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Rory Jiwani

@roryjiwani.bsky.social
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Tofu-eating member of #BigWoke. Sports media type otherwise. Briton in Madrid.

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Rory Jiwani @roryjiwani.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bloody hell, Brazil. Please do the right thing in the second round.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Austerity 2.0 is it chaps? I’m always amazed at how these guys derive genuine excitement at the idea of slashing public services
theguardian.com
Tories plan to extend cuts beyond £47bn previously pledged, leak reveals
Exclusive: Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith told party members last year he had discussed making further savings if they win next election
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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A plea to all you wonderful folks who are thinking to adopt (not buy) a dog or cat… The shelters are FILLED with animals who’ve been surrendered. Yesterday they had a bed and a family and now they are confused and terrified through no fault of their own. Consider giving them a next chapter.
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Rory Jiwani @roryjiwani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jude Bellingham is the best England player I've seen and it's not even close.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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Rory Jiwani @roryjiwani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When did "English ethnicity" become a thing people were bothered about?
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
growinguptransgender.com
Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 30/09/2026
This is the person who first hacked and released all the documents that lead to Manchester City being found guilty of perhaps the biggest case of cheating in football on the planet bsky.app/profile/annb...
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Ann Buckley @annbuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Timing purely coincidental no doubt
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Ann Buckley @annbuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rui Pinto will no longer be a protected witness under Portuguese authorities. This is getting dark, quickly
publico.pt
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Ann Buckley @annbuckley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Guardian confirms report from Portugal
theguardian.com
Manchester City whistleblower Rui Pinto no longer a protected witness in Portugal
Pinto’s work provided information concerning Manchester City’s finances and he called the decision on their charges ‘historic for English football’
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Rory Jiwani @roryjiwani.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He's almost as insane as Trump.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
Senator Eric Schmitt is a fucking clown. He didn’t just ask Jack Smith if he was in Atlanta; he did a whole ass posterboard presentation trying to play gotcha, and it backfired because he doesn’t know how to fact-check. Missouri, do better!
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😳 Pep before cheats verdict: “If you lie to me, the day after I am not here. I will be out and I will not be your friend anymore.” Pep after verdict: “I am, always have been, always will, be behind my club, my owner, my chairman, Ferran, the players staff, Enzo and you, our unique supporters.”
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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mic drop moment at our event on the sidelines of #labconf26 in Liverpool, when @labourlewis.bsky.social revealed a letter from Tom Watson showing Palantir has tracked his mentioning them nearly 130 times. Is there anything Palantir doesn’t want to know about us?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)
photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Come on down to the Council House for International Day of Birmingham, see the Re-Union Jack ♥️ #OneBrum Goldship have repurposed dozens of dirty & torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts to create a huge Union Jack, adorned with the names of people who have called Birmingham home
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GOLDSHIP Re-Union Jack 2026

Repurposed polyester flags/Mixed media.

Re-Union Jack is an ongoing community art project conceived by GoldShip, the creative duo of textile sculptor Clare Elisabeth and event producer Sam Shipman.

Repurposing dozens of dirty and torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts, Clare and Sam, alongside countless contributors from the wider community, pieced them together to create a huge Union Jack.

The flag was then transformed over several months by countless more contributors into a visual celebration of the people and stories that have helped shape the West Midlands. Across its surface are the names of influential Midlanders, spanning from the Anglo-Saxon Beorma, after whom Birmingham takes its name, through to the present day. Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.

Together, these names reflect the region's extraordinary history as a vibrant melting pot of cultures, ideas, talent and communities - and the positive contribution that migration has made to its identity.

The flag has since been signed in black by many of the people whose names feature upon it as a collective endorsement of its message of unity, inclusion and community.Photo of huge Union (Jack) Flag on lighting truss in the hall of the Council House. 
It's glorious and bears many names upon it of the people of Birmingham 
Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mother Nature Krafts A Happy Ending
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump gave a bigly ballyhooed address to the nation about how China stole the 2020 election two months ago and everyone including him immediately forgot about it.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It really does look like the poster for a horror movie, doesn’t it?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You have to get a very long way through this BBC report before you learn which party runs the council which took the decision to close all these nurseries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
South Tyneside Council nursery closures decision 'devastating'
Councillors confirm that all 10 Stanley's nurseries in South Tyneside will close by July 2027.
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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 25/09/2026
Delighted to announce we’re the Official Shirt Sponsor for Manchester City’s 27/28 Enterprise National League North campaign.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thank God Reform is standing up for masked, knife-wielding, ex-cons. Society's most marginalised group.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
85% of rapes are perpetrated by men known to the victim. We are not "protecting women" by pretending the asylum seekers are the threat. Women are no more or less in danger from an asylum seeker than they are from their boss, the Tesco delivery man, or the pub landlord. 10/
A bar graph shows the relationship of sexual assault victims to their perpetrators, comparing data between males and females in England and Wales.
43.2% of perpetrators are the partner or ex-partner of the victim. 37.8% of perpetrators are someone known to the victim other than a partner or family member and only 15% were assaulted by a stranger.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This has given me an idea BUILD THE NEW HUB AIRPORT IN PIDDINGTON
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump makes big promises while his incompetence delivers misery. bsky.app/profile/ronf...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another brilliant Trump endorsement.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Keep going you despicable fool. The more you align with far-right extremists the less chance of you ever achieving power
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Spyro the Antifascist Dragon @antifaspyro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you oppose sanctions on West Bank settlements, which the UN has said for decades are in violation of international law, in what sense do you oppose the violent dispossession of Palestinians?!
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Spyro the Antifascist Dragon @antifaspyro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a perfectly reasonable take, and I don't think anyone can in good faith anymore deny that the Israeli state is practicing genocide and apartheid.
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
still sort of struggling to believe that amidst everything else going on, Andy Burnham popped up this week to say we should bring back drinking in stands at football.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've stopped using Booking dot com and the other travel platforms for this reason They are rife with scammers and the platforms are often incredibly slow to act, if at all Booking dot com's own 'AI trip planner' was also shown to give flat out wrong information What are we doing?
bbc.co.uk
Scam booking sent Loughborough family to Wetherspoon pub near Tower Bridge
Which? says staff are turning away up to 20 tourists a day after scammers used the pub's address.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lisa Nandy has never attended the Proms as Culture Secretary btw.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1/That didn’t take long: Judge Kelly enters a 14-day temp injunction based only on due process. CNN, MSNOW & Politico get their hard passes back while briefing for a prelim injunc happens. No stay of the order b/c it’s likely not appealable the Judge says. joycevance.substack.com/p/king-trump...
joycevance.substack.com
King Trump: Privileges, Not Rights
It’s all about whether the press can criticize the president
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 24/09/2026
Bloody French, saying what we're all thinking ...
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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God they just fucking love that passive voice don't they? WHO SLASHED THE FUCKING DINGHY AMELIA AND DIANE?
theguardian.com
Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:

TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...

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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]

TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created. 

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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...

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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash. 

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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?

TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns 

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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...

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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?

TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats

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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?

TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them

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[we see one of the boats  is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.

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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.

[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING 

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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone 

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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!

[They all leave the museum]

[ends]
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Arrest and prosecute “Danny Tommo” or lose the country to the Fascists. That’s the choice here
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Rory Jiwani @roryjiwani.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Even for us long-term supporters of the BBC, this is just too much. BBC News needs a complete overhaul.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just to be clear, I really want Burnham to succeed. And by succeeding, I don’t mean winning the election - he’ll probably do that, as Farage is a charlatan and being found out, and Badenoch is an idiot - I mean changing the UK’s path away from racism, extremism and negativity. I just see no signs.
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
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