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Stephen Boyd

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Warwickshire. Previously Dublin, São Paulo, London, Paris, Cambridge, Birmingham.

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Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If someone tells you not to worry and Flavio is somehow more intelligent/competent, less bigoted/corrupt than Jair they are lying to you.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud has visited a historic Birmingham swimming pool dating back to 1907, while it undergoes extensive repair + redevelopment. Restoration work on the Grade II*-listed Moseley Road Baths in Balsall Heath has been underway since 2023" Can't wait to get our pool back
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Dr Adam Levy @climateadam.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Not loving seeing this record broken about 6 months ahead of schedule...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Professor Jason Arday's former students want to "gather everything good about Jason Arday, in the words of the people who were there" to make their contribution to the public record about him (rather than to debate events + controversies of recent months) leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...
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Everything Good About Jason Arday
First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.
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Daniela Abade @danielaabade.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Isso aqui foi + de um ano de trabalho. Só c/ a @revistapiaui.bsky.social 2 meses de apuração. E as informações sobre os Hammerskins ninguém no mundo tem isso, foi o que me levou para Universidade do Texas no Investigathon do @icfjorg.bsky.social. Leiam. piaui.uol.com.br/web/captura-...
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A captura de um neonazista latino
Como um jovem do interior do Paraná se tornou um extremista procurado pela Interpol – e como a polícia conseguiu encontrá-lo depois de um ano em fuga
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Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’m in my 50s with a son of around the same age so Glen Hansard’s death has hit me hard. Last time I was in Dublin I saw him walking near Stephen’s Green. So sad.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A very good point as usual from @jamesbowes01.bsky.social The main objective of Mahmood's proposals was always to kick out care workers (as she has more or less said). That was always an economically, politically and morally bankrupt policy. Without it, the whole package falls apart.
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Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Just followed this recipe from @nigelslater.bsky.social and it was very refreshing and perfectly hit the spot. www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes...
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Nigel Slater's gazpacho recipe
This simple, refreshing, chilled Spanish soup is perfect on a hot day. Crumbled boiled egg makes a tasty garnish.
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Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Me - at about 18 months as well - from bacterial meningitis
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Daniela Abade @danielaabade.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Algum seguidor/jornalista nas imediações de Paris?
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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New post: The Consequences of Tolerating the Far Right mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-... The rise in the far right is not a result of changes in people’s attitudes, but is due to the political elite eroding the social norms we used to have against racism and dehumanising minorities.
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The Consequences of Tolerating the Far Right
As I have argued in previous posts , the rise in the far right is not a result of changes in people’s attitudes. In many ways over the las...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Glad to see @janetphorner.bsky.social doing well in the Dublin Central by-election. I would have voted for her if I was still living in the constituency. She will hopefully win a seat in the next general election.
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Boston Married @bostonmarried.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Oh he's good. He knows the Irish immigrants didn't always stay open minded once we became white, but he's reminding us to be our better selves
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied. But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
What a dignified spectacle. The worst people in the world somehow manage to gain brutal authoritarian power, and then support each fighting wars costing countless billions and, collectively, hundreds of thousands of lives, just to put off being tried in domestic courts for criminal offences.
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Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Whoever designed this (1) has incredibly bad taste or (2) had a lot of fun imagining the worst kind of chintzy brothel. I bet it was (2).
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Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Time for a comprehensive reboot of British politics - proportional representation, strict controls on party funding, abolish the House of Lords, move parliament to Birmingham or Manchester, no more lobby/client journalists…
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
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Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I had to check the date on this three times ‘At home with Peter Mandelson’ in Times magazine *today* This is how we cover corruption in Britain? Seriously??
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 01/02/2026
Liam Conejo Ramos is going home today. 💗 Hundreds of children just like him are not.
A photo of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, accompanied by Congressmembers Ilhan Omar and Joaquin Castro, posing after arriving home in Minneapolis following their release earlier today from a detention center in Texas. Liam is wearing his blue hat, and Rep. Omar is carrying his Spider-Man backpack.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is the hidden in plain sight heffalump trap in the Budget - Mahmood’s plan will deepsix whatever fiscal headroom the Chancellor has.
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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
More than 2,000 children who have been trafficked or who arrived in the UK to claim asylum disappeared from social services’ care last year. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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More than 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
Screenshot of a headline reading: "Refugees' jewellery could be seized to pay for asylum costs, says Home Office minister."
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 05/11/2025
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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Ryder @ryderfromtwitter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Just had a lovely woman in our shop in Donegal, searching for her lost twin sister. Appreciate it if my Irish followers would retweet this. Thank you.
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Annie Drynan @adrynan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
OK #BBCRadio4 how about a rerun of After Henry as the 6.30 comedy? A tribute to Prunella Scales and, I suspect, an improvement on much of the current programmes pre- #TheArchers
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1... My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
British.
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Daniela Abade @danielaabade.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Orgulho dessa minha primeira contribuição para @apublica.org . E, sim: é eita, atrás, de eita seguido de mano do céu! apublica.org/2025/10/jami...
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Jamile SP: Quem são os donos do restaurante que teto desabou
Empresários que se apresentavam como sócios do estabelecimento Jamile SP não constam nos documentos de constituição da empresa
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Amazing series. I had never heard of Fania Mindel and now here she is — a missed turn of the birth control movement. And here, what she stands for, the imperative of translation in a Pluralistic democracy., and an alternative universalist path still available to be taken against the eugenicists.
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
On this day in 1940, Walter Benjamin took his own life in the town of Portbou, after being denied entry by Spanish officials. “If the killing of Lorca was Fascism’s first crime against literature, Benjamin’s death was undoubtedly the second.” - The Listener
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Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My little one loved it and will no doubt watch it 20 times when it’s on iPlayer.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
10 August 1929 | A German Jewish boy, Manfred Klaus Rosenthal, was born in Berlin. In 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
Black and white portrait of a smiling child wearing a beret and a collared coat.
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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 04/08/2025
For too long, the story of Quaker abolition has been told as one of conscience, but it was Black resistance that forced the Religious Society of Friends to confront its deepest contradictions.
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Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement
A moral reckoning.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The key dividing line in politics right now is empathy vs sociopathy. The right has been waging an aggressive war on empathy ("virtue signalling", "woke") and too many outside of the right have been stupid enough to go along with it.
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Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
If you’re still defending the Israeli army or government at this point, there is something wrong with you.
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Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Serial podcast in retrospect was shockingly irresponsible journalism. It brought attention to the case but its portrayal was way off the mark.
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Heavyweight @heavyweight.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This summer, we'll be ENCORING some favorite episodes, along with updates from our guests. First up, Gregor, who answers the question on everybody's mind: did he ever get his CDs back? open.spotify.com/episode/3Lsa...
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Heavyweight Encore: #2 Gregor
Heavyweight · Episode
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Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Really looking forward to this tomorrow
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 26/05/2025
Marcel Ophuls, auteur du « Chagrin et la pitié », maître du documentaire malgré lui, est mort à 97 ans
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Marcel Ophuls, auteur du « Chagrin et la pitié », maître du documentaire malgré lui, est mort à 97 ans
Le cinéaste, mort samedi, aurait préféré réaliser des comédies, mais c’est au genre documentaire qu’il a imposé sa touche très personnelle. Sa chronique sans fard de l’Occupation, sortie en 1969, avait secoué la France
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 13/05/2025
If you think Miss Rachel is the bad guy here or being controversial in any way - I have news for you. You’re a terrible person.
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Tim Jonze @timjonze.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off! 20 years on, the cast of The Thick Of It look back www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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‘I’m from Glasgow – the swearing came naturally!’ The full uncensored history of The Thick of It
It was the political satire that gave us omnishambles, pet asbos and the terrifying Malcolm Tucker. Two decades on, creator Armando Iannucci and stars including Peter Capaldi and Rebecca Front lift th...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/04/2025
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons
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Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Good grief. "Look - let's be honest. The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States. That's the purpose of it, and they've done a good job of it. But now I'm president." Trump
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Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The best podcast bar none
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Stephen Boyd @stephenbod.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The Democrats aren’t exactly rising to the moment are they
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