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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My fear is we may ultimately all go mad watching British politics contort itself into a pretzel to avoid a couple of pence on the basic rate of income tax.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes
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Do the British Museum’s links with Palantir and BP bring it into disrepute? | Letter
Letter: Dr Chris Garrard responds to an article about George Osborne assuming that Palantir founder Peter Thiel’s visit to view the Bayeux tapestry would remain secret
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fact that he's wearing what look like leather-soled shoes and still balanced his weight perfectly to avoid a slide-and-glide straight onto his rear end adds to the skill level.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026
New York state prosecutors have reopened an investigation into an alleged 2024 gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity house, a district attorney confirmed, after a civil lawsuit filed this month by the alleged victim sparked renewed outrage reut.rs/4ykijE1
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Prosecutors reopen investigation into alleged 2024 gang rape at Cornell University
New York state prosecutors have reopened an investigation into an alleged 2024 gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity house, a district attorney confirmed on Monday, after a civil lawsuit filed ...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For 9 years this cat has attempted to get me to feed him at 4 am every day and for 9 years he has not succeeded one time and his only takeaway has been well it's certainly not happening if I don't try again, and I'm starting to find him quite inspirational
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 28/09/2026
Also - they say the moon is made of cheese, but I went to the cheese aisle and they weren't selling any moon. What the hell?
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026
Northern Ireland's Justice Minister, everyone...
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Journals should now probably be requiring peer reviewers to sign statements that they will not upload submissions they're reviewing into any external AI platform; wondering if any editorial boards are discussing this currently
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can you imagine its 2020 and that you’ve just become one of the most popular chancellors by forcing people into restaurants, and then some guy tells you that 6 years from now the banjo player from Mumford and Sons will be a hair away from calling you the P word
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Nit Nurse With Wound @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sweet Jesus. So concerned about stopping people right-clicking your public collection of images that you put the whole lot in a private DRM provider that goes under, and the whole lot is fucked. Sweet. Jesus.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good homage to 70 Up from @juderogers.bsky.social (although watch it first). And some good links to other pieces giving a bit more backstory to Nick Hitchon’s participation juderogers.substack.com/p/the-unansw...
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The unanswered questions of 70 Up
The death of Nick, goodbye to Neil, and the power of watching fourteen real lives in time-lapse – the return of my Mid-Week Culture Culture Blast
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Since I'm not going to Liverpool this year to discuss, a short state of play on UK EU relations and the Labour Party. The very short version - they're terrified. And trying to find ways to avoid the question none of which will work.
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etti-e.bsky.social @etti-e.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it’s as if a huge bouncy castle has self inflated in a teeny weeny space with one sneerer after another struggling to control it
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Once again: this is the most widely covered employment tribunal I think i’ve ever seen
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't want to just dunk on Bryant, who is new in post, but successive UK Govts have been profoundly complacent about the stability of NI even after several summers of rioting. That the Secretary of State is only coming to NI now is jaw dropping.
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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The most memorable, because it was the most frightening, moment of my journalistic life was being caught in the Garvaghy Road riot after Rosemary Nelson's murder. It was after the ban but when the stand-offs were still happening. Why would anyone let this back into NI? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...
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Drumcree: Protests as controversial Orange Order march due to go ahead for first time since 1997
The march down the mainly-nationalist Garvaghy Road, which in the 1990s sparked some of the most serious disorder in Northern Ireland's history, will go ahead after a series of courtroom challenges.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 27/09/2026
By the way, it would be incredibly simple for him not to do that and instead direct the discussion onto other issues where he could make a progressive case He actively chooses to do this. It's not a strategic choice, it's a political one.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We can read the equivocations mate here i circled em for you
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Something very depressing about hearing ‘Drumcree’ at the top of morning news Reminds me of my teenage years when it seemed to be a constant. Now feels like unionism banging the drum - geddit? - while the whole world has changed around them
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Gary Gannon TD @garygannontd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The FAI repeatedly told us players would be protected. Yet when a 24 year old acted on his conscience, they left him to stand alone & used a vote among his teammates to validate their own cowardice. This isn’t protecting a young player, it’s protecting themselves at his expense. #StopTheGame
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rees-Mogg is the modern Theresa May: someone whose racial politics were so extreme that they laid the foundation for someone else even worse, and then whose dismay at what they had created was intepreted as moderation. But he's still extreme and always will be.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UK politicians have spent much of the last 70 years fighting the European integration of their worst fears while the EU developed into the organisation that they claimed to want. Not helped by some appallingly bad commentary from the misinformed.
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
oh boy those are very very serious sounding crimes and he could go away for a very long time www.hampshire.police.uk/news/hampshi...
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Man arrested after boat damaged in English Channel
A man has been arrested after a boat that had an emergency responder on board was damaged in the English Channel.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's not as if these people weren't warned repeatedly that they were playing with fire. And as far as I'm aware, not one of them has offered so much as the beginnings of a mea culpa for their role in bringing the country to this point.
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Business schools will actually teach the collapse of British Higher Ed as a case study, won't they?
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tfw you’ve placed yourself at the epicentre of an international fascist network, but you’re still bursting with excitement at your own tweeness
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The first significant event in the newly independent principality of Piddington was a decision to select the newt as the national animal, reflecting optimism that the amphibian’s endangered status might help block plans to open a centre for 1,250 asylum seekers on neighbouring land.
The choice was announced on Thursday morning, the day after Piddington announced that villagers had voted overwhelmingly to leave the UK. Parish councillors were also thinking about asking local children to design a flag and considering whether the new principality’s national sport should be cricket or football.The second noteworthy event was the arrival of Daniel Thomas, who prefers to be called Danny Tommo, the leader of the new balaclava-wearing anti-migrant movementPatriot Platform, with an offer to rally his masked supporters, if the site is opened, “to protect women and children” locally.The leader of the parish council, Tim McNally, who led the independence movement, said he was happy that the village had “sent a message to the political jugular”, adding that he was now talking to other village leaders elsewhere in Britain, sharing a blueprint with advice on how to object to unpopular decisions imposed by central government.

In interviews earlier this week he said he would consider renaming the village Trumpington if the Donald Trump agreed to adopt the principality as the 51st US state. Since June he has been filming video appeals for support, speaking direct to the camera as he walks around the village on his @piddingtonroars X account. The campaign has attracted Elon Musk’s attention, prompting the SpaceX CEO to tweet to his 241.6 million followers: “Soon, this will happen to your town”, above a description of the plans for housing for asylum seekers in Oxfordshire. McNally responded: “Thank you, Elon, for helping our little village roar around the world.”
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The idea of small level secession is absolutely mind blowing to me. Wait until they understand how borders actually work
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Has George Osborne ever met the people who actually work in museums or wondered what their politics might be? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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George Osborne ‘thought Peter Thiel’s Bayeux tapestry visit would be secret’
British Museum chair tells Big Brue festival he thought no one would find out about the private viewing
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the This Is Fine comic is unfortunately probably the most prophetic piece of media of the 21st century
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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My Devil's Flower L-3 eating a bluebottle fly. It's amazingly capable of tackling a huge prey item at this early stage of development. They're one of the largest mantis species.😎 #naturephotography #nature #macrophotography #macro #prayingmantis #mantis #insect #eastcoastkin #photography
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I can't explain the impulse, but it is wrong for Narnia to have a subreddit. It's just far too modern a concept.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So yeah, it’s really tough out there when even other creative professionals are working against you. I should add, the almost universal response when you work with composers is ‘god, I’m SO glad we replaced the samples with a real musician here’. We’re good at our jobs!
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Quite telling that the response there was "oh no, terrible art" rather than "oh yeeeaaaah, people having the time and resources to enjoy creating even if the end result disappoints them, joy"
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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etti-e.bsky.social @etti-e.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
younger brother in Berlin thinks he’s allowed a proxy vote in Holborn StP… so yes happy to cast that for him
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etti-e.bsky.social @etti-e.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ouuuufff
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Mike Batt @mikebatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A little conversation I had on Twitter 🙂
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etti-e.bsky.social @etti-e.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ever the more pushing for unthinkable unworkable schemes what the hell has happened to lp
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LiLBaz @lilbazza.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mrs Baz just pointed out to me there has been this, so that's at least something
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Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek and others join more than 1,250 academics in joint letter against repression of LGBTI+ people in Turkey
A joint call from more than 1,250 academics, including Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek, Susan Stryker, Jasbir Puar, Elizabeth Anderson, Etienne Balibar and Peter Hallward.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...
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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I’m Andy Burnham, it’s obvious! You get a photo opp with brave men and women in their gear. You get to go for a ride on their big orange boat! You get immediate political goodwill! What are we even doing here?
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"
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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These cuts disproportionately target the arts & humanities: the Business School loses only three courses; the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures loses 48 – many of these are joint degrees, removing the optional breadth of study which has always been one of the appeals of a Scottish degree
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s important not the let the blue insanity of the telegraph distract you from how MASSIVELY far to the right the times now is.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Time to deport all these fighting age men terrorising our patriotic lifeboat volunteers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
RNLI facility had been targeted by activists trying to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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