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Humanists UK mourns Dame Esther Rantzen (1940–2026) Esther was a great champion of human dignity. She approached her final years with the same fearless determination that defined her career of advocacy, using her own experience to shine a light on the suffering caused by our outdated laws.

Esther Rantzen smiling wearing a blue-and-red feathered fascinator and red coat, with headline text noting her years (1940–2026).

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 9h

RIP Esther Rantzen. A remarkable woman who achieved remarkable things, including finding a dog that said sausages youtu.be/ajsCY8SjJ1Y?...

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Talking Dog from That's Life (1970s)... SAUSAGES!!

YouTube video by MostPopularClips2012

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 9h

Sometimes I wonder how Mark Zuckerberg can be so terribly terribly rich when Facebook is so terribly terribly shite!

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14h

🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11h

“The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the Convention [ECHR]. It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to” Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...

The Law Society
Gazette

In short, if Britain were to leave the ECHR, it would not be
'taking back control. It would be surrendering influence over the rules and institutions that help keep us safe.
The debate about the ECHR is too often conducted as though it were a choice between national sovereignty and international law. That is a false choice.
The Convention advances British interests because it reflects British values: liberty under law, democratic government and the accountability of power.
Walking away would not make Britain freer. It would make Britain weaker.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What Newsnight should have taken away was that it shouldn't adopt tabloid narratives unquestioningly and made the appropriate correction. What it did instead was to report the correction as if it were gossip and go "OOOOOH! THEY'RE VERY SENSITIVE!" What? To accuracy? You used to be, too, BBC.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19h

There was a chance here to look more grown up and it is entirely unsurprising that Badenoch did not take it.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 19h

The number of people buying farms to dodge tax is falling. Although you wouldn't know it if you followed the coverage www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

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The withdrawal of inheritance tax relief on farmland is having the desired effect - Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Doug Clark, Cononley, Keighley.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Funny. When Cameron introduced the triple lock I remember everyone on the left understanding very clearly why it was a cynical bribe to Tory voters and would not amount to a hill of beans if public services like social care were cut to the bone. Some of the same comrades are now big fans. 🧐

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is there such a thing as too many flags???

Part of the us administration pictured in front of 14 us flags

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I walked in and there was this old racist guy spouting off on the news and I wondered why they were platforming him and it turned out he was a billionaire and that was why. A billionaire that backed Brexit and then fucked off abroad, while the rest of us suffer the consequences.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Facebook. The place that is radicalising your granny to support the far right. The place that is weaponising attacks on heroes risking their lives to rescue people at sea, now consider women's equality too controversial to allow on the platform. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism

Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jim Ratcliffe and James Dyson - plenty of representation with bugger all taxation.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Having 'legitimate concerns' is the new 'I'm not racist, but ...'

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I mean it's very funny, but also rather worrying...

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Remember when Obama said the UK might struggle to get a trade deal with the US and all the Brexiters lost their collective minds at foreign interference in our elections. Those same voices seem more than happy to pocket vast sums of money from all sorts of foreign sources.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's difficult to comprehend the delays in the court system, but the fact a man had just gone on trial for a planned protest at Boris Johnson's wedding all those years ago really puts it in perspective www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Man 'planned paint protest at Boris Johnson wedding party', court hears

A court hears Tim Speers, from Cornwall, planned to write the word "Palestine" on the venue's lawn.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Welcome to WTAF Is Wrong With Roughly One-Third Of People, Episode 4,629

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This man was at "The People's Mic" at RefUKCon yesterday, getting praised as a hero by Nigel Farage, Suella Braverman, and Jeremy Kyle. www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-...

thamesvalley.police.uk

Man charged with public order offences – Oxfordshire

Following a Thames Valley Police investigation, a man has been charged in connection with 14 offences in Oxfordshire.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I can't speak for everyone but I know for sure that performative patriotism like this would have completely turned me off as a schoolkid.

News headline: Reform plan to make schools fly the union jack and make children sing the national anthem.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nigel Farage all over the airwaves playing the victim. Bringing his family into it. Making out the people that caught him are mean bullies. It's extraordinary. Do accused criminals usually get this special treatment?

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Climate change gets a lot of bad press but there are some upsides! Could Brussels sprouts be off the menu this Christmas? - BBC News share.google/WfQ74JUSPU2u...

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Could Brussels sprouts be off the menu this Christmas?

An Oxfordshire farmer says his Brussels sprouts are under threat from pests after long hot summer.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Good grief. So Hegseth is picking on kids aged 12-18 in a cadet program. Our school had cadets. The thought that someone so powerful would pick on those schoolkids. It's just unthinkable. And yet here we are.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Brexit made a United Ireland inevitable. Ironically the people that will shout the loudest about this are the ones that voted for it. But as they kept telling us, they knew what they were voting for.

Irish headline saying Andy Burnham can't be trusted on Ireland

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I guess my invite got lost in the post!

News headline: fashion icons gather in tribute

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We've had a little bit of rain. I'm already getting sewage discharge alerts. How on earth did we let them do this to our country.

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LaReyne @lareyne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thought it was The Onion for a minute. Given tasers can cause fatal heart attacks later on, it might be something to cheer you up

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Breaking News: Toddler throws toys out of pram.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The online right lost their minds that Andy Burnham wore a tshirt for the long train journey to Ukraine. The same people who slavishy supported Boris Johnson, who looked like he had been dragged through a hedge backwards, were furious that he wore a smart tshirt to travel on the train.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Remember this? A university worker made a distasteful comment after the dreadful murder of Anne Widdecombe. The person that posted the nasty comment was arrested and charged. news.sky.com/story/univer...

news.sky.com

University of Aberdeen worker charged by police over Ann Widdecombe death comments

Heather Herbert was reported to Police Scotland over an online post on Bluesky following the politician's death last week.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

They're so obsessed with Harry they're putting his picture on stories about Ukraine!

BBC news article about Ukraine captioned with a picture of Harry

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Harry and Meghan returning to the UK is fantastic news for Andy Burnham! The right wing press will be so frothing with hatred for Meghan, they will have less time to attempt to destroy Burnham!

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Reform the party of free speech have suspended Tim Montgomerie for ....checks notes... for free speech. It seems not all free speech is free speech.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm no legal expert but I don't think all this pardoning your guilty mates and trying to lock up innocent people because you don't like them is a healthy thing for a democracy.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Can we stop using ‘race realists’, even in scare quotes. The correct technical term is ‘fucking racist bastards’.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Seems perfectly reasonable!

News headline about a man calling the police after he mistakenly bought alcohol free gin.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you didn't get the results you wanted don't worry. I only got 2 O levels and I've had an amazing career. Of course, my parents immense fortune helped and all the contacts I made at elite private school have been pretty useful. But bad grades isn't the end of the world!

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

broligarchy.substack.com

A Digital Lynching

A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In other news, which barely got reported, it emerged that Capital One closed down over 300 bank accounts linked to the Trump family because of worries around money laundering.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

188 articles attacking him in 9 days. The whole witch hunt was started by a white supremacist. At the same Uni several professors are being investigated for sexual misconduct. But they're white so ... 188 articles in 9 days. Shocking.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Nigel Farage is the first MP not to turn up to his victory count since Bobby Sands in 1981. Bobby Sands was in prison on hunger strike at the time!

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Fuck me. The dishonesty. I'm stunned. The sheer blatant shamefaced dishonesty. I wondered why I'd heard people say outlandish things about wildfires recently. It's so depressing that they turn everythinng into a culture war.

Daily Mail front page blaming wildfires on rewilding.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New polling shows nobody supports the early prisoner release scheme. Unfortunately they don't have a choice. There is no room in the prisons. No room people! Don't you get it! www.ipsos.com/en-uk/fewer-...

ipsos.com

Fewer than 1 in 10 support the early prison release scheme

New polling data from Ipsos in the UK, conducted 7–11 August 2026, reveals deep public opposition to the early prison release scheme alongside persistent dissatisfaction with the broader criminal just...

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Farage hasn't even turned up to the result of a by-election he called. I don't know if it's true, but I heard a rumour that he couldn't go because he doesn't know where Clacton is.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I reinstalled recently. I've noticed that on a clean install with nothing to feed the algorithm you get lots of extreme right wing content by default. Here's one example - I'd searched for a house song and my first recommendation is Tommy Robinson. I'm guessing they pay to top the algorithm.

A youtube search for a house song and the first recommendation is a Tommy Robinson video.

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Zander @zans.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Meat eaters are such hypocrites. They don't care how their meat is killed before it's put on their plate, as long as they don't have to know anything about it. Then they get outraged when some cattle get shot. I assume Daera had good reason. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Fivemiletown: External review into shooting of more than 50 cattle

The cull took place in land near Fivemiletown in County Tyrone last month.

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