Alison Sidebottom 🇺🇦
@alibobski.bsky.social
Crafting cat lover, with a penchant for books, lego and yoga. Works at UCL supporting apprenticeships. Views are all my own.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Makes perfect political as well as commercial sense: after all, the Telegraph is now just as bonkers as the Mail.
Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph
Tie-up would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain
www.ft.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Makes perfect political as well as commercial sense: after all, the Telegraph is now just as bonkers as the Mail.
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They literally ruin everything they touch
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They literally ruin everything they touch
Well colour me shocked.....
🚨 BREAKING: Kent County Council is hurtling towards financial oblivion under Reform.
A shocking new council report reveals a projected budget black hole of £46.5 million for this year. The Reform Administration has completely lost control of our finances. 🔶
A shocking new council report reveals a projected budget black hole of £46.5 million for this year. The Reform Administration has completely lost control of our finances. 🔶
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Well colour me shocked.....
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“The Family Pet” Postcard from my collection, mailed 1910.
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“The Family Pet” Postcard from my collection, mailed 1910.
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I've mentioned this quietly, but - since the summer my hobby has been making this ambitious murder mystery podcast. A story. Narrated by me, with a mouthwatering cast. Partly interactive. Trailer is coming tomorrow but if you like the sound of this, please follow @murderbastard.bsky.social.
November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I've mentioned this quietly, but - since the summer my hobby has been making this ambitious murder mystery podcast. A story. Narrated by me, with a mouthwatering cast. Partly interactive. Trailer is coming tomorrow but if you like the sound of this, please follow @murderbastard.bsky.social.
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The real issue isn’t immigration, it’s the feedback loop: platforms amplify anxiety → voters feel it → politicians chase it → hollow policy follows. Until we break that cycle, we won’t get functional decisions or functional democracy.
November 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The real issue isn’t immigration, it’s the feedback loop: platforms amplify anxiety → voters feel it → politicians chase it → hollow policy follows. Until we break that cycle, we won’t get functional decisions or functional democracy.
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My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
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You cant parachute asylum seekers into deprived areas, in completely inappropriate housing, then say those migrants are 'dividing our country'. You divided the country because you can't organise a basic service and process claims in a timely way
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
You cant parachute asylum seekers into deprived areas, in completely inappropriate housing, then say those migrants are 'dividing our country'. You divided the country because you can't organise a basic service and process claims in a timely way
Exactly this...
Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now
November 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Exactly this...
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Once you see it it's hard to unsee it 🤣
November 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Once you see it it's hard to unsee it 🤣
Do read the alt text, it'll bring a little joy to your life.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Do read the alt text, it'll bring a little joy to your life.
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“Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship” - note that in 2018 Bannon was trying to interfere in UK politics, cheered on by Epstein www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
“Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship” - note that in 2018 Bannon was trying to interfere in UK politics, cheered on by Epstein www.bbc.com/news/article...
Too true 🤣
![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Too true 🤣
Spotted this fellow on my wanderings to work this morning 🥰
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Spotted this fellow on my wanderings to work this morning 🥰
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If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
On walking from the station to the office this morning it occurred to me what wonderful sights I take for granted so I took a few photos to capture my journey.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
On walking from the station to the office this morning it occurred to me what wonderful sights I take for granted so I took a few photos to capture my journey.
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"I have met some very bad people....none as bad as trump.
Not one decent cell in his body..so yes - dangerous."
Jeffrey Epstein 2017
Not one decent cell in his body..so yes - dangerous."
Jeffrey Epstein 2017
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
"I have met some very bad people....none as bad as trump.
Not one decent cell in his body..so yes - dangerous."
Jeffrey Epstein 2017
Not one decent cell in his body..so yes - dangerous."
Jeffrey Epstein 2017
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thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
Cankles 🤣🤣🤣
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Cankles 🤣🤣🤣
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If you don't follow @actualnames.bsky.social I recommend you review your position
There's a childish humour in some of these (this one induced a broad grin) and also so much inspiration for writers
Pig Chin McIntosh - gangster or jazz musician? You decide ...
There's a childish humour in some of these (this one induced a broad grin) and also so much inspiration for writers
Pig Chin McIntosh - gangster or jazz musician? You decide ...
Pig Chin McIntosh
United States, Census, 1940
United States, Census, 1940
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If you don't follow @actualnames.bsky.social I recommend you review your position
There's a childish humour in some of these (this one induced a broad grin) and also so much inspiration for writers
Pig Chin McIntosh - gangster or jazz musician? You decide ...
There's a childish humour in some of these (this one induced a broad grin) and also so much inspiration for writers
Pig Chin McIntosh - gangster or jazz musician? You decide ...
I have fond memories of working at Froebel in the School of Education some years ago, not quite as long as this though!
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the Froebel Institute, now part of @uni-roehampton.bsky.social
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I have fond memories of working at Froebel in the School of Education some years ago, not quite as long as this though!
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Lest it might be useful as an aide memoire, my "American Week" for @eddiemair.bsky.social's programme on @lbc.co.uk that first aired on January 8th 2021. Please feel free to share with anyone who might benefit from hearing it at a time when some memories are faulty.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
January 8, 2021 - "American Week": American Carnage
Simon's live weekly roundup for Eddie Mair's programme on LBC. Live every Friday at 4:50pm.
audioboom.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Lest it might be useful as an aide memoire, my "American Week" for @eddiemair.bsky.social's programme on @lbc.co.uk that first aired on January 8th 2021. Please feel free to share with anyone who might benefit from hearing it at a time when some memories are faulty.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
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Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.
October 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.