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Sophie Stevens 💚🍉

@sophiestevens.bsky.social
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Live events manager, socialist, Green Party member, former councillor. They/she 📍 Green green Gorton

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15h
Labour just don't get it. They don't get how scared people are with extreme weather becoming our new normal. We need voices in parliament that will force them to take wildfires seriously, not quietly shirk responsibility.
Revealed: government quietly dropped plan to orepare England for wildfires
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George is quite right on this. I discovered via FOI requests that just 5% of all woodland creation grants go to support natural regeneration of trees, and 95% to tree planting. I’ll continue to push DEFRA to fix this. www.theguardian.com/environment/... bsky.app/profile/geor...
theguardian.com
Government ‘failing to support natural regeneration of trees in England’
Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting
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Sophie Stevens 💚🍉 @sophiestevens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's almost as if allowing your government to be unduly influenced by opinion polls and focus groups was a terrible idea from day one 🤔
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes, the players shouldn't have been put in this position but at the end of the day, everybody is their own moral agent and Bazunu is the only one of them with a backbone.
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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨 Can we all agree to totally ignore and destroy the “PolitlcsUK”* account everyone gets their news from now? It’s run by a REFORM COUNCILLOR, and trickles bias and fabricated nonsense in under a neutral guise. Share this. Drop it under friends reposts. 👀 Evidence in next post…. /1
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
No, this is not a joke. UK Lawyers for Israel are trying to proscribe *Médecins Sans Frontières*. That’d mean they’d be treated as terrorists. On the same legal footing as ISIS. Membership would mean 14 years in prison. This is what we’re dealing with
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This government is still sitting on parts of a buried report laying bare catastrophic risks facing us from ecosystems collapse. My message to @andyburnham.bsky.social: tell the truth. Release the report in full. And prepare the country for what's coming. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis
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Sophie Stevens 💚🍉 @sophiestevens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"I simply have no idea why I've been accused of bringing the party into disrepute, it absolutely must be because I'm trans" this is very very silly
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’m pretty sceptical of this accounting, so am going to wait to see if anything more concrete happens. Would recommend healthy scepticism for any trans people who are concerned about this as well.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Incredible work here—a hollow statement that changes absolutely nothing, yet will manage to anger everyone in the process. Truly, these are The Adults, and I am so glad they are back in the room.
Exclusive: British diplomats have privately told the US that the new sanctions Ed Miliband is imposing on Israeli settlements today are largely symbolic and will have no material impact on the UK's wider relationship with Israel on trade or security

A behind-closed-doors diplomatic effort is underway to soothe the Trump administration's response, amid fears that the sanctions could provide the first major setback in US relations for Andy Burnham, people familiar with the matter said

Burnham spoke to Trump by phone on Monday afternoon and told him what was coming

The reality that Britain's relationship with Israel will largely continue as is, despite stronger rhetoric from ministers about a fundamental reset, may disappoint some on the left who the announcement is designed to win over
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If you don't know about the Battle of Cable Street, and other times we stood up to British fascists, you can learn about that now, before it's too fucking late. History is not boring and it's definitely not irrelevant.
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Sophie Stevens 💚🍉 @sophiestevens.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Any truth to the rumours that Burnham is keen on getting the Reform mayor of Hull to defect to Labour? 🧐
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Curse of the Libby Dead @captainlibatron.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Pride float in the simpsons saying grumpy leabians and their cranky allies
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Sophie Stevens 💚🍉 @sophiestevens.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What famous scenes are in the epic Bayeux Tapestry? [BBC News]"Woman, Stanley. Woman!" (Hilda Ogden, Coronation Street)
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Sophie Stevens 💚🍉 @sophiestevens.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Next headline from liberal marks: "Farage issues surprising message of support for migrants" (he's said he doesn't want them killed as long as they go home)
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Sophie Stevens 💚🍉 @sophiestevens.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
yeah listen I'll start painting myself purple if I have to. I'll consume just enough uranium that I emit a constant glow. do not challenge us on visibility because right now we're ignorable but we can very much be impossible to avoid if you like
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Throughly deserved. Discredited, pernicious, racist pseudoscience is an immeasurably worse insult to academic rigour than an inspirational autistic academic’s flawed reference citation & exaggeration of achievements with a basis in reality.
Nathan Cofnas announces suspension from Ghent University on X
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death - www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-ar…
middleeasteye.net
Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death
Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Just to note, Toby Young and James Orr’s Free Speech Union paid the legal bills for this guy who plans to be a future ‘Professor of Eugenics and Race Science’ after ‘the revolution’ Young himself supported ‘progressive eugenics’. They’re not even hiding their fact free racism
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The Bishop 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @fritzbischoff.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Couldn't agree more. Burnham duly delivered the cheap, obligatory eulogy for the latest victim of Britain's tabloid press, while showing precisely zero ambition to rein in its unscrupulous behaviour.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is the man who, memorably, regularly appeared in TV interviews during the Leveson enquiry to say “so what?” looking like he slept in his own ashtray, and representing his trade’s moral decline like a hunched and sore-eyed monster from 19th Century gothic literature. This is truly wretched.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026
A former director of BBC News speaks:
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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Journalists today.
Hotdog guy 'we're all looking for the person who did this' meme
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Sophie Stevens 💚🍉 @sophiestevens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Imagine trying to come out with the wittiest quip when two kids have just needlessly lost their dad
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday resigned from Jesus and the education faculty and asked people to stop nine days ago in his resignation letter That should have been the end of it, but instead it became a blood sport for the press and monetised social media alike - the money was too good, the attention too valuable
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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
How many times will the uk press clearly push someone towards their death before there is any accountability? That man was hounded like a social pariah over stuff that was no worse than the average politician does every other year
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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
past confirmed kills of the british press: a teenage member of the eastenders launch cast who quit after 3 months and was hounded for the remaining 2 years of his life INCLUDING COVERT PHOTOS OF THE PSYCH WARD HE WAS ON the daughter of a fairly famous actor who had developed a serious drug habit
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I should say re Jason Arday the completely out of proportion multi week frenzy that outlasted his resignation wasn’t just from the traditional right wing press. It was also the BBC inexplicably putting it on the front page, and many other liberal/centrist ‘skeptic’ types breathlessly carrying on
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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The British press will not ever stop.
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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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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I didn’t discuss Jason Arday on my show for this exact reason. If he had been white and behaved unprofessionally it would have been handled internally by his employers. As it is, it became clear that certain commentators wouldn’t be satisfied until he was dead www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
Jason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, officials said.
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Sophie Stevens 💚🍉 @sophiestevens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We're becoming a braying mob, a Roman colosseum of a country where you can be hounded to death for making a mistake, and some will cheer. Whatever you think of Jason Arday, he has been killed by a witch-hunt; destroyed by the public glare of what should've been a private process
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's exhausting.
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ben smoke @bencsmoke.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
NEW: Housing Sec Angela Rayner took £20,000 in speaker fee from an anti-rent controls lobbying group just weeks before ruling out a rent freeze in what campaigners from London Renters Union have called a conflict of interest. Read all about it here: wefightthegoodfight.substack.com/p/rayner-tak...
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Rayner takes payment from landlords before ditching rent controls
London Renters Union urges Housing Secretary to listen to renters
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Well somebody has an idea on what to do at least, even if this is "all new" to our PM A bit more comprehensive than "maybe we should ban disposable BBQs?" #ZackPolanski #Greens #GPEW #GreenParty #Labour #UKpol #UKpolitics
Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green party, said calling the emergency
meeting was "only a first step". He said: "This is a climate emergency which
is leading to hundreds of deaths and stretching our firefighters, health staff
and farmers to the limit. What we urgently need is concrete action.
"That must include taxing fossil fuel giants to pay for firefighting helicopters,
a cool space in every community, and a maximum working temperature. The
prime minister must also commit to no new oil and gas extraction in the
North Sea. We cannot negotiate with the science."
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/08/2026
Homosexuality is "the only known cause of AIDS" according to this LGB Alliance-supporting, science-denying life peer. She also voted against marriage equality because it would degrade "the status of women and of girls"
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Matt @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Man without ADHD tries uppers for the first time: I mean honestly we're scraping the barrel on this now surely. I'm not diabetic. If I took insulin the affects would be far worse.
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Sophie Stevens 💚🍉 @sophiestevens.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
no words really
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If we'd frozen peoples rent in 2022 - the average UK household would be saving £2400 every year. And saving the Government £2bn a year! Any Government who is serious about ending Rip Off Britain would bring in rent controls now.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it
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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
(3) the plan is not designed to reduce the number of migrant workers - it is designed to have many migrant workers, but reduce their rights - having 100ks of workers who if they annoy the boss can be sacked --- and then deported - is a big attack on all workers rights
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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
(2) Some folk might think "this only hurts migrant workers rights" -but attacking one section of workers hurts all (as any trade unionist knows) -if there is a big increase in the pool of, say, care workers that can be deported by the boss if they complain, then wages/conditions will fall...
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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
(1) Labour's extending "Indefinite Leave to Remain" qualification from 5 to 15 years is a big attack on workers rights: Currently 100ks workers on Employment Visas are stuck for 5 years unable to complain about their bosses, who can have them deported.Mahmood's plan makes it 15 years of servitude..
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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Funny how talk of social contagion is always about restricting the identities and behaviours of young people, never about, say, once-respectable academics collecting reactionary ideas like an 8 year old collects interestingly-shaped rocks
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Great work. 👏 🏳️‍⚧️ 🚽 📍 Someone has set up an open lavs app mapping gender inclusive toilets. This worked with loo codes for cafe toilets and I hope this works for inclusive toilets too.
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