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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is all utterly mad and the responsibility lies squarely with the British government www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
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Sally Rooney's books to be withdrawn from sale in the UK
Faber has confirmed it will stop supplying Sally Rooney's books in the UK, saying it cannot pay the Irish author royalties because of her pledge to support the banned group Palestine Action.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 12/10/2026
An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' dansinker.com/posts/2026-1...
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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kevcheeseman.bsky.social @kevcheeseman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Er - no. The only part of the description 'powerful old money' that applies to me is 'old'.
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kevcheeseman.bsky.social @kevcheeseman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Matched by Kobo, I noted yesterday.
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kevcheeseman.bsky.social @kevcheeseman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Looks like he's demonstrating the colander technique for viewing the eclipse.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I know people like to take the p*ss out of Adrian but this is a great piece of writing.
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I’d never cried during a live broadcast – then three poignant words had me sobbing | Adrian Chiles
I couldn’t help choking up when the writer Katriona O’Sullivan told me her life story. Now I’m on a mission to get everyone to read her memoir, writes Adrian Chiles
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Gunner Regretit @gunnerregretit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Nice one Carlsberg.
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The treatment of this woman is absolutely outrageous and one of the most egregious corporate violations of free speech I've seen. I have just bought the book as a fuck you to Facebook. It's available here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/care...
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Careless People: A story of where I used to work
The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more.‘Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to b...
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kevcheeseman.bsky.social @kevcheeseman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
What? No Dixie Chicken?
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 01/04/2026
Travelodge's highest paid director, presumably the CEO, was paid £3.8mn in 2024. Her staff offered someone who complained about a sex assault in their room £30. I struggle to see how this isn't a resigning matter. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Travelodge boss was sent email by sex assault victim in 2023
The victim of a sexual assault in a Travelodge - by a man given the key card to her room - sent an email to the chief executive soon after the attack.
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This photo.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Exactly the kind of story I warned about a few weeks ago. Insane that the Home Office cannot just let back in a British citizen (with birth certificate in hand) who needs to do her GCSEs in a few weeks. Where is the common sense? Can Mahmood get anything right? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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British schoolgirl stranded in Denmark after return flight blocked over UK border rules
Exclusive: Hanne, 16, from Sussex, was not allowed to board flight to London after weekend in Copenhagen
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kevcheeseman.bsky.social @kevcheeseman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Faber Academy have a crime writing course starting in April.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 27/02/2026
Breaking: *Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON *Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord *Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation *Questions over legality of paperwork www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
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Can Sadiq Khan stop Asif Aziz's mass evictions?
We went to the billionaire's home to get answers, as a leading homelessness charity cut ties with the landlord and tenants begged the mayor to save their homes.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 22/02/2026
London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
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Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction?
He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?
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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It’s a reminder of how completely unserious our nation is that we have a live illustration of where this leads in Minnesota and yet everyone pretends a Reform government is just an ok idea.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/01/2026
Incredibly, no-one on Nigel Farage’s team has got round to deleting this post. It’s still live as Robert Jenrick gives his big defection speech.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Just want to stress that this was a woman who was simply trying to get to a doctor's appointment.
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Exclusive from @zoecrowther.bsky.social: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging the government to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK" www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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Leaked WhatsApp Messages Show Labour MPs Demanding Government Leaves X
Exclusive: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging the government to leave X, arguing that it should 'show direction to others in the UK'.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
This is just embarrassing. If the Royal Society is not going to make a stand on CSAM, what would it ever take a stand on?
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 09/01/2026
Musk should remain member of UK Royal Society, says president ft.trib.al/tC0vaAa
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Musk should remain member of UK Royal Society, says president
Paul Nurse tells FT that national science academy should avoid ‘making judgments’ about ‘character’ of fellows
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
This is astonishing. It should be headline news. For all those bleating about being ‘cancelled’ this is what being cancelled really looks like. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Yanis Varoufakis: Europe should be convulsing at US sanctions against French ICC judge
The US government has sanctioned a European judge for carrying out his official duties in Europe while working in an institution established by Europe’s elected representatives at great cost and effor...
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kevcheeseman.bsky.social @kevcheeseman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“My little Anais asked, ‘Nanny have we been bad?’” 😂
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Senior MPs including Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and Darren Jones are claiming tens of thousands of pounds a year in taxpayer-funded rent expenses while either calling for or implementing benefit cuts on the poorest By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
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Revealed: MPs rack up huge rent expenses while pushing through cuts to benefits
MPs are allowed to rent a second home, but while they are simultaneously cutting benefits for the vulnerable, the cost feels hard to swallow.
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary: His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Alf Dubs is a 92 year old man who spent his life fighting for refugees, and in particular for refugee children. He fought the Tories tooth and nail during their last three terms, only to see Labour adopt far-right policies on immigration. “But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
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Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
It really is worth taking the time to hear from people like “Mary,” who fled from Zimbabwe 20 years ago, to understand what life is like when the law denies you the chance to call the country where you’ve made your life home
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
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Emma Wilkinson @emmajourno.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This investigation from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social is absolutely staggering. It is very common in Sheffield (I live in this bit) to have a leasehold, often with hundreds of years left on and pennies in ground rent. This is extortion pure and simple. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
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A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 04/11/2025
Train worker hero credited with saving lives in the Huntingdon knife attack named as Samir Zitouni.
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kevcheeseman.bsky.social @kevcheeseman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
That osoarts link doesn't work, Bernard. But the bloodybarnes one does!
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Godfrey doing his Trump impression with Dr. Dre in the studio 🤣💀
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 16/10/2025
Why does Nigel Farage want us to be like Argentina?
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kevcheeseman.bsky.social @kevcheeseman.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
It as a great evening and really brought the album to life for me. I also got the sense that Peter Morén (who also produced the album) brings a subtle touch of discipline to proceedings on stage.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 10/10/2025
NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is? It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
In addition to the normative points, I am once again tapping the sign marked 'net immigration to the UK in 2029 will still be, in relative terms, very high, and the government needs to have a position that allows it to defend what the Actually Existing UK looks like'.
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 29/09/2025
When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Yep, that's great. Just fantastic. We were told that Starmer would lay out the patriotic case for diversity today. What we got was an article in the Telegraph, behind a paywall, about how the left failed to tackle immigration and now we all have to have ID cards www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...
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Access Restricted
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 22/09/2025
There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This should be an opportunity for the other parties - Reform's proposal is extreme, violates basic fairness norms, and would threaten millions of people who have made their lives here and played by the rules. This approach should be condemned as nasty, unworkable and contrary to British fair play.
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kevcheeseman.bsky.social @kevcheeseman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
What is it they say about if a question is used in a headline?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/09/2025
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
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