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"For Britain to withdraw from Europe would be to retire into "an old people's home for fading nations...I do not even think it would be a comfortable or agreeable old people's home. I do not much like the look of some of the prospective wardens".(Jenkins)

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callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · Jun 11

Please sign!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Petition: Retain legal right to assessment and support in education for children with SEND

Support in education is a vital legal right of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). We ask the government to commit to maintaining the existing law, so that vulnerable chil...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22h

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 23h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 11h

When history speaks, it’s often too late. The story of Palestine and Israel is filled with lessons the world chose not to hear. Here’s a reminder ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

Warnings from history: Lessons unheeded in the search for peace

As peace talks begin, three historic warnings about Zionism and statehood remind us how fragile peace remains

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 17h

I found the agitators! They are 2 unicorns, giraffe, canary, panda, mouse, dinosaur, mouse, Stitch, and the frog! And they are right outside of Portland's ICE facility! 🤣🤣🤣

#ProudBlue

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 11h

Don't tell me Welfare spending is too high in the UK.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12h

Fun fact.

Trump watches are made in China.

Trump just slapped a massive tariff on himself

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 12h

oh no

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 13h

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 13h

What remains of the GHF “aid” distribution site in the Netzarim corridor, after it was dismantled by the IDF as part of their withdrawal from the area

More than 2,500 Palestinians were killed in these sites while desperately seeking food

www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17h

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19h

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 17h

Thou shalt not shoot priests in the head. I shouldn’t have to say this.

Thou Shalt Not Shoot Priests in the Head

I shouldn’t have to say these things.

www.thegodpodcast.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16h

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16h

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15h

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 14h

It's weird. There were just no clues that this is what he was like.

Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 14h

Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Educate ToOpenMinds @techno-oenophile.bsky.social · 14h

Why is this not being blasted as am impeachable act!!

QUID PRO QUO WTF

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h

The US military stops getting paid from next week.

White House has, for now, ruled out legislative fix for military pay

Over 1 million military paychecks could go unfulfilled on Oct. 15.

www.politico.com

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 22h

superb - Robert Jenrick is supporting the case of asylum seeker, who is appealing against a public order conviction, using the ECHR bsky.app/profile/rola...

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 23h

I see Robert Jenrick is supporting Hamit Coskun who is appealing his conviction by reference to the ECHR (which Jenrick wants to withdraw from).

Who knew that the ECHR could be useful, even to the anti-ECHR Hard Right?

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

Take a look at Farage's grovelling "Happy Birthday Mr. President" tweet. He's even holding a bottle of Trump wine.

Farage is no proud patriot. He's a creepy fascist sycophant who parrots Russian lies and thinks Andrew Tate is an important voice for men.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 20h

In three days time our Govt petition for an end to the Badger cull will be debated in Parliament..

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 1d

Beth Hapworth, 32, who made the move from from being a full-time corporate copywriter to freelancing in order to regain her autonomy, has instead become a round-the-clock servant to seven-year-old tabby cat, Tilly.

“Self-employed” autistic woman actually works for cat

An autistic woman who thought becoming self-employed would mean being her own boss has discovered that she actually now works for a small feline tyrant, it has been confirmed. Beth Hapworth, 32, who…

thedailytism.com

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callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · 21h

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Andrew Richards @andrewwr235.bsky.social · 21h

In that case, we needn't worry.

They'll tell him he has won it.

Maybe even show him an AI generated video of him collecting the prize and doing a little dance.

callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · 21h

Picky, picky, picky!

callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · 22h

I realise that but you have to admit Trump is a little unstable? 🤯

callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · 22h

Do you think he's going to be compos mentis in 3 years time?

callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · 22h

Norway isn't screwed unless they literally get invaded - their wealth fund has over $1.5 trillion.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

He’s trolling Trump

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