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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder! If you're buying books in support of #BannedBooksWeek buying from Amazon undercuts the broader project of social justice supporting the right to read is a part of. Get your banned books absolutely anywhere else!

Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown

Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Bill Jenrick (father) LinkedIn:

"I served a 5 year apprenticeship at AEI Manchester and qualified as a Management accountant. Then I worked as an accountant...."

Robert Jenrick (son) : "...gas fitters like my dad"

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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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

This from @stephenkb.bsky.social is very much worth your time.
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Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews

Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

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Tom Collins @tcollins.bsky.social · 2d

Claire Hanna’s leader’s speech to the #SDLP conference was far-sighted, but was anyone listening? My take in today’s @irishnews.com online and in the shops.

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick was speaking from Aldridge, Brownhills an area that has upto 90% of white British residents. This makes it less mixed than the UK average and therefore little chance of social integration because of low diversity. But Jenrick didn’t see that. Is that racist?

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Tom Collins @tcollins.bsky.social · 2d

www.irishnews.com/opinion/tom-... My column on the SDLP in today’s @irishnews.com online and in the shops.

Tom Collins: Is Claire Hanna cursed to be a modern-day Cassandra?

The SDLP needs to demonstrate that it speaks not just for the middle-class, but the working poor and those who have been failed by the Sinn Féin-DUP duopoly

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Tom Collins @tcollins.bsky.social · 4d

Brilliant piece

John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 4d

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Kemi Badenoch says she is ‘doing politics differently’ – you can’t argue with that

Conservative leader has achieved the seemingly impossible: she has taken the Tories even further backwards

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Tom Collins @tcollins.bsky.social · 4d

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Shocking story. Haven’t shopped at Amazon since March. Not planning to return.

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 5d

Just heard Chris Philp on BBC’s Today programme explaining why the Tories want to leave the ECHR. He claimed ECHR isn’t mentioned in Belfast Agreement - which is simply untrue. The UK govt agreed to incorporate it into NI law & give direct access to the courts (Strand 3). Why no BBC fact-check?

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 6d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 6d

PA: Actress Dame Patricia Routledge, best known for TV show Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 96, her agent said.

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 7d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov is not just serving a #CupOfJoe to the people of Illinois, but to every state. Get out your phones & record what ICE is doing! If the government won't hold them accountable, We the People will.

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · 8d

REMINDER: FT Schools provides free access to FT.com for 16-19 year olds and their teachers at schools around the world. More than 73,000 students in 132 countries are already reading us through the programme professional.ft.com/en-gb/servic...

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 9d

Really good piece this from @stephenkb.bsky.social. Hilariously brutal on the “What did we learn on our summer holidays?”memo. "The title sounds like it was written by an eight-year-old, which would surely have been preferable to the actual content."

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 9d

I don't think Labour's policy agenda is a winning one, but combining some quite traditional leftwing economics with, essentially, not being willing to talk about how you are leftwing feels like the worst *possible* way to govern and campaign:

Memo for Labour: globalisation is good, actually

This government is in many ways the party returned to its factory settings. But the product was faulty in the first place

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Tom Collins @tcollins.bsky.social · 9d

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains

Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

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Richard Bates @discript.com · 9d

“After the second world war, the debt-to-GDP ratio was close to 250% – more than double what it is now. But Clement Attlee’s government chose massive public investment, created the NHS and rebuilt the country. Even in the 1950s, public investment as a share of national income stood at 7.3%.”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d

Labour just doesn’t get it: workers feel poorer than ever. Is it any wonder Reform is rising? | Sharon Graham

Until the government starts tacking in a radically new direction, it will continue crashing in the polls. It could – and must – act differently, says Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite

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Tom Collins @tcollins.bsky.social · 9d

Ahead of his leader’s speech to the #Labour conference today I look at Keir #Starmer - a liability for his party but also his country in today’s @irishnews.com. Available online and in the shops.

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Cormac Moore @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social · 9d

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William Craig quits as UUUC Deputy Leader amid rift over power-sharing with SDLP - On This Day in 1975

UUUC rift widens: Craig out - September 30 1975

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Tom Collins @tcollins.bsky.social · 9d

www.irishnews.com/opinion/tom-... From today’s @irishnews.com online and in the shops

Tom Collins: Time for Labour to cut its losses and call taxi for Starmer

Labour can still turn its fortunes around – but not under this prime minister

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11d

Stop the scapegoating and start dealing with America’s real gun crisis.

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chesterchap.bsky.social @chesterchap.bsky.social · 11d

Ryder Cup ………….

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Kevin Cooper @kevinc55.bsky.social · 11d

World News Day 28th September 2025

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Kevin Cooper @kevinc55.bsky.social · 11d

Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan was shot dead by paramilitaries in Northern Ireland on this day in 2001.
Justice for Martin O’Hagan RIP.

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Cormac Moore @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social · 12d

Despite the weather, great turnout for my ⁦Dublin Festival of History talk this morning in the historic Round Room of the ⁦Mansion House about the Irish Boundary Commission. Very engaging audience with some great questions.

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Cormac Moore @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social · 14d

In this week's episode of the Irish History Boys, Tim McGarry and I discuss how, 100 years ago, people in Clones hoped and believed large parts of Fermanagh would be transferred to the Free State. youtu.be/-Ben_zgmp9M?...

Clones Hope and the 1925 Border

YouTube video by The Irish History Boys

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