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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bluesky-ass pope
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’ve just finished reading this and really enjoyed it. It’s been a long time since I read a book that made me laugh so much.
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 26/08/2026
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Reading’s 70-metre Bayeux Tapestry is a replica worth making the trip for
Reading Museum is home to a remarkable full-size Victorian replica of the Bayeux Tapestry — complete with an imagined final panel that the medieval original has lost.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/08/2026
War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
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War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
Mission accomplished
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ive just finished reading this, excellent. Beautifully written and very original.
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Excellent long read in today’s @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised
The long read: Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I've just seen about 40 kids sneak into watch 'The Odyssey' without paying by hiding in a giant wooden coat.
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Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Reading’s unique full-size replica of the Bayeux Tapestry is 140 years old this year! Visit for free or book a guided tour with one of our expert team. From September you can compare it to the original on display at the other end of the Elizabeth Line in the British Museum! #BayeuxTapestry
A detail from Reading Museum's Bayeux Tapestry, showing soldiers fighting with swords on horseback and on foot at the Battle of Hastings. There are two borders at the top and bottom, with birds and animals at the top, and archers in the bottom.
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hey Bayeux Tapestry fans have I made the platform game for you? I’m sure someone else will have done this before but well now I have too… bayeuxgo.live
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Bayeux Go!
Bayeux Go! Thou art Harold. Go forth and win thine battle. Jump your way to victory, avoiding arrows…
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The Tapestry gallery is excellent and well worth a trip down the Elizabeth Line. Highly recommended!
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I’ve been reading How to Talk to AI (and how not to) by Jamie Bartlett. It’s a good read and I just noticed 99p today on Kindle. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0FH...
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How to Talk to AI: (And How Not To), the must-read new book on artificial intelligence - the Sunday Times bestseller eBook : Bartlett, Jamie: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
How to Talk to AI: (And How Not To), the must-read new book on artificial intelligence - the Sunday Times bestseller eBook : Bartlett, Jamie: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Very good
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 30/05/2026
Gift link, good for 300 clicks: as.ft.com/r/6c45f097-7...
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SpaceX and the ‘enshittification’ of markets
The IPO of Elon Musk’s company is a big risk for the millions of investors who have put savings into passive investing
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
BBC TV Children of the Blitz. Really well made programme now on iPlayer and well worth your time. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Two - Children of the Blitz
Some of the last survivors of the Blitz, children who weren't evacuated, tell their story.
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Magnificent
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson
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Kwasi Kwarteng's crypto company? When I was investigating Reform's financial ties a few months ago, drawing up a map of who was connected to whom, this was the biggest mystery. Nine years ago, aged 53, he declared himself "skint" because "there's no money in politics".
Only two years ago he was telling friends that he could not afford to run in the coming election. Then suddenly, his fortunes seemed to
and change utterly. How?
The likely explanation emerged this week: he was given E5 million by Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based crypto billionaire and Reform UK donor. The money, Farage says, was a personal gift
disclosable. It was to pay for bodyguards, he said, making him "safe and secure for the rest of my life". But such protection costs are, at most, £300,000 a year. Farage was given a lifetime of financial security, clearing the way for his return to the political arena. Albeit with a lifelong feeling of debt to Harborne, who sits in a web of interlocking global financial interests.
The world of donors is one of sharks and angels. Many donors want to support causes (or people) they believe in, with no ulterior motive. But then there are the
- cash-rich, status-poor
- who've often made their money using murky means. They usually
Trump for flouting US money-
proposes a new "Big Bang" that
And if you're not an MP-
- like
could add tens of billions to crypto
laundering rules, has said he'll move
Zia Yusuf, Reform's hyperactive
companies market value. A Reform
"shadow" home secretary there's
Left have champagne
government would order HM
no financial transparency at all.
Treasury to stop work on its own
The next UK general election
digital currency apparatus, which
socialists, right have
looks set to usher in hundreds of
could threaten the current crypto
Reform MPs to join the governing
plutocrat populists
elite. The Bank of England would instead be told to hold Bitcoin,
party (or coalition). How many more
to Britain to keep his cash flowing t…
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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach. #dataviz
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/04/2026
Time for some hard truths from a tech bro: the Stephen Collins cartoon
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Time for some hard truths from a tech bro: the Stephen Collins cartoon
I have thoughts – you’d better listen
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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Meet Mackenzie Bly (not his real name; see back cover). I wanted to write something purely funny, but fell in love with my lead character along the way. It's out in August, but the lovely proofs, with cover by Jim Kay, have just arrived. Repost before tomorrow (Sun) evening, and I'll pick a winner.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]

From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:

NEWSREADER:

Extraordinary images here 

of an expat in Dubai 

[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]

…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.

[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. 

CLIVE MYRIE:

To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent

DAVID JONES:

Clive, this is momentous

It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.

[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]

You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.

It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.

CLIVE MYRIE:

Which are…?

DAVID JONES:

You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, 
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.

CLIVE MYRIE:

And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?

DAVID JONES:

I think we can expect to see:

“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”

CLIVE MYRIE:

Mmm. 

[Ends]
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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator... stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app
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Allister Heath Headline Generator
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is excellent, great cast and does a very good job of highlighting what’s been going on for years in our privatised water industry. I really hope it gets a lot of attention in the same way that the Mr Bates Post Office series did.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My January reading included two excellent books: 1929, the inside story of the Wall Street crash by @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social and A Shellshocked Nation, Britain between the wars by @alwynturner.bsky.social They complemented each other I think.
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Hoping Matt Goodwin loses Gorton and Denton for many reasons, not least because we can deploy the headline, and resulting nickname, Matt Badloss
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Whoever gets the best shot of him just standing next to the word "ME" wins tonight.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
At the risk of preaching not just to the choir but to the house of bishops, for my New Statesman column this week I have written about leaving Twitter a year ago, and how surreal it's been watching people make excuses for sharing a site with an AI sex pest tool www.newstatesman.com/culture/soci...
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How I quit Elon Musk’s toxic online playground
X abandoned me long before I abandoned it
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The thing is he’s not physically writing those posts and letters himself. Which means there’s someone in DC doing a lot of nodding while taking dictation and saying things like ‘do you want that in caps?’ And ‘how many exclamation marks, sir?’
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Just finished the last episode of Pluribus on Apple TV. Excellent. And Rhea Seehorn superb.
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Suffolk Broad (aka Anna) 🇬🇧🇵🇱🇪🇺 @annadamski.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Top trolling from the TUC! 👏
On Twitter, in response to Kemi Badenoch firing Robert Jenrick, the Trades Union Congress writes:

"Robert Jenrick, do you need a union rep x"
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Well said
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Harry Rose @harryrose.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Shameless plug for this tool, which will tell you when your phone will actually explode: www.which.co.uk/reviews/mobi...
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Mobile phone security: check how long a phone will receive security updates - Which?
Use our security support tool to how long mobile phones are supported with important software and security updates, and find out what to do if you're at risk
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Very good
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
In memory of Molly Parkin here’s an old recipe which has her name attached and is delicious www.riverford.co.uk/recipes/pars...
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Good piece from @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social fleetstreetfox.substack.com/p/the-london...
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The London fireworks they didn't see
If this is Sharia law, it's not what we were led to expect
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Very good. Worth reading.
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Pete @petetheref.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!
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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Got a great deal on some cheap ram for my computer
A bunch of tiny sheep sitting on my laptop
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Lovely piece from @ediblereading.bsky.social here, best thing I’ve read this week ediblereading.com/2025/12/19/r...
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Restaurant review: The Royal Berkshire Hospital
On the Wednesday afternoon, my second full day in hospital after the accident, I put some pictures up on Facebook. Nothing special, just a picture from my bed of Dorrell Ward, my left foot poking o…
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
On BBC iPlayer, the Marvellous Miniature Workshop has an episode on creation of a miniature Reading Central Club. Great stuff. #rdguk www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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The Marvellous Miniature Workshop - Series 1: 4. Central Club
Sara Cox and the team recreate Reading’s iconic Central Club in miniature, celebrating Caribbean culture, music and community, and a daughter’s tribute to her beloved father.
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Ben Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I’m calling on the UK Government to seriously review its presence on X (formerly Twitter) and then leave. It’s not just a communication channel anymore. Read more: www.politicshome.com/news/article... 1/10
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Labour MPs Call For A More Serious Review Of The Government's Use Of X
Labour MPs are calling for ministers to take control of decisions over the government’s continued use of X, as concerns grow about the platform’s s...
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Very good
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Just finished reading Seascraper by Benjamin Wood. Really enjoyed it, one of the best books I’ve read this year.
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Good work from Sky News news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Very good
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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Today’s must-read. Unbelievable.
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