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Susanne Hart
@hartsue.bsky.social
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Interested in politics. Definitely left of centre. UK based relationship counsellor so please send appropriate therapy related memes. All cats are welcome. she/her
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chrischirp.bsky.social
Hey Labour

Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?

We're still over here 👋
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
hartsue.bsky.social
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chrisgrey.bsky.social Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 19h
Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:

It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)

It shows no understanding of why there is AS

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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samfr.bsky.social
New post just out:

"The Reality Trap"

On Reform's struggles running councils.

What it tells us about how they'd fare if they won a general elections. And about how broken our system of local government is.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The Reality Trap
Reform's struggles in local government
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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quietriotpod.bsky.social
💒 SUNDAY SCHOOL Tax of My Tears OUT NOW!

🔀 How can sticking to a pledge become a U-turn?
🚮 Fly-tipping trauma
🚻 “Doing a Mandy”

@pimlicat.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social deliver today's lesson.

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🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/4Pmt...
Sunday School: Tax of my tears
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 16/11/2025 · 52m
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November 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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alexpodyssey.bsky.social
🆕 Director's Cut: ECHO & NARCISSUS - The Influencer & The Follower

🏛️ Even more storytelling. Even stranger connections. Even cleaner sound. Even worse puns.

Brush up, ahead of Season 2.

🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/5nB1...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Director's Cut: ECHO & NARCISSUS - The Influencer & The Follower
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 16/11/2025 · 1h 7m
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November 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
hartsue.bsky.social
An amazing local resource. Love it here.
momorgan.com Mo Morgan @momorgan.com · 1d
This is Redcatch Community Garden here in south Bristol. I am lucky to be a neighbour. It’s a very special, important, inspiring place.
November 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
A brief thread on Trump renewing his threat to sue the BBC.

(Note I am not an American lawyer, this is perspective of an English legal commentator.)

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November 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
"Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays; for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists."

George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia.
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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bunkerpod.bsky.social
🚨ICYMI🚨 Weekly wrap-up with @jacobjarvis.bsky.social and @rafaelbehr.bsky.social: Starmer’s briefing war with Wes Streeting, unpacking the latest revelations from the Epstein files, & asking the big question: could the BBC survive a billion dollar lawsuit from Donald Trump? 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
hartsue.bsky.social
Okay, so that Waitrose Christmas advert is hilarious.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
hartsue.bsky.social
For those of us in the vicinity...
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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adamrutherford.bsky.social
Right. Hitler's DNA. Brace yourselves for a deluge of misinformation and bad science.

I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
hartsue.bsky.social
Morning! #ArnosVale #Bristol
Text reads: Nov 13 Bristol City, England, UK. Image of a Redwing bird with brown wings, a speckled breast, orange flashes under its wings and a white flash above it's eye. Text reads: Your bird of the day. Redwing. Underneath are four smaller images of a Eurasian Blackbird, European Robin, Eurasian Wren and the Redwing again.
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
“The political strategy, at its core - get into power and instead of looking after your base, devote the first year to p***ing off your base, in favour of voters who will probably never come to you - is so poor and predictably disastrous that I don’t understand how McSweeney is still in Downing St.”
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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dorianlynskey.bsky.social
Wrote about Robbie Gibb, Michael Prescott and their role in the war on the BBC www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...
The BBC is the biggest prize in the information war – and the right may be about to destroy it
The corporation is always under attack. But this time it has been sabotaged by conservative ideologues deep within its heart. Is it time for the culture secretary to step in? By Dorian Lynskey
www.thenerve.news
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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snellarthur.bsky.social
It was my great pleasure to speak to @srd.bsky.social about competitive authoritarianism and what it means for our age. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Are we living in an age of competitive authoritarianism
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 11/11/2025 · 47m
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November 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Farage is a GB news shareholder and is paid through a private company for his appearances on the channel.
So, here he is shit-stirring with Trump over the BBC and grifting his nasty little arse off…
There is really nothing of ours he won’t ruin to grab for power and wealth for himself.
(iPaper+LFF)
White House is going all out to make GB News feel at home Simon Marks (Extract from article) When Donald Trump visited the UK in mid-September; not not enough attention was paid at the time to one history-making element of his joint press conference with Sir Keir Starmer: Both men proffered their traditional opening statements, and then turned to questions from the assembled press corps. After Starmer invited Trump to select an American reporter to pose a question. Trump instead directed his gaze at Bev Turner, the GB News anchor who had recently relocated to Washington, DC. Turner had travelled back to the UK aboard Air Force One, and, for the first time in recorded history, an American president failed at first blush to pick a reporter representing a US-based news outlet to ask a question while on foreign soil. Today, as Trump threatens to sue the BBC for $Ibn ($760m) over Panorama's clumsy editing of his 6 January 2021 speech ahead of the Capitol riots, GB News is in the ascendancy at the White House. From the moment Turner arrived to expand the network's Washington bureau, Trump and his top lieutenants have embraced her nightly, two-hour live broadeast as a vehicle for advancing the US President's agenda. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has slammed the BBC, posting on X over the weekend that BBC News "is dying because they are anti-Trump Fake News" while going on to say that "everyone should watch GBNEWS!” Nigel Farage's admission that he discussed the BBC crisis with Trump on Friday is also a fresh indication of trouble ahead for Starmer, who should fear the open communication between the two political soulmates, as well as the US administration's backing of GB News. In short: Trump has got the BBC and its fact-based journalism on the run - and GB News is enthusiastically on his side. * LEFT FOOT FORWARD Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has increased his shareholding in GB News, as the arch Brexiteer continues to deepen his relationship with the right-wing channel. According to the latest documents filed to Companies House this week, Farage has increased his shares from 300,000 to 500,000. It comes as Farage continues to rake it in from the channel, making £60,000 for just 20 hours of work according to his latest register of interests.
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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aiannucci.bsky.social
Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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politicsintheuk.bsky.social
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
April 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
hartsue.bsky.social
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mimmymum.bsky.social Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 7d
So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC.

Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!

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mimmymum.bsky.social Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 7d
For reference - Here’s the Telegraph article with the Prescott memo complaining about the BBC published in FULL.

Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣

👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
hartsue.bsky.social
Why Christmas hasn't been cancelled by Muslims, a🧵...
monkemma.bsky.social Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 8d
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄

Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆

1/15
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November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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tristangrayford.scot
This is somehow both real AND an Onion headline
patmaguire10.bsky.social Staff Sergeant Johnson @patmaguire10.bsky.social · 8d
BREAKING FOX NEWS: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy goes on the record: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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paddyopatrick.bsky.social
Lets put BBC’s obsession with 4 prisoners at large freed in error into perspective👇🏼👇🏼

Feb 2024 the Met Police had 15,000+ warrants for criminals at large That’s 15K criminals they hadn’t caught or escaped other forces have 1,000’s too

BBC said nothing

Only now Labour are in Govt 4 are important❗️🤷🏼‍♂️
At least four prisoners freed in error still at large, BBC told
The government is under increasing pressure after a number of high-profile wrong releases.
www.bbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM