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drbarbarajane.bsky.social

@drbarbarajane.bsky.social
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Economic historian (rural, agricultural, mass housing), mother, grandmother, owned by working cocker spaniels, parish councillor, never vote Tory, NO dms!

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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 4h
Or a proper head thrown back dog howl 😳
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Heidi #England #UK #Europe @heidisumner63.bsky.social · 4h
#uk
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Don’t look at the investigation into #FaragesFishyFiveMillion or soliciting illegal overseas donations on TV or Tice’s alleged tax dodging or Reform losing by-elections, or the rest of the sleaze.. Look at this headline grabbing policy, loudly amplified by BBC. even tho Reform have just 8 MPs 🤬
bbc.co.uk
Reform pledges to suspend asylum system for up to five years and deport claimants
All asylum applications would be rejected and existing ones voided, with all claimants marked for deportation.
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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 8h
Hard to know if the foreign secretary who went to his Russian friend's villa in Italy to party hard with Kremlin-linked Russians, without his security officers, directly after a NATO summit, could be fibbing about Russian interference.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 7h
Much of the coverage today is absolutely nuts. The facts are on Wikipedia. The full Intelligence and Security Committee (Russia) Report is online. Tory media & politicians once again banking on their average consumer/voter being too daft/busy/blinkered to notice...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 7h
A bleak question I'd be keen to hear from UK lawyers about. Will the US' public execution - if it goes ahead - be blocked in the UK, under the Online Safety Act (unless the platforms showing it have age verification)? Or some other law? Or is this situation so mad/unique that we don't know?
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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 6h
Not this callsign, Lofty. 🎯
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
15 outlets published 249 articles about Jason Arday, but there appears to be a partial media blackout regarding Dr Lola Salem, Michael Gove's ex-girlfriend, who has been suspended from Oxford University after being charged with possessing indecent images of children. jamradio.uk/news/2026/10...
jamradio.uk
Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges | Jam Radio
Oxford academic Dr Lola Salem denies indecent-image charges. Her recently reported separation from Michael Gove is a separate matter.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There's PLENTIFUL evidence that Russia interfered in the EU referendum. Most sensible people on both sides accept that as a fact. If Farage can counter this obvious truth then he should present his case to us all rather than grandstanding and lazily calling Burnham a "liar".
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And I also read young adult books and children’s books (recently re read all the Narnia books) as a good book is a good book, end of!
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Eight years ago
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Absolute nonsense from Reform. Obviously inhumane, immoral and illegal, but also massively expensive, entirely unworkable and would destroy international agreements, and the UK's place on the global stage, all before factoring in things like it would inevitably mean funding the Taliban.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12/10/2026
Particularly enraging edition of Nimby Watch this week.
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Nice use of language there! 👍🏻😂
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Lol only because it was 2 days work to prune and another to shred and I’ve yet to spread the shredding 🙄🤦‍♀️
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I know but they do have a tendency to take over if left unchecked! Mine had turned into trees! Hoping that now I’ve taken back to 5-6ft they’ll bush out next year 👍🏻
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
That’s ok it’s not buddleia! 👍🏻😂 What I thought were ancient marigolds in the spring turned out to be evening primrose and I’m happy for that to take over ☺️
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Stop it! After 8 years of neglect my garden had a forest of buddleia 😳but I’m working on it…
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Deloitte in Cyprus helped in falsifying documents to hide Roman Abramovich's wealth and evade tax, Leaked documents show transactions backdated and tailored. Assets spirited away to BVI. Big four accounting firms advise UK govts, get public contracts, routinely implicated in scandals.
bbc.co.uk
Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth
Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, BBC finds.
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do love a plant that colonises odd places-but not buddleia, never buddleia! 🤦‍♀️
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Nothing ever sticks to the slimey Gove 😒😡
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m in Norfolk and every day it’s not windy is a blessing! 🥶
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump on Germany: Germany tried green energy, and they're about two days away from extinction.
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Reading this is like reading a small child’s rant-it goes on and on. The level of intellect is on the floor 😒 There’s speculation that his blonde nappy changer just records him and transcribes for social media 🤷‍♀️👇🏻😒
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
theferret.scot
The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“ I will not tolerate countries who won't take back illegal migrants. I'll impose tariffs, airline bans and visa bans on any country that refuses” Says Poundland Trump, hot from losing yet another by-election, drowning in investigations over corruption, hemorrhaging councillors.. Deluded 🤡
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
👍🏻had to read that twice! 😂
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ridiculous person Ridiculous party Ridiculous people Watch
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When I was on a rural parish council we applied to Highways to have yellow lines placed on the bend by our village shop to prevent bad parking/make the area safer. We were told rural areas don’t need, and can’t have, those restrictions 😳🤦‍♀️
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’ll ask ta! 👍🏻
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 09/10/2026
£233 million. Gone in six hours. That's how quickly the latest farming support was allocated. Farmers need long-term certainty, writes Martin Lines. Not funding schemes that operate like ticket sales for Glastonbury.
A close-up shot of golden wheat stalks ready for harvest in the foreground, with a combine harvester blurred in the background driving through a vast field under a hazy sky.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 09/10/2026
Olive oil prices are rising again – and it's not just inflation. Droughts and wildfires across the Mediterranean are destroying groves and threatening your heart health. How else might your diet suffer? Sophie Perry and Leila Fathi offer some prior information.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Five foods that could cost even more this winter – and why
What will the costs be to producers, to consumers and to the health of the nation?
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Same, always a bit of a lottery. Tonight it’ll be chilli beef easy to spot the kidney beans! With a crusty suet pastry top 👍🏻☺️
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"I'm aware that Mr Farage's political judgement has been a bit off lately, to put it politely 🤭. But you'd think even he would've realised that Zia Yusuf has become a dangerous liability!" via Christopher Warner
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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Right yes, "protect are women" by preventing a long-planned fundraiser for Cancer Research... Bastards.
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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sanctions because Trump is mad he didn't get the Nobel Prize. This is a warning shot at EVERY government and business leader worldwide. Roll over for Trump or this could happen to you. Trump wants a payoff? Pay it or be sanctioned. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Hits International Criminal Court With Severe Sanctions (Gift Article)
U.S. officials announced the new, sweeping punishments just hours after the Nobel Peace Prize committee gave its annual honor to a former court judge.
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Got nhs flu jab booked but can’t a private covid jab anywhere near me 😒
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’ve just been outside to retrieve my socks which got blown off the line 😳 planted 4 hardy perennials and now need some stretching of the lower back 😖
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think she was exorcising her own trauma 😔
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Tessa Munt MP 🔶 @tessamunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Today, Lifeboat Saturday, I’d like to pay tribute to the many brave men and women who volunteer for the #RNLI, risking their lives to save others in grave danger. I’m appalled at the abuse and intimidation faced by RNLI crews in recent weeks. Let’s support and celebrate this incredible charity.
Tessa Munt MP with Marie Goldman MP and Sarah Gibson MP visiting the Brighton Lifeboat Station.
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Margaret G @mls0308.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#IAmJaneDoe #Pinks
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Free fire lighters 👇🏻😡
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That’s the best way ❤️
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mmm the live version of Your Own Personal Jesus on Letterman (I think)
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Don’t go alone, take a close friend ❤️😔
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh only just seen this David, I’m so sorry. It’s always hard even when you know it’s coming 😔❤️
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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drbarbarajane.bsky.social @drbarbarajane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pants 😒all I can suggest, from years of living in old, cold houses, is heavy curtains and shut before it gets dark! 🤞🏻
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