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Dear Donald, if you are found guilty then you can tell the judge of all the achievements you claim in your mitigation. But those alleged achievements are irrelevant as to your guilt or innocence.

A free rider whinges because he's not allowed to free ride

Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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Yeah, that's what I did. And had some damn good cider from Normandy while I was at it. And a decent meal. And the weather was gorgeous.

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Richard🐈‍⬛🫥🔊🎧🍫🌮👋📖📚 @oldgeek297.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Even the Resolution Foundation now proposes a Property Value Tax (at 0.7%) t.co/NHsPIDw65z

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https://buff.ly/SAUyopI

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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 @ismua.bsky.social Day 4️⃣ - A song you wish you could hear for the first time again. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Need Your Love So Bad youtu.be/RtmW2ek7WkQ?...

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peter green's fleetwood mac - need your love so bad

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"

Misleading statement by "journalist" Andrew Pierce

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 04/10/2026

Am not sure how the Green's recent resolution to designate Zionism as racism links to its green mission. The Green party should stick to its mission.

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“In a tie-up with French defence electronics specialist Thales announced in June, Renault will co-produce its “Toutatis” drones and increase the current output 100 times over to 1,000 a month at full capacity, with production ready to go from 2027.”

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How Renault went from driveshafts to drones

French carmaker turns mass-manufacturing expertise to new frontier of warfare

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The bigliest IQ in the world. Everyone says so.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ah, Gorecki on R3. Dark. So resonant with the darkest period of history - the Holocaust.

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Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is Handel the best composer ever?

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Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years.

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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

✍️ How diesel found itself at the heart of geopolitics. And why Donald Trump is taking a leaf out of Putin and Xi's playbook. A simple explainer edconway.substack.com/p/the-diesel...

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The Diesel Weapon

Why a rather unglamorous fuel is suddenly at the centre of a transatlantic power struggle, and why this matters for all of us

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Alex Briggs @tickyw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Blimey, I agree with Rees-Mogg on this one! Had Britain not fought and finally defeated Nazi Germany then the post-war world would have been very very dark.

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Alexa, why are the prisons full? Is it because sentences are getting longer and disproportionate?

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Not beating the genocide allegations

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A plea to all you wonderful folks who are thinking to adopt (not buy) a dog or cat… The shelters are FILLED with animals who’ve been surrendered. Yesterday they had a bed and a family and now they are confused and terrified through no fault of their own. Consider giving them a next chapter.

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Haunting (1963) Directed by Robert Wise stars Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn

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Bloody Normans! Coming over here With their French language and fancy Latin. Send 'em back, I say. England for the English!

I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Yes, he made his famous "God does not play dice" quip to poo pooh quantum ideas. Evidence suggests he was wrong on that too. But he bequeathed humanity with General Relativity, which predicts very well, so all is forgiven!

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In 1979, Thatcher cut the top rate of income tax from 83% to 60%, then to 40%. She funded this not through economic growth but through a one-off windfall: N Sea oil taxes generated £52.4 billion in six years, revenue that had been virtually non-existent before. @mrjameskay.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk

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Yes, I believe Einstein said it was the biggest mistake of his life. And yes, the Maths behind Einstein is fearsome! I think the Priest / Physicist's name was LeMettre

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Reminds me of BBC TV programme on Big Bang v steady state universe. A priest / physicist approached Einstein saying the Maths favoured Big Bang. Einstein dismissed him with contempt. Later, the priest / physicist was vindicated. Thus was science reconciled with the biblical story of creation!

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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Somewhere in the universe, someone has discovered that time is relative. Is our very own Einstein alone? Or is there super intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?

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This week's post: Populist tendencies on the UK left, and the puzzle that never was mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/09/popu... One of the first decisions Victor Orban took was to abolish Hungary's independent Fiscal Council. Its hard not to see attacks from the left on the OBR in a similar light.

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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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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

History is written by the victors. Thatcher broke the power of trade unions by mass unemployment, industrial restructuring, frittered away N Sea Oil, laid the foundations for the current housing crisis, decimated local bus services, hollowed out local government and introduced the poll tax.

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Andy Burnham seems to remember a different 1970s to the rest of us. Britain in 1979 was utterly broken - ravaged by unaccountable trade union power, economically stagnant, the sick man of Europe.
The 1980s saw a remarkable national recovery based on free enterprise, the rule of law and championing Western values. And it is this that our Prime Minister rails against...

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mildly surprised how many people think "yeah Burnham's speech went down well but did you not notice how he failed to solve the (checks notes) 20 year growth and fiscal problems he inherited" is a devastating and insightful critique.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations to Suella Braverman for her Question Time appearance - I didn't think it was possible for her to come across as any more deranged and stupid than usual, but she somehow managed it.

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Yes, that sounds much better. Clarifying the purpose of a policy should help with its design. (I presume the govt wants to protect the living standards of OAPs)

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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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Who, pray, will assist Tom with his knowledge of geography?

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AI will enable the Tech Bros to realise Ayn Rand's madcap fantasy of supermen versus useless plebs.

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