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Writer and humanitarian. Optimistic realist. When you sleep you wake up eventually. Politics, philosophy, humanism, books, photography, history, football, post-punk. And cats and birds of course.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6h
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is really good work. The level of detail they’ve managed to uncover about who invested and how they benefited is extraordinary
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Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga
An uncomfortable history, but part of Britain's story. David Olusoga reveals the fullest picture yet of the British traders who trafficked millions of Africans into slavery.
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Andy Smith @johnneptune.bsky.social · 2h
Hard to imagine how many lives esther rantzen saved with setting up childline. And she gave us a dog that could say sausages. Glad she's found peace, her's was a life well lived
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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 15h
I still remember meeting my old Professor about 3 years after the referendum. He had a German father and an English mother and had grown up in the ruins of WWII. He had voted Remain and said it was a mistake that they had campaigned on the economy. He said the whole purpose of the EU was peace.
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Kit Marie Rackley @geogramblings.com · 3h
This is my third #PeoplesEmergencyBriefing, and the second I’ve been on the panel. If you are in the UK, I cannot urge you enough to check the @nebriefing.bsky.social screening map and sign up to one near you. www.nebriefing.org/screening-map #ClimateChange #Community
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Thank you for being here. This film brings together leading evidence on the dimate and nature crisis, and what it means for the UK. It is designed to be watched together in communities like this one, creating space for honest conversation and constructive civic engagement.
Across the UK, people are now coming together to ensure these risks are property understood, openly discussed, and responded to with the seriousness they require.
A growing national effort
The National Emergency Briefing is building support for a government-backed televised emergency briefing to the nation on the climate and nature crisis.
The initative began at Westminster Central Hall, where more than 1,200 MPs, peers and leaders from across UK society heard directly from senior experts about the scale of the risks facing the UK and the response now required.
This film extends that work into communities and businesses across the country, where people are now inviting MPs to screenings, calling for politicians to support a Parliamentary Call for a televised briefing, and helping bring the film to new audiences.
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
In one act of grovelling amorality, Starmer likely killed as many as Tory austerity. "US-UK drug deal could result in 229,000 excess deaths in England" "Analysis reveals extent of impact on NHS of placating Donald Trump over price of British medicine exports" www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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US-UK drug deal could result in 229,000 excess deaths in England, analysis suggests
Analysis reveals extent of impact on NHS of placating Donald Trump over price of British medicine exports
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 6h
Health workers bring destroyed Palestinian ambulance to Palantir's HQ, to call out its involvement in Israel's genocide in Gaza. Palantir should have no place in our NHS. The government must cancel its contract NOW!
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Dave @exileddave.bsky.social · 10h
On a serious note though. The Man City board of directors should be disqualified, the business should be made insolvent and for a period of 2-15 years they cannot run another business in the UK. That’s the law under the Company Directors Act 1986. The punishments have to be just.
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 7h
The argument behind “suicidal empathy” is that compassion is self-defeating. Burnham’s proposition is the inverse. Compassion is what gives you the conviction to make difficult decisions in the first place. Politics does not require us to care less, but to care more.
thenewworld.co.uk
The right says empathy is suicidal - but Andy Burnham thinks it might save us
The prime minister’s emotional conference speech laid down a challenge to populists who say compassion makes us weak
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People vs Palantir – International Day of Action 🌎✊ Thursday 1 October 2026. We are saying NO to Palantir! Find a UK action near you 👇🏽 www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/inter...
Activists at Parliament Square, London holding up a banner that reads NO PALANTIR in our public services
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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 7h
Better late than never
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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 8h
City deserve everything that’s coming to them because the means don’t justify the ends. But you can’t take away Pep’s brilliance and what he achieved with those players from a purely footballing perspective. They didn’t cheat on the field, they cheated off it.
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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 8h
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 11h
Burnham on Social Care in July: "I ask the media, can we not let the country look at this in a clear-eyed way without all of the overwriting? On this issue, please, can we not have a factual debate? Allow people to weigh up the options and come to a considered view based on the facts?" The media:
Daily Mail: BURNHAM'S TRIPLE SHOCKThe Daily Telegraph: TRIPLE LOCK SCRAPPED BY 2030 (with a monstering photo of Burnham)Daily Express: IT'S A CRYING SHAME FOR OUR NATIONThe Sun: LOCKY HORROR SHOW
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 14h
If you like hillforts AND Brochs, here's a fantastic combo for #HillfortsWednesday Edin's Hall: a Late Iron Age broch inside a rectangular enclosure inside an earlier Iron Age bivallate 0.9ha hillfort Scottish Borders / Crìochan na h-Alba Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011 🤩 #HillfortsWednesday
Aerial photo looking down at the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with circular stone broch on the left and trees beyond
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 13h
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 13h
Agree but maybe remove the R and the E?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h
Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 11h
ICYMI: This morning on Radio 4's Today programme, Andy Burnham confirmed joining the EU customs union, single market membership and full rejoining are all on the table, and said "we could go all the way" (after the next election)
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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 12h
#birdoftheday #bestofthemonth
The Egret and the Bull in SW France House Martins in SW FranceGolden Eagle in the Outer Hebrides Starlings in the Outer Hebrides
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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 12h
Morning!
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026
As a side note to this: The best thing that Andy Burnham’s Labour Party can do right now is reach out to both Ed Davey and Zack Polanski. Whether he needs them for a coalition after the next GE or not, now is the time to get both the Lib Dems and Greens on board - especially around care.
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ET Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 21h
Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h
Time for this classic again.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13h
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Saying isn't doing. But Burnham lifted the omertà on: Electoral reform Wide-scale nationalisation Triple lock pension Brexit So now they're all in play. And that's all positive
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Govt minister Josh MacAlister claims unemployed young people are paid with PIP to be out of work. Except PIP isn't an out of work benefit, plenty of people who receive PIP are in work & PIP enables them to do that. Josh knows this. What hes doing is whipping up anger towards disabled people.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
PM Burnham on privatisation: "The British right talk about taking back control. Never let them forget: They are the ones that gave it away in the first place."
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think it is very good that the PM is being so publicly vulnerable about grieving his father. That is also a form of leadership
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So pleased to hear this confirmed in the PM’s speech. Big congrats to @makevotesmatter.bsky.social and all who’ve campaigned for it! At last we have a chance to restore trust in our politics with a system where “everyone’s views count and everyone’s vote matters” 👏👏👏
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans
Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation
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Pete Sinclair @petesinclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good to see that the Green Party has made Hope normal again. Every word of Andy Burnham’s speech is a direct result of the Greens winning votes from Labour. Vote Green in Holborn and St Pancras to keep the pressure up!
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every single person in this photo knows full well that only one of them is proud to be where they are & certain that they are doing the right thing. Shame on Labour for having a 94 year old Jewish woman arrested & physically removed using counter terrorism powers. (Photography by Terry Neill)
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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#birdoftheday #EFG #Gulls
Gull with black tipped wings in Northumberland Gull spreading its wings in Yorkshire Gulls like paper planes in Scotland Gulls sunbathing on the beach at Nazare, Portugal
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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Morning!
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Over 120,000 people marched across France calling for action to halt global heating. www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
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Thousands march for climate across France: 'I wish there were more of us, after the summer we've just had'
From Bordeaux to Paris, organizers say 120,000 people took part in 260 demonstrations 'for the climate, for life, for peace, for social justice.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Labour is a party disappointed by the people who vote for it and by the economy of the country it's running. thecritic.co.uk/the-...
And how will it do that? Healey, it turns out, has the kind of idea of work you’d expect from a man who has been active in politics since 1986. There were a lot of references to the coalmining heritage of his constituency, and even the more modern work he talked about was hard, manly toil like pipe-fitting, the sort of thing that involves bulging forearms and mucky overalls. Aside from his wife, the one woman he mentioned was Reeves, and she’s just lost her job.

It’s far from clear that the Chancellor has a handle on what the more modern bits of the economy look like. There are a million young people out of work, he said, and the solution he pointed to was shipbuilding apprenticeships. Do this year’s unemployed graduates actually want to go into shipbuilding? Are there enough ships for them to build? His first job, he said, was washing glasses at a pub, exactly the kind of work that has disappeared in the face of minimum wage and tax rises. On artificial intelligence, which has destro
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💥 HUGE NEWS 💥 “Ministers say it is ‘not if but how’ the prime minister puts rejoin in the next election manifesto” Exclusive for The Independent.
independent.co.uk
Burnham edges Labour closer to rejoining EU
Exclusive: After Ed Miliband told the Labour conference in Liverpool that Britain’s future is at the heart of Europe, ministers say it is ‘not if but how’ the prime minister puts rejoin in the next el...
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Labour: “we must reunite progressive voters to win the next election” Also Labour: *bans trans women from its women’s conference*
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Powerful unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans ban
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miliband: "To the millions in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you. You were right" So scrap the proscription of Palestine Action. End all arms exports to Israel. Impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Spot on from @johnharris1969.bsky.social - “comfy, cosy, simple two-party politics” is over. Trying to shoehorn the complexity of our society & economy into 2 parties through our ludicrous voting system simply won’t work. Burnham says he still supports PR - so where’s the action?
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Labour is nostalgic for two-party politics. That cosy, simple time is over – let it go | John Harris
Our fragmented political model will endure for the foreseeable future – and Reform will benefit from it until Burnham learns that cooperation is key, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reform UK Councillors, know the 5 stages.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This was an entirely predictable act of economic self-harm - both the Sunak and Starmer government decided that the priority was to cut migration *when it was already falling fast*. ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration-...
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Immigration is falling but the economic cost may be high - UK in a changing Europe
Jonathan Portes analyses the latest immigration figures from the Home Office and Office for National Statistics.
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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#birdoftheday #bokeh
Sleepy duck among the cloudsDucks in the MonetFriendly Tit Jay
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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Morning! Gotta love a French market
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Find a screening near you: www.nebriefing.org/screening-map Or considering hosting one in your community or workplace: www.nebriefing.org/host-the-film
nebriefing.org
National Emergency Briefing
Find a People's Emergency Briefing screening near you, or spot a gap that you can fill by hosting a screening.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Labour is not opening new safe routes. This latest measure is reopening a route they closed and making it more restrictive. This follows claiming they were opening new community sponsorship and work/study routes which already existed but they made harder to access. It's smoke and mirrors. #r4today
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KaterFritz 🐔 🤔 🥚 @konkretbitte.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
📸 Harold Raeburn (1908) Lucy Smith and Pauline Ranken of the Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club climbing the Salisbury Crags. Auf in die neue Woche ... 🫶🏼
Ein historisches Schwarz-Weiß-Foto zeigt zwei Frauen in langen Röcken und Hüten, die eine steile, felsige Klippe erklimmen. Die beiden Kletterinnen sind durch ein Seil miteinander verbunden, während sie sich an den Griffen der vertikalen Felswand festhalten.
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