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Sarah Wenham

@sarahinilkley.bsky.social
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Lives in Ilkley West Yorkshire , UK. Former sport academic @Sheffield Hallam for 18yrs; Crossed over to Uni of Leeds professional services (employability/careers) Now sits somewhere in the middle trying to bridge the divide

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 21h
In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 26/09/2026
Now *there's* some scripted reality I can get behind. x One where both participant and director can end up freely questioning any scriptedness or bias. Unique, thoughtful, emotional, beautiful, unrepeatable. Anthem For Doomed Boomers. Love song to past TV idealism and life's slow realities. My life.
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Funny sports videos @funnysportvideos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This Kobe and Shaq Moment 🤯
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Sarah Wenham @sarahinilkley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This properly made me laugh
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 31/07/2026
Gonna watch this every morning for the rest of my life
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Sarah Wenham @sarahinilkley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@markcalebdorey.bsky.social Just saw you on BBC News! Shocking what’s happened to you re: wild fires but excellent performance on tv!
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
BREAKING: Big job for Wes Streeting as he becomes Defence Secretary. Also; •Alex Norris as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice •Dame Angela Eagle as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs •Miatta Fahnbulleh as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
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Peter Sloman @pjsloman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Fair play to John Healey, who managed to time his 5.5-week break from government to coincide exactly with the World Cup
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
At the Copa America there's a golden shithouse award.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Spain are undeniable very good but their way of winning is so dull. Like spending a week watching a python digest a sheep.
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Oli @oliaworth96.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Whenever I watch the US Men’s soccer team play, I remind myself the US Women’s soccer team have won their World Cup 4 times and remain the most successful team in tournament history.
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"White students are a minority at 27 universities" isn't a data story. It's a demographic anxiety story dressed up in statistics. The actual data shows white students remain 68% of UK university students nationally. The Telegraph knows this. They published it anyway. 🗞️
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Sarah Wenham @sarahinilkley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
@uonucu.bsky.social do you have an email address?
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Jas 🪶🐻🦉🇺🇸🇨🇦 @itistherealjas.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Another, feel good timeline cleanse, is due! Here you go! Enjoy! Try not to smile, let alone tear up.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“Someone who is rioting doesn’t know that the person they are targeting is actually looking after their mother or their granny” Nor, it seems, do the far right politicians who whip up the rioters with their racism and hate. The harm Farage does is criminal. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘It was so terrifying’: care workers tell of being trapped at home by Belfast mob
Sumayah Nakazibwe and Stella Ariokot feared they would be next as fires took hold of neighbouring houses
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Prof. Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
What other sector could make severance payments to over 28,000 people in 2 years and no one in government even blinks? These are skilled, highly educated people who should be contributing to UK productivity.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It’s so odd that Chris Mason & his colleagues are not inducing a ‘crunch moment’ for Farage. Why is he not obliged to explain how he became an MP pushing cryptocurrency after being given £5 million by a cryptocurrency billionaire? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Another crunch moment for Starmer as he pleads with Labour MPs not to topple him
The prime minister will seek to reset his premiership in a speech on Monday.
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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
my mother has a medical podcast where she self diagnoses her ailments it’s called my voicemail and it happens every morning at 9 am.
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Child Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Today the two-child limit is gone. Parents have told us what this will mean for their kids: - A first-ever birthday party for a 10-year-old - Better quality food - Clothes that aren't completely worn out - Going on the school trip without getting into debt - A new mattress - Swimming lessons
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 26/02/2026
The student loans system is scandalous. Labour have made it worse and allowed the Tories (who built it) an opening because it's the same old story: Lab forgets who its voters are. It doesn't like the coalition it has and hankers for another. New substack from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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Labour has forgotten who its voters are
And that's the real story of student loans
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Fantastic interview. Everyone should read it:
variety.com
John Davidson Gives First Interview and Explains Tourette’s Tics After Shouting N-Word and Other Slurs at BAFTAs: ‘I Felt a Wave of Shame’ (EXCLUSIVE)
John Davidson's explains Tourette's tics and the BAFTA N-word incident in his first exclusive interview with Variety.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.
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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
In his acceptance speech for award for best screenplay, Ryan Coogler said “when you look at a blank page, think of who you love” and I dunno, that really moved me so I wrote it down and sat it on my desk to look at while I work
A whiteboard leaned against a shelf with many trinkets. On the whiteboard, it says “When you look at a blank page, think of who you love”
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse
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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Around the world, politicians and businessmen are resigning from their positions because of the Epstein Files. Except in the United States. Here: Zero shame, zero consequences. We need resignations, investigations, impeachments, and punishments now. Should have been years ago.
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Sarah Wenham @sarahinilkley.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Oh no….😢
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
And I believe him when he says this. Why? Because he's earned my trust. Signed, The Entire Fucking Corporate Media
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Trump rules out using military force to acquire Greenland in Davos speech
President Donald Trump, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said no other country is in a position to defend Greenland but the United States.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
The top half of a cat is concealed behind a gold curtain, its bottom half exposed.
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Sarah Wenham @sarahinilkley.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Yup
Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man (text written on the side of a mug)
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
White men are 30% of the population. They are also: - 98% of presidents - 90% of CEOs - 90% of billionaires - 80% of Congress Forever oppressed.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I’ve been nominated for the FIFA prize for literature, oh wait, I just found out I won. Imaginary prizes are it turns out, very easy to win.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Terrific
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This week on Wonkhe: Amid rising reports of student loneliness, Mack Marshall explores how UK universities are failing to design for connection - and why social isolation is no longer just a pastoral issue but a structural one
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The one where they still don't have any friends
Amid rising reports of student loneliness, Mack Marshall explores how UK universities are failing to design for connection - and why social isolation is no longer just a pastoral issue but a structural...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Honestly, I did NOT have "punching the air and going HELL YES to Chris Patten" on my bingo card today. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly! "How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"
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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#celebritytraitors weirdly turning out to be a strong advertisement for the proposition that if you want to understand complex social dynamics, stop studying history and start playing rugby instead.
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
NEW on Wonkhe: For Elliot Newstead, the implications of changes to high-tariff recruitment behaviour go far beyond student numbers buff.ly/LAE5cwy
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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Join us Wednesday 22nd otber at 8pm BST for #LTHE Chat 340: Embedding Academic Skills in UK Higher Education: Why It Matters with guest @drchrism.bsky.social lthechat.com/2025/10/20/l...
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LTHE Chat 340: Embedding Academic Skills in UK Higher Education: Why It Matters
Join us on Bluesky with guest Dr Chris Martin @drchrism.bsky.social on Wednesday 22nd October 2025 at 20:00 BST When engaging in conversations with academic colleagues, the…
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Sarah Wenham @sarahinilkley.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Wow. Such an emotional reaction from both of them.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 03/10/2025
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
A survey carried out by the Institute of Physics has found that more than a quarter of UK university #physics departments could be shut down within the next couple of years.
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Quarter of UK physics departments face closure, finds IOP report – Physics World
Survey of the heads of UK physics department finds most are expecting to drop courses
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
1. Jimmy Kimmel: “The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can't take a joke. He was somehow able to squeeze Colbert out of CBS...
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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Correlation vs Causation #tylenol #acetaminophen
Did you know that every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying?! 😵
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.
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Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment? The
"suspending indefinitely" of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the Chairman of the FCC's aggressive yet hollow threatening of the Disney Company is yet another example of out-of-control intimidation. Maybe the Constitution should have said, "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, except in one's political or financial self-interest." By-the-way, for the record, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny.
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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
*Unless it is Cameron being replaced by May, May being replaced by Johnson, Johnson being replaced by Truss, or Truss being replaced by Sunak. It is only if Starmer goes. Absolute. Charlton. Hypocrite. Imbecile.
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Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
VERY excited to be joining forces with lovely and brilliant writer @devaneemily.bsky.social to host a writing workshop in our beautiful home town of #Ilkley! Join us on Saturday 8 November for Write Away: a morning of practical writing advice and inspiration 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/write-away...
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Write Away: 3 hours of writing inspiration in Ilkley
Join writers Emily Devane and Andrea Mann for a writing workshop, with practical and inspiring prompts, tips and advice.
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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
You know you’re living in strange times when Last Night of the Proms feels like the least jingoistic thing happening in Britain at the moment.
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