/popu...
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Populist tendencies on the UK left, and the puzzle that never was
Don’t shoot the messager The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) has just published a report on the Office of Budget Responsibility, the ...
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shocking case of woman to be executed in Tennessee, USA. Does not the US system have a defence of diminished responsibility ? An 18 year old girl (not a woman) with a verified history of suffering child abuse surely must be given the doubt.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
you broke it, you fix it
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Message to Lady MacBadenoch: Be afraid. Be very afraid. Burnham Wood your way comes! (With apologies to Shakespeare)
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another towering intellect with such startlingly penetrating insight...
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Patrick Minford's economic fatalism is at last being called out by a PM. The UK CAN take control of its economic destiny. It doesn't have to obey Minford's madcap strictures to surrender whole industrial sectors, eg vehicle manufacture, to "market forces" and to annihilation! #ManufacturingMatters
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who would win a fight between Tony Blair and Andy Burnham? Why, Andy Burnham, of course! Blair was just a closet Tory
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At last, we have a PM who is prepared to reverse Thatcher's "reforms" (Reforms = unpicking the welfare state)
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My first report from Labour conference #Lab26 for @insidecroydon.bsky.social "Labour are ahead in the polls and instead of the most unpopular Prime Minister in British history, Andy Burnham is the only political leader in Westminster with a positive rating." insidecroydon.com/2026/09/29/s...
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Shadow of Starmer lingers over Labour Conference in Liverpool
A year ago, Andy Burnham was seen scurrying away from the Labour Party Conference, scorned by loyal Starmerites. Today, he makes a speech to the 2026 conference as Prime Minister. ANDREW FISHER rep…
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Your non-critical-thinking base will be "missing something" Nige but that's the point is't it! The Fairford men had not been charged. Thomas had. One decision was made by police during active investigation. The other was made by a court after criminal proceedings had begun. Check out Bail Act 1976!
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Surely it is time for the authorities to take this Fairford terrorism case out of the hands of the police & pass it over to Nigel Farage, Richard Tice & Isabel Oakeshott etc. These people have the expertise & skills to have this all solved & explained to the public by tonight.👍
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, he's missing an honest account of events
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Suella ain't the brightest star in our galaxy
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I must say I’m very disappointed in the police over their dealing with the RAF Fairford incident. By announcing that the suspects are British nationals, they have completely undermined the stream of made up bollocks from myself and every other right wing gobshite on Twitter.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It shouldn't be easier to get Oasis tickets than it is to get an NHS dentistry appointment
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League Against Cruel Sports @leagueacs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Share this to help keep the pressure on ↩️
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Neil's economic analysis here is "Aargh! Scary non-white people!"
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Alleged commission of a crime should be reported to the police. They probably need a good laugh
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Suella Braverman emerges from her pit...
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh no! Nigel's stock has just plummeted!
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cheers, Nigel Farage is crying now
Headline: men arrested near RAF airbase are UK citizens from London
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Dog Desk Animal Action @dogdeskaction.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To be fair, you honestly can’t say that Enid Blyton isn’t prepared to move with the times.
BBC headline: Five arrested as counter-terror police investigate major incident near RAF Fairford
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Andy Burnham wants to offer access to free social care services to everyone in England, and will put his plans before voters at the next general election www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Andy Burnham proposes NHS-style social care system for England
The prime minister told the BBC that social care in England is "as unfair as American healthcare".
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump isn’t asking Putin to stop killing Ukrainian children. He’s telling Zelenskyy to stop striking the oil infrastructure that funds Russia’s war and is putting real pressure on Moscow. Literally a sock puppet of the Kremlin
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
See, making young people’s lives better, improving their life chances and giving them more opportunities, *that* could be a ‘moral crusade’. Changing U.K. benefits for young people is just about saving rich people’s money.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Newspapers: We're going to have to pay for Burnham's social care plans! Also newspapers: Social care costs took all my savings! We're already paying for social care, just less fairly and probably less efficiently. #R4Today
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/09/2026
"computer, say 'i am alive'"
> I AM ALIVE
"oh my god"
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If only we'd had someone like Chis Philp in government for fourteen years, including being Minister for Immigration...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The police have asked everyone to please not speculate about the RAF Fairford incident, so naturally I'm going to waste no time in making up total bollocks to suit my own agenda.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires
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Dog Desk Animal Action @dogdeskaction.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Dear Diary, I'm still furious about Burnham's plan to tackle disinformation. Doesn't he know that one man's disinformation is another man's essential stream of bollocks and lies to spread hatred and division in order to fuel his rise to power?"
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Jim Parrett 🍁 @jymn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jimi Hendrix backing The Ronettes
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
bengoertzel.substack.com/p/jacob-coxo... Brilliant dissection of the recent “AI will kill us all” scare and how it is all powered by the sinister effective altruism movement
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Jacob Coxon and the Effective-Altruism Media-Hacking Playbook
Unraveling the actual story behind this “Anthropic coder quits in alarm over X-risk” drama...
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel
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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Badennoch: We'll block the jobless from spending their benefits on food and heating
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