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✝️ ,🐈🐈‍⬛, 📚 & 🎼🎶🎹. Also ⚽⚪🔵🟡 #ALAW Charity finance person. Opinions my own.

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Adolescent Health Study @adolescenthealth.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
📣 We're hiring a Programme Support Officer to join the team. 💷 Salary: Circa £35,000 🏠 Location: Remote / home-based (with some UK travel) 📅 Deadline: Sunday 8 November 2026, 11:00pm 👉 Find out more and apply: www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/project...
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Programme Support Officer | Project Youth (Adolescent Health Study) | CharityJob
Apply now for Programme Support Officer. , Circa £35,000, find a career with meaning today
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Adolescent Health Study @adolescenthealth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🎉 We’re so excited to unveil our new name and identity! ‘Project Youth’ is now the study’s working name, supported by a new visual identity and website. More than 3,000 young people, parents and carers helped shape the final result. 👉 www.adolescenthealthstudy.ac.uk/news/adolesc...
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Adolescent Health Study launches new ‘Project Youth’ identity — Adolescent Health Study
The Adolescent Health Study has unveiled its new name and visual identity – designed to help it engage young people and their parents and carers.
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In light of the growth in use of this term in the UK and the events of this weekend in particular, I'm grateful for this booklet from care.org.uk landing on my doormat this morning 🙏🏼✝️ #Christian #christiannationalism #nationalism
A booklet called "Faith and flag: A guide to Christian nationalism" authored by Christian Action Research and Education (CARE)
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is deeply shocking.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is a growing block of people in the UK who, whatever their claimed political aims, want nothing more than to do, or see done, violence to their perceived enemies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest
Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
BBC News - Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... These kind of men think we should be scared of immigrants? 🙄 I'm more scared of them, can we deport black clad balaclava wearers please?
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Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest
Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Looking forward to this, thanks @thenewsagents.co.uk team!
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As a Yorkshire almost lifelong resident (not quite born and bred but close enough) I shall be resisting this change as long as physically possible. Yes I know #Halifax has been owned by #Lloyds since the financial crisis but I love being a customer of a Yorkshire brand... 😒
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The diverse world of the accountant 😅 the title of today's update email from my accountancy institute: "How to Excel: don't abuse the IF Function | Podcast: How to plan for a Russian test of NATO"
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
While I know the data implications of this idea are tricky, I'd love some sort of offers/promos aggregator app that alerted you the minute you went to a website of or lingered near the physical entrance of a store/eatery for which one of the multiple offers one has access to at any point in time.
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Amused by all the people posting ‘Yeah, we’ve noticed there are wildfires’, like consumption of news is still a mass, collective activity.
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I know he's been in post a little while now but it still seems a bit weird seeing "PM Andy Burnham" in news reports etc...
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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 14/08/2026
7pm on Friday night is a perfect time to remind *everyone* that you shouldn't play around with fire now.
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I mean it's a serious thing but this was my thought too 🫣🤭
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Happy International Left Handers Day to all my fellow "sinistrals" 😁 #lefthanded
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Something to ponder this week.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Have a horrible feeling the stage is set for loads of Brits to blind themselves today. Silly season making it a big news item. No glasses anywhere. People more scornful of authority than they've ever been. The ultimate finger in the eye to woke health and safety culture: your own eye.
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I mean why hasn't this been a thing forever? These things are unnecessary and dangerous... BBC News - Andy Burnham says disposable BBQ ban under consideration - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Andy Burnham says disposable BBQ ban under consideration
The PM said the public should not be using single-use grills "at this moment in time" amid wildfire risks.
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Fine words Mr Khan 👏🏼 #SadiqKhan #netzero #climatechange #climateemergency #drought www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This endless conflation of skin colour with culture. This abject refusal to acknowledge that the last fifty years has occurred. This intimation that anyone born in this country but with the wrong ethnicity is diluting it. Dismal.
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Listening on the radio, so can't see but has #Burnham quoted those hospital stats from memory given he is speaking without notes? If so impressive (albeit I've no idea if they're right 😅) he'd do well in a Dragon's Den pitch! #socialcare
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 28/07/2026
I’m with my family in France and as people know I have a disabled son who needs 24/7 care, so I can’t be back in Westminster tomorrow - but I look forward to meeting Andy Burnham over Zoom. I’m hopeful this call may prove to be the first step towards fixing our broken care service.
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If the King in the North really wants to go full tilt at moving the centre of government operations, may I present the ideal seat for Parliament in the North?
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Telegraph calls for an insurance-based social care system, where people ‘would be encouraged to pay into a fund that would cover their own care in old age, should they need it.’ How that works in a country where millions are already undersaving for retirement is unclear.
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My thinking aligns very much with this analysis 👇🏼 open.substack.com/pub/fleetstr...
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No podium, no notes, and no doubts
Andy Burnham's first test as Prime Minister was a speech that would set the tone for his time in office. He did it with guns blazing
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Adolescent Health Study @adolescenthealth.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
We're delighted to welcome Albert King as our new Chief Information and Technology Officer. Albert joins our Executive Team to lead the organisation’s strategy for data management, information security and compliance. www.adolescenthealthstudy.ac.uk/news140726
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News: Adolescent Health Study appoints Chief Information and Technology Officer — Adolescent Health Study
Albert King has joined the Adolescent Health Study (AHS) as Chief Information and Technology Officer and will lead the organisation’s strategy for data management, information security and compliance.
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Adolescent Health Study @adolescenthealth.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📢 We're looking for an Administrative Coordinator to join the Adolescent Health Study and help support one of the UK's most ambitious adolescent health research programmes. 💷 £26,000–£30,000 📅 Closing date: Sunday 26 July 2026 Apply today: www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/adolesc...
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Administrative Coordinator | Adolescent Health Study | CharityJob
Apply now for Administrative Coordinator. , £26,000 - £30,000 per year, find a career with meaning today
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns
Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection
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Brendan G. @bee-gee-13.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
He cannot possibly call himself the most assaulted politician when 2 MPs have been murdered in the last 10 years.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage resigns his seat in Clacton forcing a by election which he ... er plans to stand in. Huge performative cost to the taxpayers to feather his ego. I hope it backfires spectacularly
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The funny option would be if none of the main parties stood candidates, saying, 'We'll make the effort when we have the by-election after the suspension.'
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Definitely worth a read after the exhausting rollercoaster of last week. Cathartic analysis from @iandunt.bsky.social #politics #burnham #labour open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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There is a light that never goes out
It's been a week of chaos, but there is now a pathway to change. And with change, there's hope.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Strange world where a Bulgarian Olivia Rodrigo lookalike singing nonsense saves us from literally weeks of discourse.
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This from Marina Hyde just sums everything up perfectly 👌🏼🫠 #labour #burnham #politics #farage www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Starmer, Burnham, Farage Polanski: they make a week in politics feel like an eternity in Hades | Marina Hyde
It’s your life in their hands, but what kind of life is that? No wonder a wearied, confused public has mobilised into tribes – or just tuned out, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.
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Adolescent Health Study @adolescenthealth.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
📢We're looking for an Engagement and Involvement Lead (maternity cover). This is an exciting opportunity to shape how young people and communities are involved in one of the UK’s most important health studies. 💷 c£50,000 per annum 🗓️ Closing: 31 May 2026 👉 www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/adolesc...
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Engagement and Involvement Lead (Maternity Cover – 15 months FTC ) | Adolescent Health Study | CharityJob
Apply now for Engagement and Involvement Lead (Maternity Cover – 15 months FTC ). , c£50,000 per annum according to qualifications and experience, find a career with meaning today
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Graham Smyth @grahamsmyth.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Leeds United will play Premier League football next season. Like it was ever in doubt. #lufc
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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Calum Miller @calummillerld.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
No10’s account is incredible. I held Developed Vetting for nearly ten years and spent three years at the heart of the Cabinet Office. I have never heard of a Developed Vetting denial being overruled. Here’s why…🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision
Guardian investigation uncovers decision by UK security officials to deny clearance before Mandelson took up role as US ambassador
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 17/04/2026
Govt line today is that they can’t believe how bad their own vetting process is, a vetting process they themselves repeatedly pointed to during the Mandelson affair, a process they’re now saying they were ignorant about. That they didn’t understand it, nor sought to. Suboptimal
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
We arn't hungary yet.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Many things to say about the demise of Orbanism but the scale of his defeat is impressive. This is surely also a rejection of Trump & Vance. The threatened new era of official US interference in European domestic politics has got off to a satisfyingly calamitous start
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Even if Magyar is no liberal, this is why it is still a huge defeat for illiberalism. For it shows that a powerful illiberal political machine and methodology can be defeated.
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Jo @joacie.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Good news from Hungary this evening 😁
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Adolescent Health Study @adolescenthealth.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We’re hiring: Administration Coordinator. This is a key role in providing administrative, coordination and financial support across the study, focusing on managing core systems, inboxes and documents. 💼 Remote | £26–30k | Full-time 📅 Apply by 26 April 2026 👉 www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/adolesc...
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Administration Coordinator | Adolescent Health Study | CharityJob
Apply now for Administration Coordinator. , £26,000 - £30,000 per year, find a career with meaning today
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
New Iran thread. Starting with a Lest We Forget: Hillary Clinton, 9 years ago: “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes – because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”
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Jonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Further evidence of the neurodevelopmental consequences of Covid exposure on the developing brain. WTF are we doing to our future? #covid www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure
In historical viral epidemics, such as the H1N1 influenza and Zika viruses, prenatal exposures were correlated with risk for neuropsychiatric conditio…
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