jwmurphy
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murphytweets.bsky.social
Prediction: Reform will collapse in an election cycle when all parties are given equal coverage and actually properly scrutinised. There will also be an organised ‘anyone but’ tactical vote. Progressive coalition the outcome. #r4today
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
murphytweets.bsky.social
How the heck do you turn off these eBay live notifications - it’s like whack a mole - thought I’d cracked it and they still keep coming back!
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
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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direthoughts.com
bring on the EuroSausage! welcome to the Emulsified High-Fat Plant-Based Tube
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adambienkov.bsky.social
"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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samfr.bsky.social
Jenrick now proposing sacking judges he doesn't like. I can just about remember when Conservatives cared about things like the rule of law.
sgfmann.bsky.social
The Daily Telegraph: MI5 kept in dark in China spy trial fiasco #TomorrowsPapersToday
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samfr.bsky.social
I just have no idea who the Tories think the audience is for full bore authoritarianism plus austerity. Very few who want the former want the latter.
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gatopaulistano.bsky.social
Spend a bit more on the NHS
Taxes have to go up a bit
EU membership, in due course
Aging population - fix social care
Defence spending proportionate to threat level
Young people to have apprenticeships or go to university
Once a week bin collection
Nuclear and renewables
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stephenkb.bsky.social
Right, that's it. I'm founding a new populist party of the centre called Go Outside!
peterwalker99.bsky.social
The UK is “madly left, madly liberal, hyper-progressive”, Syed says. This is a deeply odd speech, seemingly from yet another person who spends a lot of time on X.

[I deleted earlier post which had the typo of saying, 'US' rather than 'UK'.]
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ianboudreau.com
I'm not a big fan of Jack Dorsey but I have to admit that one of his better ideas was, instead of getting into posting wars with users, he would go off to a yoga castle and eat hallucinogens for two weeks
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votebiue.bsky.social
Same guy who declared bankruptcy 6 times shut down the U.S. government 4 times in 5 years of being President. They wanted him to run the government like his businesses and that’s exactly what he’s doing.
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
Imagine being the leader of the party which delivered Brexit going into a filmed interview with a Northern Ireland journalist at a time when your competence is being questioned, and not thinking to check how Northern Ireland voted in the EU referendum beforehand.
stephenkb.bsky.social
Fascinated by her exact blend of over-confidence, where you can see her doing that weird blinking thing she does when 'her complete lack of preparation or genuine intellectual curiosity' collides with 'facts she had not previously bothered to be across'.
localnotail.bsky.social
no excuse for being this bad
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stephenkb.bsky.social
Fascinated by her exact blend of over-confidence, where you can see her doing that weird blinking thing she does when 'her complete lack of preparation or genuine intellectual curiosity' collides with 'facts she had not previously bothered to be across'.
localnotail.bsky.social
no excuse for being this bad
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uk.diplo.de
35 years ago, Germany was reunified.
German reunification celebrations in front of the Reichstag on 3 October 1990
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london.gov.uk
For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.

When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.

Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.
murphytweets.bsky.social
Because they’re all constantly on X (being pumped a racist algo) and think that’s what the country thinks.
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Once again, her insistence that she *never* makes gaffes makes every gaffe she makes much, much worse than it would otherwise have been…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kemi Badenoch mistakenly says NI voted in favour of Brexit
In a BBC NI interview, the Tory leader said the
www.bbc.co.uk
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stephenkb.bsky.social
I love this. The purest essence of Kemi - incredibly wrong, bizarrely belligerent about it, and also wrong in a way where you just go “have you considered reading anything other than your Twitter feed?”
michaeljsc.bsky.social
The not-quite-correction is really funny. “A lot” rather than “a majority”.
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danneidle.bsky.social
Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract.

There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...

Thread:
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
That deeply shocking #bbcpanorama investigation into the Met is what you expect the public broadcaster to do.

Very good work despite the weird break in the programme.
murphytweets.bsky.social
Bots gonna bot. When are they going to join properly?!
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samfr.bsky.social
Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?
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tonybirdlondon.bsky.social
Remember when Starmer spoke out against ULEZ because Labour lost the Uxbridge by-election?

Turns out it was a good thing that the Mayor and London Assembly ignored him
josiah.writes.news
Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.