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JacquiMacDermott

@jacquimac.bsky.social
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Word wrangler. London Irish 🇮🇪 Bewitched, bothered and bewildered. Mostly bewildered.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Man on a bus, Dublin, 1984, photo by Tony O'Shea, Irish photographer.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"People are looking through the shop window and they like what they see..." says Kemi Badenoch, of the Conservative party, which is currently polling at its lowest level in its entire history
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The roof starting to go onto Tina’s hospital. I still genuinely don’t feel like it’s real. All I can think of is the 1000s of street dogs who will have their lives changed here. Tina would just love it 🎾❤️
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 22/09/2026
London’s most expensive house, the Reform UK Treasurer, Holly Valance, one of Labour’s biggest donors, a £265m sale, and a curious loophole we’ve uncovered that could slash the taxes earned from elite London properties. London Centric x Dan Neidle collab. www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-mo...
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London’s most expensive house, Reform UK’s treasurer, and a massively reduced tax bill
A £265m mansion in the heart of the Chelsea • Sold by billionaire Nick Candy and his ex-wife Holly Valance • Bought by a Labour-donating hedge fund boss • Why was the tax bill so small?
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Unless he’s raising an army in the Spanish Netherlands and claim the throne for himself with support of France and the Habsburg powers, this should not be leading the BBC headlines for the third day in a row. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Earl Spencer tells BBC Harry and Meghan's media treatment echoes what happened to Diana
Princess Diana's brother says she was "really brought low by all that criticism" and he saw her in "tears of despair".
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 18/09/2026
If you go down to 100 Wardour Street in Soho today, you can look through the windows at what is possibly a work of art, or possibly a rare chance for the public to come face to face with landlord tax reduction strategy. www.londoncentric.media/i/216000620/...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Helen Whately on Sky News: "We want to bring down the tax burden on working people. Kemi has asked her economic unit for a fiscally responsible way to bring down inheritance tax, another tax that hits hard working people hard." One of the dumbest people in politics. Liz Truss levels of stupid.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing?
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.
Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/09/2026
Having now dealt with the deaths of two parents within two months, let me just say that the kindest thing you can do for your loved ones, at every stage of life, is assume that some of them will outlive you, and make that as easy as possible for them, logistically. it sucks and it's morbid, but.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ethnonationalism, to put it politely. (Source: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...)
Graph showing: The public wrongly assume most people convicted of homicide are from an ethnic minority. In fact, 64% are white – but the public's median guess is just 45%. Conversely, they overestimate the ethnic-minority share, putting it at 55% when the reality is 35%.
And Reform UK supporters are most wide of the mark on both measures, guessing just 30% of homicide convicts are white and as many as 70% are from an ethnic minority.
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 02/09/2026
The Guardian's recruitment platform Guardian Jobs is closing after more than 20 years in response to a "fundamental shift" in the UK's jobs landscape The jobs helped "fund our independent journalism" pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/gu...
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Guardian Jobs to close blaming five-year low in UK vacancies
Classifed job adverts were once a major revenue earner for The Guardian.
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Kristin Wilkinson 🍁 @silentkw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s my Gran’s birthday (85 today!) Here’s an oil painting I did of her a few years back during lockdown #oilpainting #artist
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JacquiMacDermott @jacquimac.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Looks great. And Ruth Madeley is ace!!
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Very grateful & very proud to be a part of 𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐄𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐍, Siân Heder’s new film about Judy Heumann & her fellow disability activists. Select cinemas Nov 6.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/09/2026
the Outsiders Arts Club is in the FT today!!!! www.ft.com/content/c1b6...
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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New link as the other has run out: as.ft.com/r/8fd3c747-f... Or for subscribers: www.ft.com/content/2da1...
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Brexiters’ effort to resettle Chagos Islands hit by lack of proper boat
Nigel Farage-backed expedition is part of attempts to block UK’s contentious deal giving sovereignty over the archipelago to Mauritius
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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Will making it harder/impossible for care workers/middle skill migrants on work visas to settle improve integration cohesion? No. But will it save money/be good for the economy? Absolutely not, quite the opposite. But at least it's popular? .......... inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Exempt care workers from hardline immigration reforms, voters say
Shabana Mahmood plans to double the waiting period for immigrants to qualify for indefinite leave to remain
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Parliamentary motion against Mahmood's vicious immigration reforms gathering further signatures. Think it's pretty clear there's going to be concessions but they'd need to go very far indeed for the plan to be even halfway acceptable inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Mahmood's 'hardline' immigration reforms hit by growing rebellion
More Labour MPs to publicly oppose Home Secretary's changes to indefinite leave to remain
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Not hard to see why Reform did not announce their plan to abolish Personal Independence Payment until *after* the by-election..
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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
love this
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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
HA HA Mr so-called SUN tonight we get our REVENGE on you for making it so hot for so long, how you like it when you got the MOON IN FRONT OF YOU, EH??? Bitch it's the only time anyone even looks at you
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Whatever happens in Clacton tomorrow Farage is going to end up looking absolutely ridiculous He wanted to prove himself to be the hero of the hour, taking on and taking down the mythical "establishment". Instead he's going to look like an absolute clown - surrounded by clowns at a clown convention
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The war on Soho, waged by people who choose to live in one of the busiest hospitality hotspots in the world and then realised they didn't actually like it, continues
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 06/08/2026
You can't run a world-famous nightlife district with a village-hall mindset. London's hospitality and nightlife support jobs, culture and growth. New powers for City Hall will help ensure decisions consider the wider benefits for our city.
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Council wants pubs in London’s Soho and West End to ban standing
Sadiq Khan criticises Westminster council’s ‘anti-growth policies’ after it recommends stopping ‘vertical drinking’
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/07/2026
the four stages: 1. Allister Heath's columns are not real 2. Allister Heath's columns are not serious 3. OK, they are real and serious but it's too late to do anything about them 4. Our only hope is to find a way of adapting to Allister Heath's columns
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 29/07/2026
hey girl, are you the moon? because you also look bad in pictures
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good grief, this hits home.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It’s a rip-off price, the vendor is toxic, and it seems the software doesnt deliver: www.ft.com/content/cbd1... Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says
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Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says
Think-tank’s findings likely to add to calls for audit of NHS England claims around Federated Data Platform
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It's not just that they got it wrong it's that believing the original shows such a fundamental misunderstanding of the immigration system.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
In a headline and a leading article we said migrant care workers were each bringing up to 15 family members with them (News, Comment, Jul 6). This was incorrect. The ratio of 15 to 1 was that of new visa approvals for Cameroonian care workers to visa approvals for family members of all Cameroonian care workers already in the UK in 2025-26. The same applies to arrivals from Ghana, Bangladesh and India. There is no connection between new visa approvals for care workers, who are not allowed to bring any dependants at all, and visas issued to the family members of care workers who were here already.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 24/07/2026
Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Worth pointing out that in 1956, a children's book adaptation of Homer was doing "woke" casting.
Figures from the Provensen's Homer, a group of figures with skin tones ranging from Black to olive.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Have the British public always been so self centred? I’m staggered by how many people I’ve seen saying ‘I don’t use buses so what good is that?’ Or ‘pubs aren’t for me so who cares?’ Millions of people do use each and they are both pretty vital for our economy and society
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I really think some of my colleagues in the Parliamentary lobby need a bit of a break. The reporting at the moment is so frantic and a bit hysterical. Today Burnham is being accused of a major U-turn because he said he would look at something and then said he won't move ahead with it currently.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
You wouldn't know from these Tweets by a BBC reporter that small boat crossings are down by almost a half compared to the same period last year
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
On my way, Clacton.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Because it means he doesn't get to have a me vs the establishment campaign. And his likely victory isn't taken as vindication by anyone. Plus it makes him look silly and desperate.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Emergency podcasts, sir. Thousands of 'em"
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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
One of my cartoons for Tuesday's Metro
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Gail Brodholt @gailbrodholt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
After months of blood, sweat and bleeding fingers, my Primrose Hill linocut is finally finished. Hope you like it! #printmaking #primrosehill
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
July 5, 1975: Arthur Ashe becomes the first Black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
Arthur Ashe
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JacquiMacDermott @jacquimac.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Really lovely!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/07/2026
Landlord Forced To Raise Rent Due To Thinking Of Bigger Number theonion.com/landlord-forced-to-rai…
Landlord Forced To Raise Rent Due To Thinking Of Bigger Number
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