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Michelle Cook Author @cookiem72.bsky.social · 6h

Yes! More of this stuff please

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

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Michelle Cook Author @cookiem72.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are a few hilarious aspects to this article, the first of which is that it’s filed under ‘health’. People are going to nail salons, spending time and money ‘with the goal of looking as if they'd never been there at all’. Peak 2026 human… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Classy or classist? How bare nails became a hot issue

Bare nails - or nails that appear that way - are a growing trend. But is it as innocent as it seems?

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Michelle Cook Author @cookiem72.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Big Oil, with help from ‘conservatives’ is covering its arse on climate change youtu.be/J-CjaGC2hmE?...

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The $50 Billion Lawsuit Big Oil Doesn't Want You To See

YouTube video by Status Coup News

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Callum @theclashcallum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Coming over here and taking our wickets" is fucking brilliant patter. Also, fuck racists. ✌️

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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Michelle Cook Author @cookiem72.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My article about what Burnham can learn from the US fight back

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Neil Schofield-Hughes @neilschofield.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Back in the 1980s as a young idealistic student, I believed in the power of rational democratic politics to make the world a better place. Today I find myself cheering on a man dressed as a bin in a by-election.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Count Binface on the Clacton by-election on US TV, "If Nigel Farage strikes me down electorally I will become more powerful than he can possibly imagine" "Because the parliamentary committee will look into his £5 million unconditional gift" "But he didn't declare it"

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Michelle Cook Author @cookiem72.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A few years ago, I wrote some books about what it might be like if the world was on fire. Now the world (at least, my world) is on fire, I have complicated feelings about them. Here’s the first book. amzn.eu/d/08oKrUmb

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Tipping Point

Tipping Point eBook : Cook, Michelle: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Michelle Cook Author @cookiem72.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Reform council tells volunteers to leave Durham park “None of us ever imagined that caring for a public park would lead to the threat of legal action” northeastbylines.co.uk/region/count...

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Reform council tells volunteers to leave Durham park

“None of us ever imagined that caring for a public park would lead to the threat of legal action ”

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

They're wearing the cats.....

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I know he has a lot on, but in the midst of a ferocious drought, fires, heat events and severe threats to food production, it would be quite edifying to hear Andy Burnham mention climate breakdown.

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Michelle Cook Author @cookiem72.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Well, if Burnham hasn’t yet, he just needs one conversation with this guy about storytelling youtu.be/GK24thp_2Qo?...

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A New American Dream: James Talarico's Full Policy Address

YouTube video by James Talarico

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Michelle Cook Author @cookiem72.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I’d like to ask Burnham what the fuck is ‘pragmatic’ about throwing out more fossil fuels when the world is already on fire???

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

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Alexis Vandom @vandomva.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nigel Farage's press conference is just a whole lot of crying about how he's "the real victim" despite his long, long, long history of publicly dehumanizing minorities and fighting to strip away their civil rights. What a weiner. What a small, pathetic man.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Game on, Nige.

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Michelle Cook Author @cookiem72.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Congratulations @andyburnham.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 Now for electoral reform. If you don’t change the way the sausage is made you just keep on getting the same sausages

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I have many issues with Keir Starmer. But his response to Nigel Farage in the House of Commons today was dignified, firm and quietly powerful. It exposed Farage for the shallow and heartless opportunist he is. Could we please see much more like this from the government.

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Colorful play gym for infants featuring foxes and bunnies, two criss-crossing archs stand over a square mat

UFC cage being built on the White House launch, criss-crossing arches strongly resembling the baby play gym

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This is a form of psychosis. These people will burn the world if they have their way.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Keir Starmer's political failure comes down to one issue above all others: his unwillingness to put the public interest ahead of the demands of the oligarchs, corporations and foreign governments who lobby him. Whoever replaces him had better be prepared to stand up for us, or Labour's finished.

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West England Bylines @westenglandbylines.co.uk · 11/05/2026

"What is it costing us to look the other way when... people are ripped off the street... and you never see them again... What does it cost us a society when we start looking the other way?" An immigration narrative something like this wouldn't go amiss from Keir Starmer. youtu.be/nbzYO_e9xnw?...

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AOC in Conversation with David Axelrod

YouTube video by UChicago Institute of Politics

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Michelle Cook Author @cookiem72.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

BBC drops the coverage of the BAFTA award for Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, the doc they dropped last year that was eventually picked up by C4. In the live show one of the makers asked the BBC: "Given you dropped our film, will you drop us from the Bafta screening later tonight?" The answer? Yes

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Michelle Cook Author @cookiem72.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Super proud to be one of the female Bylines Editors-in-Chief and I can’t wait for this Bylines webinar featuring some truly badass women. There’s still time to register to join us:

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Wouldn't we all.

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Michelle Cook Author @cookiem72.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

My article for Bylines about Epstein survivors and what the handling of their trauma says about our wider societies

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Since Bob Vylan said "Death, death to the IDF" the IDF has killed 2500 Palestinians, while Hamas has killed 0 Israelis. Which is why he said what he said.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 14/02/2026

Don’t forget the Never Too Late Award from the Bridport Prize which recognises entries from writers over 60 across all categories of prizes. Link below Please share :)

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Never Too Late 60+ award - Bridport Prize

This £500 award is for the highest placed writer aged 60+ across poetry, short story, novel or flash fiction.

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 02/02/2026

Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year: “As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”

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Michelle Cook Author @cookiem72.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

My local screening of Melania. Has one seat booked. I might turn up an do an intervention

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 31/01/2026

Americans who did not choose this: We will never mistake you for him A letter to those Americans who did not vote for Trump | Victor Kravchuk @sussexbylines.co.uk

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A letter to those Americans who did not choose this : We will never mistake you for him

A letter to those Americans who did not vote for Trump

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This was posted in the new Epstein files release and removed about 20 mins later. Wonder why that is.

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