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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 41m

NEWS! Woman whose party couldn't spell 'Britain' decides English degrees are a 'rip-off' newsthump.com/2025/10/08/w...

Woman whose party couldn’t spell ‘Britain’ decides English degrees are a ‘rip-off’

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has today announced plans to reduce student numbers taking worthless degrees ‘like English’, just 24 hours after her party spectacularly failed to spel…

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17h

Conservative MP Mel Stride claims PIP benefit is thousands of pounds per month.

No it is an absolute maximum of £720 a month, and most people only get £250 or less.

Meanwhile he claims £1,250 a month in rent on his expenses

Lying, thieving b******

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 1h

56% say Brexit was a mistake.

Only 31% think it was right.

“The tide is turning.”

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1h

So Badenoch’s a Blair fan?

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2h

"We used to ring up our GP and get an appointment on the same day," says Kemi Badenoch. She does not add: we're all looking for the guy who did this!

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Angry John of Bradford @bd-angry.bsky.social · 3h

Come for the art; stay for the trees.
These are Dawn Redwoods - rare in their home, China.
100+yrs ago Kew Gardens got seeds, propagated them & have some to Lister Park #Bradford where they flourished!

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Angry John of Bradford @bd-angry.bsky.social · 4h

I’m at #TurnerPrize @bradford2025.co.uk
Come to the fabulous Cartwright Hall #Bradford to see some wonderful art.
#Bradford2025

Me in my BD25 uniform next to a BD25 flag at Cartwright Hall

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 3h

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 19h

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 3h

Annual cost of Eton school fees: £53k

Average UK salary: £35k

Guess which one the right-wing press is more concerned about?

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Angry John of Bradford @bd-angry.bsky.social · 3h

Come for the art; stay for the trees.
These are Dawn Redwoods - rare in their home, China.
100+yrs ago Kew Gardens got seeds, propagated them & have some to Lister Park #Bradford where they flourished!

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Angry John of Bradford @bd-angry.bsky.social · 4h

I’m at #TurnerPrize @bradford2025.co.uk
Come to the fabulous Cartwright Hall #Bradford to see some wonderful art.
#Bradford2025

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21h

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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susiecholden.bsky.social @susiecholden.bsky.social · 23h

Visited Bradford last week for the first time and loved it. Staggering buildings and of course the most glorious Waterstones bookshop..

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CattleBat @cattlebat.bsky.social · 23h

I love Bradford and up until this year I was an annual visitor to the city (attended the Infest music festival every August). The architecture in Bradford is breathtaking, including Waterstones, and I love the people. Even though Infest is no longer held in Bradford I will try to visit when I can.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

An incredible scoop from Darren here lifted straight from... Polanski's public Wikipedia page

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Is any journalist at Conservative conference going to ask Robert Jenrick where he got his new "Let's take our country back," slogan from?

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

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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Kath Ross @kathross.bsky.social · 1d

He knows perfectly well where his dangerous rhetoric leads. Literally fanning the flames…

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Jenrick delivers one of the most asinine speeches I have ever heard. He even brought along a prop, to explain how a judge becomes impartial setting aside personal views, then went on to attack judges for having views. His solution? Abolish tribunals. And who will adjudicate cases? Pfft. Details. ~AA

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Angry John of Bradford @bd-angry.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant! I’m so pleased the move north was worth it for even more than the fab husband.

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Angry John of Bradford @bd-angry.bsky.social · 1d

Aren’t we just! and us from Bratfud & the district would do well to remember that!

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

X-tinction - the life and death of the Twitter phenomenon....

And why it was finally time to leave.

Me for

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bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

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Angry John of Bradford @bd-angry.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent #Bradford morning:
Tiffin Coffee
Meat & veg at Darley St
Excited to read @jonnelledge.bsky.social bought at world’s most beautiful @waterstones.bsky.social

John Elledge ‘Borders’ book with wonderfully ornate bookshop ceiling.

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Angry John of Bradford @bd-angry.bsky.social · 2d

This is what we all saw this weekend at
✊STRIKE!
as we gathered in #Bradford2025 to pay homage to the fierce, powerful women who birthed our modern workers’s rights and #Labour / #Labor parties around the world.
youtu.be/vCkbiZG6MYc?...

STRIKE

YouTube video by Bradford 2025

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Herre Mörker @herrem.bsky.social · 1d

"We know the answers because someone dared to ask 'Why?' "

This really moved me... on why resistance is vital, even when success is not immediate or complete... or comes in the building of further resistance & of future strengths. This is a message of hope we need right now.

Angry John of Bradford @bd-angry.bsky.social · 2d

This is what we all saw this weekend at
✊STRIKE!
as we gathered in #Bradford2025 to pay homage to the fierce, powerful women who birthed our modern workers’s rights and #Labour / #Labor parties around the world.
youtu.be/vCkbiZG6MYc?...

STRIKE

YouTube video by Bradford 2025

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

And we have even less protection here. Trump can't fire judges who have constitutional protection. A government here could pass a law allowing them to do so with a majority of one in the Commons.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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