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Graeme McGregor

@graememcgregor.bsky.social
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Human rights campaigner on issues including migration, mental health and homelessness. Views may be parroted from someone more intelligent. "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented... but then you read." James Baldwin

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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 10h
Oh no. Please. Come back... 🙄
theguardian.com
Apparent exodus of super-rich suggests UK is no longer billionaires’ playground
If recent complaints are believed, London and the UK are no longer welcoming for ultra-high net worth individuals
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We've already invented a number of machines that can cover 100m faster than Usain Bolt. Cars, planes, trains, motorbikes, bicycles, etc. This is so fucking stupid. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Chinese robot runs 100m sprint quicker than Usain Bolt’s world record
Chinese ⁠smartphone maker Honor’s self-developed humanoid ⁠robot Lightning ⁠ran ​the 100m in 9.32 seconds, ⁠beating the human world ⁠record, China’s ​state broadcaster ‌reported
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The Guardian makes it very hard to support The Guardian. I know this is a little tongue-in-cheek, but this is still just pathetic. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
theguardian.com
Ditch the giant handbag, don’t overdo the botox and 16 other ways to extend your ‘hotspan’
If ‘lifespan’ is the time you’re alive and ‘healthspan’ the years you’re disease-free, then ‘hotspan’ is the period you’re attractive and vibrant. Want to increase yours? Experts share their tips
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Since I'm not working now, here's some recent sketches.
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emmylou harris's baseball pager 🗽🫱🏿‍🫲🏻 @baseballmad.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I think LLMs are genuinely transformative for writing code. and also that a lot of software people, especially the higher-ups in big-name tech companies - because they are incurious idiots - assumed LLMs would be transformational for everyone else's lives too. nope. mainly yours, actually
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
After a very challenging few weeks, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma has cheered me up no end. Long live queer horror weirdness and hilarity.
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Once again an exploitative and profit-driven industry tries to make the general public, and our individual actions, responsible for their greed and neglect. www.watermagazine.co.uk/2026/07/01/l...
watermagazine.co.uk
Let's Save Water campaign launches as public underestimate their daily water use by more than 100 litres - Water Magazine
Leading scientists and experts join forces to back the launch of a four-year campaign to challenge how society thinks about and uses water.
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Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 21/08/2026
We're hiring a Legal Fellow! This 1-year fellowship is an opportunity for an aspiring barrister or solicitor to gain practical legal experience & specialist policy expertise in the fight against corruption & economic crime. London-based. Deadline: 13 Sep. www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/spotlig...
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Queen Mary University of London @qmul.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Air pollution stunts children’s lung growth. New Queen Mary research found that improvements in air quality after the introduction of London’s ULEZ are associated with accelerated lung growth in children. Read more: shorturl.at/Jx86o
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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common-wealth.org
Unpunished and Undeterred: Corporate Accountability After Grenfell
Legal frameworks governing corporate malpractice are not fit for purpose.
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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Grenfell Tower cladding firm Arconic paid almost twice as much compensation to its shareholders for economic loss from misleading statements about the cladding than to the estates of the victims and to survivors of the fire: Report from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social: www.common-wealth.org/publications...
common-wealth.org
Unpunished and Undeterred: Corporate Accountability After Grenfell
Legal frameworks governing corporate malpractice are not fit for purpose.
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I don't know what to do with this kind of question. I've seen a huge amount of coverage of Farage's lies and dubious claims and financial scandals. Not from the Telegraph or the Mail, who back Reform, but elsewhere. Does it make any sense to refer to "the media" as a monolith in this way?
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is simply a far-right policy. Absolutely disgusting. www.the-independent.com/news/uk/poli...
the-independent.com
Tories unveil ‘unworkable’ plan to evict foreign nationals from social housing
Conservatives accused of copying controversial Reform policy while government data shows nine out of 10 social lets already go to UK nationals
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
www.desmog.com/2026/08/04/r...
desmog.com
Investigate Reform MP Over Donation, Campaigners Demand
Sarah Pochin, Reform UK MP for Runcorn and Helsby, is facing pressure over a £5,000 donation from food industry millionaires that stand to benefit from her campaigning.  According to an investigation ...
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Water companies across England have spilled sewage on average more than 1,000 times a day, for five years - all while they keep hiking up our bills. If you want to know how much more your water company is charging you - and how much they're polluting - you can use this new tool.
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Happy Trans+ Pride to everyone celebrating and protesting for trans rights today!! 🏳️‍⚧️🎉
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🔴 NEW - Farage claims he didn’t have to register the gifts from Harborne and Cottrell because, before June 2024, he was an “influencer and broadcaster” not a politician. Yet that claim is disproven by Farage’s own parliamentary filings…
open.substack.com
Farage’s biggest enemy: himself
More evidence against the Reform leader, your honour...
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Stop Sex Matters spreading transphobia - email the Charity Commission and the Culture Minister: goodlaw.social/8968d9
goodlaw.social
Stop Sex Matters spreading transphobic hate
The anti-trans pressure group Sex Matters are running a campaign of hate, spewing abuse online and in the media – and putting trans people in danger. Sex Matters say they work to “protect everybody’s ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/07/2026
Black doctors in England four times less likely to get training places than white counterparts
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Black doctors in England four times less likely to get training places than white counterparts
For one placement, black applicants had a less than 1 in 100 chance of being offered a place, NHS data shows Black doctors in England are four times less likely to be offered a training place than their white counterparts, according to analysis. As part of their medical training, doctors across the NHS are able to apply to placements within specific branches of practice such as psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology, and emergency medicine. Continue reading...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/07/2026
Elon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, says Musk’s father
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Elon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, says Musk’s father
Errol Musk says far-right activist is ‘a fine young man’ and held meetings with Russian business figures Elon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, according to the billionaire X owner’s father, who was with the British far-right activist in Moscow as he encouraged anti-migration protests in Britain. Robinson – whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – appeared last month in Moscow, from where he issued calls for supporters to take to the streets after a knife attack in Belfast. He shared video of himself in a luxury Moscow hotel with the older Musk, whose son has been a vocal supporter of Robinson. Continue reading...
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Let's hope none of these councillors use any public, council resources to campaign for Farage in Clacton, while they neglect their local constituents... www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/glouces...
gloucestershirelive.co.uk
Backlash as councillors vow to 'camp out' for Farage campaign
Reform says its Gloucestershire representatives 'cannot wait' to get down to the seaside town 180 miles away
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
With only a few days til the Commons votes on this amendment, please email your MP and tell them to support a £100k cap on political donations. Politics shouldn't be shaped by those with the most money. We need to level the playing field and return political power to the public - this is our chance.
action.goodlawproject.org
Back the cap on political donations
Tell MPs to back Stella Creasy’s amendment
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Just when I think I can't be angry about any more things... Thanks to @martinbarrow.bsky.social for this investigation. open.substack.com/pub/martinba...
open.substack.com
Kerching children in care: the scandal of CareTech
Despite Government promises to get tough on profiteering in children’s social care, businesses continue to plunder local councils
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I want to go to there. www.cbsnews.com/news/interst...
cbsnews.com
Interstellar comet that zoomed past Earth could be oldest and coldest object ever seen in solar system, astronomers say
Exactly where the comet 3I/ATLAS came from within the Milky Way remains a mystery.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reminder that Burnham's right hand man Josh Simons IN FEB had to resign after Labour Together scandal Earlier this month Democracy for Sale revealed that PR firm he hired to discredit journalists accused him of making "wrong" and "misleading statements" democracyforsale.substack.com/p/wrong-in-n...
democracyforsale.substack.com
"Wrong in numerous important respects": What PR firm privately told Josh Simons
Revealed: APCO legal letter warned Simons to cease making “misleading statements” about PR firm’s “incredibly useful” dossier on journalists investigating Labour Together.
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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 18/06/2026
Facial age estimation tech is being rolled out in the UK asylum system ⚠️ A damning investigation from @lighthousereports.com reveals that the Home Office’s own assessment of these tools found them to be deeply flawed. Yet it's being rolled out regardless of the potentially dangerous consequences.
independent.co.uk
Home Office knew AI age checks for migrants were flawed — but rolled it out anyway
Exclusive: Government advisors describe the tool as ‘hideously flawed’ amid concern facial age estimation has ‘baked-in racial bias’ — and can wrongly identify a 14-year-old as an adult
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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
British taxpayer money is being used in France to water cannon people seeking asylum - a violent practice banned in Great Britain. This is absolutely sickening. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
French police authorised to use water cannon on asylum seekers in £660m deal with UK
Refugee charity says decision to let riot police use water cannon, which are banned in Great Britain, is ‘sickening’
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is absolutely grotesque. Reform politicians seem absolutely dead-set on making sure everyone thinks they hate women. Wonder why that could be 🤔
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Labour really isn't the party that comes off badly here... bylinetimes.com/2026/06/16/r...
bylinetimes.com
Reform Councillors Pose with Banner Saying They'd 'Rather Vote for Jimmy Savile than Labour'
Reform hit by backlash in the Makerfield by-election as they're accused of "making light of one of Britain's most prolific paedophiles"
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Is this to distract from Robert Kenyon and Reform's anti-choice, anti-abortion views (and Head of Policy), as well as their extensive ties to global, Christian conservative lobbyists, Alliance Defending Freedom?
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The government is keen to claim that 90+ per cent of parents support a social media ban for under-16s. But these other stats say a lot about those parents' beliefs. Basically, they think social media harms *other* kids, but not their own. Why? Maybe because of how media reports the issue?
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
CW: Description of rape.
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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow
Photo of a small group of mostly men wearing black, with masks and balaclavas, surrounded by a Police Scotland cordon in the bottom of the photo, in the foreground. In the background, a very large colourful crowd of people with saltires, trade union banners, and hand-made signs in support of migrants and against racism have turned up to gather to show solidarity, and the far right guys were hoping to thwart that. They didn't.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/06/2026
Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 13/06/2026
Harry Potter shops raided after London Centric investigation…. HMRC officials seize till receipts… ministers treating now central London gift shops as a tax enforcement issue…. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
londoncentric.media
Harry Potter shops raided after London Centric investigation
Plus: Is London’s iPhone theft era really coming to an end? • A £9.5m mansion next to Henry VIII's childhood home • Go underground for your phone coverage
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Ah yes, what a fruitful "debate" this will be. Not at all designed to create division, clickbait, outrage and ugliness. /s
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It's predictable but also transparently cynical the way that media outlets are now devoting far more airtime and column inches to stories about stabbings.
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I get drawn into far too many "debates" about crime and immigration. But I've noticed that there's very little research on crime and poverty / socioeconomic background, and this issue gets very little attention. That seems... Bizarre?
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Who knows what will happen, but I expect the Padel fad (Fadel?) to collapse in the next 5-10 years, as people lose interest in "overpriced soft tennis for adults". If it happens, they'll be followed quickly by all the private equity investors jumping ship. Many cities are already saturated. 🤞🏻
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I'm only around half way through, but nobody ever told me how funny The Bell Jar is. Plath is very funny, very daring (especially for the era) and, obviously, writes such beautiful prose.
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Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
RIP Anthony Head, who - as Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - was a mainstay of my adolescence.
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Giles: The Earth is Definitely Doomed
ALT: Giles: The Earth is Definitely Doomed
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 05/06/2026
Reuters interviewed nine former Tesla data trainers. Some of the people who trained Full Self-Driving reportedly won't ride in a car that's using it.
boingboing.net
Tesla FSD is so good its trainers won't ride in it
Tesla's Full Self-Driving is so ready for the future that some of the people who trained it reportedly will not get in the car. Reuters interviewed nine former Tesla data…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/06/2026
Nowak murder: force accused of ‘anti-white bias’ five times more likely to stop black people
theguardian.com
Nowak murder: force accused of ‘anti-white bias’ five times more likely to stop black people
The Hampshire force whose officers responded to the murder of Henry Nowak have a higher than average racial disparity The police force accused of anti-white racism following the murder of Henry Nowak is over five times more likely to subject black people to a stop and search than white people, according to the latest figures. The racial disparity in the Hampshire force is higher than the average for England and Wales, and has gotten worse in recent years. Continue reading...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
your regular reminder that Reform published a draft bill in May last year which promised to deregulate the crypto industry and cut stamp duty on transactions from 24% to 10%
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
61% of all political donations in the last quarter came from just 14 people Reform took in £9.3m from a handful of super rich donors British democracy is being bought. We urgently need action to take the money out of our politics
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