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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 7h

Absolute state of Zia Yusuf.

He's had a shocker there #BBCQT
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8h

Reform UK's Zia Yusuf makes the case for President Trump to get the Nobel Peace Prize #BBCQT

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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 7h

Zia Yusuf being made to look a fool by Polanski, the audience not buying in to Reform’s divisive rhetoric…maybe the country isn’t as desperate for a far-right government as 90% of UK media tells us it is

Maybe

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 8h

What could possibly go wrong.
#Gaza
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 13h

America’s mad king and his entourage of lazy, incompetent, unqualified imbeciles like RFK Jr continue to humiliate the USA before the world on an hourly basis.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 14h

Narrator: "MTG doesn't gives a rat's fuck that Americans are barely making it and are hopeless for their future.

"If she did, she wouldn't be an angry, raging, swivel-eyed Republican conspiracist."

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 19h

To be *that person* for a moment:

The police might well pull this car over.

Not because of the content and meaning of the stickers.

But because they're obscuring the driver's view through the rear windscreen, which is a hazard for them and for other road users.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 19h

This actually causes public harm because British people absolutely do not do bumper stickers etc on cars. I think this is basically a major crime to have this many stickers on a car in the UK.

Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 1d

Yer da’s been decorating the zafira

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 20h

OK. What's the downside?

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 20h

This chap is sticking up for his parents, isn't he.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is also one third of the size of the UK: it has less than one fifth (ie: 16%) of the population of the UK (including migrant workers): and the make-up of its economy is entirely different to the UK's economy.

Trade unions are banned in the UAE.

As usual Tice is talking out of his backside.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨Breaking: White House confirms that America’s mad king has apple sauce for brains.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

This lazy, irresponsible, law-breaking derelict cunt has made a conscious and deliberate decision not to do anything to improve the lives of everyday Americans in any way whatsoever.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

President Trump has called for the jailing of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, both Democrats, for “failing to protect” ICE officers who have been sent to the city.

Trump says Chicago mayor, Illinois governor should be jailed for response to ICE

Trump, without providing evidence, said Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker should go to jail for “failing to protect” immigration agents.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

America's mad king thinks Habeas Corpus is the name of an immigrant who's in the US illegally and should be deported.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨Breaking: White House confirms that America’s mad king has apple sauce for brains.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

This lazy, irresponsible, law-breaking derelict cunt has made a conscious and deliberate decision not to do anything to improve the lives of everyday Americans in any way whatsoever.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

President Trump has called for the jailing of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, both Democrats, for “failing to protect” ICE officers who have been sent to the city.

Trump says Chicago mayor, Illinois governor should be jailed for response to ICE

Trump, without providing evidence, said Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker should go to jail for “failing to protect” immigration agents.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

This is a smart move by Ed Davey.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d

Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has written an open letter to One Nation Conservatives who feel abandoned by their party urging them to join the Liberal Democrats, following Kemi Badenoch’s conference speech today

Full text of the letter:

Dear friends,

Our country is at a crossroads.

The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch is becoming more extreme and out of touch, chasing Nigel Farage instead of focusing on the issues that really matter to people. Meanwhile, Reform UK is growing in strength - threatening the tolerant, decent values that hold our communities together.

I know many One Nation Conservatives are deeply concerned about the lurch to the hard right in our country and under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership. Her plans to tear up the Climate Change Act and withdraw from the ECHR show she is abandoning traditional British values of tolerance, decency and the rule of law.

So my message to the millions of One Nation Conservatives who feel let down by their party and reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage is to come and join us. Help us save our country and defend the values we all hold dear.

We will stand strong where others back down. We will not pander to Reform. We will fight to protect our environment, stand up for decency and the rule of law, and stop Trump’s America from becoming Farage’s Britain.

So if you share those values, now is the time to join the Liberal Democrats.

With best wishes,

Ed Davey

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 2d

This is a variation of the fantasy low tax "UK can be Singapore-upon-Thames" bollocks that followed the result of the EU referendum in 2016.

Oakeshott and Tice are grasping, selfish, entitled grifters who don't want to pay any tax but do want servants who they can exploit.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is also one third of the size of the UK: it has less than one fifth (ie: 16%) of the population of the UK (including migrant workers): and the make-up of its economy is entirely different to the UK's economy.

Trade unions are banned in the UAE.

As usual Tice is talking out of his backside.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

Just like MAGA in the US, in Russia every accusation from the Putin regime is actually a confession.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov explicitly blames Europeans for not wanting peace in Ukraine.This’s one of Russia's main narratives these days-Europe wants to go to war with Russia

While Russia escalates its hybrid warfare against Europe,it convinces its people that it's Europe who wants to fight

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

Wait until Kemi Badenoch finds out which political party was responsible for running the country for 14 of the last 15 years.

She's going to be *livid* #CPC25
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch, who was part of a Government that delivered 14 years of economic stagnation and record increases in immigration, says the Conservatives are "the only party that can deliver a stronger economy and stronger borders"

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

I'm old enough to remember Brexit midwife Nigel Farridge posting on Twitter in April 2016 that staying in the EU would spell the end of the British steel industry.

It's as if Farridge didn't have the first clue what he was talking about back then: and he still doesn't now.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

AI is definitely *NOT* a bubble.*

* It's a bubble

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch's vision for the UK:

"These days, if you study English you get arrested and thrown in jail don't you"

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

TalkSport presenter Simon Jordan and GBeebies presenter Michelle Dewberry as a couple is a match made in hard right media echo chamber hell.
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akhlaq1386.bsky.social @akhlaq1386.bsky.social · 2d

When I heard his wife Michelle Dewbury works for GB News I thought, it makes sense.

Absolutely ridiculous anyone listens or takes his opinion on anything.

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 1d

The entire Conservative Party is at it #CPC25
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

"You go to some places like Handsworth.. parts of Dewsbury, Bradford, Leicester, where you see.. a single ethnicity.. we don't think that's healthy thing"

Kevin Hollinrake is MP for Thirsk and Malton, which according to the 2021 census is 98% white.

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