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Old woman, still confused, often wrong but still hopeful despite all the evidence to contrary

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 20h
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The infamous 1990s voucher privatisation scheme, designed to privatise the former Soviet businesses in Russia and give ordinary people a stake in the process, turbo-charged the emergence of the oligarchs.
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Campaign for Better Transport @bettertransport.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In August this year, for 1 month, the Government made bus journeys free for children in England. Now, new figures show that the scheme enabled more than 14 million free child journeys. One bus service in the North East had 710% more child passengers than last summer. Our reaction 👇
Photo of Michael Solomon Williams with the quote, "As well as saving families money on millions of journeys, free child bus fares  encouraged people to give the bus a try, inspiring a new generation of bus users. It's great to see this efficient, sustainable form of transport being given such a boost. But even with free fares, access to buses is not equal. One in seven people live in places without a decent bus service. The Government needs to do more to reconnect these transport deserts."
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minne...
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Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold
Minnesota solar farms planted with native flowers saw native bees rise 20-fold, with bees also pollinating nearby soybean fields.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Blessed are the Cracked, 2018 by UK anarcho-craftivist artist Carrie Reichardt #WomensArt #FridayFeeling
Plate with patterned floral border and central motif of a woman holding up a sign with text ' Blessed are the cracked for they let in the light'
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Liam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country.
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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did u know?Painting insects in a scientifically accurate way,for 15 yrs has given me a gift that helps me get through life-it's the art of noticing.All small souls display an unsullied disdain for man-made fripperies,as they go about their lives,which is liberating to witness.Celebrate the small 🪲🌍🎨
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Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Latest Graun toon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Martin Rowson on King Charles, Earl Spencer and a row over Diana’s memory – cartoon
The brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales has claimed that King Charles sounded ‘giddily elated’ in a phone call to him after her death
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
'The Condemned House', Poplar (1985) by Doreen Fletcher doreenfletcherartist.com
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote about Ben Delo back in July... was obvious something like this was about to happen. Also, further evidence that Starmer was completely asleep. Donations reform should have been a priority as soon as Labour got in www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm feeling very burned out at the moment. Sick of my own voice trying to chaperone this book into the world, never more conscious of closed doors, keen to move on, tired from a long battle after my ex-publisher imploded & stole my earnings. But I can't pretend it's not nice to see stuff like this.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Britain is just looking on as a handful of tax hating billionaires buy our political future.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s not too late to stop this madness - the government has said the uk mega donors are a problem. The lords can bring in a cap on UK donors to stop any attempt to buy the next election. Share this and ask your MP to join us protecting British democracy.
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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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform UK's record-breaking donor was accused of running “in effect a money laundering platform”. Prosecutors accused Delo of being the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who knew that his Bitmex platform had become a “magnet for money laundering and criminal activity”.
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Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry
As criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In normal circumstances, he’d be referred to as “His Worship the Mayor”, but fine fine.
"The 1st sod' (pictured)”

A mayor turns the first sod on a construction project.
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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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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.
‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fellow travellers of the far right Media normalising fascism bsky.app/profile/thet...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
👀 MUST WATCH: This video is so well done — and absolutely hilarious! 🤣🤣
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
That's HILARIOUS. And I totally know that scene from The Sopranos. It's my favorite TV show of all-time.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Important thread.
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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Fucking hell I knew he was a git but he’s proved it without doubt here Robert Jenrick responded with 'boo hoo' when questioned about a female protester being hit with a walking stick and dragged by her hair at the Reform Conference. This is outrageous from an MP!
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
UK man starts potential right wing terrorist group, amplified by Russian / Israeli networks, Home Office asleep at the wheel. In follow up posts the agitator states “we are not voting our way out of this” implying violent uprising.
Potential terrorist group bragging about membershipsCall for violent action
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Ben Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is not patriotism. It is intimidation. Hundreds of masked men in black storming Dover Port, blocking nationally critical infrastructure and chanting “I’m England until I die” is a disgrace.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Surprise! The outfit blocking roads and the port in Dover includes seriously violent thugs
Description of the criminal record of one of the thugs (there are more) from the article
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 04/09/2026
“It’s crucial to remember that Farage is a symptom, not a cause. He’s the beneficiary of forces that are upending systems across the world.” @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on why it all comes back to the cash trail… www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...
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Follow the money: the Farage funding timeline
As the revelations around donations to Reform and its leader multiply, we’re keeping the receipts. Carole Cadwalladr introduces a master timeline of our investigation into Farage’s biggest funder, cry...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The polling company JL Partners is unwilling to follow the rules, so should not be in the polling council. Also the Telegraph appears to have lied about the provenance of the poll it published. Even if they didn't know that Reform commissioned it, it was dishonest to suggest it was a Telegraph poll.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I've just submitted the manuscript for my next book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY. It's about the loss of England's chalk downland - a tale of flowers, fertility, fascism and freedom. Published by William Collins on 22nd April 2027; pre-order here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Photo shows the printed manuscript for my book, The Ghosts of Chalk Country, by Guy Shrubsole. Background shows a cork board covered in old postcards, photos and paintings of chalk landscapes, including some Eric Ravilious watercolours, and a postcard of the Cerne Giant wearing underpants.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here‘s the real story from @nafeez.bsky.social The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Why doesn't the media scrutinize Farage's lies as ferociously as Arday's fantasies?
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I think it's bad that the UK press can escalate what is essentially a workplace matter into national news ahead of the fucking country being on fire and then get away with hounding their victim until they die.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Burnham: "We have to face up to the changing climate. I think we need a different debate about that. There’s no point denying where we are. We need to face up to it. We need more clean energy. We need to see that transition accelerate." Climate silence broken 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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UK a ‘tinderbox’, says Burnham, as he calls in military and bans disposable barbecues – UK politics live
PM also says fire and rescue services will be given more cash
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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is absolutely terrific
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires
Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🔴 NEW Nigel Farage Reported to Met Police Over Alleged Misconduct in Public Office By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Nigel Farage Reported to Met Police Over Alleged Misconduct in Public Office
The Reform UK leader's non-disclosure of a £5 million 'gift' from a crypto billionaire could amount to a criminal offence, leading democracy groups allege
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW: The latest reporting on Arron Banks pretends he’s sprung from nowhere. I’m not the one being gaslit here. You are. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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The Invisible Women
We're here. You just can't see us. And that's a problem for you, not us
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Big new story from @annaisaac.bsky.social. Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother before she made Reform & Tice donations. The even bigger question now is where did Cottrell’s money come from? And this is where I think a very big problem lies.. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 27/07/2026
What happens when a volunteer newsroom publishes 3,000 articles in five years? Our latest anniversary feature reflects on the events, debates and people that have shaped both East Anglia Bylines and the world we've been reporting.
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Five years of East Anglia Bylines: Changing times
Politics, Brexit and the climate crisis have transformed our world over the past five years. Our editorial team reflects on the stories behind the headlines
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good grief, this hits home.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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