Aurigny.bsky.social
@aurigny.bsky.social
Wildlife, Criminology, Probation, Channel Islander, light aircraft and aviation. 🏴🇯🇪🇬🇬🛩️🌍
Interesting! #ukbudget #ukpolitics 🇬🇧
The (obvious in advance) limits of the government's strategy since it took office: a budget in which the majority of individual items poll well, yet people think it is the most unfair budget since YouGov started polling on this question.
% who say each 2025 Budget policy was the 'right thing to do' (1/3)
Increase gambling taxes: 82%
Freeze rail fares: 82%
Reducing energy bills by £150 a year by reducing green levies: 75%
Increasing minimum wage: 71%
Mansion tax: 67%
Decreasing biz rates for retail/hospitality/leisure: 64%
Increase gambling taxes: 82%
Freeze rail fares: 82%
Reducing energy bills by £150 a year by reducing green levies: 75%
Increasing minimum wage: 71%
Mansion tax: 67%
Decreasing biz rates for retail/hospitality/leisure: 64%
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Interesting! #ukbudget #ukpolitics 🇬🇧
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If you want to stop doom scrolling on an evening watch subtitled foreign TV programmes, often much better than a lot of the current English language dross being served up and reading the subs means you can't read your phone at the same time.
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If you want to stop doom scrolling on an evening watch subtitled foreign TV programmes, often much better than a lot of the current English language dross being served up and reading the subs means you can't read your phone at the same time.
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The Investing in Jersey programme is committed to giving our Children and Young people the best start possible.
• New home for Highlands College
• Modernised schools incl. Rouge Bouillon & Gas Place
• Expanded youth services
Read more: https://bit.ly/4oOVX96
@GovJsyCYPES
• New home for Highlands College
• Modernised schools incl. Rouge Bouillon & Gas Place
• Expanded youth services
Read more: https://bit.ly/4oOVX96
@GovJsyCYPES
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Investing in Jersey programme is committed to giving our Children and Young people the best start possible.
• New home for Highlands College
• Modernised schools incl. Rouge Bouillon & Gas Place
• Expanded youth services
Read more: https://bit.ly/4oOVX96
@GovJsyCYPES
• New home for Highlands College
• Modernised schools incl. Rouge Bouillon & Gas Place
• Expanded youth services
Read more: https://bit.ly/4oOVX96
@GovJsyCYPES
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Mahmood is essentially saying to racists "It's completely understandable that my presence offends you. So I'll make sure there aren't too many more of me, then hopefully you'll feel a bit better" (but they won't of course).
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Mahmood is essentially saying to racists "It's completely understandable that my presence offends you. So I'll make sure there aren't too many more of me, then hopefully you'll feel a bit better" (but they won't of course).
And if you haven't already read it, here is the Sky News investigation which shows how X is disproportionately boosting right-wing content, extreme content, and politicians personally favoured by Elon Musk
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The X Effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right
For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.
news.sky.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🚨 Labour MPs are calling for a minister-led review of the government’s use of X, warning it poses growing risks to democracy and public safety
@politicshome.bsky.social understands a review is currently being carried out by officials, but without ministerial oversight
@politicshome.bsky.social understands a review is currently being carried out by officials, but without ministerial oversight
Labour MPs Call For A More Serious Review Of The Government's Use Of X
Labour MPs are calling for ministers to take control of decisions over the government’s continued use of X, as concerns grow about the platform’s s...
www.politicshome.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🚨 Labour MPs are calling for a minister-led review of the government’s use of X, warning it poses growing risks to democracy and public safety
@politicshome.bsky.social understands a review is currently being carried out by officials, but without ministerial oversight
@politicshome.bsky.social understands a review is currently being carried out by officials, but without ministerial oversight
#reformuk #ukpolitics 🇬🇧🏴. Disturbing in that will even targeted messaging make difference?
The full film & piece is here.
Do the voters of Clacton think it’s okay for politicians to accept bribes from Russian spies?
www.thenerve.news/p/john-sween...
Do the voters of Clacton think it’s okay for politicians to accept bribes from Russian spies?
www.thenerve.news/p/john-sween...
An absent MP? A Russian traitor in Reform? When I go to Clacton, nobody seems to care
On the trail of the elusive Nigel Farage, John Sweeney visits his impoverished constituency – where even the prospect of Putin undermining British politics doesn’t raise many eyebrows
www.thenerve.news
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#reformuk #ukpolitics 🇬🇧🏴. Disturbing in that will even targeted messaging make difference?
Letters from prison: the protesters locked up for trying to change the world
For months, activists have been writing from jail cells about their anger and fear that in Britain the right to peaceful protest and civil disobedience is being stolen away.
https://bit.ly/3X1lv6y
For months, activists have been writing from jail cells about their anger and fear that in Britain the right to peaceful protest and civil disobedience is being stolen away.
https://bit.ly/3X1lv6y
Letters from prison: the protesters locked up for trying to change the world | The Observer
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November 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
www.facebook.com/share/1A6oAN... Loganair stepping in very quickly following Blue Islands ceasing operations. A Jersey base to come and recruiting staff. 🇯🇪🇬🇬🇬🇧🏴🏴✈️ #jerseyci #guernsey #channelislands #aviation
Redirecting...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
www.facebook.com/share/1A6oAN... Loganair stepping in very quickly following Blue Islands ceasing operations. A Jersey base to come and recruiting staff. 🇯🇪🇬🇬🇬🇧🏴🏴✈️ #jerseyci #guernsey #channelislands #aviation
So important! Even more important is the general danger that extreme wealth and power is bringing to influence democracy.
🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
So important! Even more important is the general danger that extreme wealth and power is bringing to influence democracy.
Quick, easy and a great tweak of a classic comfort food!
Cosy, cosy, cosy: #RecipeOfTheDay is Chowder with Asian Flavours! www.nigella.com/recipes/chow...
Chowder With Southeast Asian Flavours
This is the perfect supper on those days when a knife and fork seem like just too much work. It's instantly comforting but spirited enough to make one feel invigorated rather than stultified by eating...
www.nigella.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Quick, easy and a great tweak of a classic comfort food!
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Huh? How do you do a "balancing" program when one candidate did an insurgency trying to overturn the election and the other...didn't?
Would Prescott have been satisfied with an hour of people telling BBC journalists why they didn't try and stoke a riot to overturn Trump's second win?
Would Prescott have been satisfied with an hour of people telling BBC journalists why they didn't try and stoke a riot to overturn Trump's second win?
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Huh? How do you do a "balancing" program when one candidate did an insurgency trying to overturn the election and the other...didn't?
Would Prescott have been satisfied with an hour of people telling BBC journalists why they didn't try and stoke a riot to overturn Trump's second win?
Would Prescott have been satisfied with an hour of people telling BBC journalists why they didn't try and stoke a riot to overturn Trump's second win?
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The Guardian Holidays team has partnered with Byway, a flight-free holiday expert.
Book selected slow travel trips with Byway by 10 December 2025, and you'll get a free first-class upgrade.
Find out more here: holidays.theguardian.com/byway/BlueSky
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Find out more here: holidays.theguardian.com/byway/BlueSky
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The Guardian Holidays team has partnered with Byway, a flight-free holiday expert.
Book selected slow travel trips with Byway by 10 December 2025, and you'll get a free first-class upgrade.
Find out more here: holidays.theguardian.com/byway/BlueSky
Book selected slow travel trips with Byway by 10 December 2025, and you'll get a free first-class upgrade.
Find out more here: holidays.theguardian.com/byway/BlueSky
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A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
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The lovely @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social Ruth Ware (right) with Rachel Abbott at The #Alderney Literary Trust's event on the book launch of The Woman in Suite 11.
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The lovely @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social Ruth Ware (right) with Rachel Abbott at The #Alderney Literary Trust's event on the book launch of The Woman in Suite 11.
Two of Wales’ leading theatre-makers are coming together to co-direct the epic new play, Owain & Henry, as tickets for the Welsh National Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre co-production go on general sale today
Michael Sheen performs exclusive extract from Owain & Henry to celebrate launch of ticket sales
Two of Wales’ leading theatre-makers are coming together to co-direct the epic new play, Owain & Henry, as tickets for the Welsh National Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre co-production go on genera...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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"China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap; if you doubt the appeal, count the solar panels on Pakistani roofs. "
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap; if you doubt the appeal, count the solar panels on Pakistani roofs. "
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"China can produce almost a terawatt of renewable-energy capacity in a year. That is enough to supply as much energy as more than 300 big nuclear-power plants."
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
I love The Economist's bullishness here
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
I love The Economist's bullishness here
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"China can produce almost a terawatt of renewable-energy capacity in a year. That is enough to supply as much energy as more than 300 big nuclear-power plants."
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
I love The Economist's bullishness here
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
I love The Economist's bullishness here
A great service. Anything which improves affordable inter island connectivity should be celebrated. #jerseyci #guernsey #channelislands #ferry 🇬🇬🇯🇪
Islands Unlimited has had a successful first season linking Jersey and Guernsey by sea with a daily high speed passenger service. We are delighted to welcome Islands Unlimited to Chamber and wish them every success when the service resumes on 20th March. islands-unlimited.com
Islands Unlimited | Connecting the Channel Islands
High speed inter-island passenger ferry between Guernsey and Jersey | Regular, reliable ferry sailings between the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey.
islands-unlimited.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A great service. Anything which improves affordable inter island connectivity should be celebrated. #jerseyci #guernsey #channelislands #ferry 🇬🇬🇯🇪
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UK-wide broadcasters framed the coverage of the Caerphilly by-election result not around Plaid Cymru’s victory but the implications for the Labour Party and Reform UK, according to research carried out at Cardiff University ✍️Martin Shipton nation.cymru/news/plaid-c...
Plaid Cymru's Caerphilly victory overshadowed by UK broadcasters' obsession with Reform UK and Labour
Martin Shipton UK-wide broadcasters framed the coverage of the Caerphilly by-election result not around Plaid Cymru’s victory but the implications for the Labour Party and Reform UK, according to rese...
nation.cymru
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
UK-wide broadcasters framed the coverage of the Caerphilly by-election result not around Plaid Cymru’s victory but the implications for the Labour Party and Reform UK, according to research carried out at Cardiff University ✍️Martin Shipton nation.cymru/news/plaid-c...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Too good not to repost 🤣😂 #reform #ukpolitics 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
November 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Too good not to repost 🤣😂 #reform #ukpolitics 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
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Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance
Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance
The story of hot tea and unconsummated love hails from a very different era – and was far from easy to make. Yet it remains a key influence for film-makers from Sofia Coppola to Celine Song, James Ivory to Greta Gerwig
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance
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Musk’s war on Wikipedia is a fight for a future without fact-checking
The tech mogul’s Grokipedia relies on right-leaning AI instead of consensus between human moderators, writes John Naughton
https://bit.ly/4nyDR9W
The tech mogul’s Grokipedia relies on right-leaning AI instead of consensus between human moderators, writes John Naughton
https://bit.ly/4nyDR9W
Musk’s war on Wikipedia is a fight for a future without f...
The tech mogul’s Grokipedia relies on right-leaning AI instead of consensus between human moderators
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November 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Musk’s war on Wikipedia is a fight for a future without fact-checking
The tech mogul’s Grokipedia relies on right-leaning AI instead of consensus between human moderators, writes John Naughton
https://bit.ly/4nyDR9W
The tech mogul’s Grokipedia relies on right-leaning AI instead of consensus between human moderators, writes John Naughton
https://bit.ly/4nyDR9W