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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 5h

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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 7h

Cameron 2012: "We're determined to cut through the bureaucracy that holds us back. That starts with getting the planners off our backs."

Treasury 2025: “This government is reforming the outdated planning system that’s been holding this country back.”

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 8h

James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"

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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 19h

Looks that way

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Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 23h

Michael Heseltine suggests axing Climate Change Act would be 'act of unforgiveable irresponsibility' by Tories - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick’s racist language is the sort of thing I heard from National Front thugs in the 1980s. It has no place in national politics. He should be sacked

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

So to summarise, this is a white politician blaming a black journalist for the racism he is now actively helping to promote, after receiving the full endorsement of his own party leader

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

Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s my piece in the Architects’ Journal on the challenges facing us building a genuine new generation of New Towns:

Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 2d

New towns will fail without a plan to deliver quality at a local level

www.architectsjournal.co.uk

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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile…:

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 12d

If you voted for him, you've done this.

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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 1d

Terrifying – always naively assumed that MPs would be having terrifying briefings on the state of things and were just trying to work out how to make the politics work for them.

Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 2d

Toryism encapsulated

Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 2d

The BBC are not even bothering to hide their preferences.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 2d

Some things never change. A 50s-era monument to the anti-fascist partisan women of Venice was blown up four years later by neo-fascists wanting to rewrite history. Only the base, by Carlo Scarpa, survived

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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 3d

Blacksharts

Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 3d

Are any key media outlets going to cover this story that Farage’s right hand guy has been convicted for taking money from the Russians to parrot their messaging? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social ? @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

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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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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 9d

There’s no one more authoritarian than a Labour Home Secretary: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Labour plans to consult on use of live facial recognition before wider roll-out

Policing minister says government will ‘put some parameters’ around its deployment in England

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3d

In my feed, this video is next to Kemi Badenoch's promise to create a UK version of ICE.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 3d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 3d

As a croc lover I resent this

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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 3d

Amateur wannabe SS clowns www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 4d

The irony about Orwell’s broken motorcycle and ‘habit of busting things’ is that my brother and I filled my dad’s life with broken motorcycles – my sister Kate had a functional bike, as she was a courier.

Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 4d

Treating governing a superpower like a crap episode of The Apprentice

Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 5d

Great article by @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social about my dad, 'paranoid' George Orwell, and sneaking a peek at the manuscript of 1984: www.the-tls.com/literature-b...

Trial by Jura

David Holbrook (1923–2011) pursued a distinguished career as a writer, poet and educationalist. As a teacher of English literature he was a protégé of F.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish).

Zack is spot on.

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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 5d

The Mayor is right – Cambridge needs integrated light rail.

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Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social · 6d

Tories continue their ‘let it burn’ approach post-Brexit, post-climate. Well on their way to joining GOP as a death cult

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Kemi Badenoch expected to announce plan to leave ECHR

Move to come if Conservatives win next election and is calculated to head off growing support for Reform UK * UK politics live – latest updates Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce a plan this weekend to leave the European convention on human rights (ECHR) if the Conservatives win the next election, as the party attempts to halt a haemorrhaging of support to Reform UK. The move will be seized on by political opponents as evidence the Tories have lurched to the right – Russia and Belarus are the two other European countries that have opted out of the ECHR – while it could lose the party support from the political centre. Continue reading...

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