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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So, so many years ago, those of us working in social housing at the time watched the shift from bricks and mortar subsidies to personal ones. We heard the reassurances that housing benefit would “take the strain.” We shook our heads sadly as we predicted the future with unusual accuracy.

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 07/10/2026

“To Kill a Mockingbird” “The Color Purple” “Of Mice and Men" “The Handmaid’s Tale” These are just a few of the books that have been banned in recent years. Many others have come under attack. In fact, the ALA has identified 150 books that are being threatened by ridiculous censorship efforts.

Graphic for Banned Book Week featuring a stack of books that includes "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, and "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood, among others.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would like women to have whatever colour hair they'd like. I would also like accurate data on: 50+ female unemployment rates; number of 65+ single women on/below poverty line; percentage of 50+ women unpaid carers; impact of austerity on all the above. And for that data to be headline news.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In addition to being the UK's most Kremlin-sanctioned newspaper, Byline Times has now been banned two years running from both Conservative and Reform UK party conferences. Judge us by our critics, and subscribe to support our work: subscribe.bylinetimes.com @peterjukes.bsky.social

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Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

...so read my long love-letter to this show, in which I explore all its complications and unanswered questions, here. juderogers.substack.com/p/the-unansw...

juderogers.substack.com

The unanswered questions of 70 Up

The death of Nick, goodbye to Neil, and the power of watching fourteen real lives in time-lapse – the return of my Mid-Week Culture Culture Blast

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This looks fabulous! What is it called, please, and where can I find the recipe? We love cake in our house 😁

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 21/09/2026

The cutting words of Christopher Hitchens, perhaps the heaviest hitter of the New Atheist publishing boom of the 2000s, drawn from his bestseller God Is Not Great. Nearly fifteen years after his death, he remains one of the most read atheists of all time. #HumanistBookshelf.

‘Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.’ Christopher Hitchens

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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James Wallbank @dataknotsdesks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

To be completely clear— 'Crypto' means 'Hidden'. 'Currency' means 'Money'. So when we say, "Cryptocurrency billionaire gives Reform UK £36M", what we mean is, "Hidden Money Billionaire gives Reform UK £36M." The only genuine use case for cryptocurrency is to hide transactions.

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Huddersfield was the second town in the country to build council housing. My new post explores its early civic and housing history when it was described 'as advanced a town as any in the kingdom’: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/h...

Terraced housing in industrial landscape aerial view

Kirkgate tenement s- three-storey gables tenements in sandstone

Two-storey tenements with second-storey balcony access

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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you allow billionaires to have their way, they take control of the media, refuse to pay taxes and keep wages very low so that they can maximise their profits. To protect their interests, they will also restrict freedom of speech and support far right parties. Prevent this by limiting their power!

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Somebody needs to make these and stick them everywhere. I'd contribute to a crowdfunder. 😉

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ha! I was just having a rant about it. I don’t get it. It doesn’t seem to go anywhere. It’s the same stuff certain composers have been churning out for the last, what, 50 years?

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Every now and again I look (slightly) longingly at ads for shiny coffee machines at less than a third of that price. Then I give my head a wobble and remind myself that my stainless steel cafetière and separate milk frother (about £25 each) are all I really need.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Suicidal empathy is a novel phrase, but it it turns out to be the latest flex of an old muscle: the spasm of fury and resentment, the one that readies us to fight. www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-t...

thenewworld.co.uk

The strange rise of ‘Suicidal Empathy’

The latest far right theory turns compassion into weakness and cruelty into common sense

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Very useful diagram from Stephanie Lamy for those who want to understand James Orr’s far right network & its funding.

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Photos, or it didn’t happen…

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Kent police call this a “spontaneous protest”. Hope not hate show that it is anything but…

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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🚨 EXC: An over-prescribing epidemic is sending 1,000 elderly patients to A&E every single day - a consequence of a fragmented NHS unprepared for the ageing silver tsunami heading its way as 468k baby boomers turn 80 this year: www.thetimes.com/article/ddf4...

thetimes.com

Mixing pills sends 1,000 elderly people a day to A&E

Our investigation shows millions are at risk of avoidable reactions to overprescribed drugs

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oh, what beautiful music you make with your words 🤓

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Delighted to read the latest instalment. I would say please give her our best, but that would probably place you in a difficult situation 😳

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bruce Hornsby and the Range. Superb! #totp

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So glad it survived “summer” (overheated disaster).

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Think he left, didn’t he? Or at least denied any continuing links.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fallout from the C4 News Reform expose: polling company JL Partners gets hit.

British Polling Council Rule 2.1 states that all data and research findings made on the basis of social or political polls conducted in the United Kingdom by member organisations that enter the public domain, must include reference to the client commissioning the survey.
British Polling Council Objects and Rules.
With respect to the Channel 4 News investigation of polling apparently commissioned by Reform and conducted by JL Partners, it is clear there have been breaches of British Polling Council Rule 2.1. According to the programme, this may have been deliberate. We are seeking further information from the BPC member concerned and expect them to make information available after further consideration.
The Market Research Society has a wider remit than the British Polling Council and we note that the matter is being referred to the Market Research Standards Board.
We will await the outcome of that enquiry.

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Listened to it earlier on BBC Sounds. Some of the singing was certainly a bit shit.

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The usual excellent analysis from @municipaldreams.bsky.social - thoughtful and generous, and well worth reading. Oh, and the criticism of Alice Coleman is spot on, obviously.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Good piece on England’s completely avoidable water crisis. “At the moment, we're using world-class drinking water to cool data centres, to irrigate our golf courses.”

bbc.co.uk

The race to stop England running out of water

Who is to blame for the summer drought, and can England future-proof its water supplies?

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One of the few covers that’s as good as (or even better than) the original!

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Oh, this is a brilliant story, as told by Ray Davies of The Kinks. Look up David Watts on Wikipedia - you won’t be disappointed!

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Oh this is a wonderful book! And I seem to remember the film is pretty good too. Will definitely listen - thank you.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Britons taking “Plan 2” student loan need to earn £63,600 a year to reduce debt. Plan 2 graduates with an average loan of £52,100, and earning £39,039 would see loan balance actually increase by £1,692 a year. England student debt £294.6bn, UK £324bn Median UK employee wage is £31,500. Madness.

explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk

Release home - Student loan forecasts - earnings

Ad hoc experimental statistics publication presenting analysis of earnings and lifetime repayments forecasts for England

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@Superleggera - who's awesome? That would be me 😊 @superleggera.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Water companies "Oh no, it's not rained for a week, hosepipe ban!!" Also water companies, "Oh no, it's raining, the sewers can't cope, let's dump a load of shit in the rivers." Re-nationalise the water industry. Now.

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yes, although there were only three of us on the course, so effectively one-to-one tuition. No free lunch, but the university cafés are fairly cheap.

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thank you ! Not cheap, but absolutely worth it. £595 for five days. Use of a great, well-equipped studio, the models, and printing too, all included.

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Studio portrait photography - I did a thing (a week’s course). V good tutor (louisemillsphotography.co.uk), great company, and four lovely student models. [Sorry alt text won’t work] #NTU #portraitphotography #photography

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Claire @clrthrn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Bloody Tim Curry has left us, the bastard. I though the world was less shiny with Dolly gone but it's defintely less interesting now. I have thought about Tim as Pennywise about every 2 days since I was 13, so scared was I of IT. I am almost 50.

theguardian.com

Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80

A prolific performer across stage, screen and TV, the actor starred in Legend, Clue and It, but will always be associated with the flamboyantly camp rock’n’roll musical in which he made his breakthrou...

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Adam @ajsay.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh, that’s really clever. And I find I have tears in my eyes.

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