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Nicole
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We finally got rid of the Tories 🥳 but haven’t got rid of Brexit which is causing untold damage. 🇬🇧 🇦🇪
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nicoledso.bsky.social
Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform I see!!
January 12, 2026 at 11:16 AM
nicoledso.bsky.social
Americans who defend school shootings with the 2nd amendment and how it protects Americans from government over reach, how’s that going exactly?
January 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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t0nyyates.bsky.social
Any time I see a starter pack I repost it. Starter packs are network builders. Network building makes this place better for everyone. If you have a good starter pack, send it round and remind people.
smfthinktank.bsky.social Social Market Foundation @smfthinktank.bsky.social · 5d
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January 7, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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christinecheng.bsky.social
Starmer ABSOLUTELY needs to level with the British public about our national security. ASAP. He has already waited far too long.

Hasn’t helped that the UK media has also been VERY slow to accept that the world order has been flipped on its head (present company excluded @stephenkb.bsky.social).
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d
Today's newsletter: a lot of people in and around the government keep talking about how Starmer will 'spend more time on domestic priorities this year'. He obviously won't be able to and the government needs to come to terms with that (and then explain to the country why that is and what it means):
Keir Starmer should level with voters about foreign policy priorities
Some in government would rather the PM focus on domestic challenges
www.ft.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:07 PM
nicoledso.bsky.social
For fucks sale Labour have you got nothing better to do than driving restrictions. Seriously?!!!
January 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM
nicoledso.bsky.social
What the fuck is he talking about? America you voted for this guy TWICE!!
January 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
nicoledso.bsky.social
WHY THE FUCK has politics live got Jacob Rees Mogg on talking about international fucking law?!!!! Of all people
January 5, 2026 at 5:03 PM
nicoledso.bsky.social
And yet they banned children’s books
esghound.com Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 7d
Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
Ashley St. Clair @stclairashley Just saw a photo that Grok produced of a child no older than four years old in which it took off her dress, put her in a bikini + added what is intended to be semen. ChatGPT does not do this. Gemini does not do this. Another girl who appears to be just 11 or 12 with a brain tumor, Grok removed her shirt completely. Stating that the people producing the prompts are the only ones responsible puts an undue burden on victims, most of which have no idea this is happening. This problem + exploitation of children could be fixed in a matter of minutes by the MechaHitler team.
January 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
For no reason whatsoever, I’m reminding you that before the US invaded Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration said that Iraq’s oil revenue would fund everything.

www.meforum.org/middle-east-...
On March 27, 2003, for example, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said that Iraq’s oil revenues could bring between US$50 and $100 billion within two or three years following the country’s liberation. “We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon,” he said.
January 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
nicoledso.bsky.social
The only president in history not to start any wars has stated bombing another country again I see
#peacepresident
January 3, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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danielsugarman.bsky.social
Having had a day to think through everything about El-Fattah, here's where I stand. Yes, it's possible to believe all of these things at once! In fact, it really shouldn't be that hard.
1) His tweets are hideous, I don’t believe his ‘apology’ for an instant, I hate that he's now here and I believe that his presence, and the presence of any others who believe what he believes does, in fact, make the community I am a part of here less safe. 2) He had a right to citizenship based on the legal parameters (his mother was born here. It doesn’t matter that she was born while her own mother was here as a student and then left when she was two. That’s not how the system works). 3) I don’t believe that his citizenship should be somehow ‘revoked’ for his tweets. Apart from anything else, that’s a terrible precedent to set up. And no, he’s not in the same bracket as someone who literally went to join ISIS. 4) Among other things, he repeatedly supported the killing of civilians. Just dismissing that as “some tweets” minimises the issue. People in my community have the right to be vehemently critical about someone who doesn’t believe we’re human and has tweeted about how he thinks our relatives should be murdered. 5) The government was unbelievably stupid to actively celebrate him coming here 6) The Tories suddenly clutching their pearls on this is pretty hypocritical, especially since they worked very hard when they were in power to help him come here. 7) Watching Farage and others in Reform UK who celebrated someone who tweeted incredibly repulsive sentiments last year suddenly acting outraged at this guy is fairly revealing about their attitude towards someone’s actions based on their ethnic and racial background. 8) Watching some people bend over backwards to pretend that his tweets aren’t a problem or were a ‘long time ago’, doesn’t sound very different to those who ignore the accusations against Farage at school simply because they happened ’50 years ago’.
December 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
nicoledso.bsky.social
Do as it’s blowing up on the other place do people have views on the Alaa El Fattah guy? If what’s posted is correct seems a very strange person to waste political capital on?
December 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
nicoledso.bsky.social
Merry Christmas from Dubai! ❤️
December 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
nicoledso.bsky.social
FFS Labour. Increasing inheritance tax to 2.5 million where it should be massively lowered but pay a lower rate to pay for social care. Useless absolutely useless
December 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
nicoledso.bsky.social
Dog sitting. Not exactly sure where I sleep
December 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
nicoledso.bsky.social
Labour finally announcing a few really big and good policies. Housing and joining Erasmus. Also the employee rights bill - which while I’m mostly in favour I do have a few concerns…
December 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
nicoledso.bsky.social
Fucking public got it wrong again on strictly.
December 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
nicoledso.bsky.social
Mass shooting at Hanukkah in bondi beach. Sounds horrific.
December 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
nicoledso.bsky.social
Just read this by John Oxley and it’s so spot on. Well worth a read

open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...
Why can't the English teach their politicians how to think?
How warped incentives are shallowing out our discourse
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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rolandmcs.bsky.social
That is a huge drop. Huge.

Starmer will now play the 'look-what-we-achieved' politics of this brilliantly, everyone will calm down, sensible immigration policies will emerge, and Farage will disappear.

Narrator: 'Meanwhile on Planet Earth....'
lewisgoodall.com Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Nov 27
NEW: Net migration falls sharply to 204,000 in the year to June.

That’s a fall from 649,000 in the year to June 2024. It is a drop of nearly 80% from its 2023 peak.
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
nicoledso.bsky.social
British right wing twitter crying about young Brits emigrating after completely disregarding their views on Brexit and often telling them “if you don’t like it leave” I guess they listened
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
nicoledso.bsky.social
@rolandmcs.bsky.social I think you are also going to have to watch the moral decay of the left
robfordmancs.bsky.social Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · Nov 24
I read “It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain” initially as “thank goodness”. Then I realised that Phillips *wants* this for Britain! He wants a Britain where visible minorities live in fear of abduction and deportation? WTAF?
robertsaunders.bsky.social Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Nov 24
Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times.

This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.

And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
nicoledso.bsky.social
Yep! Just so very very disappointed. They haven’t got a clue what they are doing! A manhood I’ve majority completely wasted. Don’t think they will get the chance again.
rolandmcs.bsky.social Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · Nov 11
This is where you land when there's little sign of strategy, comms, fighting spirit... any oomph at all.

I was someone who wanted a dose of 'boring' after the May/Johnson/Truss/Sunak years, but I expected boring-but-effective.
jessicaelgot.bsky.social Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Nov 11
My analysis - how did No10 radicalise this cohort of loyal, centrist, careerist Labour MPs who are now all out for regime change?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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cjayanetti.bsky.social
no no hear me out, roll the heads of former Conservative candidate Tim Davie and chief dickhead Robbie Gibb, replace them with people who've got nothing to do with the Conservative Party, tell Kemi you followed her wishes
andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · Nov 4
Badenoch says 'heads should roll' at BBC over claim selective editing overstated Trump's support for attack on US Capitol - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
The driver "managed to contact the control centre at Network Rail and get the train diverted onto the slow line", Calder says. "That was absolutely crucial because this train was scheduled to be travelling through Huntingdon station on the tracks with no platform at 125mph." "It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere, which would have been very difficult." Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest possible way" thanks to the "incredible professionalism from the driver and the police". Train drivers are trained on how to take appropriate action, he adds,
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM