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Matt Western MP 🌹 @mattwestern.bsky.social · 1h

Great news! The new lifts at Warwick Station are finally open! A meaningful upgrade for thousands of travellers—thanks to the tireless work of Cllr John Holland. With over half a million passengers last year, this will help thousands travelling by train

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 1h

Perfectly still and deeply autumnal up in the High Country on this morning's walk. One of those days when lark song and crow calls carry clear across the valley, and you can't immediately tell where the sky stops and the sea begins. A slightly sweet, cidery smell hanging in the air.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 3h

Just wondering what a non-vegan tampon is made of?

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 5h

I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 5h

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

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'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

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 5h

Leaving NATO would be as disastrous as leaving the EU or the ECHR.

It would throw the security of our European allies inti chaos. It would signal to Russia that we do not stand with those under its threat. It would weaken European security significantly.

Polanski must clarify his views

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 6h

Then maybe now would be a good time to clarify your position on the UK's commitment to NATO and its allies.

In particular, whether you still support collective security as currently envisaged by Article V.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 4h

First game for Bill Nicholson as Spurs manager

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 4h

Fun fact: this was Bill Nicholson's first game as Spurs manager.

Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 4h

On this day in 1958, Tottenham beat Everton 10-4 in the First Division.

The 14 goals scored is the joint most in an English top-flight match — along with Aston Villa 12-2 Accrington in March 1892.

The picture is of Everton's Jimmy Harris, who scored a hat-trick in defeat.

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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 4h

On this day in 1958, Tottenham beat Everton 10-4 in the First Division.

The 14 goals scored is the joint most in an English top-flight match — along with Aston Villa 12-2 Accrington in March 1892.

The picture is of Everton's Jimmy Harris, who scored a hat-trick in defeat.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5h

According to some prominent news outlets if Europe does not emulate these innovative practices it will never catch up with America's current trajectory

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 5h

The Montpellier tramway is a friendly way to travel sometimes

Me - unusually round-looking of face, slightly dopey smile - being photobombed by a group of cheerful young women.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 5h

"The law works. We need to change it." That's the right's pitch. And they want to change the law because they want to control it.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5h

The Populist Right are desperate to signal that this one brave appeal judge is swimming against the tide of a system infected by 'Lefty Lawyers' – like the judge applied the law according to his own free speechy conscience.

He did no such thing.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5h

The Populist Right are desperate to signal that this one brave appeal judge is swimming against the tide of a system infected by 'Lefty Lawyers' – like the judge applied the law according to his own free speechy conscience.

He did no such thing.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 5h

It would surely take more than a referendum. Under our system, a government could take us out of the EU again on a manifesto commitment and with substantially less than 50% of the vote (same with leaving the ECHR).

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 5h

More to the point, he never said Scotland would be given special treatment and just waved in. No country would exercise its veto. But quite a few - including Spain - would insist on the full application process before membership was granted.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 5h

Magnificent 😂👏

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 6h

In case you missed it:

Jenrick supported the appeal of an asylum seeker (to him: 'illegal migrant') who had run into trouble with a law first introduced by Thatcher, and was now drawing on the ECHR to overturn his conviction.

His free speech rights under the ECHR helped his appeal succeed.

#Irony

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 6h

I am not sure how those two images contradict anything I said. Can you explain?

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 6h

I think for my kids' generation, it's too remote to engage with meaningfully. They live in an entirely different world. It's as distant to them as WW1 was for us.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 6h

You can get to other places quickly from Milton Keynes - including very green countryside!

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 6h

Then maybe now would be a good time to clarify your position on the UK's commitment to NATO and its allies.

In particular, whether you still support collective security as currently envisaged by Article V.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 6h

Besides all else, there is absolutely no way Spain and other member states with strong regional separatist movements will vote to allow Scotland to breeze into the EU. They will not say no forever but will definitely make it as tough as possible. That's just very basic politics.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 6h

I think it's much more that anyone over 40 in the UK grew up in the very long political, social, economic and cultural shadow cast by WW2. It's that, not Empire, that has shaped people of all classes. We may not have stood alone but we were taught we did. For me, that explains so much.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, I know it was very different for the people who lived their full lives in these places. But thinking of Barcelona and Madrid especially, then compared to now, I bet a lot would go back to how it was. London is definitely a lot better, though.

JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 6h

When I think of the places I spent time in before the advent of globalised, commodified, mass tourism, I count myself beyond blessed. Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, London etc in the 1980s. Sigh! But I'm still immensely jealous of the people who spent time in the same places in the 1920s.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 6h

When I think of the places I spent time in before the advent of globalised, commodified, mass tourism, I count myself beyond blessed. Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, London etc in the 1980s. Sigh! But I'm still immensely jealous of the people who spent time in the same places in the 1920s.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 8h

It is utterly surreal this is not being treated as a bigger story.

Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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