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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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helen bowman @helybow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Feels like a variation on a theme we saw only a few weeks back ie. 'Rod Liddle was awful & cruel, sure, but he was nice to me'. Ramped up though because Archer was'bouncy' (or, in other words, a fantasist, which media rather like as its good copy).

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“If the wife is fit, you must acquit”

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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helen bowman @helybow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

also a standard bit of press office issue, mid exhibition ('we just cant cope with the interest!/please do join the queue').

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Yeah, in Germany today, you can't even support far-right efforts to ban Holocaust memorials without someone calling you a Nazi! What is this country coming to?" (www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

"But Silke Schutz, 63, a baker who called herself a “staunch AfD voter”, described the Stolpersteine as “a waste of money, regardless of who pays for them”.

“There are so many victims no one cares about,” she said, citing people killed in traffic accidents. “We had nothing to do with the war and at some point it [remembrance] has got to come to an end. But when I express my opinion, I’m insulted as a Nazi.”"

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helen bowman @helybow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One feels the clue is in the word 'accident' (however awful/tragic and worthy of recognition) while the holocaust was a bit more, you know, systematic and remorselessly targeted, a crime against humanity thing. I dont know what to tell you, Silke.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, poor Justice Alito. Losing friends after delivering death sentences to desperate women across the nation. Sit all the way back down with this. And stop glazing him, CBS. We see you, Bari Weiss.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

POV: it's 2010 and you're dead now, but you refuse to stop showing up for work

A photo of a large boulder with a plaque mounted on it that says "George A. Berry III, 1918-2010, I'm Here"

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

POV: it's the mid-1980s, your lucrative privately held industrial firm is in need of a new exurban HQ building, and you decide to get a little funky with it

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is just a terrible take. Large chunks of the US government have been destroyed and rebuilding is the first order priority to ensure people get the services they need. The second to make sure it never happens again. Efficiency? Nope. We need a Marshall Plan for the US.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not much on this yet, but I certainly hope this reporting proves accurate.

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helen bowman @helybow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Unwittingly, Mike describes the state of the nation (and not just the US) - 'I really believe that. that's not a conspiracy theory'. Beautiful stuff, Mike is a poet.

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Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland @theahss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

⚡ Hidden among Scotland’s spectacular landscapes are the buildings that helped power a nation. On 15 October, Dr Harriet Richardson Blakeman explores the architecture of Scotland’s hydroelectric stations and the ambitious schemes that transformed the glens. Book: buff.ly/zEAwg4a

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The government, banks, utilities and similar services MUST make it easier for those with Power of Attorney to manage stuff online. I find I'm having to do a lot of stuff by phone. It's like being back in the 90s except without the 90s infrastructure to help.

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helen bowman @helybow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On the upside the loss in vital revenue has definitely resulted in loads more social cohesion and we are all much happier as a nation. so a strategy well executed.....

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚨 Brand new post: high ideals, regretted compromises, harsh realities - a study of Huddersfield's housing and civic history from 1951 to the present ... municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/a...

Buxton House, an 11-storey block, designed by Bernard Engle & Partners with Bernard Kramer’s mural Systematic Sequence in Line and Shade

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?

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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hooray! Late architect Robert Hill's incredible Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 is back online thanks to a recovery. I think Robert would be happy that his decades of work have been preserved. canadianarchitects.org/about/

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The Recovery — Dictionary of Architects in Canada

How the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada was recovered from the Internet Archive.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

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Joe Scaramangaaaarrrggghhh!!! @joescaramanga.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Anyone thinking that Piddington is a lovely little village story and what japes, needs to watch this.

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New Towns Mark One by the late Elain Harwood, ed. @alistairfair.bsky.social provides the first detailed architectural survey of the ‘mark one’ new towns. ➡️ Read the interview with Alistair about the book on the LUP blog: bit.ly/HE-NewTowns @c20society.bsky.social @geraintfranklin.bsky.social

A blue background of a blue and white tiled building fascia with a clock on a blue sky background. The text on the image reads 'Charting the architectural history of Britain's initial post-war new towns: the so-called 'mark one' new towns.

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A horse is a horse Of course of course Unless you’ve been forced By a horse of course If so of course you can become The bureau’s Mr. Fed

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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Days apart. -Burnham doesn’t cap donations. -Reform get record donations. In addition: - Voter ID will remain (needlessly), it’s estimated that 400k were denied a vote in 2024 as a result - Proportional Representation not part of the “Representation of the People” bill making it an oxymoron

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hitler turning to Marx and asking "who's this cunt?"

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helen bowman @helybow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thought about this last week when I used the word 'militia', knowing it was more a feeling, a response to images (also unsure if militias have to be 'equipped' to qualify as such?). Protesters/activists felt like a mislabelling & I confess, I wasnt that interested in being fair in my description.

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: We're delighted to announce that 1 Embankment Place (1986-91) in the City of Westminster, Sir Terry Farrell's Post-Modern 'Palace on the River', has been Grade II listed by DCMS following support from C20 Society. ➡️ Read more: c20society.org.uk/news/farrell...

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

First on energy and now on West Bank settlements, the UK's Ed Miliband has emerged as that rarest of center-left Anglophone politicians: a guy who actually does stuff www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Ed Miliband has overturned decades of Foreign Office inertia on illegal Israeli settlements

Foreign secretary ends UK’s feigned helplessness with sanctions and condemnation of ‘ethnic cleansing’

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Important piece from a great rabbi, Rabbi Jeremy Gordon Do give it read if you want a more balanced understanding of our community - the JLC and BoD do not speak for us all rabbionanarrowbridge.blogspot.com/2026/09/an-o...

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An Open Letter on Settler Violence and British Sanctions

I’ve witnessed and experienced settler violence first-hand. On a 2024 visit to the West Bank, a group of rabbis, including myself and Rabbi ...

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NEW | On a shocking interview… ANALYSING JUSTIN WEBB’S INTERVIEW WITH ED MILIBAND ABOUT SANCTIONS ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/analysing-...

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Analysing Justin Webb’s interview with Ed Miliband about sanctions on Israeli settlements

On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 09/09/2026

If you have the time, Ed Miliband's speech in the House of Commons is worth reading in full. It literally includes the words: "Holding British Jews responsible for the actions of the Israeli Government is antisemitism, plain and simple." www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Foreign Secretary Oral Statement on Israel-Palestine

Foreign Secretary's oral statement to the House of Commons on Israel-Palestine as delivered.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

History. Do you believe in historical facts? How dare you?

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I went back to listen to it and it’s genuinely quite shocking.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."

New York Times:
Trump Honors 9/11
Emergency Personnel in
Washington
President Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to a volunter firefighter who saved numerous people. He also added to a disputed account of his actions that day.
Sept. 8, 2026 Updated 1:54 p.m. ET

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

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helen bowman @helybow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'just normal men, innocent men'.

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helen bowman @helybow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Real question has to be how could Trump have rated +20 on the economy? Because media never exposed it as one of his many weaknesses, I guess it was not convenient to do so. Indeed, most went along with pretending Trump is/would be good for the economy. Pretty shameful.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026

Yes, but there's a key difference. Biden needed Republican support in the Senate (and to a lesser extent, House) to pass his legislative agenda. Burnham has a huge majority in Parliament and the House of Lords can't stop him the way a Senate filibuster can. He could do both but he's vibing.

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helen bowman @helybow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

this is fine and will serve him well with key constituencies, but the problem is wider and deeper. also The Sun has done horribly foul things since Hillsborough, under other Editors. does he have any thoughts on that?

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LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Postcards of Newcastle's Civic Centre. The building, from the late 1960s, was designed by City Architect George Kenyon and has a strong Nordic influence. c20society.org.uk/100-building...

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In June 1934 the British Union of Fascists - the Blackshirts - staged a rally at the Olympia in London. One protestor after another was singled out and beaten up by the crowd. Here's how Ronald Blythe described it.

Description of the BUF Olympia rally, at which a series of hecklers were violently attacked by Blackshirts. The sadism, Blythe writes, reached "an erotic intensity".

Stanley Baldwin's private secretary expressed shock and dismay: "It was a deeply shocking scene for an Englishman to see in London."

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helen bowman @helybow.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You can kind of get 'supine for (perceived) political gain' but there's nothing to be gained politically by NOT saying extremist milita is v bad. No one in No.10 can think this lot is just 'Reform curious' & therefore 'winable'. They're organised & will inevitably be disposed towards violence.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 05/09/2026

It's craven, it's politically stupid, and it's morally wrong. Number 10 does not struggle to get Andy Burnham in front of a camera when it wants him to be there. Every minute he's not on show over this is the result of a deliberate decision.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They spontaneously turned up all dressed in black, wearing masks at the same time.

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