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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 9h

Leicestershire Reform finance lead steps down as opposition slam group's ‘inexperience’ share.google/ciu8PMrMYUXw...

Well, well, fancy the impact of having no knowledge, skills or experience

Leicestershire Reform finance lead steps down as opposition slam group's ‘inexperience’

Reform UK’s Leicestershire County Council cabinet has suffered another change in its top team, with opposition groups saying residents are paying the price for their “inexperience”

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 9h

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Heather Cox Richardson is always worth reading

October 14, 2025

The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 9h

Fed up with Farage? Me too. I’ve signed the Never Nigel Pledge. Add your name today, and help show that division and hate have no place in our communities.

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Take the Pledge: “I’ll never vote for Nigel Farage”

Join thousands across Britain taking the Never Nigel Pledge. Say no to hate and division and help stop Reform UK from tearing apart our communities. Let's show there is strength in standing together f...

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 10h

The Tide Is Turning: 113,827 Brits Demand Public Ownership of Water - 38 Degrees share.google/xn3dOWSRbbXu...

The Tide Is Turning: 113,827 Brits Demand Public Ownership of Water - 38 Degrees

At yesterday’s petition hand in, we sent a clear message to the Government: listen to the public and consider bringing the broken water system back into public ownership now.

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 10h

Fed up with Farage? Me too. I’ve signed the Never Nigel Pledge. Add your name today, and help show that division and hate have no place in our communities.

secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/170649/... @hopenothate.org.uk

Take the Pledge: “I’ll never vote for Nigel Farage”

Join thousands across Britain taking the Never Nigel Pledge. Say no to hate and division and help stop Reform UK from tearing apart our communities. Let's show there is strength in standing together f...

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 12h

Fed up with Farage? Me too. I’ve signed the Never Nigel Pledge. Add your name today, and help show that division and hate have no place in our communities.

secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/170649/... @hopenothate.org.uk

Take the Pledge: “I’ll never vote for Nigel Farage”

Join thousands across Britain taking the Never Nigel Pledge. Say no to hate and division and help stop Reform UK from tearing apart our communities. Let's show there is strength in standing together f...

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

❓ Protecting women and girls?

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Reform councillor suspended amid investigation into ‘lewd remarks’

A Reform UK councillor has been suspended amid an investigation into allegations of misconduct following a complaint by “several women”.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Keep it up, folks!

Together - hope is here!

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Exclusive: Greens Plan To 'Overtake Tories And Replace Labour' As Support Surges

The party has also seen its membership break through 100,000 for the first time.

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Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 23h

By the mid-19th century, there were loads of Black people in Canada, promised freedom, but effectively segregated and given the really shitty parts of town to live in…

Now Canada is and always has been all about Hockey, but Black people weren’t allowed to play because, y’know, racism n stuff.

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Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 13d

Once again, for #blackhistorymonth I'll be highlighting some of the all time greats from the world of sport and performance in a month-long thread.

Trailblazers, record breakers, game-changers. One every day.

Settle in....

Let's start with...

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 23h

Saturday. Find the protest where you are and make your voice heard!

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

On Saturday, the American people will rise up again for a truly historic day of defiance. Make your plan to be part of the biggest day of peaceful protest in modern US history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

“The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all. The rights within it are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice, why victims of abuse can seek safety, & why disabled people are treated with dignity in care

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🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 1d

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Hopefully we will see more of this, nationwide

Restoring pride to Britain’s most deprived neighbourhoods

'Pride in Place' is an ambitious government plan to hand power and funding to local people to rebuild community pride. How will it work?

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 1d

Britain’s youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What’s most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris | The Guardian share.google/iusQd9FknXLG...

Quietly, you think? Deliberately for sure over 14 years of Tory austerity

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 1d

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And they should stop trying to out Reform, Reform.

'The Conservative Party Must Log Off Social Media and Start Engaging Again With the Real World'

Conservative Party member and whistleblower Sergei Cristo, reports from the empty halls of its conference in Manchester and finds a movement that is fast running out of supporters and ideas

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

And people tell me the libs have no knack for messaging.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3d

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump No Longer Remembers That He Was President and Controlled the FBI on January 6, 2021, Confirming Americans' Worst Fears About His Advanced Dementia

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d

UK travellers should expect "four-hour queues" as new EU border system comes into force. Brexit really is the gift that keeps giving

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 3d

One of the people who fought so hard for an outcome which would always impose extra burdens on British firms and travellers is leading in national opinion polls.

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New EU border checks could cause four hour waits and cost £400m, industry warns

The Entry Exit System (EES), being rolled out on Sunday, means UK travellers will need to have their fingerprints registered and photograph taken to enter the Schengen area

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

Only one thing could top the honor of speaking at the No Kings rally, and that's the honor of speaking at No Kings 2. See you October 18th!

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 3d

Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill"

So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 3d

I guess you're not in the UK, we're only vaccinating over 74' year olds and those with compromised immune systems. Though I have heard recently that you can be immunised at Boots for about £100. I'm not sure if that is correct, though

Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 3d

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I love the final comment here, "it's not 'You're too young to be on a night bus by yourself' it is instead 'I'm not ready to let you go on a night bus by yourself. You are going to have to wait for me to catch up"

"I'm worried about my Teenage Daughter"

A lot of parents are. And they may have good reasons.

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 4d

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Warnings from history: Lessons unheeded in the search for peace

As peace talks begin, three historic warnings about Zionism and statehood remind us how fragile peace remains

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