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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 32s
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Gary Oldman Eats with Chopsticks in Slow Horses
ALT: Gary Oldman Eats with Chopsticks in Slow Horses
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Punished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyou.bsky.social · 3h
just checking on the most normal terror investigation
Trump 'disappointed' UK police released 'bomb plot' suspects on bail - as it emerges one of five arrested called police on himself
It has now emerged that one of the suspects had called the police around an hour before the farmer had reported their activity on Sunday.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 1h
N.B The government minister who negotiated the deal on behalf of Hungary is now under investigation over alleged misuse of public funds during his time leading the department, adding further significance to questions about the nature of the partnership and the lack of scrutiny it has received.
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Katharine Kite @katharinekite.bsky.social · 3h
This is really, REALLY good 🎯 In that it’s horrifying - racism, corruption, toadying sycophancy Such unworthy shisters. Grifters. Greedy turds. An absolute cornucopia of cuntery Essential reading - thank goodness & Alleluia! for @samanthaasumadu.substack.com
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 5h
Times Higher Education who published at least six articles about the late Professor Jason Arday signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán’s government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around Cambridge academic James Orr whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 6h
@cahirokane.bsky.social Published today bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundatio...
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 8h
I investigated whether Times Higher Education's commercial partnership with the Hungarian government has influenced its editorial decisions. Read @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundatio...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10h
🔴 NEW Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations By Samantha Asumadu Read below. ↓
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 9h
Cambridge University welcomes Reform, Palantir, and a ‘race realist’ communist.red/cambridge-un...
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Cambridge University welcomes Reform, Palantir, and a ‘race realist’ | The Communist
Less than a month after Jason Arday’s death, Cambridge University was mired in another scandal. The former head of policy for Reform, James Orr, is using the University to recruit students. But we can...
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13h
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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merritt @merrittk.com · 18h
on june 1 2008 it became illegal to drink in the london underground. on may 31, thousands of people descended on the Circle line for one last night of utter depravity. this being 2008, there were of course guys in V for Vendetta masks
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You’d never know that the vast majority of crime in this country is perpetrated by cis white straight men
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 29/09/2026
That is not good.
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Yash Jain @earanyash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Intercept reports an AI-linked military incident nearly sparked a war between the US and China. It barely made a ripple next to all the hypothetical AI doomsday chatter. A real near miss like that deserves more attention than the imagined ones.
AI nearly triggered a war between the US and China. The Intercept says an AI-linked military incident almost caused a war between the US and China, but it's been overshadowed by hypothetical doomsday talk.
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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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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mahmood on "earned settlement": deliberately bland. No explanation of why punishing workers who have been here legally for 5+ years with ongoing insecurity (and in many cases kicking them out of the country) would be "fair" to British workers "and the young".
As we restore control and fairness to our asylum system. We must do the same for legal migration too: Fair to those who seek a new and better life here, like my parents did. And fair to those already here, including British workers, and especially the young.

That same principle underpins my reforms to the right to live here indefinitely. Ensuring settled status is earned by those who have shown a consistent commitment to this country.

I know that, throughout our consultation process some have said elements of these reforms are not fair.

And to that, let me say this: we will come to a position that balances fairness for those who came here legally and fairness to British citizens across this country.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rare opportunity to invest in no future.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 29/09/2026
ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, the three leading artificial intelligence assistants, were asked to recommend the best conveyancing solicitor in Doncaster. They all came up with a firm that was ordered by the Solicitors Regulation Authority last year to pay a penalty of £23,549,
Need a good lawyer?

Consumers who ask an AI assistant to recommend a solicitor risk being directed to firms that have been fined by their regulator or even shut down, a report says today. The research was carried out under controlled conditions by Blind Justice UK, a small charity that seeks to improve access to justice
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 28/09/2026
Kind of loving this. Apparently a line in the Super girl film.
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am once again pointing out that when politicians say they want less people to go to university or more people to work in a factory, they never mean their own kids.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This man is one of the biggest complete and utter scumbags out there
recent Google Maps view of Gaza showing that all the buildings have been flattened and there is no evidence of green. It is all dust.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 28/09/2026
I love that the press department of every government ministry use the same deflect and delay tactics. "Please can I speak to so and so, I spoke to them on Friday..." "That person is on holiday.. "👍🏿 I'd love to be a fly on the wall when the press teams do their training 🤭
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is *not* the result of "the success of Mahmood's reforms", but of earlier measures/other factors. Her proposals could make it considerably *worse* in future years. A few other points linked below.. archive.ph/0psJ8
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 significantly 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 seen net migration cut to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn. 

Labour sources familiar with the budget process, however, said that the figure was now closer to £6.5bn. The OBR’s migration forecasts have been consistently higher than real numbers in recent years.

Treasury officials, who have long expected Mahmood’s reforms to cause a hit to headroom, described the number as “pure speculation” but did not deny that Healey would have to contend with a larger funding gap than expected because of falling migration
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 28/09/2026
Boston Globe: A fin­ance scan­dal in Bri­tain’s right-wing Reform UK party has put scru­tiny on Cam­bridge theo­lo­gian James Orr, a former adviser to the party who has been the sub­ject of stu­dent com­plaints, accord­ing to the Fin­an­cial Times. www.pressreader.com/usa/the-bost...
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 27/09/2026
Ten new appointments to the High Court of England and Wales rozenberg.substack.com/p/new-judges...
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Nancy D. Murden @nancydmurden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn t been written yet, then you must write it." - Toni Morrison .
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The problem has been the growth of opinion columns. Newspapers used to have one page of opinion. Now it’s an ecosystem
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 27/09/2026
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Women are NOT safe around men.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 26/09/2026
My book pile is looking somewhat conspiratorial 🥴😆😭🤭
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 26/09/2026
@marcusjdl.bsky.social @anilsghost.bsky.social 🫶🏿
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 26/09/2026
Some great vintage pieces you can pick up on eBay too
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 26/09/2026
I occasionally get these very lovely messages or emails from writers who we published @writersofcolour.bsky.social and am touched every time! It was a special time, gone too soon. What a nice thing to see today 🫶🏿
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 26/09/2026
I would, I guess, if I really had to, die on this hill.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 26/09/2026
'According to a recent National Police Chiefs’ Council report, violence against women and girls now adds up to twenty percent of all crime and is seen by police as a national emergency.' I wish the left would recognise VAWG as the serious issue it is. anticapitalistresistance.org/violence-aga...
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Violence against women and girls: the gigantic bull elephant in the room
According to a recent National Police Chiefs’ Council report, violence against women and girls (VAWG) now adds up to twenty percent of all crime and is seen by police as a national emergency. In resp...
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 26/09/2026
"The devil works hard but the far-right works harder ." open.substack.com/pub/melissas...
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For your morning commute - Live with Melissa Sigodo & Samantha Asumadu.
Watch or listen | “The devil works hard but the far-right works harder”
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 26/09/2026
'Although James Orr, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University, was publicly touted as the man who would devise the high-minded intellectual framework for a Reform government, his actual role appears to have been far less high-minded.' open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
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Money Talks
Adam Bienkov explores what the downfall of Reform senior advisor James Orr means for the future viability of the Nigel Farage project
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 26/09/2026
He's obviously of the group that does or is used to having people around who will drink alcohol til they blackout but decry drugs as some sort of incomparable evil. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham rejects drugs decriminalisation after Swinney backs it
Scotland's first minister had called for the move as part of measures to tackle the drugs deaths crisis, but the prime minister said he did not support it.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 26/09/2026
Link to listen to my podcast on every platform imaginable. Very cool! pod.link/1766993766
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On the Rack
Listen to On the Rack wherever you get your podcasts!
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Punished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyou.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Damn I thought it was just cancelled because of weather
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
People will shrug about this because that’s the premise of every political party conference. *But* that is also blatant corruption. Witness all the credulous stories about big business shifting to Labour’s conference when they were locked on for a general election win.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 25/09/2026
Northern Ireland journalist subject to unlawful communications surveillance seeks damages from police in Northern Ireland in high court claim for data protection breaches and harassment www.computerweekly.com/news/3666512...
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Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance | Computer Weekly
An investigative journalist has filed a high court claim against the Police Service of Northern Ireland after police unlawfully obtained communications data in a covert attempt to identify a confident...
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 25/09/2026
I very rarely go on podcasts to be interviewed, or speak publicly at all since the late 2010s, however this was a pleasure to do, and support a black owned and run publication, that is finding innovative ways to get unfiltered but rigorously examined news to the public.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 25/09/2026
It's starting to sound hollow when people say that Britain is in a dark place.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 25/09/2026
Andor should be higher.
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