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They know fine and well they don't subsidise Scotland. They are terrified of losing money we put into Union.

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annmacf.bsky.social @annmacf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Why not let go of Scotland since you claim to spend so much subsidising the Scots? That would save you a few bob to help your budgetary crisis. We’ll all benefit from an Independent Scotland. Respect Scotland’s Right to Decide! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

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‘If voters aren’t better off by the next election, we’re screwed’: Labour insiders voice fears over budget

Some say party risks ‘looking twee’ by focusing on small fixes amid growing nervousness that budget lacks ambition

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Stuart Hemingway @stu31.bsky.social · 17h

Wonder why Boris Johnson didn’t release the details when it was plain to see…

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 17h

But partial truths only from the Observer, who fails to report WHO revealed the Arron Banks/Leave EU emails (me and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social ) and that she, unlike me, suffered years of legal threats, online abuse (including Andrew Neil) and then was peremptorily sacked by the Observer

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Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) on X

But partial truths only from the Observer, who fails to report WHO revealed the Arron Banks/Leave EU emails (me and @carolecadwalla) and that she, unlike me, suffered years of legal threats, online ab...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18h

So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time

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"Seamus O'Reilly" 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇦🇺🇬🇱 @jimbobuk.bsky.social · 18h

In the observer; Andy Burnham has said "UK authorities are “clear” that there was Russian interference in the Brexit vote: this is the first time a prime minister has confirmed Kremlin involvement in the 2016 referendum." Finally.... What we all knew...

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 17h

Theresa May ‘knew’ Boris Johnson ‘knew’ They were told at the time by MI5 and US intelligence.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19h

I mean her party is polling on average 18% in the polls. She's 'set' for a general election at Xmas in the same way I'm set for winning a grand slam tennis tournament next week

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 18h

Streeting says the UK is providing military assistance to Saudi Arabia because Houthis are attacking civilian targets there Israel has been attacking civilian targets in Gaza for 3yrs & not only are you not providing Palestinians with military assistance, you're arming Israel!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Israel has demanded that Palestinians in Gaza evacuate from the last surviving Medical Centres. So they can blow them to bits. It's a Genocide, there is no Ceasefire.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I mean, yeah, but maybe the party funded by Cryptobillionaires, led by millionaires, and pushing policies, by their own acknowledgement , specifically aimed at making the poorest poorer, should sit this particular argument out?

Tories are for the wealthy not the workers, says Jenrick
Reform’s Treasury spokesman to say Conservatives’ inheritance tax pledge proves party has ‘given up’ on ‘strivers and savers’

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Bjg Time Chatlie account seeking to identify & incite vs RNLI staff as traitors was run by a recruitment consultant in Worcestershire who is a Restore donor & Cromwell Club member. He hss now deactivated the anon troll account after being publicly identifird www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists

Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase

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Aldous Gray @1015saturdaynight.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

High level facts aren't going to work to counter Jenrick. The debate is too comfortable for him There needs to be specific push back. His wife is a non UK Jew, his children are not being raised as Christian Ask him how he envisages his family being treated under the regime he is suggesting

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Some of the non-EU citizens are white, eg USA, Australia, Canada, etc. Jenrick may also mean the smaller number of naturalised citizens from Europe migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Logic of his "millions and millions" comments is that Robert Jenrick must think most non-white Commonwealth migrants with a British passport aren't really British + should not have become British. (Total of nonwhite naturalised citizens is only roughly 3 million) www.dailymail.com/news/article...

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'Millions' in England not 'culturally or ethnically' English: Jenrick

Kemi Badenoch used her party conference speech on Wednesday to declare herself a 'proud black Briton' as she accused Reform of wanting to take the UK backwards with outdated views on race.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is very much a Restore Britain core narrative: Jenrick clearly would strongly prefer the levels of ethnic diversity to be back where they were in 1975, but preferably 1925. Restore are saying mass migration + diversity can be reversed, not just halted, by denaturalising citizens

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Its Reform policy to remove ILR from people who have it based on a salary threshold or social housing (if they are not European; Reform will exempt EU nationals but do it to non-Europeans from Commonwealth and beyond). It is Restore, not Reform, policy to denaturalise citizens: Jenrick sympathises

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The "millions and millions" refers *only* to those who are British citizens now - so this is about Jenrick talking about millions + millions of people who all arrived before the pandemic + the Johnson government who are British citizens, who he does not believe should ever have become citizens

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He is not thinking of Northern Irish Catholics, Scottish and Welsh nationalists, but this is true of all of them (and once not being ethnically English is a defect in felow citizens, of most or all Scottish and Welsh and Northern Irish unionists too)

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Jenrick's "millions and millions" rhetoric would mean that *most* naturalised citizens (> 2/3) do not in his eyes meet a British identity, cultural integration test. He thinks their [fixed] non-white Eng ethnicity makes that worse Its of a piece with Rupert Lowe's "millions must go" for Restore.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There are about 4.5 million naturalised citizens: there were 10 million people born abroad in the 2021 census, and the citizenship acquisition was 43% (lower for EU nationals). More people born abroad since 2021, but few yet eligible for citizenship (6 years: 5 years to ILR + 1)

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In 2014, Robert Jenrick rather implausibly self-identified as a migrant of kinds - whose ancestors just came on an earlier boat - though this was mainly tactical in seeking LibDem or Labour tactical votes to support Cameron and keep out Ukip in a byelection bsky.app/profile/sund...

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yd @inertyd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Jenrick saying 'by my standards' is quite rich from someone who took back handers so a porn baron could get planning permission & tax breaks for building a block of flats www.theguardian.com/media/2020/j...

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Richard Desmond: the former porn baron caught in a Tory scandal

Plans to redevelop printworks in London’s Docklands have put Desmond back in spotlight

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The ethno-nationalist case rejects integration + promotes mass remigration as racial protection – within a catch-all grievance politics that shifts seamlessly from complaints about the absence of integration to fears of a minority takeover. www.easterneye.biz/british-cohe...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Justin Webb put this kind of point to me. But this simply conflates + confuses concerns about too little integration with a backlash against ethnic diversity (integration!) reaching the top of public life.

In an interview about Sunak’s article, Today programme presenter Justin Webb asked me if the argument was really about how “too many people who have come to this country who do not have British values and lead separate lives”.

That confuses two quite distinct integration debates. It takes a feat of mental gymnastics to see objections to Sunak, London mayor Sadiq Khan or Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch holding leadership roles as reflecting concerns about too little ethnic minority integration, rather than a backlash against too much.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Robert Jenrick of Reform on why he wants a debate about who is not ethnically English, not just a debate about cultural integration. But it is deeply illogical to claim insisting that Rishi Sunak + Marcus Rashford can't be English is driven by a concern about too little integration!

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bobby J, my man, you don't need to be "culturally English" or "ethnically English" to be British. Have you forgotten, Bobby J, about Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland? They're part of Britain too, you daft racist. Your hatred for seeing non-white faces on the street has cooked your brain.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New discovery: A royal archive with 184 tablets unearthed at the Hittite settlement of Samuha, in present-day Sivas/Türkiye, sheds new light on the Hittite Empire, revealing records of a deadly epidemic, military threats and royal life dating back 3,400 years. www.dailysabah.com/life/hittite...

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1/ Zelensky says any easing of sanctions on Russia without a clear, lasting de-escalation deal is weakness that lets Russia kill more and fight longer.

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How miserable! I have happy memories of reading The Inheritance of Rome over the holidays as a new undergrad and feeling a thrill of excitement at the new and fascinating early medieval world opening up before me.

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johnjclarke100 @johnjclarke100.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What is missing from this debate is the fact that at least until the 1950s children across the “Empire on which the sun never sets “ were encouraged (in often very forceful ways ) to think of themselves as English/ British……

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Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He’s powered by prejudice. Learning new things won’t make any difference as it wasn’t his lack of knowledge of things that got him to his current position

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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Holocaust didn’t begin by murdering Jews. It started by declaring some German citizens superior to other German citizens. Everything that happened after that flowed from this idea.

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Liz Linnard @lizlinnard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think we know the ‘white’ answer to that…

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is his Israeli wife with a British passport “culturally British”, and if she is, why exactly?

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also not aided by the fact that Robert Jenrick’s ‘standards’ over the past decade have veered wildly depending on where he saw political advantage.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘Culturally British by my standards’ is one of the most chilling phrases uttered in British politics. Entirely unsurprising to me who it’s from.

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Rein Haakma @peaceforallmen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sölle saw this phenomenon rising prominently within the Religious Right in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s, though she warned that any authoritarian system of faith is vulnerable to falling into it.

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Rein Haakma @peaceforallmen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dorothee Sölle is the creator (coiner) of the term Christofascism (Christofaschismus). She introduced this neologism in 1970. The essay "Christofascism" is her most direct and well-known text on the subject, published in her collection The Window of Vulnerability: A Political Spirituality (1990).

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sanity at last

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Zelensky feels the diesel deal is a BETRAYAL & says this is not how partnership works. He called the Miami talks a smokescreen, the decision weak, & the whole thing unfair. He says gifts to Putin will not buy peace, and Ukraine keeps hitting refineries unless Moscow stops wrecking Ukrainian energy.

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KW🇨🇦 the Proud Canadian @idontwanttogotousa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Time for Ukraine to go all in on hitting Russian refineries.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/10/2026

Zelenskyy: While our teams are meeting in Florida, US President is having conversation with Kremlin leader responsible for this war. I believe they are simply using our team as a cover...clearly not acting in good faith as a partner. And this, in my view, is a weak decision from strong partners.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#FindsFriday A vast #Roman fortress was established at Usk in the 50s AD. Covering an area of 19.5ha. This was the base for a #legion of 5,000 at a time when the Usk river probably marked the edge of the Roman Empire. Iron dagger and scabbard inlaid with Silver. 📷My own #Archaeology #History

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Remember those who opposed the anti terrorism laws, said that they would be eventually misused by government, on its own citizens? They were told to shut up and stop overreacting.

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is there anything that says 'the country is in the hands of fascists' quite so much as a public execution?

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 08/10/2026

I actually quite like Kemi Badenoch. But she is subject to a myth she doesn't deserve: a Tory recovery which just doesn't exist. Despite endless positive coverage, the Tories are still going backwards. And they deserve to be. Piece from me. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-strang...

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The Strange Myth of Kemi Badenoch

Why does she have the best press in politics?

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