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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 14d

"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 21d

Without inherited wealth or the family name, these fellas would be stood at the side of the road shouting nonsense at passing traffic.

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Marycshaw @marycshaw.bsky.social · Sep 12

I think so. 👏👏👏

Marycshaw @marycshaw.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thank you for this.
The Farage factor has made this country much more ugly and much less safe for many.
Without him I do not believe that Yaxley-Lennon would have the profile that he does.

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Marycshaw @marycshaw.bsky.social · Sep 11

The Farage factor 😞

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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · Sep 11

Guto Harri, previously Boris Johnson's comms director, and given a CBE in his resignation honours, here being given the status of an entirely neutral and benign "political commentator" as he speculates on Keir Starmer's future.

Newyddion S4C @newyddion.s4c.cymru · Sep 11

🗳️ 'Does neb yn gwybod beth ma' fe'n trio neud'

Mae’r sylwebydd gwleidyddol Guto Harri yn ansicr a fydd Syr Keir Starmer yn parhau fel Prif Weinidog y DU tan yr etholiad cyffredinol nesaf.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · Sep 3

not sure you’d be allowed to write this in North Korea, lads

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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · May 24

🚨 A plan to eradicate cervical cancer in England is being threatened by a slump in the number of children being vaccinated in schools:
www.thetimes.com/article/5a11...

Drop in HPV jabs blamed on pupils skipping school

Vaccine fatigue post-Covid has also been identified as a reason for a fall in the take-up of HPV vaccinations

www.thetimes.com

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · May 16

Ye Gods. Can someone check the drinking water at Labour HQ? They've all gone bonkers.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · May 16

“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · May 8

If the _only_ thing we got from the EU and all the membership fees paid were the longest period of peace most European countries have been fortunate to enjoy, the money would’ve been extremely well spent.

EU is a peace project first and foremost - but so much more too. Our last, best hope even?

A poster showing a woman in long dress standing on top of a hill against a background of forested and watery landscape and a sun rising above the clouds. The woman holds a flagstaff where a large EU flag is flying, framed against the sun. The text below reads “Defend Europe - Defend Democracy.”

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · Apr 29

It's been a while since waking up to good political news.
Well done Canada. Well done Mark Carney.

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · Apr 26

It takes a massive brass neck to have your administration attack another president for being disrespectfully dressed in a meeting and then turn up to the pope's funeral in a blue suit.

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · Apr 16

Journalists quite often get emails written in exactly this style, often sent to scores of recipients on multiple publications, and the sadly reliable assumption is that the irate sender is miserable, paranoid and probably unwell.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · Apr 15

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

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Marycshaw @marycshaw.bsky.social · Apr 9

No one should be allowed to lead a country without undergoing a couple years of psychotherapy first.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · Apr 9

He's loving every minute being King of the World.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Apr 9

In any other administration, the president would already be huddled with advisors trying to stave off collapse

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Apr 6

So according to Kemi Badenoch "putting our national interest first" involves cheering on a foreign government arbitrarily detaining and deporting our own country's elected MPs

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Apr 3

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen

It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world

It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

Haley Britzky @halbritz

AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID.

"They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.

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Marycshaw @marycshaw.bsky.social · Apr 3

My last visit to The Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick before it closes to be rebuilt.
Jay Miller’s The Glass Menagerie has had terrific reviews and the run has been extended to May 10th. Some tickets still available but it’s selling out.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · Apr 3

Bloody hell. What a point.

London Mum @londonmum.bsky.social · Apr 3

Can u imagine this amount of coverage about the economic costs of Brexit?
Sigh.

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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · Mar 30

What a gracious, lovely man

Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · Mar 30

Richard Chamberlain on coming out at age 68:

"It was as if an angel had put her hand on my head...and said, 'It's over. All that negative stuff is over.'"

interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/r... #RIPRichardChamberlain #RichardChamberlain

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · Mar 24

The UK and our NATO allies will never forget the sacrifice of 43 Danish soldiers in Afghanistan after 9/11.

But it appears JD Vance has.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Mar 19

Imagine negotiating with Putin and then coming out and telling everyone what bastards the Canadians are. Imagine having a brain so broken that this sequence of events is even thinkable.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 18

Trump: "Canada doesn't pay for military. They give us nothing. And they are the worst people to negotiate with of everybody ... they cheat."

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · Mar 19

Baby boomers, like me, didn't have material trinkets but we had hope, a free education, secure employment and affordable housing.
Generation Z have none of these, little wonder they suffer from anxiety and depression.

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