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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 17h

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 1h

You Cease, I Fire

www.middleeasteye.net/news/ceasefi...

Israel shells Gaza after ratifying ceasefire agreement

Attacks continue even after two sides approve deal to 'end the war'

www.middleeasteye.net

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 18h

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 1h

Nonsense.

Taxing wealth rather than income is the least damaging to the majority.

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barryrichards.bsky.social @barryrichards.bsky.social · 11h

We knew Starmer rigged UK GE candidate selections. Turns out they used software (hilariously called Anonyvoter, which is anything but annonymous) to ensure they’re rigged; & being investigated by the Met for it.

So are his henchmen in Welsh Labour.

Vote Plaid Cymru

nation.cymru/news/controv...

Controversial online voting software 'used to select Labour Senedd candidates'

Martin Shipton A controversial online software system that has been linked to the possibility of vote rigging is being used by Welsh Labour to select Senedd candidates for next May’s election, we have...

nation.cymru

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barryrichards.bsky.social @barryrichards.bsky.social · 11h

We knew Starmer rigged UK GE candidate selections. Turns out they used software (hilariously called Anonyvoter, which is anything but annonymous) to ensure they’re rigged; & being investigated by the Met for it.

So are his henchmen in Welsh Labour.

Vote Plaid Cymru

nation.cymru/news/controv...

Controversial online voting software 'used to select Labour Senedd candidates'

Martin Shipton A controversial online software system that has been linked to the possibility of vote rigging is being used by Welsh Labour to select Senedd candidates for next May’s election, we have...

nation.cymru

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

Who would have guessed

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Trump pressure to hike UK drug prices could cost NHS billions.

Corporate profits will increase. NHS budget will buy less. People to pay higher taxes or face public service cuts.

To avoid bullying UK Govt must produce cheaper generic drugs.

Who governs UK - Govt, Trump, Corporations?

Trump pressure to hike UK drug prices could cost NHS billions, experts warn

Anew deal will only trigger further increased price demands and make healthcare in the UK more expensive, say experts

www.independent.co.uk

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Is it now game over for the Tories? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Is it now game over for the Tories?

This is another morning when I have to struggle with the question of whether comments made at the Conservative Party conference are worth noting here, and where I succumb to the temptation to do so pr...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

in the column this week:

-advocates have confirmed/are investigating the abductions of ~25 unhoused folks by federal agents in chicago (via @katieprout.bsky.social)

-state/local leaders crack down on anti-ice protesters

-civil rights orgs ask chief judge to bar ice arrests at county courthouses

Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

chicagoreader.com

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 2d

Independence is about giving Scotland a fresh start - and a chance to build an economy that works for us.

A future where all decisions are made by people who live here.

I’m in the stunning National Portrait Gallery this morning, where I will set out more at 9am.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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barryrichards.bsky.social @barryrichards.bsky.social · 1d

Man arrested for holding up a magazine in public. A magazine that can be purchased in 10,000 newsagents. That it’s publishers and editor haven’t been arrested for.

What a Kafkaesque state the UK is in.

The only fix is to dissolve the Union.

Annibyniaeth nawr

www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-kelly-a...

Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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spersjr.bsky.social @spersjr.bsky.social · 6d

Nah, the numbers don't add up. Despite being subject to a vast smear campaign Corbyn got far higher numbers than any other leader since Blair in 97. Starmer got lucky with his (pretty poor) numbers and has done nothing but compromise - and refugees are arguably worse off now than under the Tories.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 3d

Rodrick Johnson, a U.S. citizen who was briefly detained, said agents broke through his door and placed him in zip ties.

“I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer,” the 67-year-old told the Chicago Sun-Times. “They never brought one.” https://to.pbs.org/4pWhXzN

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

to.pbs.org

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Silly Sally 💙💙💙 @caturday62.bsky.social · 4d

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1stBascombe @1stbascombe.bsky.social · 4d

For the Epsteinth time!

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3d

The more America sees and hears from Stephen Miller, the worse it is for Trump and MAGA.

He's a total freak and loser, repulsive to the majority, and he's the shadow President and currently the most powerful, unelected person in the country.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 3d

After a trip across Ukraine on trains that keep running in spite of Russian air raids, nothing says welcome home quite like those three magical words:

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