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Alexis Conran @alexisconran.com · 21h

Is Kemi really hoping that people believe all she has pointed out to be wrong with the country is the fault of a 15 month old government and not the result of the 14 years she and most of her front bench were in power?

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Alexis Conran @alexisconran.com · 23h

This is truly brilliant.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

"In the hour and a half I was there, I didn't see another white face"

Newsnight cover Robert Jenrick's leaked audio which some suggest are racist

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

Not a serious person. Zero mention of what this would mean for the over a million British citizens whose own access to welfare in the EU is protected by the withdrawal agreement.

EU citizens living in UK shouldn’t be allowed welfare benefits, says Tory rising star

Katie Lam — who is earning plaudits on the Conservative right — calls for Brexit withdrawal agreement to be reopened.

www.politico.eu

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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me you haven’t read Performance Tracker* without telling me you haven’t read Performance Tracker

*or literally any serious writing on local government finances

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 3d

This detailed demolition of @gullyfoyleuk.bsky.social's "75 Brexit Benefits" by @alanbeattie.bsky.social deserves wider circulation.

Intellectual garbage disposal is a valuable public service!

Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 3d

OK, let's take this seriously. I had an odd half an hour and via Apple Books had a quick look at the three claims I knew most about - two re the post-Brexit bilateral preferential trade agreements replicated from the EU versions and one about cheaper bananas. All are wrong or wildly implausible. 1/n

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 3d

Is this cancel culture?

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3d

Packed hall for Toby Young.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

Barely a fortnight has passed since Kemi Badenoch’s reflexive and incredibly OTT hostility to the government’s proposals for digital ID.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

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Alexis Conran @alexisconran.com · 5d

Eleven very worrying minutes from the brilliant Simon Marks.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

October 3, 2025 -

Podcast Episode · Simon Marks Reporting · 03/10/2025 · 11m

podcasts.apple.com

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Alexis Conran @alexisconran.com · 5d

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5d

Kemi Badenoch: "Last time I checked Northern Ireland did vote to leave."

Might be good idea to check again.

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David Phinnemore @dphinnemore.bsky.social · 6d

‘Polling commissioned by POLITICO shows the government’s agri-food deal agreed in principle with Brussels is popular with Remainers and Leavers alike — even when they're told it means following EU rules.

‘Nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) of voters back the deal…

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8d

"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 8d

hardly anyone will watch Starmer's appearance at Labour conference today but it was probably the best speech he's ever given

he clearly signposted what he stands for - a diverse, tolerant, decent Britain - and how be believes progressives are in an existential fight with the populist right

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 8d

Strong moment as Keir Starmer calls out the racism we’ve seen in recent weeks and months:

"Labour is proud of Britain's flags but if they are painted alongside graffiti telling a Chinese takeaway owner to 'go home', that's not pride - it's racism."

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 8d

Keir Starmer: "When was the last time you heard Nigel Farage saying anything positive about Britain’s future? He doesn’t like Britain.”

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Alexis Conran @alexisconran.com · 8d

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 9d

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: Home Sec Shabana Mahmood hits out at far right.

“In their view of this country I have no place. They are heirs to the skin heads and p*ki bashers of old”.

“Patriotism - a force for good - is turning into something smaller which struggles to believe I can be truly English”.

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Alexis Conran @alexisconran.com · 9d

Cat pigeons…

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 9d

Justice secretary David Lammy today: "In fourteen years, the Tories built just 500 extra prison places.

"In fourteen months, we have delivered 2,500 — and we’re on track for 14,000 extra prison places by 2031."

It's "the fastest prison building programme since the Victorian age" he says.

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 10d

The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11d

A majority of people who voted Labour last year believe the UK is heading in the wrong direction.

A new YouGov poll, commissioned by B4B, finds that the electoral coalition that brought Labour to power blames Brexit for where it's gone wrong.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4mv524J

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