Oh hello Britain 😳 That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now. Welcome, and invite a friend to join us! bsky.app/download
New ABC News/WaPo national poll Harris: 51% Trump: 45% (likely voters)
Why blocking here works so well (if someone replies to your own thread with something horrible): it doesn’t just hide bad actors from you, but ultimately turns this place into a wasteland for them. bsky.app/profile/monk...
Nothing says “patriot” like declaring you’re a non-resident to try to escape a large tax bill: www.thetimes.com/uk/social-me...
The far-right agitator’s influence is surging in the wake of the Southport stabbings, but an inquiry into his web of companies may result in a bill for millions
Don’t let thugs on our streets, or pundits claiming those thugs somehow represent a silent majority, rewrite our national story. We have work to do, but the truth? Britain is a more liberal country than it has ever been www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
More than half of adults believe that being born in the UK isn’t important to being ‘truly British’
Farage is still flogging Cameo videos to anyone who wants to pay for a personal message. In a wide field of stiff competition, I can’t think of an MP with less dignity.
Very good to see MPs on here. IMO if Twitter is really to stop becoming the go-to place we need politicians on here, and also official government/public body accounts etc
US-Russian ballerina Ksenia Karelina has been sentenced by a Russian court to 12 years in jail for treason for donating $51 to a charity supporting Ukraine. She’d been living in LA and had gone back to Russia to see family.
Denizens of the secretly-funded lobby groups that call themselves ‘think tanks’ & are concentrated around Tufton Street are *really* cross with Led by Donkeys for that Liz Truss stunt. Because they need to inflate the nonsense that she wasn’t really that bad in order to keep their own grifts afloat.