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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 1h

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

A British Ice and more stop and search: Badenoch’s Tories set out new policies

Shadow ministers have announced far-reaching and often radical proposals – here is a roundup of some of them

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks for getting back to me unfortunately I can’t DM you so I’ll just have to have self confidence in my humanist values 😅 FYI you can push the screen up so you can see the ‘take the quiz’ but the screen snaps back as soon as you let go and once again can’t see the button.

Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 1h

‘Gruel! Round up round up, get your Conservative thin gruel… what’s that boy? You want MORE?! Take him away, lock him up… thrash him to an inch of his life…’

“Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, [posts] to social media to say the Conservatives are “back””

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“Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, has posted to social media to say the Conservatives are “back” in the wake of their policy announcements at this week’s conference.

He listed the following pledges:

Out of the ECHR
Deport all foreign criminals and illegal immigrants
Negative net migration
Climate Act repeal to reduce energy bills
Stamp duty gone
Abolish business rates for small shops and pubs
Benefits for British citizens only
Sickness benefits only for genuine cases
Police crime, not social media”

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 2h

Hear hear 🙏👍😊

Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 2h

I’d love to do the quiz but the page won’t scroll up far enough for me to press the button “take the quiz” 😅 maybe your web people could have another look at its mobile phone comparability for smaller phones? I checked via your website too & that doesn’t work for me either.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 2h

Humanists are non-religious people who shape their own lives in the here and now, because they believe it’s the only life they have. Many people share humanist values without even knowing the term. Maybe you’re a humanist! Find out by taking our quiz! humanists.uk/quiz

How humanist are you?

Take our quiz and find out. Many people are humanists without even knowing it. If you are non-religious and look to science, reason, empathy, and compassion in order to live an ethical and meaningful ...

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 16h

🎃 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween

Vintage Halloween card
BEWARE! THE TIME IS HERE IN WHICH THE WITCHES DO APPEAR.
A woman with blonde hair in a blue dress peers around a grandfather clock with ALL HALLOWEEN as the numbers on the clock and a pumpkin as the pendulum. Also a black cat leans around the other side of the clock with the shadow of a witch.

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 15h

If you haven’t already, please sign and share! 🙏😊

Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 15h

74,008 have signed for a #BetterMediaBill

Will you join them?

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#TheHack

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22h

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18h

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
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Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action

Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 17h

Good point well made 👍😀 my quibble is now deffo that it’s not prioritised enough…😅🥹 I know there are a lot of “important & urgent” things in the “in tray”, but there are obvious signs UK food security & water sources (our poor water is in a very bad way tho I do appreciate the new reservoir plans!)

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 19h

& me to question why UK hasn’t got food & drinking water as a key priority on all national security policy, w impact assessments against all policy decisions, & even a Ministry for Food using its predecessor in/post WW2 as a model. Maybe with a kinda Kate Bingham task force model in start up faze 🥹

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Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA World! Visited Broadview, Illinois and their Ice Facility 💙🐊

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 19h

This makes me want to go full gorilla mode www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 19h

& me to question why UK hasn’t got food & drinking water as a key priority on all national security policy, w impact assessments against all policy decisions, & even a Ministry for Food using its predecessor in/post WW2 as a model. Maybe with a kinda Kate Bingham task force model in start up faze 🥹

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, the Right hate the present. And the future. And the past - if it's accurate. They only like a constructed notion of a past that never existed.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 22h

Miliband’s speech now reads as prescient at the analysis of long term issues & present day problems - & from now looking back, how spot-on he was w huge swathes, & in terms identifying possible solutions. It’s a real shame past geeky Ed had to go through the experience of failure to become Ed 2.0 🥹

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 23h

It’s that these things need to be said gets me. Cuts to FE education over 14 years of Tory rule really have a lot to answer for (in addition to social media tech-brogliarch algorithms, monetisation of misinformation & rise of passive consumption… but lack of critical analysis edu opps is up there) 😳

Full Fact @fullfact.org · 23h

Viral social media posts claim Sir Keir Starmer has legalised marriage between brothers and sisters or parents and children.

False. Marriage between close relatives is illegal in the UK. There are, however, calls for a ban on marriage between first cousins. fullfact.org/culture-and-...

No, the government hasn’t legalised marriage between brothers and sisters and parents and children – Full Fact

False claims about changes in the law have been linked to a parliamentary exchange about marriages between first cousins.

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you 🙏 much appreciated 😊

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 1d

“No honesty about the scale of the challenges” says Badenoch about Labour …whilst everyone *not* at the Tory conference looks at her & says “PROJECTION Doh!” 🤪😳

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Leviathan Wilde @leviathanwilde.bsky.social · 1d

“No honesty about the scale of the challenges” says Badenoch about Labour …whilst everyone *not* at the Tory conference looks at her & says “PROJECTION Doh!” 🤪😳

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

Takes some doing, but I think Kemi Badenoch has found the policies to tank the economy even quicker than Liz Truss if given the chance.

Fantasy tax and spending cuts plus trade chaos with neighbours from leaving the ECHR. Great stuff!

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

This Kemi Badenoch? This one?

Kemi admits hacking into a political rival's website.

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