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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He was only 14💔 A russian strike on Vyshhorod killed a Ukrainian schoolboy. His body was pulled from the rubble of his family’s destroyed home. His parents are now in hospital. His sister survived.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have walked along the cliffs on the postcard.

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Why is each if the £36,000,000s exactly the same amount as the other? 🤔

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Neoliberalism has ravaged the UK Workers’ share of gross value added down from 71.9% in 1975, to 59.7%. 1.23m workers are on zero-hour contracts. 4.4m jobs pay less than the real living wage. Poorest 20% pay a higher proportion of income in direct/indirect taxes than the richest 20%.

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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The ability of the rich and powerful to harness the anger of the poor and get them to direct it at the wrong people is breathtaking.

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Composers Edition @composersed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Eunoia will perform Catherine Kontz’s ‘Meng Sprooch, Deng Sprooch, Seng Sprooch’ at the Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival in London on Sunday @teteateteopera.bsky.social @catherinekontz.bsky.social www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/making...

tete-a-tete.org.uk

Making Europe Audible | Tête à Tête

Dropping bombs meet flowers, language meets sound.

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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🤬🤬russians just hit the very center of Kyiv. A shahed struck near Lobanovskyi Stadium - right in the heart of my city. The stadium itself was not damaged. I keep hearing explosions. After the nightmare of last night, russia is still attacking us.

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Conversation with a young person a few weeks ago: Me: What’s your name? YP: Loofah. Me: Sorry? YP: Loofah. Me: [unspoken] WHAT were his parents THINKING?!? Me: [aloud] That’s a cool name. How do you spell it? YP: L - U - T - H - E - R.

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Thinking now about how everything has to be driven by ‘data’ (by which people mean statistics, as it’s never qualitative).In a culture where politicians obsessively dodge or pass on blame, is that why they’ve no moral imperatives and data drives all decisions? When things go wrong it’s data’s fault?

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Freelancers Make Theatre Work @freelancersmake.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

'...freelancers subsidise them via low wages, poor conditions and working thousands of unpaid hours.' - Lyn Gardner- theatre critic and associate editor of The Stage. Read more here: www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/for-... #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We are in such a mess. BBC #R4Today on and on about building more prisons - Badenoch this morning - but no talk of how to steer people away from getting themselves into prison in the first place. 😶

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Given the state of my lungs it’s quite triggering to hear that Andy Burnham has said that he will “hit the ground running…and provide breathing space for people.”

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

So depressed by Burnham. Everyone is after short term wins - journalists above all, but also voters (at least in the minds of the politicians) - but someone HAS to sort out the bigger long term issues - climate crisis, global conflict, nat debt and that is not going to be a network of metro mayors.

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

What a horrible shouty person Laila Cunningham on BBCR4 Question Time is, talking shoutily over others and asserting ferociously that the people of Clacton should speak on behalf of ‘The British ‘People’. Sarcastic, nasty, aggressive and desperately fighting to hog the limelight, voilà Reform! 🤷‍♂️

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

On my way, Clacton.

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Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This pathetic faux-innocent “but it was before he was an MP”, when said by actual MPs, who should know the rules, is breathtaking. Any gift in the previous 12 months is potentially declarable. Stds commissioner can take into account Farage’s behaviour during the inquiry. 🧐

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

At @rcmlondon.bsky.social for five new student operas, a collaboration with Tête-à-Tête @billbj.bsky.social - my review will appear early next week

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fucking hell, Lisa Nandy has actually done something, and it's good. However, she ought to be explicit that the platform promotes abuse, misinformation and hate as a deliberate decision, and she ought to be announcing an inquiry that can lead to criminal charges for its owners and management.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It's obvious to point out attacks against Muslims get ignored - but still needs repeatedly calling out. An Antisemitic attack should be reported and action taken. But where is the same media outrage, cobra meetings and calling of national emergency when 5 Muslims are attacked?

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This is truly horrifying, especially given that it’s all just Willy-waggling. 1,380,120 lives. 🤯

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

TRUMP NEVER SUES ANYONE WHO SAYS HE RAPED CHILDREN

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Has anyone found a link to the ‘slouch pouch’ onesie £76 online?

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I am absolutely happy to share any toilet with absolutely anyone regardless of sex or gender with the exceptions of Netanyahu, Trump and Fartage.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Record number of UK people turning to crowdfunding to cover rent and household bills. Average real wage hardly changed since 2008. Millions rely on food banks. Healthy life expectancy shrinking. Record number of billionaires. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

theguardian.com

Record numbers of UK renters crowdfunding to cover bills

Rent donations on GoFundMe up 60% since 2022, with 100,000 donors helping people keep a roof over their heads

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Wealth of 157 UK billionaires now equals £670bn, 22% of GDP. Return on wealth (dividends and capital gains) is taxed at lower rates than wages. Extreme concentration of wealth facilitates political power, corruption, economic control. Wither democracy.

theguardian.com

Wealth of Britain’s 157 billionaires now equal to 22% of country’s GDP

This ‘ghost GDP’ shows how headline economic growth is increasingly disconnected from reality for most, says report

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

So this is ok but “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action” is not? I really don’t understand what is going on in London.

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Trans Unity Quilt Project @transunityquilt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A LONG day of steaming, photography and cataloguing - but we're halfway there! It's staggering to see this all come together, even before the patches are sewn together into a quilt - the of courage, love, and beauty in these squares is a privilege to experience. Thank you! More tomorrow

A photography station rigged up with stands and lights, the camera directed at a pink patch arranged on a board on the floor. The patch is decorated with the appliqué words: 'Jesus Says Trans Rights' - in the centre of the words is a traditional image of Jesus, with the trans flag pouring from the Sacred Heart.

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Interesting how Andy Burnham can’t be Labour leader without becoming an MP while Zack Polanski is the leader of the Green Party without being an MP.

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

ANY politician who says they "will deliver." Instantly loses my confidence. I want plans, not platitudes, vision, not vapidity.

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Absolutely ENRAGING hearing Liza Nandy on BBC R4 WATO affirming Starmer and how much Labour has done for working people. The answer is absoutely ZERO if you are one of the three million self-employed. Where is our Freelance Champion, and all the other manifesto promises that have yet to be started?

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Awful starmer speech. How dare he talk about all he has done for working people when three million of us self employed were promised so much before the election TWO YEARS AGO and have so far had NOTHING. NADA. ZILCH. Of course we feel you're not hearing us.

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Hearing the r4today presenters relentlessly picking away at the bones of political carcasses is both so awful and also gives me a little hope as it’s so clearly not sustainable, it has to have an end point. Hmm is that really hope? 😬

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This is the end result of Shabana Mahmood’s nasty immigration policies… more votes for Reform and so, more racism scaring and dividing our communities. Not sure how Labour can justify this, politically or morally. It’s so far from what we’d all hoped. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Minority groups brace for surge in racism after Reform UK election gains

Many members of minority communities fear results in Birmingham and elsewhere could lead to rise in hostile rhetoric

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/05/2026

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in first for Scottish parliament
Dr Q Manivannan and Iris Duane secured regional list seats for the Scottish Green Party.
David Young
Friday 08 May 2026 17:52 EDT

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Well now Lise Doucet, no less, is talking on BBC R4 Today about Iran’s “four hundred and forty grammes [sic] of enriched uranium”, there really is no point at all any more in listening to the news.

static.klipy.com

Smh Bye: Woman's Departure

ALT: Smh Bye: Woman's Departure

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Given Starmer’s propensity to blame and fire people when things go wrong, surely now he has to go?

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Interesting Screenshot on Radio 4 about Amelie. I absolutely HATED IT for the kitsch over-girly coquetterie of the central character and couldn’t get past the first few minutes. This is not giving me any urge to try again.

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Demoralised by BBC Radio 4’s celebration of Reform and attempts to annihilate Starmer - not that I won’t be sorry to see him gone. But where can we go for gentler, factual, detailed and up to the minute reporting?

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

As these things go - and it obviously won't impact on his diehard fans - this, from the Tories, is actually quite an impressive effort.

youtube.com

Nigel Farage Doesn't Want You To Watch This Video

YouTube video by Conservatives

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Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Anti-semitism is absolutely abhorrent, of COURSE. So is government interference in the arts. Concerned about who is being called in to Downing St today.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

'Farage has pulled out of Kuenssberg' is a mental image I don't think any of us needed.

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 26/04/2026

“After 10 years, Brexit has inflicted serious, lasting harm on the United Kingdom. That is not opinion. It is fact, documented and measurable…Not one of the glib, deceitful promises made by the leading Brexiters has been fulfilled. None of them ever will be.” observer.co.uk/news/opinion...