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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 5h

You'd think there would be more interest from the US media that Trump is simply delusional - at best being fed complete fabrications by his team, at worst in serious cognitive decline and unable to recognise reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 6h

Don‘t threaten us with a good time.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 8h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 7h

From the @lrb.co.uk blog: the long history of Britain’s connivance in dispossessing and evicting the Palestinians from their land www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Anne Irfan | Balfour to Blair

By endorsing the Trump plan, Keir Starmer continues the long-standing British position of denying the Palestinian people...

www.lrb.co.uk

Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 7h

I once witnessed the precision, distance spitting of a late ex-army UK wine PR whose name now escapes me - it was awe-inspiring

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 7h

Good in @lrb.co.uk on the ludicrous Riyadh Comedy Festival: that’s right, no jokes about bone saws, beheadings, slavery or venal, misogynistic royal parasites allowed www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Malin Hay | Laughing Their Heads Off

If there’s anything ironic about being so scared of telling the wrong joke that you run straight into the arms of the...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 9h

It’s almost like Hall doesn’t like Nigerian immigrants

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10h

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10h

Trump's $100,000 skilled worker visa fee gives Britain a golden opportunity to attracted global talent. Needless to say, we're going to piss it away because we're scared of upsetting Nigel Farage.

inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Trump's migrant obsession offers Starmer a rare win - but Farage has scared him off

We have a golden opportunity to kick-start the British economy

inews.co.uk

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 11h

At completely rammed Waitrose press tasting. I swear to god, if I end up spitting over one of the gaggles of people gassing by the spittoons, I’m just going to tell them it’s a bloody silly place to stand…

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 18h

My blog is out: The fight to take the chemicals out of Champagne: #Champagne remains one of French #wine's heaviest pesticide users. But organic producers have a different vision. Plus: my top @thewinesociety.bsky.social recommendations
aviewfrommytable.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

The fight to take the chemicals out of Champagne

Champagne remains one of French wine's heaviest pesticide users. But organic producers have a different vision. Plus: my top Wine Society recommendations

aviewfrommytable.substack.com

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 20h

A reminder that this week the Conservatives announced they want a “British ICE”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 1d

Extraordinary WineSearcher report from Italy on a summer of #wine scandals and disasters www.wine-searcher.com/m/2025/10/it...

Italian Wine's Turbulent Summer | Wine-Searcher News & Opinion

Never mind the harvest, for Italy the big wine issues are more about fraud, labor exploitation and bankruptcy. Read the latest wine news & opinion on wine-searcher

www.wine-searcher.com

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting Andrew Jefford piece

Decanter @decanter.com · 2d

Let’s reconsider how we think about alcohol levels www.decanter.com/magazine/let...

Let's reconsider how we think about alcohol levels - Decanter

With climate change causing alcohol levels to climb, it’s time to reassess how we think about the abv of our bottle – wine lovers and winemakers alike.

www.decanter.com

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 1d

Wonderful singalong from Robert Jenrick at the Young Conservatives last night.

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 1d

A rare good news story just now: Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.com

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Shawn Hennessey ☀️🍷 @sevillatapas.bsky.social · 1d

Same in Sevilla. No neighbours = no neighbourhoods.

“The historic center of Naples is dead. Those streets aren’t neighbourhoods anymore. There are no Neapolitans left, no real life left. They’ve become playgrounds, open-air shopping malls.”

Otis B. Driftwood @obdriftwood.bsky.social · 8d

www.politico.eu/article/napl...

‘Naples is dead’: How overtourism is hollowing out Italian cities

Rising numbers of visitors are swamping the locals, making housing scarce, increasing pollution and even emptying churches.

www.politico.eu

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 1d

I’d have just assumed Nigel Biggar was a joke name in the style of Ivor Biggun but I guess this fruitloop does actually exist

Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @alanlester.bsky.social for keeping eye on the mad, racist right-wing media so we don't have to.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

Thatcher sounding like Zack Polanski here

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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 1d

Again, I want this read in the style of Mrs Doyle naming priests

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 1d

Reform announcing a series of Tory councillor defections as Kemi Badenoch begins her broadcast round. A sort of Rolling Chunder.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 3d

Jews have long been a terrible disappointment to antisemites.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

Tommy Robinson blames "the elitist Jews" "the woke liberal elitist Jews like the Board of Deputies who are pro-Open Borders" & who are responsible for all of the problems Jews face, with their hugging up to Islam + open borders, not "like the real Zionist Jews"
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Heidi Bachram 🎗️ on X: "Jews were just murdered in an attack on a synagogue and Tommy Robinson is raving about the Board of Deputies and “elitist Jews” who are to blame for open borders. My husband works for the Board and fights for the community every moment at great risk. This man is not our friend. https://t.co/HR99sciFe0" / X

Jews were just murdered in an attack on a synagogue and Tommy Robinson is raving about the Board of Deputies and “elitist Jews” who are to blame for open borders. My husband works for the Board and fights for the community every moment at great risk. This man is not our friend. https://t.co/HR99sciFe0

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Under any other leader Jenrick would have been sacked for saying this.

Under Badenoch he'll probably get a promotion www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

Ooooooof

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Tory Conference debate on free speech. You see? Sometimes being "cancelled" is a mercy.

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing to be out picking pinot noir grapes at Siimpsons #Wine Estate in gorgeous autumn sunshine!

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