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Great thread to read if you respond to every paywall like someone has shot you in the chest

Early release latest: a man was released from Wandsworth, outside of which British Transport Police immediately arrested him for bike thefts he was wanted on from June and August.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/09/2026

Israeli minister calls Shabana Mahmood an Islamist, because erm, erm, erm

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fairford suspects had no explosive but a sizeable amount of petrol...

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The five men arrested over a potential terror plot near RAF Fairford are being released on police bail, says head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor 👀

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Someone in a local Facebook group is renting out this room for £450 a month. Presumably no refund if you get cursed.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Daniel Thomas/Tommo has been charged, with a single count of criminal damage, plus a fresh charge under Regulation of Investigatory Powers for failing to provide his phone pin. He will appear in Magistrates' Court tomorrow.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you're just coming to this, here's my in-depth piece on what happened in the Channel this week: a 40-hour small boat crossing, and a game of cat-and-mouse between Border Force and anti-migrant protesters. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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How Danny Tommo came face to face with migrants in the Channel

A group of 60 people spent nearly 40 hours at sea, during which time they were pursued by the Patriot Platform founder and diverted due to protests in Gosport

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 24/09/2026

🔺 BREAKING: Danny Tommo, an anti-migrant activist, has been arrested after a dinghy used by asylum seekers appeared to be slashed by a protester with a member of rescue staff still on board

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Danny Tommo arrested after ‘migrant boat slashed in Channel’

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hampshire police say man was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or endangering their safety under the Aviation & Maritime Security Act 1990, criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, & conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Merchant Shipping Act 1995

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a particularly baffling line of questioning given that we know exactly where the empty, used dinghies go: they are either destroyed, or in some cases held by the Home Office in an evidence facility near Dover. You can go there and see them through the fence. There's no secret here.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Amid everything else going on, I got discharged from limb reconstruction today. I've got two working, fully-rebuilt legs that can walk and dance and paddleboard again. Running is probably off the table, but everyone knows that's for nerds anyway, so I'm chalking this up as a big old win.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Daniel Thomas, the far-right agitator who has brought Dover and Portsmouth to standstills and closed down an RNLI station, is fundraising for a boat. There's just one problem. We can reveal his followers bought him one already... and he sank it. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Danny Tommo’s boat for policing Channel accidentally sinks

Daniel Thomas, whose Patriot Platform group caused havoc in Dover and Portsmouth, had purchased the vessel to interfere with Border Force operations

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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not the cheeriest thing I've written www.newstatesman.com/business/202...

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For the next 3 months I will be our acting Home Affairs correspondent, covering all things Home Office, extremism, policing, prisons and more. Please do get in touch with tips.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

quite something this paragraph.

After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Last weekend Kent police described a far-right protest in Dover as "spontaneous". They've now admitted they were warned the night before - likely by a resident of the small village were several hundred men dumped their cars, camped out then boarded vans to Dover: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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How balaclava-clad activists swarmed a quiet Kentish village

Police failed to follow up on a tip-off before hundreds descended on Preston, using it as a staging post for anti-immigration protests across the south

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Uniformed men in formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force

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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 06/09/2026

Police are facing growing questions over how up to 500 masked activists dressed in black brought parts of Dover to a standstill on Saturday. Authorities have been accused of failure to act, intelligence failures and being ‘caught on the hoof’. www.ft.com/content/f244...

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Police face questions over Dover disruption caused by masked protesters

Up to 500 activists dressed in black with their faces covered brought part of UK port town to a standstill on Saturday

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Extreme right-wing protesters are in a stand-off with the RNLI in Portsmouth. The group, led by Danny Tommo, are waist-deep in the sea and threatening to go "under the water" if police try to arrest them. Six lifeboats monitoring. Volunteer rescuers giving up their evening for this.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Reports of a second derailment in 24 hours, this one in Essex. This country is not ready for global heating.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Since the start of June...

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Long afternoon in my home town covering a train derailment. The fields where I grew up dogwalking full of emergency vehicles. This is a truly scary time and appropriately scary front page.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We massively understate the damage BBQs do. A single fire station in the Peaks put out 18 disposable BBQs and campfires in a single day around Snake Pass last week. Meanwhile firefighters are still monitoring and damping down the ash of a 600ha fire nearby. www.thetimes.com/article/7e8e...

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Andy Burnham warns disposable barbecues could be banned every summer

The prime minister, who chaired a Cobra meeting on the heatwave, said the combination of soaring temperatures and outdoor cooking has led to wildfires

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Spot the partial eclipse:

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Are we all still being cynics on bluesky or are we admitting that the eclipse was actually magical and amazing and worth carrying a colander around a park for?

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Having just returned from a holiday & a climb of Ben Nevis, the sight of the summit radicalised me - graffiti and stickers everywhere, even a padlock on the trig point - all twee shit like this should be classed for what it is which is just posh littering

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Today I saw a kingfisher in the wild for the first time, which is great. Unfortunately I'm a terrible photographer. So here's a really bad picture of a kingfisher.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I once found an AI-rephrased plagiarised first aid manual on Amazon. It had replaced all mentions of "airway" with "aeroplane route". Gotta reopen the casualty's aeroplane routes stat.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I told the surgeon who reconstructed my legs that I was really nervous. He replied: "I've never lost a leg yet. Well, not in a case like yours, at least."

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is such a good piece by @jaseokundaye.bsky.social. Excuse the long extract in the screenshot, but these points are really important.

But what happens when an academic’s story is sold through him being the “youngest black ever” (sitting alongside familiar monikers such as “the first black” or “black excellence”) and asterisked by a tale of hardship? You are not encouraged or invited to engage with the substance of their scholarship; instead, you are invited to clap. Instead of his appointment conjuring the question “what new opportunities for research will this lead to?”, it was “doesn’t this make you feel good?”

What this means is that Arday was treated not as a scholar but as a mascot, one who was particularly expedient for an institution that had been regularly embarrassed by its historic record on race: too few black students (in my cohort at Cambridge matriculating in 2015 there were only 15 black males out of 3,449 students); single-figure black academics (which is still the case); allegations of institutional racism. Independent of the merits or pitfalls of his own scholarship, what success looked like for Arday in this role was limited; what accountability could look like if misconduct occurred was constrained by him being a vehicle for Cambridge to signal its institutional progress.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We put this to Arday 24 hours before his resignation. Our findings include: - A false claim of Mind funding his research - His claim that his participant committed suicide, in a study with no ethics approval and unreported in the final paper - evidence of fabricated participants - nonsensical errors

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Jason Arday resigns. Regardless of everything, hard not to feel like he has been repeatedly failed by serial institutions, which failed to instruct him or guide him into reputable academic work, and traded off his story without checking it.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I have read Joshua Bonehill-Paine’s blogpost from April entitled “Inside the Mind of an Antisemite -and How I Escaped It”. It’s a fascinating account of being consumed by hateful, extremist ideology. You know what’s not in there? An apology. To Luciana Berger or the wider Jewish community

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A very important post in a good thread.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Calls for the Office for Students to investigate Liverpool John Moores University, after it passed Jason Arday's PhD thesis despite plagiarism and the thesis being 38,000 words over word count. He says received just one supervision in 2.5 years. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

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Cambridge academic loses backing over plagiarism claims

The president of Wolfson College has withdrawn her support for Jason Arday after he was accused of copying work in his PhD thesis

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We put fresh findings of research discrepancies to Professor Jason Arday. He agreed to an interview, telling his side for the first time. “It’s soul-destroying because I’ve done everything I can to try and do the best I can," he said. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

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Jason Arday: I am not a liar, says star academic accused of plagiarism

The youngest ever black professor at Cambridge University claims allegations he is a fraud are cruel, racially motivated and do not account for his autism

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

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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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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This is precisely what I have been worried about - it was only a matter of time. Lives doubtless lost and an environmental catastrophe. en.mehrnews.com/news/246547/...

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Oil tanker explodes in Hormuz Strait after hitting mine

TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) – An oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, which had turned off its radar system, exploded after hitting a mine in the Strait of Hormuz.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

As much as I love a Mediterranean holiday, British seaside parks are not meant to look like southern Italy. One hour of 10% rain forecast tomorrow, then another week of hot sun.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila

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