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Steve Godby

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Principal Lecturer in Geography, Nottingham Trent University. FRGS. Cyclist. Eddington Number 55 miles. Ipswich Town fan.

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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
TACO it is then.
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Coalhenge: Britain’s colossal wonders Why the awe inspiring cooling towers of our pensioned-off power station should be preserved as monuments, by Jonathan Glancey for The Critic ➡️ thecritic.co.uk/author/jonat...
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
... texture like sun
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink. per this morning's education committee.
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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
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Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Just as UK Higher Ed has gone past its red lines and the business will be in advising unis how to hold on and benefit from failures, all the work in politics looks like coming from Labour MPs who want to survive 2029 and return to office after Reform implode. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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UK borrowing costs up after markets spooked by Reeves’s income tax U-turn
Pound down 0.5% against dollar in early trading after chancellor drops plans for upcoming budget
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Basil @basdriver.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Moments before the attack. *scratch scratch* *purr purr* *scratch* *purr some more and louder* *scratch the belly some more* *purr purr … wait! That’s my belly!* **ATTACK THE HAND!** #Tibbles #BlackCatsRule #CatsOfBlueSky
My all black cat Tibbles who landed on his back all by himself while I was petting him and he was enjoying every second of it. But then started to wonder how he ended up there. And ultimately, just after the picture was taken, intervened with an attack on the hand.
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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is quite marvellous 👇 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Leonard and Hungry Paul review – this Julia Roberts-narrated comedy is the perfect antidote to modern life
Alex Lawther and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell star in this adaptation of Rónán Hession’s understated 2019 novel. Its quiet celebration of the gentle life is the opposite of today’s frantic TV – even if it does...
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
If only there were some clue that there was a genuine policing concern around Maccabi. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Tel Aviv football derby between Hapoel and Maccabi called off after rioting
Israeli police make nine arrests, citing ‘disorderly conduct, riots, injured police officers’ and infrastructure damage
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sumosoul.bsky.social @sumosoul.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The thousand year old sport is kicking it in front the thousand some year old monument. #londonsumo #stonehenge
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The main cause of the noise is something that will, sooner or later, hit every part of the network: “rail corrugation”. You aren’t imagining it: London's Tube is getting louder.
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No, you aren’t imagining it: the Tube is getting louder
I SAID, THE TUBE *IS* GETTING LOUDER.
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TrekMovie.com @trekmovie.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Happy birthday to Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel in space, who began her communications to #NASA with "Hailing frequencies open"—and guest starred in #StarTrekTNG's "Second Chances."
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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Not much mention in the media coverage that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have a bit of a reputation.
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Dean Wilson @deanwilson.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I’m so hungry I could eat the harvest moon I’m so hungry I could swallow it whole I can’t remember the last time someone threw me a chip if it carries on like this I’ll have to move to Brid… @holdernessnews.bsky.social
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
With classes underway, I’ve switched from essays to exams. But with the death of the student essay (RIP, slain by ChatGPT), there’s a larger human tragedy: an erosion of critical cognition and the creation of two sharply divided classes of people: those who learn how to think and those who don’t:
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The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n
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British Politics' Midlife Crisis
Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New from me: a *free* short version of my Political Quarterly piece on universities... The issue is settled now: the massified and accessible Higher Education system we have spent tens of billions building since the 1970s is coming to an end. (1/2) politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
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Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
"Whether they like it or not, our politicians have given permission for old hatreds and prejudices to be given a 21st-century refit" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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On a trip to Kent, I saw how politics is being shaped by the west’s growing hostility to outsiders | John Harris
With a Reform council, small boat arrivals and asylum seeker accommodation, this county lays bare an increasingly divided Britain, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/09/2025
38 years ago today: The Next Generation's first scene🖖 "Captain's log, Stardate 41153.7. Our destination is Planet Deneb IV, beyond which lies the great unexplored mass of the galaxy. My orders are to examine Farpoint, a starbase built there by the inhabitants of that world." TNG is 40 soon 🤯
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.
Johnson says he will never use government ID
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 13/09/2025
The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Elon Musk addresses the ‘unite the kingdom’ march crowd via video link – UK politics live
Met Police believe 110,000 people attending rally, with one group in Whitehall throwing projectiles at officers
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Keir Starmer should be old enough to remember that we didn't use to call them patriots, we called them football hooligans.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Worth pointing out that Dundee is ranked quite highly here, but anyone who looks it up will find an institution mired in financial freefall and mismanagement.
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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The BBC sending news alerts to explain what a widow of a far-right troll (a troll who was, at best, a marginal figure in the UK) said in a press conference is utterly absurd and a sign of a real skew in senior editorship.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
People say the BBC lack flexibility in the modern digital era, but the launch and roll out of their 24 hour Charlie Kirk News channel in a matter of hours was pretty impressive.
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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Up and running. #ITFC
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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Gabriel Gatehouse having to drag Justin Webb back into some form of impartiality on #Radio4Today. Blithering on about Bluesky and repeating Trumpian nonsense as usual. Time he left the BBC.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
'Yorkshire Weekly Post’ about Bridlington one hundred and ten years ago tomorrow. "People are always to be found on the sands, in the tiers of promenades, on the Princes Parade, on the new Spa, in the streets shopping , flirting, boating, reading, sewing. knitting, reprimanding the children,
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Defector @defector.com · 08/09/2025
Thank you, Melvyn Bragg: defector.com/thank-you-me...
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Thank You, Melvyn Bragg | Defector
Melvyn Bragg, host of the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time since its very first episode back in 1998, has greeted me in the same delightfully brusque manner hundreds and hundreds of times. Hello. In…
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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Thanks for the music Bob, Pete and Sarah.
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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The royal family should publicly call this dangerous nonsense out. If not, what's the point of them and their place in the constitution? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Doctor uses Reform conference speech to link king’s cancer to Covid vaccine
Aseem Malhotra claimed ‘eminent oncologist’ said jab was ‘significant factor in the cancer of members of royal family’
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 05/09/2025
Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 03/09/2025
After 35 years of reinventing British pop, Saint Etienne are hanging up their samples, synthesisers, feather boas and football strips for good. Jude Rogers offers 10 ways into their always surprising, genre-splicing back catalogue The Strange World Of… #SaintEtienne buff.ly/eLHPmTz
Saint Etienne’s Bob, Pete and Sarah, photo by Rob Baker Ashton
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Craig Hamilton @craighamilton.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
St Etienne here are giving off very strong ‘University PR team have forced the Sociology research group to have some new photos done for the website’ vibes. And, this being St Etienne, the above can be read as a compliment.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 02/09/2025
Feels like the flag debate has been kicking around my whole life and it still boils down to: Civic institutions should fly the flag routinely. Sporting occasions and national events, sure get it out. Year round flag on your house, bit weird, trashy. Doing it to "intimidate the forrins", obvs bad
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Starmer could have said: Vandalism isn't patriotism; daubing red crosses on Chinese takeaways and writing racist graffiti isn't patriotism; perfomatively sitting in front of a flag or tying one to a mosque isn't patriotism; Patriotism is about making this country safe, happy productive for all.
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Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Speaking of reputations, perhaps someone might remind the Newcastle United Supporters Club who owns their club.
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
A @davewalker.bsky.social cartoon that is perfect. This should be everywhere not shitty flags.
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Chris Rand @chrisrand.com · 29/08/2025
Ooof! #ITFC social media puts in a first-minute tackle with their intro video for Marcelino Núñez. Well played. 👏 (Posting here because the club doesn't, yet)
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JB @jbmh.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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John @johngoodman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
realistic Star Trek
A comic on the bridge from Star Trek the Next Generation.
Picard: COMMANDER DATA, PLEASE IDENTIFY THAT ROMULAN VESSEL.
Data: THAT'S A GREAT IDEA CAPTAIN!
IDENTIFYING A VESSEL IS A GREAT PLACE TO START - IN ANY TACTICAL OR STRATEGIC OUTER SPACE SITUATION.
THIS VESSEL APPEARS TO BE A 23rd CENTURY KLINGON BIRD OF
PREY! 🚀🦅✨
Picard: ARE YOU SURE?
LIKE I SAID WE'RE... PRETTY SURE IT'S ROMULAN.
Data: ...
Data: OF COURSE! SO SORRY ABOUT THAT, YOU'RE RIGHT!
ON CLOSER EXAMINATION IT'S A ROMULAN VESSEL! CAN I RECOMMEND SOME SOONG™ BRAND PRODUCTS THAT CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT?
Picard cradles his face in his hand in a gesture of frustration.
Data: DID I MENTION THE PLIGHT OF OPRESSED WHITES IN SOUTH AFRICA?
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Column, on a grimly familiar Farage plot line and Starmer sticking to the script in the Brexit sequel. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it | Rafael Behr
Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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