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Trump is destroying the USA.

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Pumpkin Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 16h

The UK bans books that Starmer doesn't agree with.

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Something very on-the-nose about the UK state banning a book called 'Normal People'

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18h

There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Irish

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I tried reading Sally Rooney, but perhaps unfortunately I started with Intermezzo, which I found tedious and affected. There is no reason to strip most of the punctuation from a piece of writing. Threw the book away in the end.

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Elon just threw Trump under the bus.

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Why does Trump help Russia, take its side, cosy up to Putin? Easy. He wants money. He knows Putin is a gangster and a psychopath but that doesn't bother him, he just wants lots of money. Most of what Trump does is driven by his greed.

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Adam Boulton says Sally Rooney is taking a very strong anti Israel & anti Jewish stance. No she isn't, Boulton. This is a vicious smear from Boulton about a women who is worth a hundred of him. Sally Rooney might consult her lawyers. #Slander

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17h

Musk says: "I am not evil and a traitor. Trump is evil and a traitor, not me."

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Ukraine's drones made inoperable by restrictions on the speed permitted by SpaceX's Starlink network. Musk blames Trump. Any country relying the US or foreign tech companies will be held to ransom, can't defend itself. Need own satellites and systems to fight new imperialism.

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Starlink: Musk says US government may be behind slowdown of Ukraine drone speeds

Ukraine says Starlink access has improved but it is still facing speed limits which are disrupting its battlefield "missions".

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I'd written a short story about her, A French woman called Giselle who had a troubled background. I used her story as the basis for Comrades. I knew her whole character from the start, but in the novel she had to interact with two other women, SOE agents from England.

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"America. They have chosen their side. Not ours, not even the middle. Putin's side. They have chosen the wrong side of history." Trump is sick and evil.

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'We're done': Kyiv resumes strikes on Russian refineries as Zelenskyy says US 'betrayed' Ukraine by slowing down Starshield | LBC

This is evil, Trump is evil. It may also be treasonous behaviour. His government deliberately slowed down Starlink in order to help Russia. A betrayal not just of Ukraine but of Europe. www.lbc.co.uk/article/kyiv...

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After being accused of slowing down Starlink speeds, Tesla founder Elon Musk pointed the finger at Donald Trump

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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Bet Russia & China can't believe the US has such a senile idiot as President. It's almost as if they planted him there.

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The truth is dawning on people that Burnham's government is not a transformative one, it's a steady-as-you-go one. Change nothing much. Do very little. Just some vibes.

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The most unintentionally funny comment I heard from a football supporter was: "Leeds fans? Huh. They don't know one end of a football from another." #Football

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Mr Trump - it's not Ukraine that needs a new President.

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Tell me on Bluesky what book you'd like, contact me via the website on my bio, and I'll email you a free epub copy: choose from: A Place to Call Home, Blackbirds, Fire and Rain, Red Umbrella, Sicily Dream, The Marianne Summer, The Big 313 and The Tall Grasses (poetry). #Booksky

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Copies of: A Place to Call Home, Blackbirds, Fire and Rain, Red Umbrella, Sicily Dream, The Marianne Summer, The Big 313 and The Tall Grasses are available for free, mostly as epubs. If you want one, let me know and I'll email it to you.

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My books A Place to Call Home, Blackbirds, Fire and Rain, Red Umbrella, Sicily Dream, The Marianne Summer, The Big 313 and The Tall Grasses are all available for free. More to follow.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I don't intend to sell my books. If you want one, you can have it for free.

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To deny the link between religion and nationalism is to wilfully ignore history. I applaud moderate Christians who speak out against dangerous Christian nationalism today. But Christianity was the state religion of the Roman Empire… 1/3 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report

Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In the least surprising news of the century, vast majority of racist flag shaggers who go about brandishing crosses and saying that we're a Christian country... don't pray, or go to church or read the Bible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report

Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity

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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Writing 'Comrades' seems to have taken it out of me. I have lost all desire to write, and don't at this moment intend to write anything, not even the shortest of short stories. #Writing #Booksky

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"Many of Burnham’s transformative policies have faded away. The rebirth of council housing turned into a vague promise of a bit of money for housing associations. Public ownership of water now seems to involve greater public oversight of bankrupt enterprises." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/real...

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The real lesson of Holborn and St Pancras is a warning to Labour

THE Holborn and St Pancras election result has been hailed as a triumph for Labour and an electoral disaster for the Greens. It was neither.  In the 2019 general election, with Keir Starmer as ca...

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PEN Sydney @pensydney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Books are often banned because they offend someone's religious sensibilities. Religious people also burned women at the stake, accusing them of being witches. It's not books we should be worried about, it's religion. #BannedBooksWeek

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‼️ In the 2025-26 school year, nearly 12,000 books were banned across the USA. This is almost double the number of books banned in the previous academic year. It is the highest number of recorded bans in a single year since PEN America began tracking book bans in 2021. 👉 pen.org/report/book-...

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A Spotlight on School Book Bans

Nearly 12,000 books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans.

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Packaging is designed to ensure that the buyer can rarely, if ever, access the item purchased.

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No civilised country should be banning books.

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We hope civilisation would continue to advance, continue to move forward, but sometimes individuals arise who take it backwards. Trump and Hegseth are two such individuals. #Barbarism #StateMurderAsEntertainment

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a firing squad, incomprehensible in a supposedly modern world, is due to happen at Fort Hood, Texas, in December, which this week Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, promised to livestream in defiance of anything resembling normal human behaviour. #Barbarism www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Digested week: Don’t worry about the plague, go and read some Anne Carson

The world may be going to hell in a handcart, but at least now I get to say I know a Nobel prize winner

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thomas Hardy once saw the public hanging of a young woman. It horrified him and he was never able to forget it. He based part of Tess of the d'Urbervilles on his experience.

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History is repeating itself. Under Trump, the US has fallen from a Republic to an imperium in which the masses are kept entertained. Like the circuses of Ancient Rome, Trump provided carnival entertanment with his rallies. Now they are progressing to public executions as entertainment.

Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed

Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Three years of livestreamed genocide and more than a dozen years of live-documented extrajudicial killings by police and vigilantes have trained you for the coming era of state-sponsored public executions

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not just a Starmer ally and tainted by association with Israeli war crimes. The Labour Right certainly know how to pick them.

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Some thoughts I shared while in the UK, where Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has acknowledged that anti-genocide protestors "were right" but activists are still serving long prison terms for stepping in where their government failed. @astra.bsky.social

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