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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026

Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Absolutely fucking pathetic

Extract from BBC website:

The full government statement read: "The right to peaceful protest is fundamental to our democracy, but we condemn the behaviour in Dover and the travel disruption it has caused.
"We appreciate the frustration of those who have been impacted today. Access to the port is now restored and traffic is flowing. Those travelling to the port are advised to allow for extra travel time and to follow guidance from providers.
"We thank policing partners and travel providers who we continue to work with to ensure the safety of passengers and the wider community."

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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

just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Today, the head of Reform in Birmingham actually said the words "Look how difficult it is to be a driver," and that the city is experiencing a "war on cars."

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Arrest after cyclist, 16, dies after being struck by car in Birmingham

The boy died in hospital after the collision near the Birmingham City FC stadium on Friday.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Alternative headline: “Sainsbury’s to get free labour after David Sainsbury gave Andy Burnham £165,000 for his leadership campaign”

UK politics: Burnham announces plan for 10,000 work experience placements for young people - as it happened
Prime minister spoke to press while on visit to a Sainsbury's supermarket in London this morning
Taz Ali (now) and Martin Belam (earlier)

picture: Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham in sainsbury’s uniforms in a supermarket handling goods

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 03/08/2026

July 2026 was an exceptional month for the UK's climate statistics, with records challenged or broken for rainfall, temperature and sunshine. Read more in our press release ⤵️ www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Met Office graphic with the text “July’s weather was…” alongside an illustration of a three-scoop ice cream cone, introducing a summary of July weather statistics.

Graphic titled “Dry”. Text states: “Driest July on record for England and Wales” and “Southern England’s driest month ever recorded.”

Graphic titled “Sunny”. Text states: “UK’s sunniest July on record” and “Sunniest month ever recorded for England and Wales.”

Graphic titled “Hot”. Text states: “Southern England’s warmest July on record”, “UK’s 2nd warmest” and “Wales’s joint warmest.”

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David Gregory-Kumar @drdavidgk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hey! Would you like good news? Remember how the police seized and crushed a legal Tern cargo bike by mistake? Well charges against rider dropped! Compensation for crushed bike! And dodgy “test” used to detect illegal “e-bikes” dropped! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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West Midlands Police to change testing after destroying legal e-bike

West Midlands Police admit their method to test the speed of the e-bike was flawed.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22/07/2026

#OtD 22 Jul 2005 Brazilian commuter Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by armed London police at Stockwell tube station. Despite being restrained, he was shot seven times in the head and once in the torso. No officers faced charges related to his death stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9487...

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A fine example of why the BBC should not publish vox-pops (“‘Bus fare cut is no good for those who drive’ says Durham man” is literally the headline here) without challenge or context. Buses, famously the preserve of the managerial classes.

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Noel Dolphin @noeldolphin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The Government (or last Gov 🤷‍♀️) announced they're working to make a WWII wreck safe. Seems a good news story. But, I think it's an example of why everything the Gov does costs a fortune & why we can’t have nice things. Sorry it's long (1/14). www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Safe removal of masts from historic WWII shipwreck carrying wartime explosives begins

The operation involves constructing an underwater platform to allow specialist maritime engineers to safely cut the 3 masts of the shipwreck.

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Noel Dolphin @noeldolphin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My entire adult life seems to have been successive Governments who put off to tomorrow what they could do today. Why do something when we can employ a consultant to write a report? The cost of this delay is vast and growing – just from having committees & writing reports (11/14)

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Spirit of the Spooptober Revolution @stoatie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 18/07/2026

Unless it has overhead electrification - wires strung above the tracks - a railway is incomplete. Anglophone countries need to drop the exceptionalism and crack on accordingly.

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Bruce @davisonbruce.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If your bold ideas to create clear water between you and the previous PM is too drill for oil and tighten immigration policy A) you've learnt fuck all B) you're an idiot C) people will still not vote for your party D) you'll be sacked in a few years as a tragic disappointment

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 10/07/2026

Temperatures peaked at 35.2°C today at Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire This means 2026 has now broken even more temperature records 🌡️

The first year we've recorded temperatures of 35°C or higher in 3 calendar months (May, June and July)

The first year we've recorded temperatures of 35°C or higher on 6 days. The previous record being 5 days in 1976 and 2020.

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Phil B @urbanfox146.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

There's a river under there somewhere... @philsturgeon.com

The River Rea through Longbridge "town centre" completely subsumed by Himalayan balsam

A view of the same, in the other direction

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 05/07/2026

YOU HAVE TO BUILD THE TRANSPORT LINKS FIRST, FOLKS, OTHERWISE YOU'RE LETTING THE DEVELOPER OFF THE HOOK AND ARE EMBEDDING CAR DEPENDENCY FOREVER.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Mahmood apparently "consulted" with Team Burnham before announcing this

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Taxing vulnerable people for the crime of fleeing from war, torture and persecution. A new low from Shabana Mahmood

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My strongest memory of Starmer will be his 2024 conference speech, where he said "every child deserves respect", a young activist said "does that include the children of Gaza?", and he laughed and said "he's obviously got a pass to the 2019 conference".

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hear me out: what if we replaced rolling news with helicopter footage of trains every day? I don’t think anyone would actually be less well informed.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Bills up. Wages too low. Record profits for Oil & Gas. 50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population. Shit in our rivers. Pensioners jailed for protesting. Migrants thrown under the bus. Supporting a Genocide. That's Starmer's legacy.

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Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Brianna ghey has become the face of a social media ban for young people Despite the fact that her killers knew her in real life, at school, and she was socialising with them outside when they killed her And the reason they killed her was the traditional print media moral panic Truly sickening

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

In the 1980s Morecambe and Wise did Atari adverts mocking how it will be the children explaining the technology to the adults. Somewhat ironically that generation of children, now adults, believe that banning children from technology will somehow work and not be easily circumvented.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 13/06/2026

The British state is handing contracts for increasingly sensitive elements of the Defence/Security apparatus to a man who has repeatedly tried to stoke open insurrection while aggressively backing British politicians who receive shady foreign funding and a guy who is currently in Moscow.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We don't half know how to crack down on protests when it suits us

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Some heroes don't wear capes

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hardly a new point, I know, but these race riots are another example that, while Starmer is up in a froth about banning children from social media, the biggest danger is adults having their brains cooked by rage-baiting misinformation on Facebook and Twitter and being radicalised into violence.

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Harry @harry-is-human.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

And yet unlike HS2 and East West Rail, there aren't constant calls to end it in a field in the middle of kent.

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Interesting choice of words. "PEOPLE wouldn't be able to get past." People can't get past now unless pedestrians - particularly disabled pedestrians - don't count? And the assumption that the alternative to parking on the pavement is blocking the road rather than not parking there. Jesus wept.

But we recognise that there are Victorian streets in Nottingham where if you forced everyone on to the road, people wouldn't be able to get past.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 05/06/2026

DfT gushing about "bus-style" robotaxis. Give us normal bloody buses you tight, incompetent fools. People who have used "demand-responsive transport" (DRT) say they want proper bus routes with timetables and bus stops they can rely on. Not this shite.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Today the Supreme Court, found in favour of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to, once again, allow for removal of rights and undermine protection for marginalised and vulnerable people, in this case disabled individuals. This is part of a wider erosion of human rights in the UK. 1/

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It appears the government won't be satisfied until it has hounded trans people out of society altogether. The Government are choosing every moment and mechanism they can to demonstrate they don't care about their lives. We have to draw the line. Reject the framework.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Racist politicians whip up racist outrage. Widespread disorder ensues. The courts treat widespread disorder with the severity that they have always treated widespread disorder. Racist politicians cry “two-tier justice”, whipping up racist outrage. Rinse. Repeat. It’s so fucking tedious.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 23/05/2026

We should make it illegal for MPs to use public toilets and changing rooms, and if you see someone you think might be an MP using one you can confront them, and they have to carry their Westminster pass and show it to you, and then you can kick them out. But, like, in a respectful supportive way.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

- Subsidising consumption in the face of a supply shock - reducing incentives to drive less/switch to EVs - using up limited fiscal space to help better-off drivers rather than the most vulnerable. Hard to think of a worse policy right now.

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