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Darned Brexit got me here, searching for kindness and shouting into the wind

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18h
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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Malhavic777 @malhavic777.bsky.social · 17h
It's been almost one year since Congress gave the DOJ thirty days to release the Epstein files. It still has not.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2h
Brexit has been a Tory masterclass in ideological madness. It’s widely accepted by the country as a barrelling shitshow but *still* their entitled little reps strut about insisting we can’t be allowed to vote on it again. Who TF does this person think she is? And why TF should she decide anything?
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 6h
Badenoch, last month: Why is PM obsessed with Thatcher? SO WEIRD! I was not even born. He wants to take us back to the 70s. Badenoch, this week: I'm like Thatcher, a new Thatcher, possibly possessed by Thatcher, LOVE Thatcher, Thatcher was right, and I'll take us back to the 80s. Tory Conference:
Actual Thatcher outfits on display.Priti Patel displaying Thatcher merchandise.Limited edition Thatcher toby jug, £47.50Telegraph: "BADENOCH: I'LL TURN BRITAIN AROUND LIKE THATCHER"
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3h
I'm increasingly of the view that the entire Telegraph comments section should probably be referred to Prevent.
 Police diverted from 999 calls to deal with anti-migrant protests

Commissioner says around 200 officers from seven forces were pulled off crime-fighting duties to police Gosport demonstrations Why are we stopping the British from protesting about being invaded? Surely we should be stopping the invaders?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3h
"The war on children's safety" continues at Tory conference
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 4h
Water companies failing their basic duties? The Green Party has a simple solution. Special administration. Public ownership. ZERO compensation for shareholders.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 3h
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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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.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2h
"Politics should be about expanding opportunity, not narrowing it. "That means being honest when policies are not delivering for working people. And having the confidence to revisit decisions when the evidence changes. On Europe, that moment has arrived."
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AnthonyF272 @anthonyf272.bsky.social · 2h
The other point is that the will is not there. UK is going downwards in the world's corruption tables. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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UK and US sink to new lows in global index of corruption
Countries’ drop in scores in annual table comes amid ‘worrying trend’ of backsliding in established democracies
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12h
Extreme heat is raising risks for pregnant women and babies, and Wellcome is calling for the needs of pregnant women and their babies to be reflected in national climate and health plans www.ft.com/content/f943...

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	The poll of midwives, obstetricians and others in the field by Wellcome, one of the world’s biggest scientific funders, found that 73 per cent had seen an increase in heat-related complications affecting pregnant women over the past five years. More than three-quarters reported an increase in harm to foetal or newborn health from high temperatures over the same period.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 22h
The Tories have announced they would abolish Natural England, support a Third Runway & pull the UK out of the Aarhus Convention - in further signs they’ve totally given up on Middle England, don’t give a toss about the environment & just want to please some wealthy grouse moor owners & raving YIMBYs
Tory party press release: “[We will leave the Aarhus] Convention that powers the lawfare hindering every major infrastructure project in this country.”

“Abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency, moving to a more streamlined regulatory landscape to protect our environment.”Tory PR: “Support a Third Runway at Heathrow Airport and wider expansion, increasing capacity to deliver cheaper flights, better connections for passengers, and more exports of high-value British goods.”
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 14h
If anything screams, 'we are the party that doesn't care' this is it This nihilist approach to our environment stinks and in the true sense of nihilism suggests the Tory party has lost its way on beliefs and values...but I think we probably knew that already 🫤 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 13h
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13h
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A cynical person might ask, of course, why are "young men of fighting age" wearing hijabs? 🧐
Main on Sunday front page: 

"As one of Kemi's top female frontbenchers calls them 'instruments of suppression...
UK HANDS OUT 1,000 HIJABS TO CHANNEL MIGRANTS"
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine 🇵🇸
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Shadow minister Katie Lam floating a Tory-Reform coalition to block Andy Burnham’s proposals for closer EU ties shows how panicked the right has become. Teaming up to protect economic barriers proves they prioritise anti-EU dogma over growth. Why block recovery? (1/2) 🤔 #FBPE
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Tories could join forces with Reform in bid to stop Burnham's Brexit U-turn
Shadow communities secretary Katie Lam tells The i Paper Brexit supportrers may have to form a coalition to ensure UK is kept out of the EU
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Kemi Badenoch saying the ban is unnecessary only shows how out of touch she is with public opinion. Over 80% of the general public, including farmers and rural communities support a ban on fox hunting. It is cruel and barbaric.” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Kemi Badenoch branded 'out of touch' for stance on fox hunting after vile video
EXCLUSIVE: Footage shows a Heythrop Hunt kennel huntsman climbing into woodland near the village of Lower Swell to recover the body of the fox and then running away with it
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah yes, those trade deals…to replace the 8% loss in GDP caused by Brexit the U.K. has new trade deals worth about a 0.5% increase in GDP🤦‍♂️ #RejoinEU / #JoinEU #BrexitFail
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Man, WHO IS NOT RACIST*, is banned from Waitrose for being racist, but he cannot be racist because his wife is from Thailand. NOT RACIST* *chinny reckon
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Man banned from Waitrose over 'terrorist' comment denies being racist
A man has been banned from a Waitrose in Sussex after making what the supermarket described as "discriminatory" remarks towards another customer
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
High school senior Elder Chavez Carranza is an immigrant living in the US legally under a program for abused or neglected children One day he went to buy food when a cop asked for his papers-which he didn’t have that day. So ICE put him in detention He has been incarcerated for more than 200 days
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
President Trump mocks climate change: “The ice caps have gotten bigger instead of smaller. They’ve gotten bigger.” My view: No, they haven’t. Greenland is losing roughly 264 billion tonnes of ice a year and Antarctica around 135 billion tonnes.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…
Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why you can’t trust Grok - or any other LLM which basically tells you what you want to hear and amplifies online echo chambers
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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Unlike the Tories who did a stunning job...
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victoria1921.bsky.social @victoria1921.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sunak called the 2024 election partly because of disgraceful Tory failures to tackle the crisis in the criminal justice system. Tories promised new prisons but only 500 new places were created between 2010 and 2024. Never trust Tories in government again. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/pris...
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Tories risked total justice collapse by blocking prison early release, review finds
Justice officials were ignored and accused of ‘crying wolf’ as the criminal justice system reached breaking point, damning review finds
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Penney Esq. FBPE. Easygoing, but I mind more as I get older @iidomind.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Private Eye story: Gove's son - having complained on dad's podcast he couldn't get a job because of his name - now has a job alongside mum (Sarah Vine) @ the Daily Mail! Meanwhile the DM graduate trainee, initially offered a permanent job, was then told there wasn't a place for him after all! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police trying to clear the way but the people of the East End got there first.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Do you have to be white to be English?" That this is even being asked is a sign of how much racism has been legitimised by our media & politics over the last two decades
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 02/10/2026
Intrigued to see the Conservative conference will feature a speech on "press freedom" next week while they ban lobby journalists such as @josiahmortimer.bsky.social from attending their conference.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pennsylvania measles cases are now at almost 1000 for 2026 with 195 needing hospital treatment.
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Pennsylvania nears 1,000 measles cases, state health department reports
Pennsylvania’s reported measles cases are almost at 1,000 for 2026, days after its health department confirmed the figure had passed 900. “977 measles cases have been confirmed across 39 coun…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026
Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rachel Millward calls for the re-nationalisation of water without compensation as water companies are insolvent and we ought to own our crucial water infrastructure.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Very disturbing that a political party has moved from saying that there should be no penalty for encouragement to violence, to calling for reduced penalties for literally blowing things up. A party manifestly not fit for political office.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Far from tackling violence against women, far-right activity has actively disrupted frontline women’s services – and ultimately left victims more vulnerable.” Including services aimed at providing protection against domestic violence. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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‘Fear is part of our life now’: women’s groups thrown into disarray…
Anti-immigration protestors are disrupting services aimed at those they claim to protect
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Want the UK to join the EU? Then join hundreds of thousands of people on the European Movement UK mailing list... We're mobilising. Info, news, events, local groups - everything you need about what's going on. Make sure you're in the know. And share! --> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/signup-newsl...
The EMUK email sign-up screen
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026
🚨 Naomi Smith: The people of Scotland, like the rest of Great Britain, are of one mind when it comes to the UK and the EU: they know it’s been a disaster and they simply want to be back in.
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Poll: Scottish Labour would hold onto most of its MPs if PM promises to rejoin EU
Scottish Labour would hold onto most of the 37 Westminster seats it won in the 2024 if the Prime Minister pledges to
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🔴 Manchester City is what happens when the rich and powerful believe money trumps any rules or regulations I've written about club football's biggest ever scandal, and interviewed the brilliant @migueldelaney.bsky.social, for Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/manchester...
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Manchester City: club football's "biggest ever scandal"
I spoke to author Miguel Delaney about the UAE, industrial-scale cheating and football's “financial wild west.”
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But every city has a breaking point, and this year rain fell so fast and so hard that whole neighbourhoods of the Thai capital have been transformed, not into rivers, but stagnant lakes. (Guardian)
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Bangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakes
With 40 dead and a disaster declared across all 50 city districts, experts warn extreme flooding will only worsen across south-east Asia
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There are many challenges; a different UK&EU to 2016, a rogue US, 🇫🇷elections, the demands that could be made of us, our own fear of Brexit wars, Farage weakening our negotiating position BUT… At least Burnham “has created the political space to have a conversation” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Does the EU want Britain back?
Burnham has reopened the Brexit debate. That doesn’t mean the UK will be welcomed back on its own terms
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“The firm’s confirmation statement – an annual filing confirming details including who owns & controls a company – was due by 28 March 2026. It was never filed. The company’s only set of accounts, covering the year to 31 May 2025, records ‘nil’ on every financial line & no employees.” Which is true?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm furious about the two Iranians who came across as part of the surge in small boats created by my Brexit and under a Home Office run by my MPs Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All your Triple Lock questions answered: - what is the new policy - why it’s a ‘triple lock’ - why pensioner poverty is expected to fall in the 2030s torstenbell.substack.com/p/the-future...
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The Future of the Triple Lock
The questions I’ve been asked most after Andy Burnham’s speech - and what the answers are.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The endless grift continues. The Trump administration has been talking to Russia about a multibillion-dollar deal for Lukoil’s international assets, NYT reports.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."
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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“The Tories are taking the public for fools. Across 14 years in government, they added just 500 prison places and closed 23 prisons. Now Kemi Badenoch expects the British people to believe they'll build 50,000."
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Earlier this summer mosquitoes capable of transmitting Zika virus and dengue were found breeding in homes in east London" Oh joy! Another perk of global heating www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms
Climate crisis blamed as virus that originated in Africa spreads to livestock as far north as Aberdeenshire
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Susan 🐝🐓🪴🌻🇪🇺🇺🇦 @susanf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
BBC Breakfast airing Farage again as ’most attacked politician’ and his lies about being ‘refused’ protection - all without challenge. No politician should fear for their life, but sick of BBC pushing Refuk narrative without fact checking
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