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Alice Woolley

@alicewoolley.bsky.social
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Journalist, now with my feet up. Ex-editor of Education Guardian. Also ex-Indie. Feminist. European. Labrador lover. Beetroot hater. Born in Chipping Norton. Surrey, West Oxon, Arizona.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h
In case you were wondering why Donald’s biggest fans suddenly went silent . . .
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Alice Woolley @alicewoolley.bsky.social · 4h
I beg his pardon ish
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Lol Simon LeBon on Radio 3 pretending he was a punk 🤔
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 21h
Trump's plan to disrupt the election is already underway, with troops standing menacingly at a DC ballot drop box. Under 18 U.S. Code § 592, it is illegal for armed troops to be "at any place where a general or special election is held," yet there they are.
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Alice Woolley @alicewoolley.bsky.social · 23h
Crikey 😳
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Alice Woolley @alicewoolley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Looks a bit fash to me
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Cupid Stunt @mary-hinge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@mitchellohnstad.bsky.social What does this post mean?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics
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Alice Woolley @alicewoolley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You should have been writing the headlines
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Alice Woolley @alicewoolley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think the commissioning editor had no material, so he/she asked the person at the next desk to come up with something
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Alice Woolley @alicewoolley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Um … seriously? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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You be the judge: my friend and I bought a tent but she’s moved away. Who owns it now?
Ava shared the initial cost but Ruth has forked out for repairs. You decide who’s on the wrong side of this in-tents debate?
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sorry at what point do the government feel the need to do something about BBC funding, or are they just going to watch it be salami-sliced to extinction?
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Let's have look at who the British right idolizes. Tommy Robinson: 2 active charges. Russell Brand: 7 active charges Danny Tommo: 8 active charges Andrew Tate: 42 active charges Tristan Tate: 17 active charges Note that all 5 have publicly embraced performative christianity in recent years.
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Scandifriend @scandifriend.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Again what exactly does Nandy do all day?
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@AlanWalter @alanwalter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m an RNLI volunteer crew member and I invite her to get on a plane from her hideout in Dubai and say that to my face here in the UK
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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I always turn You and Yours off the moment it comes on, but it is EXACTLY the sort of show that a public broadcaster should be making. Because, guess what, none of Global or Netflix or Disney or Sky are going to pick up a consumer rights programme like that, despite its obvious public good.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yeah, I don't think these people can be called "journalists", ever pressgazette.co.uk/news/reform-...
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Reform hiring journalists to build national newsroom
At least 12 jobs on offer via new Reform content operation.
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Alice Woolley @alicewoolley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrendous. The whole world is a danger zone for women
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh my GOD
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Alice Woolley @alicewoolley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wouldn’t it be fun tho
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.
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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A deeply comforting headline
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What about going after tax avoiders? Every year, HMRC, by its own estimates, fails to collect 46.8 billion of tax. See webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202606... How about hiring more people to retrieve this avoided tax before suggesting cutting welfare to the poorest and most vulnerable?
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every now and then, when people say stupid things about socialism, I have to roll out these lines from Arthur Lewis, on what socialists want.
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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 07/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/... I would have loved this project when I was at school. What a great idea
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Wanted: children to rear harvest mice at home for wild release in Devon
Teenagers Eva Wishart and Emily Smith launch project to breed and release 250 of the tiny animals by September
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Alice Woolley @alicewoolley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How absolutely brilliant 💚
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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 07/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Police routinely failing to investigate ‘revenge porn’ in England and Wales
Lawyers launch super-complaint after research shows officers frequently dismiss image-based abuse
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Alice Woolley @alicewoolley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Polanski’s authority is solar-powered, activated only when the light of an enthusiastic crowd shines directly on him. If there is a risk of no applause, he powers down” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Zack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael Behr
A toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To the surprise of absolutely no one, but to their courage, victims of far-right figures arguing they are “protecting women and girls” from unknown and unseen particular threat from migrants are coming forward to tell their story of sexual and domestic abuse
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Truth 💥 👏
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Mincepies @mincepies8888.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"
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Sean Woodcock MP @seanlwoodcock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Congratulations to Charlbury Museum for gaining official UK Museum Accreditation by Arts Council England. Thank you to all the hard-working volunteers, stewards and supporters in Charlbury who have made this possible. charlburymuseum.org.uk/news/charlbu...
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He’s just lining up the ‘rigged elections’ attack for when he loses both houses.
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Alice Woolley @alicewoolley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My friend who is married to an Italian gets terrible stick for putting sweetcorn in her lasagne 😂
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"
Misleading statement by "journalist" Andrew Pierce
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A statement from the head of the @boell.de Foundation, the political foundation behind the German Green Party. 👇
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/o...
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Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall (Gift Article)
Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.
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Andy Ledger @lowfeller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
quite beautiful
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/10/2026
‘You have 10 minutes to decide’: answering the life-changing call to become a kinship carer
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‘You have 10 minutes to decide’: answering the life-changing call to become a kinship carer
Those who have stepped in to keep young family members from going into care in England and Wales say the decision has brought them joy and hardship
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Saskia W. @saskiawezenaar.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
June Hunter is a Canadian photographer. She specializes in the local crow population. For over fifteen years, Hunter has been photographing the same groups of crows in her neighborhood almost daily. She knows many of the birds personally and follows them on her popular Urban Nature Blog.
The fine art photograph shown is originally titled Solitary Crow. The work was created by digitally combining a photograph of a bare winter tree and a crow with texture images of elements such as an atmospheric sky and lichen.
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Canaries Caption It @canaries-captionit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That's it. It's all over for Polanski. Alf's in town.
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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tucker is a grifter and an utter fool. Treat him as such.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We’re screwed www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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