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Luke Benn @lukethekatochos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A recent study by UCL's Centre for Holocaust Education highlighted this as a common misconception among English secondary students, with only 28.6% correctly answering that the British gov first new about the mass murder in 1941-42 (see digest 1 for details) holocausteducation.org.uk/research/80-...

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Teaching and learning about the Holocaust 80 years on: A study of student knowledge and understanding in England – Centre for Holocaust Education

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Among Farage’s lesser crimes is taking the term “reform”, which has a long and noble heritage in British politics, and tainting it with his filth

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 23/09/2026

this is daft. driving passengers away is the whole point of a bus

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 20/09/2026

Instagram appears to be showing me headlines from 1642.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Middle-class kids already do genuinely good vocational courses like degree apprenticeships. I just don't know what problem they're trying to solve. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

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Lucy Powell: Middle-class children should take vocational subjects

The education secretary says that curriculums tailored to the needs of the local economy should not be rejected because of snobbery

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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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Luke Sibieta @lukesibieta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The gaps in reading scores between England and Wales are incredibly stark Average reading scores in Wales are lower than for disadvantaged pupils in England The least disadvantaged group in Wales scores below the average for England @theifs.bsky.social @tom-richmond.com @samfr.bsky.social

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I believe the RNLI are responding to legitimate concerns that people might drown.

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Richard Cubitt @richardrcubitt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Once again, the biggest problem with violent far right thugs making our streets dangerous is not that they might not vote Labour.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The “old enough to remember why Nazis are bad” demographic at the end there

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Will the AfD winning in Saxony-Anhalt I've taken the paywall off the post I wrote last year about how memories of WW2 are being distorted by them and other radical right parties. "Never again?" samf.substack.com/p/never-agai...

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Never again?

Memory entrepreneurship and the radical right’s assault on the postwar order

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And here's a stat from the piece: More Reform voters say they would vote for Restore (43%) than the Tories (40%).

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In 1924, the perfectly healthy 16 year-old son of the incumbent president of the United States got a blister on his foot playing tennis and died of sepsis because there were no antibiotics.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ask not for whom the JLL polls - it polls for thee

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So it looks like Reform policy chief James Orr has straight up broken the law here. It's also exactly the same crime Farage has been accused of re: George Cottrell donating via his mother and which Parliament is currently investigating.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nigel Farage filmed celebrating illegal foreign donations Undercover footage reveals plot to break the law by funnelling offshore funds through a UK donor. Donations funded a series of widely reported polls boosting Reform ahead of the local elections channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

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Luke Benn @lukethekatochos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Imagining a late reworking of a World War 2 film to actually be about the rise of Napoleon and realising that would actually involve a smaller chronological gap

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Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Actually sad what AI has done to the world of souvenir fridge magnets, postcards, etc. It's kind of microcosmic of the whole issue: the people in charge of fridge magnets don't seem to care that fridge magnets actually matter to people who collect fridge magnets.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 18/08/2026

One thing I keep thinking about re: Book 11 of The Odyssey is how the dead are just as eager for information from the living as the living are from the dead. At some point, definitely by Spiritualism’s ascendancy but earlier than that, the dead became omniscient, and all questions went one way.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.

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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

eclipse glasses are woke. stare it down you cowards

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

New post out: "The myth of the 'Boriswave'" The online right claim that the immigrants who arrived between 21-24 will bankrupt the country. This isn't remotely true but they've created a mainstream panic that could lead us down a dangerous path. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...

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The myth of the "Boriswave"

Over summer 2024 anonymous right-wing accounts on twitter, who support Reform or more extreme ethnonationalist parties, started using the term “Boriswave” to describe the brief but sharp rise in net m...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It’s just depressing. Further education has been cut to ribbons. Higher education is in crisis. Labour turns its eyes to the bit of the education system which is turning out the highest literacy rates in the western world and goes “that’s the bit that needs to change”

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/08/2026

Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

We’ve seen this before.

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Luke Benn @lukethekatochos.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Ok Pasolini's the Return is very good. I could make a contrarian take that it's better than Nolan's Odyssey but that would be disingenuous. A remarkably pessimistic adaption.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New post just out: "Burnham's first mistake" Splitting 14 year olds into academic and vocational paths seems intuitive. But it's a terrible idea that risks increasing inequality, and closing down options for the young people that need them most. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

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Burnham's first mistake

The problem with his education plan

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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"In an extraordinary development all 55 Uefa members resolved not to participate in future World Cups or other Fifa-run events, saying in a statement that they “unanimously and unequivocally reject” the proposals" www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed

Uefa nations have agreed to boycott all Fifa tournaments if the global governing body continues with its plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup

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Luke Benn @lukethekatochos.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Latinists be like I'm really concerned about the growing use of AE

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Re the Emily Wilson discourse - her Dad (A N Wilson) was the king of literary feuds. A good family tradition. Best one was his feud with Bevis Hillier who hoaxed him into including a fake letter in his biography of Bejteman where the first letter of each sentence spelt "AN Wilson is a shit".

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

the odyssey and oppenheimer are the same film only in oppenheimer cillian murphy is haunted by inventing nukes and in the odyssey matt damon is haunted by inventing the concept of being sneaky

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

What a strange and angry post from the FIFA president. While preaching “love” he has come across extremely thin skinned and while at the same time attempted to downplay what has happened to Iran, fans denied visas, Omar Artan and the Balogun situations as normal. Like in a parallel universe.

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Luke Benn @lukethekatochos.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I distinctly recall there being a whole section of A Christmas Carol that dives into Scrooge's past and helps to explain why he is the way that he is.

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Luke Benn @lukethekatochos.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I would like to be the first to congratulate Leandro Parades on being the second winner of the FIFA Peace Prize

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Messi is like the soft-spoken gang boss who says things like, “While I personally abhor violence, some of my associates may be less fastidious.”

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 19/07/2026

"Can Spain play keepaway for 11 minutes" my brother in Christ have you ever seen Spain play

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 19/07/2026

WALKING INTO THE THEATER WITH MY TROJAN HORSE POPCORN HOLDER: Haha, fuck yeah, a cool horse! WALKING OUT OF THE THEATER WITH MY TROJAN HORSE POPCORN HOLDER: I must keep this horse as a memento mori about my own civilization's failure

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Luke Benn @lukethekatochos.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

England players gonna be holding a banner saying "the Pale of Calais is English" after the game

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Harold Wilson, with a majority of four, had the courage to say that the winner of the Smethwick by-election would be greeted “like a leper” in Parliament. Ted Heath, trailing in the polls, fired Enoch Powell. The comparison with the Labour government and Conservative opposition now..oy.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Saladin in 1189:

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Luke Benn @lukethekatochos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Tuchel: I wish I can build a team that can beat France at the world cup (Finger on monkey paw curls)

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Luke Benn @lukethekatochos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

What's that? England retreated deep to defend a lead? They invited and the succumbed to pressure? Surely that cant be true?

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Luke Benn @lukethekatochos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This has been a great bad game

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