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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds
The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 29/09/2026
SNAP POLL / By 48% to 28%, Britons support Andy Burnham's proposal to change the triple lock in order to help fund part of a national care service yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.
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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
10/10. No notes.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham will set out process to identify a replacement for the First Past the Post voting system as part of his platform for fixing politics, according to the Guardian Earlier this month almost 200 MPs supported an elections bill amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Remember, Jenrick is not stupid. He's a trained lawyer, he knows the difference between police and court bail. He's just a turd.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New era of life: if you ask how I'm doing I do not answer "fine" or "good." You are getting honesty. You are getting "I'm surviving" or "whatllyado" or "cranking away" or "treading water." And you are getting it delivered with a manic shaky smile. Are you uncomfortable? So am I. IT'S 2026 HELL YEAH.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Europe's largest economy has just said it will to all intents and purposes stop using oil, coal, and gas in less than 20 years. A child born today will leave full time education into a European economy that should be almost fully decarbonised.
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New belt-tightening indicator just dropped
James Timpson on Twitter:

You can tell Ozempic and Mounjaro are popular…in our Timpson shops we have seen a 680% increase in the number of free holes in customers belts we’ve been doing this year.
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
chat is this good www.axios.com/newsletters/...

1 big thing: Ø Link economy breaks
Total U.S. web traffic for top news sites
Visits to approximately 100 top sites;

Traffic to news sites is plummeting in the
U.S. as tech giants steer people away from search and toward AI.
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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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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Time to arrest this guy and charge him.
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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today I learnt that Charles Dance's dad was born in 1874. And THEN Charles Dance's youngest kid was born in 2012. Imagine being 14, and your Granda served in the Second Boer War.
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bluesky / Twitter
Olivia Newton John and John Travolta in Grease.Una Thurman and John Travolta in Pulp Fiction.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A deeply weird thing about entering middle age now is the continual struggle of 'is this just age-related nostalgia' versus 'empirically, a really bad thing happened to the United Kingdom when I turned eighteen'.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I know almost everything is terrible, but this year really could be world-historic in a good way. It’ll be several more years before it can be definitively called, but there are encouraging signs emissions really are peaking. www.businessgreen.com/news/4535893...
businessgreen.com
Study: Global fossil-fuel emissions to fall 0.5 per cent this year
Strait of Hormuz crisis has led to lower oil and gas demand that should more than offset any increased emissions from higher coal power generation, Carbon Brief calculates
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
*rubs temples* why am i reading about MPs scrutinising Eurovision track record instead of them taking action against far-right and fascist groups that are harrassing the RNLI, the public, & shutting down infrastructure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs
It comes after the UK's entry Look Mum No Computer came last in May's final, scoring just one point.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 18/09/2026
chat is it good if leaders in a nuclear power are posting like this after a 3hr security briefing
Guillaume Lacroix
@Lacroix_PRG
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I’ve just emerged from nearly 3 hours of briefing and discussions with the President of the Republic and the intelligence and security services. At the age of 50, I have rarely felt such vertigo. Vertigo at the gravity of the situations in the Middle East and Ukraine, at the predatory madness driving the world toward chaos. Vertigo at the risks and consequences for our security, our economy, our purchasing power. Vertigo at all these candidates who dream, unrestrained, confident in their certainties and their posturing, of governing France in this historical and grave era and situation. Our democracy, our country must already face up to it today and will have to stand firm tomorrow. More than ever, I will fight, in my modest role, for France not to surrender its destiny to delirious egos, to armchair warmongers, to fake pacifists, and to those who submit to ease and fear. France must more than ever be strong. We must all contribute to that. The advantage of vertigo is that it reminds you not to fall. @PartiRadicalG
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 17/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: The new James Bond actor has been chosen and it's this guy. www.tiktok.com/@jrw21/video...
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
2025 was among driest years on record for world’s rivers, UN WMO finds - world’s fresh water resources were 42% below normal levels last year www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
2025 was among driest years on record for world’s rivers, study finds
Analysis of global resources reveals depletion in world’s water savings bank to 42% below normal levels last year
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The original reporting of what happened in Portsmouth was a joke. This is just a hate mob that has been whipped up who are now targeting the RNLI. Throw the book at them.
independent.co.uk
RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests
RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Public support for net zero is still close to two thirds of voters. The recent shift against it is almost entirely an elite thing! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
giftarticle.ft.com
Cut ‘net zero’ from name of UK net zero department, MPs urge
Cross-party group says term has become ‘lightning rod for opposition to climate action’
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 16/09/2026
Delighted to learn that AZ Alkmaar have a player called Jizz Hornkamp.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good writing in my view - while some commentary on here has framed Sheeran's justification as a demonstration of the hollowness of "neutrality", as a professional moral philosopher it is also what we in the business refer to as a "lie" and it may be helpful to refer to it as such
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is not the direction of travel we need... "The average approval time for [large solar power] projects...at the local planning authority level has reached 60 weeks in 2026—an all-time high and a significant increase from the 51-week average in 2025." Local refusals are still v high too.
solarpowerportal.co.uk
Key trends shaping the UK solar market in 2026
Solar Media Market Research senior analyst Josh Cornes weighs this year's progress in the UK solar market.
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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...
Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 16/09/2026
Let me guess - the village that has voted to leave the UK still wants all the benefits of being in the UK?
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Dan Thomas, leader of Reform in Wales, quits. He says: "Over the weekend, I was reported to the police and was released without charge. I stress that I have done nothing wrong, but I do not want the coming headlines to be a distraction."
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
This project is so cool and they’ve added a 3D navigation function (and you can download the 3D assets).
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 13/09/2026
referees should not be rewarding the team whose player committs the foul, then kicks the other player on the ground, and then pretends he's been shot after light contact
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
In Beijing, a think tank at Renmin University recently published an assessment titled
"Thank Trump," which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the "twilight of an empire," by undermining America's alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. In the past two years, the international approval rating of the U.S. has dropped nearly forty points, according to a worldwide survey by the Alliance of Democracies; in multiple polls, China now rates higher than the U.S.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Currently about 2/3rds of all Dutch children walk or bike to school, with 75% of secondary school kids cycling to school. By enabling safe and active travel, #Dutch cities prevent an estimated one million car journeys to school each morning.” — @modacitylife.bsky.social in book #CurbingTraffic
Teens riding bikes on Copenhagen bike infrastructure. #LetKidsBike #LetKidsWalk
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Harborne has given Reform £36 million to match Delo's £36 million. The Telegraph describes it as a "show of force" from Reform's donors. The two men's £72 million is greater than all of the spending by all political parties on the 2024 GE www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2026
How it started / How it's going
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
British military intelligence estimates half a million Russian soldiers have been killed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with total casualties including the wounded reaching about 1.5 million, Sky reports .
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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW: London has among the lowest violent crime rates in England & Wales, tops a ranking of best cities, and pays more in tax than it gets back – but the public overestimate crime risk, underestimate its standing, and don't know it's a net fiscal contributor. Our latest Mistaken Britain study ⬇️
kcl.ac.uk
London misperceptions: public often wrong on capital's crime, quality of life, contribution to public finances and Muslim population | King's College London
A third believe there are "no-go" areas ruled by Sharia law
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
'Humanities & social sciences research is central to ask questions about how and in whose interests technology is being developed, how it can be adopted, deployed & governed and how to create a world where AI can benefit the many, not the few' My blog for @ukri.org ukri.substack.com/p/why-ai-wil...
ukri.substack.com
Why AI will fail without the humanities and social sciences
AI can transform society. But only if society has a say in shaping it, writes Hetan Shah, Chief Executive of The British Academy.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Plug-in solar in Britain is (already) starting to get a lot cheaper than at launch week. More products are being signed off as compliant, as hoped/expected. This is more like it. And I imagine prices will come down a fair amount further still.
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We already have laws designed to stop black shirted, masked thugs intimidating people by massing in public spaces. We passed them in response to Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
theverge.com
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Tim makes people who reply to emails from Nigerian princes look skeptical.
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