Helen Burr
@helenbing1.bsky.social
English teacher. Mum of twins. Tired.
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Tiberius—
"There has never been a better time to watch this video"
"There has never been a better time to watch this video"
June 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Tiberius—
"There has never been a better time to watch this video"
"There has never been a better time to watch this video"
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🧵 1/ Not enough people are linking Reform & MAGA.
It’s time to correct that by talking about Nigel Farage, MAGA money, and a US PR firm with direct ties to Bannon.
It’s not patriotism and pints it’s a shared plan and international far-right coordination.
Grab a cup of tea and strap in👇
It’s time to correct that by talking about Nigel Farage, MAGA money, and a US PR firm with direct ties to Bannon.
It’s not patriotism and pints it’s a shared plan and international far-right coordination.
Grab a cup of tea and strap in👇
May 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🧵 1/ Not enough people are linking Reform & MAGA.
It’s time to correct that by talking about Nigel Farage, MAGA money, and a US PR firm with direct ties to Bannon.
It’s not patriotism and pints it’s a shared plan and international far-right coordination.
Grab a cup of tea and strap in👇
It’s time to correct that by talking about Nigel Farage, MAGA money, and a US PR firm with direct ties to Bannon.
It’s not patriotism and pints it’s a shared plan and international far-right coordination.
Grab a cup of tea and strap in👇
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The far right are coming for abortion in the UK. People said it would never happen.
But it is a natural consequence of the reactionafu anti-feminist politics we have allowed to fester - even if it has been dressed up as "sex-based rights".
Time to fight back.
www.thenational.scot/news/2519525...
But it is a natural consequence of the reactionafu anti-feminist politics we have allowed to fester - even if it has been dressed up as "sex-based rights".
Time to fight back.
www.thenational.scot/news/2519525...
'The mask is slipping': Nigel Farage takes aim at UK abortion rules
NIGEL Farage has said it is "utterly ludicrous" to allow abortion up to 24 weeks with the law "totally out of date"
www.thenational.scot
May 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The far right are coming for abortion in the UK. People said it would never happen.
But it is a natural consequence of the reactionafu anti-feminist politics we have allowed to fester - even if it has been dressed up as "sex-based rights".
Time to fight back.
www.thenational.scot/news/2519525...
But it is a natural consequence of the reactionafu anti-feminist politics we have allowed to fester - even if it has been dressed up as "sex-based rights".
Time to fight back.
www.thenational.scot/news/2519525...
Great result for Cam 👊
Norrie d. Daniil Medvedev 7-5 6-3 4-6 1-6 7-5 at Roland Garros
World #11 is out in the 1st round
Nearly 4 hours
Medvedev served for the match
What a win for Cam
Currently ranked #81, but he’s a former top 10 player… and he showed it today
✅1st top 20 win since AO 2024
🇬🇧
World #11 is out in the 1st round
Nearly 4 hours
Medvedev served for the match
What a win for Cam
Currently ranked #81, but he’s a former top 10 player… and he showed it today
✅1st top 20 win since AO 2024
🇬🇧
May 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Great result for Cam 👊
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Gordon Brown: “Child poverty is the biggest cause of social division in Britain today, a scar on our national conscience, and a stain on the soul of the country.”
Child poverty is a scar on our national conscience
A Labour government has taken millions of children out of poverty before. It can do so again.
buff.ly
May 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Gordon Brown: “Child poverty is the biggest cause of social division in Britain today, a scar on our national conscience, and a stain on the soul of the country.”
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May 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Jack Draper and Casper Ruud will face each other in the Madrid final.
This will be their first meeting on tour.
Jack is playing in his 2nd Masters final.
Casper is playing in his 3rd career Masters final.
Neither of them have dropped a set all week.
Who wins? 🇬🇧🇳🇴
This will be their first meeting on tour.
Jack is playing in his 2nd Masters final.
Casper is playing in his 3rd career Masters final.
Neither of them have dropped a set all week.
Who wins? 🇬🇧🇳🇴
May 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Jack Draper and Casper Ruud will face each other in the Madrid final.
This will be their first meeting on tour.
Jack is playing in his 2nd Masters final.
Casper is playing in his 3rd career Masters final.
Neither of them have dropped a set all week.
Who wins? 🇬🇧🇳🇴
This will be their first meeting on tour.
Jack is playing in his 2nd Masters final.
Casper is playing in his 3rd career Masters final.
Neither of them have dropped a set all week.
Who wins? 🇬🇧🇳🇴
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Liz Truss threatens to sue Keir Starmer unless he "ceases and desists" from alleging she crashed the economy.
In other news, here's Liz Truss making the exact same allegation against Gordon Brown
In other news, here's Liz Truss making the exact same allegation against Gordon Brown
January 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Liz Truss threatens to sue Keir Starmer unless he "ceases and desists" from alleging she crashed the economy.
In other news, here's Liz Truss making the exact same allegation against Gordon Brown
In other news, here's Liz Truss making the exact same allegation against Gordon Brown
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Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.
January 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.
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Never become a leader to lead. Become a leader to create change, to solve problems, to improve lives, to develop people, to create positive impact, to challenge inequalities, to fight against injustice, to upset the status quo. But never just to lead.
December 29, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Never become a leader to lead. Become a leader to create change, to solve problems, to improve lives, to develop people, to create positive impact, to challenge inequalities, to fight against injustice, to upset the status quo. But never just to lead.
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Counteropinion. Lies are the glue that hold families together at Christmas.
December 25, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Counteropinion. Lies are the glue that hold families together at Christmas.
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About 4years ago I said this on BBC Breakfast when discussing how female pain is managed in the NHS when it comes to coil insertion, hysterscopy, colposcopy, menstrual related pain I had push back from colleagues
December 11, 2024 at 7:12 AM
About 4years ago I said this on BBC Breakfast when discussing how female pain is managed in the NHS when it comes to coil insertion, hysterscopy, colposcopy, menstrual related pain I had push back from colleagues
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‘I’m still going to savour this moment: that he said the quiet part out loud; tried to make some combination of age, sex and class sufficient criteria to write us off as as irrelevant noise.’
Zoe Williams speaking for us all. 💜💜 #WomenEd
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Zoe Williams speaking for us all. 💜💜 #WomenEd
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As a middle-class woman of a certain age, all I can say is: ‘Thank you, Gregg Wallace’ | Zoe Williams
In trying to write his accusers off based on their age, sex and class, the TV presenter has made his disdain for people like me plain to see, writes Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:16 PM
‘I’m still going to savour this moment: that he said the quiet part out loud; tried to make some combination of age, sex and class sufficient criteria to write us off as as irrelevant noise.’
Zoe Williams speaking for us all. 💜💜 #WomenEd
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Zoe Williams speaking for us all. 💜💜 #WomenEd
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Greg Wallace.
He may as well have said ‘witches’.
Same old same old…
He may as well have said ‘witches’.
Same old same old…
December 1, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Greg Wallace.
He may as well have said ‘witches’.
Same old same old…
He may as well have said ‘witches’.
Same old same old…
Exactly what I thought
Maybe because middle class women of a certain age are in a position to call out this shit without fear of losing a salary they need. And can do it on behalf of young women starting out in their careers who are just as sick of this shit but can’t say anything because they need to earn a living.
December 1, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Exactly what I thought
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In case you're wondering...
Here's the "plan"
Here's the "plan"
November 23, 2024 at 4:42 PM
In case you're wondering...
Here's the "plan"
Here's the "plan"
It's Wicked Day!
a witch in a black dress and a white hat
ALT: a witch in a black dress and a white hat
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2024 at 7:34 AM
It's Wicked Day!
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Grow a backbone and withdraw the whip from James McMurdock, Lee Anderson.
news.sky.com/story/reform...
news.sky.com/story/reform...
Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking girlfriend, court records show
Reform UK previously said the MP rejected allegations he either "kicked, stamped or punched the victim" but accepted he "pushed" her and that she "fell and was injured".
news.sky.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Grow a backbone and withdraw the whip from James McMurdock, Lee Anderson.
news.sky.com/story/reform...
news.sky.com/story/reform...