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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is this real? If so, Trump has struck a deal for Russian oil. If this goes ahead, the US will be funding Russia’s war machine as it murders children, tortures, rapes and murders Ukrainian people as part of its genocidal war

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why has this live-streaming serial criminal not been arrested?

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026

A large group of co-ordinated, masked men blockading a piece of significant infrastructure is a security threat and should be dealt with as one. There should also be serious questions about why police/intelligence services didn't pick up on it in advance.

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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm pretty sure that in recent memory Zia Yusuf's racism would have been high up the bbc news agenda - reported as racism- that the Conservative party would have attacked him for it and a Labour PM would go for him big time. Now it's all a bit 'well everyone's a bit racist now what can you do' 🤷‍♂️

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is it. Sharia law is here. x.com/jakonian/sta...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Yookay" being used by an MP and peer

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Excellent by @stephenkb.bsky.social on Jason Arday On the description of him as ‘“the Black professor accused of plagiarism” .. as if the most important thing was not the plagiarism, but the temerity to be simultaneously Black.’ www.ft.com/content/5f92...

ft.com

The difficult truth about Jason Arday

From the beginning, investigations were accompanied by a cloud of excessive references to his race

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Missed Stock saying autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia are ‘intellectual disabilities’ (???) making people ‘unsuited’ for academia. Okay, what. But did she ever talk to any of her colleagues, or did she sprint to her car after her lectures on how we know what a text means by asking the author?

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I mean, I'd be very unhappy if such extreme temperatures became the norm because it's really uncomfortable, but I'd also be absolutely delighted as it'd mean we'd reached net zero emissions and brought the climate crisis under some sort of control. Sadly, that's not going to happen any time soon.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's not going to become 'the norm' though, is it? That's what so fucking terrifying about it. It's going to become a lot worse, very quickly.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Andy Burnham, "To me, carers should be the best paid people in society, not the worst" "Many people from other countries have been caring for my dad" Andy Burnham praises migrants to the UK who care for our elderly, a stark contrast to Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Harold Wilson, with a majority of four, had the courage to say that the winner of the Smethwick by-election would be greeted “like a leper” in Parliament. Ted Heath, trailing in the polls, fired Enoch Powell. The comparison with the Labour government and Conservative opposition now..oy.

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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For all Burnham’s “I hate Westminster” shtick, picking Shabana Mahmood as chancellor is peak SW1 thinking. She’s what people with terminal Westminster brain think a good political operator is

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

These years of anti-immigration hysteria we're living through right now are going to look utterly incomprehensible in the coming era of closing schools, ageing populations and massively understaffed public services

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In its current form, “conservativism” is an ecocidal death cult and humanity’s greatest threat. Media should treat it as such & not get into petty arguments about North Sea oil etc. Record breaking temperatures, storms, fires, and rapid species decline are just the hors d'oeuvres.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

No government ever achieved lasting change without holding the line through the backlash

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm not exactly a libertarian, but the very notion of the government banning 16 and 17 year olds from using social media after a certain time in the evening just seems laughably tinpot

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It seems obvious but needs saying that most of Labour's core vote is fundamentally opposed to the far right. Failing to fight back against it rioting on Britain's streets will leave many of those supporters wondering what the point of having a Labour government is.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is no more about the details of immigration policy than the progroms my great great grandparents fled were about Jews committing crimes. It's straightforward racist violence and it needs the strongest possible response.

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Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Labour defending Twitter is a good example of why they are so ineffective in government: utterly unwilling to take decisions which have any controversy attached.

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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Since our political leaders and media have decided that the only reason Henry Nowak died was because the police are too woke, here are my two cents, based on what I've read of the public information 🧵

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Indeed. In the 1960s many more people held racist attitudes but both the government and opposition were consistent in condemning open racism. We now have am emboldened and tolerated minority by both government and opposition.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I've said it before but we need to somehow restore the social cost of racism. It's always been there but it's spreading at least partly because people aren't made to feel ashamed of it any more.

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Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“Voluntary” price caps in a ruthlessly competitive and low margin sector, while loosening sanctions on a murderous regime. Good day for the grown ups are back in political charge, sensible and calm economics, etc

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This. Flying the flag is all about context. Royal wedding, fine; BNP rally, no. This really isn't hard. And yet councils seem reluctant to remove the flags as they may upset people 'simply expressing their patriotism'. It is flatly not that; it is marking out territory. (Starmer useless here.)

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I see Simon Heffer, in Michael Gove's Spectator, is once again repeating his lie that Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech wasn't about race.. I debated Heffer recently (at the Oxford Litfest) - here's what I said. archive.ph/bqKZF

So, that’s the economics. But let me address the topic directly. No doubt Simon Heffer will argue that, like his hero Enoch Powell, he is raising “legitimate concerns”. Simon has written that Powell’s predictions were remarkably accurate, and that those who, like me, describe him and his acolytes as racist are deliberately lying. He has also said that Powell’s famous Rivers of Blood speech should be taught in schools, since it is so rarely quoted accurately. So I will quote it accurately

“Eight years ago in a respectable street in Wolverhampton a house was sold to a Negro. Now only one white (a woman old-age pensioner) lives there. This is her story. When she goes to the shops, she is followed by children, charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies. They cannot speak English, but one word they know. “Racialist,” they chant. When the new Race Relations Bill is passed, this woman is convinced she will go to prison. And is she so wrong?”
So 3 points here.
First, none of Powell’s classical allusions later in the speech can conceal the gutter-level racism here. And let’s not hear any crap about “everyone spoke like that then”. No they didn’t which is why mainstream politicians of both parties instantly recognised the speech as unacceptable racism
Second, Powell is obviously lying. “They cannot speak English”? Seriously? Black kids whose parents were from the Carribbean?
Third, and most important, this gives the lie to Simon’s repeated claims the speech isn’t about race or racist. The direct target of the speech is the Race Relations Bill. This was not about immigration, obviously; it made it illegal to discriminate on grounds of race in employment or housing.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 13/05/2026

Must we keep holding our politicians to such impossible standards?

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The refusal of Starmer to address the consequences of this electoral reality suggest he (by which I mean the now departed McSweeney) is not the pragmatist he probably thinks he is but actually very ideological.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals. Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This is a key point in a good article by Sadiq Khan. It's possible to come up with long, involved explanations of why people should not feel threatened by particular chants, but the reality is that many do. So the humane response is to stop using those chants. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I also appeal again to the common decency of Londoners. Even if there is uncertainty about which chants cross legal thresholds, if it causes distress and is offensive to Jewish people – if it makes our fellow Jewish citizens scared – it should not be used. Respect for one another must remain the foundation of London life. It is not hard to express criticism of Israel without using language that incites violence.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Extremely pleased to hear this from Mark Rowley, much needed clarity when a community which has been repeatedly gaslit by senior figures about its own safety

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

*reads CNN for investigation updates*

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Beyond "urgh" (to put it politely), I'm now wondering if the best advice to politicians on social media beyond "why are you on social media anyway?" is "if you have to be here, don't like anything! nothing good will come of hitting that like button! what do you think it's going to achieve?"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message.

In private calls to local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several Christian and Druse communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone. They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shiite Muslim communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flatten Shiite towns, according to local Christian, Druse and Shiite leaders who spoke to The New York Times. The Shiites make up the majority of southern Lebanon.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Of course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger.

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Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

🚨Angela Rayner warns "the very survival of the Labour party is at stake" in a major intervention tonight - Labour "cannot just go through the motions in the face of decline" - "we’re running out of time" - "we have left the impression that we defended the status quo rather than challenged it"

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