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Wakefield Green Party @wakefieldgreens.bsky.social · 3h

For anyone with a spare moment - take a listen to the words of The British by Handsworth’s Benjamin Zephaniah.

Such a beautiful antidote to the poison of division, bigotry, and hatred that is being flooded into our streets.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

British.

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 2h

EU sets 2027 target for anti-drone system to defend against Russia

It is part of a new drive for the 27-member European Union to be ready for conflict by 2030.

www.bbc.co.uk

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16h

Oh.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 16h

The British voted for Brexit because of immigration.

But now, they want to turn back the clock in favor of the pre-2021 border system.

Brits are pining for the pre-Brexit migration system

The idea was that leaving the bloc would give the U.K. back “control” of its borders and create a fairer system. But the widespread perception is it didn’t turn out that way.

www.politico.eu

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 16h

Many of the 90 bodies of Palestinians returned to Gaza by Israeli authorities under the ceasefire deal showed signs of torture and execution, including blindfolds, cuffed hands and bullet wounds in the head, according to doctors’ accounts.

Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors

Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 7d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 23h

Uh… this was basically the leading cause of the British Civil Wars in the 1640s www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Russians Offered Business Deals to Brexit’s Biggest Backer
. www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/w...

Russians Offered Business Deals to Brexit’s Biggest Backer (Published 2018)

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

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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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 1d

I’m getting fed up with how many times we are seeing things we all bloody KNEW were going on, being presented as new revelations… The Entire Brexit campaign was clearly a moonshot for Putin, but the opportunity to break off a key part of the EU was irresistible.
Of COURSE he was involved.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

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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Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net · 1d

The recipe:

Pear and Chocolate Clafoutis Easy Recipe - J.D. Jenkins

A perfect candidate to experiment and create versions for every season. How can you think about autumn without thinking about one of my favourite combinations: Pear and Chocolate Clafoutis.

jdjenkins.co.uk

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d

"Another Reform MP has been accused of being in breach of Parliamentary rules, after its deputy leader Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality he received from Lubov Chernukhin – wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister"
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...

Reform’s Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

'Tice and Oakeshott stayed at the Chernukhins’ “turreted villa” with “a stunning view of the Mediterranean” and had supper with them at a Michelin-starred restaurant'

leftfootforward.org

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 1d

Midweek Treat: this simple, squidgy Banana Bread is #RecipeOfTheDay! I love all manner of banana breads, but I always return to this one gladly. If you make it, I do recommend you try a slice spread thickly with cream cheese. www.nigella.com/recipes/bana...

Banana Bread

I haven't done a tremendous amount of fiddling with this, but I did once make it, for friends who are more chocolate-crazed than I am, by replacing 25g / 3 tablespoons of the flour with good cocoa pow...

www.nigella.com

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 1d

Britain's first coal free year of electricity!

Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 8d

Wind generated the last share of UK electricity over the last year, gas second, and zero coal for the first year ever since we have used electricity! via the ever informative grid.iamkate.com

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1d

That is Oleg Voloshin’s wife. (Oleg, who bribed Farage’s UKIP / Brexit Party/ ReFuk mate, NATHAN Gill), to push the Russian line in the European Parliament. She says Farage is happy with her Brexit celebration T-shirt gift. He does seems very happy to receive it from her.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 5d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Banks make $26bn in a decade of financing deforesting companies.

Destruction of the world’s forests reached the highest level - agricultural expansion, mining, infrastructure, logging.

Profits before climate change, human lives and the planet.

The cult of deregulation will make matters worse.

Banks make $26bn in decade of financing deforesting companies

US, EU and UK banks have made over $10 billion in income since Paris Agreement by financing companies involved in deforestation, new analysis ahead of COP30 reveals

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 1d

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1d

“ADF also brokered a secret meeting between Farage and senior Trump officials at Old Queen Street Café — which, coincidentally, is owned by billionaire Paul Marshall, the financier behind GB News and The Spectator and a keen backer of evangelical culture wars.”

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1d

🇺🇸 “ADF helped overturn Roe v. Wade (anbortion rights) and is now exporting its playbook to Britain 🇬🇧 . Jane’s investigation revealed that ADF’s UK arm orchestrated Farage’s appearance before Congress, where he attacked Britain’s tech regulation.”

Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage and the foreign influence threat
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Nigel Farage and the foreign influence threat

How US anti-abortionists are supporting Reform, and why we need to talk about Russian influence, with the New York Times’ Jane Bradley.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Meet The Master Race
"The chat wasn’t an aberration. It was a window.
It showed you the culture Trump built, where cruelty is proof of loyalty, shamelessness is the coin of the realm, and the line between meme and mandate is paper-thin" @TheRickWilson

open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Meet The Master Race

Insane GOP Telegram Chat Rips Off The Mask

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1d

What a terrific thread.

Thank you @oddthisday.bsky.social for taking the time to tell the story, and so well.

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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John Wilks @johngwilks.bsky.social · 1d

Reform's Russian connections should concern all who value our democracy. They are traitors hiding behind our flag.
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...

Reform’s Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

'Tice and Oakeshott stayed at the Chernukhins’ “turreted villa” with “a stunning view of the Mediterranean” and had supper with them at a Michelin-starred restaurant'

leftfootforward.org

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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer regarding Reform’s former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill: “The member for Clacton & his deputy worked alongside someone who took money to spread Putin’s propaganda. They have serious questions to answer about what they knew”

#PMQs #PoliticsLive

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Elsa @elsabenedict.bsky.social · 1d

it's a way of setting out how a woman should 'look' and behave, it's revolting, has nothing to do with protecting women's right and everything to do with patriarchy putting women back in their box

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Elsa @elsabenedict.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely👏, Carole Malone does not speak for me either, that kind of hatred has nothing to do with either feminism or protecting womens rights

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 1d

“These attacks on the independence of the judiciary are really serious, and we have to be very bothered about them, it seems to me. Please be bothered about them.”

Lady Hale warns against politicising judiciary after Jenrick criticism of judges

Robert Jenrick vowed to put ministers back in charge of judicial appointments, claiming the system had allowed ‘political activists’ on to the bench.

www.independent.co.uk

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