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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 2h

Labour needs to hammer Reform on food prices.

Climate change will make products a lot more expensive, yet Nigel Farage doesn’t even think CO2 is a pollutant…

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6h

Reform candidate visibly squirms as he's confronted by a local family in Caerphilly.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

The government’s restrictions on immigration will turn this around any day now.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 2d

Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 11-13 October 2025

Approve: 14% (+1 from 4-6 Oct)
Disapprove: 69% (=)
Net: -55 (+1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 7h

I am very open to believe, especially in national security cases, that undue pressure can be exerted by the executive, but the published third witness statement counters such a conspiracy.

That is not a witness statement which would compromise a case but substantiate it.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 8h

NEW

What the Chinese spying case witness statements reveal

The Crown Prosecution Service appears to have made at least one serious error, while the government's position now makes sense

By me

emptycity.substack.com/p/what-the-c...

Yesterday this blog sought to make sense of the decision to drop the Chinese Spying prosecutions on the information then available, and averred that both the positions of the government and the Crown Prosecution Service did not make sense.

Now the government has published three witness statements, the picture now changes. The government’s position now makes sense, and the CPS looks as if it made at least one serious mistake and possibly another.

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rhodrikc.bsky.social @rhodrikc.bsky.social · 7h

This is an excellent move by our very forwarding thinking Council.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 11h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

nation.cymru

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 20h

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McKenna

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 1d

Today is P. G. Wodehouse’s birthday.

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.”

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · 10h

I hope supporters of the Greens, Lib Dems, Labour and even moderate Tories vote tactictally in Caerffili next week. Allowing Llŷr Powell and Reform into the Senedd would be a disaster for Caerffili and Wales.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Kinnock is one of the finest proponents of progressive thought in this country and the best prime minister we never had.

Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

In 2010, an interviewer told Neil Kinnock that the Labour Party "never used to understand aspiration".

Kinnock gave an absolutely brilliant answer that should be learned by heart by every Labour MP. (0.42 to 1.22)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGhP...

Neil Kinnock goes berserk

YouTube video by Vadrigar

www.youtube.com

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 19h

Saw it tonight. A total masterpiece. Go and watch it.
That's all. ;-)

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” “even in its omissions, brims with strategic ingenuity and daring, cinematic and political—to fight other films’ empty fantasies with substantial ones,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes.

The Real Battle of “One Battle After Another”

Paul Thomas Anderson’s spectacular, exquisitely detailed fantasy of revolution and resistance, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, looks to history for visions of hope.

www.newyorker.com

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Charlotte ter Haar @charlotteth.bsky.social · 1d

Please help in the fight to make this go viral:

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 1d

If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.

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Rhydd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhyddian.bsky.social · 2d

Right, so immigrants moving to Ceredigion and Gwynedd will be expected to have "A level English" but not Welsh?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK - BBC News

The tougher rules will come in force in January as part of wider plans to cut immigration.

www.bbc.co.uk

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rhodrikc.bsky.social @rhodrikc.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to the Shortest History of Ireland. Did your son get his internship?

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is online positively wailing about this picture, because he is weak and vain and cares exponentially more about himself than anything else. That said, if there is something Trump does not want America to see, that means it is probably something every American needs to see. Please share widely.

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rhodrikc.bsky.social @rhodrikc.bsky.social · 2d

Superb contribution by @jameshawes.bsky.social to this fascinating and illuminating discussion about the history of the Tory party.

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rhodrikc.bsky.social @rhodrikc.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating historical perspective provided by @jameshawes.bsky.social to this fascinating analysis of Toryism and Reform's relationship to it. Same old, same old.

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rhodrikc.bsky.social @rhodrikc.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating historical perspective provided by @jameshawes.bsky.social to this fascinating analysis of Toryism and Reform's relationship to it. Same old, same old.

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James Hawes @jameshawes.bsky.social · 27d

It’s long-wave history time again as polling in #Wales - now a two horse-race between the civic/cultural nationalism of #Plaid and the toxic “Empire 2.0” fantasies of #Farage - looks extremely familiar…

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James Hawes @jameshawes.bsky.social · 29d

What he said. As discussed by myself and @nickcohen.bsky.social on his podcast a couple of months ago.

Rorza8472 @rorza8472.bsky.social · 29d

the Conservative brand has been dying for a while now, Johnson was it's last hurrah as a political force, since then it's been the walking dead so all it's money, influencers & outriders are migrating to Reform.

Reform aren't insurgent or different, they are just a more right wing rebrand of Tories

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d

‘The current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era.’

In his final piece for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, Conor Gearty writes on the Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the HRA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. None of this is being done in secret – the...

www.lrb.co.uk

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rhodrikc.bsky.social @rhodrikc.bsky.social · 2d

Superb contribution by @jameshawes.bsky.social to this fascinating and illuminating discussion about the history of the Tory party.

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