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Helen Hill

@helenjmhill.bsky.social
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Gardener, grandmother, book reader, Labour Party member since forever (left twice and came back), feminist, Education Adviser for children in foster care and peace lover. Keen on nature especially trees and the sea. Hanging onto hope.

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Helen Hill @helenjmhill.bsky.social · 20h
Heating's on! 😀
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 07/10/2026
Calls to remove profiteering from children’s social care are growing. But if we’re serious about tackling profiteering, we need to ask: when a council pays for a child’s care, where does the money go? Children’s care should be about children, not profit.
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Cracking down on profiteering
Following our focus on sector concerns at national efforts to curb the use of unregistered children’s care placements in last week’s edition, this week The MJ examines the challenge of removing profiteering from the care service. Paul Marinko reports.
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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BINGO!💥
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Helen Hill @helenjmhill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Misogyny personified 😡
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver
Morning sun and the silhouette of our trees
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well, well, well
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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My mum told a similar tale about a hand she found under her miniskirt in a crowded tube train.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
September 1997. Music for Montserrat at the Royal Albert Hall. Paul McCartney plays the great finale of Abbey Road. The last music The Beatles ever recorded. How big must you be to get Mark Knopfler *and* Eric Clapton as guests!? Not to mention George Martin conducting... youtu.be/3xJlkrI3DLA?...
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Golden Slumbers - Carry That Weight - The End
YouTube video by AYA-K
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Council by-election result: New Bradwell, Milton Keynes, 24/09/2026. Labour hold. Labour 54.2% (+20) Reform UK 23.4% (-3) Green 9.3% (-12) Conservative 8.5% (-3) Liberal Democrats 4.6% (-2) Changes on 2026. Milton Keynes council: Conservative 12, Labour 19, Liberal Democrats 20, Reform UK 9.
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Steve the Muppet Wrangler @beardog63.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am writing a book about all the things I should be doing in my life. It's an oughtobiography.
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Sam Strickland @strickomaster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The first review of my new book Behaving and Belonging is in. It’s a corker and a 5 star rating. Get your copy here amzn.eu/d/02OefHlV
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians (c. 870 – 918) ruled Mercia in the English Midlands from 911 until her death. She was the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith. #CelebratingWomen
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 24/09/2026
A senator in Vermont has noticed who is buying Reform. Why have so few British front pages?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
While waiting for Trump to enter the signing of the US-Denmark-Greenland agreement at the UN, they chose “Send in the Clowns” as the background music. Yes, it’s real.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Long-eared Owls chicks 4 weeks old leave the nest at 26 days and climb and huddle together on branches fed by their parents. They develop flight feathers and are able to take short flights at 5 weeks of age. They will be 15 cm when full grown. Live across the North America, Europe, Asia, N Africa
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What surprises me more is that the media happily trot out their words and opinions without pointing this essential paradox out.
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Helen Hill @helenjmhill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Actually made me giggle!
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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Interesting question from someone musing re school refusal. Well-meaning answers would be appreciated, I think.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think I'm in love with Kevin 😻 #Caturday
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@seanjones.org Sean, any chance you could RT this link for donations to Cornwall Islamic Centre after their place has been vandalised, car driven through gates & oil thrown everywhere ? 🙏 www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
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SUPPORT CORNWALL ISLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTRE
Our centre has recently been targeted in an possibly arson attack. At approximately 11:25pm, a small vehicle was seen reversing into the entrance gate of the Cornwall Islamic Community Centre. The ve...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Helen Hill @helenjmhill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Happy Emu Friday!
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Sheila @sheilattuned.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Letting the water decide A sort of floating reset!
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. 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, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 15/09/2026
The University of East Anglia has been recognised as one of the best in the world for research collaboration in a major new ranking | East Anglia Bylines
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UEA joins the global research elite
The University of East Anglia has been recognised as one of the best in the world for research collaboration in a major new ranking
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Sean Woodcock MP @seanlwoodcock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great announcement, that from 20th September, passengers whose trains are cancelled can use another operator’s service to complete their journey immediately, free of charge. This is thanks to Great British Railways, and it will end the passenger limbo and last-minute bills for replacement tickets.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New statue spotted today in Dublin Ireland. Time to take out the trash 🚮! 🎥 AlternativeDublin
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Helen Hill @helenjmhill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'Silence like a cancer grows.........'
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Helen Hill @helenjmhill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I learned as much from the comments as from the original post. Fascinating!
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
She was one of the great Chancellors. I won’t forget that.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026
London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. That’s the danger of disinformation. We cannot accept it, and to defeat it, we’ve got to put pressure on the social media companies who profit from it.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 09/09/2026
In the latest episode of “The Far-Right is Utterly Batshit”, Danny “Tommo”, Tiny-Tommy-Ten-Names’s Mate is currently stood outside the Daily Mail with 20 of his balaclava clad mates demanding that they… checks notes… Buy his mum a new house within 48 hours. You could not make this shit up.
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Helen Hill @helenjmhill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
act.38degrees.org.uk
An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Want a way to really piss these fascists off. Dead easy…
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dolly Parton logged a combined total of 115 years of union membership. Throughout her working life, the “9 to 5” singer/songwriter carried the union cards of two major unions: The American Federation of Musicians Local 257 in Nashville — for 58 years. SAG-AFTRA — for 57 years. HAPPY LABOR DAY!
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Opinion | Celebrate Dolly Parton's working-class solidarity
John Nichols: She carried two union cards, sang Woody Guthrie songs and mocked the bosses in "9 to 5."
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 07/09/2026
This is @mrjamesob.bsky.social's London.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Daniel Thomas' Patriot Platform are an organised paramilitary group with likely US funding who have been planning to block Dover and take control of British cities since June. Here is the evidence 🧵 - police should've been aware.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 03/09/2026
Yellow legged Asian hornets & nests are being found, now in Somerset. These invasive, predatory insects devour bees at an alarming rate. Remain vigilant. Report sightings.
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Asian hornet invasion: a threat to honeybee survival
The spread of the invasive Asian hornet to the UK endangers honeybees and ecosystems, requiring swift action to locate and destroy nests
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
😅😅🔥🇨🇦 #Canada #LakeOntario
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Go to sleep, Steve....
Short description: A simple blue-toned cartoon shows Steve the otter tucked up in bed under a patterned blanket, peeking over the covers against a dark background.

Baked-in text (exactly):  
“If you identify a UFO as a UFO, then it becomes an FO.  
Unless it has landed, then it is simply an O.”

Additional watermark text (exactly):  
“inotternews.co.uk”  
“in Ōtter News”
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Helen Hill @helenjmhill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
His poetry will live on. This is one of my favourites.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“Think dating is hard? Try being a male grebe. She's not easy to impress. She makes a move - he must match it instantly. A head shake, a turn. Every beat in sync. The tighter their rhythm, the better his chances. Then comes the gift: a clump of soggy weeds.” 💕 IG: @legable_grace
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Helen Hill @helenjmhill.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
And another thing ...........
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