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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 13h

👀👀👀😳 ‘Police have arrested the former head of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency, August Hanning, on suspicion of espionage, the federal prosecutor's office announced Tuesday.’ 1/ .

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Germany's ex-spy chief arrested for espionage and treason

August Hanning served as the head of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency from 1998 to 2005. Prosecutors say he's under investigation for passing on state secrets and working as an intelligence a...

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 13h

The share of children who died before they were 5 years old in 1950 and 75 years later. Africa: 33% ↘ 6% Asia: 25% ↘ 2.5% Oceania: 9.3% ↘ 2% Latin America: 21% ↘ 1.5% Northern America: 3.8% ↘ 0.6% Europe: 10.5% ↘ 0.4% Globally: 23% ↘ 3.5%

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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What's happening here? Maybe something changed part way through 2023 on urban/residential 30mph roads! I wonder if it could be that from Sep 17th 2023 95% of roads with a 30mph limit were changed to 20mph. #20splenty making your place an even better, safer, quieter, fairer place to be!

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Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

October 2, Glen Feshie. The autumn colours begin. #Cairngorms #autumn

A river running through woods with craggy hills rising above it.

A river running through woods and steep slopes.

Wooded hillside with a few autumn yellow trees amongst the green.

A hillside with brown grass and heather, a big pine tree, and three smaller trees turning yellow.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

More trouble for the Greens after their 'Zionism is racism' vote - the umbrella organisation of European Greens has condemned them, and the German Greens in particular are scathing. Felix Banaszak, co-leader, called the motion "intolerable and unacceptable".

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Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Some of the more prominent figures unable to attend as they were 'otherwise detained' after previous similar incidents....

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Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Reducing road fatalities is woke

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We introduced 20mph zones in Oxfordshire and the numbers of people killed and injured on our roads has gone down even as the same figures in surrounding areas have gone up. Sorry to be a soggy liberal but I think that's a good thing.

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Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Twelve people have been arrested for offences including assaulting a police officer after a protest over migrant arrivals in a south coast town www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Twelve arrests after Gosport protest over migrant boat arrival

Flares were set off and there were a few scuffles with police during the stand-off in Gosport.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Zionist" means basically two things. One, you find positive things in the history of Zionism. Second, you are part of a diaspora (eroding) consensus on Israel being part of Jewish identity That's very broad, and far too fuzzy to be a meaningful term imo.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Support for the 2 state solution among Israeli Jews went from 40+ in 1994 to a peak of 70% in 2007-8. Netanyahu came to power in 2009 and it has been falling ever since. Source: Israel Democracy Institute.

https://en.idi.org.il/articles/24664
Support for the Two States, among Jewish-Israeli Population

(%) 1994-2018

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The head of Jewish Greens has said she might quit the party, amid growing anger among some members at Zack Polanski for his inaction over the party’s policy motion equating Zionism with racism. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Head of Jewish Greens says she may leave party over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote

Vivien Lichtenstein says she believes motion is unhelpful as anger grows over Zack Polanski’s absence for vote

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I missed the Lab Conf this year so didn't get to hear the mood music on AI, and while I appreciate that Narayan has a difficult job, the assertion that" Technology as an industry has not engaged sufficiently with politics and the British public" is simply not true.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...

ft.com

Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor

British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor

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Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Edinburgh City Centre: bikes now 1/3rd of vehicles during rush hour www.spokes.org.uk/2026/10/city...

spokes.org.uk

City Centre: bikes now 1 in 3 in rush hour « Spokes

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Ben Dolphin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️⛰🌲 @countrysideben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For this month's @walkhighlands.co.uk article I'm turning the creepiness factor up 500% and taking a closer look at everyone's favourite creepy wriggler......the ked! 😬 I don't know about where you are, but here at Mar Lodge it's been a keddy autumn so far 😱 www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/weird-w...

walkhighlands.co.uk

Weird, Wriggly and Robust: Meet the Ked

In my last article I wrote about clegs. And in the article before that, I wrote about ticks. Given this latest article’s subject matter, some might accuse me (not unreasonably!) of being obsessed wit...

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Greens for Palestine say their "Zionism is racism" motion has passed at Green conference. This could be a big problem for the party, not least as four of the party's five MPs have spoken out strongly against it, while Zack Polanski has (sort of) endorsed it. Some, not all, Jewish members worried.

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Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Want an unscented moisturiser to use after shaving rather than splashing your face with a stinky alcohol concoction? That's clearly going trigger masculine insecurity, so you'll need...

'Bulldog Skincare' Original Moisturiser in a white tube.

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Ella @ellatasm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Western Harbour and the windfarm jackets from Granton Harbour wall this morning. Edinburgh

Orange sunrise clouds reflected in the sea, buildings and windfarm jackets on the horizon

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..

Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.

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Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Naomi Campbell definitely, totally, completely, unequivocally, innocent of any wrongdoing, deception, fraud or misuse of funds by the charity she helped set up & direct www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

theguardian.com

Naomi Campbell wins legal challenge over charity trustee ban

Supermodel was disqualified from role in 2024 after Charity Commission accused her of misusing funds and abdicating responsibilities

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As I said in Thursday's post - which is going to make next year's spending review even more of a nightmare. samf.substack.com/p/a-journey-...

samf.substack.com

A journey without a map

Burnham has given Labour a sense of purpose, but what does it really mean?

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

London got an eyeful, and an earful, this morning as this gallus Glasgow girl blew her hooter to mark her 80th birthday! PS Waverley, the world’s last seagoing paddle steamer, passed through Tower Bridge just after 9.30am this morning, as part of a special anniversary sailing on the River Thames.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If Burnham wants to really change the UK EU dynamic he has to primarily do so in Brussels, and break a 50-odd year taboo in doing so. Anything else means incremental progress at best. That's the blunt truth coming from many years of coffees. And the challenge. encompass-europe.com/comment/how-...

encompass-europe.com

How to achieve UK aims in Brussels

(a companion piece to everything Brussels really thinks about the UK) There are 27 countries present and permanently negotiating almost every policy area in Brussels. These are the member…

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/10/2026

A baby fur seal was spotted wandering through a busy road and alley in Wellington, New Zealand, before police moved it to a safer location. Baby seals often venture into unusual places between June and September, a period the Department of Conservation call “seal silly season.”

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Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Toronto must immediately create the honorary position of city Bradford and appoint Bradford Bradford to the role

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Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's disturbing. To be fair, it's definitely not trying to be a premium brand, but I think it was streets of everyday UK brands like Cadburys even before the US takeover

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Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just be aware that as a visitor to NZ you could face summary deportation if you eat any other chocolate before trying a Whittakers peanut slab

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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Yes. The decision to set up a huge APPG, Sarah Olney’s 10-minute rule bill in December 2024, the consistent op-eds, the focus on calling for a “commission”, the parliamentary debates, the pro-reform amendment to the Representation of the People Bill – all helped make Burnham’s commitment possible

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Speaking on a panel for Make Votes Matter in May, Sir John also highlighted the unfairness of the current system where a party can win many votes but still come away with very few seats."

independent.co.uk

Polling guru John Curtice favourite to lead PM’s first-past-the-post voting review

The polling guru is Britain’s best known an most trusted polling expert

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Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The year at the @welcomingedinburgh.bsky.social - 1,322 English learners, 7,200kg of food supplied, 117 households getting home energy advice, 321 people getting employability training & 227 friendship sessions. In all, 2,601 service users from over 100+ nationalities

An indoor presentation event taking place in a hall with an audience.

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