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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 11h

Bruce suggested the audience 'wanted to talk about other things'

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2h

Give up satirists.

Move to Saudi or something.

You're not needed any more.

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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 1h

More here from her. You can see why she is a regular on the beeb.

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markofbattersea @markofbattersea.bsky.social · 1h

#Newsnight
Dear lord!
The BBC's favourite bigots is on, again!
When she's not messing around with Kenyan elections, she's proclaiming white nationalist ideals.
If Oswald Mosley were alive today, he'd be regularly sitting on comfortable sofas at the BBC.
Talk TV on the BBC.

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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 1h

Alex Philips.... Sadly a regular on the BBC.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 6h

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 6h

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 4h

Ooooh, he is SUCH a naughty rogue, Boris is. Just what we needed to stick one up to the EU, and what a success that turned out to be! Yes, Boris, one of those guys you just love to have a pint with in the pub, just like Farage. And what else could you possibly want from your Prime Minister?

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Rohan Patel @goonerohan.bsky.social · 1d

As much as I loved Saka's goal, the real highlight of the night was the players walking out with fans suffering from dementia. Also, a big shout-out to Rice and Stones for putting a supportive arm around their designated fan. ❤

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Mr. Secretary, the president is on the phone. He sounds very angry and he keeps calling you Lil Marco.

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St0ney of Henge @stonehenge.bsky.social · 1d

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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 8h

"This UK news is brought to you by the Independent, the voice of liberal Britain."

Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 8h

I think you and Trump should have a duel to the death to decide who will be the challenger to right this wrong.

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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 9h

If Kemi is impressed with that statistic, she should look up how many nuclear reactors China built in the years the UK wasted trying to decide what Brexit should look like, followed by how to make Brexit "work", and I use that word in the broadest sense possible.

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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 9h

Ho ho, I would like to point out that Farage himself was the victim of Marxist left teachers at Dulwich College, who complained he was a fascist, and thought it was like bad he was marching through sleepy villages shouting Hitler Jugend songs, talking about wogs and pakis etc.

Nigel Farage: what are schoolboy racism claims – and why have they resurfaced?

David Lammy has clarified remarks that the Reform leader ‘flirted with Hitler Youth’. Here is the background to the row

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

After pointing out that she's an immigrant Joanna Lumley asks why we don't fix the problems that create asylum seekers and address climate change

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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 9h

"Yes, Nathan Gill is a very bad apple. He took money from Oleg Voloshyn, also a very bad apple. I never took money from Oleg! And here I am, with Oleg Voloshyn's delightful wife Nadia. Not a bad apple at all, but she does have two mean apples. Melons, more like hahahahaha!"

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 18h

Faversham residents willingly turn their town in 1980s Northern Ireland, using the flag to mark out their territory.

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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 10h

Your son will grow up to be a man, we will give him full British citizenship. However, your girl will always be a mere woman, pfff, she will stay a BOT, with less rights. This is fair as we are a fair and generous and welcoming country, if we do say so ourselves.

‘Clear parallels’ with Windrush as UK-born toddler denied passport

Campaigners say lessons not being learned as three-year-old’s mother is asked to prove right to free NHS treatment

www.theguardian.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 22h

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 13h

Very pointedly the Norwegian Nobel committee awarded the prize to Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who has had to go into hiding, for “keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness”

Something Trump is decidedly NOT doing. Driving his country to civil war instead.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14h

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

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Richard M. @mat70x.bsky.social · 15h

We spend all our time talking about the 3% of immigrants coming to the UK......
Why are the 36% who come here to study even in the immigration figures 🤔 We've allowed them to come here, pay for tuition (in a sector that's falling apart!) spend money with Landlords, Spend money in shops, bars,

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15h

Rupert Lowe proposes UK in principle should hear refugee claims only from French, German, Belgian, Dutch & Norwegian people, originally from those countries, so won't need an asylum system as nobody is eligible. (I can't see the point of pretending he'd want European refugees if there were any!)

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1d

Hate crimes are up for the first time in three years? Complete mystery about how we got here.

Race and religious hate crime rises in England and Wales, figures suggest

The number of police-recorded race and religious hate crimes have increased in the year to March.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 11h

Good performance yesterday. One tip. Next time (and there will be one, plenty in fact) Yusuf or Nige vow they will stop all benefits to foreigners as 1 in 6 Universal Credit claimants are foreign, remind them that 1-6 of the population are foreign, so there is nothing unfair about that.

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