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European Commission

@ec.europa.eu

🦵€650 million.
⚽14 cross-border energy projects.
🥅 One goal: clean, affordable energy for everyone.

Discover them 👇

January 28, 2026 at 3:40 PM

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Catherine Rampell

@crampell.bsky.social

South Carolina measles outbreak reaches 789 cases, surpassing Texas.
The ongoing outbreak is the largest since measles was eliminated in the country 26 years ago. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

South Carolina measles outbreak reaches 789 cases, surpassing Texas

The ongoing outbreak is the largest since measles was eliminated in the country 26 years ago.

www.nbcnews.com

January 28, 2026 at 3:41 PM

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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲

@amsickofpollies.bsky.social

THANK THE GODS!!

January 28, 2026 at 3:24 PM

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Dame Rainbow Warrior

@damerainbowwarrior.bsky.social

Scotland & England fans: the 2026 World Cup is set to be hosted in Trump’s USA. We can’t stay silent. Sign the petition calling for a boycott unless it's move, to protect players & fans! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bo...

Boycott Trump's World Cup: Sign the petition to move the games now!

I am unbelievably chuffed that the Scottish Men's team, alongside England are qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. Since childhood I have always loved a World Cup. My childish excitement however is bein...

you.38degrees.org.uk

January 28, 2026 at 3:24 PM

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Dennis Patton

@dennispatton.bsky.social

Well I never.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Part ‘UK’s worst illegal waste dump’ site is owned by King Charles

www.independent.co.uk

January 28, 2026 at 2:37 PM

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Henry Mance

@henrymance.ft.com

This is completely shocking. The police and CPS prosecuted a woman for allegedly making up rape allegation, despite strong evidence that she had been raped.

It should have ended people's careers. It hasn't.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I accused a police officer of rape, but I ended up on trial

How a secret audio recording played in court helped clear a woman accused of making a false rape allegation.

www.bbc.co.uk

January 28, 2026 at 2:38 PM

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Farrukh

@implausibleblog.bsky.social

President Macron, "Recent events confirm that the situation in Greenland is a strategic wake-up call for the whole of Europe"

"About asserting our European sovereignty, about our contribution to Arctic security"

"About the fight against foreign interference and disinformation"

January 28, 2026 at 2:28 PM

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Russell England

@russellengland.bsky.social

Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 8h

"UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British"

Matt Goodwin, Reform UK Ltd candidate

Braverman - parents from Mauritius and Kenya
Zahawi - born in Iraq
Kruger - South African parents
Marco Longhi - Italian father
Lia Nici - Italian father
Zia Yusuf - Sri Lankan parents

Reform byelection candidate refuses to disown claim that people born in UK not necessarily British

Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, said UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British

www.theguardian.com

January 28, 2026 at 9:41 AM

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Global Justice Now

@globaljusticenow.bsky.social

"The government is refusing to give the public or MPs any useful information about the true costs of this deal.

"With all this secrecy, you have to wonder: what have ministers got to hide?"

Our campaigner Tim quoted in @theguardian.com 👇🏽

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Pressure grows on ministers to end secrecy over UK medicines deal with Trump

Critics say government hiding true cost of agreement ‘despite being forced to admit financial burden will grow year on year’

www.theguardian.com

January 28, 2026 at 9:42 AM

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John Watson

@dr-lungs.bsky.social

How many potential Reform UK Ltd voters realise that the Party want to bring Minneapolis to the UK?
How many British Mums and ICU nurses will die?

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

January 28, 2026 at 9:42 AM

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Jojo

@jojowiththeflow.bsky.social

You can not be serious. This country isn't even able to provide decent enough infrastructure to offer fast or even stable internet connectivity to everyone... clowns

January 28, 2026 at 8:19 AM

MsBlueWednesday

@msbluewednesday.bsky.social

And people wonder why others flee their country & become asylum seekers/refugees. Guardian.

Flowers/photos for the many thousands dead in Iran

January 28, 2026 at 8:31 AM

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Peter Stefanovic

@peterstefanovic.bsky.social

“A THIRD of people who turn to our community of food banks are in a household where someone works”
@trusselluk.bsky.social

January 28, 2026 at 8:25 AM

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posaune2.bsky.social

@posaune2.bsky.social

I was nine when the measles ripped through our town. No vaccine yet. A neighbor family w/ 6 kids caught it. The 6yo developed encephalitis: blind, deaf and paralyzed (vegetative state) - 5 years in a nursing home. He finally passed. That family was never the same. Other 5 kids traumatized.

January 27, 2026 at 10:36 PM

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Leigh Jones

@leighsus.bsky.social

Two men were given 90% of Teesworks on the promise they would take on responsibility of remediating the site.

I've discovered they were charging BP for remediation on a project the oil giant eventually pulled out of.

Teesworks overspent and then asked them for more cash.

BP cancelled hydrogen scheme after refusing to pay Teesworks additional remediation charges

Energy giant paid undisclosed fees to Teesworks Ltd for projects it eventually shelved

teesside.thelead.uk

January 28, 2026 at 8:16 AM

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Mikey Smith

@mikeysmith.com

Donald Trump says he wants to 'make Iraq great again' as he interferes in another election
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Trump says he wants to 'make Iraq great again' -interfering in another election

US Presidents interfering in the leadership of Iraq has always gone spectacularly wrong - but Trump has decided to return to that well

www.mirror.co.uk

January 27, 2026 at 8:43 PM

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Maggie Duarte #fbpe

@maggiedu.bsky.social

We owe so much to animals in so many ways. There cannot be a valid reason for not doing this

Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 19h

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

👇👇

Petition: Ban the non-stun slaughter of animals

Ban non-stun slaughter. We think it is cruel and causes unnecessary harm to the animals being slaughtered/butchered.

petition.parliament.uk

January 27, 2026 at 8:47 PM

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Barry Howard 🔶

@barryhow2c.bsky.social

January 27, 2026 at 8:49 PM

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Tim Altmann

@timaltmann.bsky.social

Wow.
Ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter joins those calling for boycott of World Cup in United States
apnews.com/article/fifa...

Ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter joins those calling for boycott of World Cup in United States

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is backing a proposed fan boycott of World Cup matches in the United States because of the conduct of President Donald Trump and his administration at home and abroa...

apnews.com

January 27, 2026 at 5:17 PM

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Mr RobertBob

@mrrobertbob.bsky.social

I’ve been to neighbours again to pump out their cellar. Southern Water after 6 weeks have finally admitted there is a mains leak causing the problem. They have also missed 3 dates to begin work to repair the leak.
It is so stressful for our neighbours who are in their mid 80’s and already unwell.

January 27, 2026 at 5:17 PM

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DeSmog

@desmog.com

For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. It’s now backing a new climate accounting scheme enabling just that. See the industry docs dating back to the '60s ("Pollution is everybody’s business") and more 👇