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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 2d

Great post. You should all read it. Especially if you thought the Patricia Routledge 'life thoughts' piece was cute. shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10...

You did no fact checking, and I must scream

I'm neither a journalist nor a professional fact checker but, the thing is, it's has never been easier to check basic facts. Yeah, sure, there's a world of misinformation out there, but it doesn't tak...

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Stephen Clayton @stevepclayton.bsky.social · 1d

The Mail has added some critical content from a US based researcher, but the headline and most of the content still implicitly supports the "contentious claim".

Stephen Clayton @stevepclayton.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure "corrected the article" is the right phrase here.

Screenshot of Daily Mail article with headline "COVID vaccines 'might raise the risk of cancer", contentious study claims - as it links jabs to six forms of disease, including breast and prostate"

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 2d

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou

(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)

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Stephen Clayton @stevepclayton.bsky.social · 3d

Never seen Titanic (except an excerpt from the Cambodian remake). Never seen Dirty Dancing either.

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Stephen Clayton @stevepclayton.bsky.social · 3d

Thought Liverpool were (again) really disappointing. Constantly passing backwards, no sign of the fast, attacking football that made them a real threat previously. Chelsea played great though. #CHELIV

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Stephen Clayton @stevepclayton.bsky.social · 3d

Wasn't this kind of guff written about Badenoch?

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

🔴NEW🔴

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Stephen Clayton @stevepclayton.bsky.social · 4d

"expelled members" ☺️

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Stephen Clayton @stevepclayton.bsky.social · 4d

This is effectively supporting another party, something @teamlabouruk.bsky.social have previously explored embers for.

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Stephen Clayton @stevepclayton.bsky.social · 4d

Why wasn't Glasman thrown out of @teamlabouruk.bsky.social for this? His views clearly do not align Labour values and his actions here are aimed at directly undermining Starmer and the Labour government.

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Stephen Clayton @stevepclayton.bsky.social · 5d

RIP Patricia Rutledge comic genius.
youtube.com/watch?v=T-iD...

Patricia Routledge Kitty

YouTube video by ukcomedy

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Clayton @stevepclayton.bsky.social · 5d

Time for a cheery read!
#thecomingapocalypse

Picture of the front cover of Goliath's Curse The History and Future of Societal Collapse by Luke Kemp.

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Stephen Clayton @stevepclayton.bsky.social · 5d

It was a predictably miserable night for the Conservatives, with their candidate, Paul Martin, polling only 151, and the Liberal Democrats suffered an equally disappointing night, with John Burley getting just 109 votes.

Wigan Independent Gareth Fairhurst fared marginally better with 196, and the Greens’ Simon Rowlands polled 130. The turn-out was 30.9 per cent.

The result leaves Labour with a dominant 62 councillors, the Conservatives have one, and there is a cohort of 10 Independents and now a Reform member.

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Stephen Clayton @stevepclayton.bsky.social · 5d

#Wigan elects first #Reform councillor into a previously very safe @teamlabouruk.bsky.social ward 1,391 votes to #Labour candidate's 970. If Starmer and @teamlabouruk.bsky.social continue to lean into Reform's view of the world, Lisa Nandy can say goodbye to Parliament at the next election.

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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 5d

An Autocracy of Dunces
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An Autocracy of Dunces

How stone-faced generals, Wall Street pushback, and a government shutdown may save America’s quickly declining democracy

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Alli’s Nature Journal @anaturejournal.bsky.social · 5d

October = active monarch month #DanausPlexippus #bugsky

A monarch caterpillar on a milkweed leaf. October is the busiest monarch activity for the Carolinas as monarchs are migrating south pollinators monarchbutterfly bugsky invert invertebrates caterpillars monarchcaterpillar

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

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you.

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Jason @sobloodyshy.bsky.social · 11d

Man Utd

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Stephen Clayton @stevepclayton.bsky.social · 11d

Avanti train to London, no spare seats, loads of people standing in all carriages, shop not working and the bins are overflowing with rubbish. Quality service.
#nationalisethetrains

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 11d

Not sure Labour members will appreciate being told, “history will not forgive us if we do not use every ounce of our energy to fight Reform,” when they’ve been waiting despairingly all summer for No10 to do exactly that 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer to warn Labour that battle with Reform is ‘fight for soul of the nation’

Exclusive: PM says history will not forgive his government if it fails to confront and defeat the populist right

www.theguardian.com

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 11d

Is it a surprise that voters question what Starmer really believes in when he says <picture 1> in the evening after having said <picture 2> in the morning?

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 12d

When you do MRP, what happens to the don't knows?

I've asked YouGov on X-Twitter what the don't knows were, but I'm not holding my breath for an answer
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...?

YouGov MRP shows a Reform UK government a near-certainty if an election were held tomorrow | YouGov

Second YouGov MRP model since the 2024 election projects Reform UK would win 311 seats, just 15 short of a majority

yougov.co.uk

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