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Humphrey Pring

@humphreypring.bsky.social
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Marketing, communications. EU Citizen living in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. English teacher.

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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The UK-EU relationship is like a bad rom-com. The UK broke up with the EU. The EU was shocked and sad about it. But soon realized there was a lot about the UK that was annoying (opt outs, hostility to federalism, America’s poodle) and they moved on. 1/2
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Remarkable that the Telegraph is not screaming this morning about Burnham's pledge of a closer/rejoining EU relationship because Brexit has failed.
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Elia Kabanov @kabanov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For Day 16 of my London data visualisation challenge, I animated the 20-year race between London’s busiest stations. By 2023, six of the top ten were served by the Elizabeth line. deptford.org/beyond/eliza... 16/30 · London data visualisation challenge
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Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
. Horseplay
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Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There was too much emphasis, in the early #BBCNews reporting of the Fairford story today, on an anonymous farmer who was not in a position to have an accurate overview of what might have been going on beyond the scenes that she saw. However compelling, the anecdotal is seldom the full picture.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So gentle and so patient ❤️ #goldenretriever #sweetboy #butterfly #monarch IG: @thegoldenlifeofcharlie_ www.instagram.com/thegoldenlif...
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These culture wars about authors. In my teenage years my favourite authors were George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and PG Wodehouse. I just couldn’t get enough of their books. But their political views could hardly have been more disparate.
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George Jedras @koz581.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If it weren’t for double standards, the European establishment would have no standards at all. Bonhoeffer’s warning still stands: silence in the face of injustice is itself a choice.
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This was quite the suprise. Ich freue mich sehr, gemeinsam mit zwanzig anderen tollen Menschen das Bundesverdienstkreuz zu erhalten. I am delighted to be receiving the Federal Cross of Merit on German Unity Day, alongside twenty other wonderful people. Dankeschön. It's an honour.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Last week - when all the front pages headlines were about Farage and his £72m - Farage fronted his own GB News show ….to talk about Farage! He compared his critics to communists and then interviewed other guests - about himself! app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Amazing plays in an amputee football league in Poland: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.
Independent front page. 

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position  18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
An 8-year-old greets a deaf delivery driver with the greetings he taught her over several weeks. After practicing, she finally gets them right, bringing joy to the delivery driver. Original post
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Humphrey Pring @humphreypring.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Potato harvest time. It’s amazing that after a summer of extreme heat there was any crop at all to harvest. Took a lot of watering.
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Humphrey Pring @humphreypring.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Interesting read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here’s how Germany can defend its democracy – banning the AfD isn’t the answer | Timothy Garton Ash
Instead, constrain it legally and fight it politically. The world is watching, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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Darren McLean @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Medieval wall decorations were more colourful than Hollywood would like (or are too lazy to learn about)
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How the BBC’s latest platforming of the bigoted views of the anti-migrant billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is the sign of a national broadcaster that is increasingly losing its way www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC Mainstreams the Right’s Anti-Migrant, Anti-British Agenda
The BBC’s platforming of the bigoted views of billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is just the latest sign of a national broadcaster that has lost its way
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As regular readers will know I am a seasoned Norwood-hater and think nobody should give it free PR but this is hilariously shit
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Note that the BBC fails to point out that immigration has dropped considerably, or to obtain a quote from someone from a different perspective
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...
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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
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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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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing
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The Honourable Husband @honourablehusband.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Today’s rather clever #Denglisch: hap-pi. Not being a native German speaker, it took me a while to fully appreciate the pun on this birthday card. In German, pi is not pronounced “pie”, but rather “pee”. The joke relies on what linguists call Spelling Pronunciation. #linguisticsnerd
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Humphrey Pring @humphreypring.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
JL Partners’ website gives you convictions.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How is this news? billionaire oil person says uk needs to drill more and tax less, though, of course, he‘s actually in Monaco. And he would do more in the uk if the state subsidised him more. Dear BBC, that‘s like me saying the uk‘s problem is underpaid law profs. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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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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T-Rexit @t-rexit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh dear… www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
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Classic Hits Radio drops Ed Sheeran from playlist
Irish radio station Classic Hits Radio has announced that it is removing Ed Sheeran's music from its playlist "for the foreseeable future" following the controversy surrounding Macklemore's departure ...
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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At Toronto’s TIFF, Dame Helen Mirren responds to the question, “What in Canadian culture is worth defending and fighting for?” En français with English subtitles. (Video: @_rozann_/Instagram)
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“There can be no more trying to pretend there’s a respectable anti-immigration position which is meaningfully distinguishable from far right thuggery” We must actively make racism shameful again. Because this is where it has led and it’s unforgivable. No more indulging ignorance and hate.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I simply don’t grasp the desire to compromise one iota with people like this. They have no desire to compromise with us, or with their clueless enablers and fellow travellers. They will not be merciful or understanding if they win. Every inch we give is a victory for them. Enough already, now.
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‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary
Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Either we speak out wholeheartedly in favour of international law, our moral obligations to refugees, the fantastic diversity of our country, everyone’s right to respect & the centrality of the rule of law to our democracy, or we‘re giving ground to people who want none of that
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‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary
Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Legitimate concerns“ rhetoric & increasing restrictions on migrants’ rights have led directly to Piddlington & to RNLI staff being doxxed as traitors. There can be no more trying to pretend there’s a respectable anti-immigration position which is meaningfully distinguishable from far-right thuggery
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‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary
Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today, Jürgen Klopp presented the new German squad and said a few words that - if widespread public feedback is to be believed - many wish they'd hear from Chancellor Merz. And quite a few wonder whether Kloppo would be the better man for the job. [I append my translation below]
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Absolutely unhinged response from the Israeli government, trying to revoke the citizenship of people who make critical films about the armed forces. Symptomatic of a national descent into far-right authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify
Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 17/09/2026
he's the prime minister of Spain, but graphic design is his passion
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Dominic Minghella @dminghella.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
1. Let the people of Pidlington leave the UK. 2. Revoke any UK driving licences, passports and official documents they may hold. 3. Arrest any of them found outside Pidlington on the basis that they would then be undocumented migrants.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Labour's Friends of Israel Cabinet is still providing weapons & intelligence to an army of psychopathic ethnic cleansers who say it was necessary to demolish entire cities & mass murder thousands of children as part of 'Israel's right to defend itself' meme via Peter Reilly & Nas Ali
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good question
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good straightforward reporting from the Wall Street Journal on Musk's promotion of Restore/Rupert Low/civil war in the UK. Lots of detail, no polemics. The BBC could and should do this. Why doesn't it? archive.ph/eTOS5
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Dcmfox @dcmfox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I will post this again for context. The difference between a billion and a million dollars
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 16/09/2026
Let me guess - the village that has voted to leave the UK still wants all the benefits of being in the UK?
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If sheeran had any balls, he would’ve canceled on the us venues banning him and gone on an acoustic pub tour with Macklemore and have Macklemore say whatever the fuck he wanted Then he could look back on this in 10 years with pride and not shame
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started
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