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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 50m

It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit. Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1h

It’s the 90th anniversary of Cable Street. Today, as then, no paseran ✊

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 23m

At Cable Street, 90 years ago, the people of London’s East End fought Mosely’s fascists and were successful. Unfortunately, the fascists are back. And, as Tony Benn reminded us, the same battles have to be fought over and over again.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 5h

So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 6h

Picture reaching for something on a high shelf and coming up short. You don’t give up; instead, you find a stool, carry it over, and climb up. Something remarkable: You held the goal in your mind, identified what you needed, and executed a plan. No training required. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..

Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 6h

A reading pile for those interested in the history of anti-fascism in Britain

A People’s History of the Anti-Nazi League - Geoff Brown
Physical Resistance - Dave Hann
Our Flag Stays Red - Phil Piratin
London Jews and British Communism 1933-1945 Henry Felix Srbernik
When We Touched the Sky - David Renton
Black Star - Anandi Ramamurthy
Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider - Satnam Virdee
British Antifascism and the Holocaust, 1945-79 - Joshua Cohen
Never Again - David Renton
Say it Loud - edited by Brian Richardson
Beating the Fascists - Sean Birchall
No Platform - Evan Smith
The 43 Group - Morris Beckman
No Free Speech for Fascists - David Renton
Remembering Cable Street - edited by Tony Kushner & Nadia Valman
We Fight Fascists - Daniel Sonabend
Anti-Fascism in Britain - Nigel Copsey

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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 02/10/2026

Intrigued to see the Conservative conference will feature a speech on "press freedom" next week while they ban lobby journalists such as @josiahmortimer.bsky.social from attending their conference.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 6h

Arguably true and I say that as a scientist). Discuss. (By Kathryn Schulz in the New Yorker).

Text in image reads:

With due respect to the innovations of science, fiction remains the most powerful microscope, telescope, seismograph, X-ray machine, and particle accelerator we've ever discovered a way to examine the world at every scale, to reverse causality, to alter time, to identify fundamental properties, to reveal our inner workings and control the conditions of the universe.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 6h

Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse. Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed. Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.

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Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says

Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more

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patrickcherry @patrickcherry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On this Peter Oborne column in @bylinetimes.bsky.social September issue, I can certainly 100% agree. The World Tonight and the Midnight news cut by BBC News does feel like a bereavement. Comments on Rajan, and Mishal Hussain - yes, quite right. BBC, beloved, but heading in the wrong direction.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 9h

ALERTE: PUMPKIN WOLFE

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 22h

Have some fun with the Latin on the Bayeux Tapestry here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yjW... It's dead easy.... and gives an extra dimension to the pics!

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The Bayeux Tapestry: Britain’s lost Latin masterpiece

YouTube video by Instant Classics

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I spoke to Salman Rushdie and Rachel Eliza Griffiths about their new documentary and surviving the worst thing that ever happened to them

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Rod Jones @rodshelf.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Fox sitting on top of a Yorkshire dry stone wall

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rachel Johnson who was interviewing her didn't push back at all and even seemed to be agreeing with her. Here's a fuller account from the police. Absolutely scandalous that an MP is not condemning this act of terrorism

Detective Chief Superintendent James
Derham, who leads local policing in the
Bexley area, said: "It was miraculous
that nobody was killed or seriously
injured in the large explosion caused
by Rees

"He showed a complete disregard for
the welfare and safety of the people
who live in, or were travelling through,
the area at the time of the explosion -
all because he was unhappy with the
ULEZ scheme

"CCTV from a bus travelling down the
road at the time shows how it narrowly
missed the blast of debris by seconds

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Slow off the mark with this one, but a great Q&A with my bosses here. I think it sums up very well that the gap between who people - even lifelong fans - think the Pogues are and who they actually are is massive. I’ve witnessed people discovering that so much. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...

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‘Shane was rascality personified’: the Pogues on their late frontman, anti-Irish prejudice and the feud over Fairytale of New York

The Celtic punk band’s co-founders Spider Stacy and James Fearnley take your questions about Shane MacGowan, ruffling the feathers of trad musicians and putting Laurence Fox in his place

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Far from tackling violence against women, far-right activity has actively disrupted frontline women’s services – and ultimately left victims more vulnerable.” Including services aimed at providing protection against domestic violence. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

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‘Fear is part of our life now’: women’s groups thrown into disarray…

Anti-immigration protestors are disrupting services aimed at those they claim to protect

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 03/10/2026

EVERY UK MP needs to read this You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this.

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

GB News have now run up losses of more than £141m, according to their annual accounts published this week. The channel relentlessly spreads hate and misinformation – and hate and misinformation should never be profitable. #stopfundinghate

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

US forces to leave Iraq despite fears Iran will exploit withdrawal. All over the world illegal US wars have killed millions, fermented instability, bitterness and possibilities of extremist regimes. Corporations profited. When will US and its allies realise that they can't rule the world?

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US forces to leave last bases in Iraq despite fears Iran will exploit withdrawal

Iraqi security experts have warned the departure could give Tehran and its allies free rein while also risking a comeback from ISIS.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of this series will have lighter episodes but I am trying to make conversations about important subjects - abuse, mental health, bigotry etc which are not sensationalised though we will also deal with love and creativity

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My new paper, just out: Interrogating Evidential Pluralism: A Critical Comparison of Approaches to Incorporating Mechanisms in Evidence Synthesis #philippic philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/arti...

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View of Interrogating Evidential Pluralism

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Suella Braverman's book PATRIOT came out today. It's 503 grams, costs £30 and tells the story of one politician's struggle against reality. Mine is currently 99p on kindle. Weighs nothing. Is all about traitors and villains... And people love it. Choices www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2FHD18...

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Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter

Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter eBook : English, Otto: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'As men in balaclavas try to stop lifeboats saving people, something different is happening on the coast of North Devon. In a community changed by an asylum hotel, new friendships are being forged – and a group of refugee schoolgirls are learning to surf like the locals.' 🏄🏽‍♀️ youtu.be/cP5JCtqOgnM?...

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The refugee girls from Afghanistan and Iraq who escaped the Taliban learn to surf Devon waves

YouTube video by The Mirror

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Only Reform will take £5 million bribes, accept illegal foreign donations, let convicted fraudsters bankroll them, buy houses in their girlfriend's name to avoid tax, help crypto billionaires get richer and do fuck all for ordinary people. 😊

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And it is surely the same in Gaza…or worse. bsky.app/profile/prof...

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AND “nearly 33% had either been displaced from their home or their loved ones as a result of the war.” How do you think we’d fare if we were regularly subjected to bombing, towns and cities destroyed and family, friends and colleagues killed or injured?

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No wonder this study found 1/3rd of Ukrainian civilians show symptoms of PTSD/CPTSD. “> 71% of respondents said their neighbourhood had been hit by shelling, 44.5% had either lost or had a loved one seriously injured as a result of the conflict“ and … theconversation.com/one-in-three...

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One in three Ukrainian civilians estimated to meet the criteria for PTSD or complex PTSD – new study

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DamonTheDemon @damonthedemon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Few Highlights from 1980s Miners strike Mass unemployment and deindustrialisation 1981 inner city riots HIV Section 28 Poll Tax riots Housing crisis and right to buy Hillsborough Mad Cow disease Decimation of the welfare state NHS outsourcing / chronic underfunding

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1/ Hundreds of Russian soldiers near Lyman surrendered because they were starving and drinking their own urine, according to first-hand accounts from frontline soldiers. The officers are said to have taken the radios and ran away, while ordering the men not to retreat. ⬇️

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

18/ "We were starving here," one man says. He ate properly for the first time in a month and a half when he was taken captive.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

17/ Another soldier says that "we had one person there who died from dehydration." Manankov says that they had no food, and "had to eat tree bark and grass." The men made broth from nettles.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

16/ One junior officer who remained and surrendered, Captain Third Rank Alexander Geennadievich Manankov, says: "We had no water at our positions. We had to drink water from puddles, we had to drink our own urine."

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Those who have that mind set are part of the reason our defences are not in the state they need to be. Look at Iran. America hasn’t even “beaten” Iran.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This “European political elites need to understand that if they say European security isn't possible without the US, they are actually saying that European security isn't possible. For many reasons, they don't want to accept that, but they urgently need to” Europe is bigger than 🇺🇸. It’s possible

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone in Europe, given what the Trump administration has been saying and doing since Jan 2025. The current US is not an ally. Even if a different US administration eventually comes to power, the old security relationship won't come back.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Might you have been dropped on your head repeatedly as a child?

Bizarre speculation from Isabel Oakeshott, speculating that UK national suspects re the RAF base somehow have diplomatic immunity

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination” Hear Mary Oliver, in her lovely time-rasped voice, read one of the greatest poems ever written: www.themarginalian.org/2014/09/24/m...

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Mary Oliver Reads Her Beloved Poem “Wild Geese”

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination…”

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/09/2026

Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our planet is heating faster than at any time in the geological record. That's terrifying. But here's the hopeful part: most of us are worried and want action — we just stay silent, assuming no one else cares. 7 in 10 people rarely or never talk about it. So the silence feeds itself

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Esther Rantzen hosts Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of children from the Holocaust youtu.be/OqqbM1B-mPY?...

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Holocaust hero Sir Nicholas Winton (That's Life - 1988)

YouTube video by Tops of the top

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Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm so very sad to hear of the death of Esther Ranzen who played an important role in reuniting me with Nicky Winton - the man who saved my life. It's so desperately sad that she couldn't choose assisted dying as was her wish.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/09/2026

🚨 We’re calling on Ofcom to open a formal investigation into Nigel Farage presenting GB News shows and whether his programme on 15 September 2026 was within the rules on impartiality ⚠️ Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias.

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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain

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