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Thomas @tomrom1.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, my. This is beyond sad. #RIPDianeKeaton.
deadline.com/2025/10/dian...
💙 #SaturdayVibes 🏳️‍🌈 #FBR #FBPE #Resistance #StrongerTogether #KindnessMatters #Motivation #Bluecrew

Diane Keaton Dies: Oscar-Winning ‘Annie Hall’ & ‘The Godfather’ Actress Was 79

Diane Keaton, the actress known for roles in 'Annie Hall' and 'The Godfather', has died. She was 79.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 13h

Thanks to Pete Rowe and @fife4europe.bsky.social

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 14h

WE'RE ALL DESCENDED FROM PEOPLE IN BOATS!

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 14h

Fact check: What support do asylum seekers get in the UK?
Full Fact looks at some of the most common claims we see relating to what asylum seekers do – or don’t – get when they come to the UK.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Fact check: What support do asylum seekers get in the UK?

Full Fact looks at some of the most common claims we see relating to what asylum seekers do – or don’t – get when they come to the UK.

www.standard.co.uk

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 15h

Lady Thatcher haunted this year’s funereal Tory conference like a mocking ghost. At the entrance stood three glass cages housing her power suits, a giant mosaic of her face, Thatcher Theatre Stalls selling Thatcher books, mugs, tea towels & Christmas baubles ..

Brian Reade: 'For stupidity, arrogance and lying, Tories deserve to be history'

The Conservative Party Conference was almost pornographic with its passion for Margaret Thatcher, says Brian Reade, but clinging to the memory of a dead leader while in total denial of its disastrous ...

www.mirror.co.uk

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 16h

Several sources told The Observer that the Electoral Commission had been given prior notice by a party, understood to be Reform UK, that it had received a donation made in cryptocurrency in recent weeks.
Reform is the only political party in Europe to accept donations in crypto

Calls for transparency on political funding after first crypto donation made to UK party

Electoral Commission notified of financial contribution, which is understood to have been handed to Reform UK

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 1d

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 5d

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon
#CPC25 #Conservatives

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 2d

Let them eat flags! Illustration for today's @theguardian.com to accompany Aditya Chakrabortty's piece on all the chatter from politicians about patriotism when the cost of living is the real issue affecting people

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Baroness Louise Von Pfaff of Taylor Towers @lmtaylor42.bsky.social · 19h

I'm happy to support @smrrejoinradio.bsky.social (& other #RejoinEU causes) from sales of my stuff at etsy.com/uk/shop/StillDisgusted Please check it out for fab handcrafted ProEU stuff - ALL profits donated! 🇪🇺 🙂

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 16h

open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

The Descent of Robert Jenrick

The Shadow Justice Secretary's transformation from a 'Generic' moderate Conservative to the Great Hope of the far-right should alarm us all

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 16h

Gordon Brown's chilling warning about what Farage as PM would mean for children
The former Prime Minister hit out at the cruel cuts pledged by Reform UK and explained this would be the equivalent of shutting down the NHS while closing schools
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Gordon Brown’s chilling warning about what Farage as PM would mean for children

The former Prime Minister hit out at the cruel cuts pledged by Reform UK and explained this would be the equivalent of shutting down the NHS while closing schools

www.mirror.co.uk

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NorthHerts4Europe @northherts4europe.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Market Place, Hitchin, Saturday 11 October 2025 #brexit #Brexitisntworking #brexitbritain #BrexitBrokeBritain #BrexitLies #uk #politics #ukpolitics
#ukpol #EU #RejoinEU #northherts #hitchin #Letchworth #baldock #Royston

Majority opinion in Hitchin on British-EU relations. Favours British Steel Industry, free trade between Britain and Europe, lower taxes and better public services the EU enables, favours free movement without biometric checks, and also thinks UK should benefit from human rights protections as other EU countries.

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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 22h

Douglas Adams: "It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it".

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 23h

No surprise from the man who sold his country down the river just to become PM - a corrupt, useless, self serving lying one at that

Johnson secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture, amid plans to use an influential contact & senior contacts in the Saudi gov he met as PM

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 23h

Every benefit cut is a cut to a high street, a care worker, a council service.

You can’t “balance the books” by burning the foundations.

That’s how you hollow out a nation.

Prof Richard Murphy reports

What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy?

Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy. That isn't prudence. It's managed decline

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 21h

I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay

As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…

www.heraldscotland.com

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 18h

What will you tell your children when history judges the times we live in?

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 19h

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority

By Gordon Brown - UK prime minister 2007 to 2010

Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

www.theguardian.com

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 22h

🚨 Starmer’s New Spin:

Starmer will blame Farage and Brexit for looming tax hikes and hopes people won’t notice that he hasn’t spent a year doubling down on the same failed Brexit economics.

Starmer is merely repeating Brexit lies, trying to make Brexit work by selling Britain off cheap.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 22h

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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The SNP @snp.org · 21h

Since 2014, we've been forced to live through the worst of Westminster - Brexit, Boris, Truss, and no change with Labour.

Only independence offers a fresh start for Scotland.

Read Stephen Flynn's speech here: https://www.snp.org/britain-is-broken-and-the-westminster-way-isnt-working/

Britain is Broken and the Westminster way isn’t working. — Scottish National Party

Read Stephen Flynn’s full address to the SNP’s 2025 National Conference…

www.snp.org

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 19h

Brussels looks to spin its red-tape cuts as a gift to Trump

The EU executive is preparing “checklist” of measures to address U.S. concerns over the bloc’s business regulations.

It will exclude the EU’s digital rules, such as the Digital Services which Trump sees as censoring or American companies

Brussels looks to spin its red-tape cuts as a gift to Trump

The EU executive is preparing “checklist” of measures to address U.S. concerns over the bloc’s business regulations.

www.politico.eu

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 23h

Also people like Gary Neville speak to the working class. Particularly men. Reform UK only want to peddle the narrative that it’s ‘working class concerns’ that are driving their racist movement. Free speech only works one way for them and they always attack what they view as a threat.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 23h

No surprise from the man who sold his country down the river just to become PM - a corrupt, useless, self serving lying one at that

Johnson secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture, amid plans to use an influential contact & senior contacts in the Saudi gov he met as PM

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 1d

This is a major shift in Labour comms. It seems Brexit will be blamed for the budget.
But naming the issue is not enough. They now need to name the solution or be left behind parties that will.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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