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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 02/10/2026
Intrigued to see the Conservative conference will feature a speech on "press freedom" next week while they ban lobby journalists such as @josiahmortimer.bsky.social from attending their conference.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 02/10/2026
Music education develops a lifelong skill. Through music children gain confidence, learn team work and enjoy friendships. On International Music Day for Kids, Helen Landon shares the work of the Suffolk County Music Service (SCMS).
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Suffolk County Music Service: an inspiring journey to the future
In Suffolk, music education is quietly shaping confidence, ambition and belonging, far beyond the classroom and rehearsal room walls
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a second time in a week, the White House has unilaterally removed CNN from its assignment as the primary television pool representative covering Donald Trump. CNN was excluded on Saturday from pool duty onboard Air Force One, despite a d... TAT: [Controlling information | Undermining democracy]
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White House removes CNN from press pool for second time in a week
Network was listed as primary TV pool covering Thursday’s presidential activities but then was abruptly removed
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On LBC talking about Kemi Badenoch's banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social from Conservative conference after calling such bans of journalists by Reform UK "authoritarian" and an assault on free speech www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps4T...
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Adam Bienkov on LBC with James O'Brien talking about being banned from Conservative conference
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Picking on Byline Times sends a message to other political journalists: Be careful. Don't be too critical. We can do the same to you." @adambienkov.bsky.social speaks to LBC's @mrjamesob.bsky.social about Byline Times' ban from Conservative Party Conference.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘If you’ve got £1 million or £2 million to spend on political advertising, forget it,…. If you’ve got £8 million, you can make people believe anything you want.’ I wrote about Britain’s broken political finance system for the latest @lrb.co.uk
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Since When Is an Essay Justice? ⚠️ CONTENT WARNING You know the story A Cornell student alleges she was drugged/assaulted A group chat of 57 knew Two men were expelled The rest told to…write essays. We ask the difficult questions. 🎧 Out now podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Cornell: Since When Is an Essay Justice?
Podcast Episode · The Trawl · 1 October · 38min
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Gavin @gavintc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is truly disgraceful, and particularly so from a main stream political party. But, the greater shame must be applied to the wider journalist community. We must support free journalism not merely those we might like. The option is state controlled propaganda.
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Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸 @alherix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Solidarity seems to have evaporated with right wing majority ownership of U.K. media - one of the reasons I subscribe to Byline Times
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
if true this is bonkers for a party supposedly committed to defending free speech
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
File this under shocking but not surprising
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Hugo Gye @hugogye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ridiculous behaviour from the Tories. Dealing with unfriendly journalists is a basic requirement for a political party!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Adam is my friend, so I'm biased. But he's a darned sight better than the rest of them. Which presumably is why Badenoch fears him. Which is presumably why he's banned.
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Sharpie @sharpinsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I suppose the Free Speech Union will be all over this… won’t they? Is anyone there?
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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WE SAY: Embattled Garvaghy community will take no law lectures from DUP
There has been a hilarious irony in having the beleaguered residents of the Garvaghy Road lectured on the merits of the law by assorted DUP dullards over the past week.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're 30 miles from the continent, Tom
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Mick Walsh @mickwalsh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'Not in a position to bring us home' he says. There's plenty of other roads that will bring them home, including the one they used to get to the church. Why insist on walking down the one road where they'll cause offense?* *rhetorical question #Garvaghy
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NUJ responds to reports of Conservative party banning Byline Times journalists from conference • www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
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NUJ responds to reports of Conservative party banning Byline Times journalists from conference
The NUJ has responded to reports that Byline Times journalists have been denied access to the Conservative Party conference.
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Cheshire Dog Lady (thoroughly irritated since 2010). @cheshiredoglady.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But free speech.....
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are many things in this world I do not know nearly well enough to offer what would be a presumptuous opinion. On #Ireland, the #OrangeOrder, and #GarvaghyRoad, I did come across this comment on Insta that I'd like to offer instead. Peace is fragile. This is how we hold on.
kev_buchanan writes on Instagram in response to a news item:

I understand tradition. I understand freedom. And I understand the principle of having the right to walk peacefully on a public road.

But surely rights also come with responsibility, judgement and an understanding of history.

For almost 30 years the Orange Order has not walked down Drumcree Garvaghy Road. That restriction didn't appear from nowhere. It followed years of confrontation, violence and division surrounding a period in which people lost their lives and, amid the horror of 1998, three young brothers, Richard, Mark and Jason Quinn, were murdered in a loyalist petrol-bomb attack.

Yet here we are in 2026, after an administrative failure opened the original decision to legal challenge, with men sitting through the night in court and now apparently prepared to wait however long it takes to exercise their "right" to walk down one particular road.

But why?

Tradition matters. Freedom matters. The rule of law matters. But so do remorse, empathy, responsibility and knowing when a tradition has become more damaging than meaningful.

Nobody needs to surrender their culture or identity. But after almost three decades, if exercising a right means insisting on walking through a community that overwhelmingly does not want you there, reopening wounds that Northern Ireland has spent years trying to heal, perhaps the bigger question isn't whether you can.

It's why you still feel you must.

At some point preserving tradition has to matter less than preserving peace. Otherwise we aren't honouring history - we're refusing to learn from it.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dead bodies lie on the streets of Kyiv once again, and a market is on fire after another russian terrorist attack. Russia isn't shy to kill Ukrainians in broad daylight, during busy evenings, or burn us in our beds at night. They are openly terrorizing us every single day now.
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sonofcathan @sonofcathan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Carla Lockhart didn't end up in back of a landrover for this behaviour. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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High Court judge raises ‘concerns’ over Carla Lockhart appearance with masked men at Scarva
DUP MP wants Orangemen to march through Catholic Garvaghy Road district of Co Armagh
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”
Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.
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Darran Marshall @dmarshall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Parades Commission rules that Orange Order members can walk down Garvaghy Road on Sunday. Follow for live updates. bbc.in/4yUl7HP
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 25/09/2026
#Breaking The Parades Commission of Northern Ireland has allowed the Orange Order parade at Drumcree to proceed in a limited capacity for the first time in 28 years
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Orange Order granted permission for Drumcree parade
The Parades Commission of Northern Ireland has allowed the Orange Order parade at Drumcree to proceed in a limited capacity for the first time in 28 years.
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I propose that the flag of a United Ireland should be one-third orange to represent the Protestants. Oh wait.
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Michael Marshall @mrmmarsh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why it is reasonable to label Nathan Cofnas’ race realism as pseudoscientific | Pieter Beck "Race realist" Nathan Cofnas claims his "hereditarianist" viewpoint is scientifically accurate - by citing pseudoscientific research and misleading rhetoric.
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Neil Schofield-Hughes @neilschofield.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Well. What a telling contrast to the relentless undermining of opera as an art form by governments and arts administrators in Britain.
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Cicely Marston @cicely.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This 👇 and you can also find many/most articles these days by searching the title which will bring up free versions on preprint servers, university archives etc. *Please don’t pay for journal articles thinking you’ll help the authors. You won’t!* Just download/request what you need.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026
Yeah, what psychopath would want his name on a building associated with an assassinated President
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He's not an "activist" @theguardian.com
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 23/09/2026
A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation with HOPE not hate has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer him to HMRC for investigation. secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/199860/...
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CALL FOR AN HMRC INVESTIGATION INTO STEPHEN LENNON
A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Times reporter Emma Yeomams on how vigilante Mr Daniel Thomas attempted to endanger life of a rescuer at sea (fortunately unsuccessfully on this occasion).
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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it is worth submitting a complaint over this to the BBC. And if you're unhappy about the response, then Ofcom. Editors hate defending content with Ofcom and in my experience do take heed and are more rigourous in future...
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The UK desperately needs an independent national news broadcaster that can be trusted by everyone. Unfortunately, the BBC is not it.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just 4 months after the local elections, Reform UK (RefUK) have lost 158 of their local councillors: -55 resigned -42 went Independent -28 defected -24 were kicked out -5 lost their seats -2 disqualified -2 suspended. Appalling record - and a waste of taxpayers’ money!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump TV? Everything Donald slaps his name on fails.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 22/09/2026
Spoke to President Marcos of the Philippines. We just agreed on a EU-Philippines free trade deal! This comes just 3 years after my visit to Manila to relaunch the negotiations. I want to thank Maroš Šefčovič for yet another trade success. link.europa.eu/66H8yF
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Will keep boringly saying this (no disrespect to OP): it's not a health surcharge. It's not hypothecated to the NHS; you can't choose not to pay it and thereby eschew healthcare. You could equally call it an education or roads surcharge. It's using the NHS's sanctified status to rip off immigrants.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The powers-to-be are tinkering with minor reform of the UK House of Lords. That won't do. I urged the Govt to replace the House with an elected second chamber, subject to constitutional safeguards. Watch the video.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This wouldn't happen in the UK. Reform and the Conservatives have been banning journalists and news organisations they don't approve of for years now and the lobby has done absolutely nothing about it
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jersey, a UK Crown Dependency, leads the race-to-the-bottom for shady dealings. A fiddle-factory named in the Panama/Paradise papers, global scams. Refuses to publicly reveal who ultimately owns companies. Senator Stuart Syvret exposed abuse of children in care, had to flee for his life.
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‘It’s unrecognisable’: How being a tax haven has changed Jersey
While global billionaires and multinational companies have been lured to its shores, many islanders feel left behind and priced out, with food bank use increasing
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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good point; well made. 👇
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