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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3h

👏 "There are over four million kids in child poverty in the UK and there are four and a half million people who can't get a dentist appointment."

"We spend 90% of the political capital and discourse and media focus discussing 37,000 people."

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3h

Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...

Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel

Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 9h

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]

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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:

Hello there

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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].

DAD:

Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?

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NT EMPLOYEE:

Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!

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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?

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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:

Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!

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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:

Listen - that's their call

[Calls emanating from the landscape]:

tut-tut
woke-woke

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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:

They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.

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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!

[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].

[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke

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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:

Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.

[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:

tut-tut
woke-woke

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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?

NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…

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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].

NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…

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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:

Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4h

If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.

Use the Quick Vote option.

Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them

Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand

secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

Log In

Welcome to the National Trust 2025 voting website, hosted by independent voting service provider Civica Election Services.

secure.cesvotes.com

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 4h

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ex-prince Andrew should answer US questions on Epstein if asked, UK minister says

Chris Bryant says government welcomes king’s decision on his brother, who is now ‘ordinary member of the public’

www.theguardian.com

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 4h

Bryant suggested [Mr Windsor] should go to the US to answer questions about the crimes of the late paedophile financier Epstein if asked. “What I’m basically saying is that I think that if Andrew is asked to do something by a Senate committee then I would have thought that he would want to comply”

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 4h

This multipurpose meme will never get old.

Image shows Liz truss writing in a book:

"Dear Diary
My first day as a PR consultant for Andrew Windsor is going really really well."

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 4h

So, the issue now becomes whether or not the USA wants to hear what he has to say about Epstein.

I can't imagine why they wouldn't...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ex-prince Andrew should answer US questions on Epstein if asked, UK minister says

Chris Bryant says government welcomes king’s decision on his brother, who is now ‘ordinary member of the public’

www.theguardian.com

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 6h

👍I think that past 'if there was a GE tomorrow, who would you vote for' the norm is just asking 'how likely are you to vote', 'did you vote last time' and 'who for'.

I presume they try to get more detail to extrapolate accurately from with smaller scale polling, but it still seems a blind spot.

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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 6h

For the whole of November, we are lifting the 9.30 rule on older and disabled people’s bus passes.

We are doing whatever we can to help people with cost-of-living pressures and make life a little easier. 🐝

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 6h

Weird in hindsight, but I discovered 'Ziggy Stardust' via the Bauhaus version. 🙂

Probably a reflection of the C90/tape-to-tape culture in the 1980s, and the circle of sharing/swapping I was part of.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 7h

A reminder that lots of my cartoons are available on T shirts. Preferably from OUR Redbubble store rather than one of the many pirate sites (including those on Redbubble. We're worldofmoose.

www.redbubble.com/people/world...

worldofmoose Shop | Redbubble

worldofmoose is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

www.redbubble.com

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 7h

Seems to me that the bulk of this is already within the remit of our security services, and they have sufficient powers to set about neutralising it if tasked to do so.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 7h

Keir Starmer’s planned reforms to elections in the UK will still leave gaping loopholes, threatening to allow continued foreign interference in British politics, an influential Labour MP has warned
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/k...

Keir Starmer's Election Reforms Will Leave UK Politics Exposed to Dark Money and Foreign Interference, Warns Labour MP

The party's former Shadow Democracy Minister said the Government was failing to take the bold steps required to eliminate foreign interference in our elections

bylinetimes.com

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 7h

Australian wildlife in action, compared to the videos of panic from the USA etc 😂

I remember being taught that kangaroos fill an ecological niche similar to deer and antelope. But we were left to conclude for ourselves that there weren't any large predators because they'd kicked them to death.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 7h

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 7h

Ukraine’s interceptor drone Sting is taking drone warfare to the next level.

These unique UAVs hunt and destroy incoming Russian kamikaze drones mid-air, shielding cities and infrastructure.

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, but the USSR defined the 'Great Patriotic War' as only the part of WWII when Stalin was not Hitler's ally. So their invasions of Poland, Romania, the Baltic states and Finland 1939-41 aren't included at all.

The fact that they only declared on Japan on 8/8/1945 is similarly airbrushed.

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 13h

👍FWIW one factoid that I think is worth spreading is that on 8th January 2026 Putin's 'Special Military Operation' will have lasted as long as the Great Patriotic War Russians fetishise.

22/6/1941 to 8/5/1945 = 1,416 days

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, but we also know how 'circumstances' have a habit of making their previously repudiated policies reappear once they're in power.

"No top-down reorganisation of the NHS" being a classic from 2010, the opposite of which mysteriously made it into the coalition agreement the LibDems stuck to.

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 1d

👍Basic terminology... donors being 'anonymous' means their identity is unknown to the recipient.

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 1d

"[Musk] and his gang of racist, internet-based agitators, base these predictions on levels of immigration... even go[ing] so far as to incite violence, from his adopted home, the USA."

But the UK govt still 'communicates' via Twitter accounts. 🤦

www.thepoke.com/2025/10/30/e...

Elon Musk has been wanging on about a British civil war again, and this time he’s dragged Tolkien into it – 27 not-so-civil responses

Armed with the knowledge he gets from following those bastions of truth and integrity, ‘Tommy Robinson’, Andrew Tate, and Rupert Lowe, Elon Musk has been predicting a civil war in Europe, particularly...

www.thepoke.com

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 1d

Lèse-majesté - (from Anglo-Norman French) verbal/written defamation of the monarch or the state.

Constituting a crime regarded as a form of treason under English Law in the past, particularly as a feature of the Tudor/Stuart 'absolute monarchy' period.

Just saying.

Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/economists-h...

Economists: Hope Your Heart Wasn’t Set On A House

WASHINGTON—In an effort to manage the American people’s expectations, officials at the National Association for Business Economics announced Wednesday that they hoped your heart wasn’t set on a house....

theonion.com

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 1d

"HMRC has apologised twice for its errors and said on Tuesday it was stopping the practice of suspending child benefit payments first and asking questions later."

Even so, we've seen the way that these scenarios can mean having to prove that 'the data' is wrong.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’

Exclusive: HMRC told Lisa Morris-Almond there was no record of her return to UK, but she did not take the trip

www.theguardian.com

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