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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 18h

Team Aniston on this one...

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Jennifer Aniston says social media ‘has taken down a huge portion of humanity’

The actor condemns ‘runaway train’ of unregulated slander, baseless claims and deepfakes that have dogged her in recent years

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 20h

in the spirit of solidarity for @sathnam.bsky.social

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 20h

Gorgeous!

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 20h

Also in @thetimes.com, feature on photo booth photography

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 20h

In @thetimes.com letters page today

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 21h

The massive downsides of low immigration. Soon this could ve everyone's problem.

Japan has an ‘enshortification’ problem - on.ft.com/46Z0yhg via @FT

Japan has an ‘enshortification’ problem

An ageing workforce is affecting all sorts of professions

on.ft.com

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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 23h

In the creative industries/the media and want to mentor? @artsemergency.bsky.social is looking for enthusiastic professionals

Although we have lots of great potential mentors, we are still short of applicants in the Merseyside region and we could do with more applicants in London working in the following career areas:

- Gaming and animation
- Fashion design
- Broadcast journalism
- Visual arts: illustrators / people with illustration experience or any experience relevant to character design
- Performing arts: musical theatre performers or people with experience in the musical theatre industry
- Film & TV - on screen
- Architecture and interior design

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 1d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 1d

Don‘t threaten us with a good time.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder of how Mrs Thatcher's Conservative party in 1983, an era featuring much more widespread racial prejudice in the public, approached the issue of race and national identity:

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 1d

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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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

🙏🏾

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks simon

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 2d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 2d

"I hoped…the outrage about [Windrush]…demonstrated we were finally moving away from [racist] thinking. But Jenrick’s remarks show…we are, in 2025, in an even worse place. [They] are a symptom of a new cult of ethno-nationalism, imported from the USA and supercharged by bad actors on social media"

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

🙏🏾

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

We all hoped the Windrush scandal would be shame enough. But no. The Tory party plumbs new depths with its vile rhetoric. Nothing good comes from their prejudice. But our communities prove them wrong every day.
Important response to Jenrick from @sathnam.bsky.social

www.thetimes.com/article/3af4...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school - he's wrong about race
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The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn't see'another white face. You can't judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian Sathnam
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I hoped that the outrage about this scandal across the political spectrum demonstrated we were finally moving away from such thinking.
But Jenrick's remarks show that we are, in 2025, in an even worse place.
The comments are a symptom of a new cult of ethno-nationalism, imported from the USA and supercharged by bad actors on social media. Suddenly, a great many people - including, bizarrely, Suella Braverman - are keen on the racist idea that you simply can't be English and non-white.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

Heseltine at the Tory conf:

"Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

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Jack London @jacklondonbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

This is what I - a non-Midlander young in the peak of the Reggae wave - thinks of when someone mentions Handsworth

How grey & thin would English life be without the influences from outside - most from parts for which Victoria was Empress

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_P...

Steel Pulse - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

Fixed thanks

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I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 3d

This is the maddest tour I've ever seen in my life. It seems like he's doing more gigs than there are days in the year.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him.

He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

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