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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 16h

Besides Childline (obvs), that clip of Esther Rantzen getting arrested for obstruction is my favourite thing of hers. The way she rather sardonically responds in that slightly posh put upon way is hilarious. Especially sticking her head out the window. Pernod, ouzo, marmalade and salt all round!

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do the stats for women! It’s 5.

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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is true, but the weekly income of the actual average UK single pensioner is over £300 a week, much closer to, e.g., the French, because 69% of UK pensioners have more than one pension... Only 40% of the income of married-couple pensioners is the State Pension...

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Andrew Burchell @andrewburchell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On *UK pensions discourse*: of course there are pensioners living in poverty, and dividing generations is unhelpful. But has anyone commenting loudly that SP is so low considered that "the state pension" is not the sole income for many over 65s? (Private pensions, savings, owning a bloody home!?)

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 22/09/2026

A landlord making £100,000 a month says young people have “no excuse to be poor”. Excellent. I love financial advice. Gather round, children, let's examine how he himself stopped being poor. metro.co.uk/2026/09/20/i...

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I’m a landlord making £100,000 a month — young people have no excuse to be poor

Samuel bought his first home aged 17 with a 100% mortgage.

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My most neoliberal opinion is that management of large organisations takes skills and experience that the core frontline staff of that organisation might not have. My social democratic one is that this is why the CEO should be democratically accountable to people who know what the org ACTUALLY is.

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Time to jump into the discourse. I'm not that averse to funding applications and competitions. What I'm averse to is that this is in many cases the only way that a career can start or continue. For some fields, it would be more efficient to give everyone €5k p.a. and let them work on their book...

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 16/09/2026

Let me guess - the village that has voted to leave the UK still wants all the benefits of being in the UK?

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Martin Gelin @martingelin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My latest piece for The Guardian: In Sweden, previously unthinkable far-right ideas are now comfortably embedded in the mainstream. The past four years were characterised by an astonishing acceptance of ethnonationalist views, xenophobic rhetoric and authoritarian policies often targeting children.

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How Sweden lost its soul – and stopped being Sweden | Martin Gelin

In 2022 my country entered a new era of cruelty. It will take more than one election to get the old, tolerant Sweden back, writes Swedish journalist Martin Gelin

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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What the absolute fuck is this line of questioning by Justin Webb? It’s worse than pure grandstanding; it’s querying Miliband’s faith.

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Andrew Burchell @andrewburchell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This exactly. Also, I think I'm right that PISA have collected data (at least in the past?) about how children in the study perceive their own well-being. Needless to say, it paints a very different picture...

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

So I've seen quite a bit on the latest PISA results and about how it's a 'natural experiment' on policy due to education being devolved. That got me thinking about the *side effects* of a 'natural experiment' and the impact on inclusion. If you're claiming 'success' you need to look in the round.

revealed a deteriorating situation in England, with alarming and rapidly rising rates of formal exclusion and suspension, and a contrasting picture of much lower rates in neighbouring Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales (Daniels et al., Citation2019; Ferguson, Citation2021, Citation2020; McCluskey et al., Citation2019; Power & Taylor Citation2020; Duffy et al., Citation2021). At the time of writing, the rates of exclusion and suspension in England have risen steeply once again (DfE, Citation2023a,

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Simon Peplow @simpep.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

History and AI – A Survey of History Students in UKHE Our preliminary project report explores anonymous responses from more than 600 history students across all regions and types of institutions in the UK. @callingdrjones.bsky.social www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...

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History and AI – A Survey of History Students in UK Universities

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become impossible to ignore in higher education. For historians, working in a discipline which depends on interpretation, evidence, and critical thinking, the devel…

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Schama, of course, says "we", right there. Conflating state actions with ethno-cultural identity like a pro.

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TfL Barbie @chaff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’ve read that telegraph article on disability, and I think the author’s real view, under all the other justifications they throw in there, can be neatly summed up by this final paragraph - disabled people are too visible now and some even look happy at times

“If there is a sickness identity, there needs to be a recovery identity - not just one that exists to sell people more products. A chronically "sick" person does what a chronically sick person is supposed to do: they withdraw from regular life, struggle with previously simple tasks, receive support and condolences, and rarely, if ever, get better.”

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is also a thing history academics experience. mainly racist conspiracy theories, especially antisemitic.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Looks, to hell with Sweden in general and the Sweden Democrats I'm particular - but you can't report this story absent the context of wider border violence in Europe, incl. the UK's own repeated insistence on its sovereign right to treat migrants, including migrants from Sweden, horribly.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

NEW DETECTIVE COMING TO ITV THIS AUTUMN

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So, it turns out that the advocates of the moral superiority of the white race were scammers and crooks all along. Just like everyone said they were. So they’re going to be hounded out of public life now, aren’t they? Aren’t they?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not wanting to rain on this parade, but do we want science funding decisions to be made at the dispatch box? The Haldane principle may be dead, but is this what we want (and need) instead? Look across the Atlantic to DC (and the CDC) to see what funding by government decree can become. 1/2

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's the only global what....?

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We're looking for a fabulous person to join us @strathclydehass.bsky.social on a funded PhD with me & Prof Matt Smith. Are you a historian with an interest in activism who wants to design a cool project on unorthodox health movements in Britain after 1948? Apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

Apply for a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948. Discover a wide range of PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Academic freedom is when a foreign government dictates how and even whether a university investigates misconduct

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I know its naive to expect better of the Labour Party if you have even a passing familiarity with their long history, but there is still something outstandingly depressing to watch them repeatedly abandon the goal of 'bread and roses' for simply 'more work'.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Alternative headline: “Sainsbury’s to get free labour after David Sainsbury gave Andy Burnham £165,000 for his leadership campaign”

UK politics: Burnham announces plan for 10,000 work experience placements for young people - as it happened
Prime minister spoke to press while on visit to a Sainsbury's supermarket in London this morning
Taz Ali (now) and Martin Belam (earlier)

picture: Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham in sainsbury’s uniforms in a supermarket handling goods

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I can't believe the amount of recent history revisionism in the UK. Response to Polish immigration was so severe that it successfully led to Brexit. BREXIT. And tanked British economy. This happened last decade, you can just Google it.

Post on X Remember in early 2000s thousands of Polish men immigrated over to UK cause their economy crashed but no one said fuck all cause they came to work, minded their own buisness an left our kids alone.....

Response Most Poles who emigrated to the UK in the early 2000s remember something completely different and photo of xenophobic graffiti

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Remember when they sold us the slogan, "Go paperless, save trees, save the planet"? Now we've gone digital, and it's consuming enormous amounts of water, destroying ecosystems, harming bees, and contributing to environmental damage on a scale paper never did.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Aside from the issue of courses closing so these students can't study what they want/need, I just find it incredibly sad that the formative experience of almost-independence is being denied to young people. Living in halls, negotiating with room mates, cooking for yourself, budgeting. Crucial skills

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I get sent drafts of writings from colleague which sometimes have the date in the file name, so free early 2000s tip for you: put the date in Japanese (YYYYMMDD) format at the beginning, and then you can sort your drafts alphabetically by date.

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Andrew Burchell @andrewburchell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Not the main takeaway point here, of course, (and JB shows her colours as ableist as well as a TERF) but every time I see that woman's byline on anything my first thought is always: "Thank goodness the surname is spelt differently, definitely no relation..."

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

He may well have 1000 Einsteins and Mozarts working in his warehouses right now, but they can't do anything with their abilities what with having to work 18 hours a day under constant threat of being fired for taking a piss

@jaynitx
Jeff Bezos on why he wants a trillion
humans in the solar svstem
"I would love to see a trillion humans living
in the solar system. If we had a trillion
humans, we would have at any given time
a 1,000 Mozarts and a 1,000 Einsteins'
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Just pay your taxes bra

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I feel like the headline should actually address the results in English GCSE: 66.1% of boys getting 4s and above while girls improved to 76.8%. Or, aTHIRD of boys are not achieving the expected standard in English!

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I will finish here: practically all university year 1 is spent trying to undo some of the damage done by the current system. That is a rather inconvenient detail if we're going to extol the virtues of mass standardised testing as the only metric by which success is measurable.

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Got a hankering for health history? We are looking for a brilliant historian to join us at Strathclyde on our *FUNDED* PhD studentship researching post-1948 unorthodox health activism in Britain. Design a project & apply by 30 October 2026! #AcademicSky #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 18/08/2026

sorry is the problem that it's overmedicated or that it's undermedicated, really going to need you to make your minds up

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Look. This is genocidal racism. They are not afraid to say it very loudly and repeatedly because the powers of the West have decided that it can't possibly be genocidal racism for... reasons. But it is genocidal racism.

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Andrew Burchell @andrewburchell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Somewhat confused by the apparent logical implication that sitting down to drink would be... "horizontal drinking"?

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There’s been some talk about bringing in OfS to deal with the Jason Arday scandal, but I remember the time (just three months ago) OfS was revealed to be colluding with a right-wing agitator to produce a disproportionate fine against a university on trumped up charges based on ‘culture war’ nonsense

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Let's talk about JK Rowling's 'bearded men'... I want to vent something that's been on my mind: The way transphobic groups and individuals are also actively homophobic. I've experienced it first hand, and know many others have too. 1/

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Following Rod Liddle's death I've been thinking again about the often unacknowledged privilege in being able to see the words of a demagogue as just things you disagree with rather than things that threaten people.

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

IMO it’s a big problem that people think meritocracy in higher education = a more diverse student body at Oxbridge, as opposed to fewer people caring about the symbolic value of Oxbridge in the first place.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

this multifarious violence *against the world* can never be forgiven, because no administration put in power by American voters will ever permit itself to grasp that it is not for Americans to forgive

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Private Eye tells me that How Green Was My Valley is one of Andy Burnham’s favourite books. Oh dear. I write a PhD on 1930s Welsh mining novels, including a whole chapter on Llewellyn’s work. I even read the terrible sequels. It really, really isn’t a story of working-class solidarity etc.

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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

Are you having fanatical thoughts about other people's crotches?
Has hating a minority group become your entire personality?
Do you obsess over other people's toilet use?
If so, you could be a danger to others - it's time to seek help.
Contact our team: youneedhelp@leavetranspeoplealone.com

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