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Michael Savage
about 3 hours ago
NEW: Lisa Nandy to look again at political appointments to the BBCâs board as part of charter renewal discussions. She said concerns have been raised over the appointment of Sir Robbie Gibb, a Conservative first appointed to the board by Boris Johnson.
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BrokenBanker
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I regret to inform you that they don't actually appear to have a plan, just whatever this clusterf*ck is going to turn out to be
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Jordan
about 16 hours ago
Bluesky user #1: Ed Miliband would be a good PM, heâs learned from past mistakes and is a good communicator. Bluesky user #2: No! Heâd be catastrophically unpopular, and vulnerable to the argument that someone rejected by the electorate is now being imposed on us undemocratically. Ed Miliband:
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Stephen Bush
about 19 hours ago
Anyway: both the state and private developers need to build at far greater rates, the default aim should be 'a dual earner couple on average incomes can live in non-crowded conditions and raise a family', and the model family *for policymakers* should be three for obvious reasons.
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Please tell me this is someone doing some stirring?
www.wesforleader.com
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about 22 hours ago
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Idly wondering why our Govt seems to give few bothers on how theyâre strangling our university sector. Maybe itâs as simple as a great many of them went to Oxbridge? Then again they seem to give few bothers about many baffling things so perhaps thatâs unfair.
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OSINT Intuitâ˘
3 days ago
The Turkish government confirmed that 20 crew and passengers were on the C-130 that crashed near the inside of Georgia near the Azerbaijani border.
#OSINT
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Right, time to make some popcorn I reckon.
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Sarah Murphy
4 days ago
This is a genuinely intolerable realityâŚ
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Alan Wager
4 days ago
Good on Ed Davey â speaking up for and defending Britainâs institutions in the face of nefarious actors.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/10/bbc-enemies-attack-robbie-gibb-board
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Anthony Painter
4 days ago
We have to take back control of our media and democracy from its fusion with the US infosphere. This isn't just on the right but the left too. We are a separate democracy and need our own civic commons. Today's events with Trump and the BBC show it's not just irritating; it's dangerous.
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So the BBC board clearly needs a new chair right?
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Stephen Collins
8 months ago
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Liberal Democrats
7 days ago
Nigel Farage used to believe in reforming the voting system, now he's rowed back because it no longer benefits him. We will keep fighting for a fair votes, not because it benefits us but because it's right for the country.
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West Country Voices
6 days ago
youtu.be/Ud749zgbs0g?...
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Help us tell the story of South Devon Primary!
YouTube video by South Devon Primary
https://youtu.be/Ud749zgbs0g?si=spyxdvbEX5P1wIuh
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Hetan Shah
7 days ago
âAl could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage pointsâ Well thatâs the best chart of the year in this
@johnthornhill.bsky.social
column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
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7 days ago
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"We've got to address the fact that millions of people vote in safe seats and they feel their voice doesn't count." Keir Starmer - 2020
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
@labour4pr.bsky.social
@makevotesmatter.bsky.social
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Ed Davey wants to 'work with government' on electoral reform
The Liberal Democrat leader backs replacing first-past-the-post with proportional representation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx3d297pl0o
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If this fella could also do southwest rail thatâd be greatâŚ
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7 days ago
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Elon Musk wants to build slap drones. Uh huh...
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David OâLeary
8 days ago
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Oh come on.
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This is sadly totally on the money. If we wanted to protect our selves from a future authoritarian government accessing our data we would need to tackle companies collecting it now.
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Jonathan Calder
8 days ago
It's the failure to levy inheritance tax on farmland that has caused the problem we Lib Dems complain about. That is, that the value of farmland bears little relation to the income that can be generated by farming it. As long as farmland can be used as a tax shelter, that problem will persist.
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What does our campaign against the Family Farm Tax seek?
What exactly do we Liberal Democrats want from out campaign against the "Family Farm Tax"? It's important we know, because The Agri Brigade ...
https://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-does-our-campaign-against-family.html
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Labour4PR đšđłď¸
9 days ago
âThe Guardian asked Farage if he still adheres to his lifelong support for Proportional Representation. Silence. Itâs become clear he has changed his mind, now that our wildly distorting First Past the Post system is his only path to power.â âď¸
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social
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Itâs the Nigel Farage chameleon show â flashy, ever-changing pledges, but only one real policy: xenophobia | Polly Toynbee
The Reform leaderâs speech was full of contradictions and damaging cuts. But if he makes it to No 10, Labour will be to blame, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/03/nigel-farage-chameleon-xenophobia-reform
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Now I suspect this is about the USA but it shows the deep malaise in no.10 that for a second in wasnât totally sure. We have fewer factions and people involved though right so yay?
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Dorian Lynskey
9 days ago
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are powerâs landlords and the left merely tenants
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Martin Lewis
9 days ago
Finally, it looks like Financial Education will be taught in every school! Hurrah!
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Dan Neidle
9 days ago
What if there was a consensus on the tax reforms the UK needs? What if it was backed by policy experts from think tanks across the political spectrum, from the Adam Smith Institute to the Resolution Foundation? The consensus is real. The question is: will anyone act on it?
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Best for Britain
9 days ago
If you're just waking, it's been a good night for Democrats across the US, with voters rejecting Trump nationwide. đ Mamdani's comfortable win in New York, on the highest turnout since 1969, provides further proof that you don't have to pander to the right to win.
news.sky.com/story/zohran...
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Zohran Mamdani: 'Trump's worst nightmare' celebrates New York election result - as US president responds
The Democrat candidate ran on a significantly left-wing platform which included promising city-owned grocery shops and eliminating bus fares. Donald Trump is no fan and warned he could withhold federa...
https://news.sky.com/story/zohran-mamdani-trumps-worst-nightmare-projected-to-win-new-york-mayoral-race-nbc-exit-poll-13463739
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West Country Voices
10 days ago
After an initial flurry (big thanks to those who contributed) the crowdfunder has gone a bit quiet. Please support it if you can. It's a story of political engagement full of hope and positivity. Yes. Really!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-people...
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The People's Primary - the book!
Creation of the book about how we ended 100 years of Tory MPs in South Devon and the way Primaries could defeat the far right next election
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-peoples-primary---the-book-1#
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Mark Chadbourn
10 days ago
A day of huge mourning for the Far Right in the UK. Not only was the Huntingdon train stabbings not the terrorist/asylum seeker/immigrant atrocity theyâd hoped and prayed for, here is the hero of the day:
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Timothy Burke
11 days ago
...and less than 24 hours later CondĂŠ Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
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Sharon
11 days ago
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Mark Pack
12 days ago
You really want to watch this, trust me.
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Bylines Network
12 days ago
The UK has become a genuine multi-party country â but our voting system hasnât caught up. The Dutch elections this week show how proportional representation can give everyone a voice, while keeping extremists out of power.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@stephenmcnair.bsky.social
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How to tame the populists: lessons from the Netherlands
Recent elections in the Netherlands show how a proportional voting system can prevent extremists from taking power. Lessons for the UK?
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/democracy/the-dutch-can-tell-us-something-about-managing-extremism/
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Kameron Hurley
12 days ago
This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
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This lobbying campaign reminds me of
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piece on the private school VAT. It actively makes me think the idea is good.
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12 days ago
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Stephen Collins
14 days ago
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Will Jenningsđđłď¸
15 days ago
I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...
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Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism â because politicians are addicted to X
The platform has quietly dragged British politics into a dark place
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/westminster-increasingly-racist-politicians-addicted-to-x-4008981
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Zack Polanski
15 days ago
So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform.... Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally. It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
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'Just getting started': Zack Polanski reacts as Greens SECOND in new poll
ZACK Polanski has welcomed a new poll putting his party in second place at Westminster.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25585078.zack-polanski-hails-new-westminster-poll-putting-greens-second/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1761844935-2
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So what I can't get over with this is "Yours etc, Kev"
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Owen Winter
16 days ago
Worth saying (if the exit poll is right) that the far-right in the Netherlands hasn't really shrunk, just shifted from PVV to JA21 and FvD
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Mark Chadbourn
16 days ago
Private Eye.
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Wilbur72
16 days ago
I used to work at a small shop that made little plastic vampires. There were only 2 of us working there, so I had to make every second count.
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Ian Dunt
16 days ago
Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.
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Do give this a listen. Grim stuff obviously but important to remember how bad things can get.
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16 days ago
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Elle
16 days ago
God that drives me mad. "Climate change is the number one priority which is why I'm only willing to countenance addressing it by introducing socialism and also, for some reason, blocking building of any energy infrastructure we don't 'need'"
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The UnPopulist
17 days ago
Want an end to the Gerrymandering Wars? Embrace proportional representation.
@andycraig.bsky.social
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Want to End the Gerrymandering Wars? Embrace Proportional Representation
Trump has triggered a particularly fierce round, but the logic of war is inherent in a winner-take-all system
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/want-to-end-the-gerrymandering-wars
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Electoral Reform Society
17 days ago
You shouldn't need a PhD in psephology to work out what parliament would look like based on a poll - but without a fancy statistical model, you would just be guessing to say what this would produce.
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Will Cooling
17 days ago
I mean the Welsh elections are proceeding under a new electoral system that was agreed without a referendum or prior manifesto commitment, and no one cares. Likewise Scotland has STV in local elections that was pushed through without a referendum or prior manifesto commitment, and nobody cared
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