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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 1d

New fantasy hard-up millionaire just dropped… 💸🏰

The owns-a-£10 million-property-but-has-no-cash-to-pay-a-wealth-tax millionaire. 🙃

👏 Well done @kevmag.bsky.social
for knocking back this nonsense.👏

Here's why this just isn't an issue... 1/3

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO @dailyherald.bsky.social · 14h

Labour has increased growth in the UK. Through their policies the UK is the fastest growing economy in the G7 in the first half of this year, and the second fastest growing economy in the G7 this year.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 8h

🚨🚨🚨 Governor Hochul holds nothing back in a sharp, yet poetic response to a question about exposed texts. 1/2

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Marta @martamcd.bsky.social · 6h

Richard Holden is the UK Right's painted-on-beard version of Jim Jordan.

Loud, forever interrupting, almost always wrong.

Like a lot of things about Holden, he has a small majority of 20 votes.

Tiny. Teensy. Trivial. Trifling.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 9h

INCREDIBLE clip.

<Richard Holden MP shouts like an angry man in a pub>

Lisa Nandy: "Can you calm down a bit, mate? You're shouting like an angry man in a pub."

Richard Holden: "That's not fair."

<continues to shout like an angry man in a pub>

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 6h

I love the wonderfully expressive crouching Atlantids carved by George Frampton on J.J. Burnet's 1890s Banking Hall on Ingram Street in Glasgow.

#glasgow #sculpture #architecture #glasgowarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #designdetail #atlantid #atlas #architecturephotography

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Marta @martamcd.bsky.social · 6h

Art on Art💙

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

Yayoi Kusama with her artwork Pumpkin, 2010 #womensart

Photo of a Japanese woman with dyed red hair and yellow and black dress sitting on the edge of an art installation with a yellow platform and walls covered in large black dots, on the platform is a large sculpture of a yellow pumpkin with black dots in vertical lines

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Doug Aoki @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 7h

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO @dailyherald.bsky.social · 13h

Labour are backing Britain as a destination for the world’s brightest by expanding routes for top-100 university graduates and talented entrepreneurs to build ventures here.

This is how we attract global talent while investing in British skills and driving growth.

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Marta @martamcd.bsky.social · 7h

Badenoch comes into PMQs each week armed with 6 questions, which she will ask with no adjustment for prior answers given.

She listened to the China announcement from Starmer pre PMQs, and did not have the wit to adjust her questions in real time.

Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 10h

Why is Badenoch going on and on about the failure of this China trial.

The PM has been clear he is going to publish what information he can and that it all happened under the last government....and that it will show her to be wrong.

Yet she is still going and going. She's a disgrace!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

New in PN: The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

"Dismissal is probably the best result for the government, since it would spare the DOJ having its dirty laundry aired in court before getting spanked for having brought such a garbage case. But even so, it'd be very, very funny."

The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

Welcome to the Rocket Docket, Lindsey Halligan!

www.publicnotice.co

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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BERGΛMΛX @bergamax.bsky.social · 11h

"Who Let the Dogs Out," 2022
Oil on canvas , 100 x 120 cm

Ingebjorg Froydis Stoyva (Norwegian, b.1978)

#art #painting #illustration

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Marta @martamcd.bsky.social · 11h

'Fluoride Disconnects One From God'

So sayeth the Apostle Cavity.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

www.notus.org/health-scien...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14h

All of this is being put out to placate the right wing press...

In the meantime, it's causing fear & confusion. As I understand it:

● this only applies to some people on skilled visas
● it's not "A level English" it's something called SELT
● much the same requirement exists elsewhere in EU

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Marta @martamcd.bsky.social · 12h

Great to hear this said out loud by our Chancellor.

It opens a space to have more honest, more productive conversations.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12h

Brexit has been destructive to our economy, and has cost us £140 BILLIONS already.

Rachel Reeves: "The impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting."

Check out our Brexit cost tracker: https://www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

The People of Pattern Project, 2016 by Yemeni-Bosnian-US artist Alia Ali, on textile, culture and identity #womensar

Photo of a crouching person covered in striped blue and white material from head to toe, the subject is in front of a diamond patterned blue and white background

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 1d

So not only have Labour been pivotal on the world stage they’re delivering for the homeless, protecting homes/businesses from flooding and slashing delays to get housing built. All in a normal week under a Labour government. Oh and the economy is still outperforming most, bar US

1. The UK is forecast to be the second-fastest growing of the world's most advanced economies this year. IMF)
2. Deposit Returns Scheme on drinks containers from Oct 27 to run in major supermarkets in England/Wales
3. Every Labour MP voted to ban the badger cull 👏👏👏
4. Landmark Planning and Infrastructure Bill – a key driver for growth to slash planning delays
5. New Fair Work Agency will transform how employment rights are enforced across the UK.
6. Deprived communities to get new flood defences faster
7. Sellafield Ltd awards £2.9bn infrastructure contracts
8. £84 million injection to tackle homelessness
9. Half of rail operators publicly owned with Greater Anglia onboard
10. First illegal migrants returned under new UK-France agreement
11. Patients in poorer areas to get better access to GPs
12. 10,600 new UK jobs have be

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Marta @martamcd.bsky.social · 1d

'Maggie Thatcher the Milk Snatcher'.

She showed exactly who she was very early doors.

David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

⚖️ Legal bodies representing over 250,000 lawyers have hit back against Robert Jenrick's “politically motivated attacks” on the legal sector as “irresponsible and dangerous”.

https://www.cityam.com/legal-profession-hits-back-at-robert-jenrick-threat-against-activist-judges/

Legal profession hits back at Robert Jenrick threat against 'activist' judges

Legal bodies have pushed back against recent "politically motivated attacks" on the legal profession, following Robert Jenrick's critcisms.

www.cityam.com

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BERGΛMΛX @bergamax.bsky.social · 1d

The curious schoolchildren.
Paris, 1953.
By Robert Doisneau

#children #students #windows #oldtimes

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

'Heart of the Dragon, Socotra, Yemen' by photographer Beth Moon on her fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees of the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a close-up of a large ancient living tree in a flat landscape with other trees in the distance, the tree has many branches forming a rounded flat canopy viewed from underneath

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 1d

Lyse Doucet and Jeremy Bowen fine reporting from Middle East reminder of BBC journalism as it used to be…deeply informed, sober and balanced …sad to say marks out shallow sensationalism of BBC’s reporting of Westminster politics ….

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BERGΛMΛX @bergamax.bsky.social · 1d

"The Landing", 2025.
Oil on Canvas, 59.7 × 73.7 cm.

Peter Brown (British Artist, born 1967)

Private Collection.
#art #painting #illustration

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Jamie Dixon 🫎 @jamiedixon.bsky.social · 2d

Sunrise from Ben Vane, looking out to Ben Lomond, Loch Lomond & Arrochar Alps 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 😌 #sunrise #mountains #scotland #mountainmonday

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 3d

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

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