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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Iain Duncan-Smith and Tim Montgomerie's right-wing think tank, The Centre for Social Justice (sounds so nice and cuddly!) has created a 250-page report: "State of Dependency: How a broken benefit system is holding Britain back" And for some reason, decided to lead the press release with 👇

Screenshot of the CSJ report: just one in five added payroll jobs since 2014 went to British nationals.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

5 months ago I debunked the Express headline 👇 claiming that 27 young foreign workers were hired for every young British worker. And it seems that the same think tank has used the same HMRC dataset to feed the same misleading headline machine again... 2/ monkdebunks.substack.com/p/how-do-yo...

Express headline:

27 young foreign workers hired for every one Brit as immigration fuels unemployment crisis

Monk Debunked Stamp on top

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

So they're at it again 🙄 Torturing valid HMRC data to create wildly misleading headlines, designed to invoke fear and anger about immigrants. Same old, same old... (and you'll see just how old shortly!) 🧵1/28

Daily Mail Front Page headline:

4 out of 5 new jobs went to foreigners in the past decade.

Monk debunks Stamp over the headlne

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

NEW Miami Herald: Two women have filed a federal civil lawsuit accusing Matt Gaetz and two others of participating in an alleged sex trafficking scheme involving young women, drugs and traveling across state lines. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

miamiherald.com

Ex-Florida congressman Matt Gaetz accused in suit of sex trafficking young women

The lawsuit alleges the two women were supplied with drugs, traveled across state lines and were paid to have sex with men, including Gaetz.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Left: Conservative Mims Davies claims we got the covid vaccine because we left the EU Right: Dr June Raine says UK vaccine program ran while the UK was still legally within the EU and under EU law

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

George Monbiot explains why the UK should rejoin the EU, "There's a reason why Russia tried to intervene in the Brexit vote, they knew that it would harm the UK and the EU if we left" "They were very clear about that and boy have they been proved right"

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 15/10/2026

⚡️G7 countries pledge 260 million euros to repair Chornobyl safety infrastructure damaged in Russian attack. The confinement structure, located about 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Kyiv, was severely damaged in February 2025 after being struck by a Russian drone.

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G7 countries pledge 260 million euros to repair Chornobyl safety infrastructure damaged in Russian attack

The confinement structure, located about 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Kyiv, was severely damaged in February 2025 after being struck by a Russian drone.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Chuffed beyond words to have this from Annie Lennox. She’s such an icon who has been so courageous and it means the world. Get a copy here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/468587 :)

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15/10/2026

Reported oil and other liquid exports from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman have fallen sharply, with the 7-day average dropping from more than 20 million barrels per day in late September to roughly 11 million, according to Kpler.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A star is born! Here’s my interstellar take on the comedy news moment the planet needed. countbinface.substack.com/p/kt-stuns-a...

countbinface.substack.com

KT Stuns All: With Energy and Excitement

From the nation that brought you ‘Super Intelligence’... Ms Katie Zacharia!

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 15/10/2026

⚡️Russia builds massive new launch base for jet-powered attack drones in six weeks, satellite images show. Ukrainian open-source intelligence (OSINT) group Absolutely Reliable Source identified eight launch positions and 32 areas for preparing drones for takeoff.

kyivindependent.com

Russia builds massive new launch base for jet-powered attack drones in six weeks, satellite images show

Ukrainian open-source intelligence (OSINT) group Absolutely Reliable Source reported the construction on Oct. 13, citing satellite imagery. The analysts identified eight launch positions and 32 areas ...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

4/ bsky.app/profile/jenn...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

3/ bsky.app/profile/jenn...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

2/ More “technical issues” I guess. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“Lula’s Workers’ Party alleges Meta blocked paid promotions and disabled its advertising account on Instagram and Facebook. *** Internal PT data shows Bolsonaro’s page averaged 2.96 times more engagement despite having 17.2% fewer followers than Lula’s.” Meta blames “technical issues” 10/12/26 …1/

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Meta Blames Tech Glitches for Disruptions to Lula's Campaign Reach

Meta faces scrutiny from Brazil's electoral court after Lula's campaign alleged platform glitches suppressed its reach ahead of the 2026 presidential race.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A decade ago, a few of us tried to get across the significance of Putin’s patronage of Trump. Here’s my book, "Road to Unfreedom," which puts that relationship in the larger setting of oligarchy vs democracy. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/570367...

penguinrandomhouse.com

The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder: 9780525574477 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. “A brilliant analysis of our time.”—Karl...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

You can see Putin's lips moving

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Repulsive, autocratic behavior. Well over the line for impeaching and removing everyone responsible.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Human activities are driving profound shifts in the atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere.” A who’s who of the best in the World on this paper. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

From paper: “We are witnessing the rapid destabilization of the Earth’s climate system. This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present. Earth’s life-support systems are being pushed beyond stable limits, with changes unfolding faster than our ability to respond…

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

New paper by the World’s most prominent climate scientists shows rapid acceleration of human-caused warming, with a warming rate now that tracks to near 2.4°C by 2050, far faster than was expected, if it continues…

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yeah, they're currently very silent on the Oxford academic standing trial for possessing indecent child images But then she's shared their platforms, spoken at their events, written for their publications... Funny how the Free Speech Union have nothing to say about the vanishing media coverage?

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Remember every pearl-clutching journalist and commentator who insisted it was in the public interest to know every single detail of a Cambridge academic's life, even after he resigned his position, because he did some sloppy copy-and-pasting as a post-grad student?

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Maybe an FOI will get to the bottom of why LBC, the Telegraph, GB News and the Daily Mail all pulled their reporting on this? Why only the BBC and now the Daily Mail are covering it? Why Hopwood-Phillips - now a registered sex offender - barely gets a mention? Who knows🤷‍♀️

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

And in a surprise to no-one, the Critic is funded by multi-millionaire Jeremy Hosking. Founding donor to Laurence Fox's Reclaim party Reform donor Vote Leave donor no-Deal Brexit campaigner Anti-vax conspiracist, Andrew Bridgen donor And on and on it goes...

Headline: Revealed: Brexit donor behind net zero backlash has $130 million in fossil fuels.
Jeremy Hoskin, who is bankrolling campaigns to scrap UK emissions targets, has given millions to parties led by Nigel Farage and Lawrence Fox.

Text from a document discusses Jeremy Hosking's political donations and activities, including support for Brexit, various political parties, and funding interests.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Eventually, LBC publish the story (no mention of Gove or her media links), as does the BBC (likewise). And then the LBC story ALSO vanishes!! 🤷‍♀️😱 The BBC story remains up - as a local Oxfordshire story... You have to know to look for it.

LBC headline: Oxford University tutor faces trial accused of possessing indecent child images

Headline on a news platform regarding an Oxford lecturer denying possession of indecent child images, with a photo of Oriel College.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Anyway, 2 days after her pre-trial hearing in September, the Daily Mail quotes a "chum" saying the relationship ended "some time ago" I wonder who the "chum" was?!🤔 9/

From the Daily Mail article:
They’ve parted,’ a chum tells me, adding that Gove has moved out of the west London flat they shared. ‘The split happened some time ago, but all parties have been tight-lipped about the reasons.’

They first publicly emerged as a couple in 2024 when they were pictured arriving at The Spectator magazine’s summer party, with Gove gallantly shielding Lola from the rain with an umbrella.

Gove was later photographed leaning in to kiss her at a London restaurant.

Not long afterwards, Gove, who had just stood down as an MP, was appointed the Spectator’s editor and, though discreet about his newfound love, he didn’t try to keep it secret.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Somehow the press didn't think it was in the public interest to report on an Oxford academic who was, at that point, as far as they were concerned, also Michael Gove's girlfriend, being charged with possessing indecent images of children 🤷‍♀️ 7/

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Direct fossil fuel propaganda from @lbc.co.uk in support of oil and gas extraction. Using Adura's own marketing as your headline goes beyond malfeasance.

An LBC headline that reads "Rejecting Rosebank and Jackdaw could cost UK economy £10.8 billion, study warns". The subhead reads: "Adura, the company behind both projects, commissioned research on their impact for the UK"

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Polish Foreign Minister responds to claims that Musk strangled Starlink access to Ukrainian forces costing Ukrainian lives.

Radosław Sikorski
@sikorskiradek
Hey, @elonmusk, big man, are you playing politics with your products again?
As your European customers, we are watching you.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Nick Robinson on Today just said the Falklands War was “more than 50 years ago”. Glad he’s all over the details.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Reform has to take ever more extreme positions to keep winning headlines. As horrific as Jenrick’s comments are, they should be understood less as a policy proposal than as the political equivalent of a toddler acting out for attention.” Cruelty is weakness. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/482...

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Robert Jenrick has confused cruelty with courage

Jonn Elledge: The Reform politician thinks he’s brave to say what he does – he’s actually just got no humanity

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Remembering Gwyneth Bebb today. She passed Oxford law finals with first class marks in 1913, but was refused a degree. The CA rejected her claim to become a solicitor, saying only men were "persons" within the legislation. In 1920 she finally became a Bar student. But died in childbirth in 1921.

Screenshot of a Facebook post recording the fact that on this day in 1920, women were awarded Oxford degrees for the first time. Image of graduating women.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Two weeks until the budget and here's what we're facing: The worst squeeze in living standards since 1961. The cost of renting to rise by 4% or 5% a year Household energy prices set to jump by £276 We need serious action not tweaks or half measures. That means 👇

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

2°C by 2040. That's where the trend lands if warming keeps running at its post-2011 rate of 0.39°C a decade. The CMIP6 climate models in this chart land there too We're crossing 1.5°C as we speak: 2024 cleared it, 2026 will too, and next year's record #ElNino points at 1.7°C

https://dashboard.theclimatebrink.com/#models

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Don't hide behind your followers Matt. Tell us what YOU think about it

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I think it's absolutely fantastic. It shows what an extraordinary country I live in and that refugees can fully integrate and participate in society

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Michael Caine "I voted for Brexit... I'd rather be a poor master than a rich servant... You get lost, and then you find your way, and it will be alright." This Brexiteer lives in LA, has never been a poor anything, and there are zero consequences for his actions on him.

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"It’s also a rounding error for a big data firm. Rest unassured, the generators are still running" They just smile, cut the check, and keep on polluting and poisoning people. Fines are a joke. Performance art for the industry and regulators.

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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My feeling is that Burnham won’t win the "Breturn" (sorry) debate be relitigating 2016. The case for Europe has to be about our future security, growth and a world that’s changed, not who lied on a bus. substack.com/home/post/p-...

substack.com

Burnham has opened the door to Europe. Now he has to stop looking back

Burnham’s EU pivot is long overdue realism. Now he needs an argument about security and growth, not a rerun of the referendum

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