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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 1h

www.thedailybeast.com/furious-maga...

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 18h

Emma Briant on the Age of Disinformation - Listen now on Arthur Snell's Behind the Lines podcast! @snellarthur.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Emma Briant on the Age of Disinformation

Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 14/10/2025 · 53m

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 12h

Trump is “creating a media monopoly in order to keep himself in power...the larger pattern, not just TikTok...we have seen countless media companies like the coming under control of right-wing oligarchs. We have seen constant pressure on the press, new rules from the Pentagon...”

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 7h

In A Glass of Blessings (1958) Barbara Pym says the post arrived 2-3 times a day in the run-up to Xmas. Which reminds us that technical regress is a thing: enshittification isn't just for the internet. Here's one I wrote earlier: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/technical-...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

One mistake Labour made in their first year is loading quite a few new costs onto business all at once. They are risking doing something similar on immigration, I think.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 21h

Indeed.

The government has chosen to prioritise reducing (skilled, legal, for work) migration over growth and hence over improving public services.

No economic rationale - but even worse, no political rationale either.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

One mistake Labour made in their first year is loading quite a few new costs onto business all at once. They are risking doing something similar on immigration, I think.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 20h

I assume all the 'hurty word' free speech warriors that were crying their eyes out over Lucy Connolly will be absolutely furious about the guy who has just been sent to prison for his social media posts about Nigel Farage.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10h

The new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social goes to the printers tomorrow.

And we go where others fear to tread…

Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door

subscribe.bylinetimes.com/editions/

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 7h

Here are Putins' pet toad, Orban, and his pet frog Farage.

Farage says they are fighting for the nation state. Yes, they are... they are fighting for Russia.

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Andy King @2primates.bsky.social · 7h

“The worst case possible [Brexit] scenario is better than where we are today” said Nigel Farage in 2016.

There are some things I wouldn’t mind us having to pay higher taxes for - better public services, etc - but picking up the difference between Farage’s bullshit & reality ain’t one of ‘em.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13h

"There is no doubt that the impact of Brexit has been severe and long-lasting", Rachel Reeves tells Sky News, as she suggests that taxes will now have to go up as a result to "make sure the numbers add up".

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10h

“Make Brexit work” by raising taxes to stem the ongoing losses.
Slavish devotion to failed ideology has a very high price.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13h

"There is no doubt that the impact of Brexit has been severe and long-lasting", Rachel Reeves tells Sky News, as she suggests that taxes will now have to go up as a result to "make sure the numbers add up".

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Andy King @2primates.bsky.social · 12h

All the more striking that Farage was able to threaten his opponents with terrorist violence, but faced zero consequence.

Rich, white members of the establishment (even otherwise humourless ones) get to shrug off their own horrific threats as “just a joke”.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/foo...

Footage of Farage threatening to 'pick up a rifle' resurfaces as he flies to US to support Trump

Footage of Nigel Farage saying he would "pick up a rifle and head for the front lines" has resurfaced as he prepares to head to the US.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 1d

Poor Tommy Robinson. What possible reason could the border police have had for stopping a known criminal who is being investigated by HMRC from taking £13,000 in cash abroad while driving a Bentley that wasn’t his and refusing to answer their questions? It’s an outrage!

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Andy King @2primates.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing. It’s almost as if Matthew Syed & that bloke from CapX don’t have their finger on the nation’s pulse after all.

If our thought leaders are wrong, how will any of us know what to think?
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Andy King @2primates.bsky.social · 2d

If the Kemi Badenoch fan club has a telephone number, I don’t expect it’ll be struggling to cope with huge numbers of calls, regardless of anything Matthew Syed & that CapX bloke Dinnage would have you think.

Joseph Dinnage at CapX: “Yet the best speech of the bunch came last. Over the last year, many aspersions have been cast on Badenoch. In his infamous long read on her leadership, the New Statesman’s Will Lloyd characterised her as abrasive, incompetent and most damningly, lazy. Yet none of that was on display in her speech on the conference’s final day.

She was upbeat, funny and full of what her leadership had traditionally lacked – policies. At the centre of her offering is a pledge to find £47 billion of public spending cuts to get the deficit down and ideally fund some pro-growth tax cuts, the most exciting of which is her pledge to abolish stamp duty.”

Matthew Syed: “I joined the Conservative Party last week. That's me: while others are abandoning ship, I get on board. Call me quaint, bloody-minded, mad, whatever. I want to explain here why I did so, why the Tory party matters - perhaps more than ever before - and why I think it will either
win the next election or die.”

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

But the lobby said Badenoch's speech was a triumphant success? I don't understand?

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

Our latest Westminster voting intention (12-13 Oct) has the Greens on their highest figure ever recorded by YouGov

Reform UK: 27% (no change from 5-6 Oct)
Labour: 20% (=)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Lib Dems: 16% (-1)
Greens: 13% (+1)
SNP: 3% (-1)

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2d

Nick Robinson’s coverage of Trump this morning is almost erotic

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
He needs to be tried in court and imprisoned. But that only happens to us: the little people.

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3d

Reform UK need to come clean about refugees in Wales.

85% of refugees in Wales being supported are Ukrainian and the grand total of ALL refugees being supported is under 3k.

Formal complaint to Returning Officer as Reform is accused of lying about Nation of Sanctuary

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Formal complaint to Returning Officer as Reform is accused of lying about Nation of Sanctuary

Martin Shipton Leading members of the Ukrainian community in Caerphilly are making a formal complaint to the official running the seat’s Senedd by-election, alleging that Reform UK is lying about the ...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 2d

Let's make sure everyone knows about the activities that senior Reform members have gotten up to.

These are not people we can trust to run out country.

Make sure people never forget!

(Originally posted by the Labour Party on Instagram)

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 3d

I ihear the entire editorial team of the daily mail, telegraph & Gbnews are all locked in a room and won't be allowed out until they find a way to blame Meghan Markle for this.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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