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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3h

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

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 2h

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 2h

Now you have to do it in the opposite direction with one hand behind your back.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 2h

True … but with total control of all levers of power, will that matter?

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 2h

This time only two years ago Rishi Sunak was PM and we’d be on Twitter digesting the latest Opinium poll, and it would either make the weekend or ruin it. It seems like a different decade, doesn’t it?

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 2h

So sad and so shocking. She never seemed to get old.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The Oscar-winner best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and The Book Club, has died Diane Keaton, one of the best-loved film stars of the past 50 years, has died at the age of 79 in California. The news was confirmed by People magazine. Further details are not available at this time, and her loved ones have asked for privacy, according to a family spokesperson. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 2h

There will be a successor. There has to be. There is no way a peaceful handover to the Democrats will be allowed.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 2h

Big Tech
The Supreme Court
The media
The Republican party
All are all in on Trump and MAGA. They will not risk a change. They have far too much to lose.

JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 2h

So many in positions of power in the US have staked everything on forever Trump. The idea they will stand by and allow their bet to fail is for the fairies.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 4h

Washington DC is, by several measures, America’s most liberal city. It no longer has a newspaper that’s even trying to represent that in its op-ed pages.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 2h

So many in positions of power in the US have staked everything on forever Trump. The idea they will stand by and allow their bet to fail is for the fairies.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 4h

Washington DC is, by several measures, America’s most liberal city. It no longer has a newspaper that’s even trying to represent that in its op-ed pages.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 2h

You’ve nicked our rain! To be fair, what we’ve had would be considered entirely fine in most of Spain. We’re just totally crap at managing what we get because we never think it will run out. We have totally failed to adjust to the new reality. A familiar story of total complacency, sadly.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 3h

Drought, drought, drought. At some point people are going to notice the catastrophic lack of rain we’re currently experiencing.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7h

Did Farage ever sue the Mail on Sunday?

This threat was issued in June 2025, but I can find no further reference to events after that.

Zelenskyy: Farage is infected with the virus of putin

Farage on twitter threatening to sue the Mail on Sunday

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Matt Western MP 🌹 @mattwestern.bsky.social · 8h

Great news! The new lifts at Warwick Station are finally open! A meaningful upgrade for thousands of travellers—thanks to the tireless work of Cllr John Holland. With over half a million passengers last year, this will help thousands travelling by train

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 8h

Perfectly still and deeply autumnal up in the High Country on this morning's walk. One of those days when lark song and crow calls carry clear across the valley, and you can't immediately tell where the sky stops and the sea begins. A slightly sweet, cidery smell hanging in the air.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 10h

Just wondering what a non-vegan tampon is made of?

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 12h

I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12h

“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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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 12h

Leaving NATO would be as disastrous as leaving the EU or the ECHR.

It would throw the security of our European allies inti chaos. It would signal to Russia that we do not stand with those under its threat. It would weaken European security significantly.

Polanski must clarify his views

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 13h

Then maybe now would be a good time to clarify your position on the UK's commitment to NATO and its allies.

In particular, whether you still support collective security as currently envisaged by Article V.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 11h

First game for Bill Nicholson as Spurs manager

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 11h

Fun fact: this was Bill Nicholson's first game as Spurs manager.

Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 11h

On this day in 1958, Tottenham beat Everton 10-4 in the First Division.

The 14 goals scored is the joint most in an English top-flight match — along with Aston Villa 12-2 Accrington in March 1892.

The picture is of Everton's Jimmy Harris, who scored a hat-trick in defeat.

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 11h

On this day in 1958, Tottenham beat Everton 10-4 in the First Division.

The 14 goals scored is the joint most in an English top-flight match — along with Aston Villa 12-2 Accrington in March 1892.

The picture is of Everton's Jimmy Harris, who scored a hat-trick in defeat.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 12h

According to some prominent news outlets if Europe does not emulate these innovative practices it will never catch up with America's current trajectory

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 12h

The Montpellier tramway is a friendly way to travel sometimes

Me - unusually round-looking of face, slightly dopey smile - being photobombed by a group of cheerful young women.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 12h

"The law works. We need to change it." That's the right's pitch. And they want to change the law because they want to control it.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 12h

The Populist Right are desperate to signal that this one brave appeal judge is swimming against the tide of a system infected by 'Lefty Lawyers' – like the judge applied the law according to his own free speechy conscience.

He did no such thing.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 12h

The Populist Right are desperate to signal that this one brave appeal judge is swimming against the tide of a system infected by 'Lefty Lawyers' – like the judge applied the law according to his own free speechy conscience.

He did no such thing.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 12h

It would surely take more than a referendum. Under our system, a government could take us out of the EU again on a manifesto commitment and with substantially less than 50% of the vote (same with leaving the ECHR).

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