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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 11h
Ruin a book by adding 800 adverbs to every chapter
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just a reminder: 163 articles were published on Jason Arday in the week after he resigned. Same outlets: 13 articles on Cambridge academic James Orr after allegations of misconduct & a broadcast showing him seemingly engaging in illegal activity. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 19h
All thanks to the tireless work of @peterjukes.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social who were ignored for years, and in Carole’s case hounded through the courts for years. I’m glad the PM is at last speaking the truth; but the real heroes surely deserve a Pulitzer!
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Stuart Hemingway @stu31.bsky.social · 23h
The PM should release the full facts that were uncovered in the UK report on Russian interference… www.csis.org/blogs/brexit...
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Did Russia Influence Brexit? | Brexit Bits, Bobs, and Blogs | CSIS
A long-awaited parliamentary report in the United Kingdom asserts Russia may have influenced the Brexit referendum; more importantly, the UK government did little to find out and prevent it.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 19h
UK friends: in the words of Tesco, every little helps.
Post on Threads describing how the Reform party are sending out 8 page flyers to 15 million homes and if you send them back to Reform's Freepost return address, they have to pay for the extra postage.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No, competitive tendering and transparency in the award of public contracts would do.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OK then 👍💥
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Full marks to Bobby J for not bothering to mention that this was entirely due to being given £45 million from the Labour government and told to do it. Even a Reform council couldn't fuck that up.
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Patrick Hurley @patrickhurley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Harry Hill's TV Burp is better than almost all of these.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵
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Andreas Wiedenhoff @andreaswiedenhoff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Weekend in Valle Vigezzo, where the little trains of the #Centovalli🇨🇭#Vigezzina 🇮🇹 railway, from #Domodossola to #Locarno operate. Some regionals on the Italian side are still being worked by the lovely ABe8/8 #SSIF units from the 1950s. They’ve got opening windows, a delight on a late summer day.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He understands 💯 but wants daddy to watch….
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
CEO pay is up 1,316% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 28%. CEOs are now paid 325 TIMES as much as the typical worker in their industry, according to @epi.org Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In all the grandiose discussion about colonising Mars, I don't see much about how the soil is poisonous to us. This was only discovered in 2008. It contains perchlorates, which are environmental toxins here on Earth. Any human contact with Mars dust? Super-bad news in the long run. 1/
NASA image from the surface of Mars, showing its red dusty surface with rover tire-tracks running across it.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Swedish Prime Minister, asked whether Britain should rejoin the EU: “Yes. Please. Tomorrow.” www.politico.eu/article/magd...
politico.eu
‘Sweden is back’: Magdalena Andersson has big plans for Europe
In an interview with POLITICO, Sweden’s election winner reveals her unfinished business with Russia, Trump — and the far right.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, this went bonkers. Thanks to everyone who leapt into the comments to teach me something! Honestly, that's why I post these things - it's as an enthusiastic student, learning as I go. And, as usual, a tiny but noisy minority arrived to tell me I'm a ****ing ****. Enthusiastically blocked. 😁
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“We think it will be of public interest that the most expensive house in British history was acquired in a way that saved £18.5m of stamp duty.” Sold by Reform's treasurer, no less open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
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London’s most expensive house, Reform UK’s treasurer, and a massively reduced tax bill
A £265m mansion in the heart of the Chelsea • Sold by billionaire Nick Candy and his ex-wife Holly Valance • Bought by a Labour-donating hedge fund boss • Why was the tax bill so small?
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 21/09/2026
Must everything be an opportunity to bombard people with adverts?
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don't follow Formula One, but good on them for using subtitles for the hard of hearing… 
F1 track with numerous Zoom signs on the advertising billboards
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As predicted, unions are going to be kicking themselves for opposing a donation cap. There is no way they can compete with this. One guy, giving more than 16x what the three biggest unions gave Labour over the past year, in one go. They don't stand a chance.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I love summer, and I hate the change of seasons. But eels change in excellent ways, so let's talk about that, instead! That's right, friends...it's Big Eel Life Cycle Thread time! Before we start, let's remember that I'm a historian, not a scientist. But I'll do my best. 1/11 🗃️🧪
Meme. Drawing of the eels' life cycle, surrounding a map of their migration range, centered on the mid-Atlantic. The drawing shows the evolution cycle:
1. Silver eels spawning
2. Eggs
3. Larval stage
4. Glass eel
5. Elvers
6. Yellow eel
7. Silver eel

The inconsistency in singular/plural drives me a little crazy, because it suggests that eels shift from being multiple animals to one animal and back several times over their lives. Which is silly. Nobody does that. Not even my neighbors, who might be werewolves.

Meme text reads:
"There's history in here somewhere"
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Absolutely everyone on the sane side of this argument should buy something from the RNLI with RNLI branding and wear it. Shop here: shop.rnli.org
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RNLI Shop | Lifesaving Gifts
We have the perfect lifesaving gifts for you and your crew. Order them online at shop.RNLI.org and help us to save lives for another 200 years.
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Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Charles (king) could do something useful for once and do a high profile visit to the RNLI right this minute
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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here’s Kati Karikó, whose Nobel Prize winning work on mRNA technology saved THE WORLD, thanking the world’s educators. 🥹
‘It was the work of teachers that allowed this child of two laborers in postwar communist Hungary to understand the world... and then, in her own way, to help change it.

One doesn't grow up in an agricultural community-or, for that matter, become a biologist—without developing a healthy appreciation for seeds. Seeds are potential. They are promise. They are sustenance. Seeds are the difference between a bleak future and a bountiful one. Planting a seed is, in every case, an act of conviction, and of hope.

So thank you to my own teachers. Thank you to educators everywhere. You are planting seeds.’
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Politico: "The latest Private Eye pulls various data together to suggest the Rachel Reeves agricultural inheritance tax changes might be having the intended impact: pushing tax-avoiders out of farmland and making it more affordable for real farmers." (Cont.)
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There’s a lot that’s disgusting here but what stuck with me is the indignity of the visitors having to prove their bona fides to a puffed-up mediocrity like councillor Madgwick to gain his and the mob’s consent to stay in a hotel.
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The UK land speed record of 403.1 mph (648.7 km/h) set by Donald Campbell on July 17 1964 has just been broken by a paper shredder at Reform UK HQ.
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Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Must-read for @louisehaighmp.bsky.social by the excellent @hannahkeenan.bsky.social - Don't just call it a taskforce and parachute new people into centre duplicating others - Do have a small agile core - Do keep asking if the taskforce is working www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/task...
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A collaborative taskforce can help a government deliver its priorities | Institute for Government
Andy Burnham and Lousie Haigh have an uphill battle to overcome taskforce scepticism.
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Together Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Appalling behaviour. These brave volunteers save lives at sea, no questions asked. They deserve our support and gratitude, not hate and intimidation.
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 08/09/2026
“Between 15 and 20 million hours of human endeavour” are spent filling out Brexit paperwork every year. Speaking on BBC Radio 2, Dr Mike Galsworthy set out the extraordinary scale of the bureaucracy now facing British businesses.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What a ridiculous question. Once again the BBC drives a nail into it's own coffin.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Even leaving any politics at all aside: as general rule, no state can allow a group of masked men to be able to close down critical infrastructure. This is basic stuff.
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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johnw60.bsky.social @johnw60.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
And yet more… bsky.app/profile/irri...
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Farage's grinning response says it all. Every day Reform and its supporters reveal themselves for who they are and yet the media continues to treat them as just another normal political party.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage is making it very plain that if Reform wins power they will permit no change or scrutiny to their plans from parliament, the judiciary or officials, under a state of emergency. Anyone who objects will be replaced.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Why didn’t Chris Mason mention Reform being caught red handed getting polls funded illegally on the main BBC News? He seemed to want to rush through only the evidence of eliciting illegal donations before covering Farage’s speech.
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you like poor-quality recordings of old British TV ads, then this might well be one of the 20 or 30 best threads you'll see today
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
An absolute rock solid classic here, as Carling Black Label bring us the Mission Impossible squirrel
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 02/09/2026
“40 million pieces of paperwork per annum at nearly half an hour each. That is between 15 and 20 million hours of human endeavour per annum filling out Brexit paperwork.” Mike Galsworthy joined Tina Daheley on BBC Radio 2 to explain the extraordinary burden now facing British businesses.
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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Free Speech news
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Swan mating season is back. I always love the head-dipping ritual leading up to it and the chest rub at the end ❤️ #NewRiverBirds
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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
a thread of some of my dumbest bird comics to date
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
On the one hand, some people want to make it so that kids and other people aren't crushed to death by cars. On the other hand, some people are upset that they might have to pay attention, slow down or be inconvenienced by about 15 seconds. So you can see how it's a "war on cars."
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Birmingham 20mph limit: a 'life saver' or 'a war on cars'?
Birmingham City Council is proposing the city becomes England's first 20mph city.
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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Such a role for the monarch would be unthinkable in Europe’s larger constitutional monarchies.” No it's not. The queen did it, she just did it in secret. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021...
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Queen secretly lobbied Scottish ministers for climate law exemption
Monarch used secretive procedure to become only person in country not bound by a green energy rule
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Nick Anstead @nickanstead.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m calling it now… we need a less brooding Bond reboot and more of this…
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Roger Moore James Bond Smirk
Alt: Roger Moore James Bond Smirk
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