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We are having the time of our lives. Banner picture is of an installation by Superflex in the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h
Russia is working on bio-weapons in Siberia.
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll believe that fuel is too expensive when I don't routinely see people parked up in their cars with the engine running.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 28/09/2026
James McEnroe encourages tennis players to boycott the Grand Slam after stars protest Wimbledon and French Open
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Meredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING 📣 For several days, a peaceful protest took place in the morning, after a young child was killed by a car driver. The child was riding his bike to school, the father with him. The grieving community came together with hundreds of people, cyclist or not, creating a 3km long human bike lane.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
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Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK  - Carbon Brief
The latest surge in fossil-fuel prices means it is now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car, shows Carbon Brief analysis.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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Molly Lempriere @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org · 24/09/2026
As petrol and diesel prices surge in the wake of the continued attacks on Russian refineries and escalating tensions in the Middle East, it is now nine times cheaper to drive an EV than a diesel car in the UK, This means EV drivers save ~£80 when "filling up" www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
a powerful case for appointing a secretary of state specialising in media and culture
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A stunning shot of a Ukrainian F-16 pilot looking back at a jet-powered Shahed he had just shot down over Kyiv with his onboard cannon.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reform leaders in Wales: Mark Reckless: Tory, then UKIP, then Tory (again), then Independent, then Brexit Party, then Abolish the Welsh Assembly (his own job), then Independent (again) and then Reform Nathan Gill: 10 years for accepting pro-Kremlin bribes Dan Thomas: arrested for assault
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Rasta @rastasack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Voting isn't marriage. It's public transport. You're not waiting for "the one". You're getting on the bus. And if there isn't one going exactly to your destination, you don't stay home and sulk. You take the one that's going closest to where you want to be." #Vote for the Non-Felon #Voting #USPoli
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just a reminder as the new academic year kicks off - the UK government has deliberately, ruthlessly, throttled the recruitment of international students, solely to pander to racists, and the resultant 25%+ fall in numbers can and will only accelerate some universities into bankruptcy.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Another clear and knowable downstream consequence of letting scammers get rich off crypto was that that money would boomerang back into politics in ways that were highly likely to try to skirt around fundraising laws and distort policy incentives.
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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When the Olympics and other sports muse about letting Russia back into the fold, remember the hell that Putin's regime is inflicting on Ukrainian athletes and regular citizens. Russia is a terrorist state. #tennis #Olympics #SlavaUkraini
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Never pay one of these parasitic firms to find a child trust fund bit.ly/4dibyKr Everyone born 1/9/2002 and 2/1/2012 has one but 760k have not claimed them at 18. Do it yourself free at www.sharefound.org/child-trust-... or go to gov.uk and search child trust fund.
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Claims firms charge £400 to find missing child savings
If you have lost track of your savings account, there’s no need to use a company to get it back. Trace your money online without paying a penny
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On the £36m donation to Reform UK from Ben Delo... Lib Dems: "Farage wants to bring Trump's America to our shores by buying his way into power. He's trying to get into No 10 as if it's a stop on a monopoly board" The PM "needs to introduce a cap on political donations. Our democracy depends on it"
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s not too late to stop this madness - the government has said the uk mega donors are a problem. The lords can bring in a cap on UK donors to stop any attempt to buy the next election. Share this and ask your MP to join us protecting British democracy.
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is way too satisfying to watch 😌 Artist who writes using nothing but sand, shaping every letter by hand with a simple card. Each movement is calm, precise & deeply satisfying to watch, turning ordinary writing into a mesmerizing visual experience✍️ IG acct: @sandcalligraphy #calligraphy #ASMR
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?
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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants
Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The difference between this and the Danny Dumbo Balaclava masked black-clad louts conduct is huge….yet the police are treating them very differently..
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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
twatssatirical twats
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Chthönic Smïth @chthonicsmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yeah, I don't like the look or implications of Saturday's 'protest' (aka practice run) at all
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.
‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I find it baffling that Labour does not seem to get this. By equivocating on such a core issue, they’re making their own voters unsure about the core values of the party / government and hence more susceptible to voting for someone else.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals.
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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Did the authorities know about this (clearly well-planned) action in advance? Surely 'uniformed', masked gangs are far more terrifying than those desperate asylum seekers they seek to blame for all the country's ills. Why so little outrage, especially from government?
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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Guess what? Turns out it might have been a good idea for both the police and the government to crack down on this lot hard at Dover!
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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Who could possibly have predicted that the Prime Minister ignoring and the police treating balaclava’d extreme right thugs partially blockading a port like tourists on a jolly would encourage them to carry out more fascist acts?
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The government just do not get it.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The real face of Reform UK. Share far and wide
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Very worrying escalation of events by the Tommo fash tonight in Portsmouth and Poole. Government needs to act swiftly and harshly against these thugs. They’ve been warned for months and ignored it.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Oh look, what's this, the consequences of failing to respond firmly to masked mobs roaming the streets yesterday? Two years in and somehow the Labour government still just do not get it.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It seems odd that law enforcement appears to be unaware of this guy's activities
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
it's bizarre that our media and politicians are not wholeheartedly condemning the actions of Patriot Platform as domestic terrorism. Those people in Just Stop Oil got 4-5yrs in jail for simply planning to disrupt the M25 ffs.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.
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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Checked Shabana Mahmood and Andy Burnham’s X accounts- zilch and this is the U.K. Justice Secretary's last post. What would it take for just one Government politician to come out and condemn the far right street violence that has gripped our nation. I’ll tell you what it would take. LEADERSHIP.
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Amethyst and ruby red sky. Absolutely gorgeous sunset last night here in Glastonbury.
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Prue Bray @pruebray.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Let me get this straight. Vicars and old ladies holding up traffic are terrorists but gangs of masked men in black holding up traffic are perfectly fine? Something wrong somewhere...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/09/2026
So in one week: 1) Reform get stung for dodgy finances, and the regulators play pass the parcel about enforcement 2) Farage announces plans to largely dismantle independent scrutiny of govt, and barely any press discussion of it 3) Masked thugs blockade a port, with narry a word from senior govt
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 05/09/2026
Chatting just now with local Kent winegrower at farmer's market. This year's grapes are "smaller than peas" - not going to bother to harvest. What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'? "Fucking morons."
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