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🇺🇦🇬🇧🕯️ Zelensky and British Foreign Secretary visited the site of a house attack in Pryluky, where 22 people, including 5 children, were killed

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 2h

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce an Italian journalist and political commentator, Marco Travaglio. He’s best known for being the most prominent pro-Russian voice in Italy and for spreading Russian disinformation almost every day on Italian TV.

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 1h

This is wild. The author "Andrew V Smith" has 32 titles on Amazon. All seemingly published in the last few months. All with a particular vibe. Most of them apparently free with Kindle Unlimited.

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 1h

I can’t see how a marketplace like this can really survive in the long term

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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 1h

What!!! A Democratic congressional candidate in Arizona says she was raped over the summer while trying to repair a campaign sign. abcnews.com/Politics/ari...

abcnews.com

Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped trying to repair campaign sign

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said a report was filed on Aug. 31.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 2h

Excellent post. One aspect of the "democratic purism" discussed is that it's based on the dangerous misunderstanding that democracy is *entirely* defined by voting and neither requires nor is compatible with any other institutions.

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Buck Liberty @alpinealtd.bsky.social · 13h

Government We Don't Need (R.).

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Failures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.

bbc.co.uk

Royal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobs

The postal service firm wants to cut the head office and other jobs by the end of 2027.

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KS_1968 @karenroberts.bsky.social · 6h

😂😂

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13h

If they’re admitting 81 planes, drones and helicopters worth $3.3 billion have been lost in Iran, imagine what they’re not telling us. The real cost is likely far higher, and our grandchildren will be paying for this unnecessary war and his reckless spending. www.businesstoday.in/amp/world/st...

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Andrew Harrop @andrewharrop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch has just KILLED downsizing in retirement Welcome to millions of frail, single pensioners, in homes far too big for them, refusing to move for fear of the tax hit giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Tory conference live: Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap inheritance tax on family homes

Conservative leader pledges to slash levies while accusing Andy Burnham of ‘spending money we don’t have’

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 5h

The woman who is trying very hard to showcase her weirdly sculpted body starts with a smile but actually starts to look quite worried at what she's hearing. Her eyes flick all round the room - looking for reassurance that this treacherous nonsense is somehow OK?

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 22h

🔴 SCOOP: The chair of a lobbying firm paid by the UAE sits on a government council advising ministers on how Britain uses sport and culture abroad. As Man City's verdict puts Abu Dhabi in the spotlight, our latest investigation 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-u...

democracyforsale.substack.com

Revealed: UAE lobbyist advising UK government on sport and foreign policy

FGS Global chair Roland Rudd accused of "blatant conflict of interest" for advising ministers on foreign affairs while his firm lobbies for UAE embassy

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 5h

Part of a February 1861 newspaper report on the tragic death of Thomas Kettleband of Loughborough, who also happened to be the great-grandfather of Spike Milligan

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 5h

This time three years ago I was very confident there would be a workround on UK-EU electric vehicles, I'm less sure this time, the politics around China is less favourable and hence why the UK may have to put more on the table.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 5h

Related, useful point particularly given the asks of UK business. "As a final observation, the absence of anyone arguing that the status quo is working points to medium-term instability in policy" bsky.app/profile/simo...

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sceptical EEA can be the answer for the UK given the extent of rule taking in particular for financial services. But with a significant Le Pen / France caveat since that could throw all manner of plans. bsky.app/profile/lega...

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026

“He got rich here and then made off to Monaco to save himself money…He avoided giving back to the economy that made him a billionaire…He and anyone else who leaves here to not pay tax should be stripped of their honours.” Bravo @dalevince.com #TaxTheRich www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

theguardian.com

Apparent exodus of super-rich suggests UK is no longer billionaires’ playground

If recent complaints are believed, London and the UK are no longer welcoming for ultra-high net worth individuals

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 5h

Fascists for fascism.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17h

I'm old enough to remember the 'free trade with Trump will save us' phase of Brexity derangement (enjoy your coffee, tea and bananas while you can, US friends 😀)

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21h

The frequency of campus rapes, & their role in getting women to drop out of college, could be regarded as a 2nd stage in a process that starts by making it nearly twice as hard for qualified women to gain university admission compared to men. Excluding women from upward mobility is a policy choice.

Guardian headline about Japanese medical schools falsifying women applicants' test scores to avoid having to admit them.

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Orknithology @orknithology.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"🎶 She's a Model and She's Looking Good 🎶" 1st-winter ♀️ Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola) at Wideford Hill, #Orkney. For today's #BirdOfTheDay main theme of #BirdSupermodel. #OrkneyBirding #BirdingScotland #BirdsOfBluesky #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birdsoftheworld #ornithology #Stonechat 🪶

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Steve Brennan @sidgaff.bsky.social · 16h

The 'Mirror' of the USA today in words!

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 21h

Book on sale in supermarket book aisle shocker! Imagine becoming a journalist just so you can end up reporting negatively on a book which helps people. Next up the Telegraph's ongoing series "people use cookbooks to learn to cook".

The Telegraph

ADHD 'handbook' on sale in Waitrose

Guide to neurodevelopmental condition at upmarket supermarket amid soaring demand for diagnoses

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Guides to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have gone on sale at Waitrose checkouts amid warnings that soaring demand for diagnoses risks "crowding out" severe cases.

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kjcon.bsky.social @kjcon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ignorance was shown the door!

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Jonathan Pinnock @jonathanpinnock.com · 15h

Ah, sad news. RIP.

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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Helen Whateley: Kemi (Badenoch) has published an essay called The Right Way, really thinking about what's gone wrong with the country" This image as we died in our droves is forged in my mind.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15h

LOL. Nice conjunction from the NYT.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 22h

Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Not that damned Truss woman!"

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good thread by Georgina, and an opportunity for me to reiterate what I told a senior civil servant over a year ago: any successful British strategy towards the EU must include staying up-to-date not just with developments within all member states, but with the relationship between those states.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is true whatever your end goal is, whether it is a closer relationship or even to rejoin: you need to know not just about the individual countries, but how they interact with each other and on an EU level. Sorry to say that I am doubtful whether UK is currently up-to-date with that.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(I remember a certain conversation with a politician who had a grand scheme about cooperation in central and Eastern Europe but sadly zero clue about the intricacies and historical baggage of the German-Polish, or indeed Polish-Ukrainian relationship. This stuff matters.)

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Eric Claxton's guiding principle when designing Stevenage was that separating bikes and cars was fine, if: - Their routes ran parallel - For every metre the bikes gave up in gradient, the cars should give up two - If necessary, you make the cars go further not the bikes Because cars have ENGINES

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