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Matt Osbourn @poshgeordie.bsky.social · 6h

Randomly decided to make some honeycomb for the first time

A block of freshly made honeycomb in a square cake tin

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 8h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 16h

The cowardice, or incompetence, of the British government on Elon Musk is incredible.

We have the power to stop him interfering in our politics - we just need to do it.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 19h

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.

Robinson says Musk is paying his legal costs in counterterrorism trial

Far-right activist accused of refusing to give his mobile phone pin to police

www.ft.com

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Matt Osbourn @poshgeordie.bsky.social · 17h

It is a badge of shame for the UK Labour government to be in receipt of these letters. I doubt it will make them change course - but this has to be said.

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 18h

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 19h

Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 19h

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.

Robinson says Musk is paying his legal costs in counterterrorism trial

Far-right activist accused of refusing to give his mobile phone pin to police

www.ft.com

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Matt Osbourn @poshgeordie.bsky.social · 4d

Just done the ceremonial change over from summer to winter duvets #winteriscoming

a close up of a man 's face with a beard

Alt: Jon Snow in a winter blizzard

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d

One of the Conservative party's contributions to our country has been keeping people who think you can measure integration through skin colour out of office - what next, are they only going to be lukewarm on the property-owning democracy?

Thank the Tories for keeping Robert Jenrick out of high office

Shadow justice secretary’s comment about not seeing a ‘white face’ shows he does not understand integration

www.ft.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7d

Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 7d

A Tory party under Jenrick might take a few of the racist votes from Reform, but they’d haemorrhage bucketloads to the Lib Dems.

So, on balance…

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 7d

Fitting that the first Yougov Con/LibDem tie should appear during a conference where the Conservatives seem to have again forgotten the LibDems exist.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 7d

Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention (5-6 October 2025)

Reform UK: 27% (-2 from 28-29 Sept)
Labour: 20% (-2)
Conservatives: 17% (+1)
Lib Dems: 17% (+2)
Greens: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d

Under any other leader Jenrick would have been sacked for saying this.

Under Badenoch he'll probably get a promotion www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Osbourn @poshgeordie.bsky.social · 8d

Pathetic (from Starmer)

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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Cllr Richard Kemp CBE @cllrkemp.bsky.social · 9d

Civil Liberties – a dividing line between Lib Dems and Labour

The optics of the arrest of the blind, elderly and those in wheel chairs in London yesterday were appalling. The words from Labour about arrests for peaceful protest were spine chilling.

Civil Liberties – a dividing line between Lib Dems and Labour

The optics of the arrest of the blind, elderly and those in wheel chairs in London yesterday were appalling. The words from Labour about arrests for peaceful protest were spine chilling.

richardkemp.wordpress.com

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 9d

Sophie Ellis-Bextor hits out at transphobia: “These people make trans people their whole personality and spend their entire day being angry” 💯

“There was a time when Pride felt like a celebration of the shoulders people were able to stand on, but now it feels like an absolute political necessity”

Sophie Ellis-Bextor hits out at transphobia: "These people make trans people their whole personality"

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has criticised increasing levels of transphobia in the UK and overseas in a new interview.

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe the answer to political apathy, trust, and populism is for everyone to be a local councillor for a few weeks.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 9d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Matt Osbourn @poshgeordie.bsky.social · 11d

Comedic acting and writing gold ❤️ youtu.be/7vNAbCxyxMA?...

Kitty - Patricia Routledge (1929-2025)

YouTube video by comedy_express

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Matt Osbourn @poshgeordie.bsky.social · 11d

Farewell to the wonderful Dame Patricia Routledge 😥

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

Keeping Up Appearances star Patricia Routledge dies at 96

She also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues and played BBC One's crime-busting Hetty Wainthropp.

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Matt Osbourn @poshgeordie.bsky.social · 12d

Happy birthday!

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Richard Wingfield @richardwingfield.bsky.social · 12d

Labour cannot have it both ways. Starmer talks about compassion in the asylum system, and within days splits up the families of those granted asylum. This on top of forcing doctors and nurses coming here from abroad to do community work to prove that they contribute to this country. Just shameful.

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities say is ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 12d

We simply refuse to build dense in most of this country and are paying the price

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development

Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years

www.theguardian.com

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 13d

yep: if you wanted to design a policy that would drown more children in the channel, ending family reunion as a pathway to asylum would certainly be high on your list

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13d

And, as an aside, for a government which bangs on about "smashing gangs", cutting one of the only routes available to people to seek asylum in the UK is a pretty surefire way to ensure that even more people, especially women and children, are forced into making channel crossings. 5/

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · Sep 14

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

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Matt Osbourn @poshgeordie.bsky.social · 15d

Logging on to Bluesky at the moment almost always results with me being incandescently angry with Labour - for their cruelty, cowardice, and utter political stupidity...

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Stephen Harte @sjharte.bsky.social · 15d

For Women Scotland don’t care of the damage that will be done to trans kids by their cruel bigotry.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15d

Scottish government says school pupils must use toilets on basis of sex

Schools must provide single-sex toilets and are encouraged to also offer access to gender-neutral or other facilities Schools must provide separate toilets and changing rooms for boys and girls to be used on the basis of a pupil’s biological sex, the Scottish government has said in updated guidance. Transgender pupils can no longer use “the facilities they feel most comfortable with”, as was previously the case, but schools were encouraged to offer gender-neutral facilities or access to disabled and staff toilets for the relatively small number of children affected. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dan @sirstan74.bsky.social · 15d

This finding seems so obvious and unsurprising, particularly as the Tories undertook the exact same experiment in the last government.

How is it that the current government contains the only people not seeing it?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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