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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Companies” do not make decisions. Humans who hold disproportionate power within them do. Name the humans and hold them accountable. There are countless examples of failure on this, including with the bank crisis, Boeing, and tech industry harms.

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The call for papers is still open for the 2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit. Research on incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns. For more info, see the conference website: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The call for papers is still open for the 2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit. Research that informs about incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns. For more info, see the conference website: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The turn against Turnitin in UK HE is gaining momentum, with Cambridge U the latest to cancel its contract over its proposal to use student essays to train AI. I imagine more unis will now follow. TII will surely be going into crisis management now. Good piece on it here wonkhe.com/blogs/a-supp...

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A supplier shouldn’t be able to rewrite who owns students’ essays

Sam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer

Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are many things in this world I do not know nearly well enough to offer what would be a presumptuous opinion. On #Ireland, the #OrangeOrder, and #GarvaghyRoad, I did come across this comment on Insta that I'd like to offer instead. Peace is fragile. This is how we hold on.

kev_buchanan writes on Instagram in response to a news item:

I understand tradition. I understand freedom. And I understand the principle of having the right to walk peacefully on a public road.

But surely rights also come with responsibility, judgement and an understanding of history.

For almost 30 years the Orange Order has not walked down Drumcree Garvaghy Road. That restriction didn't appear from nowhere. It followed years of confrontation, violence and division surrounding a period in which people lost their lives and, amid the horror of 1998, three young brothers, Richard, Mark and Jason Quinn, were murdered in a loyalist petrol-bomb attack.

Yet here we are in 2026, after an administrative failure opened the original decision to legal challenge, with men sitting through the night in court and now apparently prepared to wait however long it takes to exercise their "right" to walk down one particular road.

But why?

Tradition matters. Freedom matters. The rule of law matters. But so do remorse, empathy, responsibility and knowing when a tradition has become more damaging than meaningful.

Nobody needs to surrender their culture or identity. But after almost three decades, if exercising a right means insisting on walking through a community that overwhelmingly does not want you there, reopening wounds that Northern Ireland has spent years trying to heal, perhaps the bigger question isn't whether you can.

It's why you still feel you must.

At some point preserving tradition has to matter less than preserving peace. Otherwise we aren't honouring history - we're refusing to learn from it.

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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 27/09/2026

"The streets of Portadown will eventually clear, the police Land Rovers will go back to base and the mutual assistance officers will head home across the Irish Sea," writes Allison Morris. "But the political fallout is going to be huge and is already being felt..."

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Fallout from Sunday’s Drumcree standoff set to be politically significant

Executive at risk as republicans join together in protest and DUP demand action

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Elaine WIlson @egwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a really good account of what is going on in Drumcree from professional Northern Irish journalists on the ground.

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Why have we reached a stage where people call in to @natashadevon.bsky.social and say they want people to drown? Well headlines like this don’t help. Let’s forget that numbers are way down on years previous and just keep stoking fear and division. This is why the RNLI is under attack.

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The 2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit Call for Papers is now open, through the end of October. Research on incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns. To submit, see the Call for Papers tab at: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.

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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Last chance to sign a petition to end billionaire media ownership - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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Elaine WIlson @egwilson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unfortunately this article shows a real lack of knowledge of the policy history and criticality of how we arrived at this situation let alone question the efficacy of the approach.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not going to register to read that. If his model is working what's causing the rise in exclusions? 🤷‍♀️

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There's a lot of "PISA shows Gove was right" about at the moment which totally ignores so many wider issues. Pupil disengagement, NEETS, employers telling us that young people lack soft skills, teacher retention, under funding etc etc. bsky.app/profile/sudd...

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Elaine WIlson @egwilson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thank you for reading this so that I don’t have to!

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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

end the billionaire/corporate media petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... mediasovereignty.org/petition/

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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Live stream of our run of 120km to build a hospital for street dogs. We are 90km in absolute bits but we can maybe make it… www.youtube.com/live/K44RPa-...

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Crossing the Finish Line for Tina's Hospital

YouTube video by Happy Doggo

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reform UK has received a £36m donation from a British cryptocurrency billionaire called Ben Delo Last year Delo was given an unconditional pardon by President Trump over a breach of anti-money laundering laws at his crypto trading platform, BitMEX, to which he had pleaded guilty in 2022

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire

Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The BBC’s flagship serious news radio programme should definitely not, IMO, be relying on an independent expert to be the first contributor to report the *facts* about Ben Delo’s background to its audience. This is an inexplicable, strikingly timid lapse, and not excusable, I believe.

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s vital IMO to link this seismic development in UK political donation with Scaramucci’s wise+salutary words to Justin Webb:”We set up a system where the money is falling to the politicians, the billionaires are getting what they want from the politicians, the legislative agenda has been skewed..”

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#BBCr4today extremely disappointing that as far as I heard it took until 7.39am until polling guru+Prof of politics John Curtice mentioned the conviction+ #Trump’s pardon of #Reform’s £36m donor Ben Delo. No mention in (edited) news report by BBC’s Ben Wright, by Justin Webb or by Jack Fenwick.

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now

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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Times today.

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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes and disparity across the regions even of England is enormous. The high results in London and south east England skew the results. Wales has very little in common socio economically with London. Ignoring the socioeconomic and making it all about devolved education policy is nonsensical.

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Elaine WIlson @egwilson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

PISA league tables as a rating of educational achievement is highly flawed. Rankings exaggerate minor statistical noise, ignore non-school socio-economic drivers, and the complexity of educational systems. Indeed high performing countries train their students to pass the PISA tests.

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Elaine WIlson @egwilson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

PISA may have some validity in offering useful macro-level insights into how 15-year-olds in participating countries perform on specific standardised tasks. This could be helpful for in country policy making.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So I've seen quite a bit on the latest PISA results and about how it's a 'natural experiment' on policy due to education being devolved. That got me thinking about the *side effects* of a 'natural experiment' and the impact on inclusion. If you're claiming 'success' you need to look in the round.

revealed a deteriorating situation in England, with alarming and rapidly rising rates of formal exclusion and suspension, and a contrasting picture of much lower rates in neighbouring Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales (Daniels et al., Citation2019; Ferguson, Citation2021, Citation2020; McCluskey et al., Citation2019; Power & Taylor Citation2020; Duffy et al., Citation2021). At the time of writing, the rates of exclusion and suspension in England have risen steeply once again (DfE, Citation2023a,

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

These extracts are from a very interesting piece of research into exclusions which also points out that they are not really a feature of education elsewhere in Northern Europe. What price success in PISA? That would be my question. You can read the research here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

exclusion figures. Disturbingly, despite significant reductions in rates of exclusion in the devolved jurisdictions, and the large body of research emphasising the negative impacts of harsh discipline including exclusion (see, for example, the Timpson Review, Citation2019), over-representation of some minoritised and marginalised groups of young people in exclusion figures still persists across all four jurisdictions. Indeed, the welcome reduction in the use of exclusion in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales has in some ways unmasked the intransigence of disproportionality as a feature of school exclusion.exclusion figures. Disturbingly, despite significant reductions in rates of exclusion in the devolved jurisdictions, and the large body of research emphasising the negative impacts of harsh discipline including exclusion (see, for example, the Timpson Review, Citation2019), over-representation of some minoritised and marginalised groups of young people in exclusion figures still persists across all four jurisdictions. Indeed, the welcome reduction in the use of exclusion in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales has in some ways unmasked the intransigence of disproportionality as a feature of school exclusion.

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Marc With A C @wilch2710.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And heres another feel-good story

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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'No billionaires were harmed in the making of this movie'. demand a free media: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'Wealth creators' are fleeing the UK. Ban propaganda masquerading as news: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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Elaine WIlson @egwilson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Gove’s policies drew on project 2025 style ideas. He has always been supported by Marshall. His ill informed dogma and narrow curriculum impacted negatively in state schools, increasing the number of disillusioned young people. His cult followers are still actively supporting the post doc at Ghent.

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Omz2468 @omz2468.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hi @bbcnews.bsky.social Reform are a party of 8 MPs, less than the SNP. Therefore, they do not have a 'Shadow Home Secretary' The Shadow Home Secretary is Chris Philp. Maybe you need BBC verify to check your own reporting...

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