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Clara Hayes

@claracha.bsky.social
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Woman, 66, in SW England. Absolutely anti-disinformation! Loves loads of music, ptcly classical - ptcly Rossini - husband, films, cat(s) and trees. Hates right-wing politics and horrors of global warming. NO DMs.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🧵 Nearly 12,000 (11,982) books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s newly updated Index of School Book Bans. #BannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 9h
⚡️Update: Death toll from Russian glide bomb strike on Kramatorsk bus stop rises to 33. At least 18 others were injured in the Oct. 8 attack, prompting local authorities in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk to suspend all public transport.
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At least 30 dead after Russian glide bomb strikes Kramatorsk bus stop
"Russia comes to the Ukrainian land with death," Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11h
Charlie Downes, the Restore Campaigns Director, will speak at the Traditional Britain Group's conference. This group objects to ethnic minority participation in public life, so refers to the Conservative party leader as "ethnic interest activists (like Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke "Kemi" Adegoke)"
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12h
it transpires that billionaire David Reuben moved his tax residence to Monaco under the Tories www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 9h
The party is polling, on aggregate, nine points lower than the day she took over, even with every right-wing media shoulder to the Badenoch wheel for several months now, and Reform in free fall, they have managed a one-point improvement since their party conference last year.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That’s why the People’s Emergency Briefing is such an important film. I recently watched it at Broadway Cinema in Nottingham, then joined a panel to talk about why the @nebriefing.bsky.social campaign matters, and what the government must do to tackle the climate and nature crisis. [2/2]
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Extreme weather, caused by the climate crisis, is affecting the UK’s public health and food supplies, driving up the cost-of-living crisis and devastating damaging natural habitats. This is an emergency, so why aren’t we treating it like one? [1/2]
Nadia Whittome MP on stage with three other people at the Nottingham Broadway cinema. A still from the National Emergency Briefing documentary viewing.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6h
For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?
THE TIMES

Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 07/10/2026
And the list keeps growing. Justina Shiroka Pula was elected President of Kosovo today, October 7. On September 29, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri became Morocco’s first woman Prime Minister. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
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Clara Hayes @claracha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Good palliative care and assisted dying can go hand in hand | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to an article on the urgent need for palliative care reform
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ashely Moody voted to take away 444,000 Floridians' healthcare because the government 'didn't have enough money.' Meanwhile, Medicare for All would save over 1 trillion dollars a year. It's time for a leader who fights for you & not for insurance companies. #AngieforFlorida
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Very disturbing that a political party has moved from saying that there should be no penalty for encouragement to violence, to calling for reduced penalties for literally blowing things up. A party manifestly not fit for political office.
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milady @miladyg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When will the powers that be agree, climate change is real. God approved even! (If that helps)
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'Catastrophic': Swiss glaciers lose a fifth of mass in five years
Switzerland's glaciers, which are disproportionately impacted by climate change, have lost nearly 20% of their mass in five years, experts said Thursday, with 2026 registering the second-biggest melt ...
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Clara Hayes @claracha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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A billionaire is one of Trump’s loudest critics. Will Democrats send him to the White House?
As the Illinois governor seeks a third term, his growing national profile has fueled speculation about a possible White House bid
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I will spend however long, however many days it takes in front of cameras & testify [before Congress] as to anything that they want to ask me about anything under oath...as long as they also get not just Don Jr., but Jarrett & Eric & Ivanka." --Hunter Biden on Six Questions youtu.be/TipsYs2gJv4?...
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Hunter Biden Challenges Trump’s Family to Testify: “It Is Corruption at a Level We Have Never Seen”
YouTube video by Lincoln Square
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"I'm supposed to be tough. What happens if I faint?"- here's fun footage of Curtis Sliwa & Mayor Mamdani getting their flu shots together, including Mamdani offering to hold Sliwa's hand 😆 (Sliwa takes him up on it!) (Flu season is approaching and NYers can find free flu shots at nyc.gov/healthmap)
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Clara Hayes @claracha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It's true: this is my final column. You have exactly 24 hours to complain before my inbox self-destructs | Marina Hyde
Yes, after 25 years I’m signing off, and I’ve cherished every moment – especially storming the French embassy with a (toy) AK-47, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Go For It Ladies.......
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson warned him over criticising Palantir.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The decline of Reform — and the fragmentation of the far right — should be a major news story too. But most media barely care… More evidence that media are not “just reporting the news” but are actively shaping it. With significant political consequences.
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Clara Hayes @claracha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government
Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Honestly if this happens to you you'll just hope to God that Burnham manages to do this
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Tories promised that they'd fix it but did next to nothing even as they sought to all but bribe pensioners with the triple lock pension. Now we'll have the right demanding to know how it's all going to be funded... This needs solving and it would be so good if partisanship could be put aside.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dementia and Alzheimer's are absolutely devastating not only to the sufferer but for their friends and loves ones as well. Currently if it happens to your parent or partner you're effectively on your own navigating this terrible and often very expensive landscape of care.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Isab El-Oakeshott seems to have decided that digging is the correct way to go about it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel optimistic about the midterm elections, just over five weeks away. But my stomach aches when I think of what’s at stake. Call me nauseously optimistic. How do you feel? robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Liam Halligan, introduced by Vicki Young as the "director of the Centre for Policy Studies – a centre-right think tank". The CPS is ranked by Transparify as one of the least transparent think tanks in the UK, calling it "highly opaque" for refusing to disclose donor identities. #politicslive
Liam Halligan on Politics Live.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Liam Halligan also co-authored with Gerard Lyons 'Clean Brexit: Why leaving the EU still makes sense' Has anyone pointed out to Halligan that there would be more fiscal headroom available for John Healey if we hadn't lost 6%-8% of GDP per capita since leaving the EU? Seems relevant. #politicslive
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Liam Halligan and Gerard Lyons - Clean Brexit: Why leaving the EU still makes sense. Building a post-Brexit economy for all.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1/5🧵 On British Colonialism, Illness, the plight of UK universities & early retirement: Back when X was Twitter and violent racist propaganda was policed, I posted about my intention to write a new textbook overview of the British Empire, based on 30 + years of research. x.com/aljhlester/s...
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Alan Lester (@aljhlester) on X
🧵 Tips on Teaching the British Empire 1/8 Talking to teachers lately, it seems a condensed guide to the main foundations of the C19 British Empire might be helpful. Here's how I introduce if to first year undergrads in three 50m sessions.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...
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Clara Hayes @claracha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
Home Office faces legal action after 1,473 people living in UK before Brexit told settled status was granted in error
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/09/2026
‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
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‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
Home Office faces legal action after 1,473 people living in UK before Brexit told settled status was granted in error The Home Office is facing legal action over a controversial policy to strip EU citizens who were in the UK before Brexit of their residency rights on the grounds that it gave them the status “in error”. It comes as a Home Office minister revealed that the government has contacted 1,473 citizens with post-Brexit residency rights to tell them the original decision to grant them residency was made in error. Continue reading...
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Christl @christl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The motion was proposed by the far-right #AfD & #CDU, who argued that passersby are “walking over or even stepping onto the names of the victims.” On Thursday, the city council of #Heidenau, a town near #Dresden in #Saxony, backed the motion #Stolpersteine #Holocaust and #Merz #CDU stays silent
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Outrage as East German town bans Holocaust ‘stumbling blocks’ | CNN
There has been outrage after a small town in eastern Germany banned the installation of new Holocaust memorial plaques that mark the last known residence or workplace of Jews and other victims of the ...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kirsti, an architect - directly affected - on her MP not appearing to understand that protecting [only] care workers would mean forcing out vets, architects, chefs and many others (but perhaps unwittingly for most MPs + ministers who have not spotted this) bsky.app/profile/heri...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Communities Secretary Angela Rayner stands by her criticisms of the Home Secretary's settlement proposals. The govt was consulting on the proposals. The pre-consultation reforms have little support in government (and the Home Secretary had signalled some kind of retreat on care workers at least)
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As Rayner keeps making a case for care workers that she + others largely won privately 6 months ago, the question now for Andy Burnham as much as Shabana Mahmood is whether 250k (chefs + vets, lab technicians + architects) will be forced out by moving the goalposts www.easterneye.biz/andy-burnham...
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Can Burnham find a new balance on immigration?
'Fair rules should protect more than just care workers'
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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This week's post: How should the government meet its Golden Rule when debt interest increases? mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/09/how-... If your mortgage payments increased, would you cut back on visits to the doctor and help for an elderly relative, but leave all your other spending unchanged?
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How should the government meet its Golden Rule when debt interest increases?
As you are almost certainly aware, the government is having to pay much more in interest on its debt than it used to do. Here is a chart b...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
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Clara Hayes @claracha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘We will get stuff done’: Burnham seeks to banish ghosts of Starmerism at Labour conference
The PM returns to Liverpool, where he was mocked last year, with a promise that no one will be left wondering what he’s trying to do
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Ernesto @ernest33141.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#REPUBLICANS timed the #MEDICAID CUTS to NOT hit until 2027, After the midterms! REMEMBER that when you vote! #BlueTsunamiIsComing #VoteBlue2026 @moberzan.bsky.social @electroboyusa.bsky.social @harttandsoul.bsky.social @bluthrunthru.bsky.social @jaybird54.bsky.social @bab102.bsky.social
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump and the GOP's REAL base of support — the billionaires, Big Oil, Big Tech and AI, Big Crypto, defense contractors, and Wall Street — know that the midterm elections may limit what they can get away with in the future. Understand the stakes and vote accordingly.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spoke to the BBC yesterday (7min25) about the FBI hack: if confirmed, one of the worst data breaches in history (And then ranted about why so few are paying attention to this because they’re worrying about an AI agent reading a website because y’know, AI) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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World at One - Hackers claim to have details of all FBI agents - BBC Sounds
The Agency says it is "aggressively investigating" the apparent breach of its system
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Almightrex @almightrex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i'm sure they do, incredible how much these alpha male types go crying to their friends when they don't get what they want www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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US backs Elon Musk's bid to overturn €120m EU fine against X
The EU had said X "deceives users" by selling blue ticks without "meaningfully verifying" accounts.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Russia murdered children while we slept
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Clara Hayes @claracha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years after sexual assault conviction
Sentencing comes after years of appeals and retrials in case involving former TV production assistant Miriam Haley
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Kyiv is covered in clouds and smoke today. The city was under drone attack this morning. Casualties and damage again. And it’s cold.
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