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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 1d

Get down the Co-Op. Deals like this don’t last forever.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Aug 29

If 'common law rights' were equivalent to ECHR rights, then the UK would never have lost a case in Strasbourg. But it has. 1/

Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · Aug 26

@sirjjkc.bsky.social highlights here what we can call the 'Policy Exchange fallacy':

if 'common law rights and fundamental freedoms' [sic] provide equivalent protection to the ECHR ones, then what does repealing the latter achieve?

Jonathan Jones @sirjjkc.bsky.social · Aug 26

A Reform government might repeal the HRA, pull out of the ECHR and potentially other international instruments. But would it legislate to disapply common law rights and protections (eg against torture) which opponents of the ECHR are fond of saying are of an equivalent standard?

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 1d

While she’s about it, she can get rid of rip-off Maths degrees too. This country’s had enough of experts.

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 1d

Love that. 😂

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 1d

Get down the Co-Op. Deals like this don’t last forever.

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 2d

Part 1: Badenoch calls for curb on rip-off degrees such as English.

Part 2: Tory Party misspells Britain on conference merch.

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Huw Jelly @huwjelly.bsky.social · 1d

A disturbing incident in Hove today of a man smashing up the elite paint and decor shop.

Fortunately no-one was hurt, as police caught him red-handed.

I'm here all week. 😬😉

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch: "Poland are experiencing more economic growth than the UK!"

also Kemi Badenoch: "We are the party that took us (the country) out of the European Union!"

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 2d

Part 1: Badenoch calls for curb on rip-off degrees such as English.

Part 2: Tory Party misspells Britain on conference merch.

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 2d

Who are you telling to f*ck off and grow up? Me or Jenrick? 😆

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 2d

Because, since Brexit, political discourse on immigration has been going only one way? Because, having flirted with Farage, the Tories see he’s now beating them and are desperate to outflank him again? Because even Labour has to some extent dignified this awful narrative? Because the media have too?

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 2d

Because, since Brexit, political discourse on immigration has been going only one way? Because, having flirted with Farage, the Tories see he’s now beating them and are desperate to outflank him again? Because even Labour has to some extent dignified this awful narrative? Because the media have too?

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 2d

An interesting one for members of minority groups who try to make their political home in parties which espouse right-wing populism. You may be accepted as useful idiots but there often comes a point when you’re treated as useful scapegoats too.

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

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 4d

These new figures prove that when people are put at the heart of Oxford Street, the area thrives and businesses benefit.

That’s why I am moving forward with the next stage of my proposals to pedestrianise Oxford Street and revitalise the area as quickly as I can. www.cityam.com/oxford-stree...

Oxford Street pedestrianisation boosts sales, survey finds

Oxford Street was closed to traffic for eight hours on Sunday 21st September in a pilot test to fully pedestrianise the high street.

www.cityam.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 5d

#Kuenssberg doesn’t challenge Badenoch on the implications leaving the #ECHR will have for the UK’s trade deal with the EU or the Good Friday Agreement. Basically gives her free rein to talk about immigration to the exclusion of all other policy areas. Farage really has managed to dictate the tone.

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 4d

The death wish predates Badenoch (however clueless she is). It was Johnson who began in earnest the Tory shift to the hard right and marginalized sensible moderates. Now, bereft of its centre-right USP, the party is condemned to imitating Farage miserably.
app.independent.co.uk/2025/10/05/2...

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 4d

The death wish predates Badenoch (however clueless she is). It was Johnson who began in earnest the Tory shift to the hard right and marginalized sensible moderates. Now, bereft of its centre-right USP, the party is condemned to imitating Farage miserably.
app.independent.co.uk/2025/10/05/2...

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 5d

#Kuenssberg doesn’t challenge Badenoch on the implications leaving the #ECHR will have for the UK’s trade deal with the EU or the Good Friday Agreement. Basically gives her free rein to talk about immigration to the exclusion of all other policy areas. Farage really has managed to dictate the tone.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage

Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 6d

Labour embedded hard Brexit in its 2024 manifesto. No single market, so no free movement of labour. Pro-Europeans in Labour and elsewhere need to stop the attempts at cherry-picking and get back to first principles. You can’t simultaneously endorse a policy and decry its consequences.

Labour Movement for Europe @labour4europe.bsky.social · 8d

“It makes the economics of touring almost impossible.”

— @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social on the need for a 🇬🇧🇪🇺 deal to help emerging British artists tour in Europe again.

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 6d

Labour embedded hard Brexit in its 2024 manifesto. No single market, so no free movement of labour. Pro-Europeans in Labour and elsewhere need to stop the attempts at cherry-picking and get back to first principles. You can’t simultaneously endorse a policy and decry its consequences.

Labour Movement for Europe @labour4europe.bsky.social · 8d

“It makes the economics of touring almost impossible.”

— @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social on the need for a 🇬🇧🇪🇺 deal to help emerging British artists tour in Europe again.

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 7d

They’ve been like this since Johnson. In thrall to the idea that policy need not be thought through as long as it’s radical or outlandish. And damn the consequences. Or blame someone else when it goes wrong. See also Brexit. What an awful party they’ve become.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Kemi Badenoch expected to announce plan to leave ECHR

Move to come if Conservatives win next election and is calculated to head off growing support for Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 7d

They’ve been like this since Johnson. In thrall to the idea that policy need not be thought through as long as it’s radical or outlandish. And damn the consequences. Or blame someone else when it goes wrong. See also Brexit. What an awful party they’ve become.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Kemi Badenoch expected to announce plan to leave ECHR

Move to come if Conservatives win next election and is calculated to head off growing support for Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d

Once again Labour's strategy is to say that racism is terrible, and therefore we will defeat the racists by giving them almost everything they want
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/k...

Keir Starmer's Farage-Dominated Conference Takes Labour Up a 'Darker Path' Towards a Reform Government

The Prime Minister's condemnations of Reform's racist rhetoric, was undermined by him accepting the central premise of Nigel Farage's anti-migrant politics, argues Adam Bienkov

bylinetimes.com

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