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David Vaudin

@vaudindavid.bsky.social
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watching Britain and the world from England after watching from Switzerland

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 8h
"Hero farmer" may not actually have been the one who alerted the police to the men in balaclavas 🤯 www.ft.com/content/e9b1...
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Suspect in RAF Fairford incident called 999 shortly before arrest
Motive for the emergency call is unclear, as police continue to investigate incident at air base used by US bombers
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
More than 7,500 people have signed our petition calling on Ofcom to take immediate action. Add your name: bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 11h
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12h
Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...
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Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment
It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10h
All this 'well you've forgotten to ask the EU, you won't get your previous deal you know' commentary is so boring and theatrically dispassionate. Everyone knows that.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h
A man charged with rape and sexual assault casually joking about consent at an official event with Trump White House officials.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 10h
The Labour Party is having a moment My analysis of the speech, the most radical from a prime minister in more than a decade www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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David Vaudin @vaudindavid.bsky.social · 9h
Thank you for wearing a smart suit French style without a tie.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10h
The corruption never stops.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 21h
It never stops being important that, no matter what the subject, politicians like Farage, Trump & Rubio are entirely untethered from the most basic requirements of honest discourse. They might turn out to be telling the truth sometimes but only ever in the spirit of stopped clocks.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans' closing argument heading into November: please pretend our president is popular, ignore the gas prices, and if you vote for us, maybe there's $5,000 in it for you. It is not going well for them.
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Republicans' Closing Arguments Are Becoming Increasingly Desperate
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David Vaudin @vaudindavid.bsky.social · 22h
photocopy of a photocopy
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
"Once, I went out on the rob for diesel, and sparked a major international security incident"
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 28/09/2026
One for the equivocators.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 27/09/2026
Swiss voters overwhelmingly reject far-right plan to toughen neutrality
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Swiss voters overwhelmingly reject far-right plan to toughen neutrality
Final results from the Swiss government showed over 70% of voters, and a majority in all 26 of the country's regions, rejected the plan championed by a right-wing populist party.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Burnham today v impressive. The idea itself, the scale of what is being proposed, the determination to push ahead despite how vulnerable it makes him, and the big fundamental point behind it all: that mainstream politics will only survive if it proves it can solve big problems.
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pleased to see I've gained a few more followers through my inclusion in a Bluesky starter pack, 'Scientists Who Write Science Books.' For my followers, check out this list & find your favorite scientist authors who you might not have known are here! go.bsky.app/2LmKSDN
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Andy Wheatley @andywheatley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This too…. bsky.app/profile/brun...
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David Vaudin @vaudindavid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
61m tonnes of rubble: Gaza aid workers face delicate task of clearing ruins concealing up to 10,000 bodies www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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61m tonnes of rubble: Gaza aid workers face delicate task of clearing ruins concealing up to 10,000 bodies
Removal of war debris, in which lives, memories and unexploded Israeli bombs lie buried, is one of largest clearance operations in modern history
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
😬😬😬
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Trump Just Showed Off The New U.S. Space Force Uniforms—And Everyone's Doing A Double Take
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the kind of thing you can see in the margins of the Tapestry and it doesn’t require a great deal of unpacking
Naked aroused man holding his arms and moving towards a cowering naked woman
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David Vaudin @vaudindavid.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
vaping just isn't cool whatever they tell you www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Vaping in cars carrying children to be banned in England
Rising evidence that secondhand vapour from e-cigarettes poses health risks, government says
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 25/09/2026
🚨I got to interview Danny Tommo for The New Yorker. "I try to explain the Redcrosse Knight, a man of flawed virtue who must endure spiritual collapse before defeating his dragon. 'He sounds decent. But in my one, the dragon is the RNLI, yeah?'" www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
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My day out with Danny Tommo
An encounter with the far right activist and amateur pirate
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David Vaudin @vaudindavid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reform UK's new 'Small Boats Watch' app is not only cruel, it is in clear violation of Apple and Google’s rules and must be removed immediately. You can take action now: bestforbritain.org/take-action/...
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Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fundamentally, the median voter has had a tax cut since 2010 and the result is that nothing works.
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Lewerta @lewerta.com · 25/09/2026
Villarrica Volcano in Pucón, Chile 📷 Francisco Negroni
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Everyone pointing out what they consider to be outrageous omissions here. The correct answer is Teenage Bounty Hunters.
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David Vaudin @vaudindavid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Will there now be Armstrong gap years with no champion? Will City be automatically relegated and play next season in the Championship? Will City take only a points deduction and have to fight out bottom place this season with Tottenham? www.theguardian.com/football/liv...
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Manchester City: reports emerging over guilty verdict on almost all charges – live news and reaction
Rolling report: Get updates and reaction as news about Manchester City’s charges begins to emerge
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow I’ve never seen this photo before. The two figures from American Gothic (who turn out to be the family dentist and the artist’s sister!) www.ft.com/content/6015...
The artist's sister Nan Wood Graham and dentist Dr Byron Henry pose with the painting in 1942 © Image courtesy of the Figge Art Museum, City of Davenport Art Collection, Grant Wood Archive, Friends of Art Acquisition Fund, SB-4
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Literally everyone will tell you that.
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Early Beatlemania was fuelled by teenage girls, but they won't tell you that.

Women and girls have always been the trendsetters and the tastemakers.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/09/2026
Co-director Yuval Abraham says documentary exposing Israeli abuses will be available online in November.
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NAZA, Israeli film on Gaza, to stream for free after theatrical run
Co-director Yuval Abraham says documentary exposing Israeli abuses will be available online in November.
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
DO. NOT. WEAKEN.
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John Denham @jydenham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.
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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ysbyty Cynfyn: Is this site an embanked Bronze Age stone circle converted to be a Christian Church in later times? CoralJackz investigate in their video and article linked from our page.
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David Vaudin @vaudindavid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
because his mother's address www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 22/09/2026
"The only people he's interested in speaking to is his closest acolytes, the lurid fantasies of his own brain and the 7,000 saddos that tuned into Trump TV." Has Trump stopped speaking to the American people, and slipped back into 'real estate developer' mode?
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nancy Mitford updated.
Sign with arrow in one direction saying Non EU and the other EU.
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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Set out my feelings about why I just don’t like this trend towards creating a better past by censoring your own archive:
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We must resist the temptation to censor media and film archives
The best solution is to have a policy of addition rather than subtraction
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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
A photo of Donald Trump inspecting the scale model of the Trump arch with drones, snipers, and golden statues was unavailable due to reporters being banned from the briefing. So, here is Hitler and other top Nazis inspecting a scale model of a planned Triumphal Arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Six weeks until Election Day and the momentum is only building. But don't just take my word for it. Here's the data to back it up.
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Our Wins Of The Week
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Anguilla Noticer @myopicduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“cancelled” is used to mean ”widely condemned and boycotted by right-minded people”, and not “bankrupted and exiled to tartarus forever”. self-righteously pretending you don’t understand that just makes you look dim. it is like getting upset people use the word ”literally” to mean “metaphorically”
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Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 20/09/2026
🇧🇪 REMCO EVENEPOEL UNTOUCHABLE! He takes his fourth successive 🌈 Worlds time trial title FULL RESULTS 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/cycling-r... 📸 Cor Vos
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