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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 05/09/2026
What does 'England till I die' mean to these tough guys who travelled on trains and buses built by foreigners and driven by immigrants; who wear imported balaclavas as they disrupt trade for English business before celebrating with a Stella and a curry? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 01/09/2026
US Postal Service rushing to roll out Trump's latest anti-democracy demands: If they receive a batch of thousands of votes and their untested portal fails to match just one registrant in the batch, they reject ALL the votes in that batch. www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 14/08/2026
They could have picked a nicer ringtone for that
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 01/08/2026
Binface for FIFA president
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 31/07/2026
Boy George: "The mission of music is to unite people." Also Boy George*: "Does it get ugly? You bet it does / When I know you wanna kill every last one of us.” *To be fair, he got an AI to write the song for him. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
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Boy George pulls out of Jesus Christ Superstar after releasing pro-Israel song
The 80s star will no longer appear in role of Herod in London Palladium run, with manager saying decision is ‘in the best interests of my artist’
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
They’re such tired, petty losers abusing their powers to please a would-be tyrant.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 02/07/2026
Terrifying www.dropsitenews.com/p/intercept-...
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A Third Party Breached The Intercept’s Signal Tip Line and Has Been Soliciting Whistleblowers
The news outlet changed its tip line this week, but has not informed potential sources or the public of the breach.
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 27/06/2026
Thoughts and prayers, once again, for satirists and their loved ones. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun...
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Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show
Draft resolution seeks to shield board members and security forces from potential prosecution for work in Gaza
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A discussion about the social media ban on under 16s. BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?” Student: “Stare at a wall.”
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 06/06/2026
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Zohran Mamdani plays the Guardian's Bracketology to predict World Cup winner – video
See how New York's mayor maps out the world’s biggest tournament
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 06/06/2026
“There was no clear checkpoint; just soldiers standing in the street. I stopped when I was asked to, and then the shooting started.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank
The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when soldiers fired on family in Hebron
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 24/04/2026
Can't wait for the midterms so I can finally roll out my "lame duck à l’orange" joke
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 24/04/2026
The new SecureDrop journalist client from bsky.app/profile/free... looks great securedrop.org/news/new-fea...
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New features in SecureDrop Inbox
SecureDrop Inbox, the new window into the SecureDrop Workstation, has been rewritten from the ground up to replace the previous client application for existing journalist users. Improving upon the cor...
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 22/04/2026
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 20/04/2026
"Maybe the most pathetic men are the most dangerous ones" - Kyle Smith. Also: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik
Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 07/04/2026
Hey Google, does threatening genocide qualify as ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’?
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 03/04/2026
Something many astronauts/cosmonauts have in common: they attest to what we all have in common. "You look amazing. You look beautiful. And from up here, you also look like one thing."
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 03/04/2026
Fourteen years of Tories dishing out North Sea oil & gas licences led to "20 new and relicensed fields that have the potential, over their lifetime, to produce enough gas to supply the UK for only six months". A great thing about renewables: they're renewable. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by Conservatives have ‘so far produced only 36 days worth of gas’
Exclusive: Findings cast doubt on claims new drilling would help cut bills and boost energy security, researchers say
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry
Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Feels like a day to reup this recent Democracy for Sale story Tony Blair’s Institute privately pressed a top European Union official working on the rebuilding of Gaza to work with Donald Trump’s Board of Peace. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
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Revealed: Tony Blair’s Institute lobbied EU to work with Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza
TBI pushed bloc on US plan for Palestine but internal disquiet on “taboo topic” Gaza grows
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 05/03/2026
Feel bad for the Channel 4 reporter reporting live from "deep underground in the Foreign Office 24/7 Crisis Centre". He dramatically points out all the important agencies present. And on all the big screens they're tuned into the news ... from the BBC.
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 03/03/2026
Feels like another day for Fun With Fake Greek Terms

Phthonocracy	| phthonos (Envy/Grudge) | Rule by resentment and spite
Mikropsychocracy	| mikros (small) + psyche (soul) | Rule by the small-souled/petty	
Achariocracy | Acharis (Graceless/Mean) | Rule by the mean-spirited
Kakistocracy | Kakistos (Worst/Incompetent) | Rule by the least qualified.
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 15/02/2026
If you drew a venn diagram of "People who have had a subscription to x" and "People who have threatened online to cancel their subscription to x", I wonder if there would be any overlap?
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 14/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial
Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported
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George Greenwood @georgegreenwood.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting archive. This risks undermining open justice, and I believe, undermines the public accountability role of the press by making it harder to see what is going on in the courts. www.thetimes.com/article/77b0...
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MoJ orders deletion of UK’s largest court reporting archive
Courtsdesk, which supports the media in monitoring records, is an important tool for journalists and the move raises concerns over open justice
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 14/01/2026
How could the Nobel committee have overlooked the guy who uses armed forces to kill civilians while threatening to use armed forces to kill those who use armed forces to kill civilians, which, no doubt, will result in the killing of civilians? It's such a mystery
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 08/01/2026
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Good vs. Ice
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 08/01/2026
The Guardian SecureDrop onion site is briefly offline for maintenance. Will be back soon. theguardian.securedrop.tor.onion
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 31/12/2025
Has anyone ever read something about a post on Truth Social that wasn't from Twump? Does it even have other posters?
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 27/12/2025
Never heard of Chuck Redd. Buying an album now
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 26/12/2025
We're such suckers www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025
Elon Musk’s net worth increased by nearly 50% to $645bn with founders of Google and Amazon also seeing huge wealth gains
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 10/12/2025
www.commerce.gov website barely has space to squeeze in its mission statement of 'opportunity for all' below the massive advert for an opportunity available exclusively to millionaires.
Front page of US Department of Commerce website, advertising the Trump Gold Card (prices starting at $1 million)
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 30/11/2025
Two stories; two sentences. US Department of Defense Law of War Manual apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...
DoD Laws of War 18.3.2.1 Clearly Illegal Orders to Commit Law of War Violations. The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows, in fact, are illegal. For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 29/11/2025
This week's inaugural award for fair and accurate reporting goes to The Boston Globe, CBS News and The Independent.
Front page of https://www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/ citing The Boston Globe, CBS News and The Independent
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 29/11/2025
It's going to get awfully busy in the Great Rift Valley
US Department of Homeland Security post on X calling for "Remigration now."
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/11/2025
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
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The Economic Impact of Brexit
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 18/11/2025
"Things happen." Chump makes light of the state-sanctioned murder and dismemberment of a journalist for doing journalism.
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 05/11/2025
🤣🤣🤣 www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC
Fifa unveils a new Peace Prize to be awarded at the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, citing a mission to honor efforts to end conflict
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 04/11/2025
This app is a must for journalists who receive material of dubious origin. Great stuff @micahflee.com for now making it much easier to use. (It no longer requires Docker.)
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/11/2025
Spain offers Europe a lesson in modern economics: Peacock reut.rs/4nF6nXs
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Spain offers Europe a lesson in modern economics: Peacock
Spain remains the euro zone’s fastest growing economy, outperforming its peers yet again in the third quarter. The Iberian country’s successful policy mix offers several lessons that fly in the face of global political trends.
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 02/11/2025
Grokipedia is a really good advert for Wikipedia
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 24/10/2025
Want to send the Guardian a confidential news tip? If you have the Guardian app, choose 'Secure Messaging' from the app menu. If you don't, download it. It's free. If you’re happy using Tor, there’s also our SecureDrop site: theguardian.securedrop.tor.onion More details: theguardian.com/tips
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How to contact the Guardian securely
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 19/10/2025
... While one the largest demonstrations in the history of the US gets one single, below-the-fold article in the New York Times. Oh and they dug out a five-month-old sidebar on how numbers don't count, or something. The NYT's editorial decisions can be difficult to understand.
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 09/10/2025
As every day more satirists ponder new careers, www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 01/10/2025
... is that up out of the sewer that the Mail drove it into?
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Arena for Journalism in Europe @journalismarena.eu · 01/10/2025
🚨 NEW: By the end of this video, Europe will have lost 2850m² of land to construction. That’s almost half a Premier League football pitch. This rate of loss, amounting to 600 football pitches a day, is 1.5 times higher than official EEA estimates. This is the #GreenToGrey project. [1/3]
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Luke Hoyland @hoy.la · 28/09/2025
This is heartwarming www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Dining across the divide: ‘There he was with his goatee, shaved head, tattoos – but never judge a book by its cover’
A leftwing voting skeptic and tribal Tory party member struggle to agree on nationalism and the role of the state. Can they find any common ground over social media?
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