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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 17h

This is among other things a product of how far UK Conservative and Reform Party MPs and Spads have become so marinated in Right wing American social media that they have adopted its view of unis as a source of radicalisation tempting youth away from the moral purity of National Conservative thought

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 19h

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 33m

You see what you want to see.

And why the use of my surname? Are you implying something?

Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 38m

www.gov.uk/government/s...

PM remarks at Immigration White Paper press conference: 12 May 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's remarks at a press conference on the Immigration White Paper.

www.gov.uk

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 39m

It must be great to take things out of context -

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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 3h

24 people killed by army paraglider while demonstrating against Myanmar's military government. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Myanmar: At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Buddhist festival

Locals tell the BBC the carnage has made it hard to identify victims of the military attack.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 4h

Markets face 'sharp correction' if mood sours on AI or Fed freedom, Bank of England says reut.rs/431Dihe

Markets face 'sharp correction' if mood sours on AI or Fed freedom, Bank of England says

Global financial markets could tumble if investors' mood sours on the prospects for artificial intelligence or the independence of the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of England warned on Wednesday.

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 3h

This time, however, it is not a terrorist organisation but a state actor driving recruitment and operations.

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 3h

Like ISIS a decade ago, which recruited European criminals into its ranks, Russia is now grooming socially marginalised individuals—often Russian-speaking men with prior convictions—to conduct sabotage, arson, and other attacks on European soil.

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 3h

The study situates Moscow’s tactics against the backdrop of its full-scale war on Ukraine, showing that hybrid operations are not a side theatre but a central pillar of Russian strategy.

Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 3h

A new joint report by GLOBSEC and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) uncovers how Russia has built a state-driven crime–terror nexus, exploiting criminal actors to advance its hybrid war against Europe.

www.globsec.org/what-we-do/p...

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 4h

Breaking: Kemi Badenoch brings the Tory Conference to its feet by announcing lunch.

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 3h

A new joint report by GLOBSEC and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) uncovers how Russia has built a state-driven crime–terror nexus, exploiting criminal actors to advance its hybrid war against Europe.

www.globsec.org/what-we-do/p...

www.globsec.org

Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 3h

A new joint report by GLOBSEC and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) uncovers how Russia has built a state-driven crime–terror nexus, exploiting criminal actors to advance its hybrid war against Europe.

www.globsec.org/what-we-do/p...

www.globsec.org

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The Typist 🇪🇺 @thetypist.bsky.social · 7h

This study about Russia using criminal gangs to carry out terrorist attacks to destabilise Europe makes a chilling reading. Sabotage, vandalism, arson, assassination are all on the table, hand in hand with attempts to influence our elections through social media.
www.globsec.org/what-we-do/p...

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 4h

LibDems

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 5h

Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.

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Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones.bsky.social · 6h

We are building the next generation of new towns to make the dream of home ownership a reality again.

This is not just about building new homes — but brand new communities with proper services.

What does that mean? Let me explain 👇🏻

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 5h

You’d have to be a monster not to laugh

Sebastian Dobson @sebdobson.bsky.social · 6h

Reform: Lefties are disrespecting our national saint!

Also Reform:

(Spotted at rally held yesterday by N.E. Lincolnshire County Councillor Oliver Freeston)

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Sebastian Dobson @sebdobson.bsky.social · 6h

Reform: Lefties are disrespecting our national saint!

Also Reform:

(Spotted at rally held yesterday by N.E. Lincolnshire County Councillor Oliver Freeston)

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 7h

“I tell my children this is the best country in the world to be black – because it’s a country that sees people, not labels.”

Kemi Badenoch, 2023

“In the hour and a half I was filming news there I didn’t see another white face.“

Robert Jenrick, 2025

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 7h

Yep. Labour keep talking about better economic links and this would be an easy win

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 7h

Kemi Badenoch has repeatedly refused to say whether she admires Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

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Kemi Badenoch repeatedly refuses to say whether she admires Nigel Farage

The Tory leader says she believes her party's fortunes "always would get worse before they got better" as she rejects suggestions of a Reform pact.

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 7h

I’d like to think that if the U.K. was going to go this then it would be part of a larger scheme that allowed reciprocal long term visas across the EU.

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Alison McGovern @allymcgovern.bsky.social · 7h

We cannot accept this.

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'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children

The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an "abject failure that cannot be tolerated".

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 8h

Honestly there’s going to nothing funnier then watching the boomer Reform voting masses being labelled ‘illegal immigrants’ by the Spanish authorities and put on planes back to Manchester.

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 22h

Can we pause and imagine the well of sympathy in the Telegraph for HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of overstaying foreigners in the UK who don't speak English. Polluting the culture.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 22h

Can we pause and imagine the well of sympathy in the Telegraph for HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of overstaying foreigners in the UK who don't speak English. Polluting the culture.

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