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British people will walk past a Starbucks, Burger King, Costa Coffee, Taco Bell, Blank Street and not even notice. Then they'll see an independent shop called Al-Badr Supermarket and cry about how the UK is being taken over by foreigners.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 09/10/2026

The Green Party need to kick out the antisemites and get back to what the party was supposed to be all about: Opposing solar farms and high speed rail.

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Rob Burgess @robaburg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Being a sentient person in 2026 means arguing in public for issues you never thought you would have to articulate out loud: "Read to your children yourself instead of outsourcing it to a robot!" "Don't televise executions!" Things like that.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My view at the moment..Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire.

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dr Florence Stoney 1st woman UK #radiologist. 1898 qualif'd as Dr @ London School of Medicine for Women. Estab'ed X-ray dept @ Elizabeth Garret Anderson hospital. #WWI head of surgical & X-ray @ front line hospitals in France, dev't bone expertise. d. #OTD 7 Oct 1932 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florenc...

Dr Florence Stoney in uniform wearing her medals #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The emotion-prompting loss of Jeffrey Archer has reminded me of the ancient Chinese curse - May your Wikipedia entry have many unusual subsections.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is still GREAT that I don't have to worry about anything that happens or is 'decided' at a Tory party conference. Long may that continue.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I prefer my AI slop Bayeux Tapestry in pretend Latin rather than pseudo-German. Does this make me a bad person?

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Second new follower who is 18- just!- and has the one post that leads to her onlyfans account.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also on amazon kindle at the same price

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Focusing on supporting a theocratic regime that murders thousands of its own citizens, rather than supporting a democratic ally under imperialist invasion does rather speak to the present Green's priorities.

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Tim Hill of Antifa, #FBPE @tjrh.uk · 03/10/2026

Tomorrow's news today. Tories announce they're going to build 40 hospitals, 5 new prisons, a tunnel to Belfast, a bridge across the Channel, a space elevator, HS3, HS4, HS5 and a zip wire to the moon. The BBC treats these all as credible.

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Neil Fazakerley @neilfaz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Greens have already disgraced themselves by letting this motion get this far. If it passes it’s the end of them as a serious party. Which is a shame for, you know, green issues.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every time I mention the Greens I get abuse from ex-Corbyn types who love humanity but hate actual people.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wonder how the Greens of Suffolk and Herefordshire, who voted for more farmers' markets and fewer houses, feel about the Eco-Socialist party which has appeared in this conference? Still think they are two parties bolted together.

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s possible to dislike Thatcher and her policies and also think the 70s were shit.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(1916.) British Mark I tank being loaded on a train platform, bound for Russia, at Forster's works in Lincoln. #WW1 #HISTORY

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A lovely boomer, grim faced with all the problems of the world that he does not have, parked his car in Harborough the other day. On seeing a can behind his wheel, he kicked it into the next empty parking space. I saw two bins.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I went to an an amateur dramatic production in Harborough yesterday. The first few minutes after it started were silent, for dramatic reasons. The lovely middle class audience chatted throughout and didn't stop until somebody on stage spoke.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Morning. Just. Le Merle Noir, Leo Paul Robert in Les Oiseaux dans la Nature by Eugene Rambert, 1916.

Blackbird stood on ground upon Autumn leaves. Painting.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Warning- this picture is harrowing

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is why I never joined the Greens after leaving Labour. Labour is a lot of different traditions melded together over a century,but the Greens are two different parties bolted together. This was the case even before Polanski.

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cardinal1608.bsky.social @cardinal1608.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It mught be an early indicator that (perhaps unsurprisingly) it isn't possible for the Greens to hold together a coalition of Cotswolds Tories who don't want a solar farm in their county and tankies from Haringey who want to invade Israel.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is very hard to satisfactorily describe just how badly the BBC's journalistic standards have collapsed in recent years. Quite completely fucking useless.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It used to be so hot in there in the 70s. Has it improved?

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I wonder if the landlord, George Ward, had any idea that his 1909 marketing scam to propose that Ye Olde Trip to Jersalem was 'the oldest inn in England' would still be paying merch dividends in 2026!? I'm sure the old fraud would be pleased! More info: triskeleheritage.com/mediaeval-my...

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Also responsible for the lovely Kelmarsh Hall in Northamptonshire

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......

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Nicola Harris Author 💙📚💙📚 @nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A gout stool is a small, low, three‑legged seat designed specifically for someone suffering from gout, who needed to rest the affected foot close to the fire. #gout #goutstool #18thcentury #19thcentury #historicalfiction

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The affluent semi-rural have always felt separate and striven to keep it that way. The Piddington thing is just proof that they no longer feel the need to keep it unsaid Just like their trembling racism.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Agree.Most of that happened after I left. The stress must be terrible

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I can see that. In Hist most coursework was a similar experience to most classwork and completed elsewhere. It encouraged cheating and disadvantaged pupils without facilities or expectations at home.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

GCSE coursework was a terrible thing; in some families everybody chipped in to help. Gove was right to abolish it. www.arguably.uk/p/labour-sho...

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Labour shouldn’t undo Gove’s success

England’s education system is becoming the envy of the world. So why is the government changing course?

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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

House Sparrows deserve more love, don't you agree? 🐦♥️ #birds 🪶 You can buy my 2027 calendars here; www.carlbovis.com/2027-birds-c... 😊 Or if you don't have PayPal, here; ko-fi.com/carlbovis/shop 🐦

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If only £72,000,000 could buy candidates who aren't arseholes and policies that don't fall apart after a few nanoseconds of scrutiny.

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Paul Murphy @paulmurphy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Right believe cutting spending on ‘benefits’ is a way to secure instant savings: Cut benefits. But do properly. Get claimants into work by paying for training, jobs subsidies, or quicker access to NHS treatment Tories prefer the Victorian approach of just leaving people hard-up #R4today

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Eventually Burnham will have to say something about the masked fascists as they continue to escalate and at that point he'll look really weak and pathetic for waiting so long. 🤦‍♀️

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Hunt Saboteurs Association @huntsabs.org.uk · 09/09/2026

The incredible moment a terrified stag made a dramatic leap for his life on the 24th August, leaping over hunt supporters who were attempting to prevent him from escaping onto land where the Quantock Staghounds could not follow. 👇 www.huntsabs.org.uk/one-giant-le...

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Burnham needs to stop promising personal meetings with MPs. He wont be have enough time to keep the vibes coming #pmqs

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've got bad news for Julia, who wrote this letter in 1979. 47 years later the WWII nostalgia is still going strong.

A war bore..
WHEN is it going to end, all this nostalgia about the 1939 war! I've had just about enough of it.
Did we reminisce like this in 1959 and 1969 ? I don't recall that we did. So what makes forty years on more significant than twenty or thirty years on? Julia Tant, Herne Hill, London, SE.

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Mish J Holman @mishjholman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A History of the Census Takers has arrived. #Ancestry #Genealogy #ancestryhour #GenHour

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'non-working' is a redundant adjective before the word 'royals' mate

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Katie @katieest1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If an elected prime minister *had* to be replaced, perhaps replacing him with one who needs to constantly appease a reform/right-wing leaning constituency wasn't a very good idea. He ain't going to ticktock pork scratching the thugs off the street.

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JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Andy Burnham will not say anything today about fascist militia on the street because he is a flip- flopper who is too scared to upset people. He has always been like that, yet people act surprised.

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