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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1h

Trouble in paradise 🍿

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7h

Useful reminder on volatility, four years on, onto our third Prime Minister since this realignment tweet. Nb, "tight on immigration" in Oct 2021 after most of the decisions (bar Ukraine) that would quadruple net migration in 2022: commentary is based much on vibes/words than major policy choices

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 11h

It's almost exactly four years since Tim Shipman's notorious "Boris Johnson squats like a giant toad" tweet.

Seems like important context given how we often talk as though the next election – four years away – is a done deal.

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 1h

George Stephanopoulos is the type of energy I listen to. JD Vance wants to spin a bribe as a Democratic rabbit hole. This whole regime is a criminal enterprise.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 8h

“He was simply the best-qualified candidate”

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15h

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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 1d

Man what a lucky guess.........

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 7h

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h

This Is Fascism

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5h

“If Robert Jenrick had seen you or Kemi Badenoch in that area, he would have just assumed you were poorly integrated.”

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 5h

LBC Presenter Points Out To Priti Patel The 1 Obvious Flaw In Robert Jenrick's 'White Face' Claim

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lbc-pr...

LBC Presenter Points Out To Priti Patel The 1 Obvious Flaw In Robert Jenrick's 'White Face' Claim

The shadow justice secretary sparked a backlash over his remarks.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 22h

The last thing people struggling with fuel bills need is a heat pump ‘that’s really expensive to run and makes your house colder’ says Dale Vince bit.ly/3KOez9W campaigning against £150 heat pump subsidies

Heat pump subsidies a ‘massive waste of money’, Labour donor warns

Ed Miliband’s proposals to give households with the green technology £150 off their energy bills are denounced by Dale Vince as ‘very middle class’

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 1d

Record high temperatures are currently being set across the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. In fact, it is effectively ice-free on the Atlantic side of the Arctic all the way up to about 85°N latitude! This includes record low sea ice around Svalbard.

Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Line graph time series of 2025's daily 2-m temperature in the Arctic compared to each year from 1958 through 2024. There is a long-term warming trend for every day of the year. There is also large interannual variability and a clear seasonal cycle.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

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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Brian Moore @briantrumpet.bsky.social · 1d

Everything he's reported to have said in this BBC piece sounds like he's desperately trying to distance himself, knowing that the connection is real and toxic. If the press were investigating Farage with the same enthusiasm they went for Rayner, he'd be done for.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage 'stunned' ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill took bribes

Nathan Gill has admitted taking money for pro-Russian statements as a European Parliament member.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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bluetsu.bsky.social @bluetsu.bsky.social · 1d

It’s fair to say this regime’s mandate is to kill us all…

🪱RFKJr: Eliminate healthcare

👺Satan Miller: Eliminate Antifa

🥴Noem: Eliminate Black & Brown people

🥃Kegseth: Eliminate women and trans people in the military

🤴🏼😵‍💫Trump: Pam, implement ALL elimination orders to save our reputation… NOW!

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

Among other RIF notices at CDC:
—Center for Forecasting and Analytics;
—all of CDC Washington
—Office of Human Resources
—National Center for Injury Prevention and Control 3/4

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

A man born in Pretoria, 1971, left for Canada in 1989, might want to wind his neck in (though apartheid South Africa was not necessarily too traumatic place for those who could benefit from apartheid if could manage to resist being too troubled by the racist principles of the state and society)

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Steve Griffiths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @cymry.bsky.social · 1d

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Gill who went from UKIP ⏩ Brexit Party ⏩ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements?

Photo collage
➡️ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
➡️ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 1d

I realise I slightly go on about this, but I'm not sure enough attention is paid to the fact that a fair proportion of comment articles in the modern Daily Telegraph are utterly unmoored from any sense of even tenuous reality.

Daniel Hannan

Britain has given so much to civilisation. Now the barbarians are inside

The poisonous ideas of Vladimir Lenin have infected our progressive elite

Contemplate those elderly buffoons in blue berets who hand out EU flags at the Last Night of the Proms. Do you suppose they have any real interest in rejoining the EU? Do they strike you as having looked into the budgetary, migratory and commercial implications? Of course not. They just loathe the people they imagine having voted Leave.

Listen to Sir Lenny Henry, who thinks that, as well as handing over squillions to the West Indies and Africa, we should pay black people in this country. So much for the notion of equality before the law.

I could go on. The museums rushing to give away legally purchased collections to people who have never owned them, and who will very probably sell them on to private collectors. The diplomats longing to surrender British territories in defiance of the wishes of their peoples. The universities eviscerating the Western canon in the name of decolonising the curriculum.

“Colonialism-and-slavery” is proffered as a binomial phrase, like “law-and-order” or “gin-and-tonic”. Few kids in our schools are given the slightest notion that the first, at least in Africa, was driven by the desire to extirpate the second. Even fewer are taught that African kings fought to defend the institution.

The Benin Bronzes, which our cultural leaders are so keen to give away, were seized to defray the costs of an 1897 expedition against a state that buried slaves alive. The British Museum, which owns most of them, dares not mention it. Instead it says the carvings were acquired during the “expansion of colonial power”

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 1d

A fun (?) naval history fact for your weekend:

During the Battle of the Nile, French Admiral Dupetit-Thouars lost one arm, then the other, then a leg to cannon fire.

He ordered his men to prop him up in a barrel on the deck so he could keep commanding his ship until he died.

two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .

ALT: two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .

media.tenor.com

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 1d

Why does this tax exile 'foreigner' think our government should discuss policy with him? He should feck off back to Monaco. Made his choice based on his own interest, to avoid tax. Anything he has to say will be only in his own interests, again.

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Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe

Ineos owner urges policymakers to reform net zero taxes or risk ‘irreversible decline’

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 1d

Nik Storonsky, the founder of Revolut, has left the UK and become tax resident in Dubai - escaping more than £3bn of UK tax.

Could we have stopped him leaving? Either with the carrot of a more competitive tax system, or the stick of an exit tax?

Some thoughts:

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