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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12h

“A viral and ridiculous image, such as a cute cartoonish frog standing off against a row of heavily-equipped militarised police, or even national reserve members, tells the story far more quickly than official statements ever could. It also spreads further and faster.” inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Trump’s movement was fuelled by Pepe the Frog — now another amphibian is pushing back

A new figure has emerged at anti-ICE protests in Portland - a man wearing an inflatable frog costume

inews.co.uk

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 8h

Trouble in paradise 🍿

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7h

They do have a perfectly plausible* “growth was starting to return, then we left the EU by mistake”
argument available to them.
*note: this isn’t the same as “I agree with it”, just “I think it fits the available facts”.

Yuriy Akopov @yakopov.me · 8h

I sometimes think how frustrating it probably was for Cameron and Osborne. They did everything by the book, and the book says that when you cut the fat and weather the immediate storm, you then get growth and dynamism in response... and that part simply never happened!

Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 9h

For the past 40 days reactionary assaults on the welfare state have been part premised on the idea that welfare is a corrupting force that erodes values and then they cut it, everything gets a bit worse and values don't change.

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Nick Stone @europeannick.bsky.social · 9h

West Yorkshire resident here.

Agreed.

Longley farm cottage cheese.

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Nick Stone @europeannick.bsky.social · 11h

LNER was renationalised 7 years ago.

Complex ticket splitting, restrictive flex fares and costly peak pricing delivers services which inhibit community connections, negate growth and put profits at the heart of our railways.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17h

Rhun ap Iorwerth criticises Reform UK's Nathan Gill for taking bribes from Russia to speak anti EU statements

Your reminder that Nathan Gill started out at UKIP, then joined the Brexit party, then joined Reform UK

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Tim Dillon: "If you don't see a Republican candidate in 2028 that has the values that you think matter, will you throw your hat in the ring?"

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I very much want to fix problems. That's honestly all I care about. And I am genuinely angry on behalf of every American."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

GS: “Did Homan keep the $50,000 bribe?”

VANCE: “I don’t even know what you’re talking about.” 🤔

GS: “You didn’t answer the Q… We’ll be right back.”

GS gets fed up with Vance’sabsurd lying and gaslighting — and eventually cuts him off mid-sentence.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 12h

"They'll be too busy stoking civil war inside America. This is, after all, an America First administration."

(What Vance should have added.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

JD Vance: "The idea that we're gonna have troops on the ground in Gaza and Israel -- that is not our intention, that is not our plan."

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13h

BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control

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Nick Stone @europeannick.bsky.social · 18h

Another approach could be cross-party acceptance of Brexit’s impact on the UK economy and public finances.

Then learn to live with Brexit.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 2d

If they do this, they’ll need a convincing answer to the obvious question some will ask: ‘why don’t we rejoin?’ Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

With Reform UK threatening the end of two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end

www.thetimes.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20h

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h

France is not alone in its political crisis – belief in a democratic world is vanishing | Simon Tisdall

The populist right offers a solution in the form of turning back the clock. Macron and his counterparts need to find a different answer fast, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

www.theguardian.com

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 1d

Just been to the church where Lorna Doone was shot.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Diane Keaton, who has died at 79, here reinventing fashion in Annie Hall (1977)

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Sony Kapoor @sonykapoor.bsky.social · 1d

Posted sans comment 😗!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Witkoff, flanked by Jared and Ivanka in Tel Aviv, says "may god bless Donald J Trump, the greatest president the world has ever seen"

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

Washington DC is, by several measures, America’s most liberal city. It no longer has a newspaper that’s even trying to represent that in its op-ed pages.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

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Nick Stone @europeannick.bsky.social · 1d

Lots cheering at the EBU.

Israel and Eurovision boycott worries over.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent article. With a very grim chart.

on.ft.com/4odeaMH UK consumers curb spending more than anywhere else in G7

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 1d

I realise I slightly go on about this, but I'm not sure enough attention is paid to the fact that a fair proportion of comment articles in the modern Daily Telegraph are utterly unmoored from any sense of even tenuous reality.

Daniel Hannan

Britain has given so much to civilisation. Now the barbarians are inside

The poisonous ideas of Vladimir Lenin have infected our progressive elite

Contemplate those elderly buffoons in blue berets who hand out EU flags at the Last Night of the Proms. Do you suppose they have any real interest in rejoining the EU? Do they strike you as having looked into the budgetary, migratory and commercial implications? Of course not. They just loathe the people they imagine having voted Leave.

Listen to Sir Lenny Henry, who thinks that, as well as handing over squillions to the West Indies and Africa, we should pay black people in this country. So much for the notion of equality before the law.

I could go on. The museums rushing to give away legally purchased collections to people who have never owned them, and who will very probably sell them on to private collectors. The diplomats longing to surrender British territories in defiance of the wishes of their peoples. The universities eviscerating the Western canon in the name of decolonising the curriculum.

“Colonialism-and-slavery” is proffered as a binomial phrase, like “law-and-order” or “gin-and-tonic”. Few kids in our schools are given the slightest notion that the first, at least in Africa, was driven by the desire to extirpate the second. Even fewer are taught that African kings fought to defend the institution.

The Benin Bronzes, which our cultural leaders are so keen to give away, were seized to defray the costs of an 1897 expedition against a state that buried slaves alive. The British Museum, which owns most of them, dares not mention it. Instead it says the carvings were acquired during the “expansion of colonial power”

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