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Together Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

1️⃣ week to go! This time next week, hundreds from across the country will come together at Organise Together in Manchester. To help plan, organise and build together against the far right in local communities across the country.

Call-to-action poster urging a rally against the far right, reading "Organise Together" with arrows, "1 week to go" and "Against the Far Right," with location "Manchester" and date "17 October."

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Sarah Ba @sarahbia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh Avanti I'm so glad your trains are being nationalised. Shouldn't have to leave early for a trip of less than 2 hours and then still potentially be late.

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Sarah Ba @sarahbia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

James Blunt your theory is ridiculous #CelebrityTraitors

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reading the news, it would be easy to believe that the Green Party has adopted a policy to expel its Jewish members, prevent them from attending synagogue or at the very least scrutinise their activities outside the party. *None of that has happened* 🧵

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026

Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊

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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain

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Sarah Ba @sarahbia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Do you have more teeth than a normal person?" 😲 #CelebrityTraitors

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 02/10/2026

Hey, Suella, leave them kids alone. A school's job is educate children, not force them into religious worship. Keep Christian Nationalism OUT of assemblies, classrooms, and the curriculum. Agree? Sign our petition today 👇 humanists.uk/action/keep-...

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Keep Christian Nationalism out of our schools

Reform UK wants to force every school to sing Christian hymns – and says there will be ‘consequences’ for schools that refuse. Add your name and help us defend inclusive education. Reform UK has unvei...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"It is hard enough to be a carer for your own loved ones. The tenderness I dispensed to my mother, came from a battery she had charged with five decades of love. Being able to muster the energy and patience it takes to care for a complete stranger... Well, it's magical. It's a sort of superpower."

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now this is what take back control looks like. And Manchester has created a data and logistics health stack that doesn't rely on Palantir and superior to it. No reason why this can't happen across all UK public services. For security. And frankly decency. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Andy Burnham searches for UK alternative to Palantir

Prime minister’s ‘buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reform's vision for the UK is a miserly, bitter, angry, backwards looking, insular little hell hole, where you never have to smell spices or hear another language and everyone's constantly suspicious that their neighbours might be getting more than they are. While the rich get richer then ever

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Joel Budd @joelbudd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My piece on the fraught subject of asylum housing. I pull the unusual move of asking current and recent asylum-seekers about their experiences. www.economist.com/britain/2026...

economist.com

By housing asylum-seekers so badly, Britain is harming itself

Most will become citizens in time

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The insidious nature of PFAS pollution - people who've only ever tried to do the best for their family's health realising something harmful has crept in. ITV News covered the tests we ran on PFAS levels in people's blood in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire: www.itv.com/news/2026-09...

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If people spending taxpayers money on alcohol is such an undeniable problem, I assume they also plan to permanently close the House of Commons bar?

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 24/09/2026

“Legitimate concerns”

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I shot the security guard dead and then held everyone at gunpoint while robbing their life savings all the while yelling STOP THE BOATS and PROTECT WOMEN WHO AREN'T MY WIFE. everyone cheered

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

These groups need to be proscribed as terrorists, and these individuals all arrested and tried as such (and for attempted murder and attempting to interfere with maritime rescue).

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you've got a child calling for people to drown I'd suggest that might be a matter for social services. Clearly that child has been radicalised

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The fact that many of the people on UC are also working is not mentioned until way, way down in this Times story. Same for the detail that lots of previous benefits have been phased out and rolled into UC. But above all, the TPA is a pressure group funded by people who avoid and evade tax.

One in five adults are on universal credit
More than seven million people are claiming the UK's main benefit, including a million people in their twenties, Taxpayers' Alliance research says
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Daisy Eastlake, Political Reporter
Monday September 21 2026, 7.00pm, The Times

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Sarah Ba @sarahbia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Family fundraising to pay for specialist treatment and care for 6 year old diagnosed with MND. via BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Fight for six year old's life after juvenile MND diagnosis

The six-year-old is believed by doctors to be the youngest UK patient with juvenile ALS.

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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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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks

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Sarah Ba @sarahbia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I hope the 'shambolic' plans for LGR have been paused indefinitely. New councils would be less representative of the people they serve, at least in areas such as Lancashire, where parties popular in places like Lancaster (the Greens) would likely be wiped out in larger authorities.

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Thank goodness Labour’s ‘shambolic’ plan to reorganise local councils has been paused. What was it thinking? | Polly Toynbee

This misconceived Treasury pet project may have been foisted on the government, but it would have added to voters’ mistrust in politics, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/09/2026

The disease stuff is getting particularly irritating because so far it's delivered far less than expected on that front, even in the areas credible experts were quite hopeful for, like protein folding etc. So the "five years" stuff here increasingly feels like an Elon promise.

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Sarah Ba @sarahbia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lancashire Lead exclusive: Withheld report says Reform UK-led Lancashire County Council open to financial, legal and reputational risks in decision to withdraw from refugee resettlement scheme share.google/996Oq8w0zaTJ...

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Exclusive: Withheld report says Lancashire County Council open to financial, legal and reputational risks in refugee decision

The report states that the risk can be mitigated against - though not removed completely - through a properly managed transition

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I (1) dread to think how much staff time across central and local government this has swallowed up (2) wonder how much political capital has been burned & (3) for the life of me, simply do understand why local government reorganisation was ever a first term priority given everything else.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Must just be a coincidence that two of Reform's main donors have been convicted of money laundering related offences (Delo and George Cottrell).

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Good thing we never put that cap on donations which might have hurt the trade union movement

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is outrageous in and of itself. It's also outrageous that the government isn't doing anything about it. There's a constant political refrain that 'the first duty of government is to protect its citizens'. So do it.

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Sarah Ba @sarahbia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm in favour of assisted dying but not through a Private Members' Bill. We need a fully functioning NHS, access to good palliative and social care, and proper safeguards in place to protect disabled people before assisted dying is introduced.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

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Sarah Ba @sarahbia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm glad United Utilities have been fined for discharging sewage along the Lancashire coast, but £1m seems like a drop in the bucket for a company with pre-tax profits of £355m. Their CEO Louise Beardmore received more than £2.5 million in the 2025/26 financial year.

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United Utilities fined nearly £1m after discharging raw sewage along Lancashire coast

Seaside communities and businesses were affected significantly by the contamination in June 2023

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Since taking control of St Helens Council in May, Reform have: - Pulled support and funding for Refugee Week events - Pulled support and funding for Pride events - Scrapped a scheme to help families with school uniform costs

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Reform leader defends decision to scrap lifeline uniform payment for families

Parents had been expecting a £50 voucher to help with the cost of uniforms before Reform took control of their local council

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026

Make a donation to the RNLI: rnli.org/support-us/g...

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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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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Time to make another extra little donation to the amazing RNLI and demonstrate we support them, not the Faragists and Tommy Ten Names nasties Link here: every £5 counts! 🙏 rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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