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Graham Davis @agendaforreform.bsky.social · 2h

Thatcher would not believe the obliteration of her Conservative party and how quickly and emphatically it has occurred.

Graham Davis @agendaforreform.bsky.social · 3h

Post ceasefire security in Gaza is going to be the biggest problem. How about Trump redeploying the National Guard from Portland where it is confronting inflateable frogs and bunnies, dangerous though they are, to Gaza where they could fill the security vacuum.

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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 10h

My mRNA vaccine has given me super powers — it has protected me against Covid.

If you think RNA will mutate your DNA, then you are the dumbest smooth brain on the planet.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 5h

People are marching against Trump’s authoritarianism in the USA, Macron’s failures in France, and the cruelty of Gaza policy in the UK.

Everywhere, governments are asking 'how to stop protest?' when they should be asking 'why people feel the need to protest?'

youtu.be/CE4vwdSfdcY?...

Is protest democracy in motion, and not a crime?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Graham Davis @agendaforreform.bsky.social · 3h

A very funny guy

Brad Meltzer @bradmeltzer.com · 12h

Woof. The John Candy documentary is a beautiful, poignant dive into one of my heroes. Thank you for that, Colin Hanks and Ryan Reynolds. So well done.

#johncandy #fyp #snl #inspring #rip #heroesds

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

The kind of stuff I’d always posted stopped doing numbers. The kind of stuff I liked seeing stopped getting posted. The site stopped sending people to stuff I write. I stopped getting commissions from it. The fun stopped ages ago. And crucially, it got *boring* to spend time there.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 13h

It's the same intellectual world that produced Dominic Cummings and Steve Hilton

Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 15h

Anyone writing about the influence of these thinkers really needs to provide detail on what they have actually written. Most of it is incoherent, lacking any substance and often downright weird.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 16h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 22h

God Bless America is just a song by Irving Berlin. It’s not the national anthem. America is so far down the moron hole it will never get out

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MickDundee58 @lairdmickd.bsky.social · 7h

"What's worse than middle age?"
"Knowing you're growing out of it."

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Graham Davis @agendaforreform.bsky.social · 3h

Frogs, rise up, your time has come!

Graham Davis @agendaforreform.bsky.social · 3h

Compare Polanski to Starmer. Polanski sounds like a guy who says it like it is, Starmer tippy toes round the issues. Ok it’s easy in opposition but it does show a younger, lefty guy compared with Tory light Starmer is gonna be a bigger threat than Reform. Voters are fed up with grey Labour.

Chris Williams @chrisw100.bsky.social · 5h

100,000 members and rising 💯

Next... overtake The Tories.

Join us to make that happen. join.greenparty.org.uk

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Williams @chrisw100.bsky.social · 5h

100,000 members and rising 💯

Next... overtake The Tories.

Join us to make that happen. join.greenparty.org.uk

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

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Graham Davis @agendaforreform.bsky.social · 3h

Fore every Gazan killed Hamas will recruit 10 more fighters. Netanyahu has ignored this obvious reality but now there’s a ceasefire Gaza must be demilitarised, it needs a UN led civilian administration but I doubt Trump will allow this or put US troops on the ground.

Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 4h

Hamas begins trickling back onto the streets. 'The officer claimed that Hamas’s redeployment extends through much of the Strip, in all areas vacated by Israeli forces, “even in places close to the soldiers themselves.”' www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-reappe...

Hamas reappears on Gaza’s streets, and two of three militias that fought it go quiet

For now, the terror group's reappearance is relatively limited, but reports are mounting of it pursuing those who have resisted it. And many Gazans fear a return of terror rule

www.timesofisrael.com

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 4h

'In over two years of warfare Israel has succeeded in tackling only about a third of the hundreds of kilometres of underground passages. It is hard to see how this can take place if Hamas fighters are active.' www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Donald Trump scrambles to seal the deal in Gaza

As he jets to the region Hamas gunmen try to retake control

www.economist.com

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Graham Davis @agendaforreform.bsky.social · 4h

Wow, don’t make ‘em like that any more!

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21h

BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 5h

Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 18h

Your average voter thinks most MPs are lining their own pockets - better line of attack on money is how he earns it. Going over to the US and slagging off his country for cold hard cash for a start.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18h

And yet he claims to understand the struggles of working people...

https://leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nigel-farage-now-earns-over-1-million-from-12-second-jobs/

Nigel Farage now earns over £1 million from his 12 ‘second jobs’

The Reform leader has raked in a further £189,000 from side jobs since May this year

leftfootforward.org

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Graham Davis @agendaforreform.bsky.social · 4h

I’ll enjoy the AI videos of Trump ascending to heaven when his diet of purgers and soda finally gets him.

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Anna Jerzewska @annajerzewska.bsky.social · 4h

A new round of trilogue negotiations on the EU Customs Reform is set to take place in Brussels this week. It's likely to focus on less controversial aspects of the text, pushing things like the handling fee and e-commerce ot a later date.

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Graham Davis @agendaforreform.bsky.social · 4h

Depressing scenario from everyone’s favourite economist. But there is enormous wealth in this country and that should be taxed more to lessen the gap between the richest and poorest. The burden on the NHS could be lessened by an effective public health program particularly obesity.

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 4h

No easy answers to the problems with the UK economy which are set out with his usual clarity here bit.ly/4hrIQI9 by @PJTheEconomist the depressing truth is a useful counterpoint to the easy answers politicians promise to get our votes

Reeves faces a historic challenge with record state spending

Yearly public spending is some £150 billion more than it was before the pandemic, driven by an ageing population, debt interest and greater defence needs

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Graham Davis @agendaforreform.bsky.social · 4h

substack.com/@sobiaquazi/...

Sobia Quazi (@sobiaquazi)

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Jack Draper III @jackdraper3.bsky.social · 6d

Conflict resolution expert Oliver J. McTernan noted on the BBC a key lesson from Ireland's peace process: the need to bring former militants into the power structure of the new regime (the same was true for Colombia). To ignore this, he warns, is a major flaw in the peace plan on the table for Gaza.

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