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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 6h

Always worth a reprise. Happy retirement.

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 7h

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 10h

Amazing achievement - all they had to do was remove 29% of the items from last year, repackage, and exchange the remaining items with cheaper alternatives.

Y'all feel the winning yet?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

The corporate propaganda machine colluding with the Trump propaganda machine to lie to the American people about Thanksgiving.

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Gina Jolliffe @gina72.bsky.social · 7h

Of course it would be nasty of me to hope he chokes on his.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

The corporate propaganda machine colluding with the Trump propaganda machine to lie to the American people about Thanksgiving.

Gina Jolliffe @gina72.bsky.social · 7h

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 11h

Get your colleagues and friends off it, folks.

Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12h

must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Gina Jolliffe @gina72.bsky.social · 7h

It's 3 bits of A4 stuck up.
The decorations over the door remind one irresistibly of those polystyrene ones you can get online and spray your fave colour.
Crappy, tacky, amateur and definitive symbol of Trump's laughing-stock presidency.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Gina Jolliffe @gina72.bsky.social · 8h

Harry Rayner, Tory leader on the council, said it was now “mired in the consequences of self-inflicted damages”
“This council has been made a laughing stock with more clowns on display since I saw Bill Smart’s last circus,” he said.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform UK suspends another member of Kent county council

Isabella Kemp’s departure means party has lost nine of 57 councillors elected in May, including four after video leak

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 14h

Sensible Letter to @thetimes.com today.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 16h

They are so good at this.

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Hils @hils56.bsky.social · 15h

That’s the trouble with Reform voters, they just don’t think, hear or see beyond the rhetoric of this evil mob. It’s all about Immigration and racism.

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

Court convicts two donors for illegally diverting £100k to Eurosceptic think tank run by Nigel Farage's girlfriend. She definitely doesn't sound like the sort of person who would get involved with tax fraud on a house purchase.

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Gina Jolliffe @gina72.bsky.social · 15h

Check out who the CEO of News Group Newspapers is.
Filth.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Sun publisher agrees to pay Christopher Jefferies ‘substantial damages’

Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers apologises for invading privacy of man wrongly arrested for high-profile murder

www.theguardian.com

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Gina Jolliffe @gina72.bsky.social · 1d

"......a conflict of interest involving Reform’s cabinet member for adult social care, Graham Dalton, who owns a private care company in Lancashire." Quote from a Reform voting constituent.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres

Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company

www.theguardian.com

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Gina Jolliffe @gina72.bsky.social · 1d

And Nick R is another BBC shill. Once the Chair of Oxford U Tories, since a Farage-lover.
Massively anti EU.

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Once again, this isn’t journalism. It’s stroking the ego of a politician who’s done great national harm.
WhyTF should we take Farage seriously? Just because he wants power? Even more reason for ruthless scrutiny.
His track record is racist and ruinous. Any serious journalist would say so.
(iPaper)

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The joke's over: Farage plays it straight in bid to be PM
Nick Robinson
Extract: I
t is the surest sign - although blink, and you just might have missed it. The man who can hardly start a sentence without adding a gag, or a grin, or a chortle, gave a speech about his approach to the economy in which he barely produced any. Nigel is trying to get serious.
What that tells me is that Mr Farage really does want power: He senses it is within his grasp. He smells it and, most importantly of all, he wants it. Badly.
The leader of Reform UK
declared that "above all we will be responsible and realistic". In so doing he seemed to admit that the policies he ran on at the last election were something of a joke. No one remotely serious believed they remotely serious because, as the Institute for Fiscal Studies said, the sums in Reform UK's manifesto did
"not add up".
Back then - scarcely more than a year ago - Farage said you could have pretty much everything you wanted from a government whilst actually paying less for it - much less. Taxes would be cut, and cut big time. It was going to be happy hour all day long. Every day. All year:
Yet now what he wants us to hear is very different. Now the man who really does want to be our next prime minister is saying, in eftect:
I'm awfully sorry, but we can't cut your taxes until we get our nationa! debt back under control. Trust me, he's saying, I can be the straight man as well as the funny guy.
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Now he does have to show us all that he knows how to turn his words into reality, just as his lieutenants who are running councils up and down the land are discovering.
We know Farage really does want to be our next prime minister. It is time we all took that prospect seriously, and stopped treating him as a come turn or a pantomime villain in the national soap opera.
Serious times deserve serious answers. Let's see if Farage can provide them.

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Bob Hawkins @bobhawkins.bsky.social · 1d

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/04/r...

A rare jewellery box identified in Vermeer paintings sheds new light on the artist’s connections

The expensive Indo-Portuguese casket depicted in two works was likely a loan from a wealthy patron, a new book reveals

www.theartnewspaper.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

Rachel Reeves says we have a £25 billion black hole

Rachel Reeves knows Brexit makes us £40 billion poorer

Rejoining the EU would give us a £15 billion surplus

Why doesn't Labour want what's best for the UK?

Tax rises? That'll be Brexit

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

AOC, "Elon Musk is not a scientist, he is not an engineer. He is a billionaire conman with a lot of money"

Can you imagine any Labour MP saying this?

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Gina Jolliffe @gina72.bsky.social · 1d

Those who remember 'The War Game (and Culloden) will be sad to hear of the recent death of the director Peter Watkins. He lived very quietly in Felletin, Creuse, and died just 20 miles from us in Bourganeuf Hospital.
(updated 5 Nov.)
Thank you Mr Watkins. You did well.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians

eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians

The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 2d

Do you agree this👇🏼hero deserves a medal❓

Samir Zitoumi is the rail worker who saved lives during the mass train stabbing at the weekend

He remains seriously ill in hospital from his wounds so thoughts & prayers he makes a speedy & full recovery

No praise or recognition for him from Farage & Co❗️

Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero'

Samir Zitouni, 48, was left fighting for his life after trying to protect passengers during the knife attack on Saturday's 6.25pm LNER service from Doncaster to London King's Cross.

news.sky.com

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Gina Jolliffe @gina72.bsky.social · 2d

Kick them out of the EU.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d

Former deputy head of Hungary’s foreign intelligence, Andras Telkes, shared that Orban government is now fully integrated with Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service

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Gina Jolliffe @gina72.bsky.social · 2d

I shall treasure, and probably use,
'Farage. The Foghorn of Failure.'
Thank you.

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

“His main theme was that the country was fucked. Largely because of Brexit. Weirdly, he has no memory of being the main architect behind the Brexit vote. He seems to think it happened in a world in which he played no part.”

Farage - the foghorn of failure.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nige is no longer laughing at himself as he ‘performs’ yet another big speech | John Crace

Reform leader is trying to make it as a mainstream politician – which involves contradicting himself and gaslighting voters

www.theguardian.com

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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 2d

And here is the 2025 version.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 3d

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 2d

John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning with good news: South Korea now requires parking lots for 80 or more cars to install solar! 2-3 GW of solar results! cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

China's consumption of transport fuels (gasoline, diesel, kerosene) fell 4% in Jan-Sep.
Credit @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social

#energysky

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