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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We'll have a full analysis of the Conservatives' proposed inheritance tax cuts tomorrow. But, for now, three charts. 1. Who would benefit from the cuts?

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Liars' League @liarsleague.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

💀MEET THE #RAGandBONE #HalloweenStories Talent #1: Mia Nuttgens reads “Anastasia” by @anitaponton.bsky.social 👻 Post-Covid & terminally online, a lonely vampire needs more than blood from her latest victim ... #LiarsLeague 7.30pm Tue 13 Oct at The Phoenix W1 🎟️£5 TICKETS at www.liarsleague.com

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Liars' League @liarsleague.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

CAST ANNOUNCED for #RAGandBONE #Halloween Stories, Tue 13 Oct @ The Phoenix £5 tix @ www.liarsleague.com Zombies! Ghosts! Vampires! Curses! ☠️ANNALIE WILSON☠️TIM LARKFIELD☠️MIA NUTTGENS☠️DAVID MILDON ☠️PATSY PRINCE☠️TONY BELL☠️ @jamesgarry60.bsky.social @shashikadapa.bsky.social @mitchberman.bsky.social

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An under-appreciated fact is the extent to which our preferences are shaped by what we perceive to be available. This matters for (among other things) debates about social mobility, immigration or the state of the public sphere.

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading the independent report into Man City's financial "arrangements" now, stopping after every paragraph, saying "Jesus"..."JESUS!"..."Holy fuck!" and again. This is beyond anything anyone imagined. Also started to wonder whether criminal proceedings are in the picture now.

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Tim Aldrich @timaldrich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Location: the Hill Dickinson Stadium Mark (suited, unusually for a fan at a game): I’ll just take our beers to our seats Andy (also suited but without a tie): Sorry mate, no booze: we’ll have to neck it before we get in… Mark: oh yes, I forgot, you see in Canada…

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Race and fairness in fractious times. Public priorities for racial equity. Read the @britishfuture.bsky.social report on how ethnic minorities & the majority group see the state of the nation on race today. First phase of 3 year project @nuffieldfoundation.org www.britishfuture.org/publication/...

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Tim Aldrich @timaldrich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@bencollins.bsky.social and @theonion.com should probably quit now. @apnews.com is now indistinguishable sadly

Headline from AP news: FBI chief Kash Patel defends hiring policy changes on prostitution, bestiality at fiery hearing

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

England's young people performing esp well, putting UK in the top ten for maths, reading and science. One driver of bucking trend is better integration: closing white/minority attainment gap for children of migrants, where west European countries lag www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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England’s teenagers outperform peers in most countries in maths, reading and science

OECD test sees results dip in almost all member nations and warns of ‘digital distractions’ eroding academic skills

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Tim Aldrich @timaldrich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Everyone should have an 11th Commandment: their personal additional line that no one should cross. Mine? 11. Thou shalt not cheat at pub quizzes Yours?

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Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Haven’t got tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum? Don’t worry you can visit Reading's full-size copy, faithfully embroidered by 35 women in 1885-86 (plus extra pants!) Or latest blog compares the two tapestries www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/comparing-bayeux-and-reading-tapestries

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Comparing the Bayeux and Reading tapestries

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry is a full-size copy of the original 11th century tapestry. It was created in 1885-1886 by 35 women of the Leek Embroidery Society 'so that England should have a copy of its o...

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Capita civil service pension fiasco should be a much bigger scandal than it seems to be. There are people leaving work next week who won’t be paid their pensions as entitled and will have to claim Universal Credit.

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Tim Grady @tlgrady68.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A European athletics champion and also a BA History graduate. Dina Asher-Smith talked this morning about how her BA History degree has helped to power her running career. One for the graduate outcomes survey! (circa 2:30.00): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @royalhistsoc.org

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Today - 01/09/2026 - BBC Sounds

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Some good news ... I first wrote about the astonishing mega-leaks of #methane in Turkmenistan in 2023 It's a potent greenhouse gas but fixes can be fast and cheap - a climate "emergency brake" #climatecrisis 1/3 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Revealed: 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks risk triggering climate tipping points

Vast releases of gas, along with future ‘methane bombs’, represent huge threat – but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating

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Tim Aldrich @timaldrich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Lovely anecdote from the Stewart Lee interview in today’s Guardian www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Text: “When he was young, he read a “brilliant” book, Mister Fairweather and His Family, written as a tool to help adoptive children understand their origins. “It was about a bloke, and he was bored, so he got a cat. He was still bored, so he gets a dog, and he’s still bored, so he gets a wife. He’s still bored. And then they go, ‘Well, let’s get a baby’. That book is considered an absolute disaster now because it’s not child-centric. The baby isn’t supposed to be a pet for the parents. Anyway, I looked it up on Amazon, everyone was slagging it off, ‘This book ruined my life. I wanted to kill myself.’ And then there was one really good review of it. I thought, ‘That’s what I think. It’s a really nice little book with really nice pictures.’ And I’d written that review myself, 20 years ago, and forgotten.”

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Tim Aldrich @timaldrich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“The count of loss of control incidents relies on X users posting about incidents that happened so it is only partial”. You don’t say? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds

Exclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in July

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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Emmett Till was only 14 years old when he was brutally murdered in Mississippi. To this day, his family has been denied justice. 71 years later, we remember Emmett Till & the injustice he endured. We must never forget his story & always fight to ensure no child has their future stolen by hate.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

BBC Four are showing the Dolly Parton Glastonbury set tonight, so you know.

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Tim Aldrich @timaldrich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Try reading lyrics, any lyrics on Genius after watching this: youtu.be/za08oosFmpI?.... It is impossible not then to hear Pete’s voice

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Not Only But Also -- Mommy's got a brand-new bag

YouTube video by soberhippie

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Tim Aldrich @timaldrich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is all very good and gives me something easy to forward when I’m asked the same question. Plus any visual reference to Office Space is a bonus

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Tim Aldrich @timaldrich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Highly recommend www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... this show from the BBC, Sirius XM and 99% Invisible’s @romanmars.bsky.social. Every episode opens a new window on US history. #11 on Julia Sand and President Arthur is deeply moving and inspirational

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A History of the United States in 100 Objects - 100 Objects #13: The Sand Letters - BBC Sounds

How Julia Sand's 23 letters transformed a president and American politics forever.

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Tim Aldrich @timaldrich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Downgrade a movie Plastic Magnolias (for Dolly)

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One key to British politics is that one quarter of the public are distinctly more likely than others to think most people agree with them (while often/mostly being a vocal minority)

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

V bad BBC coverage. Graduate vacancies may well be down - perhaps 5% or 10%) Little/no chance down by 50% - and it is absurd to have listings on one website being down 50% as evidence for this headline from the national broadcaster One for BBC Verify + FactCheck www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I get so sick of being told that there has been no gender-based prejudice against women musicians. So here are some genuine reviews written about women, between 1893 & 2021, with a couple words/letters changed to make them about men.

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Iona Fyfe @ionafyfe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I need to shift 60 last tickets for my Fringe show to break even. I’m a Scottish folksinger, performing self-penned, trad ballads and translations in Scots My shows are 21 and 23. Any support/reposts would go a long way. ❤️ 🎟️ Tickets → bit.ly/fringeif

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Some thoughts on the discourse (with nods to @stephenkb.bsky.social @provokedeconomy.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social and various others)https://substack.com/home/post/p-211963353

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On Left paranoia

sociology or barbarism

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Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Metapolicy. There’s something rotten in the State. It behaves in increasingly strange and unpredictable ways. We don’t have good theories to explain the degradation in state capacity, and how to rebuild it. I've written about the new field we need to study this restate.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...

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Why we need metapolicy

What the state capacity field can learn from metascience

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

'How Place-Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent' Our latest essay on place and discontent is out today in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social Free to read ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1467...

How Place-Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent

Gerry Stoker, Daisy Blackburn, Nick Clarke, Will Jennings

Resentment felt by people in areas that have suffered from social and economic decline is a significant driver of populist backlash—‘the revenge of the places that don't matter’. An effective place-based strategy could provide something of an antidote to populist discontent. In power, populist leaders are arch-centralisers, organising government to dance to their tune. By focusing on place, UK government can respond to people's feelings of being neglected by Westminster and give them the power and tools to tackle issues that matter to their community. Drawing on a survey conducted in England in 2025, we show that, although place-based grievance is widespread, people still express pride in place and see unfulfilled potential, while negative perceptions reflect the material condition of local areas. There is demand for state intervention, but little faith in the ability of central government to deliver. In response, a place-based strategy requires a new style of multilevel governance followed by a slower, more place-sensitive push towards devolved government.

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Tim Aldrich @timaldrich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is - of many, many chilling and under reported issues in the US - a sickening development. Lynching is back

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17/08/2026

The loudest voices online aren't always the most accurate. New data shows our homicide rate is lower than every US state, while murder rates are at record lows. The evidence is clear: our approach to tackling crime and its causes works. It’s driving down violence right across the capital.

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Is Europe safer than America?

A novel dataset provides some surprising answers

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 14/08/2026

This is fine... "Britain on fire" "Heatwave devastation" "Inferno" "Houses burn and train derails on hottest day" "Rampant wildfires engulf streets of family homes" "Record 2.5m trips to A&E" "Temps hit 38.1C as fifth heatwave peaks" "Britain in meltdown"

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Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 5: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. “Get in, loser. We’re going rowing on the Thames in a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance. Also on Wednesdays we wear arsenic green.” #c19th

Cover of Our Mutual Friend featuring two young women, at school judging by their backpack and casual dress, and wearing jewellery and low rise jeans of c. 2002

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The interesting thing about school closures during covid (agree with them or not) is they had much less impact on long-term academic outcomes than people expected (me included). But much more long-term impact on mental health and attendance.

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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.

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The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

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Dave West @ HSJ @davewwest.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Trailer tonight for Andy Burnham social care speech tomorrow No10 again emphasises the link with NHS pressures - the Notes claim "cuts to social care funding between 2010 and 2018 led to an estimated additional half a million A&E attendances a year for people aged 65 and over".

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Charles Tallack @charlestallack.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Yesterday, the Health Foundation published analysis finding no evidence that the Palantir/FDP tool OPTICA, has cut discharge delays, further undermining NHS England claims that it had. bsky.app/profile/dian...

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

RIP Bill Oddie. "On Ilkla Moor Baht’at," his version of a 19th Century Yorkshire song set to a parody of Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help from my Friends," done for John Peel's Dandelion label in 1970. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir_Y...

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Bill Oddie - On Ilkla Moor Baht‘at, feat. Jim Capaldi (A-Side Single, 1970)

YouTube video by Berkin Altınok

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Andy Westwood @andywestwood.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Couldn’t get a ticket to see the Bayeux Tapestry? Come and see where the English surrendered to the Normans in 1066. It’s free and there’s nobody here.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 23/07/2026

If the masonry crossing tower was 79 m when it was complete 1222 (timber spire may be a bit later, but was up by the 1250s as Matthew Paris is using it as an emblem of the City of London by then) it would have been absolutely extraordinary. but then in so many ways London Cathedral was extraordinary

Royal MS 14 C VII (Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum, Chronica majora, Part III), f. 2, c.1250-9, showing London Cathedral with its great crossing spire

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