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WutTheWut😵‍💫 RBroeck🗳️💙 @wutthewut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Believe the science. It is literally written in stone. Vaccinate.
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Really enjoying tonight's prom, @elizabethalker.bsky.social + the halftime interview with David Baddiel was interesting and most entertaining; thank you !
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
BBC board letter to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee concludes with a statement I agree with to my core: “There is an increasing need for the public to be informed in a way that is impartial, truthful and is based on evidence they can trust. That is the sacred job of the BBC.”
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Why indeed?
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Something unsettling about the government trumpeting a trade deal with India at almost the very moment that country attacks its neighbour . . .
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Hughes-on-the-Wold @notthathughes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
All those pesky migrants, stealing jobs that children could be coerced into doing instead!
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 26/03/2025
The Government cannot go ahead with cutting taxes for tech billionaires like Elon Musk while slashing support for disabled people and carers. This is simply about fairness.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I’m finding it very hard to understand the stance of the Royal Society here. Science is part of society, not separate from it, existing in some strange metaphysical bubble. I look across the Atlantic, aghast at the damage being done to science and scientists. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Royal Society decides not to take disciplinary action against Elon Musk
Exclusive: Fellows argue Musk has violated code of conduct but council believes investigation ‘could do more harm than good’
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 26/03/2025
Very disappointed that the Prime Minister doesn’t think sharing British intelligence with an unreliable ally is a serious matter. #PMQs
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Shortbreadfairy©️ @shortbreadfairy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Rachel Reeves blaming the world for oor economic woes, but the second rate bookkeeper won't acknowledge the Economic effect of Brexit. To ignore it is a mix of folly and incompetence. l stick her just above Truss & Kwarteng now. The CU/SM/EEA is looking at us God feckin hepl us 🤦🏻‍♀️
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
OK. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/03/2025
rfk jr's attitude toward anyone or thing that gets sick is "if he dies, he dies."
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RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread (Gift Article)
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Pretty astonishing, but I suppose predictable, viewing, If you've not seen it @mrjamesob.bsky.social I think you might "like" to take a look . . . www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Select Committees - UK-US Relationship Committee
The International Relations and Defence Committee session on the UK’s future relationship with the US, on Wednesday 12 March.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
They have so much in common, after all.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Shitehawks 2. Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’ reimagined, with shit Tesla cyber truck crashed into the window. Musk and Hitler are inside , supping on ketamine.
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
JD Vance, who attacked Pres. Zelenskiy in the White House on Friday, was booed by hundreds of protesters in Vermont when he took his family there for a skiing trip the next day. Fox News says the demonstrators, who called him a traitor and warmonger, lined the road for a mile.
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Instantly know when one’s back in the UK. Eurostar bang on time but at Paddington all trains to the far SW cancelled, change at Reading and hope for the best. Now on a rammed Bristol service (20 minutes late leaving because no driver) and lurking in 1st Class . . .
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
America: how it’s changed. The 46th President of the United States called Vladimir Putin “a murderous dictator.” The 47th President called Volodymyr Zelensky “a dictator without elections.”
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Never forget, never forgive
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.
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Jair Bolsonaro charged over alleged far-right coup plot to seize power in Brazil
Former president is charged by attorney general following police report that accused him of organising a conspiracy to stop Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva taking power.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
AP is banned from WH events and all the other legacy journalists walk right in. If this was the 60s, we know who would have been with the Freedom Riders, and who would’ve been writing about them from a safe place. AP stands alone. Sad but true.
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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Masha Gessen lived under an authoritarian regime in Russia. Heed her words about what Trump is doing now. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...
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Opinion | The Barrage of Trump’s Awful Ideas Is Doing Exactly What It’s Supposed To
Amid an onslaught of bad ideas, Democrats need to muster a better vision for the future.
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Terrence Nowicki, Jr. @deephurting.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
My newest political #cartoon concerns Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the dangerous, abusive, brain-damaged psychopath who as Secretary of Health and Human Services will now be an even more prolific #disease vector than he was before. #RFKJr #RichardScarry #Busytown #LowlyWorm #art #memes #politicalart
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
One of the UK’s best known and successful human rights lawyers, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, is receiving vile threats to herself and her family as a direct result of her work on behalf of the British media tycoon Jimmy Lai, jailed in Hong Kong. Whoever, I wonder, could possibly be behind this?
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Have that conversation. Set you fear aside. This is your Anne Frank moment.
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Some lightness in dark times . . .
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
One year since Alexei Navalny was murdered by the Putin regime. Tomorrow his wife Yulia Navalnaya is our guest on @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING. At a time Trump can barely bring himself to say Putin caused the war in Ukraine her voice is more important than ever
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
News from the dark side . . . x.com/resist_vanes...
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Woke Futurama @futuramamemes.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/02/2025
I wonder if JD Vance is planning to lecture his boss’s buddy Vladimir Putin on democracy and free speech. 🤔
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
What a disaster . . . www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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AstraZeneca ditches £450m investment in UK plant - BBC News
The drugs giant blames "protracted" talks with the government as well as differences over funding.
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
@jujuliagrace.bsky.social So bureaucratic, worth watching the video of the committee . . . www.theguardian.com/society/2025... www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
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NHS England chief under fire again as MPs ‘exasperated’ by responses
Health committee criticises Amanda Pritchard’s evidence after scathing report from another Commons committee
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
@jujuliagrace.bsky.social rather gloomy reading . . . www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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‘Complacent’ health chiefs in England lack drive to transform NHS, say MPs
Public accounts committee finds DHSC and NHS England leaders appear short of the energy and urgency needed
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
@mrjamesob.bsky.social You've probably already seen this but, with regard to the subjects you covered this morning, I thought this was interesting: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan
The AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but the Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government
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Andersonville2 @andersonvilleej.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I’m proud to call the amazing cartoonist Ed Wexler a friend.
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Extraordinary and terrifying . . . www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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More than half Gen Z think authoritarian leader better for UK than democracy, poll suggests – UK politics live
Polling finds 52% of Gen Z thought UK would be better place if ‘strong leader did not have to bother with parliament and elections’
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Oh. www.cityam.com/brexit-has-l...
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Brexit has left the UK aviation sector up in the air
Since Brexit, UK pilot's qualifications are no longer recognised in the EU and planes have to fly to America or Brazil for maintenance. If the government is serious about resetting Britain's relations...
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
@vegsoc.bsky.socialI I thought you should be made aware of misleading labelling on Hellmann’s Mayonnaise. The trays for the product is in say 100% free range eggs, but there is no longer any mention of this on the bottle. I have contacted the company 3 times but had no response. Shame . . .
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
@jujuliagrace.bsky.social More sad news . . . www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Hiring freeze at dozens of NHS cancer and diagnostic units despite rising referrals
Royal College of Radiologists calls move ‘shortsighted’ and says it puts Labour’s waiting times plan at risk
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
@jujuliagrace.bsky.social Many GPs now feel the only way to solve their branch of NHS medicine’s funding crisis and to stop the many inappropriate and missed consultations is to begin charging for appointments. What is your view on this ?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Vauxhall’s troubles started with Brexit - former Luton plant boss
Mark Noble says export tariffs were one factor leading to the closure of the Luton plant.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Ah. www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
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Vauxhall-maker warns Brexit may force it to close UK factory
Vauxhall-maker Stellantis is calling on the government to renegotiate some Brexit rules or risk losing electric
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Hugh Snape @hughsnape.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
09:03 Totnes to Paddington, very very good trolley service on this train today, 3 visits before Pewsey, credit where credit’s due. Thank you and please keep it up @GWRHelp !
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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