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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Following the news that Manchester City FC has been found guilty of 114 breaches of the PL's rules and regulations, @josimarfootball.bsky.social has lifted the paywall on articles of ours focusing on MCFC and its commercial partners since 2018. Links follow in this thread.

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The Men Behind Manchester City: The Dark Side | Josimar

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 18/09/2026

I‘d missed this, but what Jacqui Smith says here is what we call ‘a lie‘. The government has deliberately tried to dissuade foreign students from studying here & now tells us it‘s our fault if they don‘t come. Oh, and we should try to attract them even though the government wants them to stay away.

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Chris Howe (Rail Focus) 🏳️‍🌈 @railfocus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Without wanting to sound like a conspiracy theorist. It definitely seems like disabled, ADHD, Autistic people are being fitted up so they can be blamed for society's ills. Being disabled isn't "trendy" but journalists attacking disabled people definitely seems to be a new trend. 1/2

Headline reads; young women, nicknamed sickfluencers are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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Ingrid Ivarsen @ingridfi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This was in the Byline Times article on him from a few weeks ago

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A sign of v poor understanding of complex messy settlement reforms is many newsrooms would be v surprised to hear current proposals force junior architects to leave, among 250k people (chefs, technicians, scientists) if only exempt care workers. By accident/design unknowm bsky.app/profile/heri...

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Reunite Families UK @rfuk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

We put the Home Office's own numbers to the test. 👀 A spouse visa costs £482 to process — applicants are charged £2,064. That's a 77% profit margin on people trying to stay with the person they love. Summer of Hope funds free legal advice & wellbeing support. 👉 actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Universities and students are not enclosed units, ivory towers separate from the rest of their local communities. They eat and drink (a lot) including spending lots of money in local pubs and restaurants. They shop. They get buses, taxis and Ubers. They put money into local economies.

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Grant Stoner @supercrip1994.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

With layoffs at Xbox, sources indicate accessibility efforts have also been affected. What was once a champion of accessibility is now a shell of its former self, unsure if accessibility even has a place at the new Xbox. Read my first report for @aftermath.site here: aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs...

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Layoffs Leave The Future Of Xbox’s Award-Winning Accessibility Efforts In Doubt

Former workers say Xbox cuts leave less resources and experts to make sure games are developed, labelled, and tested with accessibility in mind

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

If Global Banking School is the future of British Higher Education, count me out. Count everybody like me, out. Find someone else willing to pretend to teach you in decaying office buildings while taking your very real money.

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"The UK’s biggest university is a private company
Supporters say franchised providers widen access to further education, but others doubt the real value of their ‘no frills’ courses"

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Adam Hug @adamhug.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Ending rough sleeping is a vital goal for the new government but is a deeply complex challenge. Delivering on this commitment will require cross departmental working at all levels of government and should be a component of the devo agenda for new govt to drive local collaboration on this shared goal

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 20/07/2026

Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM

Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Great to see the Guardian champion the SHAPE (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) subjects, but this piece gives impression that they are expensive, whereas many are 'cheap to teach' subjects subsidising more expensive subjects, mainly in STEM and medicine. The crisis demands better understanding.

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The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is very disappointing. Such an important and undervalued brief which was for years held by a succession of uninterested itinerants. A prisons minister who genuinely cared and who was starting to see results.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Could AI be conscious?

Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We aren’t a serious country.

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.

These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need.

In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I'll say it again, as I do almost every day in some context: the way policy is set up right now, most British universities will either radically downsize or close in this Parliament or the next. Only a small elite of c.10 to 20 will be recognisable as univs at all. How do people not know this?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The facade is cracking

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A few token places on safe and legal routes for refugees cannot in any way mitigate or atone for what this government has done and is doing on asylum or immigration policy. A thread trying to be clear-eyed about this.

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is absolutely damning.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

so a friend on a mailing list I've been on forever said he couldn't understand why so many people had wanted Starmer to stand down when he was obviously so much better than those who came before. I did my best to explain

Starmer is not only incapable of making difficult decisions, he seems not to understand it's his job. I've had it from multiple sources that he gets angry when officials decline to say which course of action is better, even though sometimes it's not clear which is better, it's a trade off, or all options have risks. This is why there is no coherence to our immigration or tax policies.

Starmer refuses to meet MPs unless it's absolutely unavoidable. He doesn't like ministers who promote their own ideas but doesn't seem to have any of his own. He has utterly failed to articulate how he wants to change the country or what he thinks his government is for.

He has presided over policies that have taken rights from protestors, migrants, refugees and trans people. He has made speeches and pursued immigration reforms intended to impress the far right, who are never going to vote for him, while alienating his own voters.

He has seemed entirely disinterested in the fact the higher education system - which is a competitive advantage, a major export industry and a huge plank of regional economies, all at once - is collapsing.

And on multiple occasions when coked up racist thugs have been committing acts of violence and mass civil disorder on our streets, he has been, at best, reluctant to get in front of a camera and say these people are racist thugs who will be punished by the full force of the law. Pensioners who support the Palestinians, by contrast, he is happy to throw away the key.

Oh, and there's the small matter of last month's election results which suggest that under his leadership Labour is genuinely on course for extinction as a party less than two years after winning a huge majority.

Obviously this government's politics is much closer to mine than any of the Tory administrations since 2010, but measured in terms of ability to actually do many of the jobs that being prime minister involves - making decisions, managing his MPs, articulating a vision and then moving Britain towards it, running the fucking government - I think it is entirely possible to argue that Starmer is worse than any of his immediate predecessors except Truss.

Andy Burnham is, to put it mildly, a deeply flawed politician. It's possible this gets us nowhere. But I find it extremely hard to envision how rolling the dice could make things worse.

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Reunite Families UK @rfuk.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

If you, like us think that your salary must not determine whether you can live here in your own country of birth or adoption with your family sign our petition: reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/sign/

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Reunite Families UK @rfuk.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This Father's Day, we remember thousands of dads separated from their families by the UK's harsh visa rules: stuck abroad because their partners in the UK cannot meet the requirements or unable to bring their family to the UK. So we ask children what their Daddy means to them?

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I thought it'd be a swell idea to create a starter pack of journalists who specialise in throwing light on the dark(er) side of football. It's small for two reasons: there aren't many of us; and I've probably forgotten plenty of excellent people. Thank you for suggesting additions in replies.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It seems a good day to remind people that in the UK 3 times as many people work in Indian restaurants or for McDonalds as in the whole coal and steel industry. 5 times as many are academic staff at universities. If Labour does not understand its electorate, there is no way to appeal to it.

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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I don’t have strong views on the u16 social media ban but if these platforms are so harmful, why does the govt still use them for comms? Likewise, while kids (and everyone else!) should be encouraged to socialise in-person, they now have far fewer options following brutal cuts to youth services

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Marguerite @margodee19.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A ban also stops the Government from having to actually legislate on what social media companies are doing to stop harmful content being produced and shared. Just put a blindfold on your child, never mind that adults can still see all this harmful garbage day and night.

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Cicely Marston @cicely.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

So the UK government didn’t leave X when it produced a deluge of abuse images including CSAM and now Starmer is lecturing us on child safety? What about holding social media companies to account?

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Tolarian Community College @tolariancommunitycollege.com · 08/06/2026

Our Shuffle Up And Play Season 5 Kickstarter is live now! Show your support and walk away with some sweet swag: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tol... #magicthegathering

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/06/2026

I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown

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Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh @asianstudiesed.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Forthcoming guest lectures at the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies later this week

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Just heard that the great John Blanche passed on. No illustrator had more of an impact on my childhood. Blanche is probably the single person who most influenced the aesthetic of Warhammer 40,000 and a lot of modern fantasy / sci-fi as a result

I don't know how to describe this drawing but there's a dude in maybe a labcoat with a cravat who looks half rotten and slightly burnt with a crazy toothless smile holding up a letter that says pontifex maximus. A big demon looking biomechanical priest thing stands behind him. They are surrounded by trash and ruins.

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A simply devastating read

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/05/2026

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

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Support Alex's Emergency Relocation + Next Steps on Give In May

Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/05/2026

1/ I know I'm not the 1st or 50th person to say this, but having just experienced it the YouTube account flagging/deletion process is INSANE for something I know a lot of people rely on for their livelihoods. I do not understand how content creators stay sane. Here's what happened this to me week:

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 02/05/2026

teaching fellow in Chinese studies at Durham's School of Modern Languages and Cultures durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Teaching Fellow in Chinese Studies

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Scott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Next week, my younger brother Craig will attempt a massive physical challenge by climbing 36 Munros (Scottish mountains with a peak over 3,000ft/914m) over 6 days while carrying an additional 36lbs of weight. Why would he do that, you might ask? Good question! Read on...

Craig Brown pretending not to know he's being photographed

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Reunite Families UK @rfuk.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Being British or settled doesn’t mean your spouse can live with you 🇬🇧 Earn under £29k? No visa. Can’t save £88,500? No visa. Have kids together? Doesn’t matter. 🚨 We're launching this campaign today—help us tell the gov to stop profiting from tearing families apart reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/sign

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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

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Reunite Families UK @rfuk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

From today, for thousands of couples and families staying together in the UK just got even more expensive. Visa fees are rising again — quietly wrecking lives. We know that around 60–70% of many visa fees are profit This is not cost recovery, it is excessive charging at the expense of families💔

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

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Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh @asianstudiesed.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

On 11/3/2026, Look at Me! – Yonezu Tomoko and the Politics of Intersectionality in Post-war Japan, with Dr Anna-Viktoria Vittinghoff University of Sheffield, 16:15, Room 1.06, 50 George Sq #asianstudiesseminars #japan #postwar #japanesestudies #intersectionality #inpersonseminar #allwelcome

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

One of the things that really gets me about this policy is that it doesn’t have the impact its supporters seem to think. It don’t affect numbers arriving but it does actively harm integration of those who come. It’s just a really, really bad policy. There’s no case for it being “necessary” at all.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

if you assume for everyone immediately affected there's 3-4 also impacted (partners, children, parents, close friends) that's 4-5 million people or 6-7% of uk adults

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