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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 07/10/2026

Private renters on housing support already go without essentials. Last year, six-in-ten (58 per cent) working-age adults in private-renting families on housing support could not afford basic items buff.ly/tmfEAWh

Chart showing proportion of working-age adults in private-renting families on housing support who are materially deprived, and who cannot afford selected essentials: GB, 2024-25

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 06/10/2026

This year's #NobelPrize in Chemistry will be awarded tomorrow 🏅 Here's a reminder of the research that has won in previous years, including molecular sponges, the prediction of protein structures, and clicking together new medicine molecules: www.compoundchem.com/category/nob... #ChemSky 🧪

Infographic titled "2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry" celebrating Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless for click and bioorthogonal chemistry. Sharpless coined "click chemistry" in 2001 for quick, selective reactions without unwanted byproducts. Sharpless and Meldal independently developed the first reaction using a copper catalyst to combine azides and alkynes. Bertozzi developed copper-free click chemistry in 2003 for live cell applications like tracking glycans. Applications include drug synthesis and targeting cancer.

Infographic titled "The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry" honoring Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexei I. Ekimov for discovering and synthesizing quantum dots. Quantum dots are semiconductor nanoparticles whose light absorption and emission change with particle size due to quantum effects. In 1981, Ekimov created size-dependent color in tinted glass; in 1983, Brus discovered size-dependent absorption/emission in liquid solutions; in 1993, Bawendi developed a precise synthesis method. Applications include QLED TVs, LED lamps, flexible electronics, and solar cells.

Infographic titled "The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry" honoring David Baker for computational protein design, and Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for protein structure prediction. Proteins fold into 3D structures determining their function. In 2020, Hassabis and Jumper introduced AlphaFold2, an AI model that evaluates amino acid interactions to predict 3D folded structures, now used on nearly 200 million proteins. David Baker created Rosetta software to work in reverse, designing amino acid sequences for custom protein structures, succeeding in 2003. Applications include protein-based drugs, vaccines, and catalysts.

Infographic titled "The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry" honoring Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). MOFs are porous molecular sponges composed of metal ions connected by organic linkers, allowing small gas molecules to move in and out of their cavities. In 1989, Robson combined copper ions with four-armed molecules. In 1997, Kitagawa created stable and flexible gas-storing MOFs using cobalt ions. In 1999, Yaghi built MOF-5 with zinc clusters, achieving massive internal surface area. Applications include gas storage, harvesting water from air, targeted drug delivery, and toxic chemical detection.

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 14/09/2026

British energy customers are paying to switch off wind farms that are producing more energy than the network can handle 🔴 Lucie Heath reports Read more: trib.al/zhy0S1Q

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Ron @caribbeanbasin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 13/09/2026

Stop hyper-scale AI data centres 🛑 This week Greens will force a vote in the Scottish Parliament to introduce a moratorium and strong planning guidance for data centres. greens.scot/datacentres

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Alex Rhind 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mrsrhino.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Please write to your MSPs and ask them to support the moratorium. We really need more time to deal with this issue which is being pressured to go through local planning as fast as possible. (So as to avoid too much scrutiny.) www.writetothem.com

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WriteToThem

WriteToThem is a website which provides an easy way to contact MPs, councillors and other elected representatives.

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UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 07/09/2026

The Guardian: Farage’s “I wasn’t listening” defence has prompted questions in Reform UK about its future without him, though for now they remain “what ifs”. - by Gaby Hinsliff

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A Reform UK without Nigel Farage used to be unthinkable. Not any more | Gaby Hinsliff

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 07/09/2026

Book Review: Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum Can our democracy be saved from the authoritarian forces in politics? westenglandbylines.co.uk/society/book...

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Book Review: Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum

Can our democracy be saved from the authoritarian forces in politics?

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 07/09/2026

“This isn’t really a story about me,” writes Peter Geoghegan “It’s about what happens when political parties treat accountability and scrutiny as an optional extra.”

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Why Reform bans journalists like me

Reform denied me a pass to its annual conference this week. Without a free press, politicians really will do whatever they want

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 07/09/2026

Opinion | Reform UK conference attendees attacking protesters could be a defining moment for the party 🖋️ John Oxley Read more: trib.al/9FVYwId

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/09/2026

Many tech billionaires who grew up on science fiction are intent on building dystopian technology, @galbeckerman.bsky.social argues. He writes about a new book by Jill Lepore that explores how they took the wrong lessons from their favorite novels:

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We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys

Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.

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Deadline News @deadline-news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Green MSP @qmanivannan.bsky.social outlines his concerns about AI data centres during a protest outside The Scottish Parliament

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Fortune @fortune.com · 03/09/2026

OpenAI, Google and Meta can finance and build AI infrastructure faster than the U.S. can build the electricity generation and transmission needed to power it. bit.ly/4gMMjRA

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AI wants electricity now. The electric grid needs years to catch up | Fortune

Data center demand is surging, but utilities, electric transmission and grid connections can take years to meet the need

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Never a good idea to take party “gurus” - let alone theological ones - anywhere as seriously as they take themselves. Like a padre in a marine battalion, they are there to add a veneer of moral purpose to an ugly business economist.com/britain/2026...

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The tarts and vicars party

Nigel Farage leads a curious coalition of traditionalists and libertines

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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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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 01/05/2025

Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming. Could these be the real culprits? The evidence is in--and the answer is NO. This thread explains! 🧵

A graphic with an icon of the sun, a wiggly line denoting natural cycles, and a volcano, with a title reading "WHY is climate changing?" created by me. Not fancy, as my graphic design skills lean to function over art!

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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In todays Programme for Government the only mention of data centres is about attracting more of them into Scotland. Communities needed the First Minister to announce an immediate halt to hyperscale data centres applications today. The Scottish Greens will keep pushing for a pause!

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wee-dumplin.bsky.social @wee-dumplin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can you start by getting the Celtic gang together and all 3 nations just have our independence votes please. Don’t ask for permission, it will never be given. We are sovereign, not the crown, not Westminster!

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/09/2026

Donald Trump’s operation to seize Venezuela’s oil is the purest distillation of his amoral foreign policy, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues:

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Trump Meant It Literally When He Said He Was Taking the Oil

The Venezuela operation is the purest distillation of his amoral foreign policy.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Scottish Government’s decision to delay plans for a ban on LGBT conversion practices has been branded 'unacceptable' 👇

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Scottish Government delaying LGBT conversion practices ban 'unacceptable'

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 01/09/2026

is that good

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

One of the most horrific stories I’ve ever reported was published this weekend. Please, everyone privileged in this world, read it and really think about what it means not to have freedom of travel. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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‘It was day 13 or 14 when people started dying’: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived

A harrowing story of death and survival on the Atlantic migration route from west Africa, ‘the deadliest in the world’

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A referendum on Irish unity is 'off the table', Andy Burnham has said It's 'the exact same anti-democratic arrogance of every single Westminster Prime Minister', the SNP say 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

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Bruce Kluger @bruciek.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Here it is, cowboys and cowgirls, the first music video from my new album, “MAGA Country…” “The Ballad of Stephen Miller!” Stream the single now on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc. The full album is set for release on March 13! #countrymusic #countrymusiclover #trumpisajoke #stephenmiller

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is what Farage and Johnson’s xenophobic Reform and Conservative Brexit campaigns actually did to UK migration. At every point they use their failures as an excuse for the next disaster

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I don’t know if this really happened. But if it did, I salute you Alan.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 03/08/2026

The highest ever vote share for a novelty candidate, so far, is 4.2%. Farage will win but with fewer votes as turnout will be low. If #VoteBinface achieves anything near 20% it will be a huge humiliation and the PSC investigation will continue & report. Meanwhile swathes more dodgy info has come out

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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation reveals a network of criminal complicity at heart of Reform UK rooted in identity fraud by George Cottrell - the criminal fraudster secretly funding Farage and Reform - in cahoots with a Reform treasurer and a casino owner 🧵 bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...

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‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures

Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...

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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

No longer a joke candidate, Count Binface offers a manifesto that delivers far more for Clacton than Farage ever has.

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WheresMyCake @itshotoutthere.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

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HAL #FBPE ReJoin the EU NOW @sperrympe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Because he is a grifter

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Rachel5742 @rachel5742.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

#Butterflies Vote #CountBinface Foil #Farage...

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bcnryu.bsky.social @bcnryu.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is absolutely brilliant and will definitely get under the skin of establishment Farage. Wonder how many £5 donations the Count has received for his 'none of your business security'

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Claire @clairepull.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is amazing and needs to be shared far and wide. Farage will hate it. How does one get a tune to number 1 these days?

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Me 🌹🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @0-me-0.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Calling all Clactonians! #Clacton #Byelection #Farage #Binface #CountBinface #Reform

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Why has Nigel Farage pulled the by-election stunt? Because it's easier than convincing voters Reform is a government-in-waiting. My take on what Clacton tells us about Reform: www.economist.com/britain/2026...

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Geoffrey Gibson @geoffreygibson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Clacton By-Election Reform Party Count Binface

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🧵 So Farage is preemptively attacking the Commons standards committee in what's a great example of the weaponisation of the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt against institutional authority to avoid accountability. The sort of thing Russia did against the OPCW, or Trump does with "fake news media"

In his Daily Mail interview, Nigel Farage also claimed that the Commons standards committee, which will impose a punishment if Farage is found to have broken Commons rules, was biased against him.

He said:

There are people on that standards committee who will judge me, who have reported me for Islamophobia. It is going to be a completely subjective judgment. There’s no objectivity in this.

According to Christian Calgie, who interviewed Farage for the Mail, Reform UK sources are describing the committee as a “kangaroo court”.

Allegations about MPs breaking parliamentary rules are investigated by Daniel Greenberg, the parliamentary commissioner for standards. He has confirmed that he is investigating the £5m donation. On Tuesday Farage implied undeclared donations from George Cottrell were also being investigated, and Greenberg is also being urged to investigate claims Farage broke lobbying rules.

In his speech on Tuesday Farage implied the standards inquiry was evidence of the establishment using “foul means” to defeat him.

But this is his most explicit attack on the standards committee – and it implies that Farage now believes he will be found guilty of a serious breach of Commons rules.

It is also a move that could see him facing a harsher penalty. The committee regularly imposes harsher punishments on MPs who have not cooperated with or respected the disciplinary process.

In a case with some parallels, Boris Johnson condemned the privileges committee as a “kangaroo court” before it published its final report into him. The committee (comprised of MPs who also serve on the standards committee) said Johnson’s criticism amounted to “a further significant contempt” and this contributed to it proposing a 90-day suspension – which it was not able to enforce because Johnson resigned as an MP first.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style

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Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY, EVERYBODY! Please enjoy our high-tech fireworks display. 😂!

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