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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 13h
Would you as a rule exclude, say, Muslims from hospital wards because they might make elderly patients uncomfortable? Of course not. Discomfort cannot on its own inform policy, for the simple and obvious reason that discomfort is often entirely misplaced!
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 13h
Genuinely kind of astonishing to me that we have to pretend these are real concerns and not problems they've imagined themselves into
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Clearly no ally of the US in Europe, Asia or the Middle East can trust or rely on Starlink and will need to rethink state procurement plans accordingly
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Top three articles on the Times website are currently a barrage of hate against funding for disabled people, including an attack on Access to Work *which is money to help disabled people find/stay in paid work*
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Morrigan Croft @morrigancroft.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I'm so fucking tired. You know what my pip goes on? NHS Medication. Medication the NHS won't cover. Mobility aids. Maybe a little fruit if I have some change. Idk how they found the one person in the entire of England spending it on coke but I'm almost impressed by the dedication.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Thank you, Andrew. I loved this in particular. Bless his memory.
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I can assure Conor that the rest of us are also tired of this stupid conversation which would end if he and his mates fucked off back to the pit they crawled out of.
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
just want to highlight the talking points here again, they're amazing again, this is Ronaldo's instagram essay, his recitation of the talking points he gave to his coach, shared with the intention of making Ronaldo look like the good guy it's incredible
The notes I had approved were as follows:

‘I think it is important, because it is the truth, to clarify a few things before talking about Denmark:

I myself, and no one else, proposed a plan to Cristiano for this season with the national team. It was a long and very good conversation.

I know how much he lives and breathes the national team and the stature he has in the world — and, even more importantly, the weight and positive influence he has had on the national team for 24 consecutive years.

Cristiano accepted the plan I proposed to him.

He never questioned my decisions. He was exemplary, loyal and professional.

The plan I laid out for him did not include the Norway match. However, I felt that he had managed to recover physically from the first match and told him that I might need to use him. Cristiano agreed.

I made a mistake by asking someone of the stature of Pelé or Maradona to warm up and then not putting him into the game. If it happened today, I would not do it.

To bring the matter to an end: I want Cristiano in the national team. In fact, I do not just want him a little; I want him very much. Fortunately, he also believes in me. He believed in me at Al Nassr and he does here as well.

As for not greeting the supporters: we have already spoken about it. Someone who has played more than 230 matches for the national team does not need lessons from me about loving Portugal. It was a moment of frustration that erases nothing. He is the player who signs the most autographs, takes the most selfies and gives the most affection to the supporters. Let us not invent problems where none exist. When we are unhappy, we react. That is all.’
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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The emotion-prompting loss of Jeffrey Archer has reminded me of the ancient Chinese curse - May your Wikipedia entry have many unusual subsections.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/09/2026
When you're half way between Chapel-en-le-Frith and Sheffield once more:
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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These groups need to be proscribed immediately. They are a threat to public order and the rule of law.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The reoccurring theme of recent news is ‘company/individual commits a crime. There is no obvious consequence’. Doesn’t feel ideal.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I mean, we've apparently lifted the ban on right wing hooliganism so what's the point keeping the stable door bolted I guess
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
who's up for robbing banks while shouting "stop the boats" so no-one arrests us?
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026
What are we becoming?
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Arrest this thug and proscribe his organisation. It’s a dangerous criminal conspiracy.
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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This feels like escalation by the anti-migrant thugs - exactly what you'd expect to happen if you let them get away with their earlier intimidation
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026
I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.
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Leftback @leftback.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I would like to point out that, as I understand it, Jim Ratcliffe's INEOS shut down the majority of UK refinery capacity to build gas storage, didn't build the gas storage because prices were low, and now either gas or diesel would be making INEOS mafia cash
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OptaJoe @optajoe.com · 18/09/2026
6 - Chelsea’s Xabi Alonso is only the sixth manager to see his side concede 2+ goals in each of his first five games as a Premier League manager, after Mick McCarthy, Sammy Lee, Terry Connor, Slavisa Jokanovic, and Scott Parker. Problems.
Xabi Alonso gesticulates during his Chelsea side's loss to Brentford.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
i'm a casual tennis fan, but i passionately want shelton to beat zverev.
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A Tennis Star’s Ex-Girlfriend Accused Him of Domestic Abuse. Why Hasn’t the Tour Addressed It?
“Every day, I was crying.”
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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 12/09/2026
As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...
A sample of neo-Nazi posts by the @ParallaxOptics account, displaying grotesque antisemitic caricatures and violent Jew hate.The @ParallaxOptics account's banner image depicting Adolf Hitler.Post by @ParallaxOptics of an article anonymously written by Nina Power and Daniel Miller: ON CULTS II "If we're proposing the the Left is a cult, the first question is what do cults want in general?"
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/09/2026
This is the most shamefully soft-soaped coverage of these thugs that you could possibly imagine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anti-migrant activists like Danny Tommo are changing tactics
Patriot Platform wants to build a group of working-class voters to influence political parties on the right.
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Mighoul Revenantparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?
bbc.co.uk
Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants
Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/09/2026
What is this comment from the Labour MP? No, the issue here isn't that the attempted pogrom had the wrong targets!
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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
everyone who was knocking on doors that they thought might belong to migrants in that hotel should be in prison
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Contrast with Burnham demanding an answer on the ATC issues within 10 days or the head is dismissed.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Did I just imagine section 7 of the Public Order Act 2023?
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is why I think Labour's strategy this weekend of quiet condemnation, "legitimate concerns" and peaceful protest makes this worse. You need to make pushing that button scary for your median punter, and letting this be the BBC's question reduces that threat.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement.
Neo Nazi attempts to target RNLI volunteers
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Will @teletextpage152.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"See it... Say it... Sod it."
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This should be the easiest open goal in the world for a progressive government - they are literally violent criminals. Most voters do not like violent criminals.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Make Britain a hostile environment for fascists
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I can’t *believe* we had to, still have to, listen to all that talk about how competent and ruthless Shabana Mahmood is, and then we get a day like today and we don’t have a Home Secretary
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One thing Labour really needs to get through its head is that government has huge agenda setting capability. If the prime minister or home secretary calls these people what they are that will form parts of headlines and the like. We saw this under Starmer when the correct response finally came
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026
My first draft would be something like: "Masked thugs plotting to shut down major infrastructure under the threat of street violence is unacceptable. Those responsible will face the full force of the law". But that's just me, I guess.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026
A large group of co-ordinated, masked men blockading a piece of significant infrastructure is a security threat and should be dealt with as one. There should also be serious questions about why police/intelligence services didn't pick up on it in advance.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
There's a broken fridge mountain looming on the horizon. www.businessgreen.com/news/4534931...
businessgreen.com
Councils call on government and manufacturers to help tackle 'mountain' of broken fridges
Local Government Association warns action required to tackle growing backlog of broken fridges at recycling centres
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Absolutely thrilled for Jesus that he is going to Barcelona: more than any other player he transformed the club. Go well.
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