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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing
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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We are just out of a summer with five record breaking heatwaves which literally killed thousands and bought climate change up close and personal for millions for the first time. This should be the Greens' big moment in history. But instead they're doing this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I won't accept exclusion within Green Party, says Polanski after criticism of Zionism motion
Labour MPs and the European Greens have demanded clarity from the Green Party over a "Zionism is racism" motion.
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Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is more or less the correct response. These idiots have moron-holed themselves into stupidity. Fuck them. Fuck their petty little lives. I'm not interested in hearing both sides when the other is made of those who only see grievance and hate.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone
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WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
ALT: WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
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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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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/09/2026
RNLI volunteers put themselves in harm’s way to save lives. They should never face abuse or threats for doing so. That includes the crews based on the Thames, who respond to hundreds of incidents every year. They deserve to be thanked, not attacked.
bbc.co.uk
Abuse of RNLI volunteers 'wholly unacceptable', chief says
Peter Sparkes says there has been "deliberate misinformation" spread about the charity.
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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Will the AfD winning in Saxony-Anhalt I've taken the paywall off the post I wrote last year about how memories of WW2 are being distorted by them and other radical right parties. "Never again?" samf.substack.com/p/never-agai...
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Never again?
Memory entrepreneurship and the radical right’s assault on the postwar order
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Scobeard @scobeard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I will say this until I am blue in the face because I spent a decade in consumer research but every poll and survey and focus group respondent answers questions as if they’re who they WISH they were, who often has absolutely nothing to do with who they actually are or how they actually act.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026
For years, London's children’s lungs lagged behind. Now they’re catching up. A major new study shows the ULEZ cut exposure to toxic NO₂ and reduced impaired lung function from 14% to 9%.
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Introducing Ulez was my hardest decision as mayor of London – but now we know its astonishing impact | Sadiq Khan
Critics said I was attacking motorists. It’s more important for me that the city’s children are no longer breathing dangerous levels of pollution, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11/08/2026
It's now been confirmed that this summer will be the hottest on record. For those opposing bold action on the climate crisis - you're not just putting lives and the planet at risk today, but dooming future generations.
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This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Wake up to 30-40 posts on a group chat overnight that has respectable middle-aged professionals in it Discussing whether you could throw a naan bread or a baguette further
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just briefly on that unbelievably stupid Falklands thing iandunt.substack.com/p/football-e...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
These years of anti-immigration hysteria we're living through right now are going to look utterly incomprehensible in the coming era of closing schools, ageing populations and massively understaffed public services
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"...the [UK] climate of the 20th Century has now gone" - Mike Kendon, Met Office climate information scientist. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Time we acted like it: fully embracing solar, taking climate targets seriously, & planting trees absolutely bloody *everywhere*. That'd be a good start.
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UK's extreme weather is the new normal - Met Office
The latest report on the UK's climate warns cold mountainous areas are also being lost.
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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“I am the most verbally and physically attacked public figure or politician of modern times.” The disgraceful Nigel Farage. Remembering Labour MP Jo Cox, born 1974, murdered 2016.
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Frank Swain @frank-swain.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 24/06/2026
There were those who doubted us, but a new independent report shows major reductions in air pollution in our city are linked to an estimated 40% fewer annual premature deaths.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
But please, tell us again how arbitrary and joyless Net Zero is
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#BBCBreakfast: "... families had to be led to safety through the flames.. it wasn't just homes, cars were also torched by young masked men in these predominantly unionist streets, but the target here was immigrants.." This is what the likes of Reform are inciting.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Nigel Farage is a threat to national security inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
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Nigel Farage is a threat to national security
This is what he does. It's who he is
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I have a student son Henry Nowak’s age & I can’t imagine what it took for his family to respond outside court with the grace they did, asking that their son’s death not be used for division and hate. That Reform & Restore chose to throw that back in their faces makes me feel sick.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17/03/2026
They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.
theguardian.com
London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution
Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Restore Britain's language is not just racist it's now indistinguishable from Neo-Nazi groups.
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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/
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damionlorentzen.bsky.social @damionlorentzen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Nearly the same experience in that I watched The Last Jedi with my young son and could feel his excitement, I didn’t care that it was tosh.
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Bluesky Jan @janetleicester.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.
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All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.com · 14/02/2026
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was released 35 years ago today. One of the most commercially and critically successful crime thrillers ever made, the making of story is like having an old friend for dinner… 1/45
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 10/02/2026
This morning, I went to see what were supposed to be the completely unredacted Epstein files. However, some of the files were still redacted by Kash Patel’s FBI. Here’s my reaction.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A gangster state at home, a rogue state abroad: and entirely because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional roles.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I grew up in the 70s and 80s. If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece. Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis. Hope that helps.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
FIFA really is the most corrupt organisation in the world www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Donald Trump awarded controversial Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw
The US president, who was beaten to the Nobel Peace Prize by Venezuelan democracy campaigner Maria Corina Machado, was presented with Fifa’s hastily arranged new award
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
A reminder that London is far safer than many major cities, that crime is falling and that racists hate both these truths because they undermine their vicious little divisive narrative. Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
That is a lot of tweets. If you got this far you deserve a prize. Reasonable people will debate this growth strategy. But claiming there isn’t one is lazy nonsense. Higher growth matters because rising living standards are the goal, and higher investment is a key tool.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 15/11/2025
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Hey Labour Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety? We're still over here 👋
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 12/11/2025
"It's the finest place to live on Earth!" @mrjamesob.bsky.social defends London from 'racists and freak shows'.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.
Minority representation on TV causes outrage

There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP
Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television.
Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg."
She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce."
"I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough.
There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Of all the stupid things they’ve said, this is the stupidest. And the most dangerous.
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Gearóid O'Connor @goconnor.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
When satire is so spot on, it's uncomfortably good!
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 23/09/2025
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Graphic with the headline “London is the greatest city in the world” set against a bright view of the River Thames with the Shard, Tower Bridge and the city skyline.

The text celebrates what makes London special: regularly voted the number one city in the world, incredible diversity with over 300 languages spoken, world-class transport, world leader in finance tech and life sciences, best museums and galleries many free to visit, world-leading nightlife, food sport and music for every taste, host to the world’s best sporting events, home to seven Premier League clubs, globally-ranked universities, a city where you can be yourself and love who you love, and a place for everyone.
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The UK: take London's name OUT of your demented mouth, you venomous waste of space
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Mad king watch
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”
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