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Alan Burkitt-Gray

@alanburkittgray.bsky.social
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Full-time tech and telecoms journalist from 1973 to 2023. Now retired from paid work but active in Blackheath Society, GLIAS and GIHS. London SE3

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h
Labour just don't get it. They don't get how scared people are with extreme weather becoming our new normal. We need voices in parliament that will force them to take wildfires seriously, not quietly shirk responsibility.
Revealed: government quietly dropped plan to orepare England for wildfires
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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Latest #BBCNewswatch: ex bbc Midlands health correspondent Michele Paduano on more proposed cuts to BBC regional news. Plus the curious case of the BBC News online story about bare nails… on link now: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Newswatch - 03/10/2026
What will be the impact on the audience of the cuts proposed to the BBC's local and regional broadcasting?
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wasting North Sea oil revenues to keep taxes low was right up there as the worst decision of all.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“A woman could be blacked out drunk, nakėd, alone in a room and she wouldn’t be r@ped unless there was a r@pıst in the room. Post Anything Here: InteractInk.com
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 01/10/2026
French President Emmanuel Macron: "If the British want to come back and if the Prime Minister is moving in that direction, I think that is very good news, both for his country and for the Europeans." ♥️
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My husband and I once got called a homophobic slur on a Tube platform. My response was immediate and loud and profane, and reader, I made a scene. Was proud of myself for not taking it. Then I had to go lie down for 45 minutes.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Farage says Brexit was a disaster because of Boris Johnson’s deal? Please MEDIA point out that at the time Farage supported his Brexit deal.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Blimey. Baroness Margaret Hodge - the Govt anti-corruption champion, on the £72m donations to Reform recently: "I think it came from the Russians." She's speaking at a Fabian event on donation caps
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You can catch up on report progress via any of these links: Website: findingada.com/blog/categor... Newsletter: adalovelaceday.substack.com/s/research LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ada-... And if you could possibly share this with people off Bluesky, that'd be marvellous. Thank you!
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
help me cover travel costs for these events via a small donation. Industry no longer feels the need to support organisations like ALD, but the work still needs doing, so I'm hoping the community will step in! www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-fi...
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Donate to Help Me Finish My Workplace Gender Equity Report, organized by Suw Charman-Anderson
What are the barriers preventing gender equity in the workplac… Suw Charman-Anderson needs your support for Help Me Finish My Workplace Gender Equity Report
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
exploring the state of gender equity in the workplace, which was very generously kickstarted by @digital-science.com. I've made huge amounts of progress, but some promised additional funding fell through. So it'd be great if you could support Ada Lovelace Day, the finishing of my report, and...
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ada Lovelace Day is coming up again on 13 Oct and, as you know, these days it is almost entirely unfunded. I've been invited to speak at or attend a few events, all of which I've said yes to because the mission won't further itself. I'm also still writing my report...
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23/09/2026
am having to force myself to live in a state of at least partial denial because I find the currenty situation so deeply nauseating that constant knowledge of it would probably have a significant impact on my day-to-day
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Samantha Meows @stiggylou.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Under maritime law it’s severe and can carry a life sentence.
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Samantha Meows @stiggylou.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Attempted murder?
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Bartek Ogryczak @vartec.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Attacking another vessel in international water is like the literal definition of piracy.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
6. As far as we can see, the rescuer was okay - though this is bordering on attempted murder. RNLI then headed towards the Solent, AIS off and chased by the far-right. Authorities in Portsmouth likely were warned that people would be offloaded and processed at Gosport, so Thomas rallied activists.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 22/09/2026
We're calling on the Government to refer the evidence to HMRC for a full investigation. Add your name to the petition today ✍️ secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/199860/...
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CALL FOR AN HMRC INVESTIGATION INTO STEPHEN LENNON
A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely horrifying. How can our government be planning to drill for new oil and gas when we know these are the consequences? We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.
Babies will face almost twice as much extreme fire weather in Europe that great grandparents
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No joke. You trashy asswipes need to put those damn traitor flags down and figure out how to better your own lives. Hating others for stupid reasons won't improve your situation.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So damn wrong on so many levels 😡
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So Trumpy's mini-me, Petey Hegshit also banned the same news media from the Pentagon. This should terrify everyone. Trumpy's government is banning media it doesn't like. This is a 3 alarm fire on democracy. My demand is simple. PROVE IT. Show us the 'fake news'. They can't, it does not exist.
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Simon Henry Farr-Scott @simonhscotty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Govt need to come off X. It needs regulating and / or banning. It is largely bots spewing out anti UK hate with algorithms purposefully skewed towards a right wing fascistic agenda. It can’t be used as a serious metric for public opinion so just leave.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Indelicate Features 🐜👁🧊 @micheledoney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The ppl in the WH press pool watch him verbally abuse their fellow reporters, generally the women, in really disgusting ways and they say nothing. They even showed up to the #WHCA dinner and palled around with him. And now they're losing access anyway for telling the truth. When will they stand up?
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tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Arresting RNLI volunteers and impounding their boats, is it, you walking scrotum-sack of a man?
Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

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Eileen @eileenmclaughlin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
POTUS loses credibility, with normal every day Americans, when he bans the Press from the White House. I think CNN, NBC, etc. should start reporting the truth about Trump as a reaction to being banned.
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Political Humor @politicalhumor9.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The fact that US news outlets do not report every day that Trump is clearly mentally ill is an epic failure of American journalism.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.
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DavidP @davidp-p.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This should be an ad for every D candidate everywhere:
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The funniest joke ever. 😂
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Protester at the "Hands Around the Kennedy Center" rally holds up sign that reads: “WAR CRIMES CANNOT HIDE S£X CRIMES”
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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Alan Burkitt-Gray @alanburkittgray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thank you!
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On Question Time Danny Kruger just explained that our crypto billionaire donors will "get absolutely nothing" in return for their donations. In unrelated news, we plan to cut capital gains tax on crypto assets from 24% to 10% and set up a Bank of England Bitcoin Reserve Fund.
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember Farage having a hissy fit because Sky News knocked on his door and asked if he was at home. He was outraged because his daughter answered the door and claims Sky were harassing his family. Fast forward to him laughing at a distraught Mother living in Piddlington who's worried for her sons.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They also suggested you change your name because it has become toxic since everyone now calls you Richard Stupid Tice.
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Nobody bikes in…” That’s not true, and cycling rated have been going up recently thanks to safer infrastructure. We could use more good news like this.
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Post-pandemic cycling boom in major cities, as cyclist safety improved thanks to more and better cycling infrastructure - Taylor & Francis Newsroom
Cycling in some of the world’s largest cities has continued to increase since the pandemic, thanks to safer and improved infrastructure which is also leading to a drop in fatality rates. Tracking data...
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Momentum Magazine @momentummag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it’s not stopping. momentummag.com/paris-cyclin...
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