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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h

Gaza journalist Maha Hussaini: “We have returned, like we’ll always do.”

A cat sits in a window. Beyond a completely destroyed city

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 12h

N.B. from a proper journal, not one of those ridiculous Great Barrington type 'journals'

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

💉 2024–25 Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness

In U.S. veterans, the updated vaccine reduced 6-month risks of Covid-related ED visits (-29%), hospitalisations (-39%), and deaths (-64%) vs flu-only group.

🔗 doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2510226

#SciComm #COVID19 #Vaccines 🧪

Association of 2024–2025 Covid-19 Vaccine with Covid-19 Outcomes in U.S. Veterans | NEJM

Amid the declining clinical severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and diminishing public uptake of annual coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines, ...

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 12h

And whilst people might criticise this as playing to the already converted, research shows Reform are actually vulnerable to messaging like this.

Rather than, you know, saying they have a point and you actually like flags too. 🙄

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 12h

"The barbarians are inside". Aside from the fact that Lenny Henry is hardly a barbarian, the invocation of such scornful, xenophobic, colonial language is appalling.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 14h

I realise I slightly go on about this, but I'm not sure enough attention is paid to the fact that a fair proportion of comment articles in the modern Daily Telegraph are utterly unmoored from any sense of even tenuous reality.

Daniel Hannan

Britain has given so much to civilisation. Now the barbarians are inside

The poisonous ideas of Vladimir Lenin have infected our progressive elite

Contemplate those elderly buffoons in blue berets who hand out EU flags at the Last Night of the Proms. Do you suppose they have any real interest in rejoining the EU? Do they strike you as having looked into the budgetary, migratory and commercial implications? Of course not. They just loathe the people they imagine having voted Leave.

Listen to Sir Lenny Henry, who thinks that, as well as handing over squillions to the West Indies and Africa, we should pay black people in this country. So much for the notion of equality before the law.

I could go on. The museums rushing to give away legally purchased collections to people who have never owned them, and who will very probably sell them on to private collectors. The diplomats longing to surrender British territories in defiance of the wishes of their peoples. The universities eviscerating the Western canon in the name of decolonising the curriculum.

“Colonialism-and-slavery” is proffered as a binomial phrase, like “law-and-order” or “gin-and-tonic”. Few kids in our schools are given the slightest notion that the first, at least in Africa, was driven by the desire to extirpate the second. Even fewer are taught that African kings fought to defend the institution.

The Benin Bronzes, which our cultural leaders are so keen to give away, were seized to defray the costs of an 1897 expedition against a state that buried slaves alive. The British Museum, which owns most of them, dares not mention it. Instead it says the carvings were acquired during the “expansion of colonial power”

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 12h

So this concerns a bloke, right? Not a trans woman. A bloke, who could walk into a women's changing room and pull a curtain aside. It's men who are the threat, not our trans sisters, many of whom, I suspect, will go asap straight into their own cubicle hoping no-one has a go at them.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 12h

Olivia Petter was made to feel as if an incident with a stranger in a clothing shop’s dressing room was something she was supposed to simply brush off. But several bureaucratic roadblocks and a police investigation later, she finally felt vindicated

My changing room experience is proof that women need to report ‘the small things’

www.independent.co.uk

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 13h

Great side eye

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 14h

Have a photo of my sister's new puppy to lift the mood. We're all besotted.

A small golden labrador puppy wearing a blue collar, sitting upright on the grass looking intently at something

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15h

A UK presenter shouldn’t crow about an audience’s ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism 🥺 ?

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 1d

The Nathan Gill scandal should be huge news so why has the British media been mainly silent about it? (I think we know 🤔)
Here's Fiona Bruce shutting down any mention & acting like the audience aren't interested.
#bbqt

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22h

The new Faustian pact? Yes you can become rich beyond your wildest dreams but it rots your brain.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 15h

It’s not just the Jewish suitcase at the back of the hall. It’s the Muslim suitcase, the Hindu suitcase, the Sikh suitcase all sitting at the back of the hall, with many asking why they should stay in a country where both the left & right are immersed in racism & xenophobia.

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 15h

It is extraordinary to report that, in 2025, the Jewish suitcase is back in the hall, waiting for the moment of sudden flight. I feel nothing but shame

✏️ Matthew d'Ancona

The Jewish suitcase is back in the hall

After Manchester, many British Jews are asking why they should remain in a country where they feel despised

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 23h

It is utterly surreal this is not being treated as a bigger story.

Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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GuyDorrellEsq @thenotoriousguy.bsky.social · 18h

Someone has created an online Random Affront Generator

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 21h

Protesting the Portland way.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

I love this image.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 21h

Do you think Labour might notice that almost the exact same % they lost went to the Greens and Lib Dems here? 🤷‍♀️

Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 1d

❗ Reform GAIN from Labour

Yesterday's Lloyds and Corby Village (North Northamptonshire) council by-election result:

REF: 38.5% (+2.1)
LAB: 32.4% (-11.8)
GRN: 18.9% (+9.7)
LDEM: 5.8% (+1.5)
CON: 4.4% (-1.5)

+/- 2025

andrewteale.me.uk/previews

Andrew’s Previews | Andrew Teale | Substack

"All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order". Click to read Andrew’s Previews, by Andrew Teale, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

andrewteale.me.uk

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 1d

A one-year-old boy with his father were subjected to an alleged racially aggravated attack outside their home in Worcester. West Mercia Police confirmed a man and child were sprayed with an unknown substance and racially abused with "threats to kill" which led to a 77 year old woman being arrested.

Muslim leaders speak of shock after 'racist' spray attack on baby

Muslim leaders at Worcester Mosque spoke of their 'shock and sadness' following the alleged racist attack when a baby was sprayed with an unknown…

www.worcesternews.co.uk

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

With the world being… gestures wildly at everything… one of the most important things we can still do is laugh - sometimes hysterically, sometimes just to stay sane.

So, with that in mind, I present to you:

People Who Make Me Laugh.

Let me know in the comments who rlse should be added.

🐻

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 1d

"The two-state solution is the path to peace. Two nations living side by side in security and dignity. Excluding Palestinians from the process seems nonsensical."

@LaylaMoran.bsky.social

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 1d

So glad you've made it to Europe.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote an opinion column for the Observer! I never do opinion columns but I was just really annoyed by cultural vandalism and Kemi Badenoch.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

In praise of “rip-off” degrees | The Observer

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on the arts and humanities isn’t just culturally short-sighted, it’s economically illiterate

observer.co.uk

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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian has picked up this story, with the founder of the production company behind #HIGNFY blaming young producers “marinated in social media”

He says they have tightened their rules around getting information from social media

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel-winning economists to move from US to Zurich.

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee moving from MIT to create new research centre on development.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Nobel-winning economists to move from US to Zurich - Research Professional News

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee moving from MIT to create new research centre on development

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 1d

"The group describes itself as a ‘spiritual army’ opposed to ‘sin and cultural decay’, and ‘a coalition of Christians… who believe it’s time for the Church to stop living like civilians and start fighting like soldiers’. The protest was promoted online by Turning Point UK."
Not very Christian then.

Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 1d

Here we go... it was only a matter of time, as the far-right gets ever more vocal without check

Homophobic Christian Nationalist mob targets London’s gay district

A homophobic religious mob calling themselves the ‘King’s Army’ organised an intimidating mob in the streets of London’s Soho – the heart of London’s LGBT+ community, home to many LGBT+ bars, clubs, a...

humanists.uk

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