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Ian Gorrie @iangorrie.bsky.social · 3h

Worked in telecoms for over 30 years .. at a technical
Level no one truly trusts records unless they get an eyes on conformation. many projects exist purely to audit databases against an eyes on audit. Can’t believe the police just took this at face value .

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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 3h

🇬🇧 King Charles receives Zelenskyy at Windsor Castle

King Charles receives Zelenskyy at Windsor Castle

King Charles III has received President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Windsor Castle.

www.pravda.com.ua

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4h

Caerphilly result, from a progressive rather than partisan point of view, is great. 1. The more people wake up to the power of turning out/voting tactically the better; 2. Given Lab still has four years in gov't with a big majority, the more it is terrorised away from regressive policies the better.

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Ian Gorrie @iangorrie.bsky.social · 4h

With military grade weapons?

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Conversations in Time @chats-in-time.bsky.social · 8h

What if the German Highs Seas Fleet had defeated the Royal Navy's Home Fleet at the Battle of Jutland. Clash of Dreadnoughts..

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 8h

The anti-migrant language about "cultural coherence" used by rising Tory star Katie Lam sounds very much like the 1930s, when her grandmother found sanctuary in the UK www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

Katie Lam’s anti-immigrant rhetoric sounds a lot like that of the 1930s

The Kent MP is espousing views that would have barred entry to her own ancestors when they were fleeing the Nazis

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 15h

That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8h

Poor take by Curtice.

This is a disaster for Farage. Polls had RefUK closely winning. Losing by 11% signposts Plaid to all of Wales as THE tactical choice for Senedd Elex and drains RefUK momentum.

"Something is happening out there", alright. People are uniting to tell Farage to feck right off.

Rob Alonso @geotruthseeker.bsky.social · 8h

Prof John Curtice also calling it a great night for Reform too & focusing on Lab vote collapse instead of the turnout + tactical vote

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 21h

Except you haven't applied to ask a question since July have you, you lazy little gobshite?

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 1d

True that

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John Johnston @bawsman.bsky.social · 9h

I’d argue the BBC stopped representing the people as Cameron, May then Johnson gerrymandered the management in their image.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 22h

Proof that Nigel Farage hardly knew Nathan Gill, the traitor who took Russian bribes.

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 23h

The White House currently being demolished to be used to make golf bunkers, what a time to be alive!

Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 23h

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

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MrMirth @mrmirth.bsky.social · 1d

This was the lead story on BBC News yesterday. The non-story was nearly ten minutes long, with Chris Mason putting in his 'two cents', with another hack. All about just one migrant, sent to France under the new scheme & returned in a boat. Another blatant example of BBC trying to damage the Govt.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking - Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips REMAINS in post.

They say Phillips has “devoted her life to hearing and amplifying the voices of women and girls who would have otherwise been unheard”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips remains in post

Exclusive: In fresh controversy, the women write to Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood to speak up for safeguarding minister

www.theguardian.com

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

"These proposals would mean deporting greater numbers and a greater proportion of the population than former Ugandan President Idi Amin’s deportation of Ugandan Asians. This scale of population movement is comparable to that which happened with the partition of India and Pakistan."

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Hadn’t, in truth, really absorbed the scale of what the Conservatives are proposing on ILR and immigration more broadly until this week’s Sunday Times interviews. Some thoughts on that in today’s note:

Tory deportation plan would upend Britain

Proposing such a radical bill with little public support is a gift to Nigel Farage

www.ft.com

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Jack Churchill's Arrow @churchillsarrow.bsky.social · 1d

The BBC is great apart from its news and politics coverage, which is genuinely dangerous to British society.

It's a trojan horse for right wing extremism. And none of it is by accident.

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 1d

Updating my LEGO White House

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Ian Gorrie @iangorrie.bsky.social · 1d

I agree but we don’t need bbc news and it’s toxic pro Farridge nonsense

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 1d

In the episode, Castellaneta's character sues the park for wrongful termination... and wins. The final shot of the jury is a great visual. (4/4)

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 1d

#OnThisDay #OTD October 22, 1992, Dan Castellaneta (the voice actor of Homer Simpson) made a guest appearance on NBC's "L.A. Law", playing David Champion, a fired theme park employee who wore a Homer Simpson costume. #TheSimpsons 🧵(1/4)

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

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Ian Gorrie @iangorrie.bsky.social · 1d

Not the prettiest looking ship!

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

I have to stress how highly unusual it is for the most powerful military on the planet to be blowing up random boats in international waters.

I can’t help but feel that several criminal charges will ultimately come from these strikes.

It makes far more sense to interdict them.

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