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@murphytweets.bsky.social
· Sep 5
Prediction: Reform will collapse in an election cycle when all parties are given equal coverage and actually properly scrutinised. There will also be an organised ‘anyone but’ tactical vote. Progressive coalition the outcome. #r4today
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The RFK, jr effect.
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Going to the West End is a great reminder of how much people love car-free streets ❤️
December 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Going to the West End is a great reminder of how much people love car-free streets ❤️
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This seems rather important. As posted by @edwardluce.bsky.social
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
December 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This seems rather important. As posted by @edwardluce.bsky.social
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New #StrongMessageHere is up. This week, Civilisational Collapse with Stewart Lee. We talk Trump, Truss, Farage and the olden times.
December 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
New #StrongMessageHere is up. This week, Civilisational Collapse with Stewart Lee. We talk Trump, Truss, Farage and the olden times.
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The UK economy is not nearly as bad as you’ve been told on.ft.com/48x09Vg
The UK economy is not nearly as bad as you’ve been told
A huge pessimistic bias in our national accounts leads us to doom and gloom which turns out to be nonsense
on.ft.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The UK economy is not nearly as bad as you’ve been told on.ft.com/48x09Vg
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🚨🚨This is worse than we could have imagined: Full version of #Trump's national #securitystrategy reportedly calls for “pulling Poland away from #EU”. 🧵 notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...
Fuller version of Trump security strategy reportedly calls for "pulling Poland away from EU"
notesfrompoland.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🚨🚨This is worse than we could have imagined: Full version of #Trump's national #securitystrategy reportedly calls for “pulling Poland away from #EU”. 🧵 notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...
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NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
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A quick observation capturing the angel Christmas street lights behind the TFL Roundel logo at the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station.
The roundel looks like it has angel wings.
The roundel looks like it has angel wings.
December 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
A quick observation capturing the angel Christmas street lights behind the TFL Roundel logo at the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station.
The roundel looks like it has angel wings.
The roundel looks like it has angel wings.
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Pres Trump worries his closest allies and emboldens Russia and China. But many US commentators feel he is now only 11 months from becoming a lame duck. After next November’s mid-term election he won’t have power over Congress or even parts of the Republican Party.
December 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Pres Trump worries his closest allies and emboldens Russia and China. But many US commentators feel he is now only 11 months from becoming a lame duck. After next November’s mid-term election he won’t have power over Congress or even parts of the Republican Party.
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Ooooh, this is an interesting bit of breaking London news! The Met police, as of today, will require all officers to declare if they're a member of the freemasons.
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Ooooh, this is an interesting bit of breaking London news! The Met police, as of today, will require all officers to declare if they're a member of the freemasons.
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Ready To Go - Piccadilly Circus
If you walk the end of the Bakerloo line platform at Piccadilly Circus you can see the waiting train on the other platform. Here's a photo just before it launched into the tunnel.
If you walk the end of the Bakerloo line platform at Piccadilly Circus you can see the waiting train on the other platform. Here's a photo just before it launched into the tunnel.
December 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Ready To Go - Piccadilly Circus
If you walk the end of the Bakerloo line platform at Piccadilly Circus you can see the waiting train on the other platform. Here's a photo just before it launched into the tunnel.
If you walk the end of the Bakerloo line platform at Piccadilly Circus you can see the waiting train on the other platform. Here's a photo just before it launched into the tunnel.
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Tory governments spent £325m on free schools that failed or disappeared
Tory governments spent £325m on free schools that failed or disappeared
More than £10bn was committed to building new schools between 2014-15 and 2023-24, compared with £6.8bn for rebuilding existing schools
Conservative governments spent £325m creating 67 free schools that subsequently failed or disappeared, many through lack of demand, according to data revealed by a freedom of information request.
The figures from the Department for Education (DfE) show that the government committed more than £10bn to building new schools between 2014-15 and 2023-24, compared with £6.8bn for rebuilding existing schools, which critics say left England with a backlog of crumbling and decaying buildings. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Tory governments spent £325m on free schools that failed or disappeared
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🟦 CLEAN FEED | What Martin Compston says 👇
(Via The One Show/BBC).
(Via The One Show/BBC).
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
🟦 CLEAN FEED | What Martin Compston says 👇
(Via The One Show/BBC).
(Via The One Show/BBC).
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The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled.
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled.
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Free speech continues to deteriorate in the US under Trump.
The regime ordered the increase to rejections of European travellers, especially those who criticize Trump, Russia, or Israel on social media.
Travellers are being forced to reveal 5 years of social media history.
The regime ordered the increase to rejections of European travellers, especially those who criticize Trump, Russia, or Israel on social media.
Travellers are being forced to reveal 5 years of social media history.
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Free speech continues to deteriorate in the US under Trump.
The regime ordered the increase to rejections of European travellers, especially those who criticize Trump, Russia, or Israel on social media.
Travellers are being forced to reveal 5 years of social media history.
The regime ordered the increase to rejections of European travellers, especially those who criticize Trump, Russia, or Israel on social media.
Travellers are being forced to reveal 5 years of social media history.
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Have just been reminded that my friend Christina once overheard the following in Waitrose: it’s perfect.
“Mummy, does Lego have a silent T on the end like Merlot?”
“Mummy, does Lego have a silent T on the end like Merlot?”
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Have just been reminded that my friend Christina once overheard the following in Waitrose: it’s perfect.
“Mummy, does Lego have a silent T on the end like Merlot?”
“Mummy, does Lego have a silent T on the end like Merlot?”
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Go on. It’s the biggest geopolitical pivot of the past 100+ years. It’s an existential moment of crisis for a set of political values that we hold to be the foundation of decent society. Would it kill you to show that you have noticed; to say, I dunno, *something*?
December 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Go on. It’s the biggest geopolitical pivot of the past 100+ years. It’s an existential moment of crisis for a set of political values that we hold to be the foundation of decent society. Would it kill you to show that you have noticed; to say, I dunno, *something*?
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I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
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narrator: the US has a higher proportion of foreign-born residents (around 16%) than most European nations
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
narrator: the US has a higher proportion of foreign-born residents (around 16%) than most European nations
“The damp pink cylinders” @secondmentions.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hundreds of raw sausages fly-tipped near city centre
Council leaders have urged people not to fly-tip in the area.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
“The damp pink cylinders” @secondmentions.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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In some ways this is a useful reminder that a lot of the talk of European security guarantees to Ukraine have the whole thing backwards. For more than three years Ukraine has been guaranteeing European security by fighting and degrading the Russian armed forces.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How long Britain could really fight for if war broke out tomorrow
In the event of a war, one expert suggests the British Army could be incapable of fighting effectively on land within weeks, once committed - though 'much depends on the form of the conflict'.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In some ways this is a useful reminder that a lot of the talk of European security guarantees to Ukraine have the whole thing backwards. For more than three years Ukraine has been guaranteeing European security by fighting and degrading the Russian armed forces.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde
The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde
Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know it, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde
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Three Tweets That Capture The Entire Elon Musk Free Speech Con
We've spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate the entire con more clearly than any deep…
We've spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate the entire con more clearly than any deep…
Three Tweets That Capture The Entire Elon Musk Free Speech Con
We've spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate the entire con more clearly than any deep dive ever could. Let’s start with this one: That’s Elon announcing that: Falsely labeling non-violent people as “fascist” or “Nazi” should be treated as incitement to murder…
www.techdirt.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Three Tweets That Capture The Entire Elon Musk Free Speech Con
We've spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate the entire con more clearly than any deep…
We've spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate the entire con more clearly than any deep…