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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

Far-right thug Tommy
Robinson flees UK after police
warning over terror threat
Far-right thug Tommy Robinson took to social
media this evening to proclaim himself a 'priority
target' for ISIS, adding he had fled the UK after
receiving a call from Bedfordshire Police

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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/01/2026

This make you uncomfortable? Good! Because this isn’t history, it’s reality and what ICE has normalized.

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Ballroom Jam @ballroomjam.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

It's partly the ignorant lack of gratitude. People like me came to UK fully reared and educated at the expense of another country. Spent our productive years paying for your education, health and services with our taxes. Now from the racists in Lab, Con, Ref: F off - you're to blame for everything.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?

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Cardiff University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science @pharmacycu.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Read all about it! Our fantastic Efi Mantzourani gave a talk about transition of care at the FIP World Conference of Pharmacy in Copenhagen. www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...

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Transitions of Care presentation at Pharmaceutical Sciences Conference

Professor Efi Mantzourani speaks about successful service at conference.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

Robert Redford on the phone, plus Dustin Hoffman. From All the President’s Men

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

In case you missed it ... 💥 This is the type of speech Starmer could have given on immigration. But unlike the Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez, Starmer doesn't seem to feel any sense of duty, protection, or thanks towards the foreigners in the UK who are holding this country together. #NotStrangers

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Trump administration considers suspending habeas corpus. This would deny people the legal right to challenge one’s detention. Arbitrary detention of opponents would be normalised. No different from dictatorships. Rule of law? Respect for human rights?

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Trump administration considering suspending habeas corpus

The White House is

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 11/05/2025

We have a desperate shortage of care workers. This has a catastrophic effect on the NHS too. Labour’s decision to close the care worker visa scheme for overseas recruitment is appalling, kneejerk politics that - yet again - will penalise the most vulnerable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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UK care homes face ban on overseas recruitment under migration plans

Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Nobel prize winnerJoseph Stiglitz explains how Brexit is making the UK worse off Then criticises Keir Starmer and Labour for negotiating with Trump from a position of weakness and not with strength by joining other countries

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

For anyone who's just seen Yvette Cooper talking about the immigration white paper, I set out some of the evidence and facts here. [1/?] www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...

Meanwhile, the incessant claims from some politicians and newspapers about recent growth being mostly or entirely driven by “low-skilled migration” have little or no support from the actual data. There are certainly plenty of recent migrants on relatively low pay – but equally many on average or better wages. And, perhaps more importantly, they seem to be seeing quite rapid earnings progression, so the longer-term impacts may be even more positive.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Anybody who claims all/most recent immigration is "low-skilled should be forced to explain this..

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EleriTudor @eleritudor.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I am seriously shocked at the words coming out of Yvette Cooper’s mouth

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Of course I’d rather Labour had won the by-election and losing by six votes is astonishing. But I hope Starmer takes the message that Reform are better at being Reform than Labour, and Labour’s best bet is to go back to being Labour.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry. The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations. And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.

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Monica Emerich @memerich.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

PROTEST in any way you can the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil for practicing free speech. He's a Columbia grad married to an American. This is an outrageous violation of the First Amendment. apnews.com/article/colu...

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Trump warns that arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia will be 'first of many'

President Donald Trump is warning that the arrest and possible deportation of a Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University will be the first “of many to come” as his administ...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/03/2025

Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper... But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

that the decision to single out, detain &persecute someone for their political speech was made by those at the highest levels is the purest distillation of fascism. so many dems are silent bc, by framing anti-genocide speech as antisemitic for over a year, they helped create the conditions for this

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/03/2025

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...

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Dr. Lisa Munro (she/her) @llmunro.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

it will be the best depression, the most beautiful depression, better than all of the other depressions in the world

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Linda Hazlett 🇨🇦 @lindahazlett.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

"A $1 increase in the minimum wage is linked to a fall in the suicide rate of between 3.5 and 6% among people with high school education or less, reveals a 26-year study, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health" scitechdaily.com/1-increase-i...

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$1 Increase in Minimum Wage Linked to 3.5–6% Drop in Suicide Rate

Effects seem to be strongest during periods of high unemployment, shows 26-year study. A $1 increase in the minimum wage is linked to a fall in the suicide rate of between 3.5 and 6% among people with...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”? But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"? Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

:There was a coup in America, and no one noticed. It was a slow-moving coup, decades in the making, forged by redefining laws and loyalty until the contours of betrayal blurred." --THEY KNEW (2022)

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Perhaps it’s best for women to explain it. We would rather keep our rights, our jobs and not have men tell us what to do with our lives and our bodies. The Left offers that, the AfD would take it away.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 24/02/2025

Today marks three years since Russia invaded Ukraine. Donald Trump could learn a lot about leadership from Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

“I do not want my picture in your offices: the president is not an idol, an icon or a portrait. Hang your kids’ photos instead, and look at them each time you are making a decision.”

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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 21/02/2025

When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/02/2025

Hard to describe what it's like being in Kyiv, surrounded by brilliant, unshakeable, brave Ukranians, and reading Trump's comments. The free world deserves a better leader, the hill deserves a better city upon it, and these people deserve better friends.

Dmitry Grozoubinski standing in front of a burned out Russian APC in Kyiv.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 21/02/2025

#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 asking for defence after 9/11 As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

In case it hasn’t been apparent since 2022: Volodymyr Zelensky is the leader of the free world.

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Day 81. Many went to the Church next to the Parliament to honour the memory of two children that died from the regime's neglecting of safety standards in Batumi before moving on to blocking the road as is the principled tradition. #GeorgiaProtests

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MaryamB (She/Her) #FBPE #BanX #DemocracyDiedInDarkness 6Nov24🖤 @maryamb.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

People of 🇩🇪 - Feeling disillusioned with current German politics? That’s exactly what they want. Change doesn’t come from apathy, it comes from action. Vote like democracy depends on it—because it does. Say No to AfD’s xenophobia & Musk’s interference in Germany democratic processes.❤️🇪🇺 #NoAfD #BanX

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 16/02/2025

The same people who paid for Brexit are funding the rise of the far right in America and across Europe The fascism our fathers, uncles, grandfathers, died fighting to stop is being brought back by the worst of people We cannot stand by and let far right goons take us back to 1939.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda. Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

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Extebanly @extebanly.com · 13/02/2025

Beautiful ❤️

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Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca · 13/02/2025

Throughout human history, migration has been a vital part of people to find food, shelter, new life and explore. If we are living in one country now, we even don’t know where our past 10th generation lived. Let humanity flow the way it has been for thousands of years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esok...

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Bringing communities and cultures together through Bhangra

YouTube video by Citizenship and Immigration Canada / Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada

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Paul Belcher FRCP HonMFPH 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

🆕 LSE Health Annual Lecture: #SocialJustice & #HealthEquity 🗣️ Prof. Sir Michael Marmot @michaelmarmot.bsky.social argues that the need to reduce #inequalities in health is a matter of social justice 🗓️ Monday 17 March 18.30 - 20.00 @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hundreds of innocent postmasters were prosecuted for false accounting. It's a serious crime. So what happens to a company's directors when they're caught forging, not one line, but whole of their accounts? And the High Court has said the accounts were forged?

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 11/02/2025

On LBC this morning, I spoke about why we should be far more worried the power Elon Musk is accruing, especially in light of his Open AI moves. The normalisation of his actions and activity by quite a bit of the US and even UK media is a big part of the problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnt...

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Elon Musk's main aim is 'world domination' | Lewis Goodall on LBC

YouTube video by LBC

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

LONG THREAD: Okay, let's break down a few things, both about ID cards and Labour's ill-advised tactics on "fighting Reform". First off, I personally don't think ID cards would work in UK, because we are objectively bad at things like this, but they work elsewhere so this isn't about them per se. 1/

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The DESTRUCTION OF THE HUMANITIES at Cardiff University Management seems to think that Humanities scholars don't know how to read statistics Diving into their proposals shows how they are trying to hide the true extent of damage to Humanities disciplines here /1

photo of Benjamin Disraeli with his quote "Therea re three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

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Heather Turiello @heatherturiello.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is a word of warning to all of us. Left, right, or anything else. Constantly reevaluating and learning.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

What did he mean when he sang what a wonderful world? He meant this ⬇️

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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

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