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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 2d

Full article is available here via @conservativehome.bsky.social: conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r...

Robert Buckland: Leaving the ECHR would be a grave mistake | Conservative Home

Withdrawal from the ECHR would upset the delicate political balance in Northern Ireland, compromise our extradition and security arrangements, and damage our moral authority abroad. Above all, it woul...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 7d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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Helen Furnivall @helenfurn.bsky.social · 7d

This is happening up and down the country. It's heartbreaking and the Government needs to join the dots.

Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 7d

A report on tonight’s Channel 4 News about the devastating funding cuts at Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridge. It is unconscionable to reduce access to palliative care while simultaneously contemplating the legalisation of medically assisted suicide. www.channel4.com/news/budget-...

Budget cuts forcing hospitals to pull hospice contracts

The UK government wants patients' care to be moved from hospitals into the community.

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Helen Furnivall @helenfurn.bsky.social · 9d

Gravy

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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 10d

I mean really. I had no idea about this building. When did we stop building things like this? Can we have more totally over the top fingers-in-the-ears, of-its-time grand architecture, please?

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 16d

Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths?

Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 19d

Photojournalism by the Tribune's @staceywescott.bsky.social

Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 19d

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC intelligence during President Reagan’s era, carries a U.S. Flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 19d

I'm doing another tour of modernist Marylebone and Fitzrovia for the @themodernist.bsky.social at their marvellous book fair. Quite possibly the only walking tour with an after party. Sign up here:

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Modernist Marylebone and Fitzrovia - walk Friday 17/10/25

An architectural walking tour around Marylebone and Fitzrovia with journalist and founder of London Mondern, Helen Barrett. Part of The Modernist Book fair 2024.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27d

I don't think there can be much doubt now that Burnham is preparing for a leadership contest.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 27d

In a long list of extraordinary things that have happened today, this strength of this statement by Andy Burnham's new movement is something else. A proper shot across the bows.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 28d

If you need to hear this today… #WorldSuicidePreventionDay

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Lindsay but pumpkin-spiced @lindsaynicolle.bsky.social · Sep 8

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

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Helen Furnivall @helenfurn.bsky.social · Sep 8

That is amazing

Helen Furnivall @helenfurn.bsky.social · Sep 7

While reading a book 🤣

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · Sep 3

any US congressman who is fully across a row between the Nottingham Post and Nottinghamshire council is welcome to holiday in the Cotswolds AT ANY TIME, and we will not refuse to serve him in our farm shops

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 3

Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:

"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · Aug 30

Go on Don. Be dead. Be dead for the issue Ian's away and I'm editing.

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · Aug 30

I can

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Helen Furnivall @helenfurn.bsky.social · Aug 29

Where is their stuff??? Impressive!

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Helen Furnivall @helenfurn.bsky.social · Aug 26

My son insisted on wearing a single snot glove (actually it was a a snot mitten) incessantly for about 18 months from the age of 3. Practical but not very stylish.

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Helen Furnivall @helenfurn.bsky.social · Aug 21

So many HMOs in Blackpool have led to its many problems which also lead people to look around and think where's the money going that should be being spent in my community..which leads to Reform or worse. Are there any good HMO reversal success stories? Margate maybe?

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Helen Furnivall @helenfurn.bsky.social · Aug 21

I keep wondering what happens when everyone decides they've had enough and and start putting their phones down.

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · Aug 20

The lesson that should be taken from this is that people are influenced by the dominant conversations in their political/media environment. The lesson that will be taken is that this proves we just need to keep on talking about immigration.

Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · Aug 20

The issue salience story of this year has been the steady climb of people selecting immigration levels or channel crossings as a top issue. Meanwhile crime has crossed 20% for the first time since last Autumn. Cost of living retains its number one spot.

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Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢 Applications to be an Arts Emergency mentor in 2026, are now open!

We need professional creatives to meet a bright, ambitious young person for 1 hr/month to share experience and be that VITAL first connection into industry.

Sign up today 👉 www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved...

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Helen Furnivall @helenfurn.bsky.social · Aug 7

Yes it's taking me ages to get home!

Helen Furnivall @helenfurn.bsky.social · Aug 7

Anybody else's dog a glutton for blackberries?

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