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Joel Evans

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
French riot police are using stun grenades and rubber bullets against children. A 15-year-old has lost a hand, and a 16-year-old has lost an eye as, as a consequence. These children are protesting for better conditions in their schools. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Schoolboy, 15, loses hand after picking up police stun grenade during French school protests
PM orders ministers to tackle students’ five major demands, including organising replacement teachers and school repairs
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 05/10/2026
Find over 365 short book recommendations: Just search for the #WaferThinBook hashtag.
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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
my book is out now 🫶 💗 $18 with coupon code E26CNTNT enjoy!!!??? :)
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Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 09/09/2026
The MoD recently gave a £10 million contract to an Israeli-owned arms firm which operates under the authority of minister Bezalel Smotrich -- who is subject to UK sanctions. Is Andy Burnham going to do anything about that? www.declassifieduk.org/uk-awarded-c...
declassifieduk.org
UK awarded contract to firm overseen by sanctioned Israeli
Exclusive: £10 million deal signed with company linked to Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you want to see real “two tier policing” look at the unwillingness to use any kind of force against fascists and how much they love unleashing it on pensioners holding signs opposing genocide.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Me, a US-based academic: I don’t care what any scholar believes, we all need to stand up publicly whenever someone’s academic freedom is threatened Me, continuing: also, the first time this has happened, motivating me to sign my first ever open letter, is in late 2026, to a race scientist, in Ghent
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.
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Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says
LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Please sign this UK government petition to compel AI companies to reveal whose books they used to train their data petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
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Joel Evans @joelevans.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Jean-Joseph Goux made some in roads but you probably know about that
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Fourteen Years in Prison for Quoting Hamas? New Law Could Criminalise Journalists" Starmer is rushing legislation through parliament that experts say threatens free speech, reports Paul Holden for Zeteo UK. Read/share/subscribe:
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Fourteen Years in Prison for Quoting Hamas? New Law Could Criminalise Journalists
Starmer is rushing legislation through parliament that experts say threatens free speech, public interest journalism and international humanitarian aid.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
As studies on the US-UK drug deal are published, the public becomes more aware of the tradeoff at issue here: more money on drugs, NICE subjected to political commands, less money for services or higher costs BUT avoid tariffs on UK->US pharma exports /1 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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US-UK drug deal could result in 229,000 excess deaths in England, analysis suggests
Analysis reveals extent of impact on NHS of placating Donald Trump over price of British medicine exports
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Is everyone following this? UK gov is going to subsidise energy for Data Centres at times of peak usage, meanwhile the rest of us get a 13% price cap hike. www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Delivering AI Growth Zones
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Andy Burnham's incoming chief of staff, James Purnell, ran a lobbying firm that organised a meeting between a Labour minister and its own corporate clients – without declaring any lobbying. Yet another story about Labour and the lobbying industry... 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/burnhams-c...
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Burnham's chief of staff hosted minister for confidential clients
James Purnell’s firm Flint arranged a meeting between Labour minister Douglas Alexander and several of its clients – while declaring no lobbying at all
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Did you know it's highly likely you and your family live in a deregulated Free Zone? There are 91 of these zones, and counting, in the UK. Please read my Substack for in-depth analysis on the duopolys' rollout of free zones. substack.com/@europeanpow...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 26/06/2026
What is the future of summers in England? Our choices matter. A high-emissions future will commit our children and grandchildren to live in a world where the summers of 1976 & 2025 are cold. A global net-zero emissions future means that we can stabilise the climate & those summers will be normal.
England average summer temperatures in a high emissions futureEngland average summer temperatures in a global net-zero emissions future
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
My strongest memory of Starmer will be his 2024 conference speech, where he said "every child deserves respect", a young activist said "does that include the children of Gaza?", and he laughed and said "he's obviously got a pass to the 2019 conference".
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Joel Evans @joelevans.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Starmer resigning will probably mean there will be a smooth coronation for Burnham with likely little change in direction in policy
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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
As I’ve said for a while now, the destruction of the UK’s higher education system is a genuine all-party affair: the Tories, the Liberals, Labour and the Scots Nats have all chipped in, on the same side.
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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
the year is 2030 and you need a face scan, retinal scan, voice scan and to answer 20 questions about your family, health and employment history every time you use the computer. but don’t worry your personal data is safe with Butterfingers Corp in partnership with The Dark Web
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...
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Revealed: Nigel Farage is breaking British company law
Farage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents
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Leona Scream @editor.scot · 14/06/2026
Tom Leonard was worth a hundred of these elitist bores.
right inuff
ma language is disgracetul ma maw tellt mi
ma teacher tellt mi thi doactir tellt mi thi priest tellt mi
ma boss tellt mi
ma landlady in carrington street tellt mi thi lassie ah tried tay get aff way in 1969 tellt mi sum wee smout thit thoat ah hudny read chomsky tellt mi a calvinist communist thit thoat ah wuz revisionist tellt mi po-faced literati grimly kerryin thi burden a thi past tellt mi po-faced literati grimly kerryin thi burden a thi future tellt mi ma wife tellt mi jist-tay-get-inty-this-poem tellt mi ma wainz came hame fray school an tellt mi jist aboot ivry book ah oapnd tellt mi
even thi introduction tay thi Scottish National Dictionary tellt mi
ach well
all livin language is sacred fuck thi lohta thim.
—Tom Leonard, Ghostie Men (1980)
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Here's our crowdfunder. Please do chip in if you can. We need to counter the deeply pernicious industrial lobbying that has far too much influence in this country, and uses Brexit as a golden opportunity to rip down public protections. Thanks. www.crowdjustice.com/case/fightin...
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UK Government scraps chemical safety laws - so we're going to court
George Monbiot, Georgia Elliott-Smith and Steve Hyndside are Fighting Dirty, using the law to stop harmful pollution in its tracks. Find out more and follow our work at https://fightingdirty.org/
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is exactly what it is. A lot of important people want something, and this is how they go about demanding it. The thing to notice is that none of it comes from the public and it has nothing to do with the people of Britain. It’s all top-down, imposed by an elite class of crooked swine.
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The John Healey business is a case study in How Britain Actually Works. A big policy demand is advanced by Tony Blair, a minister resigns to acclamation, some spooky MP you never heard of gets lots of attention, generals pop up in support, not a breath of dissent or scepticism.
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Now even putting aside the organised, conspiratorial aspects of this, what you notice is that it is in no way organic, it doesn't derive from the needs or demands of the people. It's just, apparently, what everybody agrees should happen.
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
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Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 12/06/2026
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Exclusive: UK adopts SpaceX's Starshield for military operations, sources say
Britain has begun using SpaceX's militarised satellite network Starshield, according to two people familiar ​with the matter, making it among the first countries outside the United States to adopt Elo...
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Simeon Shtebunaev @shtebunaev.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The state of higher education in the UK, in a photo
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.
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Joel Evans @joelevans.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Apart from anything else, the contemporary equivalents of all these guests bar Churchill would be viewed by the BBC as pariahs and never allowed on
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Green Elects @greenelects.world · 28/05/2026
🚨NEW | Green Party of England Wales are 6 points away from overtaking Reform. In this @findoutnow.bsky.social poll released today - 1 in 5 people support the Greens, compared to 1 in 4 for Reform and 1 in 6 for Labour. #ukpol
A bar chart titled “Westminster VI,” sourced from Find Out Now on 20 May 2026. Five vertical bars display party polling percentages: Reform at 25% (highest), Green at 19%, Conservative at 18%, Labour at 16%, and Liberal Democrats at 12%. A subtitle reads “Greens 6 points from overtaking Reform.” Below the bars are coloured triangles indicating percentage‑change since 20 May, all marked with dashes.
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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This is the Guardian's current top headline. They don't have to amplify whatever bile this war criminal, assistant to genocide and friend of tyrants decides to spew. No, they actively choose to boost this monster's words as much as possible.
Headline: Tony Blair says Labour must abandon net zero, support Trump and cut benefits.

Subhead: In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election

Image: A photo of Tony Blair, a late middle aged white man in a suit in front of a blue background. He is grimacing/sneering, perhaps fantasising about his next atrocity.
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Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.
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The Socialist Dad @thesocialistdad.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
If you want to stop Reform at the next GE, there really is now only one option #VoteGreen 💚
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
perhaps the most curious fact from our long read today on the Mandelson scandal www.ft.com/content/a829...
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Joel Evans @joelevans.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Just voted Green — hoping they win big and that some other left independents get in too
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
One from the archives. "If you don't like the changes that we've made, I say the door is open, and you can leave"
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I'm Lead Judge of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, awarded at University of Edinburgh since 1919 and due to be announced this month. But the university is currently withholding 100% of my pay for participating in a marking and assessment boycott. So, at present, there will be no prize.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 04/05/2026
Our breakdown of Wes Streeting’s donors has been doing the rounds online for the last year. Now we’ve updated it – with another £55,000 from OPD Group.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Keir Starmer’s niece was made a candidate in a safe Labour council ward over two sitting black female councillors, it has been reported
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Keir Starmer's niece standing as Labour candidate in safe London council ward
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Joel Evans @joelevans.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Don’t back down Zack -- double down.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 15/04/2026
This petition is nearly at 50,000 signatures! 💪Can you sign and share so we can reach 50k TODAY?
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership
Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute
In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head
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Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics @uoncral.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Let's highlight a CRAL project! @lucyjones.bsky.social carried out a project focused on language and LGBTQIA+ youth, analysing marginalised identities through an intersectional lens. From this came the LGBTQIA+ Youth Manifesto and the language guide. 🏳️‍🌈 #uoncral #language #lgbtq #researchproject
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