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Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Will Jennings, Patrick Dunleavy , and 1 more

sundersays.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Paul Davies

dsquareddigest.bsky.social
I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
www.theguardian.com
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Christina Pagel

jamesrball.com
This is one of the issues London Labour insiders raised with me in this piece on Labour & London – Labour is taking the votes of the capital for granted, and is about to impose major local government austerity on councils who were hard hit first time round.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-l...
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin

adambienkov.bsky.social
Is any journalist at Conservative conference going to ask Robert Jenrick where he got his new "Let's take our country back," slogan from?
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Holger Nehring, Judith Freedman

cjayanetti.bsky.social
Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants.

By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...
London Councils Face Losing Half Their Share Of Children's Services Funding
Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...
www.politicshome.com
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin

gabrielmilland.bsky.social
% of of all GCSEs awarded at Grade 9 (the top grade) in 2025.

London 7.6%
Herefordshire 2.6%

Could do with virtually any metric you like btw. This was the top one on Google.

analytics.ofqual.gov.uk/apps/GCSE/Co...
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by Jonathan Portes — Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Steve Peers, Jonathan Portes

jdportes.bsky.social
The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits.

archive.ph/vQ7Tn
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by Tim Bale — Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Steve Peers, Andrew Scott , and 1 more

timbale.bsky.social
If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself. It is not clear what is behind the move by Michael Ellis, a Trump loyalist. A legal ethics specialist said it could raise conflict-of-interest issues.
C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Ben H. Ansell

spinninghugo.bsky.social
What on earth has happened to the Tories? This wouldn't have been acceptable in 1965 let alone 2025.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham
Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit
www.theguardian.com
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Axel Bruns

nytpitchbot.bsky.social
We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Steve Peers

profjacob.bsky.social
🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin

markpackuk.bsky.social
One reason Labour leaves me confused: buff.ly/c7m4CGZ
But note too that, broadly speaking, Labour is united on economic issues and divided on cultural issues. While Reform - and the right overall all the more so - is divided on economic issues while united on cultural issues. Which makes the enthusiasm of some Labour strategists to make politics about cultural issues… puzzling.
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by Colin Murray — Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Simon Usherwood

colinmurray.bsky.social
Today will see a flurry of speculative claims about the GFA & ECHR. Most significantly that rights weren't important/were late editions/didn't mean the whole ECHR in NI law. I'm begging journalists to push back. Civil Servants were planning for Labour's Rights Agenda for NI from the 1997 election:
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin

andrewcutting.coe.int
Interesting: Leaving the #ECHR would be a grave mistake, writes former UK Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland KC👇

🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Alison Phipps, Molly Scott Cato

josiah.writes.news
Politico: Kent County Council controlled by Reform UK, 'is likely to raise council tax rates next year after its cost-cutting “DOLGE” program struggled to find savings, the FT reports. Council Cabinet member Diane Morton said local services were already “down to the bare bones”'

Exactly as warned.
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Will Jennings, Steve Peers , and 5 more

jamesrball.com
*gasp*
“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
In another demonstration of Hegseth-style opsec, Hegseth has detailed discussions of deployment of special forces unit on Signal, and screen shots of the signal messages are leaked to media. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland
Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cellphone while in Minnesota
www.theguardian.com
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Will Jennings, Marc Goergen

catneilan.bsky.social
Exclusive: Nigel Farage has not updated his register since May, despite continuing to present his GB News show, record Cameo videos and being a verified X user

Qus are now being asked about the non-registration of his shareholding in GB parent co All Perspectives

observer.co.uk/news/politic...
‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni...
Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May
observer.co.uk
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Anupam Chander, Peter Thorne , and 12 more

justinhendrix.bsky.social
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
defenddemocracy.bsky.social
Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Margot C. Finn, Simon Usherwood

sundersays.bsky.social
Support for staying in the ECHR has been rising (probably a Farage effect of solidifying the majority who oppose him, maybe Trump osmosis effect). Media and political opinion on the right believes there is a strong public desire to quit. Badenoch has now committed the Conservatives to quitting.
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin

jamesrball.com
“To be honest, I think things are worse now than in 1979,” he says. “Clearly, there was a lot more racial violence then than there is now, but it’s coming back. What’s worse now is that the rhetoric of the extreme far right is not too dissimilar from the rhetoric across the political spectrum.”
Nick Lowles, the fighter of hate who hid from the sun
As a child in the National Front’s heyday, fear made HOPE not Hate’s CEO try to conceal his origins. Now he says tensions are worse than they were in 1979
www.thenewworld.co.uk
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Alex Callinicos

lowrhoufo.bsky.social
Very funny things
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Steve Peers

anthonymkreis.bsky.social
An interesting point raised elsewhere: these boats that the United States is striking don't appear to have the fuel capacity/storage capacity to even reach American shores.
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by Tom Griffin

tcgriffin.bsky.social
Many of their people ended up as movement Conservatives in the Republican Party. Within the Democrats, they were eclipsed by the more business friendly DLC.
tcgriffin.bsky.social
Tom Griffin @tcgriffin.bsky.social · 5d
Insufficiently appreciated how much Blue Labour resembles the Old Labour Right in the US - Social Democrats USA/Coalition for a Democratic Majority.
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by Tom Griffin

tcgriffin.bsky.social
Insufficiently appreciated how much Blue Labour resembles the Old Labour Right in the US - Social Democrats USA/Coalition for a Democratic Majority.

Reposted by: Tom Griffin, Steve Peers

sturdyalex.bsky.social
In trying to elicit sympathy, The Teleform may have landed Farage in trouble instead. I don't see this declared as a donation anywhere in his register of interests...
Reform UK donors are now footing the bill for his security, understood to be more than £lm per year. All of Mr Farage's security is now privately funded, because his team decided that having two different providers, one private and one public, would be unworkable.
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Reposted by: Tom Griffin

fintwitter.bsky.social
Israel: The High Court rejected a request for an interim order to appoint Zini as head of the Shin Bet.
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by Tom Griffin

tcgriffin.bsky.social
Possibly just the vibe of one particular congregant at Holy Trinity Brompton?
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d
So interesting that GB News is sticking with female archbishop story longer than BBC/Sky, going through her tweets live on air, starting to cancel her for being woke.

They keep talking about the Christian public taking it badly, fits with the growing US-style religious vibe of the British right?

Reposted by: Tom Griffin

jim.londoncentric.media
So interesting that GB News is sticking with female archbishop story longer than BBC/Sky, going through her tweets live on air, starting to cancel her for being woke.

They keep talking about the Christian public taking it badly, fits with the growing US-style religious vibe of the British right?
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