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Ronnie Barbour @ronniebarbour.bsky.social · 2h

Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

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Ronnie Barbour @ronniebarbour.bsky.social · 2h

The Week Ahead

October 12, 2025

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Ronnie Barbour @ronniebarbour.bsky.social · 9h

We need to talk about Russia

So, yes, that means we also need to talk about Nigel Farage

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Ronnie Barbour @ronniebarbour.bsky.social · 12h

Sunday Morning Wrap-Up

Here’s your Sunday morning wrap-up, so you can make sure you didn’t miss out on any of the past week’s columns.

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Ronnie Barbour @ronniebarbour.bsky.social · 12h

I'm washing my hair...

Tories and Reform battle to be heirs to Thatcher’s legacy on her centenary

Gala dinner to remember Conservatives’ most successful leader puts spotlight on who will carry forward her ideas

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Ronnie Barbour @ronniebarbour.bsky.social · 13h

Oh.

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

BREAM: Open enrollments starts in November. People are already getting notices about what they may pay. I mean, that's gotta be resolved.

MIKE JOHNSON: Yes, and they're eating up the clock in the month of October

(Johnson canceled the House in August to avoid taking votes on Epstein)

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Ronnie Barbour @ronniebarbour.bsky.social · 14h

“Two grown men desperately try to make sense of politics.”

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Bylines Scotland Radio: Barbour and Roche Ep.1

Podcast Episode · The Bylines Scotland Podcast · 12/10/2025 · 26m

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Pete Moore @paintoolkit.bsky.social · 15h

Coming up later today…well, what is Supported Self Management 🤔

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 16h

Er. Who was president on January 6, 2021? Who's FBI?

Donald J. Trump (@reaDonaldTrump)

THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 3d

✏️ Something worthwhile to pencil in into your diaries!
4 November 2025 at 7pm!
Register by scanning the QR code!

A flyer from Bylines Network's webinar: Hope aganist hate: how citizens and journalists can reclaim democracy on 4 November 2025 7pm

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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 16h

🎙️New podcast episode is out🎙️

When two grown men try to make sense of politics...

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Bylines Scotland Radio: Barbour and Roche Ep.1

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 17h

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Ronnie Barbour @ronniebarbour.bsky.social · 17h

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Bylines Scotland Radio: Barbour and Roche Ep.1

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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 3d

An informed public, understanding the UK money system, would be less duped by false framing | David Murray

Banks do not lend out deposits

An informed public, understanding the UK money system, would be less duped by false framing

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 20h

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Ron Sexsmith @ronsexsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Some Elton John music for your Saturday RS
youtu.be/tEP3m5hI_s4?...

RON SINGS "BORDER SONG" WRITTEN BY ELTON JOHN & BERNIE TAUPIN

YouTube video by Rawnboy

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Pete Moore @paintoolkit.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning @ronniebarbour.bsky.social and really, really thank you for your shares

Have an excellent day my friend 😀

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Pete Moore @paintoolkit.bsky.social · 1d

I have just started a brand new Instagram account, to support both people and health care workers who are interested in Supported Self Management.

www.instagram.com/selfmgttoolk...

Let us all make a difference #InspireSelfMgt

Thank you

Pete 😀

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

Maria Machado is a superb choice for the peace prize, having risked her life to resist one of the world’s most disruptive democratic crises, and created Venezuela’s legitimate elected party. And sends a clear message about who won’t be eligible for the prize

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Maria Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader recognized for promoting a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Good to blame Farage for the dull-arsed, ruinous, tedious failure of Brexit.
Not that good to keep punishing us for that failure, rather than looking to swiftly boost our prosperity by asking to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union.
But yes. It’s a start.

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that if it hadn't been for Brexit this type of downgrade would not have been needed - and cite official figures suggesting that if Britain had not left the European Union the economy would be about £120 billion greater by 2035 than current forecasts suggest.
The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame, as the man who delivered Brexit with "easy sloganeering" then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards.
Or to put it another way: Farage, not us, is responsible for putting up your taxes.
The theme will tie to the main thrust of Starmer's argument at conference, that the Reform leader is selling easy solutions that are just a fantasy.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
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Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

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Pete Moore @paintoolkit.bsky.social · 1d

A brand NEW SelfMgt website and Digital Booklet is in the works.

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Pete Moore @paintoolkit.bsky.social · 1d

I have just started a brand new Instagram account, to support both people and health care workers who are interested in Supported Self Management.

www.instagram.com/selfmgttoolk...

Let us all make a difference #InspireSelfMgt

Thank you

Pete 😀

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d

One of #China’s largest #wind turbine makers has announced plans to invest up to £1.5bn in a new factory in #Scotland.
www.ft.com/content/7f01...

China’s Ming Yang to invest up to £1.5bn in Scottish turbine factory

Company says the project is subject to ‘final approvals’ from the UK government

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