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Amerjit Basi @amerjitbasi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Last night was gorgeous as well, sorry I can never seem to take good photos of it on my phone. This was over Bole Hills.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Englishness & Britishness have never been fixed concepts. They have been redefined & debated for centuries. Shakespeare did it loads. John of Gaunt’s lament for an imagined glorious past England vs the present crap one from Richard II is like a really well written version of a Tory conference speech

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth,
Renowned for their deeds as far from home,
For Christian service and true chivalry,
As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry,
Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son,
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,
Like to a tenement or pelting farm:
England, bound in with the triumphant sea
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,
With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,
How happy then were my ensuing death!

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Amerjit Basi @amerjitbasi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

More examples of drivers who think doing fast, reckless weaving in and out of very slow traffic is acceptable. Just feels like more and more bad driving around.

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Amerjit Basi @amerjitbasi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Long drive from Sheffield to Broadstairs & back, & can't work out lf there is many more bad drivers or I'm forgetting it's always been like this. Four lane motorways definitely have a huge amount of terrible drivers, endemic lane hogging & no ability or willingness to do proper overtaking.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3455 prefers the classics

Two bunnies are standing near a record player, and one starts to play their preferred record, "Something Else" by the Kinks. Next to him, the second bunny is miffed that she can't play her preferred record, "Room On Fire" by the Strokes.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'We thought this time would be different – it hasn't been. Perhaps we need to accept an uncomfortable reality: higher education simply isn't high enough up the government's political priority list.'

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If universities aren’t a priority, at least give them certainty

With Labour Party conference underway and universities still well down the queue, Ian Turgoose argues the sector’s most realistic ask is certainty about what government wants it to look like

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Amerjit Basi @amerjitbasi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Split between thinking a strange thing to be het up about but also know I can often say "you haven't heard/seen x". Had to look up what this was cos it's not UK charts. Even latter I know i don't catch since stopping listening to Radio 1 (having got to a point where I found most of the DJs grating).

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Amerjit Basi @amerjitbasi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pretty certain there is something absolutely enormous missing from this list. I think I am still shocked that the mass murder of Palestinians is something that is seemingly either forgotten or not worth mentioning. But of course in reality I shouldn't be shocked about the worth placed on such lives.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This was a striking bit about Rushdie’s upbringing where ‘people would talk about everything’

He says at one point in the film 'it didn't occur to me that I wasn't allowed to say these things' by which he means to treat Islam with the roughhouse lack of solemnity with which he treats everything else. "That's because I grew up in a very free-thinking, secularised, Indian-Muslim family, in which people would talk about everything. My father and his friends would sit around in the evening and talk about everything. They liked talking about philosophy. They would discuss the existence of God - and non-existence of God even. Some of his friends were communists and certainly didn't believe in religion.
Others were quite theological. But everybody argued about everything, and, eavesdropping on these conversations, 12-year-old me thought you could talk about whatever you want, and I still think that?

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,

The Tories said the reduced subsistence allowance would be loaded onto pre-paid card that would not allow cash withdrawals, and would "prevent spending" on alcohol, cigarettes, or gambling.
The party is yet to detail how its proposal would work, but shadow welfare secretary Helen Whately said it would be "a version" of the pre-paid Aspen card issued to asylum seekers living in government-funded accommodation.
These cards cannot be used to make contactless, telephone or internet payments, whilst asylum seekers whose applications have failed cannot withdraw cash.

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Amerjit Basi @amerjitbasi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tell me again how Germany has understood the Holocaust and its Nazi past. Makes me think "remembrance" can be very different to actual understanding and then change built on that understanding. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

theguardian.com

Friedrich Merz vows to stay in office after CDU ‘disaster’ in German state elections

Far-right AfD wins in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and leftwing Die Linke on course for victory in Berlin

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

wtf kind of pets they got in there

SMOKING
BARE FOOT
PETS
PROHIBITED IN BUILDING

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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Amerjit Basi @amerjitbasi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Portsmouth experiences second weekend of racists terrorising people.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My heart melted a bit at this one. His dad was a lorry driver and during his summer holidays as a ten year old he’d go with dad and loved stopping at the Little Chef www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

theguardian.com

Experience: I’ve visited every motorway service station in Britain

Some people don’t understand my lifelong enthusiasm for roadside stop-offs – now visiting and cataloguing them is what I do for a living

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Amerjit Basi @amerjitbasi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Guardian should have asked someone else to review this book, perhaps someone who didn't feel compelled to be so patronising and sneery about Stephen King & his readers. What smugness to assume King's readers are not interested in the art of his writing. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

theguardian.com

Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks review – the writing secrets of Stephen King

A deep dive into the horror novelist’s archives reveals pedantry, penny-pinching, and a total redraft of Carrie

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 11/09/2026

🚨 NEW BLOGPOST 🚨 The last week has seen multiple incidents of masked mobs trying to subvert the power of the state. Their actions have been illegal and unpleasant. But the treatment has been weak. The police haven't dealt with it, and neither has govt. open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

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Stop the Louts

The tools exist. The will, so far, doesn't.

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Livid that the assisted dying bill being voted down is being painted as religious zealots that all want people to die in agony. Everyone deserves to die in dignity, but they also deserve a robust bill with safeguards that reduces the chance of being coerced into it. That's what we fought for.

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Rhonda 🌊 @silverarticfox.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Liars have to have very good memories and he clearly doesn’t.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is outrageous in and of itself. It's also outrageous that the government isn't doing anything about it. There's a constant political refrain that 'the first duty of government is to protect its citizens'. So do it.

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

Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 09/09/2026

If you have the time, Ed Miliband's speech in the House of Commons is worth reading in full. It literally includes the words: "Holding British Jews responsible for the actions of the Israeli Government is antisemitism, plain and simple." www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Foreign Secretary Oral Statement on Israel-Palestine

Foreign Secretary's oral statement to the House of Commons on Israel-Palestine as delivered.

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Amerjit Basi @amerjitbasi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Protest against genocide and get completely condemned, arrested and have made-up charges against you. Be a racist thug and have your hatred pandered to. No wonder so many people think open racism is now actively supported in this country.

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That the government's response to a large-scale fascist mobilisation is to say stuff like "the right to protest is fundamental" and "we already *are* stopping the boats" is in itself the story of how we got here.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Given that Tommo is now causing disruption over in Portsmouth you have to wonder what the police and intelligence services are actually doing.

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Amerjit Basi @amerjitbasi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As we all know this is the massive differential in policing. These people are a clear threat but face no restrictions from the police. Protest about genocide and the killing of the planet and you have no rights at all. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Black-clad Dover vigilantes will return if police do not act, say campaigners

Far-right linked group able to mobilise at scale due to police ‘inaction’, says founder of Hope Not Hate

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This really shouldn't need saying. It's warped to not be able to see that taking away opportunities from young people will lead to negative behaviour.

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Amerjit Basi @amerjitbasi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Watching Renovation Rescue reminds me of being ripped off by a builder in Sheffield, on a much smaller scale. And threatened when I said I'd post an honest review. None of the rip off builders get punished or have to pay back money stolen. Absolutely need regulation of the trades.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

'It is understood that senior museum leaders were warned about the possible public perception of special treatment for someone with connections to Jeffrey Epstein, and whose public software company, Palantir, plays a controversial role in the British state.' 'the possible public perception'

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British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry

Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mahmood's proposals would force medium-skilled & care workers to leave the UK & would deter high skill workers from coming in future. This would widen the deficit/fiscal home. Would be deliberate economic and political self-harm for Burnham/Healey to proceed with them. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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Mahmood's 'hardline' immigration reforms hit by growing rebellion

More Labour MPs to publicly oppose Home Secretary's changes to indefinite leave to remain

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I was helping some friends move yesterday and they found an old sketchbook of mine from 2018

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Amerjit Basi @amerjitbasi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Went to see Ferris Beuller's Day Off at the Showroom (Sheffield) as part of their 80s weekend. Love the film and great to see it on the big screen, the wonderful parade scene. Made me really want to see Blues Brothers in the cinema.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I dk who still needs to hear this but Israel has had no intentions to allow a Palestinian state for decades. It never stopped building illegal settlements regardless of who was in the White House. www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...

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New Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian State

The breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant.

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Dread VanVleet 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly is one of the only mega celebrities who's ever come off as someone who both got the absolute most out of life *and* is a great person. What a lovely human being.

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