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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I see Iranian media has released an animated cartoon to help Trump understand what's happening. #Iran
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
'Share' if you're proudly anti hunt!
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The new Norfolk Iron Age carnyx find featured on #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is beyond spectacular, dating to that crucial period for the Iceni between Caesar’s expeditions & Boudica’s rebellion. Already my find of the decade, today is a day to worship the carnyx… 1/…
A reproduction of the bronze boar-headed Deskford carnyx held in the air.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I knew Tory ministers could be cruel, unfeeling bastards. But the insouciance, even mockery, by Labour ministers towards people convicted of no crime, who are at imminent risk of death as a result of an unconscionable period on remand is on another level altogether. They are revelling in it.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Once you’ve labelled someone a terrorist, it seems, you can do almost anything to them and get away with it. The silence on this issue across almost all the media is something to behold.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
US chicken is chlorinated because America has no animal welfare laws where poultry is concerned. It has to be chlorinated because Salmonella and e. coli run rife The EU banned that practice in 1997 and as such the UK has among the highest welfare and standards in the world. 1/2
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Cally Beaton @callybeaton.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Please watch & share this footage of 2 lovely guys (faces clearly captured on CCTV) who just stole my bag from under my chair, bending it like Beckham in what is evidently their signature robbing move. Maybe it will be shared widely enough they don’t get to do it to anyone else. Stay safe out there.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Don't threaten me with a good time!
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Travellersuzy @travellersuzy.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Of course he's there... that's his tribe 🙄🤬
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 22/12/2025
Imposed against the council’s will, Lord Houchen’s MDC has collapsed, leaving wasted millions and unanswered questions | Andy McDonald
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Houchen’s £200mn vanity project collapses, leaving Middlesbrough to pick up the pieces
Imposed against the council’s will, Lord Houchen’s MDC has collapsed, leaving wasted millions and unanswered questions
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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 18/12/2025
A campaign for proportional representation (PR) event in Chester urges people to send Christmas cards to their MP | Samuel Jackson
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PR voting promoted in Chester with a timely Christmas theme
A campaign for proportional representation (PR) event in Chester urges people to send Christmas cards to their MP
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This piece is billed as ‘father of girls thinks misogyny lessons are unnecessary’ but right at the end he actually asks the girls he is confidently speaking on behalf of and they…disagree. Amazing. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
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I’m a father of teen girls. I don’t want misogyny lessons for boys
The government is planning classes to combat prejudice against women. Andrew Billen isn’t sure it will work
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Overheard train chat between two tough-looking youths: Youth one: “I got déjà vu, man. I saw this dog and felt like I’d seen it before.” Youth two: “That’s not déjà vu. You just saw a dog twice.”
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Musk and Trump want a smaller state, for the same reason the Sopranos wanted a smaller police force.
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anyfulekno.bsky.social @anyfulekno.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
@reecedinsdale.bsky.social Well said, Reece!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether. He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors
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Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I have never claimed a single benefit in 35 years and have created several jobs. I think I might be doing it wrong.
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Naushabah Khan MP @naushabahkhanmp.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The conversation about immigration has taken a sinister turn. It’s no longer just about policy; it’s about race. I won’t stand for it. We can’t let hate and division decide who belongs in Britain. This country is stronger, kinder, and better than that 🇬🇧 #immigration #race #sarahpochin #british
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
This is all authors. Unless we post about our books, you don't know they exist. And unless happy readers recommend us, our books die. And we don't eat. There is no "marketing dept". Algorithms favour the megastars, so they're no help. Anyway. I'm sorry for being repetitive. I have no option.
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stitch is holding a sign that says `` sorry '' .
ALT: stitch is holding a sign that says `` sorry '' .
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Former first minister Humza Yousaf has joined leaders of Britain’s Jewish community in criticising an Israeli minister for inviting 'thug' Tommy Robinson to visit the country
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Humza Yousaf joins Jewish leaders in outrage over Israel’s Tommy Robinson invite
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 06/10/2025
Interesting: Leaving the #ECHR would be a grave mistake, writes former UK Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland KC👇 🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I'm amazed she's allowed cutlery.
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Chris Leppard @ferretandbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This could impact one of my team - a fantastic Iranian guy (whose father was an opposition politician & subsequently murdered). He and his wife have ILR now but who knows under the current climate. Unbelievably stupid behaviour even by the lamentable standards of most of our current politicians.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We can't tax billionaires, because they might take their tax avoidance to another country. But we can drive out brilliant people who do much-needed work, contribute to our society and culture, pay tax, create jobs, and have done nothing wrong. That's fine, apparently.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Just got a haircut, and my lovely barber, a Turkish guy who employs 6 people, and has a wife who's an IVF technician, is shutting up shop and moving to another country because his Indefinite Leave to Remain is under threat by these venal, stupid, posturing politicians, left and right.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
NEWCASTLE: Thousands came together to show the City’s true character: united, diverse, welcoming of refugees, rejecting hate.
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Newcastle says no – a city united in kindness and against fascism
Thousands came together to show the City’s true character: united, diverse, welcoming of refugees, rejecting hate
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
THIS THIS ONE MILLION TIMES THIS
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
They be different, oop there in that Manchester. They wear Marks and Spencer clothing, and their walk has a lilt. They aren't like us.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is not the flex he thinks it is.
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Trump Ripped After Gloating About How Golden Oval Office Makes World Leaders 'Freak Out'
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I'm not in the hall listening. But reading this on the train heading back, this from Starmer calling out racism is ****ING excellent www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
didn't know there would be quite so many flags in Liverpool when I wrote this, but a relief to see Starmer's conference speech finally try to reclaim patriotism from the right. Suspect a lot of people badly needed the PM just to say: this isn't what Britain is. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Now we know what patriotism means to Shabana Mahmood – can she harness that to unite rather than divide us? | Gaby Hinsliff
The home secretary is wrestling the debate back towards integration and belonging, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
hardly anyone will watch Starmer's appearance at Labour conference today but it was probably the best speech he's ever given he clearly signposted what he stands for - a diverse, tolerant, decent Britain - and how be believes progressives are in an existential fight with the populist right
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BEAR @bears-1.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
www.rawstory.com/hegseth-2674...
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'I traveled 8K miles to hear this?' Retired general rips into Hegseth's 'canned' speech
Retired Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson had nothing but scathing words on CNN Tuesday morning for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's all-hands speech to generals and admirals who had been called off their ass...
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Brian Patten - one of the first poets I loved www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
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Liverpool poet Brian Patten dies at 79
His poetry often explored love and relationships and he wrote books for children including Gargling With Jelly
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/09/2025
‘No amount of knowledge about medieval literary culture can make the Pearl Manuscript tell us what it means. Everyone has to speculate at some point.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the manuscript that contains the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Tom Johnson · Supereffable: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript
Cotton Nero A.x is a small miracle: a quarto volume, about the size of a paperback, consisting of just 92 leaves. It...
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 25/09/2025
I’m with Gordo on this, the two child cap was a cruel Tory policy, it has no place under a Labour government. It should have been scrapped already. It must be scrapped at the next budget. There are many ways to pay for this, taxing gambling is one, taxing extreme wealth is another. buff.ly/uEEVNQi
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 23/09/2025
This is a whole new cattle of fish
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Alex Kanefsky (he/him) @alexkanefsky.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Christ I needed that 😂😂
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This 🙌
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Andrea Jenkyns must be singing again. #emergencyalert
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Bill H @ndbill.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Free speech, Tory style.
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Brexit? My Arse! @brexitmyarse.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Literally just handed the keys to Downing Street to farage. Local government pensions…gone. NHS…gone. Human rights…gone. But hey, england will be a toxic racist shithole of a country again…where it’s perfectly ok to abuse your black neighbour. God, I fucking hate this country right now…
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I've a feeling Mr Farage might very much be regretting his trip... round about ... Now 👇
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Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I’ve *worked* with the asylum seekers in one of the hotels, and taught English to several dozens from various hotels, in community classrooms. I have never once felt in any danger, quite the opposite. Men from Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran etc are more respectful to older women than British men are.
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I’ve often wondered why Nigel Farage, who as godfather of the Brexit fiasco engineered the biggest British foreign policy disaster since Suez is continually offered so much space in some newspapers and broadcast media. Serious question. Thoughts welcome.
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