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Jacqueline French

@jacquelinefrench.bsky.social
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Academic editor. PhD in Russian lit. A new nonna. Adore my little bambino (who takes my mind off the Spursy lurgy & other horrors in the wider world); lover of languages, lit, travel & a myriad of sports. I'm forgiving, but Brexity views are anathema.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Over 25,000 emails from you to your MPs... All 650 MPs have been contacted. Some >100 times. All saying attend the parliamentary debate on the UK joining the EU. Keep sending those emails via this form. If you've already sent one, share this link with friends. 👇
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Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Where oh where Mr Farage are all those lovely Brexit benefits ... meme via Karyn Vale
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please watch this crucial discussion about the scale of Earth's energy imbalance. The numbers are shocking. Thanks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tCR...
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12 Hiroshima Bombs Every Second
YouTube video by Facing Future
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On social media, a wave of videos & thoughts sparked by Cornell 7. One stood out. I think it goes to the heart of the matter. "If you can't feel empathy for a woman without having to imagine her as your daughter or your mom, then you're part of the problem."
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘If you’ve got £1 million or £2 million to spend on political advertising, forget it,…. If you’ve got £8 million, you can make people believe anything you want.’ I wrote about Britain’s broken political finance system for the latest @lrb.co.uk
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Jacqueline French @jacquelinefrench.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The state of the US www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbVA... Shocking botched executions, the drive to create an army of pumped-up religious extremists ("No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals"), a president refusing to rule out martial law during Midterms. Echoes of Gilead.
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Simon Marks reacts to Pete Hegseth's 'unhinged' speech
YouTube video by LBC
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm sure the decision to hold Danny Tommo on remand will soon be reversed, now that a couple of dozen knobbly-kneed wife beaters in nonce bonnets have walked under an arch.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The community in Alexandria, Louisiana, is calling for the cancelation of the new ICE facility for unaccompanied kids at England Airpark. Get loud for the kids. bsky.app/profile/anat...
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s hard to know what to say about this crap. These people are incredibly damaged.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?
nytimes.com
OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/09/2026
🚨 We’re calling on Ofcom to open a formal investigation into Nigel Farage presenting GB News shows and whether his programme on 15 September 2026 was within the rules on impartiality ⚠️ Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias.
bestforbritain.org
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the Convention [ECHR]. It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to” Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
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In short, if Britain were to leave the ECHR, it would not be
'taking back control. It would be surrendering influence over the rules and institutions that help keep us safe.
The debate about the ECHR is too often conducted as though it were a choice between national sovereignty and international law. That is a false choice.
The Convention advances British interests because it reflects British values: liberty under law, democratic government and the accountability of power.
Walking away would not make Britain freer. It would make Britain weaker.
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Jacqueline French @jacquelinefrench.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We need more men calling out misogyny, willing to stand with women, & take action. goodlawproject.org/s/748822 Predators don’t work in a silo. The Epstein files, Gisèle Pelicot, the 50+ students involved in the Cornell scandal - 100s of men knew about the sexual assaults & abuses, & did nothing.
goodlawproject.org
It’s time for men to speak up - and act | Good Law Project
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Mark Mack @mwmack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026
As a side note to this: The best thing that Andy Burnham’s Labour Party can do right now is reach out to both Ed Davey and Zack Polanski. Whether he needs them for a coalition after the next GE or not, now is the time to get both the Lib Dems and Greens on board - especially around care.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Jacqueline French @jacquelinefrench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rousing stuff and a seismic programme ... Cue the billionaire-owned r/w media smear campaign ... praying tho' that his radicalism, commitment & emotional intelligence succeed in engaging people & restoring hope ... that it'll become "easier to grow up & to grow old". www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChoE...
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Did Andy Burnham Just Change Britain? | Labour Conference speech
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oxford Street to be pedestrianised from October 26th www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Oxford Street to be pedestrianised from 26 October
Buses, taxis, bikes and other vehicles, will be banned from Orchard Street to Great Portland Street.
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Mum's the Word @exuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The depths we are prepared to sink to just to feel relevant. I almost feel sorry for her. Note ALMOST not that I do I actually think she is an idiot.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#ThisIsAmerica
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More terrorist attacks from terrorist Russia as they bomb a hospital in Kyiv and the Science Academy Every single day Russia carries out mass terrorist attacks across Ukraine
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel wiped Gaza from the face of the earth.  Everyone knew exactly what they were doing!  A crime more confessed to as it happened than any other in history. A crime more documented as it happened than any other in history. There are no excuses. None at all
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Johnson cut his journalistic teeth lying through them as Brussels correspondent for the torygraph. That was after he was sacked by the Times for egregious fabrication. More lying from Johnson the Liar PM. He will never change.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
nbcnews.com
America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Even more important than the current figure is the TREND - the numbers wanting Britain to rejoin the EU have been rising slowly but steadily. It’s relentless.
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Jacqueline French @jacquelinefrench.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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goodlawproject.org
Cat Knight: Working on Michaela Hall’s case has shattered my belief in a system meant to protect us | Good Law Project
Together we could change the landscape for victims of domestic violence and the protection the state provides. As a woman and a lawyer, I’m not settling for anything less, says Cat Knight
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just 4 months after the local elections, Reform UK (RefUK) have lost 158 of their local councillors: -55 resigned -42 went Independent -28 defected -24 were kicked out -5 lost their seats -2 disqualified -2 suspended. Appalling record - and a waste of taxpayers’ money!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what. rnli.org/support-us/g...
rnli.org
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today programme just featured me and @sundersays.bsky.social discussing tarticle - c 8.40. yes we need rules but ethnicity or skin colour aren’t what determine Britishness. Also telling a nurse to integrate after 12 hr A&E shift treating whoever turns up (and taking racist abuse) is meaningless.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/09/2026
🤔 ICYMI: Nigel Farage leads a political party. He’s a sitting MP. And he now hosts his own weekly primetime show on GB News. 🚨Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias. 👇 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action
bestforbritain.org
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026
A new mega poll by YouGov reveals that an overwhelming majority of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 constituencies were not sure. It’s time to put EU membership on the table. bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…
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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...
adambienkov.co.uk
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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Adam C @abc-biarritz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 18/09/2026
Youth hubs for five more North East districts Five more North East districts will get new Young Futures Hubs to give young people better access to mental health support, employment opportunities and crime prevention services northeastbylines.co.uk/region/north...
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Youth hubs for five more North East districts
Five more North East districts are to get new Young Futures Hubs to give 10-18-year-olds – and up to 25 for those with SEND - better access to mental health support, employment opportunities and crime...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There was a good piece on this in @theguardian.com the other day, suggesting that even some Telegraph journalists are uneasy about this. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
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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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Reform UK should realy have to declare this as a donation in kind from GB News bylinetimes.com/2026/09/17/n...
bylinetimes.com
Nigel Farage Handed Platform by GB News to Defend Reform UK's £72m Donations From Crypto Billionaires
"These donations are completely legal," insisted the Reform UK leader as he used his first appearance as a GB News host for six months to dismiss all questions about where his party is getting its rec...
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The story of Jason Arday is the story of James Orr. Of the ideology which has found a foothold in Cambridge University, fostering the sorts of ideas that formed the undercurrents – sometimes explicit; sometimes unconscious – against Arday. I returned to my alma mater for an in-depth exploration 👇
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The Two Professors and a ‘War On Ideas’
The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces around hierarchies and structural power – and who gets to belong in our inst...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mark Carney, "Polling shows that an overwhelming majority of Canadians support much closer ties with Europe" My view: Latest YouGov polling found 59% of Britons support a closer relationship with the EU, versus 20% opposed.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Absolutely horrendous for this woman and her family.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have legitimate concerns about closing lifeboat stations. But do only the thugs' "legitimate concerns" about migrants being saved from drowning count?
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sad day A woman who spoke her mind clearly and succinctly A great loss www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77
The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on current affairs shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 16/09/2026
The government has three months to decide whether to cancel its £330m NHS contract. We want Palantir out, join us 👇 goodlaw.social/658abc
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