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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Like all great writers, it's a time to pay tribute to the words they left us with

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Martin Wolf's warning on democracy in the US - gift link here as.ft.com/r/541e4624-5...

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

📌 ICYMI — MattGPT: The Sorry Tale of Matt Goodwin’s AI-Assisted, Fake-Quote-Filled New Book It turns out that even ChatGPT has a more stringent approach to accuracy than the former professor, Matt Goodwin, reports Mic Wright

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MattGPT: The Sorry Tale of Matt Goodwin’s AI-Assisted, Fake-Quote-Filled New Book

It turns out that even ChatGPT has a more stringent approach to accuracy than the former professor, Matt Goodwin, reports Mic Wright

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen! It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week. Regular as clockwork... So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread! PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji? This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚 🤣 I digress! 1/19

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Ben Graham
@BenGrahamUK
X.com
Britain has been a Christian nation for over 1,400 years.
Through wars, plagues, and countless kings, Easter has always been celebrated.
Yet now, Cadbury won't even use the word
'Easter' on their eggs.
When did celebrating British traditions become controversial?

Above a photo of Easter Eggs

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ClIr Jaymey Mclvor *
@McivorJaymey
x.com
Any chance I can get an Easter Egg please M&S?
Will they ever learn
It's like they do it on purpose to offend.
Easter is not National Chocolate Day.
Which extremists are you trying hard to not offend?
@marksandspencer @GBNEWS

Above images of Easter Eggs in M&S

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"And by golly if there's one thing I simply will not stand for, it's violations of all the norms of human morality and international law."

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 28/02/2026

inside the White House

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Siege @tellumsiege.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Roses are Red Violets are Blue Black and White are All I see In my infancy

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Your poems are shit, and so are your stunts. You shout at hotels, you wife-beating cunts.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/02/2026

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him theonion.com/man-who-lost-everythin…

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

It's genuinely astonishing to me the number of people willing to claim with a straight face that this word association tshotchke that didn't exist a few years ago is absolutely necessary for the conduct of science.

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 18/01/2026

I’m old enough to remember when many of the voices saying very little tonight told us very loudly that Obama and Biden were anti-British.

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Mark Maynard @marmk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Hannan is as thick as mince.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

How it started ... How it's going

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Here is the response by UK Prime Minister Starmer - categorical pushback against, but also no signal of coordinating the response with the other Europeans but rather 'pursuing this directly with the US administration'

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

First statement from Macron: “Tariff threats are unacceptable and have no place in this context. Should they materialise, Europeans will respond in a united and coordinated manner. We will ensure that European sovereignty is upheld. In this spirit, I will speak with our European partners.”

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George Maddocks @georgemaddocks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Sat in a hotel lobby. Found a unexpected AI benefit in as much that I can now hope against hope that this grotesque cover of 'Here Comes the Sun' was a atrocity generated without the involvement of a human.

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard

hateful woman JK Rowling - "Iran appears to be unusually full of Gryffindors"

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station

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David Chen @davechen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

For some reason this tweet comes to mind today.

A tweet by grosdoriane reads: This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book*

uh oh

*Frantically starts flipping though pages*

uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

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acab rangoon @mid-skeets.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

oh you’re in mensa? name 3 million times you’ve told someone about it

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

And, repeating myself just to be clear: The true story (Fraudsters stole money and pushed off accountability for a while by saying it was racist to probe it) is losing market share to a wilder, less true story (citizen journalists uncovered the scheme that Dems covered up to steal elections)

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 28/12/2025

Stuff like this winds me up. The absurd noblesse oblige. “Social leadership is important”- noone asked you for it. Noone wants it. You think you should have it because you have land. Well good for you. But it’s not the 18th century. Just shuffle off into the night.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 28/12/2025

Relative independence 😂 yes because the hereditary peers have a real cross section of party affiliation and have no *quite literal* landed interest whatsoever. Risible stuff.

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PhantomDeeks 🫶 @deeks549.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Sex is like pork. If you really like it, you'll eat the butt

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George Maddocks @georgemaddocks.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Oh hell yeah. Daddy's getting some pudding in 2026

This a famous still from the Lion King with a sexualised Lioness in it.

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Enough please of the "but Farage is a master politician/communicator" trope. Sad truth is, there's always been a significant appetite for selfishness and bigotry. It just needed someone shameless and venal enough to pander to it. And a media shallow enough to prioritise the viewing figures.

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Ishan Kolhatkar @ishankolhatkar.com · 06/12/2025

It really is hard to overstate how amazing the Gameboy felt in 1989 as an 11 year old. Tetris, Super Mario World, the portability and battery life, all mind blowing for the time. The few colour handhelds around the same time were impressive sure, but somehow just not it.

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Chris Gough @toulousain.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

An elegant and splendlidly contemptuous swatting of the horribly contemptible and profoundly dishonest Farage - and a very good dig at Farage's Trumpian "lowest grade presenter" jibe at Ms Barnett for skewering him so effectively. Well done, Alan Rusbridger!

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Moyeen Islam @moyeen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

NGL, until y'day i thought the FIFA Peace Prize was an elaborate internet joke.

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

now that it's back in the news, a reminder that Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is such a satisfying mock-doc because it speaks more clearly about Trump/Epstein than basically any news coverage (even though it's joking) www.avclub.com/jeffrey-epst...

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Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile writes a damning birthday note to the true-crime industry

The Onion mockumentary Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile asks and answers hard-hitting questions about a news cycle almost beyond parody.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Very interesting piece, including the extract below which has the ring of truth

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Public trust in media (Reuters/Oxford) 2024 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

i literally went for a drink at the french house literally this afternoon what are we even doing here

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/11/2025

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

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