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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When will the bad takes from people who intermittently discover NI's governance arrangements stop?? The Public Processions Act was enacted months before the GFA, to address this issue as a preliminary. The GFA wasn't meant to tackle this. Also NI Bill of Rights was never enacted as the GFA intended:
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Will making it harder/impossible for care workers/middle skill migrants on work visas to settle improve integration cohesion? No. But will it save money/be good for the economy? Absolutely not, quite the opposite. But at least it's popular? .......... inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Exempt care workers from hardline immigration reforms, voters say
Shabana Mahmood plans to double the waiting period for immigrants to qualify for indefinite leave to remain
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
At @patricksturg.bsky.social request I am reposting this I invite him to say in what respect I have "put words into his mouth", by pointing out that the letter he signed stated, explicitly, that academics should engage with Cofnas' racist garbage "through free inquiry and open, civil discussion."
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
To answer your question Mr Lowe, I do. His name is Nasser Hamid. He was 16 when he left his village, to escape Sudan's civil war. He could not speak English. Look what he achieved! I admire his courage, resourcefulness and intelligence. All qualities sadly lacking in... certain people 🤮
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/08/2026
My friend Jim Stump recently spent five days camping above the Arctic Circle with a group of faith leaders in the very place Big Oil keeps trying to drill ... and what's happening there right now is more hopeful than you'd think.
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Why the Arctic says no to Big Oil | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Biologos' Jim Stump on beauty and danger in the Arctic This week, I’m handing the newsletter over to my colleague and friend Jim Stump from
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If early release can be altered so as to exempt homicide offences, it should be. Prisoners who have caused the gravest harm should be among the last to benefit from the overcrowding crisis. But carving out exceptions for individual prisoners in response to media campaigns is weak and unprincipled.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Jeep Rubicon Childkiller. Celebrate the climate emergency and mow down pedestrians with 5,000 pounds of pointless metal.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It is extraordinary how it has become a sort of “settled wisdom” these days that Net Zero is an absurd aim, a sign of mad political correctness, and “has got to go”, when our planet is literally burning to death.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 26/07/2026
Wonderful news.... Hundreds of species found at former farmland in Bedfordshire. Via BBC News
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Hundreds of species found at former farmland in Bedfordshire
The Wildlife Trust says Strawberry Hill is a "unique" site where every visit throws up new species.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Overall carbon emissions have increased" in the UK, because of Net Zero, Kemi Badenoch repeatedly tells the BBC, to no pushback. Just completely untrue
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 10/07/2026
Nigel Farage once became the butt of jokes about "losing to a dolphin". Now Count Binface has become the unexpected hero of the Clacton campaign. The internet's reaction did not disappoint. Here's a meme collection we’ve selected for you ⤵️ Share your favourites, too! @eastangliabylines.co.uk
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The 20 best Count Binface memes from the Clacton by-election
With Count Binface becoming Nigel Farage's main challenger, social media has responded with some gloriously inventive political satire
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This kind of whining - from France - is so very Brexit. Until we take responsibility for the inevitable consequences of our own stupid choices, we will stay stuck in a sulky dead-end calling other people names. Boris Johnson rejected these data sharing arrangements. You get what you pay for. (Times)
Brexit and asylum
Sir, We should be clear that Brexit is not the reason why the UK no longer has access to European criminal databases ("Brexit lets people-smugglers move to UK"
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the spitefulness of the EU which insists that the UK should pay for leaving the bloc. The fight against organised crime should know no borders and only the EU negotiators would disagree. No wonder people say Brexit has failed.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
SHAKESPEAREAN HAIKU Shall I compare thee To a summer’s day? Alright – Thou art very hot.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 25/06/2026
"Out of work and out of sight." That's how Alan Milburn's review describes too many young people today. Former Suffolk headteacher Ian Flintoff explains why he believes things don't have to be this way.
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Young people are ‘out of work and out of sight’
A new report explains why can’t we grasp the issue of young people not in employment, education or training
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 21/06/2026
Burnham dominates the headlines – but that's not the only story. * Questions continue over Rochford Council leader Adi Malviya's election eligibility dispute. * And Reform's local government troubles keep piling up. Pecksniff's Diary
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Pecksniff: Burnham as prime minister before September
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I think this is broadly right. We don't have an epidemic of violent crime (on the part of asylum seekers, migrants or anyone else) nor are we torn apart/wracked by racism/antisemitism/Islamophobia, serious issues as they are, and the media, especially the BBC, shouldn't tell us we are.
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.
A quote from a Kemi Badenoch interview in the Spectator, comparing Bridget Phillipson to a Gestapo officer.
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Netpol @netpol.org · 15/06/2026
If anyone is wondering about the Lady Chief Justice of England & Wales claiming Palestine Action's "covert" activities make them different from the suffragettes that Yvette Cooper admires so much, here's a secret message code book in the National Archives www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/re...
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Message codes - The National Archives
Codes used by Women’s Social and Political Union for secret messages. These were used as evidence in the conspiracy trials against the WSPU leaders. (Catalogue ref: DPP 1/23 f205) Transcript https://c...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Telling that this horrendous story has been completely ignored by Farage and Co. A shocking murder.
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Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Working through Tony Blair’s essay (on the TBI website) on the challenges facing UK/Labour, and the responses from Wes Streeting (Guardian) Keir Starmer (Substack) and Andy Burnham (Times), to produce a TLDR. Only one of these four mentions climate crisis and only in passing.
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Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Tony Blair’s essay VS the Pope’s encyclical Blair essay: number 1 bit of advice, do not regulate AI (in which I have £millions invested) Pope essay: we need the most rigorous constraints on AI 1/
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Always liked the Buffett analogy.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"for now we must treat this claim as unsubstantiated unless and until some further information emerges". @ciaranm.bsky.social, former Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, on Farage's claims of Russian hacking. www.linkedin.com/posts/cyberc...
Screen-shot of LinkedIn post by Ciaran Martin: "Senior figures in public life should not make unsubstantiated claims about foreign (especially Russian) state hacking against them just when something inconvenient comes out, as in this Mail On Sunday splash yesterday where Mr Farage claims the source of knowledge about his £5m gift from a crypto tycoon was hacking from Moscow. 

If someone in a senior and high profile position feels they’ve been hacked and gets “counter espionage experts” to do “forensic analysis” on the phone, it would then follow that the company which does the analysis is named and that at least some technical evidence to validate the claim should be published. 

More normally still, for someone of this prominence, the incident could have been reported to the National Cyber Security Centre. Since the run up to the 2017 General Election and a decision made by Theresa May to help protect the integrity of politics against foreign interference, the NCSC has been made available to help political parties on a confidential basis and several politicians from opposition parties have done so. ReformUK have failed to say whether this has happened. 

So for now we must treat this claim as unsubstantiated unless and until some further information emerges."
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sparkymark17.bsky.social @sparkymark17.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Hey, Trump administration: If we’re suddenly so concerned about violence, how about indictments of the killers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.
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die_da @suza6.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"The world witnessed what happened in Gaza. It’s happening again now. It’s planned, systematic and is happening in plain sight, while a US president threatens civilisational erasure and what’s left of the international order collapses. It’s Gaza that’s made this possible. ⬇️
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Political Satirical @politicalsatirical.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Reform UK’s ‘Dear Neighbour’ Trick… MKII… Goodwin just got BUSTED!!!!!!!!!!
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
“It is too early to judge the assortment of war criminals, dictators and autocrats who have paid a demented racist warmonger a billion pounds to be a member of his exclusive club.”
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Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
As Tees Valley mayor Lord Houchen's defence of his deal with local businessmen crumbles, here's the Eye's recent special report on how Britain's flagship regeneration scheme secretly turned into one of the biggest giveaways of public money on record. ➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...
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Special Report: Stripped Tees
IT WAS to be the UK’s largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport. But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The rhetoric of a monster.
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JD Vance Slammed After Baselessly Claiming Woman Killed By ICE In Minneapolis Was A 'Deranged Leftist'
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
For those still active on X: there's a task for you!
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I diverged sharply from this consensus, as the FT notes at the end of this article - although my actual quote referred not just to poor governance but to Trump's economic illiteracy, flagrant and gross corruption, and ethnonationalist bigotry. www.ft.com/content/1af2...
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US to extend productivity lead on back of AI boom, say economists
FT survey shows America’s dominance in areas such as technology is not expected to reverse soon
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Important point: university isn't just for posh kids; Erasmus+ gives non-posh kids same chance as posh kids to study abroad, which they otherwise wdn't have; & covers vocational & other non-university training & education exchanges. And if more students come to the UK, that increases UK soft power.
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 15/11/2025
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"For Trump, the US has just been a merger and acquisition with Trump Enterprises... He's engaging in the same kind of wheeling and dealing on foreign policy that he would have done in his business." Fiona Hill on what drives Trump's foreign policy Catch up here 👉 www.youtube.com/live/OW_LTnR...
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
As I’ve seen this confused a few times, please note that Robin Gibb was a much-beloved member of the Bee Gees, whilst Robbie Gibb is the BBC board member who also, totally coincidentally, was editorial adviser in the set-up of GB News. I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Quisling
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Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Trump was found as a matter of fact (unchallenged on appeal) by a US court to be an insurrectionist
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.
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Richard Barfield @richardbarfield.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
In Great Britain, there are about 1.7 billion passenger rail journeys each year without serious incident (about 150 million a month). It's worth keeping perspective as news media discuss banning knives on trains or installing scanners at stations. dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/u...
Chart from Office of Rail and Road (HMG) showing annual and quarterly passenger rail journeys for Great Britain from April 2015 to March 2025.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/10/2025
Angie Craig on Trump importing beef from Argentina: "This is either corrupt or stupid, and it's probably both."
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 08/10/2025
When Kemi Badenoch called for a British version of ICE, is this the sort of thing she had in mind?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats
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Luke Taylor MP @luketaylorld.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
@samcoatessky.bsky.social hi Sam, this morning you stated “…the main opposition parties, the Cons and Reform UK…” Unless I missed 67 Parliamentary by-elections since July, the Lib Dems are very much the main opposition party with the Cons, not Reform. Do we have to keep doing this?
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