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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

"I can confirm that tonight SpaceX has implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals while in motion.

The limit currently applies to the StarShield “military package” and is set at 100 mph.

Our defense forces were not given notice of this limit, and this has resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.

It is clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation."

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

But, in the Cam, this is MUCH more remarkable

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tomjhbennett.bsky.social @tomjhbennett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You take him to see the GP for a cognitive assessment. And get him to have the Shingrix vaccine.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had no idea this was an option.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 08/09/2026

On Andy Burnham's sudden bout of shyness. thecritic.co.uk/sanc...

The close of his statement was an appeal to our better natures. If we were going to ask Israelis and Palestinians to live side-by-side, he said, Britain also had to be a place where “people of all faiths and none have a right to live without prejudice or fear.” Listening to him was Andy Burnham, who has been strangely absent from our public debate for the last few days. In August, we couldn’t move for social media clips from the prime minister, standing on a ladder to discuss his first job, or sitting in a pub to rate bar snacks. But faced with masked thugs trying to shut down British ports over the weekend, Burnham seems to have lost the password for his phone. For a decade now, Britain has had a series of leaders apparently paralysed by the fear that if they say that racism is bad, they’ll be voted out. It would be nice to get one who had a slightly higher opinion of us.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026

A large group of co-ordinated, masked men blockading a piece of significant infrastructure is a security threat and should be dealt with as one. There should also be serious questions about why police/intelligence services didn't pick up on it in advance.

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James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Just exempting care workers would be ridiculous. Basically it would be a case of designing a policy to kick out care workers, panicking when you realise how stupid an idea that is, and then kicking out a load of engineers, scientists etc out of sheer stubbornness.

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tomjhbennett.bsky.social @tomjhbennett.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I recommend using the chat service to make your points and requests, saving the screen. Then composing a complaint letter using Citizen Advice template with the chat as evidence. Then sending registered post to their office in Sunderland. I found this to be fast and effective cf using the phone.

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

SUVs are higher at the front and three times more likely to kill a child when they hit them. SUV drivers drag the child under their vehicle, and then they crush the child to death. It's incredible that SUVs don't have higher tax, and why not lower speed limits. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar

Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 21/06/2026

Traditionally on Father’s Day I have posted about my own father, but today I am going to post instead about becoming one. /1

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If you're gonna pick a group to compensate for their treatment by government why not pick one that did acrually face financial disadvantage without notice, like Plan 2 graduates? As opposed to "some people who had many years' notice but didn't open some letters"

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

John Major is a better former PM than Tony Blair will ever be iandunt.substack.com/p/john-major...

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This is craven, abject cowardice. Betraying Ukraine instead of levelling with the electorate about the realities of what the Iran war means is totally contemptible.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

... c. on immigration they have combined reactionary coms with a punitive and cruel restrictionist agenda that I genuinely think is economically disastrous, culturally poisonous, and electorally is dooming us to a far right government in the near-to-medium future, d. not enough to build more houses.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Breaking: Jess Phillips resigns as safeguarding minister just ahead of the 1pm news bulletins

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

The real takeaway from this is just what a disaster statutory obligations are for democracy. An attempt to hide where the costs go that has screwed over all the most visible bits of government and has empowered popularism by forcing councils to make choices no one in their right mind would vote for.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

sometimes feel like the original sin of this whole shebang was looking at the crime currency and going "yeah seems fine"

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2026

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Jesus has re-entered the chat

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Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It is completely mad that the government is expelling high flying Sudanese students from British universities - from a scheme that is explicitly aimed at the future leaders of countries.

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.

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tomjhbennett.bsky.social @tomjhbennett.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If it takes more than a week to get a new Home Secretary with a +ve view of immigration, I can’t see how the Labour Party can regain the trust of its core vote. The party has so much policy to re-write to tackle the strategic disaster of an ageing population. It’s not just a rhetoric issue.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 27/01/2026

As public opinion turns, reports from within Mount Doom suggest Orc Lieutenant Gothmog is to be relieved of command and withdrawn from Gondor back to Minas Morgul where he is expected to soon retire. Sauron hopes this ends the matter and the Fellowship will now go home and stop blowing whistles.

A picture of the Orc Lieutenant Gothmog amidst his ranks of orc troops at the Battle of Gondor.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

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tomjhbennett.bsky.social @tomjhbennett.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I’m a former hospital director with an interest in construction, so I stan that lady.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🚨🚨"Years of careful diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, are now at risk because senators and representatives who know better have refused to use the powers they have to block him. Now is the time." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on the Republicans as the last barrier to stop #Trump the madman.

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tomjhbennett.bsky.social @tomjhbennett.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

It also looks like a driveway lines up to drive over the tactile pavement. Is that another design/planning failure?

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tomjhbennett.bsky.social @tomjhbennett.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

The horrible reality of logarithmic growth when R0 is 12 to 18.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 09/12/2025

Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...

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tomjhbennett.bsky.social @tomjhbennett.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Worth noting that ageing of the local population was driving growth at CUH in the medium term to a greater extent than new build housing. Even if you stopped new builds, we still need more acute capacity at CUH.

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tomjhbennett.bsky.social @tomjhbennett.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Here in Cambridge we miss our street droid doggies. Cambourne got ours, possibly in lieu of a busway. Charging infrastructure issue I think.

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17/11/2025

Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. Investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%. Staggering economic self-harm. bit.ly/44faQch

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'GDP reduced by 8%' - Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy

Can't help but feel those responsible for Brexit should not, for example, be riding high in the polls with a new party...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 10/11/2025

The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks. No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’

A Times associate editor reportedly addressed situation in an email to staff, saying: ‘We should have been on our guard’

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I have a very bad feeling about this...

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

And here - thanks to @richholman.com et al - it is!: ilr.dowu.uk

ilr.dowu.uk

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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 22/10/2025

@philtinline.bsky.social the copy needs work, but was such a good idea of yours around ILR and the real world consequences for our friends, neighbours and colleagues just had to have a crack at building it, using the GOV dot uk design system ilr.dowu.uk

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 22/10/2025

I just cannot take this shit seriously. If you're a senior Labour figure and think that the party's stance is cowardly but are too afraid to put your name on the record saying it YOU ARE A COWARD.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🧵🚨 The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news. Today our report is published! www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... 1/11

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

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tomjhbennett.bsky.social @tomjhbennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Shut this would-be-king in a room with an economist for an hour. Please, someone.

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