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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19h

Victoria Derbyshire, "You described Reform UK as the right wing fascists of 1930s, why?"

Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"

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Eunique 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @eunique.bsky.social · 1d

Plus both of my grandmother's.

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Eunique 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @eunique.bsky.social · 1d

I went to school in Aldridge, words fail me.

Eunique 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @eunique.bsky.social · 1d

My parents are buried there too along with the ashes of my brother and sister 💔

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Eunique 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @eunique.bsky.social · 1d

He spoke at the Aldridge/Brownhills conservative club. An association that back in the 80's, when my husband played snooker, I was not allowed in to accompany him as it was against the house rules to admit women. I'm glad Andy Street stood up for the people of Hands worth.

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Eunique 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @eunique.bsky.social · 2d

An excellent article.
@bencoates1.bsky.social have you seen this?

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3d

"If something's not working..." my SKETCH of the unassailably, frankly unreasonably confident Kemi Badenoch.

If something’s not working, you should stop it | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

“If something’s not working, you should stop it.” Say what you like about Kemi Badenoch, no one can match her when it comes to giving a straight-faced delivery of a self-undermining line.

thecritic.co.uk

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Eunique 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @eunique.bsky.social · 2d

Baroness Warsi was right.

Eunique 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @eunique.bsky.social · 2d

I'm relieved for Amy, must have been like dancing with Boris Johnson.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 4d

Stephen the Waxy Lemon

Cartoon featuring a waxy lemon called Stephen who meets a pedantic pear
Panel 1
Stephen: HELLO READERS, I’M OFF
DOWN THE GREENGROCERS TODAY TO PROTEST ABOUT ALL THE NON-INDIGENOUS FRUIT ON THE SHELVES...
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Stephen: BLOODY KIWIS AND CUMWUATS... COMING OVER HERE... INVADING ENGLISH PUDDINGS...
Pear: ERR... I HATE TO BE A PEDANTIC
PEAR BUT...
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Pear: LEMONS WERE ORIGINALLY IMPORTED TO THE UK FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION IN THE 15TH CENTURY... THE WORD “LEMON" ITSELF HAS FRENCH, ITALIAN, AND PERSIAN ROOTS... ...AND THEIR INTRODUCTION WAS FACILITATED BY ARABIC AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE…
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Stephen is seething. Barely able to contain his rage…
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Stephen has decked the pear - who lies unconscious on the ground, his glasses broken - and is stomping off into the distance.

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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.bsky.social · 4d

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 3d

This from Punch magazine in 1936 shows the UK print press has some history to learn from… 👀

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 6d

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

Conspiracy theories and accusations fly as Labour’s Farage fever rattles Reform | John Crace

Fearless Nige and his mates’ unhinged reaction to Starmer’s speech suggests he can dish it out but he can’t take it

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7d

“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country”

Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.

Differing political definitions of patriotism

3 of the 6 letters (4th quoted in the post) criticising Phillips 😊

Sir, Melanie Phillips expresses a very specific and slightly odd definition of patriotism as "love for the Crown, the armed forces and the common law, and attachment to faith, family and flag" ("Sorry Keir, you don't understand patriotism",
, comment, Sep 30). Perhaps that is why she concludes that Nigel Farage offers “the only patriotic force on the horizon". Personally, I regard
someone who had a very direct hand in diminishing the United Kingdom's
GDP by 4 per cent — as a direct result of our leaving the European Union — as confirming Samuel
Johnson's much-quoted remark that
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". Acts rather than words
still count for some of us.
Shaun Leavey
Sherborne, Dorset

Sir, Over thousands of years these islands have been invaded and occupied by various tribes, who, at any given moment, represented some kind of "Englishness".
"In 300 years'
time there might well be another kind of "Englishness", doubtless defending itself from the incursion of escapees from another foreign disaster, and claiming a threat to its purity". We were never pure, and attempts such as the present one to somehow freeze a manufactured notion of "Englishness" are doomed to failure.
Jerry Stuart
London SEI

Sir, There is a fundamental flaw in Melanie Phillips's article. She talks of British patriotism as "attachment to faith, family and flag".
°. She doesn't
indicate which faith she is referring to, but presumably means the Christian faith as the traditional faith in Britain. However, the faith of Jesus of Nazareth shares much more common ground with the values she seems to dismiss - decency, reasonableness and compassion - than it does with the militarism and flag-waving she seems to endorse. I surely cannot be the only person getting worried when the Christian faith is conscripted into the support of strident nationalism.
The Rev Paul Dowling

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7d

“Our women, our daughters are scared to walk the streets,” claimed Tommy Robinson at the 'Unite the Kingdom' rally.

Suddenly, the radical right seems concerned about women’s safety - but this isn’t genuine care. They’re recycling an old, racist trope.

Watch and share.

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Eunique 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @eunique.bsky.social · 7d

That aside, your reply was on the nail.

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

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

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Eunique 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @eunique.bsky.social · 7d

Oh yes.
@bencoates1.bsky.social
#leidsontzet

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 8d

Well thanks for emphasising the party you belong to, Mahmood, because without that, it would’ve been hard to distinguish you from the Tories or Reform. All seemingly competing to win the “Biggest Bastard to Immigrants” prize. You cannot win against Reform, but competing with them disgraces you.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 9d

Home Sec Mahmood: "Some may describe me in the coming months as a tough Home Secretary.

"Perhaps that is true. But let it never be forgotten that I will be a tough *Labour* Home Secretary."

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 8d

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.

“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.

“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

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Eunique 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @eunique.bsky.social · 9d

Beautiful.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d

👀 ⛳️ 🏌️‍♂️ 🏆 #RyderCup

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Eunique 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @eunique.bsky.social · 9d

Abhorrent!

Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 9d

Ten days ago

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20d

you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be