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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 5h

A 500-year-old oak was felled for convenience.
In Suffolk, a retired classics teacher decided that wouldn’t happen again. He tells Aidan Baker his story.
Read the lesson of the lost oak. 🌳

The lesson of the lost oak: why one Suffolk man’s mission matters

Suffolk tree-lover David Hopkins talks about the work of adding to the Woodland Trust's 'Ancient Tree Inventory'

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4h

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20%

"The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union"

Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1h

Trump seeking to invoke the Insurrection Act now sounds more a question of when, rather than if

Alex Koppelman @alexkoppelman.bsky.social · 4h

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 5h

www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/defe...

Please sign and share. We are firefighting for our basic rights here!
Every day there’s something else!

Our rights are under attack. Tell your MP to protect the UK’s membership of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Our rights are under attack. The ECHR protects us all – but politicians want to rip it apart. Tell your MP: defend our rights, defend the ECHR. ✍️ #HumanRights

www.amnesty.org.uk

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Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social · 5h

Excited to be speaking at #Heffers in #Cambridge tomorrow - the first week of the new academic year. Last chance to book tickets if you’re able to come along: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/economica-... Look forward to seeing you there if so. #Economica #womenwealthpower

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across 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.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 11h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 2d

Reminding National Trust members not to turn into a pumpkin - please *use your vote* before the end of the month to support genuine candidates and keep the disingenuous ‘Restore’ stooges away from the Trust’s assets. Easiest way is use ‘Quick Vote’ to endorse official NT AGM recommendations.

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 3d

Pumpkin patch at Hinton Ampner
@nationaltrust.org.uk 🎃

Very large pumpkins on bare soil in a walled garden with espalier fruit trees, ornamental planting beds and outbuilding roofs in the background.

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Valorie Bridges Fant * Author of * Go Back to Your Country * @vrfant1.bsky.social · 1d

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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 1d

This is why they want to scrap the ECHR. The UAE economy runs on millions of indentured migrant workers who have no human rights.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Adam Wahby #FBPE @adamstwahby.bsky.social · 1d

He may even have a gavel.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Am I alone in suspecting he wears this wig quite a lot in more private moments?

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Jenrick delivers one of the most asinine speeches I have ever heard. He even brought along a prop, to explain how a judge becomes impartial setting aside personal views, then went on to attack judges for having views. His solution? Abolish tribunals. And who will adjudicate cases? Pfft. Details. ~AA

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Adam Wahby #FBPE @adamstwahby.bsky.social · 1d

Paracetamol/Tylenol, Autism, and the Truth About Risk
open.substack.com/pub/monkdebu...

Paracetamol/Tylenol, Autism, and the Truth About Risk

What decades of research (and millions of children in Sweden and Japan) really tell us about acetaminophen and pregnancy.

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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 1d

Warning! This is from the Torygraph.
Seems they're not fans of the new Entry/Exit System or being forced to abide by EU rules, even ones they voted for.
uk.news.yahoo.com/eu-threatens...

EU threatens to kick out British second home owners

British owners of holiday homes risk being thrown out of the European Union (EU) amid a border crackdown that comes into force this weekend.

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 1d

Yup - they most certainly are.

Mike Galsworthy warns: Protest rights under threat

Mike Galsworthy warns of potential erosion of protest rights amid concerning developments.

tradersunion.com

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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 1d

"Mark, what does an illegal immigrant look like?"
www.channel4.com/news/how-sho...
Watching the then Tory MP Mark Reckless struggling on C4 News back in 2013.
The permanent 'rage headlines' over the past 20 or so years mentally exhausting.

How should the UK tackle illegal immigration? Video

Vans carrying the Home Office's "Go home or face arrest" message did not go down well, so what should the government do about illegal immigration? Mark Reckless MP and campaigner Rita Chadha discuss.

www.channel4.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Shadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case."

And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA

Victoria Atkins with a thoughtfull bullhorn, wearing a non-clickbait union jack jacket.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨Just peering over my proofs to a forthcoming entry titled "Criminalisation of sanctions violations in a major #internationalsanctions encyclopedia forthcoming with @elgarpublishing.bsky.social edited by stellar team of Dr @drclaraportela.bsky.social, @mirkosossai.bsky.social & Andrea Charron. 🧵

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 1d

"Ofcom appears to be unwilling to intervene and unwilling to regulate this channel in the same way as it regulates other television news channels." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

GB News’s US expansion feared to be new way for Trumpian views to reach UK audience

White House backing was on full display as GB News launched The Late Show Live

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Wahby #FBPE @adamstwahby.bsky.social · 1d

Dog-whistle racism doesn't seem to cover it.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

After spending an entire morning defending his suggestion that there are too many non-white faces in the UK, Robert Jenrick ends his speech with the line: "Let's take our country back".

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

“Violence is not the cause of Trump and Miller’s desire to use state power to crush their opposition. It is the pretext for which they transparently long.”

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

Stephen Miller is portraying opposition to Donald Trump in any form, including by judges issuing legal rulings, as an illegal rebellion, Jonathan Chait argues: