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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 12h

In Scotland, we provide free personal care for older people without punishing pensioners. Andy Burnham removing the triple lock would simply repeat the mistakes of Keir Starmer. The blame for the UK’s financial mess lies with successive Westminster governments, not pensioners.

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 6h

I imagine conspiracy theorists will have many interesting ideas about who's behind this and why.

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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 6h

I can remember being at a football match in the 1970s when they announced that they would be opening the exits due to a bomb scare. If anyone wanted to leave they could. Match went on.

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Adrian Giddings @cunabula.bsky.social · 7h

We didn't panic when Americans were paying the IRA to blow us up, why would we panic over this? The Cousins have such silly ideas. It's not like there's been another run on loo roll at the super markets or heaven forbid... tea.

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George Nixon @georgenixon97.bsky.social · 7h

Someone on a call today said the whole thing sounded quite “Four Lions-y” which I think sums it up well. You’d never get a film like that in the states

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7h

Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.

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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 13h

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 6h

Why on earth did five 23-25 year olds from Westminster and Camden go all the way to Fairford to nick petrol? Are they members of the Bullingdon Club or...? "The five men are all UK nationals aged between 23 and 25. Four of them live in Westminster and one in Camden"

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 7h

I don't trust Labour to come up with a good system. Let's see who they put on the National Commission. 🫣

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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 14h

After all Labour's previous dalliances with PR for the Commons, let's hope they see this through - first past the post cannot cope with the modern state of politics.

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 17h

Hurrah, if true and if it happens, replaces the privately owned one, covers the whole country, isn't built or operated by Veolia Crapita etc or fascist techbros, and is flexible enough to evolve, if it works, if it's complicated in the next 10 years and...

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Lee @justlee.bsky.social · 21h

The UK appears to be drowning in a sea of stupidity. Unfortunately those most at risk seem to be enjoying the swim.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 21h

So here is to great teaching, rare as it is, and to the few teachers you don’t forget, because they genuinely shape your life. In a good way.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 21h

Writing and publishing a book is lonely, exhausting and nerve-wrecking, but there can be moments when it feels quite special. Like last week, when I received an email from someone I have not seen since 1999. 🧵

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 21h

Ian McShane is 84 On how he came to be narrator on Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm: ‘I was in a chip shop with my wife Gwen, & Trevor Horn came in, who I’d known forever. He said ‘Ian, what are you doing after supper?’ ‘Why?’ ‘Well, I need a voice & Orson Welles is dead.’ youtu.be/nAerTAjLpF0?...

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Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm (HQ)

YouTube video by Oxygene 80

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 21h

I really do hope they're red diesel thieves. 🤣

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 22h

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Imran Bristol @imranicus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well this would explain why they had been released on bail - my initial assumption was that they may have been eco-activists planning to unfurl banners or write graffiti but were suspected of being terrorists due to their location and attire. But fuel thieves at RAF Fairford would also explain it.

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Debbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OTD in 1928 penicillin was discovered. I didn’t know that a team of 6 women was recruited to ‘farm’ penicillin inOxford.Nicknamed the ‘penicillin girls’ they were Ruth Callow Claire Inayat Betty Cooke, Peggy Gardner Megan Lancaster Patricia McKegney. #womenshistory www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/backfromthed...

Two of these women are pictured here, though their protective clothing also hides their identities.

they worked in a converted animal house, and their job was to seed hundreds of shallow ceramic vessels, wait, then draw off the brown liquid without disturbing the mat growing on top.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.

nytimes.com

Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.

Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ex-minister Mike Tapp on "need to exempt care workers from retrospective settlememy extensions" There is broad support for this. But why not exempt engineers, vets & chefs & architects from "retrospective extensions" that could force 250k non-care workers to leave?

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 28/09/2026

This morning, 99% of delegates polled at Labour Conference said that Thames Water should be brought into public ownership. It's SO obvious what the public want. Now it's time for Andy Burnham to do it. #labour26

theguardian.com

The Guardian view on Thames Water: Andy Burnham should nationalise this failed monopoly | Editorial

strongEditorial:/strong Bill payers should not fund another rescue for financiers of the water industry. Public ownership can end the cycle of extraction and failure

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm not one to point to harshly at a "diesel theft being mistaken for a terrorism attack" as I've seen similar things in my weird career. The guy putting down purple carpenter's chalk on the sidewalk to mark a hashhouse harriers run near the White House had a heck of a day....

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sometimes this account’s rule not to comment on live criminal cases is sorely tested.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘Are you the Fairford Farmer? We’ve been arrested for terrorism by mistake.’

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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I see everyone's talking about red diesel this afternoon... there's a song about that, by the inestimable Corky, friend of @thewurzels.bsky.social and purveyor of agricultural hiphop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzod...

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35 Second - a new song by Corky

YouTube video by Corky WurzelCorky

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But would it be illegal to hold up placards welcoming the Palestinians to this country? 😵‍💫

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ironically sounds like those five guys were also having something of a cobra meeting

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Protesters were being ARRESTED for HOLDING UP SIGNS outside the Labour Party Conference yesterday! But this is nothing new. In the UK, OVER 3,500 people have been arrested, with MORE THAN 2,250 formally charged under TERROR LAWS for PEACEFULLY PROTESTING the ban on Palestine Action.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can really tell how bad the fuel crisis is getting by the risks scallies are willing to take.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Add ‘red diesel’ to their lexicon of picturesque elements of English rurality.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 28/09/2026

like if you think it’s fly tipping, repost if you bet dogging

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's an unacceptable and unsustainable hypocrisy, #EdMilliband @labouruk.bsky.social And let's have NO tacit support for Tump on Iran

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OUTRAGEOUS scenes outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool yesterday! But it’s nothing new... In the UK, OVER 3,500 people have been arrested, with MORE THAN 2,250 formally charged under TERROR LAWS for PEACEFULLY PROTESTING the ban on Palestine Action.

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So many possibilities suggested. Almost all entirely plausible. 🙄

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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Translation: investors perceive this as a boost to the profits of private house(sic)builders. Burnham should spend the money instead on public sector, preferably inalienable, social housing. From that everything else will follow.

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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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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nearby Portishead is crammed full of recent homes built almost at sea level. This is completely insane given climate change.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Houses can be built on floodplains despite failing safety test, says UK high court. Profitable for developers, misery for buyers/residents. Problems with insurance, reselling, quality of life. Too many defective homes built. Get a private survey before buying a new home. Must change laws.

theguardian.com

Houses can be built on floodplains despite failing safety test, says high court

Decision to allow 190 controversial new homes in north Somerset sparks campaign for change in the law

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Hear me out, we all agree to cancel Monday..." 📷️ Paul Browning

A pair of Kestrels huddle together on a mossy branch, their heads tucked close as if whispering conspiratorially to one another. The golden evening light highlights the intricate patterning on their feathers while the woodland behind fades into a soft blur.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Comment on Reddit about this: "My mum tried to send a gift card to someone at the council who had helped her quit smoking. They turned it down because she wasn't allowed to accept gifts." And yet some MPs (and the authorities) think it's totally normal and fine to do this...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fired clay brick from the ziggurat at Ur; Ur-Nammu no. 1; cuneiform inscription stamped on face with two accidentally impressed dog's paw-marks near one edge.. From the 3rd Dynasty of Ur (circa. 2112-2004 B.C.E.)

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Panel of Hands, El Castillo Cave, Spain. Hand stencil has been dated to more than 37,300 years ago & red disk to more than 40,600 years ago

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh. So not hippies and grannies then? I assumed it was total BS when I saw a headline earlier. That's what cretinous governments cause. 🤷

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DC @tanngrisnir.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can hate this shit too. The camera is the problem, not where you’re wearing it, you complete spanner.

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