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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 6h

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 7h

“You’re banned, you can’t chant that, you’re nicked for holding a sign, you’re kids are poorer, you’re colder, you have to have an ID card and the racists have legitimate concerns in our island of strangers… now vote for us or Farage wins.”

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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 11h

The Velvet Underground, Filmmakers' Cinematheque, New York City, February 8, 1966 by Fred W. McDarrah #LouReed #JohnCale

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Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 18h

Reading this post from a recently opened coffeeshop enclosed by surprisingly transparent plywood.

View from a coffeeshop with wall-length windows

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 20h

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk

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Simon Shepherd 🇪🇺 @simonshep.bsky.social · 1d

I did click. My point was that while Joplin popularised it, the sentiment she expressed was written by Kristofferson.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

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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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · 1d

A good photo by any standards, but given the equipment of the day a sensational one. Surrey allrounder Alan Peach loses his middle stump to Warwickshire's Harry Howell in the drawn Championship match at The Oval, June 16th 1927

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Simon Shepherd 🇪🇺 @simonshep.bsky.social · 1d

Astonishing how far the stump has travelled but the ball hasn’t!

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 1d

Not saying they look *exactly* alike but would definitely cast Robert Jenrick (shadow justice secretary) in biopic of Paul Reczeh (Gestapo agent, all-round sociopath)

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

Robert Jenrick and his wiggy puppet

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

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Simon Shepherd 🇪🇺 @simonshep.bsky.social · 1d

By extension from league tables there should also be P(layed), F(or), A(gainst).

And in reverse, has anyone ever seen S(ociety) as a standalone?

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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 1d

Let us not forget the journalists killed in the last two years in Gaza. International Federation of Journalists says Israel has "controlled the narrative" throughout and demands that it "lift its media ban and grant foreign reporters independent access to Gaza".
www.ifj.org//media-centr...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 2d

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
p.s. My new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out this week. Details at www.tomgauld.com

Panel 1
A figure stands at a lectern
"This image illustrates my theory that, presented with a sufficient quantity of intricate formulae, overcomplicated diagrams and impenetrable acronyms, an audience will agree with almost anything."
The screen is completely packed with such things

Panel 2,3,4,5.
Four audience members say enthusiastically: "My thoughts exactly!", "Hear, hear!", "I quite agree!" and "Excellent point!"

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Simon Shepherd 🇪🇺 @simonshep.bsky.social · 2d

“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”

Me & Bobby McGee, Kris Kristofferson

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Simon Shepherd 🇪🇺 @simonshep.bsky.social · 3d

Vlad’s Army

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Barry Howard 🔶 @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 3d

What do Putin, Farage and Badenoch all have in common?

They all want the U.K. to LEAVE the ECHR.
#ECHR
⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.

I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

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Tom Baldwin @tombaldwin66.bsky.social · 4d

Presumably Nigel Farage wants the UK to join Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR because he admires Putin so much. I guess Kemi Badenoch wants to leave only because Farage has already promised to do it.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose”

Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

Nigel Farage Is a Racist

The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
ADAM BIENKOV
OCT 04, 2025

Nigel Farage is a racist. That is my honestly held opinion based on absolutely everything he has said and done since entering politics in the late nineties.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 6d

"You should never overestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices."

– George Monbiot

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 6d

"For the next 15 years, give us a subsidy from public money, and remove the disincentive for us to stop dumping raw sewage, so our creditors are rescued from the consequences of their own greed" is not, I have to say, the world's most appealing pitch. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules

Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Shepherd 🇪🇺 @simonshep.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe I should have said it’s a theme biscuit rather than a cracker…

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