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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 07/09/2026
Last night, hundreds of men in black emerged on the street in Portsmouth. In ugly scenes that lasted until 3am, they blocked coaches transporting migrants. The action was led by Danny Tommo’s Patriot Platform, who were also behind Saturday’s demo in Dover. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/07/b...
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Balaclavas on the beachfront: Anti-migrant activism escalates in Portsmouth – HOPE not hate
A major anti-migrant protest occurred in Portsmouth last night, triggered by the arrival of a dinghy carrying asylum seekers into the harbour.  Hundreds emerged onto...
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David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My latest article, on the new series of A House Through Time, staring tomorrow on BBC Two at 9m. Set in the amazing, beautiful, gothic city of Edinburgh.
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‘Houses with long histories are magical’: David Olusoga on the home history show that’s gripped the UK
At first, I worried that only historians would find A House Through Time compelling. But its appeal is so enduring that fans of the show stop me in the street to ask when they can watch more
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Ronnie C @from-rons-desk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The historic Bovril Gate entrance at Stamford Bridge #Chelsea 👍 #CFC
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Vanessa @van-s-a.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Conwy
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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · 17/07/2026
This is what the Track Changes function should look like.
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Vanessa @van-s-a.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Llandudno
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Vanessa @van-s-a.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Llandudno
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Most people think Sherlock Holmes began at 221B Baker Street. But Holmes began somewhere far stranger: in a Victorian hospital ward in Edinburgh, where surgeon Joe Bell taught students to read a body like a crime scene.🧵 Here's the US 🇺🇸 trailer for SLEUTH-HOUND. Preorder: linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11/06/2026
Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?
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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Nigel Farage. What a cunt. That’s the post. Good morning.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🔴 The Neo-Nazi and Far-Right Coalition that Converged on Southampton Over Henry Nowak’s Murder There were Nazi salutes and ‘White Power’ chants on the streets of Southampton, after the Reform UK leader called for “pure cold rage” in response to Nowak’s death bylinetimes.com/2026/06/03/t...
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The Neo-Nazi and Far-Right Coalition that Converged on Southampton Over Henry Nowak’s Murder
There were Nazi salutes and 'White Power' chants on the streets of Southampton, after the Reform UK leader called for "pure cold rage" in response to Nowak's death
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Vanessa @van-s-a.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
#Edinburgh
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Vanessa @van-s-a.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
#Edinburgh
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Want to know where he is running to holding with a pitcher in 1649?
a man running with a pitcher in his hand.
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Vanessa @van-s-a.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Wembley this afternoon! Nice of the players to decide to turn up for a bit today as well
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Rich @batesintheplace.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Happy Anniversary to all that celebrate 💙 From the point of being 2-0 down and 10 men* it’s Chelsea’s greatest ever performance.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
My next book (October 20) is on the Victorian medical detective Joseph Bell. SLEUTH-HOUND is a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice and razor-sharp logic to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. /1
A black and white photo of Joseph Bell with white hair looking down and reading a book, next to an original illustration of Holmes smoking a pipe.
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
'The Heart of Spitalfields' (2022) by Marc Gooderham marcgooderham.co.uk
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Nizaar Kinsella @nizaarkinsella.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Chelsea Supporters' Trust write open letter to ownership highlighting fresh concerns. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Chelsea news: Supporters' Trust write open letter to ownership
Chelsea news: Supporters' Trust write open letter to ownership
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
'A Chelsea Cup-Tie, Stamford Bridge' (1923) by Charles Ernest Cundall (Manchester Art Gallery)
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 10/04/2026
@drneilstone.bsky.social
Sometimes vaccine efficacy is subtle.  Sometimes it isn’t. 
Graph showing the number of measles cases after the 1st and 2nd MMR vaccines were recommended.
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This is a horrific hate crime. So are all the replies (i am not QTing antisemitism, but you'll find plenty) 'questioning' why 'they have their own ambulances'. Hatzola is pretty similar to St Johns Ambulances, but no one is conspiratorial about that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
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Four Jewish ambulances set on fire in London in what health secretary calls 'sickening' attack
The attack on the Jewish community ambulance service in north London is being treated as an
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/01/2026
The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced. Vaccine disinformation is a worldwide pandemic that is killing us.
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UK loses measles elimination status
Decision made after outbreaks in 2024, when there were nearly 3,000 cases in England and Wales.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
The Power of Poetry
 
with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,
 
it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,
 
so he reached for his copy  
of The Complete Works of Yeats
 
and bludgeoned the President
of the United States


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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 15/01/2026
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Archaeologists uncover Victorian children’s schoolwork in east London
Archaeologists working in East London have made a rare discovery that is seldom preserved in the historical record -- an unusually intimate glimpse into the lives of Victorian children.
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Marc Gooderham @marcgooderham.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
One from a few years back. A Little Rain. 33x55cm.
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Londonist: Time Machine @londonist.com · 13/01/2026
The barriers are finally down! The Bazalgette Embankment next to Blackfriars Bridge is pen, following years of work on the supersewer. For the first time in London's history, it's possible to walk along the north bank from Westminster to Tower without straying more than a few metres from the river.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Vaccines, the most impressive public health intervention in medical history, and where we could be headed if there was not efforts to negate truth, facts, and evidence A great, open-access, review and perspective by @scientificdiscovery.dev
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Most of the London-crime chat is just code for racism. They don't really mean that an area is dangerous. They mean that it contains black people/Muslims and want to insinuate that this entails danger.
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Decoherence Media @decoherence.media · 07/01/2026
BREAKING: X’s chatbot Grok isn’t just making AI porn deepfakes, it’s now making Nazi AI porn deepfakes, undressing women and showing them wearing “swastika bikinis”. Many of these women are Jewish, including a recently deceased Holocaust survivor.
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Elon Musk’s “Grok” is undressing women and showing them in swastika bikinis
One woman targeted is a Jewish Holocaust survivor
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Sickening. 5000 illegal abuse images a day and still no action.
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Brian Ricketts @kiwigeolog.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Mary Somerville - the person for whom the word scientist was coined by William Whewell in his 1834. She was a polymath, an intellectual tour de force at a time when teaching women to read and write let alone think deeply was frowned upon or ignored ⚒️🧪🌊 www.geological-digressions.com/mary-somervi...
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Ronnie C @from-rons-desk.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
This morning chilly #London starting 2026 in all kinds of blue!
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Vanessa @van-s-a.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year 🎆 🥂
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Vanessa @van-s-a.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
At Piccadilly Circus #London
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Vanessa @van-s-a.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Hyde Park Winter Wonderland
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Ronnie C @from-rons-desk.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Ladt night, approaching The Royal Albert Hall #London 👍
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Good. Let’s not let it go away. This man wants to be Britain’s next PM. His denials and obfuscations around his long history of repulsive behaviour show that he is utterly unfit.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments
Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 05/12/2025
What is it like to find a fake video of yourself promoting supplements on TikTok? A Full Fact investigation, published exclusively by @theguardian.com, reveals how wellness products are being endorsed on social media by fake AI versions of real experts. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media
Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effects
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
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Rick Glanvill @rickglanvill.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Chelsea's record crowd when 100,000 crammed in to watch Blues vs Moscow Dynamo
Biggest ever crowd at a club ground in England came to watch Chelsea play the Russian side Moscow Dynamo in 1945 just after the end of World War Two
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The draft legislation is crackers. It would fail immediately if we stayed in the ECHR but it disappears the human rights act. if passed after that it would involve mandatory loss of ILR for up to 400,000 people + refusal of 2-3 million others, though without no credible means to identify or remove
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Vanessa @van-s-a.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
#Rome
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Vanessa @van-s-a.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Roman & Imperial Fora #Rome
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Vanessa @van-s-a.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Colosseum #Rome
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Colosseum #Rome
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Chelsea Youth @chelseayouth.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
This is what happens when you play goal music at home.
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