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Karl🇬🇧

@karlr.bsky.social
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Twitter exile, have many interests and keen to learn from others

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So they're at it again 🙄 Torturing valid HMRC data to create wildly misleading headlines, designed to invoke fear and anger about immigrants. Same old, same old... (and you'll see just how old shortly!) 🧵1/28
Daily Mail Front Page headline:

4 out of 5 new jobs went to foreigners in the past decade. 

Monk debunks Stamp over the headlne
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing
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FunnyVia @funnyvia.com · 23/09/2026
I put this donut pillow on my dog 20 minutes ago and he loves it and won't let me take it off...
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2026
How it started / How it's going
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.
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Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 02/09/2026
Dogpiling or harassing users is unacceptable. We have taken recent action against accounts for this behavior, and we will be increasing our efforts, consistent with our Community Guidelines.
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Community Guidelines - Bluesky
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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“[AI] risks becoming an iron curtain that comes down between a young person and their potential for thinking… it risks halting learning before it can take flight.” Moving and important article by the great Katherine Rundell. Please read! www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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Karl🇬🇧 @karlr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I remember the pre conditions rubbish the anti vaxxers came out with during Covid.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It would be impossible to guess any of this from most media coverage.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thank you ITV and Good Morning Britain.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Okay Clacton. Let’s go.
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Karl🇬🇧 @karlr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This headline is very misleading, the industry has always been doing this. Using 'AI' is just a recent tool.
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 03/08/2026
Alright it’s my regular call to arms- please share and donate!! Cost per special forces interpreter is £11k (this is bargain compared to the amount govt waste) and we have only raised £5k of our £55k target. Also I’m walking up mountains for 10 hours 🙏 thank you www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £55000 to bring our remaining caseload to safety and provide the support they need. – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to bring our remaining caseload to safety and provide the support they need.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
In a headline and a leading article we said migrant care workers were each bringing up to 15 family members with them (News, Comment, Jul 6). This was incorrect. The ratio of 15 to 1 was that of new visa approvals for Cameroonian care workers to visa approvals for family members of all Cameroonian care workers already in the UK in 2025-26. The same applies to arrivals from Ghana, Bangladesh and India. There is no connection between new visa approvals for care workers, who are not allowed to bring any dependants at all, and visas issued to the family members of care workers who were here already.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.
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Karl🇬🇧 @karlr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Englands fear of failure struck again- is it a national disease?!
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Yesterday the Telegraph reported on my comments about air conditioning. The comment section is quite something. I have apparently become a hero of the anti net zero crowd by saying something what I think is sensible about air con. Allow me to point out three ironies in this 🧵
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What’s that, Dale? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Game on, Nige.
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Karl🇬🇧 @karlr.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Go Japan! 🤣
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Karl🇬🇧 @karlr.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Wow! Go Morocco! What is happening Brazil??
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 11/06/2026
🎶 Brave Sir Nigel ran away...🎶 thecritic.co.uk/nice...
Of the Reform leader there was no sign. It is now 50 days since the once unavoidable Farage has held a press conference. By an astonishing coincidence it is 42 days since the Guardian revealed that Farage had received a £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire. Farage has claimed that he needs the money to pay for his security, which seems to be largely devoted to ensuring no one can ask him how he funded his various houses.

Tice was asked about this. Was Nigel frightened of scrutiny? “Nigel Farage is not scared!” Why had he gone to ground? “It’s part of actually showing that Reform has talent across the whole board,” Tice claimed, not entirely convincingly. (Farage would later hold a pseudo-press conference up in Makerfield, with invited journalists whose scrutiny included asking the Dear Leader if he agreed that Brexit was a good thing, that Andy Burnham was a bad thing, and that Rupert Lowe’s Restore Party was the worst thing of all. It didn’t scream “brave”.)
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nigel Farage Listens to the News
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 02/06/2026
Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I have a student son Henry Nowak’s age & I can’t imagine what it took for his family to respond outside court with the grace they did, asking that their son’s death not be used for division and hate. That Reform & Restore chose to throw that back in their faces makes me feel sick.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Yesterday I witnessed something extraordinary: the author Sarah Wynn-Williams sitting silent on a stage at @hayfestival.bsky.social. And she got a standing ovation. I hope the attempt to censor her backfires magnificently. I have just ordered her book. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm
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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
An engrossing, jaw-dropping, page-turner of a book btw...
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JvB @causticcorner.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Take it you're aware that Sarah Wynn-Williams did speak to Emily Maitlis prior to the gag order It's quite an arresting conversation. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?si=4E_... or listen: www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
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HOW Zuckerberg's Facebook Could've Helped China Spy on Millions
YouTube video by The News Agents
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Silencing panel speakers … makes their voice louder! ‘Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced to sit in silence on stage at an event at Hay festival, after lawyers advised her not to speak because of ongoing legal action brought by Meta’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This is extraordinary — the Facebook whistleblower was threatened with legal action from Meta if she spoke or nodded during her hour on stage www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Thinking of Sally Ride on her birthday today. Sally’s passion for science and exploration led her to become the first American woman in space. Sally was a talented astronaut and an inspiration for so many young women across the world.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It’s awkward luck that two massive UK events have landed on the same day. While the election results are obviously crucial, let’s not forget to gawp in wonder at the astonishing career of the UK’s most revered public figure — David Attenborough will never be matched www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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Attenborough: The risk-taker who changed how we see Earth - BBC News
A celebration of the career of Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday in video, audio and pictures.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Statements that have now come to light from a handful of @TheGreenParty candidates are totally unacceptable & require immediate action. There’s no place for anti-semitism or any hate speech in the party. This is a society-wide problem & needs to be rooted out wherever it’s found
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I'm in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today looking at why so many unis are in financial trouble and what the government needs to do to save HE. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
observer.co.uk
Why saving universities is far more than academic
Modern Britain needs young people with degrees – here’s how to make sure they still have somewhere to study them
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
One should observe that David (a friend) has and continues to perform a vital and largely thankless role in explaining the UK to the EU and vice versa — a thoughtful advocate for everyone’s best interests. A vital role that for some reason HMG appears inadequately staffed to perform.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use. Lovely People. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Moment Nigel Farage henchmen manhandle disabled OAP in parking row
Henchmen working for the divisive Reform leader were seen on camera manhandling a retired engineer who was trying to park in a disabled spot to drop off his wife in Shetland
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 15/04/2026
Peerless reporting from @miles-johnson.bsky.social and co as.ft.com/r/f18a1853-3...
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Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases
Leaked documents show IRGC secretly acquired system and used it to guide strikes during war in March
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 13/04/2026
Here we go!
Goodwin and Tóth on stage
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
And here’s our report. Please don’t read it, share it, or repost it. The legal risk is, quite literally, incalculable. taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/04/07/w...
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Fake tax refunds: Welcome Accountancy exposed
A UK tax tribunal exposes Welcome Accountancy’s false expense claims and fake refunds - part of a wider surge in rogue “tax refund factory” firms.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"The other method was to anglicise the surname by adding a final ‘s’ to the father’s name. Thus we find Williams (that is, William’s, meaning belonging to William, or William’s son/daughter), Jones (John’s), Davies/Davis (David’s), Edwards, and so on."
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What’s in a name? Welsh surnames and Welsh history
Some people mock names like Owen Owens and Robert Roberts, calling it bad parenting, but all things have their places in history including Welsh surnames
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New ban on crypto donations, cap on Brits abroad donating to political parties from today www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Cap on donations from overseas electors and ban on crypto donations to protect democracy
Landmark changes to protect UK democracy from scourge of foreign actors and financial influence are set to come into force.
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Trump’s IED - Improvised Electoral Distraction. My latest on Substack… open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
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Trump's War of Choice is an IED - Improvised Electoral Distraction
The Trump administration is already lying to the public about the rationale for military action against Iran, breaking his campaign promises to stay out of "new wars."
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
BBC keeps claiming it broke the story about Prince Andrew sharing government documents about an impending trade trip I’m pretty sure my colleague @reporterrwright.ft.com first wrote it several days previously www.ft.com/content/6b2f...
ft.com
Former prince discussed with Jeffrey Epstein ways to get round investment rules
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor shared official documents while serving as a UK trade envoy
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Karl🇬🇧 @karlr.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I hope Jim is open to a great book Sathnam wrote, it may inform him better than he did earlier
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