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Hume @wm899.bsky.social · 8h
They are planning for terrorism. Pure evil.
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 10h
Nice little nugget of horror buried in there
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 11h
Leaving the ECHR, abandoning Net Zero and evicting foreigners from social housing is not centre-right. Sorry!
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Badenoch’s punchy plan to reunite the right
It was just a speech, but the Tory leader’s rejection of Reform reveals a new and determined strategy
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026
Hardly an original take but it is Quite Annoying to imagine how much the UK (and me, and you!) would all have more cash today if Donald Trump hadn't decided to start bombing Iran for *reasons*. Where's the White House impact assessment on my nursery fees. www.ft.com/content/2cb1...
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Iran war blows near-£12bn hole in Britain’s public finances
FT estimates show inflation and soaring borrowing costs have slashed chancellor John Healey’s headroom in half
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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trying to explain to non germans how the biggest espionage scandal of the BND is just a subplot of the messy steakhouse franchise divorce
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Charlie Kelly's Pepe Silvia Conspiracy
ALT: Charlie Kelly's Pepe Silvia Conspiracy
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is why a 1990s reflex among economic liberals and much of the Right to pit social security against national security is not just shortsighted but also historically ignorant. As states discovered between 1914 and 1945, without loyal citizen soldiers who feel cared for a modern military loses wars
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 06/10/2026
The former boss of Germany's most important intelligence agency, the BND, has been arrested on suspicion of treason.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Welcome to the serious fiscal responsibility party, where we believe that what the United Kingdom needs is its own version of the Iron Dome.
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Simon @adieuanamcara.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every piece of government debt is someone else’s asset. ​UK gilts literally back pension funds, insurance policies, and NS&I savings. Framing it strictly as a "credit card balance" ignores the fact that government borrowing provides the private sector with its safest yield-bearing assets.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Chinese Govt owned Syngenta to cease operations at Grangemouth, 400 jobs at risk. Previously oil refinery closed. England-based British Steel rescued. What would govt do now? UK govts oppose state ownership but let foreign govts own infrastructure. Why? Any industrial strategy?
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Chemical firm to cease operations at Grangemouth site putting nearly 400 jobs at risk
The move comes just over a year after Syngenta, owned by state Chinese firm Sinochem, was given more than £2 million in Scottish Enterprise funding to expand its Scottish site
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Generic Ballot Polling: 🔵Democrats: 53% 🔴Republicans: 38% YouGov / Sept 28, 2026
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 28/09/2026
More experiences from life under right-wing governments: during its term, the most right-wing government in Finnish history has greatly increased the purchasing power of the top earning deciles, while reducing it for the poorest. labore.fi/julkaisu/ost...
A graph showing change in purchasing power per income decile in Finland between 2023-2026. The poorest two deciles have seen their purchasing power fall; the richest decile has seen massive increases.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump's 2PM announcement will be on Iowa steel project - Official
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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Somewhat incredibly, this is a picture, from a part of Britain, in 2026. We're letting ancient, sectarian poltroons stir- up division.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Even by the already abysmal standards of Northern Irish "unionism", this is insane
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Drumcree: Protests as controversial Orange Order march due to go ahead for first time since 1997
The march down the mainly-nationalist Garvaghy Road, which in the 1990s sparked some of the most serious disorder in Northern Ireland's history, will go ahead after a series of courtroom challenges.
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dame @dame.is · 26/09/2026
one of the reasons why i have become so supportive of more content moderation enforcement and stringent community guidelines on social media is because we have got to stop tolerating people behaving anti socially on the internet it’s an epidemic, we have to start dealing out consequences
Both Ramses and I have received messages ranging from mildly annoying to deeply disturbing. Some people have gone out of their way to find our names and phone numbers. Some of you have told my husband to kill himself.

To anyone who has done that: shame on you. My husband is a father, a son, and a person deeply loved by people who know who he truly is. Our children need their dad. I hope and pray you reflect on what you have written.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It feels like Britain and ireland needs to start talking about the mass scale of cocaine usage that seems to be happening Just got off train to bunch of lads outside station playing techno and snorting lines. But seen similar in rural ireland And that’s before get to the ‘patriots’
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Hume @wm899.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What timeliness is this ? Bibi talking about Hasan Piker at the UN ?!?!
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So they're now talking about attacking the system of policing and law. Arrest these f*ckers. Stop bowing down to them and dancing around them.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,
The Tories said the reduced subsistence allowance would be loaded onto pre-paid card that would not allow cash withdrawals, and would "prevent spending" on alcohol, cigarettes, or gambling.
The party is yet to detail how its proposal would work, but shadow welfare secretary Helen Whately said it would be "a version" of the pre-paid Aspen card issued to asylum seekers living in government-funded accommodation.
These cards cannot be used to make contactless, telephone or internet payments, whilst asylum seekers whose applications have failed cannot withdraw cash.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“.. Trump’s support for the idea blindsided industry officials. Oil executives and lobbyists rushed to register their opposition .. But now, they said, it seems inevitable the U.S. will move forward ..” ⛽️ @wsj.com $OSX www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 22/09/2026
Good way to make sure nobody builds a new refinery any time soon *BESSENT: EXAMINING DIESEL EXPORT BAN, WHETHER IT'S FEASIBLE *BESSENT: EXAMINING WHETHER FULL OR PARTIAL BAN WOULD WORK *TRUMP SAYS DISCUSSED DIESEL EXPORT BAN WITH HIS 'PEOPLE' *TRUMP ON DIESEL EXPORT BAN: I'VE CALLED FOR IT TOO
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
russian culture manifests itself This is a polling station, in case you are wondering, in what moscow wants you to call an “election”
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I see more billionaires are perpetuating the myth that the UK is high-tax, high-govt spending. It just isn’t true. At 44% the UK’s public spending as a %of GDP is lower than most of its European peers (France 57%, Germany 49.5%, Sweden 49.3%, Italy 50.5%, Spain 45.3%) www.imf.org/external/dat...
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As for tax as a % of GDP, the UK (34.4%) is almost exactly on the OECD average of 34.1%, and lower again than many of its European peers (France 43.5%, Germany 38%, Netherlands 38% etc). data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?lc=en&fs...
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just checking how Calvin Robinson and Andrew Bridgen are getting on these days....
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb
Pope Leo by a green glass orb the size of a med-large pumpkin
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The fire brigade had to get permissions to rescue people in areas of paramilitary control during the Belfast pogrom.
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Alan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An oil-producing nation with no refinery. An exporting nation with no shipping routes. An electricity producer forced to pay to upload to the “national” grid. Welcome to our blessed "union of equals".
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This man is the 'forward operation' of the crash that's coming Laid this out in sequence, as it happened: - Anthropic ran into IPO roadblocks post-SpaceX IPO - Whomever IPOs next will pop the AI Bubble - This guy came out exactly as AI values fell - Now "The AI Crash" is b/c 'AI Was Too Powerful'
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Houthi forces appear to have shot down a Saudi Air Force F-15 over Marib.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
UK ENERGY BILLS EXPECTED TO RISE BY 25%, INCREASING INFLATION.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Reform UK’s leader in Wales Dan Thomas is standing down. He says he was reported to the police over the weekend and released without charge. He insists he’s done nothing wrong but doesn’t want to be a “distraction” to the party.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 15/09/2026
Mans is blank as new printer paper
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin leaders will discuss cooperation on the economy, energy, Europe and self-determination. John Swinney, Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the SNP, said the UK’s current system is “not sustainable.”
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 12/09/2026
You’ve got priests, pensioners and disabled people who’ve been arrested for terrorism charges for peaceful protest, while the national public broadcaster is glazing a uniformed paramilitary for launching a campaign of attacks on infrastructure. Forgive me for seeing a scale and a thumb.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Breaking: Donald Trump says “I’d love to see Ireland unified…. I think it would be a great thing. How could it be bad?” Oh my word.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026
I think Hunter S. Thompson's column in the immediate aftermath pretty much nailed it www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...
The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.

Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.
OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.

The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.

The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump's face droops while he attends the 9/11 ceremony this morning at the Pentagon (Finn Gomez/Getty)
picture of Trump sitting, with his lips contorted and his eyes barely open
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 11/09/2026
#BREAKING Houthis have seized control of Yemen's entire Red Sea coast: govt military official
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today's anti Scotland news is once more the PISA scores, and once more we have to point out that the PISA scores for England are discredited because the poorer performing schools are not included, therefore distorting English students performances.👇
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
because Justin Webb is openly and brazenly right wing he is untouchable at the "woke left wing" BBC
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