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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perfectly put.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 03/10/2026

I am not very worried about about the Tory Tapestry’s misuse of “doth”. What worries me much more is this sequence of panels which seems to show a small boat full of brown-skinned people followed by a plague of rats running riot and then a lot of dead white people labelled tax payers.

Detail from Conservative Party mock Bayeux Tapestry showing 1. A boat full of brown skinned people. 2. Enormous rats chasing cats. 3. White-skinned “tax payers” dead in the streets.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/10/2026

Children's brain tumor research, PTSD research in veterans, pesticide/agriculture research, and cancer research doesn't need to be funded according to the Trump administration.

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another, small but important, example of how politics and media really works in the UK 👇

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is an outstanding point

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'We need to tell chefs + vets + architects they must leave, but we would never do that to care workers or bankers' would be a really weird place for this policy to end up: partly because initial proposals were incredibly rushed but could still happen if media/politics/MPs don't get into the details

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

These enormously complex, badly rushed settlement proposals fell apart during consultation on many fronts yet remain v poorly understood - in media, in parliament, in government itself. There remains a big risk that the Burnham government gets the new policy wrong www.easterneye.biz/andy-burnham...

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Can Burnham find a new balance on immigration?

'Fair rules should protect more than just care workers'

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

George will be coming on my show this weekend to discuss this very important article.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is so so dark

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

2023 - 2024 almost 4,000 roles cut. 2024 - 2025 over 13,000 roles cut. 2025 - 2026 15,000 cuts proposed 2026 - 2027 I dread to think Son is just finishing his PhD at Lincoln Uni, where the sciences have been decimated, with School of Chemistry amongst those closing.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think of Sophie and how the men who killed her would be seen as the sort of people Kier Starmer and similar Labour types would now defend as having “legitimate concerns” and Farage would see as the backbone of England

A 20-year-old goth, Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend were walking in a park in Васир (2007) when a gang attacked them.
One attacker later said they kicked her head like a football. This case became one of Britain's most horrifying hate crime stories.
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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Incredible

It is the Jews. It has always been the Jews.
Not all of them, but always them.
There is no avoiding this truth. Everything else is a distraction. Once you notice, you cannot unsee.
Marxism/Communism/Socialism, Bolshevism, Feminism, Liberalism/Libertarianism, Anarchism, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theories, transvestism/ transexualism/transgenderism, racism,
Neoconservatism, Zionism.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

All these platforms were originally sold to us as being liberating tools of free speech and expression. Now they're being actively used by their owners to suppress it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Truly disgusting social media post from one of Brexit's most influential backers.

Arron Banks

Going through Heathrow today, there wasn't one
white face in security or airport services. The
Home office is staffed by the type of people we
are trying to keep out! What hope?

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The politician, crew and journalist have left as planned. The 6 Chagossians who remain have limited food, threadbare tents & no boat capable of traversing the surrounding ocean. They used the sort those migrants use that ReFuk hollers about so much Plagued by rats, mosquitoes and tropical heat.

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Robot Mel @robotmeile.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wales has stopped ALL gender affirming surgeries! Schools have just declared an end to social transition and inclusion for trans kids. I do not think enough people are paying attention to how utterly and quickly trans rights have been stripped away in the uk!

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Ed Douglas @calmandfearless.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Pretty good going from BBC R4's Today to talk for 15 minutes about the disaster in Nepal and not once mention the impact of climate change A massive chunk of glacier collapsed and fell 1.2km, reduced to 'flash flood'.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In July 2026, median pay of a UK employee was £31,704, take home £26,346. Single person needs to earn £30,500 a year to reach a minimum standard of living. A couple with 2 children needs £74,000. 25.3m Britons live below minimum standard. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

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Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK - Office for National Statistics

Monthly estimates of payrolled employees and their pay from HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is a cracking piece by the estimable @drdeanburnett.bsky.social - do #follow him for the best commentary on such things.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hahaha. We need so much more of this Private Eye style ridicule when it comes to Farage. No one should be taking him seriously any more.

Wildfire in Clacton
AS temperatures soared on Friday, Essex fire authorities reported things were so bad that a man's pants had caught fire.
The individual, identified as Nigel Farage, had claimed Essex police had told him to keep away from his by-election declaration.
"We've never seen such an enormous fire coming from a single pair of Union Jack Y-fronts," said a police spokesman. "We urge members of the public to avoid pants on fire by at least coming up with a half-decent excuse for their cowardice."

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There's a lot in here - please read Whilst I was shocked and angered by the announcement that Jason Arday had died the real story here is how a group of people funded mostly by Thiel have infiltrated a top UK university with the explicit aim of preaching (sic) an agenda of division and hate

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

One more reminder. Yes, Reform are a deeply unserious party, and have no intention or ability to bring their plans into action, but there’s a very serious side to this. It’s about embedding the narrative that disabled people are dishonest, undeserving scroungers. That does need to be opposed.

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Cory Laran @corylaran.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is what you get when you don't study history and learn from it.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My personal view: people still significantly underestimate how bad AI is. I certainly did. I’ve researched it more in the last year, and now feel ashamed I wasn’t so clearly against it at first.

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The Failed Anarchist Revival @failedanarchist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

he wasn't the only plagiarising professor. this one passed by almost unnoticed, and kept his job I'm struggling to put my finger on why Dr William O’Reilly got a free ride, and Arday was vilified - especially by the Telegraph, which is busy deleting the 150+ articles www.varsity.co.uk/news/26105

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Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists

More than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Well, well, well. Just come across this passage, written in 1842, by Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet, published in English as A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842). The real criminal is 'society'. Robert Owen had similar thoughts a little earlier.

Since the crimes which are annually committed seem to be a necessary result
of our social organization, and since the number of them cannot diminish
without the causes which induce them undergoing previous modifi cation, it
is the province of legislators to ascertain these causes, and to remove them as
far as possible. . . . Indeed, experience proves as clearly as possible the truth
of this opinion, which at fi rst may appear paradoxical, viz., that society prepares
crime, and the guilty are only the instruments by which it is executed. Hence
it happens that the unfortunate person who loses his head on the scaffold,
or who ends his life in prison, is in some manner an expiatory victim for
the society. His crime is the result of the circumstances in which he is found
placed.

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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

important read

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Sometimes I think about how Michael Gove was able to dismiss the Tories £ 10 billion PPE waste & industrial scale corruption as an ‘ honest ‘ error & UK media said ‘ Oh that sounds credible ‘ 🙄 & the story disappeared after 2 days .

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026

They keep trying to make "correlation is cognition" happen. Through asserting: 1️⃣ models with only correlationist powers (data and correlations over that data) work well & 2️⃣ our own cognitive powers are no different to these machines, which can only rehash the past. @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social 1/

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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

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Paul Roberts @paulrobertsnhs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This story wasn’t only wrong it was utterly wrong. As someone who worked with the care sector I was shocked when I read it and thought “it can’t be correct, but it’s official statistics….”. The Tories and Reform made much of this disinformation and now need to correct their misleading commentary!

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 26/07/2026

Is welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 11.1 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 1.1 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen by 0.9 per cent of GDP since 2012-13 ⤵️

chart showing Social security spending as a proportion of GDP, by category: GB

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Ming Ho @minghowriter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Petition: Ban on sale of disposable BBQs Disposable BBQs are increasingly linked to preventable wildfires, which poses a serious risk to public safety & wildlife. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

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Petition: Ban on sale of disposable BBQs

We want the Government to introduce a nationwide ban on the sale of single-use disposable barbecues. Disposable BBQs are increasingly linked to preventable wildfires, which poses a serious risk to pu...

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Casually threatening mass rapes

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This is a serious issue. Data is infrastructure - essential for modern life, largely behind the scenes, and very visible if it fails (like clean water, electricity, etc). It's generation and use involve lots of trade offs and require someone with expertise and accountability to make them.

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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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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

NO! It's going to keep getting hotter year-on-year, decade-by-decade Until we stop pumping out greenhouse gases and positive feedback loops and tipped tipping points have finished with us And the temperature will stay elevated for many thousands of years www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

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Europe battles record-breaking heat: is this the new normal? - The Latest

Europe is dealing with a debilitating heatwave, with schools closed, trains cancelled and France holding an emergency meeting after heat-related deaths. Lucy Hough speaks to Europe environment corresp...

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Madison @madison8.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Touch a piece of detached reflecting pool liner and trump will send you to jail. Touch a 13-year old and trump will hire you to work with his administration.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

"Iran First!" - MAGA

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A reminder of level of understanding of world among the American public. Yet, while I can understand some may have trouble talking about Tuvalu, Burundi, or Surinam (selected at random), this ignorance is staggering. The last thing these rioters want is to be Irish. www.cfr.org/reports/us-a...

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U.S. Adults’ Knowledge About the World | Council on Foreign Relations

A new survey commissioned from Gallup by the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Geographic Society explores American adults’ knowledge about geography and world affairs.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

We set immigration policy trying to reflect the views of people who understand the least about what's actually going on www.economist.com/britain/2026... It's the opposite of leadership! And not what representative democracy should be about

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