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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 3d

Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers.

Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 3d

Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

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Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 1d

If only there was money to be found from taxing wealth as we do income, increasing taxes on higher earners, tax unused land held by developers and tax the profits of big businesses much more. But, I guess, you’ve gotta dance to your paymasters’ tunes, and they sure don’t like any of those things.

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North Side Baseball @northsidebaseball.com · 1d

Perhaps there's more Craig Counsell could have done Monday. Perhaps there are a few buttons he could have pressed instead of the ones he did, or perhaps he should have pressed the same ones sooner. But the truth is, the Brewers are simply better than his Cubs squad. #cubs #chicago #behereforit

Like Chess with a Set of Checkers: Craig Counsell Tries (and Fails) to Outfox Pat Murphy with Lesser Pieces

Perhaps there's more Craig Counsell could have done Monday. Perhaps there are a few buttons he could have pressed instead of the ones he did, or perhaps he should have pressed the same ones sooner. But the truth is, the Brewers are simply better than his Cubs squad.

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Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed. Counsell has an arm tied behind his back. Blame Hoyer and Ricketts for the roster we have.

Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 2d

Millwall’s xG was 0.77. I’m no xG fan, but it suggests we weren’t as bad as the scoreline. I think Mason made some strange decisions, but I’m questioning Nestor and his magic spreadsheets much more at the moment. His recruitment has been a lot more miss than hit, and we have big gaps in the squad.

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theliquidatorpod.bsky.social @theliquidatorpod.bsky.social · 2d

Two #wba strikers are out of contract this summer.

Should #wba be offering both or either a new contract?

Maja 👍 or 👎

Dike 👍 or 👎

@goldbergradio.bsky.social @chrislepkowski.bsky.social

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THE LIQUIDATOR: Ryan's Lions' Mauling; Dike, Maja Contract Decision; Kyle Bartley's Knee; Bruce Sacked

Adrian and Chris discuss matters arising from Albion's 3-0 drubbing by Millwall.

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Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 4d

Mate, if this is how you talk to people on here, why did you leave Twitter? We moved here because we were sick of such poisonous exchanges and wanted something better. Did you miss the memo?

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

The pro Russian Ukrainian MP who bribed Gill was merely an intermediary for 'Moscow's Man in Ukraine', Putin's right hand man Viktor Medvedchuk. Gill hosted a round table of MPs as he launched Putin's spurious peace plan in 2019 3/12

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

An array of photos, interviews and videos of Farage and Gill completely debunk Zia Yusuf's claim that "most people in the senior leadership team have never really heard of the guy”. But there's much more 2/12

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

🔴NEW🔴

Thread 🧵

@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 5d

Surely, any headline writer worth their salt has to be using ‘Kicked the Bouquet!’ RIP Patricia.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Keeping Up Appearances actor Patricia Routledge dies aged 96

The actor was best known for her role as the pretentious housewife Hyacinth Bucket, and for the series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Patricia Routledge, the stage and screen actor best known for starring as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances and Henrietta “Hetty” Wainthropp in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, has died at the age of 96. Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1929 and attended the University of Liverpool and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She began her career in theatre and musical theatre in 1952, later making her Broadway debut in 1966 in How’s the World Treating You. Routledge would go on to win a Tony award and an Olivier for her stage work, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years, appearing in productions including Richard III, alongside Antony Sher. Continue reading...

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Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 7d

The UK's hottest spring and summer yet. The highest area of UK land burnt by wildfires since records began. Drought, flooding, extreme heat and cold.

Climate breakdown is already here. Badenoch's proposal to scrap the CCA isn't just ill-advised; it would be catastrophic.

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 6d

Logically, the author of this Times piece is proposing forced deportation of one million migrants.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 7d

The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.

The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism

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There is a more pressing issue. Ministers must ensure that the vast numbers of immigrants who arrived in the so-called Boriswave of 2020-21 are not automatically absorbed into the permanent population. They are about to cross the the five-year threshold into ILR, yet Labour continues to dither. Ms Mahmood must freeze the status of this huge cohort while a new residency regime is finalised. A million or more extra permanent residents in these islands, let in on the nod, is simply unacceptable. Finally, the home secretary must acquaint herself, and the public, with an accurate estimate of the actual number of foreign nationals living here, what taxes they pay and what services they consume. Without hard data, all the political parties are fumbling around in the dark.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 7d

ICYMI on Tuesday, here's my *new* and *free* short-form summary of what's gone wrong in our universities. This is something of a last word really, because unless the Budget and White Paper do something really radical, the fate of much HE is already sealed.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

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Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 6d

Good work. I don’t listen to or watch Newscast, the Today Programme, Newsnight, Question Time, Politics Live or Kuensberg’s Sunday Show. The only way to stop their dreadful, broken, faux ‘journalism’ is to hurt them in the one place they care about - their precious listener figures.

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Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks

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Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 6d

All, really loved this episode. First time I’ve listened and found it engaging, informative and, weirdly, uplifting in this world of too much gloom. Thanks so much. More power to you. Cheers. ❤️

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 7d

🌹Keir as Crystal: Time to Call Things by Their Names 🐸

Labour Conference
Starmer Speech
Farage Tantrum
BBC Bias
Reform Russian Bribes
Moldova Election
Ukraine Pushback
Wokey Dokey
All this AND @annettedittert.bsky.social!

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Keir as Crystal - Time to Call Things by Their Names

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 02/10/2025 · 1h 11m

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 6d

On the same day the Conservatives blame net zero and renewables for high energy costs, a detailed new study explains how Spain's net zero and renewables have given it some of the lowest power prices in Europe. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

What can the UK learn from Spain breaking of the 'ruinous link' between gas and power prices?

Wind and solar growth has reduced the influence of expensive gas and coal on Spain’s electricity prices by 75 per cent since 2019, new analysis finds

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Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 7d

And, sadly, that looks as far off as ever… bsky.app/profile/zoej...

Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 7d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 7d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 7d

Sadly, simple solutions to complex problems has a history of being attractive and successful. They don’t blame he for Brexit. Farage can always say that what we have isn’t what he would’ve done.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 7d

Media figures who cheerlead & champion Nigel Farage every minute of every day are freaking out about Keir Starmer telling a few home truths about the whiny little liar’s racism.
And how the racism he disseminates every day affects real people in the real world. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

James O'Brien Daily

Daily News Podcast · Updated daily · Welcome to the best bits of James O'Brien's LBC phone-in show. Listen back to all the highlights in a 60-minute bite sized chunk of his show with new episodes ever...

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Chris Adams @cpadders.bsky.social · 7d

Agreed. The way most media are, it’s like he’s been anointed from on high. There are some outlets calling out his lies. The best of which is the @bylinetimes.bsky.social. But there is still plenty of time for his narrative to change. Though it’ll probably need Labour to sort out their shit first.

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