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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

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

Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · 4d

Omg 😱. Sounds worse than Dante’s circle of hell! We had 4 teenagers (15 years old) over for a sleepover about 2 years ago and I’m still recovering!!❤️‍🩹

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 4d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 4d

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 5d

They could have just pushed him in his wheelchair when they arrested him. Instead they dragged him away like he was a bag of rubbish. They did this to humiliate him, to diminish him, to hurt him, to dehumanise him. He has a million times the heart and soul of the thugs who did this to him.

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 5d

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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 5d

This is so gloriously embarrassing

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 6d

no excuse for being this bad

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 5d

The sad spectable of American comedians selling out in Saudi Arabia www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia

It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

www.thenation.com

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Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · 5d

Dammit - missed a trick there! Next time I’ll come to you! 💜

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

I was on Any Questions last night. I think it was a good discussion, which became quite fierce at times.
We debated the vile attack in Manchester, the right to protest, the Tories' crazy climate stance and how to rescue politics.
You can listen to it here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Any Questions? - Aphra Brandreth MP, Lord Carlile, George Monbiot, Emma Reynolds MP - BBC Sounds

Alex Forsyth presents political debate from The Square at Chester Zoo.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · 5d

Mate where have you been? We put on the fire when autumn came calling on the 1st of September! You don’t have to suffer! 🩷

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 6d

This brilliant new book is all about the linguistic history of each letter of the alphabet, and I’ve hugely enjoyed reading it — I highly recommend you all get a copy! 👇👌

Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.bsky.social · 7d

I now believe it's real.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 5d

“Dishcloths”?

Boris Johnson was always an arrant racist.

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Classics at Leeds @leedsclassics.bsky.social · 5d

It may be stormy but the Leeds Open Day is still on! Chat to our staff and students in Michael Sadler LG 10 throughout the day, and check out our Classics and Ancient History talks at 10.00 in Roger Stevens Building Lecture Theatre 22 and 13.00 in Lecture Theatre 19

www.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/137...

Undergraduate Open Days

Explore our campus, talk to staff and students and find out about your subject at our open day. Join us for the day and find out what it means to be Leeds.

www.leeds.ac.uk

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Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · 5d

The pleasure was all mine! It is such an exciting, timely, and very enjoyable read! Bringing history alive like the way you do is such a wonderful talent! Telling stories that have escaped the popular narrative is so essential as a historian. Thank you 🙏

@waterstones.bsky.social

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Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to @drmaimusie.bsky.social for doing such an excellent job hosting our chat about #carthage

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Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · 5d

Omg. 8th?? I’m in awe of writers who are able to bring their ‘A’ game every time. I’ve literally spend 1.5 years writing a book proposal never mind a book! 🤣

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot

Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 7d

Jesus wept

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 7d

Crying racism only hurts Labour

Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.

📊 @bwalker.uk

Crying racism only hurts Labour

Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.

www.newstatesman.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 7d

Those who have claimed asylum from violence or trafficking or state persecution or war should not be spoken of as lottery winners.

Shame on Keir Starmer.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · 7d

How morally bankrupt the #Labour government has become. This hideous proposal would have stopped my reunion with my mother in the late ‘80s.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 7d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

More pointedly, the pope said, "Someone who says, I'm against abortion, but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life."

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 8d

Was good to have a serious conversation about the rise of fascism & the Brexit dynamics that have twisted our immigration system, as well as cowardice from our media & our leaders on migration.

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 9d

It’s out! I spoke to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social about migration, the realities, the challenges and how to confront the real threat of far right takeover of our country on a platform of fear and disinformation.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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