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Jenny Gladstone

@seainthestorm.bsky.social
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Many things - research support, security, disability, neurodivergent, parent carer, SEND crisis, EDI, gardening, embroidery, crochet... Many eclectic things.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 2h
Well said by @lordrickettsp.bsky.social There should have been an extremely serious debate about this even earlier, from the moment the National Security Report came out in 2025 that called for a "whole-of-society“-approach to defense. But no national conversation followed.
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nobel week is here! And in classic fashion it opens with an award three white men from the Global North. Do you think any women or scientists from and based in the Global South will win this year? Don’t hold your breath. Stay tuned…1/n www.nobelprize.org
nobelprize.org
Official homepage of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
you do want to see this
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We committed in 1998 for our children. And we are now back to having to do this again. In 1998, three brothers - Jason (8), Mark (9), and Richard (10) Quinn were killed on the 12th of July as a petrol bomb set their house on fire. The RUC linked the murders to the Garvaghy Road dispute. Today:
A woman holding a sign “for the sake of our children - there is no going back” on the Garvaghy Road, Portadown
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’ll be real with you: the gloss was taken off today’s Great North Run by a very crowded “Raise the Colours” roundabout at around mile 9. My wife and kids had to walk past it to see me. Check this post about the impact those present had on one Black participant: www.instagram.com/reel/DdO3Kt8...
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Emma Kirk-Odunubi 🙋🏽‍♀️ The Voice of Running on Instagram: "Well not how I thought my post would go sharing finishing Great North Run 🙃 As I said aside from being hyper aware of being literally 1 of ...
3,013 likes, 534 comments - emmakirkyo on September 13, 2026: "Well not how I thought my post would go sharing finishing Great North Run 🙃 As I said aside from being hyper aware of being literally 1 ...
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An RNLI lifeboatman is taking part in the Great North Run tomorrow, wearing his full kit. Please donate here if you can: fundraise.rnli.org/fundraisers/...
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James Waters
I'm taking on Great North Run 2026 - please help me reach my fundraising goal of £1000!
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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We need your help. Just 34 days until Tee Jay’s petition to save disabled children’s rights closes. Will you help to get it over 40,000 today by sharing it with charities or professionals who support your child? We have identified 20 rights at risk. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Protect legal right to support for children with SEND
A petition created by a British citizen or UK resident. You can share this petition if you agree with its message.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am bloody proud to be an #RNLI supporter and member! These brilliant men and women have quite enough to cope with without being harassed by the scum of the earth. Their only concern is to help people in danger at sea - not check passports first! Which is how it should be. Please RT if you agree🙏
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FunkisHen @funkishen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This assessment is ghoulish, absolutely vile. "Hey, you can't afford to live and get care? Dying is free!"
Those experts also found that, even when access to assisted dying was restricted to those at the end of life or with a terminal illness, disabled people, older people, and particularly older disabled people, "may feel subtly pressured to end their lives prematurely due to attitudinal barriers as well as the lack of appropriate services and support".

Despite fears that extreme poverty could increase pressure on people to seek an assisted death, as has happened in Canada, the government's equality impact assessment instead concludes that the bill "may have a positive impact on those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds by making assisted dying available without incurring cost".
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Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Crisis is being built into the children's mental health system. Too many people are crying out for help and being turned away. I spoke to 5 Live about why so many young people are ending up in A&E and why suicide rates have been growing. 📻
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.
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Jenny Gladstone @seainthestorm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Horrifying. The young men making these horrendous journeys are trying to help their mothers, their children, their siblings. "Last year, remittances from the diaspora through formal channels alone came to about €746 million, accounting for more than 30 per cent of the country’s GDP"
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You can choose to believe what you like about Jason Arday. But he ran those marathons And he deserves people knowing that. He was failed by the British press. 25/
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
There’s a *lot* of people talking who shouldn’t be talking. They should be listening. But hey, if there’s engagement and a few extra followers to be had, why let that stop you 🤷🏾‍♂️
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Rob Greig @therobgreig.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This isn’t new News, but always good to give these facts fresh ímpetus at a time when it’s difficult to get a hearing for anything that argues for equality for people with learning disabilities.
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People with severe intellectual disabilities live 24 years less on average
Exclusive: Research also finds stark ethnic disparities, and 40% of deaths among group classed as avoidable
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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 17/08/2026
Ranking friendly-looking medieval animals by how much we'd trust them. #MedievalMonday
A medieval illustration of Taurus the Bull from an ancient manuscript. Text on the image reads: "Friendly-looking medieval animals! Ranked by how much we’d trust them."
About:
Taurus the Bull
from
Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 614
Date Statement:
12th century, middle
Place of Origin:
England
Description:
Copies a prototype of 11th century, probably London, B.L., Cotton MS. Tiberius B. V.
Language:
Latin
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Academic gossip fed the media monster and killed Jason Arday in a terrible, preventable, forseeable tragedy katemanne.substack.com/p/gossipy-ac...
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Gossipy Academics Helped Kill Jason Arday
Or, the anatomy of a pile-on
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
There is a GoFundMe. 🙏 This guy leaves a partner and two little kids.
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NeoEonOne @neoeonone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
An American interviewer asked Count Binface where he stands on the political spectrum.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW: The latest reporting on Arron Banks pretends he’s sprung from nowhere. I’m not the one being gaslit here. You are. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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The Invisible Women
We're here. You just can't see us. And that's a problem for you, not us
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
'“Black British academics – like Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Hazel Carby and Isaac Julien – punch way above their weight globally. The idea that this one incident in some way reflects Black British academia in general is bonkers,” one academic said.'
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‘Old racist wine in a new bottle’: Black academics respond to Jason Arday affair
Figures in higher education feel double standards are being used to delegitimise work of minority groups
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David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
'Disability history largely remains a missing part of the UK's story. Understanding it helps explain why contemporary debates often feel so fraught' New article by me in The Conversation theconversation.com/todays-argum...
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Today’s arguments about disability benefits have been raging for 500 years
From Tudor welfare claims to modern PIP assessments, disabled people have long faced suspicion and bureaucracy.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Someone on Whitehall just stopped me to tell me what a good foreign secretary I was. 🤣
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Jenny Gladstone @seainthestorm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Wordle 1,850 6/6 Well, that's disappointing! ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Why do sensible interventions so often fail? Why do small changes sometimes have enormous consequences? Why do organisations keep recreating the same problems? Systems dynamics and control offers some answers. profserious.substack.com/p/10-1-lesso...
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10 (+1) Lessons from Systems Dynamics & Control
... trust me, important!
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Guy De Launey @guydelauney.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Is binning expert correspondents in eastern Europe a good idea at a time like this? Disinformation on the rise, Russia interfering in many countries, threatening several and actually at war with one? Well, BBC News management seems to think so. It's disposing of me and 4 of my colleagues.
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 11/06/2026
Some news: 🇺🇦 Next month I'm driving to Ukraine. 🇺🇦 I'll be delivering an evacuation vehicle, specially modified for saving lives in areas of the highest danger. But that's only possible if I can fundraise enough - £3,500. I'd be so grateful for any support you can give. donorbox.org/johnoxleydu
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Support John's Mission: Buy and Drive an Evacuation Vehicle to Ukraine 🇺🇦 | Driving Ukraine (Powered by Donorbox)
Help John to Drive and Deliver a Life-Saving Evacuation Vehicle to Ukraine 🇺🇦In July 2026 John Oxley will drive 1,318 miles across Europe in 3 days to deliver an evacuation vehicle to Ukraine, where i...
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 10/06/2026
“Someone who is actually rioting doesn’t know that the person they are targeting is actually looking after their mother or their granny,” Nakazibwe said. “Meanwhile, I left my mother back home.”
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
TW: Suicide The death of David Panther is the latest tragedy linked with universal credit. Almost nobody appears to be paying attention to these deaths and the growing evidence of harm, particularly to those with mental distress: #UniversalCredit #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/universal-cr...
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Universal credit migration and the death of David Panther
An autistic circus skills teacher took his own life after becoming increasingly distressed by the bureaucratic chaos caused by his “migration” to universal credit, which led to him facing a new £50…
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 05/06/2026
our neighbours are getting solar panels so the scaffolders showed up last week, and proceeded to install the scaffolding on the wrong house, so they came back today and dismantled it and are now reinstalling it on a different wrong house
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Well, he kept that one quiet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Burnham says he would seek to enter any Labour leadership contest
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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/
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Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. In this article, Mario explains what drowning really looks like and how to recognize it when its happening.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/05/2026
Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The government’s reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities system will violate disabled people’s rights and worsen inequality, according to a leading disabled people’s organisation. #SEND www.disabilitynewsservice.com/send-reforms...
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SEND reforms offer only cuts and dismantling of rights, disabled people’s organisation tells ministers
The government’s reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system will violate disabled people’s rights and worsen inequality, according to a leading disabled people’s organi…
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
NEW | This was very grim. GIRLS IN AFGHANISTAN ARE BEING SOLD; WHY DID THE BBC FOCUS ON THE PAIN OF THE FATHERS DOING THE SELLING? In news, framing can be everything. A BBC report showed the grotesque results of moral relativism. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/girls-in-a...
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Girls in Afghanistan are being sold; why did the BBC focus on the pain of the fathers doing the selling?
In news, framing can be everything. A BBC report showed the grotesque results of moral relativism.
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 16/05/2026
The state of things. A thread 🧵
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 16/05/2026
Introduce PR now in this Parliament. Abandon austerity. Reinstate rights. Labour may still be toast, but at least it would have protected democracy and our rights within it. I doubt this will happen.
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Antonia Cundy @antoniacundy.ft.com · 15/05/2026
In April, Crispin Odey dropped his £79mn #libel claim against us. This is the inside story of how Odey’s battle to reclaim his reputation backfired. It's about the brave women who spoke out against him — and the new allegations the two-year legal saga unearthed. www.ft.com/content/edbe...
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Crispin Odey and the £79mn libel battle that wasn’t
A legal fight revealed the disgraced financier’s thinking — and fresh allegations of misconduct
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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
My dad spent his summer hols during uni working in a pea canning factory in England. The bosses kept calling him "Paddy". He would wearily repeat: My. name. is. John.
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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Bloody hell.
Thread - on Threads - of three posts from someone whose screen name is 'blueskies 1977':

 blueskies1977
 | have been an election agent for the Labour Party for 8 years Yesterday, for
the first time ever, | cried at a count. Was it because we'd lost a lot of seats,
because we had? No. | cried because a very hard working, dedicated, British
born Councillor of Pakistani descent had the word "deport' written next to her
name on a ballot paper with a Reform vote. When the doubtful papers were
shown to candidates and agents, | challenged the Reform agent to disown the
vote and he refused.

 blueskies1977
 | saw a number of other ballot papers with racist, islamophobic and antisemitic
comments. I'm used to the abusive comments about parties and policies on
papers, we tend to have a laugh with them. I'm also used to the many pictures
of penises on ballot papers (you guys are all so original), but | haven't seen so
much hatred written on ballot papers. What are we becoming as a country?
Why do people feel emboldened to put their hatred out there? It's vile.

blueskies 1977
For those commenting that the ballot paper should be rejected, in law it can't be. If a
clear voting intent is shown for the correct number of candidates, it will only be
rejected it there is anything, such as a signature, initials or name, that could identify
the voter or the official mark is defaced or damaged.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 08/05/2026
Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 08/05/2026
Posts shared thousands of times online claim hantavirus is listed as a side effect of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine. This isn’t true. Hantavirus is listed as one of many health conditions monitored during vaccine trials for safety, not a side effect. (1/2) fullfact.org/health/hanta...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Denial is among the most immature and destructive of human traits. Yet it is all around us: Denial of antisemitism Denial of Islamophobia Denial of climate breakdown Denial of democratic breakdown. We should put away childish things and face our monsters.
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A group of bunnies with different fur colors sits on a wooden floor munching on dandelions.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Conference friends: My voice is very loud. Almost certainly louder than yours. I always use the microphone during a conference presentation so that everyone can clearly hear me. And you should too.
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Met Police’s letter to @zackpolanski.bsky.social with the ALT text split across the two images:
Dear Zack.
I was disappointed to have seen your recent post on X amplifying a post that Met officers were
"repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head when he was already incapacitated by taser".
I am disappointed because it is this kind of inaccurate and misinformed commentary - with its associated casual disregard for the incredibly challenging and dangerous work police officers do to protect the public -that is contributing to the rising tensions we are seeing in society and undermines officer confidence to act.
It is entirely possible the author of the post you retweeted had direct experience from the scene, or has years of experience handling complex, violent situation. Yet I suspect the more likely scenario is that they another armchair critic, who thinks they could do the job, possibly more effectively than the brave officers who successfully detained that individual.
Those officers are nothing short of extraordinary. They were on the scene within a few minutes, and their actions undoubtedly prevented further injury and saved lives. As I said yesterday the officers confronted a dangerous man, they believed to be a terrorist, who refused to show his hands, who was violent, and who continued to pose a clear threat. They were not armed officers, and they feared he was concealing an explosive device.
Using only their training, equipment and a substantial level of bravery and courage, they detained him while he continued to try and attack and stab them. Without their efforts to stop him I dread to think what the outcome could have been.
Apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world.

London's Jewish communities are scared. They have experienced a series of targeted attacks on the community, and they expect out officers to act, protect them. That is exactly what our officers did yesterday. Your decision to criticise these officers, using your public profile and reach will have a chilling effect.
Officers
need to know that when they act to protect Londoners decisively, they will be
supported. Officers know they must be accountable for their use of force and there are processes for this to happen. Your use of your public profile to call their actions into question, hours after a terrorist incident is not the appropriate route.
Free speech is an important facet of a democratic society. We both agree on that. But against a backdrop of global instability and heightened tensions, the right approach in this situation is to show compassion, lower tensions and not inflame them further by amplifying more us and them' rhetoric.
We have significantly stepped up our activity across the capital in recent weeks, and in the hours and days following the attack in Golders Green three weeks ago we have seen communities come together to reject hatred and violence.
That solidarity matters, and at this moment we need politicians and community leaders to be at the forefront of it, not only condemning the horrific attacks but by taking leadership in confronting antisemitism and permissive rhetoric, lowering tensions and backing those who are willing to step in to protect the public and reassure the public.
Yours sincerely
Sir Mark Rowley QPM
Commissioner
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Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Humanity can survive without AI. Human civilisation is unlikely to survive in +2°C world though.
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