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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 4h

London today

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 4h

The MET will say, like, 3 people were there….

Hundreds of thousands of people at Palestine protest today in London

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 4h

I’m thinking of setting up a support group for all the bisexuals who can attribute almost the entirety and of their internalised biphobia to *that* episode of Sex and the City.

Carrie saying ‘I’m not even sure bisexuality exists’

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 9h

Coming up from 6pm on LBC (Sat 11th Oct):

- Who ‘won’ party conference season?
- How significant are forthcoming massive council reforms?
- Parents: How much of a daily battle is your child’s screen time?

Plus: ICE terror Chicago, Gaza protest latest & Moan/Johnson corruption findings.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14h

Number of deportations the ECHR have actually blocked since 1980 - 13 (THIRTEEN).

Please remember this next time some grifting populist claims us leaving the ECHR (and sacrificing the rights it gives us in the process) will allow us to ‘control our borders’.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Give up satirists.

Move to Saudi or something.

You're not needed any more.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

People surprised that some formerly sensible left-leaning or liberal women are now apparently full of admiration for white supremacists, rapists and genocide might note that their entry point for far right radicalisation was invariably a belief that transphobia is ‘feminist’. Just saying.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone noticed or cared that it’s World Mental Health Day today? (Apparently, the theme is ‘access to services’).

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

I highly doubt any untrained person has got within a metre of a swan, tbh. They can be vicious f*ckers.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 2d

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 2d

Also have an apparent inability to distinguish people being reasonable and people not shouting.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 2d

Also interesting to note that Reform’s Welsh leader pleading guilty to accepting bribes to promote the Kremlin’s agenda apparently cut through less than a 12 year old Sun article about one woman’s perception of her own breasts.

Bosoms > Britain being susceptible to Russian corruption

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 2d

Also - after 15 years of doing media debates/punditry it’s my observation that often the most polished speaker on a panel is also the most blithe - actually they don’t give a crap about the topic they’re discussing. Just something to bear in mind when listening to certain Reform MPs.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 2d

Watched Question Time tonight and really proud of the people of Shrewsbury for pushing back on some of the more rancid aspects of discourse around immigration in media and politics.

(Was less thrilled that they were apparently baffled by the concept of a 1% wealth tax).

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 2d

And I’ll say it again - even if every Jewish person in Britain were 100% behind Netanyahu (which statistically the majority are not) they’d still deserve to feel safe here in their home country. Which is why the whole conflation was so toxic in the first place.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve just realised something - the same mentality which holds all
Palestinian people responsible for the actions of h*m*s will blame anyone who advocated for an end to a genocide responsible for the man who perpetrated a terror attack last Thursday.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been on air with him a few times - always seems like a decent chap.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 4d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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stroudos.bsky.social @stroudos.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. The clip itself appeared on my timeline directly after your post. You’ve barely paraphrased it at all! What a wanker. So sick of this normalisation of racism.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 4d

I think pretty much anything can be ‘unbritish’ judging by the regularity with which journalists and politicians are flinging the accusation around.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 4d

(Black) Sky journalist - ‘do you think it was racist when you said there’s too many Black people in some areas of the U.K.?’

Robert Jenrick - ‘it’s people like you that are the reason there’s terrorism!’.

(Paraphrasing) a completely mental argument that is sadly completely representative of 2025.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone stop calling everyone else ‘un British’ challenge.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 5d

Still you, babe.

Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 5d

Theory - Greta Thunberg is Jesus.

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