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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 15h

so whenever i see a politician mouth off about how uni education should be about maximising your income, i think of those smarmy, pretentious dickheads

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Laura 🍂🎃 @bouri.bsky.social · 16h

Feels a bit awkward cancelling a business trip tbh, I asked my Associate Director today how one even goes about doing that and she was like “uh, no clue” 🥲

Laura 🍂🎃 @bouri.bsky.social · 16h

I still haven't invoiced the damn thing.

And to add to the fun, I don't even know if I can go anymore because I am a bit too sick to get on a plane currently...I've got a couple of days to wait it out still, but ugh 😔

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Laura 🍂🎃 @bouri.bsky.social · 20h

My very best friend, many other friends, and a big chunk of my career and related accolades 🥰

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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ACORN the union @acornunion.bsky.social · 21h

This isn’t an unavoidable fact of life. It’s the direct result of policy choices made my those in power.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Laura 🍂🎃 @bouri.bsky.social · 22h

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Laura 🍂🎃 @bouri.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not sleeping, three nights in a row of tossing and turning. Stupid stress 😩

One of my work besties is finally back today though, our AL was next to each other so I’ve not spoken to him in over a month. So that’s exciting! 😄

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

There is something deeply broken in the UK and it has absolutely nothing to do with migrants, especially with 1 in 25 properties being vacant.
This should be the number one priority for the government. Instead more and more homeless individuals are dying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.com

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

The uber-rich have never been much into integration. The essence of the Public Schools is separation from the oiks.

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 2d

*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*

The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

New PhD Student Session

For the first session of term we will be hosting a meet and greet at the IHR for all PhD students in modern British and imperial history.

www.history.ac.uk

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Laura 🍂🎃 @bouri.bsky.social · 1d

a woman in a fur coat is standing in front of a brick building and saying `` my eyes ! my eyes ! ''

ALT: a woman in a fur coat is standing in front of a brick building and saying `` my eyes ! my eyes ! ''

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Or the maid, with the employer with grabby hands and nothing to eat but bread and noodles, no bedroom, and no way to leave.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘Every day I cry’: 50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system

Denounced as giving a ‘veneer of legality to slaveholding’, the kafala labour code persists, allowing employers to abuse women, who vanish from society. This is the testimony of some of those workers,...

www.theguardian.com

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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 4d

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,981

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,981 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is the grave of Silas Soule. Born in 1838 in Bath, Maine, Soule grew up in the abolitionist world of New England reformers. His parents hated slavery. By the time Soule was a teenager, Kansas was becoming a political issue. Thanks to Stephen Douglas deciding to blow up the Missouri Compromise in order to […]

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 7d

The only political party whose policies are in line with the recommendations made by Praxis. Lib Dems close. Everyone else miles away and actively working against our charitable objectives.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.*

www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...

Zack Polanski: “We absolutely need to stop the boats”

The Greens’ Zack Polanski on facing up to Reform

www.newstatesman.com

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Laura 🍂🎃 @bouri.bsky.social · 2d

Someone reached out on LinkedIn asking me for advice on how to break into the corporate immigration sector. I get this about once a year, it always makes me 🥰🥺

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P. Thomas Johnson 🇬🇧🇨🇦 🤝 🇺🇦 @ptomj.bsky.social · 2d

Exhibit #314 why "we just have legitimate concerns about immigration" from these psychopaths is nothing more than socially palatable window dressing for plain old racism.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Laura 🍂🎃 @bouri.bsky.social · 2d

The obsession from last Christmas has arrived, we’re so back baby!

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2d

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 2d

This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.

Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.

(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

🚀 @greenparty.org.uk has grown from 58,000 members in December to 86,000 today.

Six years ago, consistently polling around 2%. Now, above 10%.

Green councillors leapt from fewer than 200 to nearly 900.

Green MPs from one to four.

This is the beginning.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good and bad news for Zack Polanski: the Green conference was a joy, but now hopes are stratospheric | Adam Ramsay

Members loved hearing from a leader who boldly reflects their views and isn’t afraid of the rightwing press. How far can he take the party?, says journalist and Green party member Adam Ramsay

www.theguardian.com

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Laura 🍂🎃 @bouri.bsky.social · 2d

My back has been messed up for a few months now, because of the whole Office Job thing. So what are they currently making me sit through? A training on how to properly sit during my 10 hour days (contracted at 7) to prevent this.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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