Agnes
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Agnes
@agnes99.bsky.social
Loving life after 50. X
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Good news Canterbury!

Your lovely Reform council are scrapping your historic Georgian street lights.
January 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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Remember that thing I already admitted I did? Well now I've decided I didn't do it, and everybody else is the fantasist.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage dismisses racist and antisemitic school bullying claims as ‘made-up fantasies’
Reform UK leader says accusations about his behaviour at Dulwich college were politically motivated
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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Nigel Farage confirms that Reform UK will vote *against* the bill to lift the two child cap, keeping hundreds of thousands of children in poverty.
January 7, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Trump said “Our elections are crooked as hell,” and that’s no shit - who in their right mind would elect a Convicted Felon, Pedophile, Failed businessman, Grifter, Con man and Rapist as you President!
Just ask Elon, South American, silver spoon turd to rig it for you and Heritage found. To approve
January 7, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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Rejoining the European Customs Union would boost UK public finances by £25bn, say Westminster LibDems | Sir Graham Watson and Martin Roche
Boosting UK trade in one simple step
Rejoining the European Customs Union would boost UK public finances by £25bn, say Westminster LibDems
bylines.scot
January 7, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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No one is asking Wes Streeting to be a commentator.

Asking him to be a government minister when the whole world can see Trump breaking international law whilst threatening Greenland next, and the Cabinet (with Nigel Farage) seems perfectly fine with it.
Wes Streeting is asked if Trump has broken international law when it comes to Venezuela. Streeting says he's got nothing to add and he's not here to be a commentator.

I mean, which idiot thinks politicians should answer questions when they're being interviewed in a TV studio!
January 6, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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My thoughts today are with the security people and police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 and have been treated with such distain since by the GOP. For them and the Democratic leadership who lived through such chaos and no doubt continue to carry the scars within. We will not forget.
January 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Reformed January 6th participant (who refused a pardon): “You can't gaslight me. I was there. I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down and hit his head and his back. So don't be telling me it wasn't violent.”
January 6, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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🔥🇪🇺 “Europeans enjoy more free time than Americans, a higher life expectancy and lower levels of inequality – all with roughly comparable productivity.

Whichever way you look at it, this is a significantly superior economic performance.”
Decline, what decline? The myth of dying Europe
There is a widespread view that, by comparison with the USA, Europe is in economic and social decline. But, Zucman argues, it's not true
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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She fell off a bridge and got stuck just before Christmas.

The poor old girl has been terrified. It's taken 2 weeks of lots of patience but she is finally letting me in!
January 5, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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It's ironic how so many don't like clowns, and are even terrified of them, yet half of the USA voted for one!
January 5, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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Trump didn't even consult with the leader of the Venezuelan opposition before decapitating their government because he's jealous she won a Nobel Peace Prize and his felonious warmongering ass did not.
January 5, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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The Truth about Venezuela.
January 4, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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There are a lot of MLB players and prospects from Venezuela. Been texting with people in several front offices and nobody knows how this is going to impact players and their families’ ability to get out. A total clusterfuck.
January 3, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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The stupidest people in the world continue to get cheered on by those whose lives will only be made worse by their actions.

While the majority of us remain hostages to it all.

It's so bleak.
January 4, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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“Your government might deport the children of refugees who've been born in this country, who've known no other home… is that really the kind of actions of a Labour government led by a former human rights lawyer?"
Laura Kuenssberg
January 4, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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On the one hand it's extraordinary that my teenage child lived in the same era as Eva Schloss and on the other it's terrifying that nobody seems to have learned the lessons of her family's terrible experiences

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss dies aged 96 as King leads tributes
King Charles said he was
www.bbc.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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Zelensky on Venezuela:

“About Venezuela? How should I respond to that? Well, what can I say? If… If it is possible to act with dictators like this, it means the United States knows what to do next. Thank you”

Omg I love it.
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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No war to hide the Epstein files!
January 4, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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A brisk reminder that optimism needs a coat!
January 4, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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The political media in the UK tripping over themselves to report, broadcast and comment on Nigel Farage’s remarks on the situation in Venezuela.

And that’s exactly why we’re in the situation we’re in right now.
January 3, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment
Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...
www.nature.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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Reform UK won’t say ‘private’ when talking about the NHS. Richard Tice is calling it ‘independent’:

"Instead of giving £26bn to the already bloated wasteful NHS, we proposed easing pressure on the health service by incentivising those who can afford to pay more to go independent with a tax break."
January 3, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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Prepare to smile a lot. One of the best comebacks ever!
January 4, 2026 at 12:26 PM