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Viji Alles

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BREAKING: Our banned interview with Kimmel generated 6 million views on YouTube.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This morning the website of Parliament’s standards commissioner has been updated to confirm that his investigation is no longer suspended
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
It really is sweet how excited the English are about having discovered turmeric......
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Viji Alles @vijialles.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
“Hate brings views”. 🤦🏽‍♂️
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The ever-more radcalised Elon Musk regularly shares content from Steve Laws. Laws leads breakaway faction quitting Homeland for its leader only supporting the voluntary, not forced repatriation of British-born minorities "I don't care if they were born here, every single one must go" i
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
'Whatever malicious thing can be found anywhere in the world can be found [in London]… actors, jesters, smooth-skinned lads, Moors, flatterers, pretty boys... quacks, belly dancers [and] sorcerers'. A visitor to London, 1180.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
My office is on Brick Lane. Every day we push through hordes of tourists who are there to marvel at the exciting success story that is that neighbourhood, London and the Uk more generally. Building successful multi cultural & confessional democracies is one of the greatest achievements in history
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
'the white British share of the population – defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent' 😂😂 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...
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White British people will be a minority in 40 years, report claims
Shifting ethnic dynamic of the UK driven by immigration predicted to cause dramatic changes
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
People who have built lives here, and paid tens of thousands of pounds to do so, with the idea that after five years they could apply for indefinite leave to remain now being told they have to pay tens of thousands more and wait another five, at least. It's disgusting. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Migrants already in UK face longer wait for permanent settlement
People will typically have to live in the UK for 10 years before applying for the right to stay indefinitely.
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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
All foreign temporary workers are already exempt from 1 year of NI contributions, there are already 16 agreements preventing double taxation of work covering over 50 countries (www.gov.uk/government/p...), and UK citizens working in 🇮🇳 will also benefit reciprocally.
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Reciprocal agreements
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Code Orange for global warming bit.ly/3RBbn1L Isle of Wight weighs possible citrus harvest which may be followed by olives, avocados, bananas. But where will we grow apples and rhubarb?
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Citruses thrive on Isle of Wight and could grow across warming UK
Apples and rhubarb may become harder to cultivate in British fields as temperatures rise, warn the creators of the country’s first citrus grove
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
From the US to Israel, Hungary to Turkey, a unifying theme of leaders sliding away from democratic norms is a concerted attack on the courts. It is the playbook of every populist strongman (or woman) seeking to march their country away from liberal democracy.  www.ft.com/content/85c8...
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The rule of law is democracy’s last defence — that’s why populists attack it
It’s no accident that from France to Wisconsin, the radical right seek to undermine faith in the judiciary
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 31/03/2025
If your definition of "Woke" is broad enough to cover both Greta Thunberg and Vladimir Putin, it has perhaps exhausted whatever rather dubious descriptive usefulness it once had.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
‘Gigil’ has long been a favourite untranslatable: finding something or someone so impossibly cute you just want to squeeze them (not always great for the squeezee). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Gigil, alamak among new words in Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary has added new untranslatable words from South East Asia.
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Steve Witkoff’s interview to Tucker Carlson is making headlines in Russia. One paper today: “US & Russian officials are now speaking the same language…for the first time in years the White House & the Kremlin are openly demonstrating their mutual attraction…” #ReadingRussia
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Steve's Reading Russia - Russian Press Review (24 March 2025)
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
‘It is indeed easy to pull the sword from the scabbard, but not so easy to put it back when you want, since the outcome of war is uncertain.’ Alexei, Tsar of all Russia, 1652 (before invading Ukraine)
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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Well I never. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
OBR publishes supplementarly analysis of fiscal impact of migration. Confirms earlier analysis : - the "average migrant" [in their data] earns slightly *more* than the UK average - the "average migrant" makes a more +ve fiscal contribution than average resident obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment. Happy World Book Day.
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KAMALA NATION @kamalanation.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Ending the night with this. *Get your hankies* A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It doesn’t have an easy answer because identity is made up. We draw lines on bits of paper & put up signs. We get to choose. We are in charge here. Identity isn’t floating about like helium to be isolated & put in balloons. So let’s make up an identity which is generous and capacious.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/02/2025
Full text of the Ukraine-US Minerals Deal. 1. Seems fine (an investment and reconstruction fund); 2. Has no resemblance to what the Trump administration has been saying about it; 3. Can't tell if Ukraine is good at diplomacy, or Trump bad at it. www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/articles...
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The full text of the “Minerals Deal”, agreed by Ukraine and the United States
European Pravda publishes the final text of the “Minerals Deal,” an intergovernmental arrangement that Ukraine and the United States are set to sign this week...
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Ex-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian bribes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ex-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian bribes
The ex-MEP and former UKIP Wales leader made favourable statements about Russia for money, a court hears.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Well what do you know. Reform UK's former leader in Wales has just been accused in court of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ex-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian bribes
The ex-MEP and former UKIP Wales leader made favourable statements about Russia for money, a court hears.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
America: how it’s changed. The 46th President of the United States called Vladimir Putin “a murderous dictator.” The 47th President called Volodymyr Zelensky “a dictator without elections.”
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Word of the day is ‘cumber-world’ (14th century): a person or thing that encumbers the planet.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A welcome antidote to the xenophobic nonsense about "low-wage" migrant workers that floods the opinion pages of the Telegraph and Times. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted | John Harris
My dad’s journey through the health and social care systems proves what politicians secretly know: we’ll be lost if they succeed in ‘sending them home’, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Delighted to say that ‘Only One Word for Love’, a short play I’ve co-written with Peter Souter, will air on R4 tomorrow afternoon at 14.15. It stars the wonderful Jessica Raine and Rupert Evans too. We’d all love it if you gave it a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Only One Word for Love
A romance with some rowing thrown in as we approach Valentine's Day.
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
“This is bad, full stop. It creates a class of person who are forever excluded from civic life no matter how long they live here. It’s also a clear breach of the refugee convention.” Damn straigt, @colinyeo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’
Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Today in 1811 the UK Parliament removed all power from King George because he was "insane"
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The @Telegraph, @thetimes, @MailOnline & @TheSun publish corrections to their scaremongering on undocumented migrants in London. Imagine between them the reach & power of these papers. The fact is they are using that power to instil Trumpist hate & we are ill-equipped to resist.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The Times essentially reprinted the Telegraph's nonsense story about "illegal migrants" [thread appended below.] They have now published a detailed correction. I expect the Telegraph to follow.
We wrongly said that a study on behalf of Thames Water showed “1 in 12 Londoners is an illegal migrant” (News, Jan 23). In fact the study covered only 7 million people in specific “water resource zones”, not the whole population of London, which is closer to 9 million. 1 in 12 was the highest of a range of estimates for the proportion of “irregular migrants”, but these estimates included some people who are not illegal immigrants, such as those given indefinite leave to remain, as well as some British-born children of migrants with irregular status.
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Laura Kuenssberg: “What’s your evidence in this case that his crimes were anything to do with a lack of integration?” Kemi Badenoch: “That I believe is one of the elements. My evidence is my personal experience.” So no evidence, then. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/badeno...
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Kemi Badenoch Says No Further Evidence Needed To Support 'Integration' Theory About Southport Killer
"My evidence is my personal experience."
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
For Burns Night, a remote BBC musical collaboration. I accompany Meteorologist & BBC Scotland Weather presenter Calum MacColl singing Auld Lang Syne (the original melody). Wishing you storm-free celebrations.
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Auld Lang Syne (original melody) - BBC remote musical collaboration
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Prince Harry’s barrister, David Sherborne: ‘At her trial in 2014, Rebekah Brooks said, “When I was editor of The Sun we ran a clean ship.” 10 years later, when she is the CEO of the company, they now admit, when she was editor of The Sun, they ran a criminal enterprise.’
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Contrary to popular belief, new migrants are not dominating Britain’s social housing stock'. Excellent data-driven analysis by @tomcalver.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/cd0c...
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Immigrants are often accused of ‘taking all our houses’. Is it fair?
It is perhaps the most often heard complaint about migration: that people come to the UK and take housing that was meant for the British. Since the 1970s, anti-migrant feeling has been bound up with
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