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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To be fair, you honestly can’t say that Enid Blyton isn’t prepared to move with the times.

BBC headline: Five arrested as counter-terror police investigate major incident near RAF Fairford

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.

Patrick Maguire
Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
Mahmood's
reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Damage control: me on Trump-Burnham meeting (translated version) "Trump is increasingly delusional and disconnected from reality. Unfortunately, since the US political system and Constitution are in crisis, we in Europe must manage the situation as best we can." www.adnkronos.com/internaziona...

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Burnham-Trump, oggi incontro a New York: i temi sul tavolo e l'analisi

Portes (King's College) analizza il primo incontro in presenza tra i due leader a New York

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thread.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org

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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea

The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Patricia Brayden @patriciabrayden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Well that was unexpected #emergencyalert #don’tstartfires ‼️🚨

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Patricia Brayden @patriciabrayden.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation.” Well said UEFA 👏

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"And the prime minister's car just driving up the Mall now, all four wheels on the ground, propelled possibly by an internal combustion engine, Keir Starmer and Lady Victoria no doubt in the back, continuing to respirate and draw oxygen into their lungs, on this unusually sunny..."

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Speak for England, Wayne!

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Patricia Brayden @patriciabrayden.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The only entertaining thing about this halftime ‘entertainment’ is the comments on here #WorldCupFinal

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Patricia Brayden @patriciabrayden.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Oh well. Vamos España for Sunday 🇪🇸

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Jack Todd @jacktodd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Many reasons to love the ebullient and talented Kylian Mbappe. This is top of my list.

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Patricia Brayden @patriciabrayden.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

He doesn’t think FIFA is corrupt enough so he’s challenging Infantino?

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 06/07/2026

spotted, spoil’d, corrupted

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

UEFA: "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision" FIFA and Infantino's brazen corruption has made a complete mockery of the best sporting competition in the world Absolutely shamelessly pathetic

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Has FIFA told us what the final score in Monday’s USA v Belgium game is going to be yet?

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Taking a wicket immediately after receiving a standing ovation for your retirement is the most Ben Stokes thing ever. England Cricket legend. We will miss him so much.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

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Patricia Brayden @patriciabrayden.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

So nice to see politicians who want to improve lives, not get rich

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.

Refugees

They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or me
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way

(now read from bottom to top)

Brian Bilston

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Either masterful trolling or an astonishing coincidence for the French to arrange for a humiliating instrument of surrender to be signed at Versailles.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Really, really, really object to any news corporations labelling people setting fire to cars, houses and attacking police as 'protesters'

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Might have to post this annually until we do something.

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This shouldn’t get lost in today’s general drama

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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Hideous racist communication from Sunderland councillor dismissed as 'people saying daft things' by Richard Tice Shameful and telling #BBCLauraK

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

All together now! ... "But Nige did take five million quid, and Nige would take five million more!" 💥💥💥 #RefUKkers

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Happy Birthday David Attenborough! From the earliest days of television, to controller of BBC2, to bringing the wonders, beauty and fragility of the natural world to our eyes & attention - you’re a legend! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

However you dice it, it’s been a great night for Thai-based cryptocurrency billionaires & Vladimir Putin - who, incredibly, is currently getting more good news from the UK than Ukraine.

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Just heard self-centred hypocrite Nigel Farage on BBC News say that no British politician has been physically attacked more than him. An insult to the memory of Jo Cox and David Amess, both murdered.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Is someone going to tell him that the flu killed more US troops in WWI than any battle did (and that war had chemical weapons so horrific that they were banned afterwards)?

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Patricia Brayden @patriciabrayden.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Obviously, we should never have left, but this is very welcome news.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 07/04/2026

Come on then, and remove him.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Today’s poem is called ‘Slow Puncture’.

Slow Puncture

I’d use every one of them – each tiny symbol / sign –
to ‘light up’ my words … and write eye-catching lines:
the comma; the colon; the ellipsis; the slash;
the question mark; the hyphen; the en and em dash.

In stanzas 1-2, it was all there on show
(Was there nothing not used? The short answer: No!)
But then I came to an unfortunate juncture:
my punctuation, you see, got a slow puncture

and those small, helpful marks which let my words breathe
and made me understood, all started to leave.
Hyphens unhappened semi colons got missed
apostrophes went awol in commaless lists.

“And what of the question marks Oh yes even those
(while my brackets and speech marks forgot how to close
When the last comma left there was nowhere to pause
my words floated by in one endless clause

and no one could tell once the full stops departed
where one sentence ended and another one started
capitals absconded and meaning left too
as the breaks between stanzas bowed then withdrew just like the line breaks
then all sense gotblurred thelastthingtogowasthegapsbetweenwordsbrianbilston

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

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