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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 13m

Islamphobia is practically government policy.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Head of UK Muslim charity ‘deeply worried’ as anti-Muslim hate crimes up by a fifth

Shaista Gohir says latest government figures are probably an ‘underestimation’ as many incidents go unreported

www.theguardian.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 25m

"Accuse the other of that of which you are guilty" as Goebbels, an inspiration for Farage?, observed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 27m

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

www.theguardian.com

Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 1h

Jude Law and Jason Bateman putting a shift in on Black Rabbit. Both excellent but nearly have the whole thing stolen from them by Troy Kotsur.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13h

The regulator Ofwat has ruled that 5 private water companies can raise bills by even more than previously agreed

A reminder that despite promising to nationalise the water industry Starmer dumped that pledge &decided to side with the private companies instead. This is the result

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 1h

📣You really couldn't make this up!

On the day Scottish Govt announces it is delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing, this happens...

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/09/b...

Breaking news….’out of control muirburn’ on grouse moor in Cairngorms National Park

You couldn’t make this up if you tried… Breaking News….on the day the Scottish Government announced it was delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing af…

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 6h

Someone scan those pages, get them online, and get them Streisanding, stat!

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 7h

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 12h

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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2 Wheeled Wolf @2-wheeled-wolf.bsky.social · 11h

Ha! Rather see more GPs in the GP surgeries so we can get to see a GP.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 12h

For GB News' ideological backers, it's money well spent.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 7h

Table For One Please.

Happy to hear this billboard is still up in Vancouver, was a pleasure to work with @visionzerovancouver.ca.

side of a building with a billboard that says smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too and picture of child biking beside a truck on painted bike lane

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe he can flog off some of Catholic church's vast wealth and put it to good use?

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe Pope will flog off some of his church's vast wealth to help the poor?

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 7h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 7h

Can you imagine how quickly Labour would change their stance on FPTP if the Greens were polling like Reform are lol

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 12h

More water bills rises announced today, on top of those already planned.

Privatisation without competition, arguably the worst of both worlds

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 7h

My Dad used to cycle to work every day. When he was in his 50s, someone pulled out of a side road without looking, ran him down, and hospitalised him. He bought a car, never cycled again, and eventually died after years of awful obesity related health issues.

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 8h

🌍 | Highest ever Green polling (15%).

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 8h

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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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22h

Who would have guessed

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 8h

"It sent 110,000 bullets last month to Israeli snipers who we know have been using Palestinian children as target practice at times"

On #PoliticsLive @fisherandrew79.bsky.social mentioning the complicity of our government.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 8h

"The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Robert Barry @monsterbobby.bsky.social · 8h

Pretty disappointing attitude from the White Hotel here www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o... Their comment seems to rely on the myth that charitable donations are more efficiently redistributed than state funding when the complete opposite is the case (by degrees of magnitude).

There’s a £1 idea that could save small music venues. Is Live Nation holding it back?

Artists including Coldplay and Katy Perry have got behind a plan to fund small venues from big gigs – but owners say that without Live Nation on board, it could fail

www.theguardian.com

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socialistnan123 @socialistnan123.bsky.social · 8h

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 8h

NEW REPORT | Sovereignty in All but Name: Israel’s Quickening Annexation of the West Bank

Netanyahu’s government is moving towards establishing permanent control of the occupied West Bank. Outside powers should commit to pushing Israel to change course.

www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

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Revolution UK @revolutionuk.bsky.social · 10h

Every single person in Reform is simultaneously the worst person you’ve ever met. Probably realised you actually have to do work rather than just blame migrants and science for everything

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 11h

Reform UK’s Councillor Rowland O’Connor, St. Columb Major, has resigned from the party.

A conspiracy theorist who claimed 17m people have died from the COVID vaccine, among many other claims.

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