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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's termed AI psychosis and it's becoming quite common. This Guardian podcast is a thoughtful listen www.theguardian.com/technology/s...

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dog Park is on all4 and is also target enjoyable.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Liz Truss cosplayed Thatcher and that worked out really well for the country!

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I particularly love the distance travelled in a month by the Mail's Jason Groves, from "living in the past" to "old school values".

Britain's problems? I blame Thatcher and Brexit, says Burnham: No wonder Kemi mocked him for 'living in the past' as the 'Messiah without a mandate' made his Commons debut as PM
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Spare us the history lesson, Burnham...
By JASON GROVES, POLITICAL EDITOR
PUBLISHED: 23:43, 1 September 2026 |

Kemi's common sense blueprint: Unveiling policy blitz at party conference, she hails 'old school values' on economy, law and order and borders as the key to election victory
By JASON GROVES, POLITICAL EDITOR
PUBLISHED: 01:46, 5 October 2026 |

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The US stands there and lectures us about freedom of speech while they effectively burn books. The hypocrisy is off the scale. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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US book bans in public schools reach record annual high of 12,000

Texas tops list with 8,100 bans while Stephen King is again most banned author, PEN America finds

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If a large asteroid was hurtling towards Earth, their response would be to call it a socialist rock, cut inheritance taxes ahead of extinction, lower benefits, blame France, deregulate rockets, and privatise all spaceports.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Apparently "Kemi" has "fresh solutions" uniquely tailored to Britain's current problems. <excitedly prepares to take notes> Cut taxes, reward the wealthiest, punish the poor and sick, alienate our allies, deregulate big business, and privatise any remaining state function. WAAAAAAIT A MINUTE!

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You what? You're doing what? You are very much not the victim here. Good grief.

Headline Prince 'Andrew takes legal action over search warrants relating to arrest'

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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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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For a lot of us Labour won't go far enough. But at least they will try. So next time you hear them complain about early release or long trial waits, they caused it all.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rishi Sunak was warned the prison systems would collapse if he didn't start letting people out early, but he refused because he wanted to call an early election. Every one of them heaped up the problems that the Labour government are trying to fix.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Failing Grayling then went on to try to privatise the probation service. This was also a disaster. And that's just 3 off the top of my head. Just imagine all the lives he's ruined. Chris Grayling is now a member of the house of lords. And he gets lots of money from corporate interests.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And of course they got rid of legal aid. As a direct consequence, innocent people went to jail, because they couldn't afford a defence. And guilty people walked free. I'm sure I read later that it actually cost more in the end too. And this is when the Tories were relatively competent.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It was originally Ken Clarke with something of a reforming agenda, but Murdoch didn't like that so in went Failing Grayling. Straight away he banned books.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The party that put Failing Grayling in charge of our justice system at the behest of Rupert Murdoch should probably not say anything about the justice system. At the time people estimated the damage Grayling inflicted would take decades to fix.

Conservatives claim ‘major victory’ as Tory conference begins after Labour scraps plans to curb jury trials

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He calls Smith a dirtbag for weaponising the justice system. I mean pot kettle. Has anyone in history tried to weaponise the system to attack people they don't as much as this lot. Utter dirtbags.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is extraordinary. Jack Smith is so careful about every single detail because if he makes the slightest mistake they're try to put him in prison. Then the exact moment when he thinks he's caught Jack Smith. The smug smile. Then the sheer incompetence 😂 youtu.be/V6aYumK9Xic?...

youtu.be

'A febrile moment for American democracy' | Simon Marks

YouTube video by LBC

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I should add I never harass anyone about their food choices. And when I ate meat nobody did it to me. But once you stop eating meat, people think they have a duty to get right up in your business.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You get a lot of grief for not eating meat. One of the things you often get is that if nobody ate meat we'd have to kill all our animals. Given that's what we think you do anyway, that's not really the powerful argument you think it is.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You often hear the farming lobby talk of how the UK needs to be more self sufficient. If they were serious, would moving away from quite so much dairy and sheep be a good first step! 🤔

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m 54 and I honestly think this is as joyful now as it was when I was 4, in 1976:

A ripe Conner/horse chestnut/buckeye in my hand yesterday, ready to peel

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 01/10/2026

🚨Andy Burnham says "every option" is on the table for the UK-EU relationship. The country's made it clear what option he should take. Our polling with YouGov shows more than 99% of GB constituencies want EU membership. Now we need your help to get us all the way there. 👇

bestforbritain.org

Help us Fight to Restore our EU Membership - Best for Britain

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reading the details of the US execution story from last night and it is absolute barbarism. Like reading a history of the medieval period.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 30/09/2026

Humanists UK mourns Dame Esther Rantzen (1940–2026) Esther was a great champion of human dignity. She approached her final years with the same fearless determination that defined her career of advocacy, using her own experience to shine a light on the suffering caused by our outdated laws.

Esther Rantzen smiling wearing a blue-and-red feathered fascinator and red coat, with headline text noting her years (1940–2026).

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

RIP Esther Rantzen. A remarkable woman who achieved remarkable things, including finding a dog that said sausages youtu.be/ajsCY8SjJ1Y?...

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Talking Dog from That's Life (1970s)... SAUSAGES!!

YouTube video by MostPopularClips2012

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sometimes I wonder how Mark Zuckerberg can be so terribly terribly rich when Facebook is so terribly terribly shite!

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the Convention [ECHR]. It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to” Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...

The Law Society
Gazette

In short, if Britain were to leave the ECHR, it would not be
'taking back control. It would be surrendering influence over the rules and institutions that help keep us safe.
The debate about the ECHR is too often conducted as though it were a choice between national sovereignty and international law. That is a false choice.
The Convention advances British interests because it reflects British values: liberty under law, democratic government and the accountability of power.
Walking away would not make Britain freer. It would make Britain weaker.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What Newsnight should have taken away was that it shouldn't adopt tabloid narratives unquestioningly and made the appropriate correction. What it did instead was to report the correction as if it were gossip and go "OOOOOH! THEY'RE VERY SENSITIVE!" What? To accuracy? You used to be, too, BBC.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There was a chance here to look more grown up and it is entirely unsurprising that Badenoch did not take it.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The number of people buying farms to dodge tax is falling. Although you wouldn't know it if you followed the coverage www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

yorkshirepost.co.uk

The withdrawal of inheritance tax relief on farmland is having the desired effect - Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Doug Clark, Cononley, Keighley.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Funny. When Cameron introduced the triple lock I remember everyone on the left understanding very clearly why it was a cynical bribe to Tory voters and would not amount to a hill of beans if public services like social care were cut to the bone. Some of the same comrades are now big fans. 🧐

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is there such a thing as too many flags???

Part of the us administration pictured in front of 14 us flags

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've been pretty pleased with Starling. First direct are pretty good too

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I walked in and there was this old racist guy spouting off on the news and I wondered why they were platforming him and it turned out he was a billionaire and that was why. A billionaire that backed Brexit and then fucked off abroad, while the rest of us suffer the consequences.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Facebook. The place that is radicalising your granny to support the far right. The place that is weaponising attacks on heroes risking their lives to rescue people at sea, now consider women's equality too controversial to allow on the platform. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism

Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jim Ratcliffe and James Dyson - plenty of representation with bugger all taxation.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Having 'legitimate concerns' is the new 'I'm not racist, but ...'

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I mean it's very funny, but also rather worrying...

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Remember when Obama said the UK might struggle to get a trade deal with the US and all the Brexiters lost their collective minds at foreign interference in our elections. Those same voices seem more than happy to pocket vast sums of money from all sorts of foreign sources.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's difficult to comprehend the delays in the court system, but the fact a man had just gone on trial for a planned protest at Boris Johnson's wedding all those years ago really puts it in perspective www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Man 'planned paint protest at Boris Johnson wedding party', court hears

A court hears Tim Speers, from Cornwall, planned to write the word "Palestine" on the venue's lawn.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Welcome to WTAF Is Wrong With Roughly One-Third Of People, Episode 4,629

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This man was at "The People's Mic" at RefUKCon yesterday, getting praised as a hero by Nigel Farage, Suella Braverman, and Jeremy Kyle. www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-...

thamesvalley.police.uk

Man charged with public order offences – Oxfordshire

Following a Thames Valley Police investigation, a man has been charged in connection with 14 offences in Oxfordshire.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I can't speak for everyone but I know for sure that performative patriotism like this would have completely turned me off as a schoolkid.

News headline: Reform plan to make schools fly the union jack and make children sing the national anthem.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

3 weeks later he put up a fence so he maybe wasnt impressed!

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nigel Farage all over the airwaves playing the victim. Bringing his family into it. Making out the people that caught him are mean bullies. It's extraordinary. Do accused criminals usually get this special treatment?

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Did you hear the story that when they were filming this they dared Dolly to streak naked across Tom Jones lawn. And she did!

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Climate change gets a lot of bad press but there are some upsides! Could Brussels sprouts be off the menu this Christmas? - BBC News share.google/WfQ74JUSPU2u...

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Could Brussels sprouts be off the menu this Christmas?

An Oxfordshire farmer says his Brussels sprouts are under threat from pests after long hot summer.

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