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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3h

BREAKING NEWS

In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt after all their policies are found to be economic fantasy.

Reform UK
Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits
Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 13h

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12h

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

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

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 1d

No it doesn't.

A picture saying 'Nursery rhymes with Justin Fletcher'.

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 12h

There’s a grim poem; “America is a Gun”
This is a bleak illustration 💔

Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · 14d

#endgunviolence

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 15h

RFK Jr dinner plate rated: type 4 and type 7. How they manage to exist at the same time currently eludes science.
(H/T @karlstanley.bsky.social)

RFK posts a very unappetising photo of a plate of lentil puree with sausages. He is opposed to carbs and good presentation in equal measure.

The Bristol stool chart.
The seven types of stool are:

Type 1: Separate hard lumps, like nuts (difficult to pass)
Type 2: Sausage-shaped, but lumpy
Type 3: Like a sausage but with cracks on its surface
Type 4: Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft (average stool)
Type 5: Soft blobs with clear cut edges
Type 6: Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool (diarrhea)
Type 7: Watery, no solid pieces, entirely liquid (diarrhea)

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 17h

Well that’s all very “man of the people” … driving a 🤬 Bentley with around £15k in cash in his possession.
Says “proceeds of crime” to me 🤷‍♂️

Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 20h

www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/t...

Tommy Robinson told police ‘not a chance bruv’ when asked for mobile pin. He had more than £13,000 and 1,900 euros in cash with him, told officers he was driving his silver Bentley to Benidorm for a couple of days when he was stopped. As you do!

Tommy Robinson told police ‘not a chance bruv’ when asked for mobile pin, court told

Tommy Robinson, 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is standing trial after being charged under the terrorism act

www.standard.co.uk

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 18h

Ooh, I know that one!

a man wearing a purple shirt with nanobubbles on it

ALT: a man wearing a purple shirt with nanobubbles on it

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 18h

Off to take over my dad’s job 😂😂😂
As for this one 🤷‍♂️😂😂😂🤷‍♂️

Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 20h

🤷‍♂️

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 22h

If that 🐈‍⬛ was out and about then it’s the 🦊 🦊 I fear for… 😂

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 1d

This is the man the BBC elevated & is refusing to investigate despite @carolecadwalla.bsky.social l & @bylinetimes.bsky.social
having done all the work for them .
Do we have a precedent for a this ? A national broadcaster ignoring possible treason , isn’t that in itself sort of treasonous 🥴 ?

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3d

Seems @Nigel_Farage is trying damage limitation on the Reform Russian Bribes scandal.

He’s known Nathan Gill for 20 years, and claims he knew nothing.

No one believes you, Nigel.

Keep the story moving. Questions must be answered.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010 Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein in an email “we are in this together” after a picture of the British royal with his arm around a teenage Virginia Giuffre was first published in 2011. The email will pile further pressure on Duke of York and the royal family as he previously told the BBC he had ceased contact with the paedophile financier by that point. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 1d

NEW

Prince Andrew to Jeff Epstein in 2011: “We are in this together”

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Steve @stega1958.bsky.social · 22h

I will always remember that this was down to the Cameron government, facilitated by his “flexible” LD cuddle 🐇, without that pact what might the story have been?

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

How austerity hit young people.

In the decade after 2010 councils’ funding for youth services in England and Wales suffered a real-terms cut of 70%.

By 2023, 1,200 publicly run youth centres closed.

Young people abandoned to fund tax cuts for corporations the rich.

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

So it now appears the woman Farage and Gill were so close to has a direct link not only to Putin’s “Man in Ukraine” Medvedchuk, but his predecessor as President, Medvedev

These are top Russian agents.

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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...