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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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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 30/06/2026

“They’ve silenced her. “This is an attempt to punish someone who spoke the truth.” The "bizarre" moment @maitlis.bsky.social is forced to ask Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams to leave the studio.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 09/05/2026

There are lots of questions I want to ask Reform people, mostly starting "about that five million quid", but it would be a shame to let this moment from Robert Jenrick slip past unnoticed. thecritic.co.uk/toda...

On Jenrick ploughed, trying to ignore the chuntering that was now coming from the woman at his side. “The most important thing in politics is to be honest with the public, and being honest means saying what needs to be done and actually doing it, not a sham scheme like Rwanda.”

Let’s just press pause there. It was understandable, in the wave of words pouring from Jenrick’s mouth, that this line passed without comment, but it’s barely two years since the plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was so important to him that he resigned over moves to water it down. “I genuinely believe, having immersed myself in this issue for 14 months, that this is a good policy,” Jenrick told parliament at the time. Now it turns out it was a sham.

Jenrick is on the very short list of politicians who have complained about appearing in this sketch, something that cheers me up even on the lowest days. He shares with Farage a total lack of shame, a naked concern only with his own interests, and a level of

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

this photo leaves little to the imagination

A photo of entertainers Little and Large. Large’s face has been blanked out and a question mark placed over it.

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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it? (OP @drgbuckingham.bsky.social )

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Lib Dem MP here expressing concerns that “migrants” (in fact asylum seekers, or “human beings”, as they’re also known) might be allowed to live next door to people, and near a high street

Post from Angus MacDonald MP:
I’m deeply concerned by reports that the UK Government plans to house up to 300 migrants at Cameron Barracks in Inverness. This site is surrounded by residential houses and is only a ten-minute walk from the High Street - it’s simply not an appropriate or secure location.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 04/10/2025

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

They ran a diagnostic, then shelved the file. “All systems nominal.” After that, clocks stuttered. Permissions floated. Birds started flying at night. The system split half watching and half forgetting.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 12/05/2025

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

Slightly amended so I can fit this here:

I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame!

I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one.

I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country.

This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong.

Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues.

I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean?

Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens.

This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way.

You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position.

Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces.

What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly.

The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy.

Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed.

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Kenny Rutherford @coinneach76.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I don't feel a stranger to the many immigrants who enrich our country. They are our friends, neighbours, colleagues, partners. They teach our children, care for our loved ones, amongst a hundred other things. The real strangers are Starmer/Farage/Badenoch, and all the rest, who stir up this hate.

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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

3/1/2025- The Meeting www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/fe...

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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

*New* campaign action on Marks & Spencer - any help getting the first few signatures going would be greatly appreciated! actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... We're sharing this first on Bluesky as this is so much friendlier (and troll free, so far at least!) than any of the other platforms right now!

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Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News

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Kenny Rutherford @coinneach76.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Half the world looks on in horror - waiting to see what the next unhinged, cruel or bigoted Doge action will be; Musk does nazi salutes and behaves like a badly written Bond villain. And Sarwar thinks: 'I'd like some of that'.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

An astonishing exchange today between Pete Hegseth and a European reporter who has no time whatsoever for his bullshit. How I wish American media had an ounce of this steel. #hamburger

REPORTER: Blobby blobby

HEGSETH: Look, values are great, but you can't exactly fight off the left with values.

REPORTER: Blobby blobby blobby! Blobby. Blobby!

<sound of chair falling over>

HEGSETH: I'm just saying, when it comes down to it, strength wins, not ideals.

REPORTER: Blobby! Blobbly! Bthhhhhhh BLOBBY!

<sound of lectern smashing>

Blobby! BLOBBY BLOBBY BLOBBY!

HEGSETH: Well, military power still matters more than words.

REPORTER: Blobby! Blobby! Blobby Blobby

<indecipherable chaos>

Blobby!

HEGSETH: So you're saying values win wars?

REPORTER: Blobby! Blobby blobby BLOBBY!

<muted screaming. Sound of running>

NATO Press Conference Exchange, Feb 13, 2025.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

To be clear, this policy is repulsive, and that needs to be expressed again and again. But I really think it's worth stating that it's also tactically, strategically, politically suicidal. It's the most clear-cut bad idea in contemporary politics. It always fails. It's the dog that just won't hunt.

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

As best you can, ignore him.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

put it this way, it's not a hand signal you'd do if you very much wanted people *not* to think you are a Nazi

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Kenny Rutherford @coinneach76.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Delighted to receive Karla's Choice as part of our family's vague tribute to Jólabókaflód and it's perfect before the first page. What a lovely tribute @harkaway.bsky.social

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Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Such courage and integrity

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ProdnoseAsWas @lordshortcake.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Each year, Noddy gets all the holly bouquets but the other bloke who wrote it rarely gets a look in. Until now. A sublime version from Jim Lea. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0Y...

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Jim Lea “Merry Xmas Everybody” Acoustic version

YouTube video by Nyquest Limited

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 14/12/2024

This is my go-to when parents ask me how to get their kids to read (because this is just something authors know). It’s *amazing* to me how much resistance it gets. Likewise “let them read books about spaceships, ninjas and magic.”

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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

THE BIG DAILY CLASSIC SCOTTISH FOOTBALL NONSENSE THREAD Day 1: Four-armed Hibs fan

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