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United In Focus - Manchester United News @unitedinfocus.com · 21/03/2026
Mark Clattenburg has his say on the Manchester United penalty controversy... 👀 #MUFC #PremierLeague #Football
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'Baffling', 'Soft' - Mark Clattenburg comments on Man Utd VAR controversy vs Bournemouth
Mark Clattenburg has his say on the Manchester United penalty controversy... 👀
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
📚 Weekend Reads — The Iconography of Destruction Peter Jukes explores how the US President has spent his life riding the storm – but how much longer can he avoid reaping the whirlwind… subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/8…
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The Iconography of Destruction – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
Peter Jukes explores how the US President has spent his life riding the storm – but how much longer can he avoid reaping the whirlwind of his ‘American carnage’?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/03/2026
An immigration judge has ordered the removal of Liam Consejo Ramos, a Minnesota toddler who was detained by ICE. The politics of citizenship might seem like the detail that distinguishes Liam’s story from the stories of our kids. But his innocence, like the innocence of all kids, is unimpeachable.
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They want to tell you a kid with a Spider-Man backpack is evil
Liam Ramos' innocence, like the innocence of all kids, is unimpeachable. The visuals of his arrest are excruciating.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Witnessing the rise of Nazis in Germany, Hannah Arendt said: “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture on the verge of descending into barbarism”. Where is UK heading - attacks on minorities; curbs on human rights, millions in poverty,
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Is the Britain on the path to barbarism?
Dehumanisation of the people always unleashes personal and social tragedies
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Missiles fired at Diego Garcia after UK lets US use bases for Hormuz strikes www.itv.com/news/2026-03...
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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
How to spot a racist: Lee Anderson is attacking brown people for praying in public, after defending the white men who tried to kill Muslims.
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How to prove Lee Anderson is racist : Muslim double-standard
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 21/03/2026
Infantino is too far up Trump’s backside to see daylight - Trump says he can't guarantee the safety of the Iranian team (in his own country) and Infantino, the guy that just invented a FIFA peace award and gave it to Trump - buries his head somewhere. www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Gianni Infantino responds to Iran’s request to move World Cup games from US
Iran are scheduled to play their three group matches in the US, but will refuse to travel there over fears for their safety
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 21/03/2026
Our NHS, our water, our energy, our mail, and our transport shouldn't be left in the hands of companies who put profit before people. Agree? Join us: vist.ly/4vnt3
Photo of Ash Sarker accompanying a quote from BBC Question Time: "£200 billion of our money has been paid out to shareholders for privatised utilities like rail, and mail, and energy, and buses. That’s money that could have gone into reducing customers’ bills, or investing in infrastructure. It hasn’t. It’s gone out in the form of investor profit. Everything is too expensive and nothing works"
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United In Focus - Manchester United News @unitedinfocus.com · 21/03/2026
It's becoming a trend... #MUFC #Football #PremierLeague
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Stuart Attwell COST Man Utd vs Bournemouth, not the first time he's frustrated Ineos
It's becoming a trend...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
UK forces have joined a military operation with the French navy in the Mediterranean to seize an oil tanker, alleged to be part of Russia's shadow fleet. news.sky.com/story/uk-for...
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UK forces join military operation with French navy to seize Russian 'shadow fleet' tanker in Mediterranean
The Deyna, a Mozambique-flagged oil tanker which had sailed from the Russian ​port of Murmansk, was reportedly boarded off the coast of Algeria.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Finnish President Alexander Stubb says Brexit was a “colossal mistake” “It’s like amputating your leg without medical reason for doing it”
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 17/03/2026
Drill Baby Drill is a fantasy, what a surprise. And global markets set the price we pay for our own North Sea oil and gas - this is the reason. I’ve been saying it for years - this report from Oxford, reported by GB News - confirms it all. www.gbnews.com/money/north-...
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North Sea oil would barely cut UK energy bills claim Oxford experts - as 'drill baby drill' labelled a FANTASY
Households would save just £16 a year from drilling the vital oilfields, researchers claimed
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 17/03/2026
Anglers, walkers and wild swimmers are often the first to notice changes in rivers. A new Environment Agency phone app – under trial until July – invites the public to share their observations about England’s waterways. Anyone can take part. Here's how ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk
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Citizen scientists inspire new national river monitoring tool
A new Environment Agency tool aims to harness citizen scientists’ observations to help monitor England’s rivers and waterways
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Ukrainian Athlete Disqualified From Olympics Over Helmet Depicting War Dead: ‘The Price of Our Dignity’ time.com/7377960/vlad...
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Ukrainian Athlete Disqualified From Olympics Over Helmet
“This is the price of our dignity,” Heraskevych said, in response to the International Olympic Committee's decision.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Plan 2 student loan interest is unfair, says Lucy Powell Deputy Labour leader says her son is in ‘egregious’ scheme under which many graduates face repayments that allow the debt to grow www.thetimes.com/money/family...
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Plan 2 student loan interest is unfair, says Lucy Powell
Deputy Labour leader says her son is in ‘egregious’ scheme under which many graduates face repayments that allow the debt to grow
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Reeves urged to reassure MPs over public finances amid £6bn-a-year Send costs. Crisis caused by privatisation & profiteering from special education needs of children. Money buys less. Invest to rebuild public sector. Privatisation has been disastrous in so many sectors.
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Reeves urged to reassure MPs over public finances amid £6bn-a-year Send costs
City analysts say financial market investors will be worried if cost is deducted from budget surplus
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 13/02/2026
🤔You want your government to be popular? 💡Why not try doing something that's popular with the public. Most of us want to see public ownership across a range of public services. It was true at the last general election. It's true now. #publicownership
Infographic showing the responses to the question "Do you think the following should be nationalised and run in the public sector, or privatised and run by private companies?"
Headline: Public ownership is popular
Water - 82%
Energy - 71%
Buses - 66%
NHS - 87%
Rail - 76%
Royal Mail - 75%

Polling by YouGov, June 2024
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
UPDATE: The Apocalypse Network: Dugin, Bannon, Thiel and the Media Machinery of the Dark Enlightenment New evidence of the Palantir founder’s reach out to the far right Russian ideologue confirms the confluence of Big Tech with reactionary Russian mysticism open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
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UPDATE: The Apocalypse Network: Dugin, Bannon, Thiel and the Media Machinery of the Dark Enlightenment
New evidence of the Palantir founder’s reach out to the far right Russian ideologue confirms the confluence of Big Tech with reactionary Russian mysticism
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/01/2026
Chris Philp, a minister at the Home Office 2022-2024, when his government spent over £700m and four years, to deport - voluntarily, at that - a total of four people to Rwanda, reckons it should easily be happening "within a week". 🤡 ~AA
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13/09/2025
🇳🇴 ICYM: It has been a tough week for Starmer, but what can he learn from his Nordic counterparts to resurrect his and his parties fortunes? www.bestforbritain.org/what_norwegi…
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What the Norwegian Election could teach Starmer
Try and picture this. A Labour Party flailing in the polls less than a year before an election, a centre-right Conservative party decimated by a radical right alternative, a wealth tax on the front pa...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13/09/2025
Good to see European nations working together on Defence for their mutual benefit - Europe needs to stand together, as it remains clear we can no longer rely on the US. www.politico.eu/article/denmark-cho…
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Loss for Trump as Denmark chooses Franco-Italian air defense system over US Patriots
The decision comes after the U.S. president threatened to annex Greenland.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 13/09/2025
Email your MP today weownit.org.uk/act-now/passengers-n…
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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 13/09/2025
Don’t be misled: anti-immigration sentiment distracts from the real issues facing our society northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opi...
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The real issue in UK society is not immigration
Don’t be misled: anti-immigration sentiment distracts from the real issues facing our society
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 09/09/2025
I grew up beneath this beautiful, 17th century white horse at Westbury, now defaced by racists posturing as patriots. You can't pretend patriotism involves the defacement of our actual cultural heritage. Please let's call it what it is - ugly, malicious, hateful. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Westbury White Horse checked for any England flag damage
Red fabric which was draped over the
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🔴BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
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BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End 'Wall to Wall' Farage Coverage
They accuse the BBC of "following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage
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David Clark @david-k-clark.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The BBC is basically turning into the Blackshirt Broadcasting Corporation.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
NHS becoming a shell doling out contracts to private sector. Cataract surgery contracts have profit margins of 32% - 43%, leaves less for other NHS services. Govts won't expand NHS capacity. Neighbourhood Health Centres to be handed to private sector. State sponsored profiteering.
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How successive government have created a new rentier economy
Governments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few.
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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 08/09/2025
🏥 Private equity firms have significantly influenced U.S. healthcare, often prioritising profits over patient care. Now, these firms are setting their sights on the NHS, raising concerns about the future of public healthcare in the UK. Read more here: lowdownnhs.info/private-prov...
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 01/09/2025
📣Speaker Klaxon! Sophie our wonderful lead campaigner on water will be a guest speaker at the Boycott Thames Water zoom meeting TONIGHT! "Thames Water - the End Game" is a meeting for all water campaigners and bill boycotters. 📩Register here: vist.ly/458tc #thameswater #publicownership
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 01/09/2025
@pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of B4B: “In 30 pages, the Good Friday Agreement cites the ECHR seven times as an essential safeguard and so these claims look like a wilful misinterpretation of a treaty that ended decades of bloodshed in the UK and Ireland." bit.ly/461k8cf
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ECHR essential to NI peace deal
The ECHR is an "essential safeguard" to the Good Friday Agreement, campaigners have stressed, amid urgent warnings the "radical right is playing on fears around immigration to remove protections from ...
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Flagshaggers have spent the week spray-painting dodgy Union Jacks and auditioning for the ‘Great British W*nk Off’. Flags don’t compensate for no identity, a tiny nob and a height that means they can't ride the Nemesis. It’s Poundland Nationalism. 8pm 👇🏼 youtube.com/live/xPlKTmY...
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Revenge of the Flagsh*ggers: The Great British W*nk Off 🇬🇧 💦
YouTube video by Supertanskiii
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
"A boy, perhaps eight or nine years old, walked past the counter-protesters with his father and shouted 'Send them back' 'Go back where you came from!"
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Children, women, and young people being groomed by the far right
"A boy, perhaps eight or nine years old, walked past the counter-protesters with his father and shouted 'Send them back' 'Go back where you came from!"
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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 31/08/2025
Beautiful
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Still staggered that Byline has no less than six contributors named on the Kremlin’s latest stop list - way more than any other UK media organisation. But beginning to wonder if this is as much to do with our investigation of the Levedevs (who still control a raft of UK media)
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in many of the UK’s problems - it’s time UK news shows and Labour started pointing that out youtu.be/be3b8RkMqvs?...
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Brexit - championed by Farage - has been a significant factor in creating this mess
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
🔴Reform UK’s Darren Grimes Under Investigation Over Fake AI Asylum Video of Keir Starmer Grimes faces an official complaint to the council after using manipulated imagery and attacking asylum seekers as ‘deviants’ bylinetimes.com/2025/08/29/r...
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Reform UK's Darren Grimes Under Investigation Over Fake AI Asylum Video of Keir Starmer
Grimes faces an official complaint to the council after using manipulated imagery and attacking asylum seekers as 'deviants'
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Did Brexit cause the small boats? Are any countries managing immigration well? How do I stay calm when arguing with dickheads? What can we all do to fight back against the hate? Wonderful questions from the @bremaininspain.com community :) - my answers here www.bremaininspain.com/bremainers-a...
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Bremainers Ask ....... Zoe Gardner - Bremain in Spain
Bremain in Spain is campaigning for a strong & close relationship with the EU and to protect the rights of British migrants living in Spain.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
"The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy"
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Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
YES! Thank you... Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". - seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
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Silencing the drumbeat again: seeking asylum is legal
Hundreds protested in Ashington against so-called "illegal immigrants" - though seeking asylum has been legal since 1951
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MsAlliance @msalliance.me · 31/08/2025
We had swastikas and Islamophobic graffiti painted on a garage door and pavements in our solidly middle class road a couple of weeks ago. Red crosses are appearing all over the place on roundabouts and crossings. These areas are in no sense left behind. It’s really horrible.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
100% Our 10 publications at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk now get many more engagements (and click-through) from Bluesky than it ever did on Twitter/X. Here’s our graph of traffic from X vs Bluesky over the last 12 months.
Traffic to all Bylines publications from X versus Bluesky from Jun 2024 to Jun 2025.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
"In December last year, Resolute 1850 Ltd was incorporated in the UK. With a thinktank soon to be launched and funds from MAGA, American Big Tech and the US religious right already pledged, it seeks to use Reform as a vessel to bring Project 2025-style policies to the UK."
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‘Resolute 1850’: Reform UK Ltd’s MAGA plan to turn Britain into Little America
Right-wing US interests are pushing a plan to bend the UK to their will, ‘DOGE’-style – in Farage’s Reform UK they have an eager little helper
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 31/08/2025
"I’d love to read an interview with a “British patriot” where they did recognise the facts. I think it might end something like this… 'There’s no two ways about it – I’m being played for a mug. An absolute mug. Sod this for a game of soldiers, I’m going home'.”
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Wrapped in a flag, outside a hotel
Imagine if anti-asylum hotel protesters admitted the truth: they’re being played for mugs by the powerful they think they defend
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
If you are not following the brilliantly @bearlypolitics.co.uk you are missing out! This superb article was originally published at bearlypolitics.co.uk. Do check it out & subscribe
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Bearly Politics | The Bear | Substack
Welcome to Bearly Politics! I'm The Bear, your slightly exasperated guide to the strange world of modern politics. Here, I attempt to tackle the absurdities of power, with claws sharpened by satire an...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians “The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy” eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...
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Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
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