Dianne Bancroft

Dianne Bancroft

@diannebancroft.bsky.social

Self employed, married mum living in North Wales. Londoner at heart

1.1K followers1.1K following1.8K posts

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BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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Zuckerberg directly and undemocratically interfered in the Brazilian election. There should be consequences for that.

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Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

The i Paper @theipaper.com

“Healey should remove anxiety and depression as a reason to claim benefits and offer people treatment instead. It would be better for the individuals and a fraction of the cost.” Read more: trib.al/cxsKwxw

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This supercut is likely to make Trump VERY upset. The difference between Trump and Obama is on full display, and the contrast is absolutely devastating. Watch until the end...

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JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project EmergesInterviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

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Hey everyone, gather around! Elon Musk, the trillionaire defense contractor currently spending >$400m on political campaigns to prop up the party of a deeply unpopular president who launched the Iran War has some thoughts about Ukraine, elites, and money in politics.

Oh great

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Your ambassador to Turkey just said that 'absolutely, there could a strike on Iran this weekend.' Have you gone back on holding off until after the midterms? TRUMP: If that's the case, I don't know anything about it

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Wait a minute, a publically listed company can afford $25b fine? Let the amount sink in Think what you could do with $25b

When only the luckiest dogs get a walk as it’s throwing it down and nobody is on the golf course so mummy pretends she hasn’t noticed you chasing seagulls through it. 🏌️‍♂️⛳️🌧️🌧️👀👀

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Tumble weed across legacy media about ITV's exposé of Reform. Can you imagine the hysteria if an SNP councillor advocated for concentration camps or a Muslim Labour candidate said he wants to shoot MPs he considers traitors? The Mail front pages, Telegraph thinkpieces, and somber Today interviews?

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I’m going to be closing the draw for the first jar of poo chutney tomorrow!!! Enter the competition for London’s worst Christmas present!!

Daniel Knowles@dlknowles.bsky.social

Jim has been a close friend for oh, 15 years now? So trust me it pains me to say this, but fuck me this is great great journalism www.londoncentric.media/p/london-riv...

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That is spot on. The other thing: art is trying to say 'no one has done this/said this in exactly the same way before' whereas AI is saying 'art is nothing more than the sum of all its previous component parts'. AI denies the empathy and originality of art.

V’s Knees@gothicneo.bsky.social

M. Night Shyamalan's YouTube channel (which is something he has now) came out of nowhere with this great line.

This was like end of days stuff last night. The racket drew me to the garden, I ran back inside for my phone, initially forgot to switch the record button on and still they came.

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You decide what's worse: the chauvinism she points to or the fact that she's apparently lied about it in public time and time again.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com

🚨 BREAKING: Reform MP Sarah Pochin was secretly recorded by ITV saying the party has a "male issue" and "excludes you if you’re a woman"

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Just anecdotally, I’m noticing what feels like a concerted attack on disability in legacy media at the moment, whether it be funding through PIP, just basic diagnosis around autism & ADHD (& how this is supposedly *over*diagnosis) & attacks on the very principle of receiving benefits if ill/disabled

Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social

For those who think @cjayanetti.bsky.social is being hyperbolic. These are the current three "top stories" on the Times app. How this is taken as anything other than a targeted attack on disabled individuals, especially neurodivergent ones, is beyond me.

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I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

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"The social media engagement on posts from Reform UK figures appears to have dropped in the wake of Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres," according to The London Economics.

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Worth checking out this thread to see which apparently 'well-regarded' organisations insist on still posting on that politically dangerous site 👇

Tony Yates@t0nyyates.bsky.social

@resolutionfoundation.org still providing free content to the white supremacist propaganda site, here recording 0 likes and 0 retweets in 7 hours.

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There's PLENTIFUL evidence that Russia interfered in the EU referendum. Most sensible people on both sides accept that as a fact. If Farage can counter this obvious truth then he should present his case to us all rather than grandstanding and lazily calling Burnham a "liar".

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The BBC justified massive coverage of Reform when they seemed to be a possible party of govt. Now with declining ratings, they’re mired in scandal and losing by-elections, and councillors are resigning by the score. They have 1.2% of MPs, but unelected Yusuf still has a BBC season ticket. Why?

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America you have a problem Your President is cozying up to the guy who supplies the missiles to the country that is killing your armed forces men and women You think this is okay?

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

Russia has not only provided intelligence support to Iran but, as it turns out, has also supplied missiles to the Iranians. (Bloomberg News) Americans were killed by Iranian attacks using these weapons. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

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The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

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Wrong about Trump Wrong about Truss Wrong about Brexit Wrong about austerity Wrong about Net Zero On every major call of the last two decades, the UK right has failed - totally. They should never be allowed near power again.

JWexTheSpa@jwsidders.bsky.social

Today let’s remember the UK right’s collective adoration of Donald Trump. They championed him, said he was far better than the alternative, that he would deliver a New Jerusalem while owning the Libs. As with every other major call of the last 20 years, they were totally and unequivocally wrong.

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“Well, I never did”, as my dad used to say.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

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As Trump gifts Putin a financial and propaganda victory, let's take a moment to remember all those British politicians who have endorsed the US President and repeatedly hitched themselves to his egregious bandwagon.