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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A serious threat to what we still like to think of as democracy

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Help this family out, buy some of their honey. 'Effectively, we're out of business': U.S. tariffs cut #Manitoba honey farm off from vast majority of customers Podolski Honey Farms sells 90% of its honey to buyers in the United States: general manager /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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'Effectively, we're out of business': U.S. tariffs cut Manitoba honey farm off from vast majority of customers | CBC News

Osee Podolsky, general manager at Podolski Honey Farms, says the vast majority of honey produced at the family-run business in Ethelbert, Man., is shipped to customers across the United States.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/06/2026

We must take on the hateful forces that seek to divide us. My statement on recent events in Belfast.

The knife attack in Belfast on Monday was truly horrific. My thoughts are with Stephen Ogilvy and his family, who deserve justice.

Targeting and terrorising innocent people because of the colour of their skin, including setting fire to their homes, has nothing to do with justice or a desire to keep communities safe, however. It is racist mob violence, which has been organised, enabled and whipped up by those seeking to profit politically and financially from hatred, fear and disorder.

Social media platforms who give money and reach to these individuals to promote their hate need to be held to account. They cannot be allowed to continue pouring petrol on the flames.

The disgraceful violence is a direct consequence of the normalisation of vile, racist rhetoric across the UK, which needs to be challenged far more robustly in our political discourse.

I welcome the steps the Prime Minister has taken to work with police and the First Minister of Northern Ireland. We must stand together to prevent further disorder, and to take on the hateful forces that seek to divide us.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

For years now, public discourse regarding online radicalisation and hate has focused on Twitter, anonymous accounts and young people. Meanwhile, your uncle is out there sharing memes about great replacement theory on Facebook using his legal name.

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

...there is no “making it” in poetry. There is only making. Line after line. Draft after draft. Return after return. That is why it is called a practice: because it asks you to come back, with or without witness, with or without reward. - Roger Robinson (who isn't on bsky)

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty. - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism 1951 Ht @pkrugman.bsky.social

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Michael Billington reporting Christopher Fry (4 vii 05): "I first met Eliot in 1939, and I remember asking him what I could do in wartime that didn't mean shooting people. He suggested the fire service, but I told him that I had no head for heights. Eliot said, 'You must specialise in basements.'"

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I miss being on Facebook, where I could share today's discovery that some people use 'kudos' as a plural, as in 'He could earn a few kudos.' There would follow scolding by the usual suspects reminding me that language evolves, innit.

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Happy Tom Lehrer Tuesday. Enjoy Tom's dry commentary on a previous round of US meddling in Latin America.

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Another heartening review - this time from D A Prince in London Grip londongrip.co.uk/2026/02/lond...

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London Grip Poetry Review – Anne Berkeley – londongrip.co.uk

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The Carrington event - a Coronal Mass Ejection that came our way in 1859 - caused the electrocution of telegraph operators. One today would wipe out satellites and disable electrical grid systems across the world. We would be sent back to the pre-electrical age. www.hive.co.uk/Product/Stua...

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Heavens! I have a poem about these in my latest collection.

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Reading at CB1 on Sunday 1 March - 6.30pm at The Town & Gown, Market Passage. More details at link: cb1poetry.org.uk

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CB1 Poetry – Live Poetry in the Heart of Cambridge

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Thrilled that my publisher, Michael Laskey, has been awarded the King's Gold Medal for Poetry. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Michael Laskey 'astonished' to receive King's Gold Medal for Poetry

Michael Laskey says he is

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

A perceptive and thoughtful review from D.A. Prince londongrip.co.uk/2026/02/lond...

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London Grip Poetry Review – Anne Berkeley

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Reading at CB1 on Sunday 1 March - 6.30pm at The Town & Gown, Market Passage. More details at link: cb1poetry.org.uk

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CB1 Poetry – Live Poetry in the Heart of Cambridge

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

A perceptive and thoughtful review from D.A. Prince londongrip.co.uk/2026/02/lond...

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London Grip Poetry Review – Anne Berkeley

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Thrilled that my publisher, Michael Laskey, has been awarded the King's Gold Medal for Poetry. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Michael Laskey 'astonished' to receive King's Gold Medal for Poetry

Michael Laskey says he is

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Still locked out of Facebook, so posting here. Will be reading at CB1, Town & Gown, Market Passage, Cambridge on Sunday 1 March at 6.30 pm. Meanwhile here's a review by Helena Nelson in The Friday Poem: thefridaypoem.substack.com/p/helena-nel...

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Have been suspended from FB for some unfathomable reason. Have attempted to appeal but it's difficult to appeal when you don't know the details of the charge.

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Another important read from @samfr.bsky.social on why the NHS is in a state samf.substack.com/p/on-the-edg...

Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We had a local blackbird that mimicked this

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Delighted to be taking part in this www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-...

Cambridge Poetry Festival
Pembroke Auditorium
12th July
18.30 - 20.30
£5

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It's July 1st - the submission window for #PoetryScotland 110 is open! Submissions must include: - Your postal address - Titles of your poem(s) - Text of your poem(s) in a separate Word document attachment. poetryscotland.com/submissions/ Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Five things to remember about war:

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

#Top10 Misused Fables www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta... 1. Sour grapes 2. Pyrrhic victory 3. Midas touch 4. Canute 5. Break the mould 6. The Good Samaritan 7. The writing on the wall 8. Devil's advocate 9. Frankenstein 10. Meritocracy

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The top ten: Misused fables

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Posted by Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland, tonight 👏

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

Statement begins:
The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others).

Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Lewis Goodall is right. Musk's power grab is enormous, and so far it's all going his way. Goodall doesn't name NYT, BBC & co but they are normalising it, because it's the US, rather than calling it the coup that it is.

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

George Szirtes is now on Bluesky!

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Rationalist Society St Louis @rsslmo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

In the Future you will be able to get a Robot to do your Believing for you. There will be 5 to choose from, Each one more Costly & Better. Number 5 is Top of the line, It will Believe Stuff that even a Mormon wouldn't Believe. @stlouisatheists.bsky.social @atheists.org @ffrf.org

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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Hello there, poetry and translation friends! 👋 The Poetry Translation Centre is now on Bluesky ✨ Follow us to stay updated on some of the best poetry in translation from Africa, Asia, and Latin America!

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Katy Evans-Bush @katyevansbush.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

NOTE IN DIARY: Feb 22! I'll be presenting a UK special at this US-based poetry series in 2 weeks! 5pm EST, or 10pm UK time. Four poets - all different, & all very particularly ourselves, producing four distinctive poetries. Come along and have a listen 😊 www.facebook.com/events/49815...

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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Elon’s “Department of Government Efficiency” just walked into NOAA and Commerce like they owned the place. No legal authority, no transparency—just gutting climate data access while daring anyone to stop them. If you like accurate weather forecasts and ocean protections, buckle up.

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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats

Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

You’d have to work hard to produce a front page that entirely avoids telling people that anything untoward took place this weekend in Washington. “All the News That’s Fit To Print”, eh?

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Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

State capture. Seizure by non-state actors. This is seismic. Deliberately done over the weekend when Washington is out of the office.

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