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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Stop accusing us of spying! We’ve been watching you!”

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.

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Michele Hutchison @michehut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

societyofauthors.org/2026/09/15/q... "I believe AI is wrong in every way. Its owners are some of the most odious people on the planet. Their goal appears to be nothing more than a race between themselves to monopolise control of our data."

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Q&A with children’s book author Chris Haughton - The Society of Authors

Today we are sharing the We Are Better Than This video animation across our platforms with a call to sign a petition to protect creators’ rights. We spoke to Chris Haughton, one of the co-founders of ...

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 24/09/2026

🌟Shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 With its haunted shoes and sheep and cats, Bora Chung's novel in ghost stories (translated by @antonhur.com) gently suggests the degree to which humanity’s efforts to control the world are themselves figments and fantasies.

A photo of the book Midnight Timetable, standing on a black shelf next to a glass vase with two pink-orange flowers and some greenery.

"What we can see and hear and touch in this world is very limited. And so perhaps it’s true we don’t know much about the world at all. We like to say there’s nothing new under the sun, but we don’t have the slightest inkling of how many things there are, indeed, under the sun."

from Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur

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Nick Rosenthal @nickrosenthal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The value of the UK Court interpreting market in 2025? £42 million, apparently. But I wonder how much of that actually reaches the pay packets of the skilled interpreters who provide the service in the courts? How much goes to intermediary organisations? #XL8 @iti-uk.bsky.social

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Nick Rosenthal @nickrosenthal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So, according to this Parliamentary question: "The total spend by the Ministry of Justice on interpreters and related translation services during the 2025 calendar year was £41,945,961.34." I have a simple question: How much of that £42 million ended up being paid to the actual interpreters?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

NEW MRP JUST DROPPED: All but four constituencies in GB support UK membership of the EU. In those four, the most popular option was 'Don't Know' (Ashfield, Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness).

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re asking for your help to get Burnham’s Government to act on AI and copyright. Alongside fellow members of the Creators’ Rights Alliance, we’re sharing the We Are Better Than This video animation which outlines the fears and concerns shared by many creators and society at large. 🧵

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Nick Rosenthal @nickrosenthal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So Kent police now admit they were actually warned the day before this "protest". Is this the same Kent police who told us on Saturday that it was a (checks notes) "spontaneous protest"? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...?

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Kent Police warned of Dover protests the day before, force says

Kent Police says it was told of possible protests on Friday but information "was not fully assessed".

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Art by Jonatan Maldonado

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MTDomain 🦋 @mtdomain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Five people climb a gantry in the name of Just Stop Oil and the police shut the motorway, arrest the protesters and imprison them for up to 5 years. Hundreds of people block one of UK's busiest ports in the name of Stop the Boats, and the police do nothing and no-one is arrested. Really? Sigh.

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 30/08/2026

Just realized I haven't sent everyone a baby goat fix yet this week.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And now the investigation into the £5 million secretly-gifted by an ‘economic migrant’ recommences. If nothing else has been achieved with this daft by-election, the idea that Farage is some sort of master strategist has been put to bed. It’s easy to look good when you’re getting free passes galore.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

To me, the foundational tension of modern AI is this: If the stated goal is to create a human-level intelligence that can replace human workers but lacks human rights, then the real aspiration is slavery; but if human-level intelligence is impossible, then the industry's stated goal is a lie.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's so exciting being a freelancer in the arts & ents industry (one of the UK's biggest industries) bc about once a month the gvt have a new proposal to kick you in the head & you have to fill in a dry consultation form explaining why kicking you in the head would be bad for business, not good

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Over 85% Britons say that climate change is responsible - strikingly this extends even across more socially conservative segments more sceptical about things like net-zero. More broadly 66% of Brits are worried about climate change.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Andy Burnham is right not to rule out any taxes. Ruling stuff out is what got Labour into such a mess they ended up raising employer NICs (the Worst tax increase). Best to do this properly, and just not talk/leak about tax until the Budget.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 13/07/2026

💥 WIN 💥 We have an amazing result in our longest-running campaign. An ugly employment practice akin to indentured labour should now end, following a landmark judgment from the Court of Appeal: goodlaw.social/uvif

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Win: Indentured labour is unlawful, rules Court of Appeal | Good Law Project

Our longest running campaign brings a landmark judgment, ruling that firms can no longer offer exploitative loans for ‘training’

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Nick Rosenthal @nickrosenthal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Glad to see that the smoke plume over Greater Manchester seems to have eased off during the day. Air quality improving. Huge thanks from all of us to the fire crews who are working in very challenging conditions to put the moorlands fires out.

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Rippers @ripley123.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There seems to be a distinct lack of national news about the UK wildfires in North Wales and the hills outside Manchester. Smoke is affecting people as far away as Liverpool, so the fires must be big - we had to close all our windows last night, and this was our sunset.

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Nick Rosenthal @nickrosenthal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Smoke lingers over much of Greater Manchester today. The wind direction is blowing the smoke from the Tintwistle Moor fires over Manchester and Merseyside. You can smell it and feel it ... eye irritation, feel it in your lungs. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

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Smoke smothers Greater Manchester as Dovestone moor fire rages on for second day

Manchester city centre was masked in smoke as strong burning smell was noticed as far south as Sale

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

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"The noble Lord had stated, that it was unusual to refuse the Chiltern Hundreds, except on account of mental incapacity, or where proceedings were pending for the expulsion of the applicants from their seats. In this case, however, the House had decided that compromises had been entered into, which had the effect of obstructing the investigation of bribery; "

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British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Rory Williamson, Commissioning Editor at Pushkin Press, joins Anthony Bird (Honford Star), Hazel Millar (Book*Hug Press) and Nariman Youssef (Chair) for our publishers' panel, where they'll discuss how they select the books they publish 📚 ✨ Register here: www.bclt.org.uk/events/panel...

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Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Minjie Chen of the Cotsen Children’s Library, Princeton, has requested that a library database field called #MARC041 about #translation be made visible. Please consider sharing this with your local library team, especially those working in #metadata: www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

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Our campaign to improve the visibility of #translation in #library catalogues is making progress. If you are a librarian, please support Minjie Chen's new request for OCLC to index #marc041, a field i...

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Tony Malone @tonysreadinglist.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My latest review looks at Sally O'Reilly's 'Hagtale' (courtesy of Scribe Publications), a two-strand novel that takes a new look at an old tale... tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/h...

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‘Hagtale’ by Sally O’Reilly (Review)

I’m always a little suspicious of books that draw on the work of other writers, so when Scribe Publications sent me a novel with a twist on a Shakespearean story, I was a little hesitant to g…

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports

Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations

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Cory Oldweiler @coryoldweiler.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

AI, its apologists, and its cheerleaders continue to make life worse for everyone. And Apple, which used to do a good job acting like it cared about its users, continues to demonstrate that it now cares only about making more and more money.

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Why is Apple asking me to pay more for Big Tech’s AI obsession?

Why should I have to outbid Sam Altman just to buy a new MacBook?

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

As Europe's heatwave heads east, temperatures rose above 35°C in parts of Poland today. The town of Słubice, on the border with Germany, hit 38°C at 6 p.m. Tomorrow is forecast to be even hotter, with temperatures potentially reaching 41-42°C in western Poland

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

One of the lessons of the last two years is that Labour urgently needs to stop being afraid of its own shadow. Burnham should appoint whoever he thinks would be the best Chancellor and throw his authority behind them. The Daily Mail will try to kill them anyway. So just govern.

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Of course unions look out for their members but it defies belief that they chose *this week* to lobby for more North Sea oil drilling. They should be lobbying for super-generous retraining terms.

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Over 40 economists write to leader of Unite the Union, rejecting her claim that Ed Miliband would destroy jobs if he becomes next UK chancellor "The net zero economy generates output worth over £100bn and employs over a million workers....these numbers will grow” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Progressive economists reject Unite leader’s criticism of Ed Miliband

Sharon Graham is urged to withdraw her claim that the energy secretary would cost jobs if he became chancellor

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I had to cross central Sheffield at five o’clock yesterday afternoon. Barely a tree on my route, just hard surfacing. It was brutal. We need to transform our cities fast, yet where is the vision? By contrast, Paris is planting trees and growing creepers like there’s no tomorrow.

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