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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social · 20h

Are you free on the evening of December 16th? 🎄 Join me for this masterclass all about finding multiple (infinite?) ways in to the same subject matter. We’ll write a ridiculous amount of poems in 2 hours…with brand new exercises ⁦‪‬⁩
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Masterclass: Infinite Ways in to Writing Poems | Tackling big subjects with wonder | Arvon

For the third year running, with all new prompts and exercises, Arvon favourite Caroline Bird returns for our final Masterclass of the year, which promises to be a bolt of creativity to kick-start som...

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 21h

This was such a good series and a rerun is excellent news. If you can't access BBC4/iPlayer, you can find it on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Gendered Intelligence @genderedintelligence.co.uk · 21h

Being trans or non-binary is not a mental health problem. But exclusion does cause harm, in our healthcare systems, our schools, and our workplaces.

It’s up to all of us to create the kind of world where trans and non-binary people can thrive.

#WorldMentalHealthDay

World Mental Health Day

Being trans or non-binary is not a mental health problem. But exclusion does cause harm.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 1d

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/n...

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I see a post on here with a clip lifted from X or an image from X I think it implies that the poster (who sometimes has been me) still believes that X is the centre of the action.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 2d

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 2d

This is truly brilliant. Such a way to communicate,
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 3d

Maureen's been placed in her wooden overcoat. Ralph struggles as he makes a dinner for one. The drawers are filled with memories. Reluctantly, he peels a square of tin foil big enough for one potato. Maureen's ethereal voice echoes, "Bake me a potato! Make me a full, metal jacket!" #NewAlanBennetts

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 3d

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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 3d

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 3d

Wild that the "disquieting" scenario in MacIntyre's After Virtue is actually happening right now, to popular acclaim

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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 3d

“How far does one have to fall before one starts to think that the crucified and forsaken God is not enough? Where do we go when the broken God dies?”

– @revrachelmann.bsky.social

www.christiancentury.org/voices/silen...

The silent, suffering God

I’ve spent weeks in the hospital this year. I keep waiting for God to...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 6d

“This new data confirms what we already knew: there is a trans+ healthcare crisis in the UK. But the actual numbers are stark. The system of NHS gender clinics, which is failing to give people an appointment in their entire lifetime, is limiting the number of people who can transition.”

Appalling.

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 4d

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 3d

The PM’s use of the phrase ‘un-British’ is certainly striking.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 4d

Robert Jenrick is another person who has cooked his brain on Twitter (“Activist judges” is a very American-brained phrase, and I’m also sceptical that 30 judges and mags are really in favour of “open borders”, as opposed to a slightly more liberal regime, or just helping immigrants get their rights)

Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 4d

More in the breathless, breaking stop-the-presses, and not at all confected story, that judges, before they were judges, were involved in practising law. Take 5 seconds to appreciate just how hard into "swivel-eyed loon" Robert Jenrick is being allowed to lean:

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 4d

'Actually last time I checked, Britain was spelled correctly... '

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch". Photo: Natasha Clark

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 4d

What an actor. Loved him in Edge of Darkness too. #RIP

Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 4d

Rest in peace, John Woodvine!

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 4d

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4d

We're pleased that the loathsome comments carried by GB News, which equated being LGBT+ with being a paedophile, have been found in breach of the Ofcom code, following 71,000 complaints collected by @goodlawproject.bsky.social. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including 'paedos' in breach of Ofcom code

A GB News presenter saying “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom said.

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 4d

RIP wonderful Jilly. 🐎❤️ I learnt about sex from reading my mum's copies. Disappointing that more men don't wear jodhpurs...

Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 4d

Knickers at half mast today everyone, for Jilly Cooper x

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 5d

A major new peer-reviewed Australian report warns that the UK’s Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide care for trans young people — and should not be adopted as a benchmark in Australia www.starobserver.com.au/news/new-rep...

New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia - Star Observer

A major new peer-reviewed report warns that the Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide Australia's care for trans young people.

www.starobserver.com.au

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 5d

USN officers applauding as a President calls his party political enemies insects to be eliminated. A new low every day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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