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@joriley.bsky.social
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Ex head teacher. Currently working as an advisory Headteacher for the LA. Passionate about Primary and EYFS education, inclusion and ethical leadership. Reader, writer, coach. Lego lover. All views are my own.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Prime Minister seeking to fix this country's pressing problems and the broken politics and stagnant consensus that underpins so much of it... A PM promising real improvements rather than unicorns sunlit uplands and an agenda of hate... Who knows? This could be catching.
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Dyn Cudd 👨🏻‍🏫 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @dyncudd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes. All of them, because I seem to be very old.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a very confusing post from the Flat Earth Society. 🥴
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Vikki Slade MP @vikkislademp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m glad he didn’t let her push him off track. Younger adults have grown up with Brexit, Covid & fear of war & climate change They need hope, they need the system to care about them & policies need to provide a better future I hope he can do it - for their sake but for us all
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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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AR @psalisbury.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New rufty tufty boy in Year 1, left his lunchbox behind, so I take his hand to find it. Then his new pal runs out with it smiling, gives it to him and he bursts into tears and is so happy he fist-bumps his pal and it is too much for me so I've come to the office for a sit down.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Chants of 'let them drown' sung by a child over a megaphone" surely must be the moment this UK Government realises that no form of appeasement or persuasion is going to solve this problem. Ban the platforms spreading the lies, proscribe the groups terrorising the country. Act now, for pity's sake.
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Liam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country.
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There's something doubly insulting about receiving ai generated emails from an ai pretending to be a person telling me how it can help me to market my book when ai stole 15 of my books to train itself in the first place. 🤦‍♀️
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is why the media in this country needs regulating. I can guarantee there isn’t an iota of truth to anything that’s being said here. Their only intention is to keep this nonsense on top of the news agenda.
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Jo @joriley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Britain's future relationship with Europe is being debated in Parliament on 12th October. I've just asked my MP to attend. Will you ask yours? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...
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Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This thread. How can anyone be hateful towards such brave people? 💔
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in awe of anti-multicultural Brits able to survive with daily lives so full of contradiction & self-loathing ... meme via Truth Against Hate
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you think closing an RNLI station is done by people with "legitimate concerns" you really need to give your head a wobble. It's an unforgivable act of thuggery.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you would like to imprison Nigel Farage for being a corrupt Traitor. RT/Like
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm not surprised but I'm truly disgusted that this narrative of "dangerous fighting age men posing a threat to women and children" is genuinely doing the rounds on the media with almost no push back at all. This is 1930s level stuff.
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So much this. It upsets me how the technical aspects of writing have become dominant over the expressive ones. I write to hear my voice not to demonstrate techniques.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"You are the problem" meme via Expose Racism
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.
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Stella @stella-b.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If all the sensible people sent an envelope to this address their obscene donations would be spent.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So, a criminally convicted billionaire money launderer bought himself a pardon from a criminally convicted fraudster president for $10m. Now he thinks he can buy the oldest democracy in the world for £36m. If the UK's democracy is to survive we need a public inquiry into party funding NOW
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"We're not broke, we're being robbed" #BlameMillionairesNotMigrants meme via Joshua ABD
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Cumbrian Toffee @oggy72.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This decision should not have been left with MP's personal views on this matter. There should have been a nationwide referendum to let us decide.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Reform UK Councillor Madgwick, meet consequences of your actions you dangerous idiot. Protesters outside Portsmouth hotel mistake Pakistan U19 cricket team for asylum seekers www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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Protesters outside Portsmouth hotel mistake Pakistan U19 cricket team for asylum seekers
A group of masked agitators gathered outside a four-star hotel in Portsmouth after reports a group of asylum seekers had been taken there, when it was in fact Pakistan’s under-19 cricket team on a…
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Leftback @leftback.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well at least we've heard the worst of this story oh wait the mob got into the hotel onto the floor the players were on and were knocking on bedroom doors. I think I'm moving to rage now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants
Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Ilikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 08/09/2026
Farage would rather stoke the prospect of civil unrest than reckon with Reform’s own conduct and quietly disappear from public life. When accountability comes knocking, the grifter reaches for a match. What. A. Twat.
Screenshot of a Twitter post from an account labelled “Nigel Farage”. The post says: “For six years now, Labour and the Tories have facilitated an invasion of our country. We are on the edge of serious civil unrest. The only solution is the ballot box. Only Reform will end the invasion.” Below is a video still showing a man in a dark suit speaking against a blue background, with the word “WARNED” across his chest.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us.
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Jo @joriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thank You For Your Regular Donation share.google/P5OTy1w89H91... with the current hatred being directed towards the RNLI volunteers, I have set up a monthly donation to thank them for their service. Will you?
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Thank You For Your Regular Donation
Welcome to our family of lifesavers. Every donation you give will make a lifesaving difference to countless people - not just those we rescue.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Will the organiser of the domestic terrorism that has started to blockage British ports, Danny Thomas, encouraging agitators, or the the band of merry thugs participating be traced down, charged & proscribed by the authorities in the same way apparent extreme left wing organisations seem to be"
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am bloody proud to be an #RNLI supporter and member! These brilliant men and women have quite enough to cope with without being harassed by the scum of the earth. Their only concern is to help people in danger at sea - not check passports first! Which is how it should be. Please RT if you agree🙏
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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I feel like Bluesky is the place where people will appreciate how envious I still am of my sister, around 35 years after she achieved her (and my) top bucket list item of being locked in the bookshop when it closed, and having the place to entirely to herself.
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John Cosgrove @johncosgrove.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Is this really who they think we are? Is it really what they think schools are for? I particularly like the bit where schools will be required to "recite" hymns daily. Later in the article it says there will be "no exceptions." (From Schools Week)
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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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Mike Cameron @mikercameron.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police are a facist enabling bunch of wimps.
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Snowy. @snowy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is intimidation.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 04/09/2026
If only this former professor had done something like publish incredibly sloppy work, then it might be possible for our irreproachable press to confront and scrutinise him. Alas, he's just so razor-sharp, there's nothing that can be done, you see.
3m ago17.21 CEST

GB News presenter and former Reform UK candidate Matt Goodwin told delegates at the party’s conference that he believes there is one general election left to “save this country”.

He said millions of people feel that there is “a sense that if we don’t change the direction of this country soon, then the country we love will soon be unrecognisable”.

“I believe we only have one general election left to save this country,” he added.

Goodwin added that the Tories have “completely betrayed” the British people by replacing the best and brightest in the country with “drug dealing goat herders”.

He told delegates: “The Tories imported millions of low-wage, low-skilled, poorly educated migrants from radically different cultures outside Europe, including illiterate goat herders from Iraq, who moved to Aberystwyth, who set up a drug dealing ring and terrorised local people by selling crack cocaine and heroin.”

He added that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are “code words for anti-white racism”.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is deeply shocking.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"If you ONLY care about the black/brown perps you don't really care about women & girls" meme via John Attenborough
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If only asylum seekers and benefit fraudsters & losers had as much money as tax avoiding millionaire to buy Reform UK etc policies ... meme via Dave Waterhouse
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In case anyone needs it, to have the ‘mubble-fubbles’ (16th century) means to have a fit of despondency or low spirits, such as the end-of-summer blues.
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Jo @joriley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-... a long read but very thought provoking. #ai
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The choices we make about AI now are critical | Bill Gates
AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice. We need to start planning now so it makes the world a fairer place.
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Jo @joriley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Took my own sunshine to Derbyshire. Now to figure out how to get it back to London without breaking.
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
1/2 The BBC dedicated nearly an hour to broadcasting an empty podium for a Reform UK presser while uncritically relaying unverified welfare policy claims. When a public broadcaster acts as a platform for minor parties, impartiality is dead. Is BBC news impartiality broken?
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BBC slammed over pushing Reform UK propaganda yet again
Overly eager to air Reform's latest press conference, the BBC displayed an empty podium for the better part of an hour. What the hell?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
... and Nigel Farage would long since have been tried for fraud & inciting riots ... "Justice in the UK is blind, if you are rich, wh|te and right w|ng" via Expose Racism
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