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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why might that be, Telegraph?

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So that guy who live streamed himself trying to drown someone by stabbing their boat with a knife and who has been continually blocking ports and intimidating communities with a band of masked thugs. He’s surely just going to be arrested right? Right?

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026

It is incredibly important that political violence does not succeed. The far-right mob that shut down Portsmouth wanted this outcome. If the state wishes to avoid more of these actions, it needs to make sure this RNLI branch reopens *immediately*, or as close to that as humanly possible.

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just formalised my Aussie citizenship. Couldn’t be prouder. Now let’s join the EU along with Canada!

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So my talk on Clementine Churchill, Pamela Harriman and his to deploy soft power in a crisis at the Wallace Collection on Monday is SOLD OUT but you can buy online tickets here to watch wherever you are shop.wallacecollection.org/event-ticket...

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Buy Churchill’s Wife: Clementine and Her Extraordinary Unsung Role Tickets online - The Wallace Collection

Listen to this lively discussion about how Clementine Churchill played a vital part in our history.

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Bayeux tapestry’s coming to Britain for the first time in a millennium is the ultimate soft power play. Cultural diplomacy par excellence. Not a new trick though. Come discover how Clementine Churchill brilliantly deployed soft power during WWII www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/eve...

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Churchill’s Wife: Clementine and Her Extraordinary Unsung Role

Listen to this lively discussion about how Clementine Churchill played a vital part in our history.

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you can, it’s time to dob a few quid to the @rnli Saving lives, risking their own

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m afraid the scammers are at it again! Please note that people are impersonating me on Facebook and now even by email using a false but plausible address. I never offer writing courses this way and am not on Facebook. Please contact my agent via Soniapurnell.com to verify. Thank you! X

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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Churchill’s Wife: Clementine and Her Extraordinary Unsung Role

Listen to this lively discussion about how Clementine Churchill played a vital part in our history.

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

She’s been dismissed, overlooked and misunderstood but Clementine Churchill helped to change the world (and her husband) for the better. Come hear more next month at the Wallace Collection’s stellar new exhibition www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/eve...

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Churchill’s Wife: Clementine and Her Extraordinary Unsung Role

Listen to this lively discussion about how Clementine Churchill played a vital part in our history.

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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Churchill’s Wife: Clementine and Her Extraordinary Unsung Role

Listen to this lively discussion about how Clementine Churchill played a vital part in our history.

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hugely honoured to be speaking at the Wallace Collection about Clementine Churchill. She wasn’t at all what you might think! Details and tickets here emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Churchill’s Wife: Clementine and Her Extraordinary Unsung Role

Listen to this lively discussion about how Clementine Churchill played a vital part in our history.

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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Churchill’s Wife: Clementine and Her Extraordinary Unsung Role

Listen to this lively discussion about how Clementine Churchill played a vital part in our history.

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Thoughts with everyone affected by the wildfires in France and Spain right now. Lives lost. Homes lost. Memories lost. So many other countries are helping but I’m not seeing Britain named as one of them. If we’re not lending a hand why on earth not!

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This. The carelessness of certain politicians is abominable

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I’ve seen this and it’s what we should be doing rather than covering fields

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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Such a compliment to @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social here that the Manchester Evening News were never able to fill her shoes, and those that read her work will know why manchestermill.co.uk/stop-looking...

Burnham used to receive tough coverage from the terrier-like MEN political editor Jennifer Williams, but when she left to join the FT in 2022, the MEN left her role open for over a year and have never found an equivalent figure to replace her.

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Jo @jo4070.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

He also wasn't challenged when, as a criticism of Burnham, he said something like '..but Makerfield is 20 miles from central Manchester'. But Burnham is mayor of GREATER Manchester, not central Manchester.

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Reform’s Richard Tice has just claimed on #Channel4News that Makerfield has received less investment than any other part of Greater Manchester. Does anyone know if that’s right. Wasn’t challenged on air but should be if not true

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

What do any of the figures in this drama stand for apart from vague notions of Change and Hope? Oh and personal ambition of course.

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Mr Bumpton 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @ivorbumpton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

CALL TO ACTION!!! Please support the decent journalists actually holding Farage to account. Please share far and wide! 👊💥👍

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I managed not to attach this photo to earlier post about Charles so here it is

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One of the largest drops in nhs waiting lists on record, which no one will now hear about. Opportunity cost from all the leadership turmoil www.england.nhs.uk/2026/05/heal...

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NHS England » “Huge moment” as the health service hits 18-week target amid half-a-million waiting list drop

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I have personally benefited from recent improvements in NHS. It terrifies me that progress could now be at risk from political manoeuvring that could well make things way worse rather than better

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I know a lot else going on but this is an incredible picture of peak King Charles visiting Jewish communities in North London. Look at the reaction of the crowd. Would it have happened like this without that now legendary USA speech?

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 13/05/2026

Must we keep holding our politicians to such impossible standards?

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Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Hi Sonia! I can't remember when I was last this gripped by a book. Such an incredible story.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Pffft.

Britain's broadcast media boasts of its strict adherence to impartiality rules.
Mentions per MP.
LibDems: 645
Tories: 5,
, 116
Greens: 7,763
Labour (the actual govt): 27,438
Reform: 70,732
Anyone surprised they're ahead?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Also exactly what I predicted. Though the Greens are a fair bit down on where I thought they'd be and Lab/Tories doing a bit better.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson

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Kwasi Kwarteng's crypto company? When I was investigating Reform's financial ties a few months ago, drawing up a map of who was connected to whom, this was the biggest mystery. Nine years ago, aged 53, he declared himself "skint" because "there's no money in politics".
Only two years ago he was telling friends that he could not afford to run in the coming election. Then suddenly, his fortunes seemed to
and change utterly. How?
The likely explanation emerged this week: he was given E5 million by Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based crypto billionaire and Reform UK donor. The money, Farage says, was a personal gift
disclosable. It was to pay for bodyguards, he said, making him "safe and secure for the rest of my life". But such protection costs are, at most, £300,000 a year. Farage was given a lifetime of financial security, clearing the way for his return to the political arena. Albeit with a lifelong feeling of debt to Harborne, who sits in a web of interlocking global financial interests.
The world of donors is one of sharks and angels. Many donors want to support causes (or people) they believe in, with no ulterior motive. But then there are the
- cash-rich, status-poor
- who've often made their money using murky means. They usually
Trump for flouting US money-
proposes a new "Big Bang" that
And if you're not an MP-
- like
could add tens of billions to crypto
laundering rules, has said he'll move
Zia Yusuf, Reform's hyperactive
companies market value. A Reform
"shadow" home secretary there's
Left have champagne
government would order HM
no financial transparency at all.
Treasury to stop work on its own
The next UK general election
digital currency apparatus, which
socialists, right have
looks set to usher in hundreds of
could threaten the current crypto
Reform MPs to join the governing
plutocrat populists
elite. The Bank of England would instead be told to hold Bitcoin,
party (or coalition). How many more
to Britain to keep his cash flowing t…

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This was one of Cameron's more substantial speeches during the 2016 campaign. The argument could certainly be contested, but the sniggering dismissal of it as his "World War 3" speech - too absurd even to merit debate - marked a special low in Britain's ability to think seriously about geopolitics.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

That's the west coast mainline for you

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Wowsers. Scientists found that between 2005-19, there was a 28% decline in spoken words. While all age groups were affected, participants aged 25 or younger showed a markedly steeper decline in speech. Seems significant and I've not seen this widely referred to www.sciencefocus.com/news/losing-...

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We’re losing 338 spoken words every day | BBC Science Focus Magazine

We've been nattering less and less each year since 2005, according to research on more than 2,000 people across three continents

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Jessica Simor KC @jmpsimor.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Cannot recommend this book highly enough. I give it to everyone! Such a fantastic story and brilliantly written.

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Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Very excited to be speaking at the Sonoma Valley Authors Festival next month. Much to talk about including 3 formidable women. Come join me! @svauthorsfest

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