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Sarah Patey

@sarahjop.bsky.social
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Copy-editor, translator, Europhile. Editorial team for East Anglia Bylines. Member of Keswick Hall Choir. Guide at Norwich Cathedral. Owner/manager at Heathfield Student Community Home in Norwich.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 09/04/2026
The Broads could once again echo with pelican beaks. Rewilding could make it happen. But why did they disappear in the first place?
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‘Dishevelled’ immigrants – with a wingspan of 3 metres?
Pelicans were once native to Norfolk, but humans pushed them out – will we now welcome them back?
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Sarah Patey @sarahjop.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
@quietriotpod.bsky.social Has anyone pointed out to you yet that bread is woke? www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 05/03/2026
Governments should face scrutiny. But if the headlines say “humiliation” and “fresh concerns” week after week, that's the story voters absorb. What role is the BBC playing in framing the political narrative? @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social @docrussjackson.bsky.social
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Is the BBC biased against Keir Starmer?
Polls suggest that people think that this government, and Keir Starmer, are in permanent crisis. Is that because the BBC told us this?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Amidst all the misery, some really great news.
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Nations Ratify High Seas Treaty, Setting Stage for Greater Ocean Protection | Oceana
Oceana’s Chief Scientist Dr. Katie Matthews says, “For the first time, we have the legal foundation to safeguard marine diversity in waters that belong to everyone and no one at the same time. What ma...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 06/06/2025
🕊️ 50 years ago, Britain chose Europe. The 1975 referendum showed that hope, not fear, can win. We can choose it again. ⤵️
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What can the 1975 referendum teach us 50 years on?
Fifty years after Britain’s first Europe referendum, its lessons still echo through today’s political and cultural landscape
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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I had a simple question: Has President Trump increased has net worth since taking the White House? And if so, by how much? The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months. Here's how:
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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This sentence feels so taboo. It's liberating to hear it said. 'The future goal of British policy cannot forever be to satisfy the purported and unstated motivations behind a decade-old referendum result.' mailings.cer.eu/insights/eur...
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On Europe, Labour should reconsider its 'red chains'
Labour’s reset with the EU will fail to deliver a significant boost to economic growth. A fundamental refashioning of the EU-UK relationship would require Labour to think again about freedom of moveme...
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 16/05/2025
They found a forgotten photo album from WWI in a Norwich attic. This emotional gift linked past to present during a heartfelt twinning cultural exchange in Rouen. Discover the story behind the century-old images and their journey home | Sarah Patey @eastangliabylines.co.uk @sarahjop.bsky.social
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Norwich in Rouen, 2025: art, music and memories
Norwich and Rouen deepen ties of friendship during a vibrant 2025 exchange trip full of fun and culture
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Neither Labour nor the Conservatives use First Past the Post for their own elections (at least until they reach the final two). They rightly feel that it would be ridiculous to have a leader supported by only 23-24% of the party. Yet they insist on this nonsense for mayoral elections.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 27/04/2025
Politics isn’t just scandal and shouting matches. Most of it is slow, technical, and absolutely vital – like making sure our laws actually work. Here's what the government’s been quietly up to. Stephen McNair reports.
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Nine months in power: how does Labour’s legislative plan look?
Since the election, the government has been busy making new laws, but most people have not noticed. So, here’s a roundup of progress.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“Half of antidepressant users see no benefit. Relapse rates hit 80% after ceasing medication. A new generation of treatments is on the horizon – led by the work of Dr Ayla Selamoglu at Cambridge University.” Psychedelic medicine, explained 👇
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The promise of psychedelic medicine
Nature’s strangest compounds may hold the key to treating mental illness where conventional drugs have failed
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Richard Barfield @richardbarfield.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Removing trade barriers with the EU should be the UK priority.
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Simon Pease @simonpease.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
And not one single mention of the largest trading partner sitting on our doorstep with whom it would be easy to increase trade. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What can Keir Starmer do in a world buffeted by Donald Trump?
The government is leaning into this moment of turbulence but can it make a difference.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Manuela Perteghella MP writes… Children with autism, especially girls, are too often overlooked and misunderstood. It's time for a system that recognises and supports their needs.
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Children with autism: gently helping to lift the mask
Children with autism, especially girls, are too often overlooked and misunderstood. It's time for a system that recognises and supports their needs
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Absolutely amazing that a 10-year-old wrote this!! Good for her, it's absolutely lovely. ❤️ Do have a quick read. 👇
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Different, not less: my life as a 10-year-old with autism
People judge me for being different, but autism helps me achieve amazing things – including publishing books and writing articles
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"To me the world can look scary. Like for example going to the supermarket. There are lots of people in there, loud noises, bright lights and not knowing what is around the next aisle. It can make me have a sensory overload, and causes me to have a meltdown." She's 10 - and wrote this. Respect.
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Different, not less: my life as a 10-year-old with autism
People judge me for being different, but autism helps me achieve amazing things – including publishing books and writing articles
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 02/04/2025
We bring you this fantastic article from @northwestbylines.co.uk World Autism Awareness Day is 2 April, and we explore what autism is and how understanding of the condition has improved over the years #AutismAcceptance northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
Meme with a white box on the left hand side inside the box is a rainbow coloured infinity sign and underneath that reads "Autism Acceptance Month" on the right hand side of the meme is a black box with text that reads "Bylines Network - proudly telling citizen stories of autism.
Journalism by the people for the people.
help us do more" with a QR code to the right and a link to https://chuffed.org/project/bylinesnetwork
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 29/03/2025
The welfare reforms included in Rachel Reeves’ spring statement have caused anguish among disabled people, charities & the Labour Party. Prof @richardjmurphy.bsky.social has identified 30 simple changes to the tax system. Just one of them could raise sums needed without breaking Labour’s promises.
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There are better ways for Rachel Reeves to find the money she needs
Richard Murphy’s proposals for simple, rapid tax reforms could easily raise the money Rachel Reeves needs, without penalising the poor
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Stephen Lockyer @mrlockyer.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Fascinating graph that I’ve never seen before - govt spending vs tax for age groups from the FT
Britain’s tax and spend dilemma

Some excellent graphical analysis from the FT as part of the wider conundrum facing the country with a rapidly growing ageing population.

Accompanying the news that “the UK’s public debt burden has surged faster than that of any other big advanced economy since the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic, helping drive up interest payments and limiting the country’s capacity to spend more on defence and care for an ageing population”.

As of last year, more tax revenue was spent on servicing government debt than on education.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I agree, I do really think the seemingly most painful way of reset is long-term the optimal one for the UK, ie rejoin as full members. I set out some of the obstacles for doing so in this @eastangliabylines.co.uk piece: eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/... but I think it is still the right move.
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UK can’t ‘re-join’ the EU. We have to start from scratch
Psychologically and legally, we have to accept we have no special way back in. But with realism and political will, it's not impossible
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Sarah Patey @sarahjop.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
@alicemlabour.bsky.social
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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Sarah Patey @sarahjop.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Why is the government obsessed with benefit fraud?
The government continues to pursue benefit fraud while ignoring tax fraud. Yet the latter is far larger. Why?
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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
An excellent resource
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
@privateeyenews.bsky.social on top form as usual this issue.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Cartoon by successpictures.
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ArdennenBob 🇪🇺 @ardennenbob.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Banksy did it again.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 27/02/2025
“Let me give you a news flash: it is highly doubtful that the Supreme Court is going to defend Democracy.” An American writes about what is really happening in his country. @guyanthonyayres.bsky.social with an urgent and moving message.
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America’s growing darkness: a timely warning to the UK
Living amidst chaos in the US, I fear a creeping regime reminiscent of 1930s Germany. Project 2025 echoes a history threatening democracy
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Libraries are vanishing – but Essex fought back. Now, they're evolving into vibrant community hubs for the 21st century. There have been 800 library closures nationally since 2010 – nearly a fifth of the total. In Essex, however, vigorous public campaigning stopped it. ❤️🙌
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How to save libraries and what to do with them next
Libraries are vanishing – but Essex fought back. Now, they're evolving into vibrant community hubs for the 21st century
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 26/02/2025
Why does it feel as if our shared reality is under assault – twisted by propaganda, ideology and manufactured doubt? | Guy Chapman eastangliabylines.co.uk/opinion/the-...
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The new war on reality: how ‘truth’ became a weapon
Why does it feel as if our shared reality is under assault – twisted by propaganda, ideology and manufactured doubt?
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
On the streets of Brussels I encountered numerous little plaques in front of doorways. They commemorate the Jewish families who were taken from their homes and murdered by Nazis. Never forget no matter how many lies Elon Musk tells.
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Tom Baldwin @tombaldwin66.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I doubt any Troll here who’s trying to smear ⁦Keir Starmer about decade-old events will be interested to read these pages from my book about his record prosecuting rape gangs. But he’s done more to bring them to justice than Farage, Yaxley-Lennon - or Musk -will ever do.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
A “youth mobility” deal is merely one of 13 recommendations from a BCC report on how to fix the TCA. Agreed by both sides in December 2020 when Britain left the EU, it has led more than 16,000 small biz to quit trade with the bloc entirely, according to recent research by @cep-lse.bsky.social. /3
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Sarah Patey @sarahjop.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Ah, thank you. Saw it and wondered.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 03/01/2025
Messing about on the river can bring moments of sheer joy and surprise as @liamcalvert.bsky.social found out...
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My remarkable canoe ride with a hitch-hiking kestrel
A peaceful canoe trip through Norwich turned into a magical experience when a bedraggled kestrel hitched a ride, sunning itself on board!
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Sarah Patey @sarahjop.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Myth, music and mystery: going to church at Christmas eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/cu... A lyrical piece in praise of Christmas.
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Myth, music and mystery: going to church at Christmas
Myth and music are two ways we try to understand things beyond rational thought. And Christmas brings them together
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Sarah Patey @sarahjop.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I did it. I just deleted my Twitx account. Feels good.
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YolyH @yolyh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
At last an article about immigration that quotes the facts and figures without some political bias
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🇬🇧 farmers are desperate to be set free of the red tape gumming up trade with our biggest market I told the Indy. Brexit has delivered all pain with no gain for exporters and importers. 1/3 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Brexit hits UK food exports by £3bn as Starmer urged to strike deal with Brussels
British food sales to the EU have fallen by almost a fifth since the end of the Brexit transition period, a new report shows
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 25/11/2024
"Having him in the Royal Society seemed such a contradiction of all the values of the Royal Society. And I didn’t really want to have anything to do with it.” Huge respect for Prof Dorothy Bishop, given Musk's avid promotion of vaccine conspiracy theories. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Sarah Patey @sarahjop.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Sarah Patey @sarahjop.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Quite. This is who the loophole closure is aimed at.
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Sarah Patey @sarahjop.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This is a potential good news story. Let's share it far and wide.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Here it is - my takeaways from Trump’s appointments so far. It’s not just “not good”, which most of us expected already. It’s far, far worse. bylinetimes.com/2024/11/14/d...
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Donald Trump's Team of Yes Men and Ideologues Shows There Will be No Guardrails Around His Presidency
The President elect's appointment of a group of fawning and ideologically blinded advisers should worry us all, writes former UK Diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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celinawords.bsky.social @celinawords.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Thank goodness for the @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 19/10/2024
Tax the “52%” - you broke it you bought it
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