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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We are just out of a summer with five record breaking heatwaves which literally killed thousands and bought climate change up close and personal for millions for the first time. This should be the Greens' big moment in history. But instead they're doing this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I won't accept exclusion within Green Party, says Polanski after criticism of Zionism motion
Labour MPs and the European Greens have demanded clarity from the Green Party over a "Zionism is racism" motion.
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 10h
Puffin island Lundy on cusp of closure as it runs out of water
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Puffin island Lundy on cusp of closure as it runs out of water
Lundy is in "real jeopardy" and could be evacuated if supplies run out, bosses say.
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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Letter printed in The Times today
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly TRIPLED since 2020. Meanwhile, Amazon's profits have soared by 550% in the same time frame. Watch this before you shop for Prime Day.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h
Watch this before you go Prime Day shopping.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 23h
Kemi Badenoch: "I don't understand why all of a sudden, some people are policing other people's identity? I think identity is something very personal" Less than a minute later: "Men are men, and women are women, I'm very strict on that"
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23h
It's like watching Bart Simpson doing a classroom presentation in front of Mrs Krabappel after zero preparation.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Forza Bahab @forzabahab.bsky.social · 23h
And again, the shock is that you're not shocked...
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To the surprise of absolutely no one, but to their courage, victims of far-right figures arguing they are “protecting women and girls” from unknown and unseen particular threat from migrants are coming forward to tell their story of sexual and domestic abuse
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Support the National Trust by voting for Council members by 11:59pm on 30 October 2026. Quickvote is convenient if you're short of time or worried about inadvertently voting for Restore Trust's Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing or Omrani. In our often bad times, the Trust's doing good things.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Being against bus lanes is absolute loser behaviour.
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Fred Cowell @fascowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Classic motornormatvity . Cars are presented as natural and inevitable rather than the result of policy choices and planning.
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Campaign for Better Transport @bettertransport.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚍 1 in 7 people in England are at risk of being left behind by inadequate bus services. We're calling on the Government to use the Budget to invest an extra £300 million a year in local buses to reconnect communities, boost opportunities and ensure everyone can access a decent bus service.
Bus stop advertisement highlighting that 1 in 7 people in England lack decent bus service and £300m yearly funding could improve it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Early voting is already underway in some states. From now until Nov 3, I urge you all to... 1) Help get out the vote 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism We are the only ones who can end this nightmare.
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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
UK donor Phillip Ullmann told the FT that he told the MP “about Gary Klopfenstein, that he was a wealthy American in the US who was willing to donate” Jenrick has previously denied any wrongdoing and said he had no knowledge of Klopfenstein’s alleged involvement
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Vandalism on a grand scale - a new book of Tish Murtha’s photographs. She was one of the best, taken before her time and never recognised by the photography establishment until after she died. www.huckmag.com/article/tish...
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Tish Murtha’s searing documentation of broken Britain
Vandalism on a Grand Scale — Capturing youth unemployment and poverty in north-east England during the ’80s, the photographer never lived to see her work…
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition @brumcjc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The amazing West Midlands Unity March and Rally that took place in Birmingham on Sunday. Over 1000 people marched for migrant rights and against the hatred and division of the far right.
The front of the March passes Pigeon Park, led by drummers and the Women Against the Far Right blocThe Climate Justice bloc led by protests carrying the BrumCJC banner which reads

BIRMINGHAM SAYS CLIMATE JUSTICE NOWThe front of the protest comes to the end of Corporation Street before it turns the corner into New Street Protesters return to Victoria Square and confront a small number of ‘patriots’ who had tried to disrupt the event 
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Kings Heath United Against Racism @khuar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"As a Christian, these challenging times call me to stand for truth against untruth, for hospitality against hostility, for solidarity against division, for faith against fear, for love against hate." - Al Barrett, the vicar of Hodge Hill Church
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Moment anti-racist protestors outnumber handful of far right in Birmingham
Hundreds turned up for the West Midlands Against Racism Unity March and Rally
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Phoebe's sex mad, which I don't mind per se but it affects her ironing.
Patricia Hodge sat at her bedside table doing her make up.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
Value of the
ECHR
Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 25/08/2026
Did you know that lots of the food in your kitchen is grown using peat? Ask your supermarket what they’re doing to remove peat from your homes, and help save peatlands for people and wildlife: peatfreepartnership.org.uk #EndPeatSales @peatfree.bsky.social
Close up of soil with white text over reading Get Peat Out of Our Homes. In the bottom right corner is a Peat-free Partnership logo
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Girl on a Bradford street corner, 1969, photo by Nick Hedges.
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch’s whole shtick is slash and burn, which is red meat for the Westminster-brained, but for the wider electorate… what actually is her vision for what emerges from the ashes? What sort of country does she want us to become? Seemingly just one that’s punitive, uncaring and nasty?
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
Reform UK’s ‘Small Boat Watch’ app is in flagrant violation of both Google Play and the Apple Store’s rules. Send an email to the Apple’s Head of the UK App Store and the General Manager of Games on Google Play to demand that this app is removed immediately.
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Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026
Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every time I return to Paris, I notice they've done more to reclaim streets from drivers and cars, including removing on-street parking, protecting cyclists from drivers, and prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists in shared spaces. Other cities can learn a lot from Paris.
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 04/10/2026
[1969] Pipe Burst - Public information film informing you what you need to do if you happen to get a burst pipe. Although it seems like a parody, it isn't.
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Melody Wainscott @mrwainscott.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You don’t have to earn this place and nothing is thrown away here. The moss and the rot, the fern and the fallen, all of it breathing together, makes the forest. #ForestFriday #OlympicPeninsula #PNW #scape #LandscapePhotography #Photography
Mossy temperate rainforest floor in low, diffuse light. A moss-blanketed rock and a large tree trunk anchor the right side, their exposed roots draped in bright green moss spilling across the forest floor. A fallen, bark-stripped log lies across the middle ground, breaking into reddish rot and splinters. Sword ferns fill the left; tall, straight conifers recede into a dim green background. The ground is a mix of moss, fallen twigs, and rust-brown needle litter.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Quite apart from anything else, I am obsessed with the sub-genre of marketing intended to reassure men about using toiletries. Half the moisturisers you see are called MAN CAVE or BRO SMEAR. It's all so hysterically insecure.
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Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Successive governments have been asleep at the wheel in preparing us for the impacts of the climate crisis,” Shrubsole said. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rather difficult not to feel a bit gloomy about the state of the country atm, so I wasn’t going to make much of a thing of this anniversary this year. And then I saw this and started to cry. Because a free and united Germany in a free and united Europe was worth it. And is worth fighting for now.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tish Murtha (1956-2013), social documentary photographer who documented marginalised communities under Margaret Thatcher in NE England (© Ella Murtha) #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a girl juming on top of an abandoned car near a wall with graffiti and houses beyond
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Barbara is fun
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence
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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Joyous 😊
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 02/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: HOPE not hate has uncovered plans by neo-Nazis to disrupt an anti-racist demo in Birmingham this Sunday. On the 90th anniversary of Cable Street, they claim they will mobilise dozens of masked neo-Nazis. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/02/n...
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National Socialist Collective exposed: Nazi militants set to target anti-racists on Cable Street anniversary – HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate blows the lid on a new outfit uniting some of the most active and extreme neo-Nazis in the country. The National Socialist...
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What a week. We've seen the news agenda rescued from the grip of the far-right. We've seen astonishing levels of competence in government communication. And we've seen the outline of a radical policy programme. It's a v.exciting time to be involved in politics iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...
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Some disparate thoughts on a historic speech
For the first time in two years, we freed ourselves from the far-right’s strangle-hold over the news agenda.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of two Labour gains from Reform in Northumberland by-elections yesterday. Too early to know for sure we've passed peak Reform, but another encouraging sign.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Who radicalised him? news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...
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Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion
Kevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October.
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jason Perry and Chris Philp: insidecroydon.com/2023/09/19/p... #Croydon #ULEZ #Terrorist
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Tory minister is member of online group that salutes vandals
EXCLUSIVE: A secret Facebook group where members celebrate criminal vandalism carried out against ULEZ cameras is being run by the Tory Mayor of Croydon. By STEVEN DOWNES The Tory Government’…
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colinthefish.bsky.social @colinthefish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also the ULEZ was introduced by the disgraced Tory PM Johnson when he was Mayor. They were expanded at the command of the Tory government in return for TFL being baled out when it was hit by lockdown. Yet, Khan gets 100% of the blame from the hard of thinking and despots.
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a refuge on a residential street. The guy leaning on his bike is at the primary school entrance, hence the green fencing beside him. The bollards are pencil shaped to say “KIDS HERE” the plastic bollards on the refuge have been flattened. There is no #WarOnDrivers there is a #WarOnWalkers
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Such an ahistorical, geographically illiterate, and all-around dimwitted take from Harwood. He's one of those entitled people who are so imbued with self-confidence that they rattle crap off, and their followers just accept it to be true.
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