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Myriad Freckles @myriad-freckles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Which is why old expressions use the term red for things which now seem clearly orange, like robin redbreast or red-headed people

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I’ve been waiting for Virginia Company ideas to be revived for some time. I thought Musk would get it done first, though. How bloody depressing.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

"There is not a free speech crisis in the UK. Keir Starmer has not shut down GB News," Ruskin says. Farage seems "most at home with the autocrats and dictators of this world", he adds. If he's serious about the Online Safety Act, he should be in parliament, he says, not here.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Absolutely. What on earth did they expect would happen to sick leave and disability benefits with 1) an ongoing severe new respiratory disease 2) long Covid and 3) huge numbers of people dealing with the fallout of the Covid years, with the young most badly affected?

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

said the person responsible for an unwanted sexual experience was a boy they knew or were friends with. So while he’s looking out for evil foreigners it’s more likely to be someone his daughters know that pose a threat . But then he isn’t really interested in the complexity or

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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

According to the Watson School of International and Public Affairs in Rhode Island, US, more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the war in Afghanistan combined.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This how we can reclaim the conversation from women-hating freaks and Social Darwinists iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Good stuff from Starmer today, but it's not enough inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The answer was the whole apparatus of footnoting, peer-review, showing data & reproducing findings. The idea wasn't that *I* could check it, but that anyone competent cd. The science *might* still be wrong,but there was no rational reason to prefer my own judgment. But all that's now under assault

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

They've managed to criminalise legitimate protest and undermine anti-terror laws in one move. They should be goddamned ashamed of themselves.

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I’ve been saying this for years: heatwaves aren’t ice creams and smiling suns. They’re collapsing infrastructure, wildfires, pets begging for mercy, and preventable deaths... Media picture editors need to do better and use 'climate-impactful' images. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Why do we pretend heatwaves are fun – and ignore the brutal, burning reality? | Zoe Williams

The heatwave media formula is still extravagantly weird: all stock photos of ice-creams and suns with their hats on. It is time we recognised this extreme weather for exactly what it is, writes Zoe Wi...

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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

If a former Israeli prime minister can say this, what is stopping European leaders?

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 26/05/2025

I’m ranting… I’ll say it again: everyone borrows and adapts. Everyone learns by imitation. Sometimes people overstep and sometimes they just pillage but ALL THAT IS DIFFERENT from the training process. This is corporate power using art to make software at scale. They have to buy the rights. n/n

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Starmer doesn't seem to realise that, if you consistently accept the way your opponents frame a question, you'll find it hard to reject the answers that they give. If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.

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Luke Piper @lukepiper.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

So it's not simply "we need these people, give them visas" it's been tried and has been a disaster. The sector needs a massive monetary and skills injection, serious regulation with the support of overseas workers with an immigration system that compliments and supports/protects migrants.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Sarkozy and Fillon's convictions - both very much establishment figures - are powerful counter-arguments to the narrative that Le Pen is the victim of establishment/judicial persecution. Ignore the noise

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

It is legal to criticize the president. It is legal to criticize the president's actions. It is legal to criticize the president's advisors. It is legal and patriotic and the blood of a healthy society to hold those in power accountable, and even to mock them. Remember it.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I'm sympathetic to the argument there are people who could work but currently don't. But the way to change that is to provide healthcare, support and flexibility. I don't see how yet more punishment beatings for the vulnerable will help, and I think it's a betrayal of social democratic values.

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I do think it’s hard to sustain a narrative of “America first” when the main beneficiary of your actions is an adversarial foreign state that offers you basically nothing in return.

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Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I hope Keir is going to be asking Fanta Fuhrer for our money back after helping the US in Iraq and Afghanistan post 9/11. This is how it works right? Also hopes he asks why America wants money back from Ukraine and not Israel.

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I-270, Exit 1 @i270exit1.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Let me see if I understand this. Women and physicians can be prosecuted in Texas for abortions, but letting a child die from a vaccine-preventable disease is fine. Did I get it right?

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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

On a similar theme to my recent piece, this article in the @theguardian.com brought me to tears. We can’t keep going like this. It’s causing serious emotional and physical damage. Care about the birth rate? Then fix the fact that mothers feel like shit www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Being a mother in the west would be a dream, I was told. But compared to Uganda, it was a nightmare | Patience Akumu

Nothing prepared me for the reality of mothering without my extended family to help. How have western women managed like this for so long?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

What you are seeing this morning over the refugee decision is Labour alienating and offending its remaining liberal supporters without bringing any new voters onside.

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John S @johns78.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Every time I hear Lab talking about cutting regulation I think, ahh, you want another financial crisis, another Grenfell, more sh*t in our rivers… 🤬🤬

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 03/02/2025

The UK mustn’t let Donald Trump bully us or our ally Canada. We need to work with our allies in Europe and around the world to stand up to him. The Prime Minister should invite Commonwealth leaders to London to discuss a joint response to Trump’s global trade war.

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