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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I did see some gloriously left wing dogs at an anti-racism demonstration recently. A couple of them wagged their tails throughout the speeches and even barked along during the cheering.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I worry about our cats’ politics. I’m glad we can’t talk about it because I don’t want to know. They’re pretty individualistic and not keen on sharing. But I trust cat people politically more than dog people because they don’t want to be anyone’s master.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stewart Lee has always been brilliant but his Nerve column really hits new heights. This should be required reading in schools - alongside ‘A Modest Proposal’. Although I guess, for balance, the poor teachers would have to find an equally good satire of the woke obsession with keeping people alive.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@herring1967.bsky.social you nailed it again! At what point will you be adding master potter to your bio?

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s a really impressive hand build - and lovely illustration too. Can’t wait to see the rest of the series.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Only one lesson?! I’d assumed you’d have had at least a week long intensive course. Now I’m even more impressed your toast rack came out so upright. Did they stop you if they could see you were about to do something disastrous? I did shout at the telly a couple of times… Anyway well done - loved it!

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Beautifully done. “I slept longer than I’d anticipated.”

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

@alistairking.bsky.social Do listen to this. I’m sure you’ve heard it before - as have I - but it’s a beauty. “I slept longer than I’d anticipated…”

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yes they’ve definitely been following it. I just can’t compute how someone could pay that much attention and then pick that side! I think they’re quite religious - not that plenty of Christians wouldn’t have a more compassionate view.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This makes me sad. I always had a soft spot for the Proclaimers. And I adore ‘Father Ted’ too. Hey hum. I think you can separate the art from the artist unless the artist starts using their extreme wealth earned from the art into anti-trans lawfare - eg threatening to sue Amnesty or the NHS.

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This guy hasn’t applied a content warning without very good reason. This is genuinely harrowing to watch. Sometimes you see footage of Farage et al and, amid the nastiness, you’re sort of amused too if they’re shown up for what they are. This is very much not that. It’s deeply upsetting.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also, a more accurate headline would begin “Nigel Farage complains to the BBC…”

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Government chose to do no reflection on Section 28, despite heading straight for a repeat of this awful tragedy. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... Don’t worry: @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social have done it for them. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

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Section 28 – Anatomy of a Moral Panic

Podcast Episode · Origin Story · 26 August · 1hr 17min

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

To be fair the horrible misspelt brand name and weirdly viscous looking illustration of an orange drip should have given you a clue…

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Just heard your show from yesterday. So good. I wanted to reach out & send you some love because I fear that having had the temerity to speak the truth about trans rights & the racist obsession with Meghan Markle, your inbox will be filled with vitriol from faceless haters. But love will win.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Absolutely agreed. If the media industry made more effort to have a truly diverse team in the room (and empowered to speak) when editorial decisions are made maybe things would start to change.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

But isn’t his question - “why are the media being so unfair to you?” - the real proof of bias? I agree there are uncomfortably close relationships across the media but IF those friends, spouses and cronies can keep their coverage impartial (which they don’t always) then it’s less outrageous.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Contractions definitely count as one word. I can’t really cite any reason or evidence for my conviction on this beyond that’s how a Word doc word count would measure it but it seems to me self evident that something like they’re or I’m is seen and treated as one word by almost every English speaker.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It’s a depressing move. Desperately trying to find an optimistic angle, I’m plumping for a) at least he didn’t promote her to chancellor and b) *maybe* he’ll have the guts to force her to change course. Clutching at straws here obviously!

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

To be fair I don’t think GCSE biology has a weed identification module.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Reminds me of “Brexit means Brexit”. It would be great to have leaders who lead - using clear language to argue their case and win the argument.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

With trans rights under attack as never before, we need to show our support for the trans community. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a

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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Now you’re asking. And I’ve got a cat to stroke so let me know when you find out.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s for when you really want someone to stop what they’re doing - so much that you use two words to say it in case they don’t understand one of them - but not quite so much that you want to commit to using the universally understood “stop”.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I think when the verb pretend was first used in English it had a more neutral meaning with less connotation of duplicity so maybe it wasn’t a tautology when it was first used. I don’t have an OED subscription though so I’m guessing a bit!

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I love this idea. Whoever replaces her should wear a cheap blonde wig and do an unconvincing Geordie accent and absolutely deny that they are not in fact the real Lauren, no matter what Frogface says. If he keeps complaining, they should switch to a whiny “no one cares!”

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

pogroms and rioting on our streets. Why is Labour still parroting Reform ideas that are NOT based on evidence?

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

white communities ravaged by generations of political failure but if this report hasn’t found any evidence that a black or brown child in those communities would do better, then its scope, its findings and its reporting will feed the false “two tier” white victim narrative that has already led to

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Excellent idea for a Labour government to commission research on how education is failing working class children. Appalling, dangerous idea to crowbar the notion of whiteness in, without any evidence that poor white children are specifically disadvantaged because of their race. There are mainly

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I’m really sorry that happened to you. Something has gone wrong in our understanding of free speech that anyone should think this could ever be appropriate.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

No. But, as Picasso said, “art is a lie that makes us realise truth”. So… if you think about it…

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I’m going to say it’s the last queen. And the yellow is a subtle act of welcome to transatlantic tourists - perhaps reflecting the 80s and 90s yellow toned tv we used to get that was so brilliantly recreated whenever Barbara Wintergreen was reporting in The Day Today…

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

women scared to use any public toilet that in fact you are the real victims here might be driving some of the (unjustifiable) abuse that gender criticals endure. I’m determined not to fuel your self pity by saying anything unkind so I’ll say goodbye.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

suspects of being trans) and discussing their appearance in the style of a playground bully. I do wonder if the constant insistence of a movement that is relentlessly targeting a small and vulnerable minority and campaigning for law changes that leave trans men, women and gender non conforming cis

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Again, I suggest you listen to the podcast, which clearly identifies instances where JKR has targeted individuals using cruel and abusive language. This isn’t just about misgendering or outlining gender critical beliefs; it’s about sharing images of trans women (and on occasion women who she simply

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

just living their lives and have never abused anyone. Unfortunately JKR has done this - and encouraged her followers to do so. It is never ok to hate all members of a group or identity just because someone with the same identity has hurt you. That logic is at the heart of all bigotry.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

No-one would deny that there is horrible and violent online abuse directed towards all kinds of communities and ideologies. I wholly condemn these - and the specific abuse directed towards JKR. Nothing can justify it. But equally nothing justifies online abuse directed towards individuals who are

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I really recommend listening to the Origin Story podcast. It’s a very fair-minded chronological account of how she became engaged in gender critical thinking and her journey within that movement. I think a key sadness for many progressives is that she has stopped sharing her ideas respectfully.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

the current rhetoric, but even before he came out to me, it broke my heart to see feminism or the huge problem of male violence weaponised against trans people. Your podcast should be required listening for anyone who never lets the facts get in the way of a good bigotry.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

trail or even the very easily accessible tweets still on Twitter that JKR continues to post, I was surprised by how emotional I felt to just hear you both doing your job so thoughtfully and carefully and well. My teenage son is trans so I do have a personal reason to be fearful of the cruelty of

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thank you, @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social for the Origin Story 2-parter on JKR. After years of hearing and reading journalists I otherwise respect casually both-sidesing this so-called debate, and clearly making very little effort to research the validity of the data, the money

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Wow! Like Gregg Wallace except for the fact that Robin is guilty of literally none of the same behaviours and is a person who’s always used his voice to speak up for vulnerable and scapegoated minorities. Why don’t you turn your ire on men who actually hurt women?

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Thank you for this, @robinince.bsky.social . I truly believe that in the real world, open-minded, compassionate people are in the majority. Every voice affirming that in the face of the right wing press and distorted social media algorithms is a true beacon of hope and resistance.

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Charlotte Simpson Ceramics @csceramics.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

@matt-forde.bsky.social Really enjoyed the April Ashley series on British Scandal. Huge thanks to all the team for treating the subject so responsibly - and especially for the thoughtful modern context in episode 4. Joyful to hear an expert talk without being both sided with far right “balance”.

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