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Questing Vole

@thequestingvole.bsky.social
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Geek, rower, historian, stage manager, giver-away of charitable funds, bureaucrat whose dead hand is ruining academia, caretaker of a small loud fluffy dog and a small loud bald baby.

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Questing Vole @thequestingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This will be better and less depressing than talking about Politics - hit me.
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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?
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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This does suggest Britain is a) very good at integration b) actively attracts the world's smart and ambitious people who want to get on and do well for themselves Both of these are very good, competitive qualities to have and should be celebrated.
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Questing Vole @thequestingvole.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
For 75 years, I can take my choice of nurse in a mental hospital, high school student, carpenter and shop-fitter, or pub landlady. High school student it is. 100 years ago only the latter two have been born and they’re both very small.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 28/07/2026
I am normally the first to defend civil servants. However, if this reporting is true then there should be mass firings and if at all legally feasible, criminal charges. To butcher a West Wing quote: everyone who did it, everyone who ordered it, and everyone who knew about it.
A senior judge has accused the Home Office of relying on “AI hallucinated” information to refuse an asylum claim.

The case relates to a Moroccan woman and her child who fled her country after experiencing forced underage marriage and extreme violence, including rape. The woman claimed asylum on the basis of fears that she would be killed by her husband: a powerful, previously convicted criminal.

The Home Office refused her case, citing evidence from a supposedly independent and authoritative document known as a country policy information note (CPIN), which they said confirmed that Morocco would be safe for her.

But the document could not be found, although its existence was relied upon by a judge who rejected her appeal against the Home Office’s refusal decision in an immigration court known as the first-tier tribunal.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 21/07/2026
This site is not a job. If you spend enough time on here for it to feel like a job, something is deeply wrong in your life. There are, again, no rejoinders to this that matter. You don't have special circumstances that change this. This is a tech demo you can socialize on. it is not important
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Questing Vole @thequestingvole.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Five living writers that you’ve read five books by each: Lois Bujold Chris Brookmyre Ben Aaronovitch N K Jemisin Kim Newman
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
An excellent and timely fact. Though I suspect the names May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer won’t echo so resoundingly through history.
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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 21/05/2026
I am a Liberal and I am against this sort of thing (like @lauragordon.bsky.social and @po8crg.gadsden.online, among others)
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 04/04/2026
may everybody have fun and may Cambridge sink
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Questing Vole @thequestingvole.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Realize I may be on the wrong site for Tory matters, but does anyone happen to know who was the "brains" behind Sunak's Hail Mary on national service? Was it a think tank, a Minister, something he came up with himself on the back of a fag packet?
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Hillary Clinton’s Opening Statement in front of the House Oversight Committee.
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Kemi Badenoch says the Tories are "not trying to recreate 2006" which, to this 38 year old, is a pity
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The BabaDuke @supersloth.net · 30/12/2025
For January I would like to wear a dog shock collar that zaps me if I try to buy something online
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Questing Vole @thequestingvole.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Post your favourite work of art from 50 years before you were born. How can I choose between these two?
Cover of Dorothy L Sayers’ novel “Busman’s Honeymoon”Movie poster for “Fire over England”, with Laurence Olivier looking about 14 and Vivian Leigh looking ahistorical whilst the Armada burns in the background.
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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Days of racist blather about Scary Foreigners (Even If Born Here) over the stabbing, and then this is one of the heroes of the event who saved lives, which says it all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Samir Zitouni named as train hero who saved lives during attack
The family of rail worker Samir Zitouni say they are
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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 28/10/2025
Signed, sorted, and commended to the house
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Questing Vole @thequestingvole.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
You may say Ed is a boring centrist but at least when someone stands up and declares himself an enemy of everything worthwhile about Britain Ed can say something better than “thank you sir, may I have another”.
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Questing Vole @thequestingvole.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
​As part of the Army's 250th birthday celebrations tomorrow, General Motors have announced they will be naming a new car after the President who has done so much for the national defense. Soon we will all be able to celebrate President Trump with a brand new Dodge Draft.
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Questing Vole @thequestingvole.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 — Collected Short Stories of Saki (HH Munro, 1900s) One movie 🎥 — High Society (1956) One album 💿 — Warren Zevon, The Wind (2003) One TV show 📺 — Yes (Prime) Minister (1980-88)
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