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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She’s blinking like Ben Swain in TTOI

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just in case this history is useful in light of the current discourse podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/z...

podcasts.apple.com

Zionism Part 1

Podcast Episode · Origin Story · 10 July 2023 · 54min

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was a two act play by the Russians. It’s both a tragedy and a comedy.

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The fact they omitted Mr Inbetween entirely means the list is dogshit as far as I’m concerned in any case.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Bonnie Greer, "What can we learn from Donald Trump? Nothing" Fiona Bruce interrupts, "Bonnie, I just want to point out that maybe half of the audience are applauding" Bonnie Greer, "If I can just carry on" Fiona Bruce, "Of course" #BBCQT

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The name ‘Farage’ rings a bell. Regrettably.

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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My god this woman's simple truth telling and refusal to be silenced for it should shame the current leadership of Labour. Total respect for her.

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Kemi to dim to ask the obvious question- he’s right then why didn’t his policies work the first time?

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Back in his vaudeville days Adam Kay did a version of this that was better on account of it being very dark.

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘Concerned about the safety of young girls’ but woe betide any of them a free breakfast. What the fuck is wrong with her? (Tbc that’s rhetorical)

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s also (sort of) the 939th anniversary of William ‘Conqueror’ I dying because the king of France called him fat. Well, according to Chambers’ Book of Days it was the 10th, even though pretty much every other source says 9th (but we were busy yesterday with Mary Whitehouse)

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today, the anniversary (one way or another) of three deaths: one that wasn’t supposed to happen, because Henry II, Count of Champagne and King of Jerusalem, was only 31, but on this day in 1197 had a slight mishap with a window...

Excerpt from Steven Runciman’s A History of the Crusades, Volume Three: On 10 September 1197 his troops assembled in the palace courtyard; and Henry reviewed them from the window of an upper gallery. At that moment envoys from the Pisan colony entered the room. Henry turned to greet them, then, forgetting where he was, stepped backward through the open window. His little dwarf, Scarlet, was standing by him and grabbed at his clothes. But Henry was a heavy man and Scarlet very light. They crashed together on to the pavement below and were killed."

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Noel @noelgl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh yes ! And a wife beater, and a kidnapper, with an interesting approach to grooming gang victims…

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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New episode out today – Live at Union Chapel. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss how the Daily Telegraph’s deterioration from grey citadel of High Toryism to feral troll farm mirrors the cognitive decline of conservatism in Britain. Listen now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve yet to break your silence on the Baboon vs Badger debate.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you couldn't come to the show, you can listen to it now. This time we take on a classic narrative topic but on stage with a brilliant crowd

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wait, so James Orr being given Google Scholar credit / clout for the work of a different James Orr, 1844-1913?

library catalogue record screenshot: Print Book
The resurrection of Jesus / by James Orr
Orr, James, 1844-1913.
London : Hodder and Stoughton; 1908

library catalogue record screenshot: Print Book
The progress of dogma : being the Elliot lectures, delivered at the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Penna., U.S.A., 1897 / by James Orr
Orr, James, 1844-1913.
London : Hodder and Stoughton...; 1901

James Orr
University Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
Verified email at cam.ac.uk - Homepage
ArticlesCited byPublic access
Title / Cited by / Year
The international standard Bible encyclopaedia
J Orr
WB Eerdmans
825 1956
Christian view of God and the world
J Orr
CCEL
166 2012
The Progress of Dogma
J Orr
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
97 1901
The Christian View of God and the World: As Centring in the Incarnation
J Orr
Charles Scribner's Sons
70 1907
God's Image in Man and its Defacement in the Light of Modern Denials
J Orr
Hodder and Stroughton
63 1905
Revelation and Inspiration
J Orr
C. Scribner's sons
58 191

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=qbksHpYAAAAJ

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

OK, I wasnt suggesting majority of observant Jews are neturei Karta…just Webb’s argument that by virtue of being observant Milliband would be more sympathetic to Israel makes an assumption that everyone who is observant is. They were just an example of the opposite. Does that make sense?

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

If the argument is that Israel's global reputation is directly correlated to the safety of the Jewish diaspora then surely no one has a bigger responsibility to safeguard that reputation than Israel's Prime Minister. ... and he doesn't appear to give a shit.

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Minority or not, a lot of them are observant…so Webb’s notion that Milliband would be more pro Israel if attended Synagogue is a false one.

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A lot of Jews who attend Synagogues are Hasidim. I’d love to see Justin Webb as that question to them, given they regard the state of modern state of Israel as a blasphemous construct

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 05/09/2026

Chatting just now with local Kent winegrower at farmer's market. This year's grapes are "smaller than peas" - not going to bother to harvest. What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'? "Fucking morons."

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If no other picture survives Reform UK conference this year, let it be this one. It is a teachable moment. #ReformAssault #Fascism

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yeah, upset that someone else was appropriating their culture.

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Mike here, hello @mikecornes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As a middle-aged white male Brit, I would like to condemn and distance myself from the actions of these people. They do not represent all of the middle-aged white male Brit community.

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s appropriate his constituency is for a placed which is an anagram of the word ‘Wanker’.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"We've done nothing wrong but the people who did it have been sacked for (not) doing it," is quite the defence. And is it just me or Does. Farage. Get. Even. More. Comically. Staccato when he's straining his own enormous capacity for lying?

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Well he’s probably too much of a serious thinker to go back to The Daily Telegraph these days

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This bit from The Times’ story on the killing of Bradley Townsend, a fisherman from Barnsley who volunteered for the Russian Army, leaves quite a lot out. Aiden Minnis is a former member of the National Front who was jailed for four years for a racist attack. "Another Briton”, indeed.

Aiden Minnis, another Briton enlisted with Russian forces, paid tribute to his friend on social media, saying he had "sacrificed his life for our cause".

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It’s amazing how supposedly worldly wise people give out free passes because the person in question wasn’t a cunt to them personally.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of the things us an industry need to stop doing is perpetuating the 'they say this on social media, but they're a sweetheart in real life' about awful people I've had other journos say this to me about some of the most pernicious grifters over the years, some of who crossed many lines this week

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So she knows a …. when she sees one

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The curvature of the earth?

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My friend and colleague @calroscow.bsky.social has launched a magazine for people who refuse to accept that life can't be a bit nicer. Sharp writing on world affairs, culture, travel & design for the "nerdy-but-epicurean." His opening letter is a lovely read 👇 www.paperweightmag.com/letter-from-...

paperweightmag.com

Letter from the editor: The curiosity to dream that greater things are possible.

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Cal Roscow, smashes the Champagne against the bow in this first letter from the editor.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I feared this would happen. His story was troubling but the wave of hatred and obsession in the media when he was clearly someone who was vulnerable - whatever you thought of him - was entirely disproportionate and in my view fuelled by racists. My thoughts are with his loved ones tonight.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jason Arday being found dead is a horrendous way for the story to end. Elements of the press and wider media are who were relentless in their pursuit won’t stop for a moment to consider how brutal that attention was.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Lest we forget how gleefully foul he was. This passes for comedy in certain circles

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

For every ‘Babies’ by Pulp, there were countless ‘I’ll be there for you’ by The Rembrandts.

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

He’s with Vladimir Putin. Everyone knows that.

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

‘Spite fuelled pub bore rambling on for the benefit of the witless’

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Andrew @basking-crow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I find it bizarre that you regard his body of work which was read by tens of thousands of people (maybe more) as some sort of consequence free activity that we should just ignore when assessing him as a person.

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