Bethan Angharad
@bethanangharadl.bsky.social
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"And in the darkness I smile at life, as if I were the possessor of charm which would enable me to transform all that is evil and tragical into serenity and happiness. But when I search my mind for the cause of this joy, I find there is no cause, and can only laugh at myself." - Rosa Luxemburg
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Reminder for all UK dual nationals:
As of the 25 Feb 2026, dual nationals will not be able to travel to the UK on their 'other' passport. If, for example, you or your dual citizen children live abroad & currently don't hold a UK passport, you need to get one (for them) in order to re-enter the UK.
As of the 25 Feb 2026, dual nationals will not be able to travel to the UK on their 'other' passport. If, for example, you or your dual citizen children live abroad & currently don't hold a UK passport, you need to get one (for them) in order to re-enter the UK.
January 29, 2026 at 5:47 AM
Reminder for all UK dual nationals:
As of the 25 Feb 2026, dual nationals will not be able to travel to the UK on their 'other' passport. If, for example, you or your dual citizen children live abroad & currently don't hold a UK passport, you need to get one (for them) in order to re-enter the UK.
As of the 25 Feb 2026, dual nationals will not be able to travel to the UK on their 'other' passport. If, for example, you or your dual citizen children live abroad & currently don't hold a UK passport, you need to get one (for them) in order to re-enter the UK.
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This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sidcup man convicted aover explosive attack on Ulez camera
Kevin Rees's homemade bomb caused damage to vehicles and property including a child's bedroom.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 8:00 AM
This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What we all need to see is a red squirrel in a power pose.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
January 29, 2026 at 8:21 AM
What we all need to see is a red squirrel in a power pose.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
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When I interviewed Steve Van Zandt a few years ago, he memorably said the only way to defeat Trump and his henchmen would be for “the tough good guys” to make a stand. I put it to you that Springsteen is doing that right now. 🫡
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 7:21 AM
When I interviewed Steve Van Zandt a few years ago, he memorably said the only way to defeat Trump and his henchmen would be for “the tough good guys” to make a stand. I put it to you that Springsteen is doing that right now. 🫡
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Well worth a read.
I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub
aiskillshub.org.uk
January 29, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Well worth a read.
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"I kept telling them "the girl was born here". They didn't care, they picked up the child, just put a jumper on her and told me to get into the car with her.”
www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
January 28, 2026 at 5:45 PM
"I kept telling them "the girl was born here". They didn't care, they picked up the child, just put a jumper on her and told me to get into the car with her.”
www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
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Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.
January 28, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.
Yes, shock, horror, the Green Party have an evidence-based drugs policy which favours legalisation & control over criminalisation. Elect more Greens if you’d like Parliament to have a sensible conversation about drugs policy rather than just performative pearl-clutching.
Labour attacks Green party drugs policy in Gorton and Denton byelection
Labour attacks Green party drugs policy in Gorton and Denton byelection
Online ads target Zack Polanski’s drugs stance as Labour aims to sideline Greens and consolidate anti-Reform vote
Labour has launched an attack on the Green party for wanting to legalise drugs, as the parties vie to be seen as the main leftwing contender against Reform UK in the Gorton and Denton byelection.
The party is pursuing a strategy of trying to sideline Zack Polanski’s party after warnings Labour was too slow to pitch itself as the “Stop Reform” party in Caerphilly, which was won by Plaid Cymru. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Yes, shock, horror, the Green Party have an evidence-based drugs policy which favours legalisation & control over criminalisation. Elect more Greens if you’d like Parliament to have a sensible conversation about drugs policy rather than just performative pearl-clutching.
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Another nauseating climbdown by Starmer following pressure from rich landlords
Providing shit accommodation for a massive rent is going to be perfectly legal for almost another decade
Completely indefensible
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
Providing shit accommodation for a massive rent is going to be perfectly legal for almost another decade
Completely indefensible
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
Decent homes standard for UK private renters delayed by government until 2035
Campaigners pushing for 2030 deadline said deferral was ‘denying renters the most basic standards in our homes’
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Another nauseating climbdown by Starmer following pressure from rich landlords
Providing shit accommodation for a massive rent is going to be perfectly legal for almost another decade
Completely indefensible
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
Providing shit accommodation for a massive rent is going to be perfectly legal for almost another decade
Completely indefensible
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
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Don’t wear contact lenses if there’s any chance at all you might be exposed to tear gas or pepper spray
January 28, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Don’t wear contact lenses if there’s any chance at all you might be exposed to tear gas or pepper spray
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After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 8:17 PM
After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
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there is no hell hot enough
Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Warning: video is hard to watch
Warning: video is hard to watch
January 27, 2026 at 8:06 PM
there is no hell hot enough
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January 27, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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A federal judge has blocked deportation, for now, of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, the PRE-SCHOOLER with the red Spider-Man backpack and blue hat with floppy bunny ears who ICE agents nabbed on the street and used as bait to nab his dad in Minneapolis. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ki...
Federal Judge Blocks Deportation Of 5-Year-Old Minneapolis Boy And Father For Now
www.huffpost.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:47 PM
A federal judge has blocked deportation, for now, of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, the PRE-SCHOOLER with the red Spider-Man backpack and blue hat with floppy bunny ears who ICE agents nabbed on the street and used as bait to nab his dad in Minneapolis. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ki...
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Join @stuhennigan.bsky.social in conversation about Keshed at this year’s @yorklitfest.bsky.social on Wednesday 25th March.
Tickets on sale now!
www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/stu-hen...
Tickets on sale now!
www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/stu-hen...
York Theatre Royal
www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Join @stuhennigan.bsky.social in conversation about Keshed at this year’s @yorklitfest.bsky.social on Wednesday 25th March.
Tickets on sale now!
www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/stu-hen...
Tickets on sale now!
www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/stu-hen...
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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I’d never seen One Life before. It’s an incredible tribute to Nicholas Winton and an exploration of the power of asking “what can be done and how can I do it?”. It’s shameful that today children are still suffering, but a source of hope that people are still asking themselves those questions.
January 26, 2026 at 10:43 PM
I’d never seen One Life before. It’s an incredible tribute to Nicholas Winton and an exploration of the power of asking “what can be done and how can I do it?”. It’s shameful that today children are still suffering, but a source of hope that people are still asking themselves those questions.
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Ah so the people with guns get to be anonymous but the people actually protecting others get fed to the right wing harassment machine, is that it? bsky.app/profile/dbra...
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Ah so the people with guns get to be anonymous but the people actually protecting others get fed to the right wing harassment machine, is that it? bsky.app/profile/dbra...
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It tells you everything you need to know that Reform are parachuting in a rent-an-extremist - this isn't about representing the people of Gorton and Denton, it's about using this place as a platform for their careers.
Manchester will show him the door.
Manchester will show him the door.
January 27, 2026 at 3:42 PM
It tells you everything you need to know that Reform are parachuting in a rent-an-extremist - this isn't about representing the people of Gorton and Denton, it's about using this place as a platform for their careers.
Manchester will show him the door.
Manchester will show him the door.
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Matt Goodwin - the anatomy of a careerist hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat...
State of HATE 2025: The Opportunist Extremist: The Strange Radicalisation of Matthew Goodwin
Once a respected academic studying the far right, Matthew Goodwin has become one of its most influential figures. Now a GB News pundit and Reform UK fanboy, he’s traded scholarship for reactionary gri...
hopenothate.org.uk
January 27, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Matt Goodwin - the anatomy of a careerist hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat...
Legally speaking it is entirely correct that not everyone born in the UK is British - we don’t have birthright citizenship. What he is actually saying is that white people born in the UK should have more rights than those from minority ethnic backgrounds. Straight up racism.
Reform byelection candidate refuses to disown claim that people born in UK not necessarily British
Reform byelection candidate refuses to disown claim that people born in UK not necessarily British
Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, said UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British
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UK politics live – latest updates
The Reform UK candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection has refused to disown his claim that UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds are not necessarily British.
Matthew Goodwin, a hard-right activist, was unveiled on Tuesday as the party’s candidate in the demographically diverse seat in south-east Manchester. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Legally speaking it is entirely correct that not everyone born in the UK is British - we don’t have birthright citizenship. What he is actually saying is that white people born in the UK should have more rights than those from minority ethnic backgrounds. Straight up racism.
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BREAKING: Family of Boat Strike Victims Sue U.S. for “Manifestly Unlawful” Killings
A lawsuit aims to hold the Trump administration accountable for killing two Trinidadian men in an airstrike in the Caribbean.
theintercept.com/2026/01/27/b...
A lawsuit aims to hold the Trump administration accountable for killing two Trinidadian men in an airstrike in the Caribbean.
theintercept.com/2026/01/27/b...
Family of Boat Strike Victims Sue U.S. for “Manifestly Unlawful” Killings
A lawsuit aims to hold the Trump administration accountable for killing two Trinidadian men in an airstrike in the Caribbean.
theintercept.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:10 PM
BREAKING: Family of Boat Strike Victims Sue U.S. for “Manifestly Unlawful” Killings
A lawsuit aims to hold the Trump administration accountable for killing two Trinidadian men in an airstrike in the Caribbean.
theintercept.com/2026/01/27/b...
A lawsuit aims to hold the Trump administration accountable for killing two Trinidadian men in an airstrike in the Caribbean.
theintercept.com/2026/01/27/b...
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In a world where grief bleeds through the seams of our hyperconnected lives, where minds fracture under invisible weight, where democracy withers in the shadow of rising authoritarians—joy is no longer luxury. It's insurrection.
January 27, 2026 at 1:51 PM
In a world where grief bleeds through the seams of our hyperconnected lives, where minds fracture under invisible weight, where democracy withers in the shadow of rising authoritarians—joy is no longer luxury. It's insurrection.
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Imagine being so corrupt and authoritarian even Sepp Blatter thinks you've gone too far.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup
The ex-Fifa boss showed his support of a Swiss lawyer who called for a boycott of the tournament due to security concerns in the US
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Imagine being so corrupt and authoritarian even Sepp Blatter thinks you've gone too far.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...