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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
2026: Labour MP Jonathan Hinder says 'nobody thinks that was going to happen,' that Brexit would mean, instead of migrants from the EU, we'd get migrants from outside the EU 2016: Labour's Heidi Alexander explained exactly that; one of many politicians and commentators to do so
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Bríd 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @brid.bsky.social · 4h
The whole discourse about Glasgow city centre being unsafe in 2026 genuinely feels like a psyop at this point because it is so completely at odds with observable reality.
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Pickwick The Dodo @lesleyhustler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Well said. How many of Tommy Robinson’s Sport’s Direct paramilitary division go and help or worship at the churches they claim they want to protect. It’s much easier to don a balaclava and shout at the RNLI. #HopeNotHate
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Luke @helloitsluke.bsky.social · 16h
I simply don't think people should be able to throw around the word "inquiry" to strengthen what is essentially just a media campaign
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22h
We need to be clear. This isn’t about shooting small boats. It’s about shooting people. Probably shooting small children.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Speaking of voting, if you're a member and you'd like to keep the National Trust's Council free from interference from Britain (and the US's) richest financiers, don't forget to vote before the end of the month. Quick-vote takes moments and avoids the Restore Trust slate of candidates.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The correct response to this would be to make all the evidence used to draw the conclusion public, then challenge Farage to respond, otherwise people will just pick their opinions on the matter based purely on who they trust.
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 12/10/2026
So, the treasurer of a party that hasn’t won an election in Scotland since the 1950s wants to build enormous data centres here. Conveniently far away from Tory voters in the south of England.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This would be economically illiterate & environmentally disastrous - and makes us less secure: undermining efforts to reduce energy bills by reducing dependence on gas, increasing vulnerability to global dictators, driving climate emissions & knee capping a market that’s just beginning to take off
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It is illegal. The police want to prosecute. X are refusing to give the user data to the police. That is their routine practice for racist hate crimes. (They cooperate on child sexual abuse and some forms of terrorism; they impede the policing of racist/ misogynistic hate crimes on their platform)
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
On 7 October, a video shared by Stand Up to Racism Scotland, with the caption This is what happens when you keep telling racists that they have "legitimate concerns"... appeared to show a group of black-clad men ‘patrolling’ the streets of Glasgow while making racist threats.
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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A pilot programme that saw four local authorities routinely gather the views of care-experienced children on issues related to their wellbeing has been shown to build relationships and help practitioners understand what makes a difference. www.cypnow.co.uk/content/anal...
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Councils listen and act on care-experienced young people’s views - CYP Now
A pilot programme that saw four local authorities routinely gather the views of care-experienced children on issues related to their wellbeing has been shown...
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I just noticed that the website for the UK Gov Sovereign AI Fund looks a bit like it's promoting either a video game or a new Star Wars movie www.sovereignai.gov.uk
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UK Sovereign AI Fund | Backing British AI Startups
Britain's sovereign venture fund investing £1M-£20M in AI startups. Get capital, compute (1M GPU hours), fast-track visas, and strategic assets.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
You *know* he's convicted of stalking women. You've *read* the deranged letters you add as attachments. And you still think you're doing the right thing in sending them on his behalf to a woman you don't know? Two now from the same clergyman. I have gone fucking nuclear. Go White Knight elsewhere.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We introduced 20mph zones in Oxfordshire and the numbers of people killed and injured on our roads has gone down even as the same figures in surrounding areas have gone up. Sorry to be a soggy liberal but I think that's a good thing.
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The land is Israel to some, Palestine to some, and you can either merge them properly, split them for good, or destroy one. I am categorically against destroying one because I know 100% certainly that those of you who think there is a humane way to do this are delusional.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The idea of being ‘proud’ of being English is barking to me. It’s the very definition of an accident of birth. I had no choice or role in it. I’m proud of things I’ve actually achieved.
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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Transphobes have been very open about the fact that they view sports as a wedge issue; if they can get people to agree that trans women aren't *really* women in the context of sports, it's much easier for them to extend that to toilets and other public services.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And what did he do on that livestream, huh, BBC? What did he do?
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I really hope people understand that stories like this are not anomalies or “mistakes.” They’re not the result of hospitals misunderstanding the law or legislative growing pains. This is simply what happens when you allow the government to interfere in pregnancy.
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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Newcastle City Council bosses have warned of an influx of children's home providers seeking financial gain from the care sector, despite having little to no experience www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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'Risk' to vulnerable kids as Airbnb owners turn to 'lucrative' children's homes
Newcastle City Council bosses have warned of an influx of children's home providers seeking financial gain from the care sector, despite having little to no experience
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Kim Leadbeater MBE MP @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have reflected at length about what happened in Parliament on Friday. Thank you to everyone who has contacted me with their heartbreaking personal stories and campaigned on this issue for far too long. I am so sorry. Please see my statement below. Many thanks, Kim
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elizabeth says ‘Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor’ @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A no go area, aye?
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Glasgow’s Govanhill named fifth coolest neighbourhood in the world
Glasgow’s Govanhill named world’s fifth coolest neighbourhood by Time Out 2026, after Reform MSP Thomas Kerr called the diverse Scottish area a…
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June 8 @junayt.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Your grandchildren are reasonably going to ask why everybody pissed away the gains of the 20th century and you're going to have to explain how the hypocrites running the world's only hyperpower decided they weren't benefiting enough from a system they built and broke the entire goddamn thing
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 15/09/2026
The TUC, congress of all the UK's trade unions, have voted to condemn the EHRC guidance and backed self-ID. Good luck finding reporting on it, you'll struggle to find it, even as the papers report on plenty of other things the TUC has voted on, and speeches. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/tuc-...
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TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people
Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
But maybe ‘actually youth services are good and we should fund them’ is a tougher argument than ‘these spending cuts will weaken the economy and increase unemployment’?
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 14/09/2026
🧵 Peter Keeley, a former MI5 agent who spent 15 years undercover in the IRA, now works for Stephen Lennon AKA Tommy Robinson. He’s supplying covertly-procured information while being supported by the British taxpayer. hopenothate.org.uk/lennons-secr...
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Lennon's Secret Agent
A former MI5 agent who operated as an IRA bomb maker is now working for Stephen Lennon. Despite still being supported by the British taxpayer, Peter Keeley appears to have broken the law by supplying ...
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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The real problem Britain faces is unlicensed fades - this is a true social crisis that must be stopped. Unlike, say, UNLICENSED CHILD SOCIAL CARE WHICH HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS AND IS BANKRUPTING COUNCILS AND DOING *THIS* TO VULNERABLE KIDS:
From the BBC article "Why illegal children's homes are being paid up to £2m per child by councils", May 2026: 

The bungalow doesn't look much like a children's home. A sheet of privacy film wrongly placed outside a window is peeling. Inside, the wallpaper is flaking, carpets are frayed and doors are broken. The children's home is unregistered and therefore illegal but the provider is charging a council elsewhere in the country £13,000 a week to care for a vulnerable teenage girl. She requires the support of three full-time members of staff. There are no books, toys or games.

Just a few miles away, another illegal children's home is being run from a council house. Its tenant is subletting the property to a company that is also charging a different local authority thousands of pounds a week.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Last weekend Kent police described a far-right protest in Dover as "spontaneous". They've now admitted they were warned the night before - likely by a resident of the small village were several hundred men dumped their cars, camped out then boarded vans to Dover: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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How balaclava-clad activists swarmed a quiet Kentish village
Police failed to follow up on a tip-off before hundreds descended on Preston, using it as a staging post for anti-immigration protests across the south
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
restore's platform is infinitely more extreme than the bnp's ever was
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Easy to donate: rnli.org/support-us/g...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/09/2026
What is this comment from the Labour MP? No, the issue here isn't that the attempted pogrom had the wrong targets!
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026
People get confused about the trans sports thing because at a glance it seems like a small issue that impacts a very small number of people and thus makes sense as a "reasonable" concession. But it isn't, because conceding that is accepting that a kid's trans identity is on some level fraudulent
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We are now in a society where flash mobs can turn up anywhere and police will simply stand back. Misinformation is enough to fuel it. At some point people will start using social media to dox people or organisations. It's a huge civil order threat that government and police aren't taking seriously.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The focus on *misinformation* after the terrible Southport murders did risk the unwitting inference that the mob should have found a church with Rwandan parishioners instead, or that the mob attack would have been justified if the perpetrator had been a co-religionist of those at the mosque.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
According to a column in the Times, gangs of masked vigilantes blocking roads have demands which "represent a consensus view across the country". This is very patently utter bollocks. Daniel Thomas, the organiser, is a far-right racist thug. His views are not in any way mainstream.
Should anyone wonder that groups of angry white men in balaclavas have now started occupying Dover and blockading coaches sent to ship more and more men into this utterly negligent system? It’s astonishing it hasn’t happened sooner. I don’t mean I want to see gangs of masked bricklayers marauding around ports. I don’t. But I do think that if you have spent three years allowing masked Gaza activists to take over the streets because police are too scared to stop them, and five years blocking policies such as Rwanda that would actually stop the boats, you cannot start hyperventilating the moment working-class British men take to the streets non-violently, as in Dover if not Portsmouth, to make their feelings known.

The non-violence is obviously critical. This was not a riot, as we saw in 2024. It was not a campaign of harassment. It did not target random people. And unlike the Gaza marches or “stop oil” stunts, its demands represent a consensus view across the country and relate to something under the government’s direct control. They amount to: “Can the government please do what it promised and stop ferry-loads of undocumented foreign men arriving on our beaches to fill up regional hotels and roam around town centres?” They might reasonably also ask for the Home Office to stop handing out asylum to the thousands who falsely claim it while visiting on student or work visas.
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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Creditors owed millions of pounds by Great Minds Together, a company that ran illegal children’s homes, have been told they won’t see a penny of their money. Report by @tbij.bsky.social www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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Illegal children’s home company leaves taxpayers and funders £3m out…
Great Minds Together went bust owing millions. Yet its name continues to be associated with publicly-funded care
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
And this strikes me as absolutely central to the situation we find ourselves in
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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Lancashire now has around 500 per cent more places in children’s homes than is needed to meet local demand. www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/2651443...
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Children’s home in Burnley rejected after county council shares stark warning
An attempt to convert a family home into a residential care facility for kids with behavioural issues has been thrown out
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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Created by photographer and creator Marcel Clemens ["Pendulum Wave"].
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.
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