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Steve Darrell

@stevejdrl.bsky.social
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Vegan, Welshman living in England, I read, play wargames and watch rugby. Remainer/Rejoiner.

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Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonld.bsky.social · 23h
I listened to Ed Davey on the Today programme this morning, and frankly, I think he missed the point. The idea that we're keeping the triple lock to help millennials is at best for the birds, and at worst downright insulting. I say that as a millennial.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22h
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23h
Bless.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss, threatening water supplies "…in its simplest form, what we see right now is that we took an ice cube out of the fridge and it's just melting in front of our eyes." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're repeatedly told that asylum seekers pose a threat to the good people of our country... Reading about the threatening and violent treatment of elderly and open minded locals in Crowborough I get the impression that the real threat comes from closer to home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
On Facebook and other platforms, people
who are known to support the asylum
seekers have been threatened with acid
attacks, petrol bombs and rape. The dossier.
which has been seen by the Guardian, also
claims that several local businesses have
been threatened by far-right agitators, along
with a church where some asylum seekers
worship. One man was punched in the throat
after he held up a "Love Thy Neighbour"
sign, while an elderly couple were falsely
accused of supporting sex offenders. In yet
another case, a 92-year-old church volunteer
was reportedly woken at 3am for two nights
in a row by a man standing outside her
home, shining a torch through her window
and shouting abuse
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've been blocked from attending Conservative Party conference. Just a few weeks after Badenoch blasted Reform for doing the same thing... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/09/2026
Breaking News! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly for Sept. 29th came in at 3.18°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This marks yet another record all-time high and the 123rd consecutive record daily high at 1.1°C above the previous daily record set in 1997.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For over a decade, successive UK governments have promised to fix how we pay for social care, and every attempt has stalled. ➡️ Watch Page 94, the Private Eye podcast: youtu.be/KaNDIIdJk-s
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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Researchers recreated a medieval remedy and pitted it against modern-day bacteria. Now they have a better idea of why it performed surprisingly well. www.sciencenews.org/article/medieva…
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A medieval remedy could offer ideas for beating antibiotic resistance
The 10th century treatment called Bald’s eyesalve attacks microbes in multiple ways. Molecule mixtures from it may inspire modern medicine.
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"My concern all along is what have we done to the kids. We moved here, chose this property, + I feel guilty because I’ve exposed them to that, even though I know it’s not my fault.” So often, with PFAS pollution, the innocent feel guilt. Do the culpable? share.google/uPs7Qpqek3qn...
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‘Are these chemicals in my blood?’ How one community learned the truth about Pfas pollution
People living next to a chemicals plant near Blackpool were tested for ‘forever chemicals’. Last week they received the alarming results
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'If emissions continue while we wait for complete evidence, the pollution does not wait with us. It may still be present decades later, when the science is much clearer.' Can we afford to let new forms of PFAS to build up, then find out later we shouldn't have? theconversation.com/high-levels-...
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High levels of ‘forever chemicals’ found in Lancashire residents’ blood – what I’ve learned from studying exposed communities for over a decade
Residents near a Lancashire chemical plant have high Pfas levels in their blood. A decade of research shows what that can and can’t tell us.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Since there's already plenty of summaries of options around, here's a short guide to some useful things that might be considered when talking about future UK-EU relations PDF: bit.ly/UshGraphic149 @ukandeu.bsky.social @ou-gcsj.bsky.social @oupolitics.bsky.social
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A sad, lonely woman jilted by her brash lover is left to wile away the empty hours in an isolated flat in Dubai. After consuming yet another vodka her mind wanders & she types out far fetched fantasies desperately seeking attention & solace. Please could someone call a doctor.😬
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another crude oil tanker has been hit in the Strait of Hormuz.
UKMTO has received a time-late report of an incident within the Strait of Hormuz.
A verified source has reported that a crude oil tanker has been struck on the port side by an unknown projectile.
Authorities are investigating.
Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity to
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They should reveal that care workers have a 10% chance of wiping out humanity, and raise the investment that way.
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 29/09/2026
SURVEILLANCE STORY FALLS APART: Veteran Counterterror Official Tells Tapper You Don’t Raid When Civilians Are Everywhere
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“WE SIT IN THE BACK SEAT”: Phil Mudd Says President Blew a British-Led Investigation on Live TV
In a dramatic rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s recent comments, a former CIA counterterrorism official has derailed the credibility of his claims regarding an alleged terror plot in the United …
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Why won’t the Government share this secret climate change report when the findings show it’s a critical threat to national security?" via 38 degrees
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It remains a complete mystery how many people do not seem to understand quite how punitive the current system is, or how limited care provision can be. That said, no government since the Major “waspi” changes has seriously attempted to address the concept of an ageing population.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This two tier policing is disgraceful. It's as if there is one approach for people who helpfully film themselves committing crimes and another approach when there is insufficient evidence.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every month of 2026 has been warmer than average in the UK. #climatecrisis
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UK weather: Temperatures to hit 26C in burst of late September warmth
Temperatures are expected to rise well above the late September average on Tuesday with a very warm night to follow, as Simon King explains.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Blimey. Baroness Margaret Hodge - the Govt anti-corruption champion, on the £72m donations to Reform recently: "I think it came from the Russians." She's speaking at a Fabian event on donation caps
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I await the first time a politician proposing some nuts new immigration restriction is asked what is otherwise the media’s favourite question: how are you going to pay for it??
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
US Ambassador to China David Perdue says in their recent meeting Trump asked President Xi if China wanted to buy weapons systems from the US.
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EU Paul @casualwoke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Follow latest: Major incident declared and number of properties evacuated in Gloucestershire after men arrested on suspicion of offences under Explosives Act news.sky.com/share/13527288
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Follow latest: Major incident declared and number of properties evacuated in Gloucestershire after men arrested on suspicion of offences under Explosives Act
A number of properties in Whelford, Gloucestershire, have been evacuated following a major incident being declared. Several men have been arrested on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act. Sp...
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Tulsa Teresa @tulsateresa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks for nothing, Robert F Kennedy, Jr.
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned
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More OpenAl Incidents
The company's A.l. went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OMG, poor thing….
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nothing to see here.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mind-blowing story in Private Eye about how the Telegraph's chief reporter reached out to James Orr (or meant to) after the Channel 4 donation revelations


...within hours of journalists on either the *Guardian* or *Sunday Times* contacting Reform for comment on the same stories ahead of them publishing their own investigations. Reform deputy leader Richard Tice and his fiancée, supposed journalist Isabel Oakeshott, even crowed online about their spoiler tactics.

Not that the *Telegraph* doesn't do its own leg work when reporting on Reform. After James Orr, the party's head of policy, had to resign after a sting by *Channel 4 News* (see "*Right Orr Wrong*, p14"), *Telegraph* chief reporter Rob Mendick texted Orr: "I was hoping to talk to you entirely on background," he schmoozed. "You must be feeling very bruised and I totally Appreciate [sic] the sensitivities. I suspect you deserve better and I wanted to see how I can put the record straight in some way." Alas, instead of the Reformer and Cambridge theologian, Mendick messaged someone else, who shared it with the *Eye*!
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Now online... www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
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The reason why Britain has been left playing a game of ‘whack-a-mole’ on migration - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: Peter Packham, Chair, Leeds for Europe, Roundhay, Leeds.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This chart published by the Economics Laboratory, shows that the UK social spending is 23% of GDP, covers NHS, social security and support services. It is a useful rebutal to neoliberals calling for cuts to the NHS, state pension and other benefits. www.linkedin.com/posts/charto...
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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 24/09/2026
We are a very old building. We have lots of keys. We have lots of keys that don’t open anything. Join us for a one off installment of, “Keys of the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall that are pretty but completely useless”. 🔑 🧵
We are looking at two pewter plates with an assortment of large brass and iron keys in various shapes and sizes.
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We organised blood tests for people living near a chemical factory in Thornton-Cleveleys where we uncovered high emissions of PFAS forever chemicals, including internationally-banned, cancer-causing PFOA. Last night, BBC News spoke to people as they received their test results:
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson was born on this day in 1936.
Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks', but the man and woman at the counter of the diner are now Fozzie and Miss Piggy. The guy with his back to us is now Bert, but Bert is being operated by Frank Oz, who is crouched down in front of the counter. The waiter/server is now Jim Henson who is looking intently at Kermit, and Kermit, who is occupying half of Jim's right arm, is looking intently at Jim. The diner is now called "JIMMYS".
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Kentish Fran #FBPE @kentishfran.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's a mystery why Farage objects to the government's anti-disinformation unit 🤔 #Farage #FaragePutin
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