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Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

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Simon Varwell @hisasimon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I've set up a starter pack for student engagement and partnership - in all its myriad forms! Fire away if you can suggest someone I should add (or have embarrassingly failed to add you!). go.bsky.app/5jFu51s

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 13/08/2025

Support for a ‘rejoin referendum’ swells as Brexit flounders After almost a decade of trying to make Brexit work, it seems like the public have given up on it before our politicians have... www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sup...

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Support for a 'rejoin referendum' swells as Brexit flounders

After almost a decade of trying to make Brexit work, it seems like the public have given up on it before our politicians have...

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 08/08/2025

Brexit dividend: our swimming waters are MUCH more polluted than any EU country's because we no longer have to follow EU environmental law since Brexit so water companies can get away with just about anything. (Just one of many pesky EU rules Brexiters hated.) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Joel Kesterton @joelkes.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Imagine going out and railing against a common sense evidence-informed policy decision that has already saved more than 100 lives. Imagine the devastation and grief that all those families have been spared. Imagine ignoring all that because you want to get somewhere 2 mins quicker. Wild.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.” City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design. I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero

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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death

A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 07/07/2025

Government could get us out of our flatlining economy, but it is prioritising balancing the books over feeding kids or fixing the NHS. Prof Richard Murphy suggests solutions, and asks why government is not trying.

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Economically dead: what is wrong with our economy?

The Resolution Foundation says UK incomes will flatline until 2030. This isn't an accident – it's by design; we need change

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

John Major has given quite the speech: • Aid cuts are "callous" • Trump and Xi are destabilising the world • On Trump: "This is not America as I have known her" • Brexit benefits "are as elusive as Lord Lucan" • UK should rejoin single market/customs union www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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John Major condemns ‘callous’ aid cuts and growing national self-interest

In wide-ranging lecture, former PM calls Trump and Xi destabilising and says benefits of Brexit remain elusive

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/06/2025

Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Paris 2019 v. Today: I don’t think people realize how immense @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s legacy will be.

Same spot. Photo by me. Child running. Flowers, trees, grass.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/06/2025

guy next to me in the café was quite dramatically sitting with his head in his hands so I glanced at his screen to see what he was working on, and it was a doc with "IDEAS:" written at the top and absolutely nothing else my brother I hear you, I feel you, we are as one

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Kiera Chapman @kierachapman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I think everyone in Sheffield remembers the smog-ridden day that inspired this amazing research project. Can't wait to read the findings. And it's not just air pollution - runoff from grouse moors causes water pollution. We all pay to clean it up.

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Researchers create system to log air quality impacts of moorland fires

Peak District pilot scheme combines satellite data with sensors on the ground to measure particle pollution

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

SHEFFIELD! Very honoured to be artist in residence for this Saturday’s Get Together Festival. More info and free download of my celebratory Sheffield collage below👇👇👇 www.gettogetherfestival.com/line-up

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

An actual article in The Telegraph: "Good riddance to universities... rampant wokeism, degrees in silly subjects, trivial research projects..."

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The death of the university may soon be upon us. Good riddance
ChatGPT has made coursework essays and online exams completely pointless, but progressive academics are still in denial

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

An extremely busy day capped off with a visit to Sheffield Hallam University to hear the creative writing students perform as part of the Festival of Creativity 😍 We love supporting the next generation of writerly people, and there is some phenomenal talent coming through!

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

The incoherence and incompetence of the government’s universities policy is worthy of Gove. It’s tragic.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 08/05/2025

1. Brexit does not stand up to scrutiny 2. The more scrutiny is placed on Brexit, the worse it looks 3. Strong majority already think Brexit is going badly 4. Immigration skyrocketed since Brexit 5. Labour can't fight Reform on immigration 6. So why not force Reform to defend Brexit? Winnable!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Hi Labour, rather than learning all the wrong lessons from this election defeat - what about taking some people out of poverty and improving some lives?

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Joel Kesterton @joelkes.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

“I realise that these new deep research tools seem to have nudged past the lower bound of undergraduate level during this term. I could not have planned for this.” Interesting and pragmatic approach to assessment redesign in the #GenAI age.

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Joel Kesterton @joelkes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“There is no question that bringing students and young people into the room on issues that impact them makes policy decisions better and enriches the debate.”

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Always reblog. Happy Easter!

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

‘The whole policy is wrong’: rebellion among Labour MPs grows over £5bn benefits cut to people with disabilities. The policy is cruel. Tax the rich. Fuel the rebellion. Insist on seeing your MP face to face. Tell him/her to vote against the bill.

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‘The whole policy is wrong’: rebellion among Labour MPs grows over £5bn benefits cut

Dozens of MPs are angry at their party, despite frantic efforts by whips and government ministers to assuage them

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Hugely important warning: allowing cheaper US food imports that don’t meet the same environmental & animal protection standards as British farmers would sound a death knell for UK farms & rural communities. It must not be part of any future trade deal

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Rural communities could be destroyed if UK signs US trade deal, says former food tsar

Exclusive: Henry Dimbleby joins farmers in voicing fears of lower standards and a poor deal for British food producers

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

If you think Amsterdam managed to avoid being overrun by cars, you’re wrong. They also surrendered their streets to cars for many decades. But the people fought back, and forced leaders to see their mistake. There's nothing magical about #Amsterdam. They just saw their mistake, and changed it.

Before and after images showing street transformations in Amsterdam.

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Sarah Kaplan @sarahkaplan48.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

An astonishing illustration of how much cleaner the air around Parisians has gotten, thanks to limits on car traffic, from @chicoharlan.bsky.social and Naema Ahmed www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

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Joel Kesterton @joelkes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Good ideas and examples for supporting students, and enabling staff. However, the perennial challenge is having the capacity to enact those ideas. Worth a read.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Absolutely damning. Seems that the British government made not attempt to find out if the Russians had interfered in the EU Brexit referendum.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The World Cup in 2026 should definitely be taken away from the US. ⚽️🏆 America is clearly not safe to travel to. 🇺🇸 ❌ Note that it was a joint US-Canada-Mexico bid that won… so Canada and Mexico have serious leverage here. 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 v 🇺🇸 Failing that - mass boycott will cost the US more than it earns.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 24/03/2025

Say it takes us X years to rejoin the EU. If we start today, we'll be back in X years. But if we wait a decade, it will take us (X+10 years) to rejoin. Except... we will have had 10 more years of diverging. So it will take us even longer than that. Start today please. We owe it to the future.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Hello, the sun is out and I am feeling a rare moment of baseless optimism. Here are some reasons to be cheerful. iandunt.substack.com/p/reasons-to...

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Reasons to be cheerful

The sun is out and who knows? We might survive.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

How many times do we have to say it? *Austerity doesn’t work*. More cuts to public spending is economically illiterate and morally indefensible - people didn’t vote Labour to get more Tory austerity. FFS tax extreme wealth, don’t slash public services @patmillsuk.bsky.social

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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 17/03/2025

'Children currently aged birth to seven will become... society leaders during the 2050s, 60s and 70s... democracy is under attack, and global warming is proceeding apace. A bland diet of rote learning will not prepare them for what they will have to face' @drpam.bsky.social outlines the role of play

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Playing smarter: How play builds human intelligence

Learning through play literally builds brains. Policymakers and funding gatekeepers for state education programmes must understand this much better

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/03/2025

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 17/03/2025

"Learning through play literally builds brains. It provides children with adult-supported, open-ended activities that construct qualities such as foresight, stamina, mental and physical agility and most importantly, social and linguistic competence and emotional resilience." #EarlyLearning

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Playing smarter: How play builds human intelligence

Learning through play literally builds brains. Policymakers and funding gatekeepers for state education programmes must understand this much better

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

🚨NEW: climate inaction will cost more than a third of global GDP this century, but an investment of less than 2% GDP now will reduce harms by 90% - a "massive opportunity for humanity", finds a report from Boston Consulting Group and University of Cambridge.

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Climate Inaction Could Cost 1/3 Of Global GDP This Century, BCG Warns

The Big 3 consulting firm finds that most harms come from productivity losses, but also reveals how nations could avoid 90% of climate damage.

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

To revive economy UK govt must redistribute wealth. Bottom 50% of the population has 5% of wealth; bottom fifth has 0.5%. 1% have more than 70% population combined. Median wage is £29,604. Real average wage unchanged since 2008. Cut taxes on the bottom 50%. Tax wealth. End tax perks of the rich.

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Here’s how Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement must offer hope

'The government needs to recalibrate policies'

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ligirl66.bsky.social @ligirl66.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This was posted as a full page paid advertisement in today’s New York Times

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Phil Rosenthal @philrosenthal.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What’s the opposite of a Nobel Peace Prize? I think we have a winner.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We can still show we stand with Ukraine stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...

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Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit

Stop Trump Coalition

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We are seeing global realignment in real time. Trump and Vance have burned America’s bridges.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Trump cannot be given a state visit to the UK. It should never have been offered. The invitation must now be withdrawn. You might as well hand it to Putin.

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