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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 1d

It is unclear what fire, in Gaza, has ceased.

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Louis Wood @louis88.bsky.social · 23h

Poor Claire. WHO on production did she piss off? #Traitors

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Will Jennings🗠🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 3d

It’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that large parts of Westminster remaining on X - a platform that tolerates and amplifies extremism and racism - has led a great many people to normalise what previously was unacceptable.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 3d

Waking up, again, to the sound of two white men on the radio arguing about whether it is ok to be made "mad" by the very sight of black and Asian people on TV. 😒

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer's failure to stand up to this man is a cowardly and suicidal calamity

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

This, from the leader of the opposition, seems like a pretty clear case of contempt of court to me

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Louis Wood @louis88.bsky.social · 2d

Me too!

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

'Perhaps a politician saying they can't stand the sight of black people is a racist, or perhaps it's just realistic to say that black people shouldn't be shown in public. Tune in this evening to find out....'

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

This attempt to both-sides obvious undeniable racism is a truly grim way to report this

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Peston @itvpeston.bsky.social · 4d

Is the Reform MP who says she’s driven mad by TV adverts full of Black & Asian people a racist or realist? How many migrants would the Tories expel? & should the UK be selling fighter jets to Türkiye?

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Louis Wood @louis88.bsky.social · 3d

Hello relative 👋🏻 ☺️

That must’ve been very cool. I’d love to visit someday.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 3d

Another great lost

The Independent @the-independent.com · 3d

Breaking news 🚨

Fawlty Towers actor Prunella Scales dies aged 93

Prunella Scales death: Fawlty Towers actor dies aged 93

Actor was best known for playing the bossy wife to John Cleese’s eccentric hotelier Basil Fawlty in the acclaimed Monty Python sitcom

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party | Robert Reich

Democratic party leaders like Chuck Schumer refuse to endorse Mamdani. And The New York Times wrongly cautions against him. Both are wrong

www.theguardian.com

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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 4d

The median voter isn’t a Labour–Reform switcher. And that means Farage isn’t Starmer's biggest threat — appearing toxic to liberal voters is.

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Over the past year, the government, spearheaded by Morgan McSweeney, has relentlessly focused on issues such as immigration. This makes a certain kind of sense: opposition to Farage is likely to form the backbone of Labour’s ‘better the devil you know’ 2029 election strategy. But if few voters are *actually switching* from Labour to Reform, and the party is leaking support to liberal and Left parties then a strategic rethink becomes essential.

The Caerphilly by-election shows that first-past-the-post can still prevent a Reform landslide, if the parties of the Left bloc work together rather than cannibalise their votes. Given the fact that Labour is the government, and holds a great many seats in parliament, that should benefit Starmer. Yet for tactical voting to be effective, voters must actually be prepared to vote Labour.

That means, in the words of The Economist’s Duncan Robinson, the party must stop punching its own voters in the face. Those baby steps towards blaming Brexit for the UK’s economic malaise may be a sign of a change in strategy (or, alternatively, of yet more incoherence.)

None of this dictates that Rachel Reeves ought to junk her fiscal rules, Labour should ignore the cost of living or forget about small boats. But if the median voter isn’t a Labour-to-Reform switcher, that’s quite a big deal. And if Labour wants to keep leading the Left bloc — let alone form a government in 2029 — it must give left-leaning voters who might, in an ideal world, prefer the Greens, Plaid Cymru or Lib Dems, a reason to hold their noses and vote Labour.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

This is what tolerance of anti-migrant political rhetoric leads to. A surge in racial abuse against nurses and care workers. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%

Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4d

It's easy to look at public statements purely through a prism of free speech. But words have consequences. Being *legally permitted* to say awful things, doesn't mean we must all go around saying them. The bare minimum should not be the most we can expect. ~AA

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%

Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour

www.theguardian.com

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 5d

Off the top of my head, there have been four egregious examples of weapons grade public racism in the last couple of weeks - Jenrick; the Express hack; Captain Concrete & the Reform woman. The way they are treated by employers, punters & wider media, will directly influence how much more we see.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 5d

I found a capybara pebble🤎

Flint pebble that fell out of a wall in Linton, Cambridgeshire and I picked up bc I thought it looked like the world's largest rodent. I added the eye with a fine liner pen

A photo of a mother and baby capybara nestling together affectionately

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 5d

If Reform do get into government, the media organisation whose response will most closely resemble the cravenness seen in the US will be the BBC - probably even more than the right wing press

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 5d

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC

The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

Striking to hear a senior Government minister in Wes Streeting clearly condemning Sarah Pochin's racism and the wider spread of racism across the UK, while defending the contribution of migrants to our country. Feels like a long time since we've heard a government minister speak like that

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

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Charles&Herb @magichatgrok.bsky.social · 6d

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Louis Wood @louis88.bsky.social · 7d

Had a great time tonight at #HackneyEmpire at the recording of the finale of a new music show (for 2026), with Alison Hammond, Paloma Faith and Sam Ryder.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 7d

To go from "Who is Katie Lam?" to "Everybody hates Katie Lam, the Tory Idi Amin" in less than a week is exemplary "rising star" behaviour

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8d

The bleakly funny thing about this story is that visibly *this morning* the Conservative leadership had not absorbed just how crackers the policy they had signed up to was.

Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 8d

Lol, well yes.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 8d

“Whether it’s Nigel [Farage] banging on about the [small] boats, or Robert Jenrick talking about Handsworth, [politicians] are stoking a fire ... I feel it’s doing more harm than good in terms of community relations.”
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Reform’s only Black branch chair quits over ‘harmful’ migration debate

Exclusive: Neville Watson leaves amid concerns about weaponisation of religion and erosion of community relations

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 8d

RIP Dave Ball, who told stories with synthesizers. When I was a kid I thought this what London at night sounded like: sad, sleazy, wounded, majestic youtu.be/y9KgEs3Zksg?...

Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

YouTube video by SoftCellVEVO

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