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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast.
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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I always enjoyed how Cummings' plan for domination almost always boiled down to "a modern office, an outlook calendar, plus Eugenics", and political types reacted with the same kind of incredulity as showing a caveman an aeroplane
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are vast numbers of academics, researchers etc whose only route to being a "public intellectual" is some mix of posting enough on social media to become a columnist or talking head, and/or writing one of those Waterstones books that explain some aspect of the world in one sellable theory
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athenarees.bsky.social @athenarees.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Call me old-fashioned, but I just think that if you are announcing £10bn of spending, then if the Shadow Treasury team and the leader's office are doing their jobs properly, the leader should have clearer answers to these questions:
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Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I'm here because I sniff out liars for a living" is a bold play for a host of the Today programme #CelebrityTraitors
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
She peddles disinformation that can, if followed have fatal results, yet gets a luxury paid for visit to UK. Shameful that people profit from exploiting others in this way
theguardian.com
‘Self-healing’ coach who was banned from working in Australia to speak in UK
Barbara O’Neill has previously claimed that cancer is a fungus that can be treated with bicarbonate soda
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 02/10/2026
You know, I'm beginning to think positioning ourselves as the world's shopping centre might not have been the best idea.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 02/10/2026
Sadiq Khan in The Guardian: "We must be honest about the fact that reversing it is the best chance we have to get Britain back on track." www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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athenarees.bsky.social @athenarees.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
‘Rocket-makers in clash with Wall Street over nuke safety worries” is not a headline even Kubrick would have dreamt up.’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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No, AI is not similar to the Manhattan Project
What is singular and novel about the current threat is that it was born out of the private sector
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK PM Andy Burnham is now looking for a Brit company that can take over from Palantir.
ft.com
Andy Burnham searches for UK alternative to Palantir
Prime minister’s ‘buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You should never actually watch it, but a key to understanding Kemi is her Triggernometry interview where she explains her immigration policy, the (very friendly) host explains it back to her, and she immediately declares that isn't what she said, so re-explains it, and then it happens again.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
humanists.uk
Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
paydayreport.com
X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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athenarees.bsky.social @athenarees.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Only the Tories can kill this mad nonsense. It’s just about how much damage will be done before they do.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Time to arrest this guy and charge him.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got
Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A new High Court judgment has blown a large hole in the regulation of the solicitors' profession. The Solicitors Regulation Authority will now have great difficulty investigating SLAPP, and other cases where a client's solicitor harms other parties.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.
Independent front page. 

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position  18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
20 September 1926 | A Dutch Jew, Raphaël Bachrach, was born in Arnhem. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 27 January 1944 in a transport of 948 Jews deported from #Westerbork. After the selection, he was murdered in a gas chamber.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A month after Brittin joined, the Guardian announced a "strategic partnership" with OpenAI. Unlike, the NYT which chose to sue it for illegally scraping its site, the Guardian settled. It's refused to disclose a single detail about a deal that's cloaked in secrecy. 5/
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athenarees.bsky.social @athenarees.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
RIP Gloria Steinem
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Very brave piece by Mike Schur, this. And of course he's right, as any cinemagoer can tell:
hollywoodreporter.com
Mike Schur: The Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Is Existential for Writers
“A market ceases to function when competition disappears. And it’s disappearing,” contends the comedy writer whose credits include 'Saturday Night Live,' 'The Office,' 'Parks and Recreation,' 'Brookly...
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This should get someone fired.
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Arday affair is disastrous and only made worse by how clearly avoidable it was. An absolute and total failure of any sort of ethical behaviour at every stage of the proceedings, entirely based around massaging the egos of senior figures at the university.
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athenarees.bsky.social @athenarees.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
prospectmagazine.co.uk
The Marshall Plan
Hedge fund manager Paul Marshall is on a God-driven mission to transform the religious fabric of the nation–and he has the money to do it
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Four years ago Roe v Wade was overturned. Meanwhile, in London this week, Nigel Farage spoke at the 'Alliance for Responsible Citizenship' conference attended by well-funded anti-abortion campaigners. ARC is bankrolled by GB News owner Paul Marshall. Since 2024 GB News has paid Farage £700k.
Image is a screenshot of a news article. The photo shows Nigel Farage being interviewed by Jordan Peterson at the ARC conference in 2025. The headline reads: Nigel Farage to join populist and rightwing figures at ‘anti-woke Davos’ in London
Exclusive: Event co-founded by Jordan Peterson will bring together rightwing figures, US state officials and anti-abortionists in London
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 23/06/2026
"The night from Monday to Tuesday was the hottest ever recorded in France since measurements began in 1947" Prime minister holding a crisis meeting of ministers due to heatwave Garonne River temp reaches 28C, shutting down a nuclear power plant Hospitals: "Some patients can't take it anymore"
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Lexit lives, apparently. No more coherently than before - if we just pretend the modern world away...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reform’s problem, and it is a very significant one, is that women vote open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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athenarees.bsky.social @athenarees.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
lrb.co.uk
Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13/06/2026
The Leave campaign made promises they couldn't keep, and ordinary people are paying the price. Fisherman Josh Dornam: “I voted for Brexit because I thought it was going to help the fishing industry – but it was all based on lies.”
independent.co.uk
‘Sold down the river’: The Cornish fishermen betrayed by Brexit
A decade on from the EU referendum, Alex Ross visits Cornwall to discover a fishing industry still reeling from a betray
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Today have had an extended interview on Steve Hilton, a man who has virtually zero chance of becoming Governor of one of the fifty American States, a county that the BBC is not the state broadcaster of.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Badenoch 'respects Rupert' Lowe. FML.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.
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athenarees.bsky.social @athenarees.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
‘The result is a strange spectacle whereby the Tory leader can decry violence, do a photo opportunity in Marks & Spencer, the symbol of Middle England, and predict civil war all in the same week.’ economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com
British politicians are racing to the hard right
Amid riots in Belfast, Restore promises to put “murderous third-world savages to death”
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 09/06/2026
It does. But the wilful blindness of the UK's political establishment to the scale of the danger scares me even more.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 08/06/2026
You can't go wrong reading anything by Gordon S. Wood. It's an antidote to all the caricatures and simplifications you get from all sides talking about the American founding generation. A great American. RIP.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Can't help but be reminded of how author Jonathan Miller schooled Enoch Powell on same.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/05/2026
‘When gold smugglers arrived in Asmara from Tigray, they were asked if their gold came from private investors or “the Chinese”. Private gold went on to Dubai, Chinese gold to China.’ Claire Wilmot on Ethiopia’s gold. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
lrb.co.uk
Claire Wilmot · Gold Rush
Across Tigray, the remains of razed towns are marked with mounds of earth piled over the dead – impressions of war...
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Beatles Books Podcast @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
In which Paul McCartney bakes bread, 1978.
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Marsha de Cordova @marshadecordova.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Israel attacks in Lebanon are horrific. 100s of civilians were killed yesterday. They are breaching international law and acting with impunity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
bbc.co.uk
Israeli attacks on Lebanon were 'grave violation' of US-Iran ceasefire deal, Iranian minister tells BBC
The US and Iran announced a ceasefire on Tuesday - but Israel continued hitting Lebanon, killing 182 people on Wednesday according to local officials.
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athenarees.bsky.social @athenarees.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"Matthew Goodwin has been paid a salary of up to €10,000 a month [from Hungary's state-funded MCC], according to leaked documents obtained by Hungarian investigative journalists Direkt36 and reported by the Good Law Project" That could all end if Orbán loses... open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
open.substack.com
What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?
Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right
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Marsha de Cordova @marshadecordova.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Sadiq is spot on. It is time for us to be braver in our Labour convictions and address voters fears’ not play on them.
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