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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Timothy is so determined to be anti renewables he invents daft objections. He claims having them "near" airbases will encourage sabotage but this site is 5mi from both RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall. Would a coal fired power station be less of a sabotage risk? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Redmere Wind farm near RAF bases could invite sabotage - MP

Nick Timothy, MP for West Suffolk, questions the plan's suitability near two US Air Force bases.

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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BBC News says there are no obvious signs of increased security at RAF Mildenhall, even though the same type of Oshkosh armoured vehicle as they pictured at Lakenheath is visible from the road near its West Row gate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

What does a raised threat level mean for US airbases in Suffolk?

Higher security levels are imposed at US airbases in the UK, but what does that mean for Lakenheath and Mildenhall?

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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Keep seeing Americans on here bleeting about paying around $7 a gallon for diesel so I looked up what the UK average of £1.988 a litre is in US gallons. We're paying the equivalent of $9.85/US gallon and none of us voted for the orange war monger. #Trump

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shot (BBC) / chaser (Basingstoke Gazette)

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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Haven't they seen how Piddington made itself a laughing stock with its referendum and was then exploited by Badenoch and everyone right of her? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Will another village 'roar' over asylum plans?

Barnham Parish Council is considering following Piddington's lead to leave the UK.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23/09/2026

🤔 Last night Farage used his GB News slot to again attack Burnham and side with Donald Trump over Chagos. 👇 Sign our petition calling for an investigation into his programme today. bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/09/2026

The correct answer to hate ♥️

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Quite emotional to report that we've just found our amazing survivor Marsh Tit, still here in his ancient woodland kingdom. He's now 11 yrs 4 months old, survived the 2026 heatwaves/drought and smelt the wildfires of nearby Holme Fen. I ringed him in my 30s and I'm now in my 50s.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026

A new mega poll by YouGov reveals that an overwhelming majority of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 constituencies were not sure. It’s time to put EU membership on the table. bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

People. No, standard Freepost addresses don't work like that any more (they need a reply-paid envelope with a printed barcode), so please put down the anvil or sack of rotten tatties or whatever else you were planning to send to Reform UK at their expense. Sorry. www.royalmail.com/sites/royalm...

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m not convinced my Uber driver is old enough to drive?

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Spooky Old Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Need to harness the power of Bluesky, so reposts are appreciated. If anyone here, or anyone you know attends Bangor University (the Welsh one) and needs a room for the upcoming year, get in touch. One of my son's housemates has dropped out at the last minute, so their house is one short.

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

An RNLI lifeboatman is taking part in the Great North Run tomorrow, wearing his full kit. Please donate here if you can: fundraise.rnli.org/fundraisers/...

fundraise.rnli.org

James Waters

I'm taking on Great North Run 2026 - please help me reach my fundraising goal of £1000!

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

From the new Private Eye

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Reform conference shock From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yes, it’s clear it would apply. Section 3(2) of the Assaults on Emergency Workers Act 2018 says “it is immaterial […] whether the employment or engagement is paid or unpaid.” www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/23

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Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018

An Act to make provision about offences when perpetrated against emergency workers, and persons assisting such workers; to make certain offences aggravated when perpetrated against such workers in the...

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 06/09/2026

Patriot Platform, the far-right group whose black-clad masked members caused hours of disruption in Dover yesterday, calls itself a Christian “army of patriots” dedicated to protecting women and children. There’s a problem with that story.

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David/Trout 2.0 @trout61.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Farage posted then deleted this. Threatening to prosecute RNLI volunteers. He is absolutely disgusting. 🤬🤬🤬

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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

@octopus.energy is there any point me doing your scratch card thing when the only prize I get is a cake at Lidl whose nearest store is a 30mi round trip?

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Mark Trushkowsky @marktrushkowsky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

More beautiful quilts from the Minnesota State Fair. 2/3

A rainbow quilt with an optical illusion design of a curving tunnel, using geometric patchwork blocks fading into a bright yellow center against a dark frame.

A multi-colored quilt featuring a grid of bright rectangular blocks.

A quilt made of repeating star, triangle, and square patterns, created with rainbow-colored fabrics framed by bright white fabric.

A rainbow quilt featuring a central black flower with colorful fabric ribbons spiralling out against a textured gray background.

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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Difficult to feel any sympathy for US drivers paying record prices for diesel when it was their narcissist President who started the war that caused it and they're still only paying the equivalent of £1.15 a litre when the average UK price is £1.85. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

US diesel prices hit an all-time-high

Fuel prices have soared since the Iran conflict began at the end of February, mirroring the surge in wholesale oil prices.

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Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sizewell C seek a licence to extract & discharge to sea, up to 4.238 billion litres/year of groundwater from below the reactor site-in an area of inter-connected designated wetland/wildlife sites Let the Env Agency know your concerns by 11/09/26 See consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/psc/sizewell...

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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wonder if there might be a connection between these subsequent stories on the BBC News app.

Screen grab of BBC News app showing a story about Uber launching robotaxis in London followed by one saying Uber is cutting 3,000 jobs worldwide.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Falklands have been British longer than California has been American.

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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#cymru #wales If you're skeptical about what these two Welsh farmers are alleged to have done over the weekend according to this AI translation, an alternative translation is in the alt-text. h/t Hywel Mallett @hmallett@toot.wales

A screenshot of a BBC news post from Facebook. The headline is in Welsh and describes a 24-hour sheep-shearing marathon by two farmers held to raise money for charity. The automated translation to English says that "Two farmers from Powys have completed an ethnic harvesting challenge over the weekend" and are now raising funds for their victims.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

10,000 electric vehicles across the whole of Europe isn’t actually that impressive, is it? For context, Royal Mail has 9,000 electric delivery vehicles in the UK alone.

Full page newspaper advert for Amazon.

Over 10,000 electric vehicles and counting.

This year, we're increasing the electric vehicles used for deliveries across Europe to over 10,000.

Based on projected delivery service partner vehicles across the UK a EU by end of 2026

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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

hi can i be a patriotic vietnamese person for once and mention that by giving money to these scams you are funding the kidnapping and trafficking of more people into these fraud factories

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/08/2026

Great letter in The Yorkshire Post from Peter Packham @leedseurope.bsky.social. 'The Brexit elite didn't "take back control" of our borders; they undermined our ability to manage them and incentivised criminal gangs behind the trafficking of desperate, vulnerable migrants.'

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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Isn't it annoying when you reach the checkout with a trolley full of shopping, put your hand in your pocket and remember you left all means of paying on the bedside cabinet. And it's a 12 mile round trip to the supermarket. 🤬

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

250 million birds flew across America last night, tracked by radar. Migration season is upon us, and it’s wilder than you could imagine. Birdcast’s live migration maps and forecasts (from Cornell Lab of Ornithology) are brilliant, and you can find them here. birdcast.org/migration-to...

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I guess we have the answer to the “who could possibly say anything bad about Dolly” question and it’s exactly who you’d think

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Another take on e-cigarettes, from Martin McKee who knows stuff.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 25/08/2026

Did you know that lots of the food in your kitchen is grown using peat? Ask your supermarket what they’re doing to remove peat from your homes, and help save peatlands for people and wildlife: peatfreepartnership.org.uk #EndPeatSales @peatfree.bsky.social

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Wonderful news alert! 🎉 One of the UK’s rarest breeding birds has had a remarkable year. Montagu’s Harriers have successfully bred in the UK for the second year running, raising six youngsters from two nests at a secret farmland location. www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Never seen horizontal rainbows before. Are they unusual @metoffice.gov.uk? (Suffolk Fens)

View across flat farmland with a stormy sky and two areas of rainbow patterns hanging below clouds parallel to the horizon.

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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

At last we have our 1st 2026 swallow chicks. Since May the swallows in our stables have built 3 nests and abandoned 2, finally succeeding here. Those in the hay store have built 2 without success. I think the constant heat in Suffolk has meant they couldn't control egg temp. @mthrjo.bsky.social

Swallow chicks peeping over the edge of their mud nest in a stable roof.

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John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is what'll make heatwave fruit and veg shortages worse. You often hear farmers complain supermarkets try to treat produce as if it was a manufactured product that can always be expected to comply with their specifications. Onions taste the same regardless of size. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Suffolk farmer fears onion shortage unless retailers adapt

He hopes supermarkets accept smaller vegetables this year or fears Christmas supplies could be hit.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

As at April 2026, 67% of Reform’s funding to date has come from "donors with financial interests in fossil fuels, totalling more than £24 million. A further £2.4 million has been donated by individuals who have disputed basic scientific facts about climate change." www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

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