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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10h

From the new Private Eye

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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 7h

I’m not for purity tests but lads, if you’re not even nominally listening to your leftie environmentalist anti-genocide Jewish friends on the reasons this Zionism is racism motion is so janky, you might want to ask yourself some difficult questions.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12h

As I was saying yesterday there is an obvious switch in approach and it's a welcome one. Let's see if it sticks with Katie Lam, Nick Timothy etc... on the front bench.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9h

It is slightly bad luck for Reform that Suella Braverman has taken a core Restore argument + vocally championed it, allowing Kemi Badenoch to attach Reform to it Braverman doesn't identify as English - but almost no English-identifying [white] MP would reject Rashford or Ian Wright as English

This inclusive nativism – that being born and bred in England does count, regardless of skin colour or faith, if you identify as English – is entirely missed by Suella Braverman, who writes dismissively about “a plane ticket and a birth certificate” as if they are the same thing. “How many generations must pass before one can claim to be English? Five? Six? It is a question without an easy answer”, she writes in in her Telegraph commentary piece. The only charitable thing to do with this thought would be to assume that no thought has gone into it whatsoever.

Thoughtlessness could prove an important defence for Braverman. It seems deeply unlikely that she would defend the outcomes that her piece logically entails – when applying it to the specific cases of those who identify as English, without five or six generations of English ancestry. But she would surely lose the Conservative whip were she willing to do that – since it would involve rejecting the English identity – on racial grounds – of many people accepted as English by just about everybody who is not a vocal and overt racist.

Braveman has over a hundred Conservative parliamentary colleagues who do identify as English. If she sense-checked her theory with them, she would find it unlikely that any would declare that Marcus Rashford and Jude Bellingham are too black to be English – nor that Moeen Ali’s declaration of his pride in being English should be rejected on the grounds of his visibly Muslim beard and Pakistani heritage. It may seem even more baffling that the ‘Braverman rules’ would reject Harry Kane and Wayne Rooney as too Irish to be English too.

Sporting symbolism has undoubtedly entrenched this common-sense consensus that English national identity has been multi-ethnic since the 1990s. That is one of the reasons why Asian English identity is less intuitively familiar than that of the black English, with little presence in football in particular. But this is not just a question of sport. Braverm…

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Vijay - /ʋɪd͡ʒjeɪ/ @vijaychopra.uk · 25/09/2026

Need to speed up that work on GCAP & start shipping ASAP.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New post out: England's schools are now the second highest performing in the world outside the far east, according to the OECD's PISA study. Is this because of policy? Attitude to technology? Cultural factors like immigration? And where can we still improve? samf.substack.com/p/why-englan...

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Why England’s schools are doing so well

And what we need to focus on next

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Vijay - /ʋɪd͡ʒjeɪ/ @vijaychopra.uk · 22/09/2026

Good LibDem news on Trans rights & 'protestors' in one morning. Hopefully it'll keep coming today! ➡️ "The Liberal Democrat leader has condemned the actions of anti-immigration protesters who have forced the closure of Portsmouth's lifeboat station" - www.itv.com/news/meridia...

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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ed Davey stands with trans rights by backing our motion at Lib Dem conference!

Ed Davey stands with trans rights
Reporter: You want the conference motion [Restoring Trans Rights] to pass?
Ed Davey: I do - I'll be voting for it if I'm in the hall!

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Vijay - /ʋɪd͡ʒjeɪ/ @vijaychopra.uk · 22/09/2026

Something for all my queer friends, this is now official policy, courtesy of @rigg.lgbt's conference motion passed overwhelmingly. 💜🔶 www.libdems.org.uk/news/article...

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Restoring Trans Rights

The Liberal Democrats will continue to stand in solidarity with trans and non-binary communities, defending equal rights, personal dignity and safety for all.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 20/09/2026

Instagram appears to be showing me headlines from 1642.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Time is long overdue that the political mainstream in Britain vigorously re-asserts its longstanding anti-racism norms... these have been allowed to be significantly eroded the last few years.

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Somehow this bluesky post now has a date of transmission (29th October) and official artwork.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My son told me a joke. Two cats have a swimming race. They're called "one two three" and "un deux trois". Which one wins? "One two three" because un deux trois quatre cinque.

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/09/2026

when even commentators give up on modern football

Screenshot from the BBC live feed for this afternoon's football.

"Newcastle 2-1 Hull

Hull assistant boss Dean Holden was booked a few minutes ago for something or other on the bench."

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not this c*nt again... After getting the Brexit he pushed for, he shifted chunks of his UK businesses over to the EU - plus himself to low tax Monaco. If everyone damaged the UK like that faketriot, we really would be f*cked. Surprised he's not relocated Man U to Europe yet.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rishi Sunak said - loudly - that multiculturalism works. Keir Starmer called immigration in the 2020s a “squalid experiment”. It is a night and day difference.

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

NEW MRP JUST DROPPED: All but four constituencies in GB support UK membership of the EU. In those four, the most popular option was 'Don't Know' (Ashfield, Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness).

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026

I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The usual moral “I’ll support anything as long as the rosette is red” voids in the replies to this. The reality is that Sunak did take real political damage in sacking Braverman and taking the whip from Anderson. Starmer and Burnham both useless on this.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 19/09/2026

My most boomer opinion is that you should be able to connect a printer straight out of the box with a cable to the pc and print. No wifi, no bluetooth, no freaking app.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 19/09/2026

My father came to Britain from East Africa with hope and ambition. Yet now nearly 1 million young people are not in education, employment or training. Lib Dems believe every young person deserves the chance to fulfil their potential. @munirawilson.bsky.social

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

instead of talking to tankies, just block them mao apologia and straight moscow propaganda is not something we debate in civilised company

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

‘We cannot allow race to be reintroduced into our politics. We cannot allow Briton to be set against Briton.’ Bravo Rishi Sunak www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...

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Rishi Sunak: Britishness must not be turned into a DNA test

I worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers

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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026

i need to know what happened

sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"

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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Guys we don’t own or control external quiz websites, your browser settings, where the share button on a website that isn’t our website takes you. Maybe one day we will be in charge of the whole internet but that day is not today. 😭

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Vijay - /ʋɪd͡ʒjeɪ/ @vijaychopra.uk · 08/09/2026

This list is hilarious in how absurd it is. None of the people on it actually affect government in any meaningful way.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 08/09/2026

Most Britons would oppose making it compulsory for school children to have to regularly sing the national anthem, which Suella Braverman told Reform UK's conference would be the law if they won power Support: 30% Oppose: 54% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The bill passed its second and third readings unopposed - very rare for major legislation. That kind of cross-party response would be very welcome today. api.parliament.uk/historic-han... api.parliament.uk/historic-han...

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PUBLIC ORDER BILL. (Hansard, 11 December 1936)

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Herbert Morrison, for Labour, told MPs that this was "not the Bill of a political party". It was "responding to the demand of everything that is decent, everything that is good, everything that is fine in British public opinion." He then warned of the dangers of uniforms and of foreign funding.

The uniform in politics is an attempt to evolve a new authority, a rival authority to the authority of the State, the authority of the civilian police and the authority of local government. Secondly, it is a uniform that marches en masse, in military formation, with military precision, subject to military orders.
Nor can we ignore what has happened in this connection in foreign countries. It is significant to note that the technique which is being followed by this organisation more and more resembles the technique of the Nazis in Germany. If some of us are suspicious that the money which is necessary to buy that technique and its application in Great Britain may come from German sources, is that an unreasonable suspicion? I think it is probable that it does.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Haha. Not in Reform, nor really out of it, but somewhere in between. #Montie

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Listen, if you see a school kid in a kippah and your first instinct is to throw a bottle at him, have a word with yourself

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's hard to see how this isn't the outcome the far right wanted and achieved by their actions at the weekend. That feeling will be reinforced by the government "clarifying" condemnation by accepting bogus "legitimate concerns" arguments against providing safety. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Two ports denied request to land 120 migrants in RNLI boats

The King's Harbour Master and Southampton Port both declined to allow migrants ashore on Sunday.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was essentially why Nick Gibb wrote his book, Reforming Lessons, he realised that a lot of his colleagues simply did not understand what had actually happened in education policy and why it worked.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/09/2026

Sir Edward Leigh MP: “What is happening in the West Bank... is ethnic cleansing... I am proud to say, as the longest-serving member of the Conservative Friends of Israel, that I absolutely and fully support what [Ed Miliband] is doing today, because it’s about standing up for freedom and justice"

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 08/09/2026

Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 26% (+3) RFM: 25% (-1) CON: 20% (-3) LDM: 11% (+2) GRN: 11% (+1) SNP: 2% (-1) Via Freshwater Strategy, 4-6 Sep. Changes w/ 7-10 Aug.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Worth noting that England is now also outperforming Northern Ireland with its grammar schools, which use to get similar results. Comprehensive education works!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It continually blows my mind the sheer number of obviously crackers ideas and excuse-making for failure from the last government that Labour have gone “seems legit!”…while at the same time Labour refuses to acknowledge the real, measurable success in education.

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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Had kind of a shitty message from someone that they’re unsubscribing from our Patreon because there’s too much content & too much podcast. Just a reminder that it’s fine to simply unsubscribe & move on & you don’t have to shit on a creative team who’ve worked their arses off on your way out.

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