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R Freeman @iamrobf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When you are retired, and have the time to read, you get out the notes, remind yourself why you wanted to read it, request from library, read, repeat. /2 & end

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R Freeman @iamrobf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I couldn’t bear to part with books. Here’s what do now to make it easier. Start a notebook (can be a digital one, I use google keep). Take a note of the title and author and write yourself a sentence on why you kept this book so long. Give the book away … /1

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Beautiful Brilliant Tim The original confident, seductive, naughty, hilarious, sexy, brat, Jagger, Bowie, Mercury all borrowed his aspects of his Rocky persona. We did a crappy, straight to video, 2 pay bills But we had a phenomenal time & I fell in love with him of course as did everyone 🖤🎶🕊️

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is what a real leader says.

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R Freeman @iamrobf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

@rohitkachrooitv.bsky.social Rohit was there a problem with tonight’s Yemen story? I don’t know what the spokesperson said and it’s want explained.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface

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Jon Drake @jondrake.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Me: What about that time I saw 11 sets of footprints in the sand Jesus: Look it’s a public beach

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R Freeman @iamrobf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Don’t tell anyone but if you have iPlayer, find the BBC Alba channel. 4hours of ad-free coverage every day (commentary in scots gaelic though which might make a difference)

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Rob McManus @rfpmcmanus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

C5 ruining the opening ceremony of the a commonwealth games by missing out a huge chunk of the athletes’ parade for an ad break. #iaskyou #hopeless

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 23/07/2026

TVNZ will swallow $50m in losses in the next two years to pay for its digital transformation to become NZ's number one streamer

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TVNZ forecasts two years of losses, RNZ wants to be ‘vital anchor of truth’

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I've never seen anything like it. Salta, Argentina, has just recorded its hottest night on record during the climatologically coldest time of the year. The minimum overnight temperature did not fall below 26°C (78.8°F), pulverizing the previous monthly record by 7°C.

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's hard to predict what Parliament would look like under a system where people can vote for what they truly believe in. But one thing is clear: First Past the Post distorts election results and undermines trust in democracy. It's time for change.

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How could Britain look under proportional representation? See the results for your area

These visualisations from exclusive polling modelling show how the UK parliament could change under different voting systems

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Paul Carmichael @paulcarmichaeluk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Oh this is a shame. Ed was a brilliant broadcaster and one of the Radio 4 voices that has become so familiar to me. A good life, well lived. Broadcaster and journalist Edward Stourton dies aged 68 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Edward Stourton: Broadcaster and journalist dies aged 68

Stourton hosted Radio 4's Today programme for a decade and was a founding member of Channel 4 News.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/07/2026

We asked people in Clacton why they think Nigel Farage called the by-election. 👀

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Lights out and away we go! #Clacton

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Torn. I think Robbins was treated very roughly. But I also tend to think that very highly paid people in very senior roles are unusual cases where a lot of the usual employment protections shouldn’t really apply.

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R Freeman @iamrobf.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I wish publishers would stop doing this. Don't have a story about death prefixed with 'LIVE'. Use 'More' or 'Update'. Also, the sense of urgency the 'live' marker brings feels wrong for a sad occasion, and there isn't anything in the story progress which is going to change the basic fact of death.

Image from news site shows headline: LIVE Same Neill, Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders actor, dies, aged 78

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Important statement from the New York Times

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R Freeman @iamrobf.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

In 1950s Britain people were building their own houses - and you'll be amazed at the price of houses then. But where did the houses mentioned here get built? Does anyone recognise the house design? Who lives in them now, and how much are they worth? #house #building #diy #uk #1950s #economics

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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

'hundreds of thousands of new homes to be built' if it wasn't for newts and bats Howard is a daft as a bat and pissed as a newt. hundreds of thousands - utter tosh

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Times report on BBC investigation into people-smuggling… Lots of talk of “losing” access to critical information. Rather than Johnson not bothering to secure it. And Farage wanting an even harder Brexit. The stubborn refusal to face the consequences of our own govt’s stupid choices has become absurd

Brexit lets people-smugglers move to UK
Matt Dathan - Home Affairs Editor

Extracts:

Immigration officers have blamed Brexit for allowing active peoplesmugglers with convictions in other European countries to enter the UK.

An investigation by the BBC found that one prominent smuggler who had been jailed for five years in France in 2016 had claimed asylum in the UK and was living in Leicestershire.

Lucy Moreton, the professional officer at the ISU union, which represents Border Force staff, said Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union had cut off access to databases for sharing criminal data. She said she was not surprised that convicted peoplesmugglers had been able to enter the UK undetected.

Moreton told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “Once we left the European Union we lost our ability to share what’s termed low-level data. We still have Interpol data but that is not this level of criminality.

“So ultimately, as long as you’ve not been fingerprinted in the UK before, the identity you give us when you arrive and give us your fingerprints — if you even give fingerprints — is going to be the only identity that we know you by.”

The most important criminal database that was lost after Brexit was the Schengen Information System (SIS II), which was used to get real-time information about the movements of criminals, missing persons and objects of interest. The UK lost access to 40,000 alerts about investigations in other European countries. The Interpol database shares information only on the most serious criminals.

The UK also lost access to the European Criminal Records Information System and the Europol Information System. It no longer has access to Eurodac, the fingerprinting system that shares biometric identities of all people who claim asylum in the EU.

Sir Keir Starmer has tried to restore access to these databases, but a deal has yet to be agreed. Britain now relies on bilateral agreements with countries to share criminal data.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/06/2026

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

So many cyclist deaths begin with a stationary driver blocking the bike lane. The disconnect between cyclists, who see this as a life-threatening reckless action, and drivers, who see this is a minor parking infraction, is what often leads to discord.

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Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I'm sure this event will have lots of varied opinions and won't just be a moanfest about how it's all the EU's and Remainers' fault. Morning.

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

After a decade of hunting without success for the Brexit unicorn, five of the most pointless people in Britain get together to whinge about how it’s all somebody else’s fault. What a treat.

Advert for a Telegraph live event entitled “The Big Debate: How to make Brexit a success” with Lord Hannan, Lord Frost, Allister Heath, James Fryane and Allison Pearson

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Whoever did Robert Kenyon’s media training will spend the entire weekend praying that their identity remains secret…

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I deeply resent the implication that I would fiddle my finances. Just because I had to repay €173,000 after being caught funnelling EU funds into my general election campaign, then had my salary docked to recoup €40,000 in misspent EU funds, doesn't mean I'm dishonest.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

It’s such obvious bollocks. But it gets reported widely because hardly anybody knows any better any more.

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R Freeman @iamrobf.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

#eurovision picks from the Lancashire jury live in #Preston: #Denmark #Australia #Bulgaria #Moldova #Finland #Italy #Romania Really strong selection this year. Well done to all!

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Duille @duille.com · 12/05/2026

Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co

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R Freeman @iamrobf.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

www.mediapost.com/publications... An interesting perspective on why there can be different versions of truth. If you're interested in #education it also observes that today's students are doing less critical thinking: “They’re not losing disagreement,” ... “They’re losing discernment.” #AI

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TED And Truth

Two TED sessions made this "truth" clear: Today, truth is harder to define, harder to agree on, and harder to maintain as a shared construct.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

EXCL: Pride’s ousted boss, Christopher Joell-Deshields, is linked to a bizarre AI-generated Pride event accused of “scamming” people into making donations. He has denied being behind Capital Pride London. But we've proved it’s being run from his address. Link below.

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Dr Sue Greenwood @suegreenwood.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The boss of #Waitrose, Jason Tarry, was paid £1.3m last year. Meanwhile, min wage shop workers like this poor bloke are sacked for tackling a shoplifter and now he faces losing his first home. And the response from #JohnLewisPartnership is a ridiculously anodyne press statement 😡

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Dubai’s top British influencers have been fulsome in their praise for the UAE Government as the Iran war continues. Speaking from jail, one said, “They quite rightly locked me up for tweeting a video of a drone blowing up my apartment.” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 02/04/2026

Little update on this: Merton council, who have the power to issue fines for fake paperwork, say they have used their legal right to check landlord safety paperwork and are reviewing what Criterion sent over "as a matter of urgency".

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R Freeman @iamrobf.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Really shocking. It's hard to understand how this could have happened. You'd think the natural response from the accommodation manager would be to safeguard all the items.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The BBC have the Scott Mills story top of the website: “God, isn’t there more IMPORTANT news in the world?” The BBC have the Scott Mills story further down on the website: “Typical BBC, what are they trying to HIDE from us?”.

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...

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Screen scandal: How Ofcom lets GB News get away with it

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: A channel constantly breaking the rules has effectively become Reform TV, while our useless state regulator does nothing

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