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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 1d

Reader, I bought that book

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

Struggling to find much humour in the likely next leader of the Conservative Party cosplaying the National Front of the 1970s.

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 3d

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 3d

I was going to say you look like a character from Dr Zhivago!

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 3d

If you look at everything that Labour does through the lens of “What would Reform voters want us to do?”, all their decisions make sense

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 3d

“It is designed to capture cumulative disruption.”

Shabana Mahmood denies that strengthened protest laws were created with the Gaza protests specifically in mind.

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 3d

I might stand for parliament using this:
“I will make the UK the largest economy in the world”
“How will you do that?”
“I’m tired of irrelevant questions”

UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 3d

Kuenssberg: “Where would the 150,000 people you plan to deport each year actually go?”
Badenoch: “I’m tired of irrelevant questions.”
The Tories have an idiot in charge, one who doesn’t know NI voted Remain or why deportation deals even matter. #ukpolitics

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 3d

Labour now being the useful idiot to the hard/far right in this country

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 4d

Works for me 👍

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 4d

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 4d

Oh no, he’s not Simon Cowelled it has he?

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UKADS @ukads.bsky.social · 4d

Would you trust your husband with the Terry's Chocolate Orange in 1984?

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 4d

It’s almost as if the Tories and Reform HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT THEY’RE DOING

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does.

E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.

Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 5d

Basically, yes

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 6d

Was that Alexei Sayle doing the voiceover?

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 6d

“Snorky talk” whenever I see a dolphin

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, sorry, I am too obsessed with American politics right now

Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 10d

If you need anymore evidence about how deranged the Trump administration is, have a listen to this podcast from @meidastouch.com

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Trump Goes Psycho on Saturday and Orders Military Invasion

Podcast Episode · The MeidasTouch Podcast · 27/09/2025 · 25m

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11d

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 12d

“Oh what’s the bloody point”

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 12d

Luckily for her she has a British passport or her son might be signing her deportation papers at some point in the future

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Andrew Bickle @wikibickle.bsky.social · 14d

They’re all as mad as a box of fucking frogs

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 15d

Karoline Leavitt says the Secret Service is investigating why the UN escalator stopped working just as Trump and Melania got on:

“There was some concerning reporting over the weekend…that UN globalist staffers were basically plotting to set up the president of the United States." Leavitt said