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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And, as I wrote over a year ago, this kind of ethnographical skull-measuring will always lead to outright racism and - in the attempt - utter absurdity. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

When, this week, the Telegraph printed a rabidly scaremongering report that “White British people will be a minority in 40 years”, they clarified this cohort as “the white British share of the population — defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent”.

Leaving aside how garbled that formulation is — there are millions of non-white Brits who meet that definition perfectly — it carried with it a parallel consequence. I myself do not have an immigrant parent.

In fact, every single pale and freckled ancestor of mine since 1800, Irish farmers to a soul, was born and raised in something called the United Kingdom. This is true for a large number of Irish people in the North. And since the late Prince Philip was himself a Greek immigrant, it gives me great pleasure to point out that they’d settled on a definition of ‘White British’ which includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles III.

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now that Andy Burnham has reopened the Europe question, free movement will be at the centre of debate. For @arguablymag.bsky.social I argue that it's a big benefit, not a price to be paid for a better trade relationship. www.arguably.uk/p/eu-free-mo...

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EU free movement is an opportunity, not a threat

Progressives need to rediscover the positive case for immigration

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026

Nottingham today. Everywhere tomorrow. 2,700 staff put at risk. 600+ jobs targeted. At least 48 courses facing closure. What happens here sets the template for the sector. Stand with Nottingham.

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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

💥 BREAKING: @andyburnham.bsky.social just announced that the Government will launch a National Commission on Electoral Reform 📰 Press release: www.labourforanewdemocracy.org.uk/news/burnham... 🌹 #Labour4PR #Lab26

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Magnus Ramage @magnusramage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Soon to be reposted by every academic on Bluesky with a wry "or rather *used* to have great universities". Thank you for considering heckling on our behalf, nobody else seems to be bothering.

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Magnus Ramage @magnusramage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm reckoning on some esoteric pagan ritual, secretly passed on since the days of the druids, to celebrate the harvest moon

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so

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Nev Fountain @nevfountain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Okay if everyone's sticking their oar in... Top things to bear in mind when making new Dr Who, according to me:

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Doctor Who: The Doctor Approves

Alt: Doctor Who: The Doctor Approves

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“The grimness left his face, and he looked like one who has laboured in sleepless pain for many nights. ‘Nay, my friends, I am the lawful master of the Stone, and I had both the right and the strength to use it, or so I judged. The right cannot be doubted. The strength was enough – barely.’”

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

something that really came out of this discussion: labour's anti-trans lurch was so shocking & horrific that it's costing the *democrats* votes

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When creating PDFs, avoid using "Print to PDF." A screen reader user may still be able to access the text of PDFs created this way, but heading structure, alternative text, and any other tag structure will be lost. Using "Save As" or "Export" can preserve these tags.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Under the UK’s non-proportional voting system, the far-right AfD in Saxony-Anhalt would today have a huge, dominating majority of representatives - on a minority of the vote - with the power to be as awful as they wanted.

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Magnus Ramage @magnusramage.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Enjoyed the new Sketch podcast from @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, feat. @anooshc.bsky.social and @willdunn.bsky.social (can't find a link to share). Laughed a lot at the toothbrush colonoscopy routine - not an obvious subject for political satire!

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I love that this is how I found out Starmer stepped down as an MP

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ten years ago I saw Kit Harington in Doctor Faustus. At the time, I thought he was poorly cast as a man who makes a deal with the devil.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

On BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze tonight: “Slavery - Right or Wrong?” Some people say it’s morally wrong. On the other hand, it makes a tonne of money. On the panel: Edward Colston, King Leopold II, Tommy Robinson and Matt Goodwin. Join us as we discuss one of the great moral dilemmas of the day.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 20/08/2026

"The implicit logic was that if an ethnic minority ever tricks you, anti-racism has gone too far", says journalist and editor Steven Bush. Was Jason Arday hounded due to a paranoia that the UK operates a two-tier system - a view that has been proliferated online?

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

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A Digital Lynching

A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather

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Sam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The ADHD conspiracy and the gender critical movement and the Prof Arday story and the crackdown on disability support are all the same story. There is a default ideal human: a cishet non-disabled white male. The further you deviate from that ideal, the more suspect you become.

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 17/08/2026

This letter is now at nearly 90,000 signatures. Please add your name.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

While back there was a (genuinely!) well-meaning push in my uni to help staff with autism/adhd connect with help and each other. In our IT department meeting, it was suggested we sign up for the list/group if we had autism/adhd a hand went up: "Wouldn't it be easier to make it opt-out for us?"

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#JasonArday phoned me a few days ago to talk to someone who knows what media abuse feels like. His untimely death shows why we need part 2 of the Leveson enquiry into media conduct

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Aris Katzourakis @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

There is no science called 'race science', 'race realism' or similar. The media would do well not to uncritically use these terms.

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Magnus Ramage @magnusramage.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Visited Ely Cathedral today, and prayed for Jason Arday and his family, in a chapel established by the founder of Jesus College, who let Arday down; and in front of a candle to represent victims of torture, to which he was subjected at the end of his life. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.

Lit candle on a table with barbed wire spiralling up it. Behind are red and brown patterns along with images of torture instruments.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A succinct verdict on the persecution of the poor young academic who just died by suicide. Plagiarism is common. Persecution of the kind he endured is uncommon, aka selectively applied. The reason why he was targeted seems as clear as it is ugly.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

its worth asking whether this ending would have happened without the endless, gleeful, hunting and dismantling of Arday's choices on Twitter, where he represented all the sins of DEI made flesh for a range of assorted disgruntled academics who once had to go to a training and hated it

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Jill @gingerjill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Quiet Riot is the only podcast I pay a subscription for, even though it's free. If you find a news source you trust, its miraculous. Expertise,transparency, passion and warmth. I'm only sorry my neighbours and family don't listen. I keep trying. If you haven't listened yet give them a try.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/07/2026

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What you're saying when you say "DEI" when universities say "EDI" (as happens here) and vice versa. And why it actually matters. The great majority of UK (esp. British) universities use "EDI" while US universities use "DEI". Is that "just" semantic, or does it matter? A thread. 🧵1/8

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How Jason Arday’s appointment became a reckoning for Cambridge

Resignation of Black professor forces university to examine its approach to diversity, equality and inclusion

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/08/2026

It’s vital the Parliamentary standards investigation into the £5m gift Farage accepted from a crypto billionaire now resumes at pace. No one must be beyond scrutiny, least of all those elected to serve the public. bestforbritain.org/farage-probe-mus…

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Farage’s re-election means £5m gift probe must now resume - Best for Britain

The parliamentary standards investigation into Nigel Farage's £5m gift from a crypto billionaire must now resume at pace

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Magnus Ramage @magnusramage.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

And the sooner you go to bed, the sooner it will be Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening Day.

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Magnus Ramage @magnusramage.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I had a tooth extraction yesterday and am supposed only to eat soft cold food for the next few days. Might actually have my timing right.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This article quotes Matthew Elliot & Toby Young on how Arron Banks is a threat to free speech. There aren’t enough lolz in my body to respond to that. These men. All these men. Completely silent for the years when Banks waged a brutal & highly public war on my reporting

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is just to say I have eaten the sailors that were in the ship and which you were probably saving for Ithaca Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so Greek

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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Please don’t be that person that challenges someone’s sex or gender in the toilets. It’s rude, cruel and unnecessary. Just let people use the loo in peace.

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