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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 6h

It's time for a montage!

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 12h

Either Zia Yusuf has been lying to the British public or he's been used as a patsy to cover for the Reform UK leaders who absolutely know who Nathan Gill is.

"I've never spoken to him, most people in the senior leadership team have never really heard of the guy." 😬

(h/t @jim_nauseum2 on X-Twitter)

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The Rejoin EU Party @therejoineuparty.com · 7d

🔴 If Gill took Kremlin cash to say it...why was Farage saying the same things? 🐻🇷🇺🪆

This looks Bad! This looks identical!

#Brexit #Putin

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 1d

"The West is not doing Ukraine a favour by helping it resist aggression; it is Ukraine doing the West a favour."

Fundamental point in @ldfreedman.bsky.social's latest. The true 'realist' position on Ukraine is that we should support Ukraine.

samf.substack.com/p/as-long-as...

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Well, this is fun: Cards Against Humanity have released a new version where every joke on every card is explained, turning the game into an "Informational product" so it's 100% exempt from Trump's tarriffs: www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

All profits go to the American Library Association. 💥📚

Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs with an edition that explains all the jokes, says 'this holiday season… don’t give Donald Trump a f***ing cent'

For US customers only.

www.pcgamer.com

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

In @thetimes.com letters page today

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps the bbc will report on the green surge with the same enthusiasm with which they promoted farage?

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 2d

🌿☕One more sleep to Cheltenham Literature Festival 2025🥁

🎂And Happy 80th Birthday🎂

Well over 100,000 tickets sold at Cheltenham Festivals every year & c.25% tickets given free to schools & outreach organisations🙏

I think I've bought most of them 🤦 so many brill speakers!📚
youtu.be/6XuJmYWGWQw?...

Happy Birthday CF 80th - REMIX

YouTube video by Cheltenham Festivals

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 2d

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Darrell @stevejdrl.bsky.social · 2d

The Booker Prizes account has posted 6 short films with actors reading from the books on the shortlist. This is my favourite of the films.

The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 3d

Watch Gabrielle Creevy read from Flashlight, the #BookerPrize2025 shortlisted novel by Susan Choi.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmgn...

Gabrielle Creevy reads from Flashlight by Susan Choi | The Booker Prize

YouTube video by The Booker Prizes

www.youtube.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 3d

Self-defence, terrorism and a state of conflict have all been invoked as justification for attacks by the US military near Venezuela. None are convincing.

Attacks on ‘drug boats’ are pushing the US away from the consensus on the rules of international law

Self-defence, terrorism and a state of conflict have all been invoked as justification for attacks on the high seas. None are convincing.

www.chathamhouse.org

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4d

Michael Heseltine tells @europeanmovement.co.uk event that the Farage's Reform and European populist far right parties are “equivalents to the fascists of the thirties” and adds: ”We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. We don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near No.10.” ~AA 🔥

Robert Peston
@Peston
Heseltine has just addressed a packed meeting of the European Movement at Tory conference. He does not show the restraint of most party leaders in his critique of Farage and Reform: “right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march: Le Pen in France, AfD in Germany, Fdl in Italy, Vox in Spain and conspicuously Reform in this country. Much of President Trump's language in America coincides with words here in Europe. The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem which needs a solution although recent events here have cast a dark shadow…We must make clear that we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Nigel Farage. We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. we don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near Number 10.”
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5d

The people who are sincerely in favor of freedom of expression will speak out now for the reporters.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 5d

🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.

The protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the federal government’s violent
attempts to silence the protesters became a story of great interest to the local Chicago media and
was also covered in the national press. Much of the coverage described the federal officers’
abusive tactics. Defendants sought and are seeking to quash this coverage by attacking and
intimidating members of the Press on the ground there.
85. Federal immigration officers at the Broadview ICE facility have repeatedly and
intentionally singled out persons whom they know to be members of the Press for violence,
assault, and intimidation. These assaults are not incidental or unintentional. They are undertaken
by design to intimidate journalists on scene and to frustrate and suppress coverage of the federal
officers’ actions toward protesters and immigration detainees

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 4d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 4d

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 4d

Ahead of the appeal of a Turkish embassy protester who was convicted of a crime for causing offence to Muslims, Nigerian humanist Mubarak Bala, entenced to 24 years in prison for blasphemy in Nigeria, has said: 'Take it from me, freedom of speech is too precious to let slip away.'

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Sarfraz Manzoor @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social · 5d

Life moves pretty fast.

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Steve Darrell @stevejdrl.bsky.social · 5d

The Gilded Age - it's not like nobody offered any clues.

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Steve Darrell @stevejdrl.bsky.social · 5d

Apologies for repeating myself, but

Sign saying, "A great library has something in it to offend everyone."

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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 5d

Everybody In America is Female
is about to clock up 1 million views at any moment. Maybe you could be the millionth: youtu.be/DR8fHT31aPA?...

Everybody In America Is Female

YouTube video by Mitch Benn Patreon

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 5d

Tories and Reform want to quit the European Convention on Human Rights.

Since 1980, the ECHR court has heard 29 cases of immigrant deportation. UK won 16. No defeats in the last 5 yrs.

Quitting ECHR won't fix illegal immigration, will destroy our freedoms and rights.
archive.ph/eMg3O

Leaving the ECHR won’t fix illegal migration

Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift

www.thetimes.com

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