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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 4d

So the Tories continue on their populist death march as a Farage tribute act instead of showing the courage to win back voters appalled by their past antics. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

The Tories deserve no pity. They owe us an apology for Brexit, austerity, and Truss

The Conservatives still need to confront the cause of their own corrosive unpopularity

inews.co.uk

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him.

He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent slice of controlled fury at Jenrick’s repulsive racism 👇

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Tory Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes.

A code for more austerity, public service cuts. What do they think will happen when £47bn is removed from the economy?

Silence on taxing the rich, windfall taxes, ending corporate welfare, tax havens.

Same old Tories.

Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes

In a conference speech, the Tory leader will say the Conservatives are the only party

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Jim Keoghan @jimkeoghan.bsky.social · 5d

Cinematic

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 6d

Rampant stupidity. Politicians attack the ECHR, but ignore what it means or how it works.
It has become a target, but reality is it has very limited impact on asylum removals.
Leaving it though would have catastrophic consequences for the whole country.
#r4today

www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says

The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.

www.bbc.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6d

Really depressing but not unsurprising to hear and see commentators across the networks scramble to weaponise the terrible events and loss of life in Manchester yesterday.

Maybe they could give it a day off and actually mourn the victims.

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Jim Keoghan @jimkeoghan.bsky.social · 9d

Cinematic RS

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Jim Keoghan @jimkeoghan.bsky.social · 9d

Before his move, in his previous 95 league games, Dewsbury Hall picked up 9 yellow cards

In just 6 games for Everton he has 5

While its possible he has suddenly become a different player overnight, it’s equally possible that Everton are just officiated differently

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 10d

Fortunately the European Parliament keeps a record of Nigel Farage shamefully repeating Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine and absolving Russia of any responsibility for invading a democratic nation while saying Putin 'is on our side' in a more significant struggle

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 9d

When Shabana Mahmood says migrants can’t get indefinite leave to remain if ‘taking a penny in benefits’, this must mean a couple - maybe working as NHS doctors or nurses - must forget about claiming any care support if they have a child with disabilities. Yes, this is Labour 2025

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 9d

Brian Patten - one of the first poets I loved

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Liverpool poet Brian Patten dies at 79

His poetry often explored love and relationships and he wrote books for children including Gargling With Jelly

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 9d

Jimmy Carr, Jimeoin, Jack Whitehall, Omid Djalili - and all the others that were anxious that they weren’t rich enough so had to take that delicious Saudi Money - hope none of you are pontificating with your delusional morality on a podcast soon

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Jim Keoghan @jimkeoghan.bsky.social · 11d

Handball is essentially meaningless. Less a law more a discretionary interpretation depending on mood

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 13d

What a surprise: senior Reform UK figure pocketed cash to promote Russia, following the far-right rulebook seen elsewhere in Europe

Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 13d

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Sheekey @muzungudave64.bsky.social · 12d

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Dave Sheekey @muzungudave64.bsky.social · 25d

x.com/TheCanaryUK/...

Canary on X: "Residents say that a retirement home in Chester is failing them Abbeyfield Chester is a retirement scheme that claims its residents enjoy supported housing with high standards. But this is not the case, says @UniteHousing https://t.co/UomhUtDaxN" / X

Residents say that a retirement home in Chester is failing them Abbeyfield Chester is a retirement scheme that claims its residents enjoy supported housing with high standards. But this is not the case, says @UniteHousing https://t.co/UomhUtDaxN

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Cheshire West and Chester Green Party @cwacgreen.bsky.social · 12d

Keep Reform out of Strawberry!
It's PAUL BOWERS or them....

#strawberryward #byelection2025 #VoteGreen #realhoperealchange #ellesmereport

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13d

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Cheshire West and Chester Green Party @cwacgreen.bsky.social · 15d

PAUL BOWERS stands up for communities and the environment.

Essar refinery (August 2025) got £2.5 million for jet fuel, plus £7.2 million for the blue hydrogen furnace. A foreign company, earning billions, taking money from you. Flaring, smells, air pollution are at a high. This needs to stop.

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Ian Saxby @iansaxby.bsky.social · 15d

It’s always the ones you most suspect.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15d

“Farage often says he lives rent-free in British politicians’ heads, but Trump lives rent-free in Nige’s. He’s The Donald’s emissary to the UK. An existence dedicated to sanitising Trump’s madness for a British audience”

Crace nails the menacing idiocy of Farage.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage swans around peddling hate on Nick Ferrari’s phone-in | John Crace

From immigrants eating the king’s waterfowl to sharia law in London, it’s all there in our Nige’s relativist world

www.theguardian.com

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Cheshire West and Chester Green Party @cwacgreen.bsky.social · 16d

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 18d

Trump’s fanboy wants to round up for deportation people granted settled leave to remain on the basis that they fail to earn what he considers to be high enough wages.

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Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social · 16d

edition.cnn.com/2025/09/22/a...

Two countries signed a peace deal in Washington. On the ground, little has changed | CNN

In the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, new recruits are being trained for battle – and US President Donald Trump’s claimed peace deal for the nation feels like a distant dream.

edition.cnn.com

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