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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 8h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 4h

Number crunching: council tax hikes

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 6h

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National Secular Society @natsecsoc.bsky.social · 7h

Decades of consternation over gay marriage have shown the Church of England to be institutionally homophobic.

Its doctrine is its own affair, but this minority religion has no business being an arm of the state.

www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Church of England bishops halt plans for blessing services for gay couples

The ban on priests marrying same-sex partners will also be extended because changes would require the rewriting of canon law, say leaders

www.thetimes.com

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PhliM @filippom.bsky.social · 6h

Fair point

Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk speaking at Portcullis House. He’s calling for the UK to designate Russia a terrorist state

A man in military style fatigues speaks behind a lectern, between the British and Ukrainian flags

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8h

In today's least surprising news

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 7h

Happy 10th birthday to the most resonant political tweet of all time.

One day, people will get wise to right-wing populism, but seemingly not yet.
x.com/Cavalorn/sta...

Adrian Bott @Cavalorn

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

9:18 16 Oct 15

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PhliM @filippom.bsky.social · 7h

Full-bladder ultrasound shortly. Can't wait for it to be over

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 8h

Seems Farage's big idea of Brexit was bought and paid for by Russia in order to weaken Britain and its allies. So why would anyone trust Farage to run the country in anyone's interest but the foreign billionaires who buy his services?

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15h

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times around Brexit

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018...

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times

Founder Arron Banks was offered lucrative deals in talks with the ambassador

www.theguardian.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 9h

Major Donor to Reform U.K. Party Sold Weapons Parts to Russian Supplier

martinplaut.com/2025/03/28/m...

There was £100k from subsidiary company Techtest in May 2019 and then £50k (not mentioned in the article) from parent company HR Smith group in May 2024.

donation.watch/en/unitedkin...

Major Donor to Reform U.K. Party Sold Weapons Parts to Russian Supplier

The aerospace company H.R. Smith Group was an early backer of the party after Nigel Farage became leader. Reform has faced criticism over comments seen as supporting Moscow. Nigel Farage at an even…

martinplaut.com

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Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 7h

“In what universe is the world’s richest Fascist funding the UK’s most prominent Fascist not a massive fucking story???!”

Well said, @sturdyalex.bsky.social

The lack of proper media coverage of Musk’s interference in British politics is a huge collective dereliction of journalistic duty.

Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 9h

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 CAERPHILLY DOES IT

🧀 Caerphilly By-Election
🕵🏽 Chinese Spy Trial
💶 Nathan Gill bribes
✖️ Yaxley-Lennon's sugardaddy
🗳️ Senedd elections
With @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @pimlicat.bsky.social & special guest @lsrplaid.bsky.social.

🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6A2o...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Caerphilly Does It: Welsh Politics, Russian Bribes, & Chinese Spies

open.spotify.com

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 7h

In other words, as long as your betting partners aren't doing crimes in the UK, carry on.

This is an extraordinary piece of guidance for a UK regulator to give and it's shameful that football is happy to accept this lowering of the bar.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 7h

Really important piece by @philippeauclair.bsky.social on how, even as Premier League clubs are supposed to be disengaging from Asian-facing bookies, they're lowering their standards to get every last drop of dubious cash.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Premier League clubs turn to hidden gambling partners to beat sponsorship ban

Aston Villa, Chelsea, Leeds and Nottingham Forest failed to respond to questions sent by the Guardian, while Sunderland refused to comment

www.theguardian.com

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 7h

-beats head on wall-

No government just lets experts run shit.

Experts provide recoommendations and analysis of the likely outcomes and consequences of contemplated policies.

RFK doesn't like what they're saying about the outcomes and consequences of his policies so he's stoking populist outcry.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 16h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 9h

Of all the stupid things they’ve said, this is the stupidest. And the most dangerous.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 16h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 9h

They lie about the ECHR.
Just like they lied about Brexit. Claiming if we just got rid of that ‘European’ thing, we’d be free, we’d have control, all our problems solved…
It’s NOT TRUE.
We’d inflict more chaos on ourselves and torch our own human rights framework for NOTHING.
For liars.
Again.

Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 1d

The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 10h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

We are living in one of the stupidest times in history.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 19h

🔴 NEW - At the same time that Nathan Gill was taking Russian bribes, the British far-right was travelling regularly to Moscow.

Paul Golding even met “Vladimir Putin”…

The time when Britain First met Vladimir Putin*

The far-right has long flirted with Russia

writesbright.substack.com

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 1d

As a friend who was planning to go to the 2026 WC told me, "this settles it". He won't.

Comparison of prices between the prices of tickets at the 2022 and 2026 Fifa World Cup, showing prices increases of up to 1,000%.

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Nathan Phillips @nathanphillips.bsky.social · 9d

"We wish we could stop them but there's no rules to stop them."

Say the only people on the entire planet with the power to make the rules to stop them.

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www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Uefa allowing domestic games abroad is a sad turning point, ending soccer as we’ve known it | Leander Schaerlaeckens

The change may seem small, but the profit-seeking games are clearly the first step in a mass reorientation of the club game

www.theguardian.com

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 21h

Facts…
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.

Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 1d

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 22h

Here’s the latest 'scoop' being spread by right wing gobshites on Shitter. Except:
-he’s not a teacher, he’s an assistant
-the school didn’t sack him, he works for an agency
-they stopped using him not for putting up flags but for posting racist bollocks and misinformation online.

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Caroline Churcher @newforestchild.bsky.social · 23h

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