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Vernon Baseley

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 12h
I see Reform UK's internal inquiry has cleared their internal people.
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Security Guard Greets People
ALT: Security Guard Greets People
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 7h
"EU capitals are quietly preparing for how the bloc should respond to a major hybrid attack that leaves several citizens dead — an outcome that looks increasingly likely, according to five EU diplomats and officials" www.politico.eu/article/eu-n...
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EU quietly braces for nightmare scenario of multiple-casualty hybrid attack
Diplomats are discussing emergency teams, EU funding and crisis communications, while some capitals warn Brussels risks duplicating NATO.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7h
I never watch the speeches anymore, I only read them and what's funny about Badenoch's speech is when you're reading it the lack of a throughline is even more clear. Conference, our tax code is too long... [a few paragraphs later'] ...we are going to add more complexity to it
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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 20h
"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 4h
How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 4h
Short list of current estimates of the govt's 'fiscal headroom', which the OBR said in March was £23.6bn: FT: £12bn EY: £11bn Resolution Foundation: £8bn.
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 10h
PRINT OF THE DAY Today’s print of Southgate Station is one of my favourite photographs. It perfectly captures why we call it the Tube, just look at how tight that space is! If you like this photo, or would like to see more from the collection, check out the attached post.
A train fitting snugly in a tunnel at Southgate London Underground station
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 9h
Ringo Starr, encountering an earlier version of Jeffrey Archer in the 1960s, described him as “the kind of bloke who would bottle your piss and sell it”. www.ft.com/content/5235...
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Jeffrey Archer, author and politician, 1940-2026
Best-selling novelist and Tory MP was defined both by his great successes and his headline-grabbing scandals
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 9h
I have written about AI and transforming the government for Existential Hope! theexistentialhope.substack.com/p/an-ai-powe...
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An AI powered government is already being built where you wouldn't expect
Inside Britain's quiet transformation of the state
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Vernon Baseley @vernonbaseley.eurosky.social · 7h
I can smell the hot meths from here ...
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 9h
Whoever nicknamed him Saddo Hussein is a genius.
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 8h
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Kemi is once again confronted by her arch-enemy, ANY DETAILS AT ALL. thecritic.co.uk/kane...
Unfortunately, like, I don’t know, the results of a charity fundraiser for the Kurds, the Tory claims for what they’re proposing grew a little in the telling. Newspapers everywhere were calling it a British “Iron Dome”, referring to Israel’s comprehensive – and expensive – system.

Nick Ferrari of LBC, a man who is to political weakness what Godzilla is to a Tokyo suburb, was doubtful that it would be possible to build a missile defence network that would defend the whole UK. “Well, because it’s mobile, it can,” Badenoch said, faltering slightly.

The LBC man closed in. “Is it moved by sea? By land? By air?”

“I do know that it would move,” the Conservative leader said. “I think certainly by sea.” She tried to explain. “It’s not one thing that’s sitting in one place.”

Ferrari wouldn’t let go. “How many units are there?” If the Daily Star’s barrister had been this good, Archer’s political career might have ended in 1987.

“How many units?” Badenoch repeated. “I can’t…” She resorted to
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Agnes C. Poirier @agnescpoirier.bsky.social · 18h
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 15h
This might have been the sort of sessions that resulted in Canada and Lithuania pulling out of #Disinfo2026 at the last minute, question is, whether it's from direct US pressure. I think we all deserve an answer, is US foreign interference the acceptable face of FIMI now?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14h
Obviously laughable. But a reminder of how these people would behave in power: Financially benefiting the journalists and pollsters who do their bidding, legally pursuing those who do not.
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Network Rail @networkrail.bsky.social · 14h
🔔 We've introduced a digital notification system for people who live near the railway. Sign up for timely and detailed information about railway work near your home or business: 👉 networkrail.co.uk/RailWorkNearMe #DigitalNotifications #CustomerServiceWeek #NationalCustomerServiceWeek
A graphic for Network Rail features a stylised house, tree, and train. Text encourages signing up for email updates about nearby rail work. The text says: “Sign up to stay in the know about rail work happening near your home. Go online to receive email updates.” A small sign reads “Rail Work Near Me” with a train icon. The background is yellow and red.
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 13h
Think that’s the toughest I’ve seen Tory leadership on Reform since their emergence as a serious political force, directly taking on claims about Englishness and identity from some Reform politicians. Feels a significant change in approach.
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John O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social · 13h
I'm delighted to hear that Reform have completed their internal investigation into the donations case and found themselves to be completely innocent. We need say no more about it.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13h
Thames Valley Police have responded to claims by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s lawyer that search warrants issued by officers at the Royal Lodge at Windsor were unlawful. From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 13h
Badenoch says IHT hits “ordinary middle class families” across the country (whereas I’m pretty sure that only 1 in 20 estates pay it) She has promised to exempt family homes from IHT
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 13h
Brexiter Andrew Griffith complains that the civil service has expanded since 2016. I wonder what contributed to that.
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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Another bad guy gone
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.
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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 06/10/2026
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hitler absolutely would know where to start. This is one of the main things about Hitler.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Leaving proof of ID to the private sector just to avoid tabloid “your papers please” bilge is so pathetic www.ft.com/content/b303...
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Britain has turned digital ID into a growth industry
Start-ups such as Yoti and Luciditi are meeting demand for age and identity verification as the government retreats
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Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
USA NYC Lors de la construction du World Trade Center à la fin des années 1960, plus d'un million de mètres cubes de matériaux excavés ont été utilisés pour étendre le littoral de Manhattan dans le fleuve Hudson. Cette photographie immortalise une image du Lower Manhattan
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The Daily Titanic @titanic1912.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
On the morning of October 6th 1911 the Olympic arrived in Belfast Lough and anchored in Carrickfergus Roads. The next morning the Titanic is moved from the deep water fitting out quay allowing the Olympic, with Lord Pirrie in attendance, to dock. On the 11th the Olympic was dry docked.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Interesting this because I think YouGov were the last pollsters to show a Reform lead, as recently as last week?
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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Digital advertising screens dressed up as "communication hubs" and defibrillators, to try and get round planning rules Public space being eroded for commercial gains.
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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Classic Archer. Signing his books after he's died.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To the surprise of absolutely no one, but to their courage, victims of far-right figures arguing they are “protecting women and girls” from unknown and unseen particular threat from migrants are coming forward to tell their story of sexual and domestic abuse
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
when your boss had a nice lunch with a supplier at a conference.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tim Stanley deserves credit for continuing to try and make Conservatism sane again. We've recently heard similar sane-ish moments from Rees-Mogg, Hannan and even Allister Heath, but they are not (yet?) as consistent as Tim Stanley who seems to be growing into this role.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More research. Internal combustion engine vehicles represented less than 25% of total European car sales in August 2026. We are looking at a fundamental market shift where Chinese companies have in effect delivered where local ones failed. fuelcellsworks.com/2026/10/01/e...
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August Car Registrations Rise as Chinese OEMs Hit 12% - Fuelcellsworks
EU passenger car registrations grew 5.3% in August 2026, driven by electrified vehicles. Chinese OEMs reached record 12% market share, led by BYD and PHEVs.
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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They've got him bang to rights
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James Aithie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jamesaithie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Narrator "He didn't know anyone in Lithuania."
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 05/10/2026
We are aware of an individual using a UK number on Telegram and WhatsApp under the name “Antony Kevin” to seek assistance recruiting journalists and analysts working on Syria. They claim to work for Bellingcat, but do not. Please disregard requests from them and contact [contact@bellingcat.com].
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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 05/10/2026
🚨 NEW: The UK will expel 27 Israeli diplomats and their families if Israel proceeds with closing the British Consulate in Jerusalem [@JerusalemPost]
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is unacceptable: It undermines NATO's fundamental collective rationale by creating an inner/outer, favoured/unfavoured tiered structure. Those (Sweden, Finland, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands) who attend play into Colby's anti-Europe agenda. It is designed to weaken NATO for US gain.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Air passengers flying into Moscow from Irkutsk where a lab technician died of the plague are now being given mandatory temperature checks by masked staff before they’re allowed to disembark.
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The European Commission is monitoring the suspected outbreak of pneumonic plague in Siberia, Russia, "very closely" and stands ready to coordinate a response among member states if necessary. I have the latest.
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EU monitors 'very closely' suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Brussels and Washington are "closely" monitoring the evolution of a suspected plague outbreak in Siberia following the death of a lab worker. #EuropeNews
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🇺🇸🥔 The US will receive its first shipment of Belarusian potash in four years, - FT On Sep 15, Belarusian company loaded 30,000 tons of granular potassium chloride onto a Marshall Islands-flagged vessel in Russian port of Bronka in St. Petersburg. Unloading is expected on Oct 14 in New Orleans.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A new trade union has just been officially registered, the UK Hospitality Union It's a v under-represented part of the workplace re. unions: "Members include...baristas, hotel staff, restaurant staff, chefs, event caterers, bar staff, housekeeping." Be interesting to see how they fare
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UK Hospitality Union | trade union
At the UK Hospitality Trade Union, we are the united voice for workers across the UK's hospitality sector. Our mission is simple: to advocate for fair treatment, safe working conditions, and equitable...
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Mick Steward @micksteward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Andrew Pierce did the thing
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World War I As It Happened (1914) @warhappened.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The besieged Belgian Army has received welcome support from the British Royal Naval Division, which arrived in town in requisitioned London buses.
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