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Agnostic about many things, passionate about a few

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am so happy about what I am hearing that I have lost the ability to speak
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At the same time as banning myself and other journalists from their conference this week, this is who Reform laid out the red carpet for www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Raise the Colours leader given access to Reform UK conference while on bail
Ryan Bridge, arrested this year on suspicion of religiously and racially aggravated harassment, says party invited him
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This coverage is so horrifying to watch. I keep wanting to look away from it but I can’t. We can’t. Not if we are to stop it here. It is disgusting and the minimising of it by R*form politicians and others says everything about the violence of their politics.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Melissa Dalton-Bradford
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If Reform etc actually cared about this stuff they'd acknowledge the progress but they can't because it's their only issue so they have to pretend nothing has changed.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's the August Bank Holiday so Rachel Johnson is complaining about the Notting Hill carnival on @lbc.co.uk just as she has done for the last 2 decades. Here she is saying the same exact shit in 2013.
Blah blah noisiest carnival ever Rachel Johnson 2013
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Anne @aj100.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Now I can’t sleep either…but I empathise totally. I dread this time of year…huge spider ran over my face and neck last year when I was in bed. Was jittery for months!!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Ever get the feeling you're living through the intro sequence to a disaster movie?
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Anne @aj100.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yup, there has to be a better way. As someone guilty of loving “stuff” I do worry about what my kids would be faced with. Am listening to books on the art of Swedish Death Cleaning - quite brutal but helpful!
Audio book cover titled “nobody wants your shit”  The art of declutter ing before you die
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.
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Anne @aj100.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I understand the point about choosing career paths too early.However, the current sit of kids who aren’t academic, but are talented in other ways, being forced to sit exams that consistently make them feel a failure is cruel. The message of not being good enough stays with them for many years.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Important, because Farage's defence for not declaring Harborne's £5m 'gift' has always been very specific: he did not decide to stand until 3rd of June. Turns out this deal was struck mid-May (confirmed by RefUK) and facilitated by Farage's other big donor, convicted felon 'Posh' George Cotrell. 🧐
Nigel Farage struck Reform comeback deal long before election
Supervised by the convicted fraudster George Cottrell, the agreement undermines Farage's claim about when he decided to return to politics
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Richard Tice was demoted to deputy leader when Farage returned in 2024
Gabriel Pogrund, Emanuele Midolo, Venetia Menzies
Saturday August 1 2026, 8.15pm, The Sunday Times
Nigel Farage struck a secret deal to return as leader of Reform UK months before the general election.
Farage negotiated the pact with Richard Tice, then the leader, in March and April 2024. George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who had been secretly bankrolling Farage, supervised the discussions.
Under the terms of the deal, once Farage became leader Reform would repay or write off more than £1 million in outstanding loans it had received from Tice's company.
The deal was first presented by Farage and Cottrell to the party's treasurer in mid-May. Its existence undermines the Reform leader's claim that he had no intention until June 2024 of returning to politics. Farage has used this to defend his failure to declare donations made to him in the year before he was elected as an MP, which triggered two parliamentary investigations.
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Anne @aj100.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It’s got almost 8000 likes on Insta and 292 comments - presumably more on other SM channels.
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Anne @aj100.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Snap. If it wasn’t for BlueSky and news on TV I’d be oblivious of the whole thing. Still don’t understand how a game of football can lead the news stories.
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Wild Card @wildcard.land · 08/07/2026
This Tuesday the @archbishopofcanterbury.org and the members of the @churchofengland.org’s internal parliament, The General Synod, have a massive choice to make that will affect all of us. Will they restore 30% of their land to nature by 2030? #SynodVoteForNature @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
What Reform did today was an incitement to rioting and an insult to a grieving family. This bloke should have hung his goddamn head in shame.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 25/05/2026
Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈
A map of the UK showing a temperature of 34.8 degrees Celsius, recorded in Kew Gardens, London on Monday 25 May 2026
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Anne @aj100.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Yes, I think you might be.
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 06/05/2026
It was wrong when the media did this to Ed Miliband when he was leader and it is wrong to do this to Polanski. Genuinely have no idea how awfulness like this gets past editors… It’s really not that hard to criticise policies or politicians without being antisemitic.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Mamdani delivers a master class every time in how to communicate politically.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Tailor Bird sews leaves together with plant fibre to form its nest!
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Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I know we've all seen it already. But I honestly think this is the defining moment of our time. Past generations couldn't have believed it would happen. Future generations won't believe it could have happened. But here we are, bang in the moment. Lucky, lucky us.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The treatment of military aggression like reality TV. Urging people to delight in death and terror.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Utterly the wrong call. Step by step, this embroils us in an immoral, illegal, illogical war.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Climbing the escalation ladder one rung at a time.
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Anne @aj100.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It never fails to amaze/infuriate me that teachers continue to insist on collars buttoned up to the neck/ties tight, knowing this causes intense discomfort for many neurodivergent pupils. See also Blazers worn in hot weather. A small relaxation in attitude can make a huge difference for pupils.
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Gareth Gore @garethgore.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Pope Leo asked me to meet him in a private audience at the Vatican today I presented him with documents and evidence detailing decades of abuse inside Opus Dei and urged him to launch a full independent investigation into the group A THREAD 🧵
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
📌 ICYMI — Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024
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Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP
The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Kind of incredible. I was just sitting down to write about how Starmer should be given credit for keeping us out of this mess when he does this. Unutterably foolish and obsequious. Why in God's name should we have anything to do with this shortsighted madness.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Quite.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
There's more. On 31 March 2010, Lord Mandelson's principal private secretary sent him a note of a meeting between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Larry Summers, US Treasury Secretary. Lord Mandelson forwarded it to Jeffrey Epstein five minutes later.
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Anne @aj100.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Ok, that picture alone will mean I can’t click on it!
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Quite glad that the big story in British politics is whether Andy Burnham will apply to stand in a by-election and not people being gunned down by state militias. Solidarity with Minnesotans resisting this barbarity.
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors
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Anne @aj100.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The metaphor made me laugh…but, were those cats real? I hate I can’t tell what’s AI and what’s real anymore.
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Anne @aj100.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Maybe this is the case for some areas, and there may be a retirement pipeline issue given the age skew of Magistrates but my understanding is the wider issue is lack of Court Legal Advisors where there is a real shortage.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids? The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.
NOW - Musk: "My prediction is there'll be more robots than people... everyone on Earth is going to have one and going to want one... who wouldn't want a robot to... watch over your kids, take care of your pets... we are in the most interesting time in history."

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent
NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:

Dear Ambassador:
 
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]

“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
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Anne @aj100.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Ok, subscribed mainly as impressed/pitying commitment to broken shoulder typing..
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/01/2026
This is also a field test. If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with. Nothing.
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Anne @aj100.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
My son just bought an old Oak table for £25 on Facebook marketplace and after a lot of TLC it’s now beautiful again. (He’s since added extra wood to the leg bases to balance the proportions)
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
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Anne @aj100.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Spent last night in A&E with my 89 year old Mum after a nasty fall - gashed legs, broken nose, black eyes. Over 16 hrs sat in a chair until she was seen by a Dr. No drinks available in vending machines, (she was dehydrated) waiting room rammed, people on floors/in doorways. Heartbreaking.
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