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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Beating up pensioners and vandalising curry houses in Gosport is not 'an expression of legitimate concern'

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 21/07/2026

From pandemic pause to bigger than ever comeback. Peashooters, Austrians, and a growing crowd in rural England. You’ve got a year to get practising! Bonkers and fun. Aidan Baker reports on a rather unusual championship

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The curious rise of competitive peashooting

A schoolroom punishment became Witcham’s famous peashooting championship, drawing competitors of all ages for decades

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Jacqui O @jacjac65.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

In what reality will Reform winning council seats tomorrow help our communities? I'm feeling so sad.

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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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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

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Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch

President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 21/02/2026

This sort of thing is why people are understandably not coming to the US. I would be really surprised if the expected international crowds arrive for the World Cup, at least at the US venues. Maybe some diehard fans will come. But the risk is just too great.

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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 11/11/2025

"Working at the BBC, I felt that there was a strong awareness to be checking potential liberal left biases – and very few from the other direction," says Lewis Goodall. Memo leaks claim the BBC has been captured by left wing politics. What's going on? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/insi...

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Inside the BBC bias allegations | The News Agents

The News Agents, all of whom spent years working for the BBC, discuss the “existential moment” facing their former employer, with top-level resignations after allegations of systemic bias in its…

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

On Donald Trump's attack on the BBC this PM, Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: "It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him. "The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK. "The PM [and others] should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it."

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Janice and Kerry claim they're not racists. And you might be tempted to believe that until you read what Janice and Kerry think and then conclude that ... yup - they're racists.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university. One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”

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Jacqui O @jacjac65.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

By Ben Jennings, Guardian....

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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Jacqui O @jacjac65.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Awful. Was planning on travelling to USA next year, but now changed it to Canada.

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Oh my God. Donald Trump and JD Vance are attacking Zelensky in the Oval Office. This is a complete fucking embarrassment.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

“When fascism begins to creep in around us…. Trusting your instincts, naming the threat and sharing your fears isn't just cathartic - it's empowering. It might even save your life.” No excuses. No equivocation. We call it what it is. And them what they are. Very good letters in @theguardian.com

Zoe Williams argues that fascism's gradual arrival induces a sense of paralysis (The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it?,
17 February). Her words immediately brought to mind the "smoky room experiment".
In this study, when a person is alone in a room that begins to fill with smoke, three-quarters raise the alarm within minutes.
Yet, when surrounded by others who remain passive, only 10% take action. This is the "bystander effect", identified by Latané and Darley in the 1970s, which reveals how a silent, unresponsive crowd can stifle our instincts - even when our own lives are at stake.
I often reference this experiment when discussing climate change, urging people to voice their fears to friends and colleagues.
The same principle applies when fascism begins to creep in around us. Trusting your instincts, naming the threat and sharing your fears isn't just cathartic - it's empowering. It might even save your life.
Dr Caroline Vincent
London

• Zoe Williams is so right. I worked as a psychotherapist at the Holocaust Survivors' Centre in Hendon from 1990 to 2000. For 10 years I listened to my clients talking about their experiences of a world that turned from normal to nightmare in a matter of months. They survived Auschwitz and other death camps while their families were murdered by the Nazi death process. This kind of work leaves one with a very clear and specific understanding of fascism and nazism.
When we watched Donald Trump's inauguration, and witnessed Elon Musk parading Hitler-like around the stage before throwing his arm into the air in that familiar salute, I was dumbstruck for a brief moment. I thought, wait a minute, has he just made a Nazi salute? I had to rewatch three times before my brain would allow me to fully recognise it for what it was.
This was the moment I knew the Trump train had lurched into a new order. Zoe Williams is right. We can't stand by and watch, incredulous. We need to say loudly what this is.
Paul Goldreich
Eastbourne, East Sussex

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19/02/2025

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn says Ed Davey “It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies” 👏

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Jacqui O @jacjac65.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Moving over from Twitter (never X) and looking for people to follow. 😀

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