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Phil Bryan @philbryan.bsky.social · 4h

Dreadful tv channel, Bev Turner and Dr Renee Hoenderkamp are an absolute disgrace

Phil Bryan @philbryan.bsky.social · 9h

Glad more people are talking about this now.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 9h

I didn't write the headline, but, yeah, I certainly don't think Steven Bartlett is a force for good in podcasting.

Diary of a CEO's Steven Bartlett is everything wrong with podcasting

An episode featuring Louis Tomlinson will be screened in cinemas tonight. As ever, clicks and cash seem to trump good-quality content

inews.co.uk

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Phil Bryan @philbryan.bsky.social · 10h

Who will pay for it?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12h

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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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Companies excelling in both employee compensation and culture achieve superior investment returns, new research suggests.

Want to Keep Your Best Employees? Workplace Culture Matters

Yes, compensation is important, according to research. But ignore employee engagement at your peril.

on.wsj.com

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 2d

Thanks to the Daily Mail for correcting an article, which wrongly said that Korean researchers claimed they had found proof that the Covid vaccines had raised the risk of getting cancer.

As we explain, the researchers said no such thing.

Daily Mail corrects article about Covid vaccines and cancer – Full Fact

The article wrongly said a study claimed to have found proof the vaccines raised the risk of getting several types of cancer.

fullfact.org

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 3d

Impact of Trump tariffs is beginning to show in US consumer prices - on.ft.com/3VMoz5Z

Impact of Trump tariffs is beginning to show in US consumer prices

[FREE TO READ] Trade levies are starting to drive up costs for goods from cans of soup to car parts

on.ft.com

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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.bsky.social · 4d

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 4d

This just a few weeks after many of Robinson’s supporters were doing Nazi salutes and shouting Nazi slogans at his march in London. Absolutely insane stuff.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 4d

BBC apologises for false claim about Tony Blair's son's company being awarded a govt contract for digital ID www.politicshome.com/news/article...

BBC Apologises For Airing Fake Claim About Digital ID Scheme

The BBC has apologised for airing a false claim about Tony Blair's son's company being awarded a government contract to produce the new mandatory d...

www.politicshome.com

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Phil Bryan @philbryan.bsky.social · 4d

So true it happens so much. The hard left fall for hard right misinformation and talking points all the time.

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Phil Bryan @philbryan.bsky.social · 4d

Agree with your sentiment. Interesting fact though Victoria Coren Mitchell actually started writing for the Telegraph at the age of 14 as she won a competition and has been writing for them since 1986

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

www.youtube.com

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Phil Bryan @philbryan.bsky.social · 5d

Just been listening to this 2 parter - one of the best podcasts I’ve listened to for a very long time. I thought I knew this period well but learnt a lot more about it.

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Phil Bryan @philbryan.bsky.social · 5d

No it doesn’t

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 5d

Have we passed peak social media? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/a072...

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Gildy Stern @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 7d

Rachel Reeves must be doing a decent job?

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 9d

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

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Phil Bryan @philbryan.bsky.social · 9d

If only it was that simple…..

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Barry Howard 🔶 @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 10d

Major Donor to Reform U.K. Party Sold Parts Used In Weapons to Russian Supplier
The aerospace company H.R. Smith Group was an early backer of the party after Nigel Farage became leader. Reform has faced criticism over comments seen as supporting Moscow.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

Major Donor to Reform U.K. Party Sold Parts Used In Weapons to Russian Supplier

www.nytimes.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 10d

There needs to be an enquiry in to Reform UK / Brexit Party / UKIP links to Russia.

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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 10d

“There are external countries like Russia manipulating algorithms, using chatbots and other instruments to stir conflict and division” - I spoke to David Lammy about polarisation, the rise of the far right and the Labour leadership for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/politic...

David Lammy: ‘I was spat at by skinheads but the flag-wav...

The deputy PM says he is troubled ordinary people have lined up behind far-right agitator Tommy Robinson

observer.co.uk

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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 10d

Figures suggest Angela Rayner’s mortgage got 8 times more coverage than the bribery corruption conviction of Reform’s Nathan Gill .

Now, why would that be ?

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