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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jazzing up my Iron Age dialogues tote bag - got a few more coats to go but love it so far. Let's hope the internet didn't lie and ironing acrylic markers fixes the colour!! #ironage #archaeology

Cream tote bag from Iron Age dialogues conference. First layer of colour added

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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is why you don't just dig things up. Look at the amazing info we've got now: We know how it was all placed in ground & we have all of it, none damaged & conservation possible both as excavated & after. We can also look at the soil, for organics, pollen etc. #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Currently working on a project where a key element of the site history is the seizure of the plot as part of the massive land grab that was the Enclosure Acts. I will never cease to be amazed about how normalised this massive theft of the communal resources by the rich is!

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

While I appreciate journalists' giving space to criticize incidents of racism, I wish they didn't just ask questions to the ppl who were the targets of racism. Ask Messi about the racist behavior of Argentine fans. Does he approve of fans' monkey gestures or the vice-president's comments? Ask him!

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

PhD thesis submitted at the end of last month and now feeling weirdly flat and restless. Sharing a little zine I made at the end of the project as a nod to hopefully doing more creative things in archaeology soon! Last few pages to follow

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Distracting myself ahead of looming PhD deadline -so making requests from the Pokémon obsessed kids 🤣. Currently working out how to turn an old Frozen bag they have grown out of, an old cushion cover and a pair of old jeans into a Psyduck shoulder bag! Looking so cute so far

Partially finished Psyduck bag. Yellow face and brown beak made from fabric scraps

Bag with Olaf from frozen on front, yellow cushion and fabric ahead of my 'upcycling' project.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

5 Muslim's were injured yesterday in a racist attack by a man wielding an axe It has barely been mentioned A couple of months ago 4 empty ambulances were burned, no one was injured but they talked about it for weeks and had a COBR meeting. The racism in the UK is systematic

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Looking back over my notes, there are days when I seriously wonder how I get anything written up from these 😂.

Notebook page from my PhD looking at child burial. It's an absolute mess but also somehow seems to make sense to me 😂

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 18/05/2026

An NHS campaigner reveals how spy-tech giant Palantir tried to secretly hire influencers to smear Good Law Project 👀 🎧 Listen to The Shadow Contract👇 goodlaw.social/1e69ba

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

We’ve been doggedly reporting on Palantir’s contracts with UK state…& this latest one with Met police is both creepy & opaque. Met has used Palantir to spy on its own officers. If it can do this to its own employees…what about the rest of us? By @mc00.bsky.social & @luciaoc.bsky.social

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Phil Clifford @philclifford.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Would dearly like to buy (or borrow) a copy of this book. Private publication so rare! Does anyone have a copy lurking on their shelves please?

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Our utmost respect and solidarity to Dr @zenakamash.bsky.social and Dr Marianne Moen, whose principled actions are an example to us all.

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It is with deep sadness that Dr Marianne Moen and I resigned our positions as Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Archaeology this morning. What follows is the letter we sent to the EAA's executive board, outlining the reasons for our resignation 1/n

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This story needs way more attention. Farage and his acolytes have repeatedly claimed his home was "firebombed", to justify the £5m secret donation given to the Reform leader by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne But the police report of the incident is a burglary. There's no record of arson

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Questions raised about ‘security risk’ to Farage in row o...

The claimed reason for Christopher Harborne’s unprecedented and undeclared donation to the Reform leader is facing scrutiny

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

English media analysis of recent seismic changes don’t really grasp the very different forms of nationalism in the other nations. Whereas English is negatively based on Imperial nostalgia the others are formed by their negative experiences of British colonialism. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Seismic change’: how election wins for nationalists in Celtic nations could reshape UK

With polls suggesting Plaid Cymru, the SNP and Sinn Féin could be in power after May vote, constitutional challenges may lie ahead

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I’m not sure why we still have a monarch. It seems like a medieval anachronism to me; a demonstration of inherited status and the the pinnacle of an entrenched aristocracy. And I’m really not sure why our monarch has gone to the US to stand next to another man with too much power, land and money.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The UK govt underestimated the carbon emissions of AI data centres. Not by a bit. By a factor of 100. Giving tax breaks for billionaires to generate with an insane, economy-destroying bubble for their word-guessing plagiarism engine will burn the planet.

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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Fully-funded AHRC PhD scholarship at Swansea University in conjunction with Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales, examining the imperial and colonial associations of their natural sciences collections. Please share widely, and get in touch if you want to know more. Closing date 22 May.

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History and Heritage Studies: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship (Fully Funded) in History with Museum Wales (RS951) - Swansea University

We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS Nothing to see or everything to see Palantir must be removed from the NHS

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Been feeling pretty flat lately with no real ideas to keep my hands busy. Finally picked up a piece I started months ago but didn't know what to do with. Grooved Ware inspired patch on a bag I bought a few weeks ago. Hopefully this will kickstart things again but if not at least I have a fancy bag 😂

Grooved Ware (late neolithic style pottery) inspired fabric patch. Orange spiral on a yellow disc with wavy brown lines over an orange background. Sewn onto brown corduroy

Full view of the patch sewn onto a brown corduroy bag. Bag laid on a light brown cushion

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Preparing for Mother's Day as a hwntw in the land of the Gogs - the struggle is real folks 🤣

Computer print out with the word Mamgu (gran in South Wales Welsh) and a Mother's Day card with "Sul y Mamau Hapus Nain" (happy mother's day but Nain is the North Wales word for gran)

The same card with the word Mamgu glued over Nain

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

From mandatory ID cards to arresting pensioners for holding up cardboard signs to cosy deals with US tech spy firms: It's good to see lawyers pushing back on their increasingly authoritarian Govenrment. We must protect jury trials.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

No idea what's going on with these figures & have run out of energy to even try to work it out. I want away from the #detecting world: it's grasping, misogynistic & unpleasant, so this is the final blog from me about this. Thanks all :) #Archaeology #Treasure bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/03/10/p...

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P.S. A correction to the DCMS FOI Treasure reward figures

by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] I am going to be completely honest: since I started writing about detecting, as well as receiving support from s…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

30 years. This video should be on every network.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 18/02/2026

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Victoria Derbyshire allowing Zia Yusuf to tie himself in absolute knots by asking him simple questions about Reform policy. A masterclass in quality journalism.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Another one. This is a really important find - unique in fact. It has slight similarities to a torc from Moulsford (in Reading Museum) but apart from that it's a totally new type. 🧵 PLEASE SHARE, thank you #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting leicestershirecollections.org.uk/behind-the-s...

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Help Save Leicestershire’s Bronze Age Torc

The Leicestershire Torc is a stunning 3,200-year-old gold object dating to the Middle Bronze Age period and is the only torc ever discovered in the county. It was a piece of very high-status jewellery...

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

History repeating itself? UKIP under Nigel Farage controlled Thanet Council and nearly bankrupt it. Reform UK under Nigel Farage controls Worcestershire Council and it’s on the verge of bankruptcy. Never trust Reform UK. Imagine a country run by them. We'd be bankrupt with Trussite policies.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Left: Zia Yusuf, "Mandelson deserves to be in jail. The buck stops with the executive, Keir Starmer is a disgrace to his office and should resign" Right: Nathan Gill is in jail for accepting Russian bribes. Using Zia Yusuf's logic, isn't Nigel Farage also a disgrace, and should also resign?

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?” Oli Dugmore It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

He is correct, education, be it academic, vocational or hands-on (apprenticeships) benefits society. This country has, over the decades, placed less value on education in my opinion. Abolish all fee paying educational institutions and fund them adequately. This is how a real meritocracy looks.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 27/01/2026

Ground rent cap is good news (though peppercorn would be better straight away). Also welcome is promised abolition of new leasehold properties. Better still would be the outright abolition of leasehold altogether, a feudal anachronism virtually unique to England and Wales.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

If people don't actually use the shitty AI we keep violently thrusting at them, the bubble will pop, and our wasteful investments into water guzzling, anti-human infrastructure will bankrupt us. Despite spouting shit about free markets/consumer first, we have decided you WILL use our slopgorithms.

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Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Here's a conspiracy theory - the people who have fraudulently overextended themselves re: the AI bubble have asked Trump to tank the global economy to hide that the next big recession is going to be their fault.

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Mark Carney’s lessons for Keir Starmer – his Davos speech outlined the “progressive realist” doctrine that should be Starmer’s own. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

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Mark Carney’s lessons for Keir Starmer

The Canadian leader has articulated the “progressive realist” doctrine that should be Starmer’s own

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