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Angela Vince @angieeagle.bsky.social · 10m

Being the same age I wanted to be her as well as Annie Hall. What a career what a class act.

Angela Vince @angieeagle.bsky.social · 12m

Oh no Diane Keaton. RIP you darling woman. 😥

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Fantastic comments from the audience on #bbcqt.

Politicians should take note and stop stoking division and fear.

"The vast majority of people in this country live very happily and very peacefully together." 👏

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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 1d

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Stuart Davidson @stutheeditor.bsky.social · 1d

👏👏👏👏 🇻🇪
Now let's make our posts about who won, rather than who didn't win.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Angela Vince @angieeagle.bsky.social · 1d

Such a positive thread, but we must not let the haters and charlatans destroy it.

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 4d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Angela Vince @angieeagle.bsky.social · 1d

That'll be me with my Irish passport while my husband waits! 😂

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

“They make a desert and call it peace.” - Tacitus

💔💔💔

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Let me count the days … @simoncosgrove.bsky.social · 1d

Day 2079 of #Brexit: ‘Between 2021 & 2023, British exports to the EU fell by a serious 27%. [] Cambridge Econometrics estimates that over the next decade Britain’s economy will be £300bn smaller than if we had not left the EU. This is self-harm on a heroic scale.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel - it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Angela Vince @angieeagle.bsky.social · 1d

Simon Calder interviewed on new border controls leaves no listener in doubt about his feelings on our disastrous Brexit making us a third party country on our own continent.
#r4today

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Angela Vince @angieeagle.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Birthday!

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly this 👇👇

Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 2d

As an American watching our best & most crucial institutions crumble in less than a year under Trump, I suggest you make as many of these changes now, while you can.
We didn’t, obviously.

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Angela Vince @angieeagle.bsky.social · 2d

So thankful for her insightful knowledge unsurpassed by any other commentator, hearing her obvious relief this morning was wonderful.

Mike Adams @ronpickering.bsky.social · 2d

@mrjamesob.bsky.social what an asbolute titan of a journalist Noga Tarnopolsky is, we've been subjected to two years of egregious blowhards across broadcast media giving their fact free, mostly bilious "expertise" often for clicks and clout, Noga stands out like a sore thumb in her professonalism

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Angela Vince @angieeagle.bsky.social · 2d

Always worth a listen even if at the moment a terrifying vision of what's happening in the US.

Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 3d

Just remembered that it's LBC's 52nd birthday today. So I'm even more chuffed than usual to have been on with @mrjamesob.bsky.social this morning @lbc.co.uk, albeit talking about the evisceration of US democracy.

🎧: audioboom.com/posts/878880...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Water bills for England households to rise even higher.

Bills already up by 36%. Competition regulator permits another 1%-5%, £556m hike

No curbs on exec pay, dividends, sewage dumping as companies raise capital from customers, shareholders get returns.

End the Scam. Nationalise water

Five water firms provisionally allowed to raise bills by further 1% to 5%

An independent group appointed by the competition watchdog rejected nearly 80% of increases sought by companies.

www.independent.co.uk

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 3d

This lot are trying to normalise racism.

But that’s not the Britain I know... and our Giga Poll of 45k shows that. Diversity is its strength, not something to fear or smear. Some people, desperate for power, will say anything.

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Han🌹🏳️‍🌈 @ceremonialgeek.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch was spouting blatant lies today in her speech. She said that Motability cars are being given to people with ADHD If that is the case, it is because they have a mobility condition also. You don't get given these cars if ADHD is your only disability.

For reference:

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch's leader's speech quoted Martin Luther King. MLK was a socialist, of course.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 3d

I'm surprised Badenoch hasn't promised to scrap degrees in Modern History. She hopes people will forget May 2010 to July 2024.

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Angela Vince @angieeagle.bsky.social · 3d

My husband's at the dentist while I'm listening to Badenoch. Lucky him.

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Angela Vince @angieeagle.bsky.social · 3d

I'm only listening to this nasty snarking because @mrjamesob.bsky.social is challenging her facts. Still can't wait for it to stop.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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BabadDoag @wowbagget.bsky.social · 4d

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