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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 18h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 23h

Brutally on target from @rafaelbehr.bsky.social.

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 14h

Actually both of these can be true. It's usually the worst policies that get "positive press attention".

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 23h

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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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill”
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Do watch this. It’s very good. Sound absolutely on.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

Robert Jenrick and his wiggy puppet

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 1d

As Jenrick well knows, which is why he keeps talking and plays the offended victim "you're trying to shut me down" card.

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 1d

I'm amused by the fact he's arguing for the abolition of private schools.
“We want all people to be living side by side.... We can’t have particular communities in this country where there is a heavy preponderance of one group or another. We want people to be living in mixed communities.”

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 1d

He doesn't want areas where there is a 'preponderance' of one race over another. My kids school in rural Suffolk had one black family in a school of 1200 pupils. But that's not what he means, is it?

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 1d

“We want all people to be living side by side.... We can’t have particular communities in this country where there is a heavy preponderance of one group or another. We want people to be living in mixed communities.”

Sooo... we should close private schools, right?!

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 1d

So, 45% is close to 50% which would be 20. Then I worked out 5% (10% is 4 so 5% is 2) and subtracted the 5% from the 50% to find 18.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 2d

“… a sort of mad McCarthyite scream of paranoia and anxiety of the sort which he has now branded himself… he is living entirely inside of his little mind…”

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social nails Robert Jenrick’s plans for “activist” judges during Sky News’ Press Preview.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 2d

Every local authority has been cut to the bone for years – this is common knowledge - but Grimey and his Reform chums swore blind that £millions were being wasted through incompetence and laziness. DOGE found fuck all - welcome to reality, dickhead.

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely don't know if this is meant to be ironic.

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 2d

What I also find extraordinary is that the people who dismiss many things as 'virtue signalling' are generally the same people who are incredibly keen of displaying flags to signal the virtue of patriotism.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

More austerity you say? This is the kind of bold outside-the-box thinking that will surely turn things around for the Tories 🙃
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Tories to set out plans to cut £47bn from government spending

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t tax us we’re too rich and too important, part 94 bit.ly/4o3C7pD gambling firm joins the list of the untaxables

Entain boss warns Reeves not to raise gambling taxes

Stella David said hitting the industry in next month’s budget could make the company reconsider its investment in the UK and close shops

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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