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Edward Bird

@edwardbird.bsky.social
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Old lefty, started getting a bit liberal. But beginning to think we may have to win all these battles again. It may be time to panic.

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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They will need the money to fund their legal defences in all the cases that will run against them.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Is there an independent body that is supposed to monitor media fairness? (Rhetorical question)
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If the British right really believed in a meritocracy they would have been advocating for the removal of all public school educated adult from senior roles in the public and private sectors as well as academic roles in universities.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thoughtful points. What we don’t address as policy though is just how extraordinarily impactful it is for anyone to be the centre of this kind of scrutiny and criticism. At the end of the day it should not have driven the poor man to end his life.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
There has to be better regulation of the media. This is outrageous.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Did brave Sir Robin run away?
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... I trust the BBC while give Reform less airtime now.
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Labour overtakes Reform in voter poll for first time since March 2025
Labour up four points to 28% while Reform falls to 24% as Andy Burnham apparently wins favour for cost of living focus
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Coming soon Elon Musk to produce “historically accurate” version of Othello with an all white cast.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Could we ask the new Reform candidate for Clacton what has happened to the £5m “gift” from the Crypto billionaire? Will he give the money back? Also, can he explain why it is not bribery for him to accept gifts from a convicted fraudster?
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James Clayton @jamesclayton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage thinks he can make an investigation go away by briefly standing down, but he hasn’t read the standing orders.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Charts can often tell a powerful story.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Andy Burnham has a thing about buses. I like that. Buses are disproportionately used by those less wealthy and who are older. They are a great form of cohesion as well. Pensioners in English villages need regular buses to avoid isolation. He should lean into it. Roll out more services. Everywhere.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The trouble is they think their financial success makes them geniuses and visionaries.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I assume after this huge defeat for Reform, Farage will do the decent thing and resign as leader of the party.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I can see one on my commute into Liverpool Street: maps.app.goo.gl/Htf8BnNchuXG...
maps.app.goo.gl
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime | George Monbiot
Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Mick Lewis 🇨🇦 @micklewis.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...
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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m... Please no. Things in the world are bad enough as it is.
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‘I’m available for discussion’: Kevin Pietersen puts himself up for England role
Kevin Pietersen has said he would ‘absolutely’ consider becoming part of a future England cricket coaching set-up and revealed Rob Key had previously sounded him out a couple of times
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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Surely “Cook on Costs” would trump that.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Good to see Starmer showing some backbone. Being gaslit by Trump about the special relationship is ironic in the extreme.
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Laurie True Blue, PHR, SHRM-CP @laurietrueblue.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Seen on that other site...😆 What's really in the Epstein files!
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Commuting into the city this morning. It sounds like half the train has a virus. The lessons of Covid forgotten already.
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Never again wonder why Russia was willing to spend billions getting Trump into office. Sadly, the Brits STILL don't understand it's all happening again with Farage.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
As an FYI, am trying the Standard Apple weather app - it’s not bad.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Support the petition to reverse the change: c.org/bngFtZzvDc
c.org
Reinstate the previous design of the Met Office app
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Exactly.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The Greenland crisis is surely proof enough we need to investigate Russian influence in UK politics.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
We’d like a return to the old version of the app please. The new one is shite. Have a look at the reviews on the App Store if you don’t believe me.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
What, he bruised his pinkie?
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The question for millionaire defector Nadhim Zahawi is this: what was it persuaded you Farage and Reform are no longer racists and Xenophobes? Was it one of them being convicted for taking Russian bribes or the 30 plus individuals who have come forward to reveal Farage’s racism and antisemitism?
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Well some cute animals.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Correct on both counts.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Mussolini was shot and then strung up from a lamppost.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
What I would like to know is why Dulwich College didn’t expel the odious young man?
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology
OpenAI responds to lawsuit claiming its chatbot encouraged California teenager to kill himself
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Amazing how the global tech giants want to avoid paying taxes or any restraint on their growth yet cheerfully hand responsibility for the consequences of their disruption to the state (whether it’s AI or social media) expecting the state to protect the millions affected without the funds to do so.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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The world’s digital empires are jostling for power – in Europe, we can’t afford to be useful idiots | Thierry Breton
The EU is under US pressure to unravel its hard-won online safety laws. We must not give in, says former European commissioner Thierry Breton
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
That assumes you don’t think it can get worse. Surely you just have to look to the USA to see that. Public service broadcasting may not be doing all we want it to but at least we can contest it and work to improve it. We can’t do that with any commercial broadcaster.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The BBC faces an almost existential level decision. If they roll over on the Trump demands they will lose enormous integrity with most of their supporters both in the UK and around the world. If they capitulate to Trump who next, Putin? Every other despot? Hard won reputation gone in an instant.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The racism, Islamophobia and anti semitism over on X is breathtaking. I reported several posts. Not sure why I bothered. Apparently none of them violated their rules. The only conclusion is that Musk is deliberately fomenting hatred and violence.
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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Appalling, kicks down on one of the poorest countries in the world.
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Edward Bird @edwardbird.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Somewhat random post. One thing I do miss about the old days was watching a celluloid film. In the quiet scenes the only sound would be the hum and rattle of the projector, never loud enough to interfere but sufficiently present to add to the atmosphere. If you think back you can still hear it.
atmosphere.you
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/10/2025
Prime example of white privilege in plain sight. Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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