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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 10h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 6h

I wrote this in my review of "Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race" by Reni Eddo-Lodge. This was in 2021, now Labour are talking about "white working class".

But there is a new game in town, it is now seen as entirely acceptable for politicians to talk about helping the "white working class" – language that came out of the British National Party and the English Defence League but is now mainstream. This seems to imply that our efforts helping the black working class have been entirely successful and that the white working class are now "left behind" and need special support. In truth black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi working class remain more disadvantaged.

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 6h

Sort of expected to see you surfing this van! :-)

Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 7h

One of the joys of Chester is groups of children carrying shields and swords marching through the town in groups shouting "Sin-dex-sin-dex-sin!" (We're a very Roman town)

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 1d

Tory party conference got you down?

Far-right rhetoric left you feeling scared for the future?

Then why not take a minute to enjoy eighteen (18) pictures of Ed Davey on a pumpkin farm with young carers 🎃🚜

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 12h

Book review: Science and Islam – A History by Ehsan Masood ( @ehsanmasood.bsky.social ) - a readable guide to the Islamic Empire in the 8th-13th centuries and science's place in it ianhopkinson.org.uk/2025/10/book...

#bookreviews #HistoryOfScience #MedievalPeriod

Book review: Science and Islam – A History by Ehsan Masood

My next review is of Science and Islam: A History by Ehsan Masood. It follows on from a lot of reading I’ve done around the history of science in Western Europe and the US. It also fills a ga…

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

"We all know that only 1 protest was needed to stop the Vietnam War"

Said nobody ever

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d

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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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

"What do you mean by Palestinian hostages?"

Hadash Israeli MP Aida Touma-Suleiman "There are thousands of Palestinians who are kidnapped from their houses.. with no trial, no possibility to know what they are charged of & they are kept in prison. What can you call such a thing?"

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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I was about to say the same:

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How the UK’s ‘Warm Welcome’ to displaced Afghans turned cold

Thousands of refugees remain trapped in temporary accommodation, unable to rebuild their lives

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

So to summarise, this is a white politician blaming a black journalist for the racism he is now actively helping to promote, after receiving the full endorsement of his own party leader

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Jeremy Rodell @jeremyr1.bsky.social · 2d

Violence a red line in UK society - Jewish friends/communities must be able to live/practise w/out fear. British Jews not responsible for actions of IDF.
Yet @chiefrabbi.bsky.social blurs distinction. Fuel for anti-Semites. Daft. www.jewishnews.co.uk/mirvis-if-yo...
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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 2d

Given the revelations from Charing Cross, and leadership response to them, you get the impression that police officers might have considerable enthusiasm for arresting Palestine Action campaigners.

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 2d

I would never have anticipated a friendship between Jilly Cooper and Terry Pratchett what books they could have written together!

Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 2d

perfect detail

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

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

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 4d

Did you know..

- There were 2 VIP lanes for contracts during pandemic?
- ~£15 billion of taxpayer ££ was wasted on medical goods
- 1 million pallets of PPE has been burnt at cost to taxpayer of £8.6 bn.

Listen to 👇 wrt to the shocking scale, consequences & outcomes of VIP lane contracts.

bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 5d

"No other political party was able to refer a company onto the VIP lane and then go on to win contracts..."

Talking #PPE and the Tories crony contracts during the Covid era with @russellscott1.bsky.social

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Byline Podcast: PPE, The Pandemic and Cronyism with Russell Scott

Adrian Goldberg hears from Russell Scott, author of 'VIP Lane – Cronysim and the Pandemic', which is out now via Byline Books.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn mor...

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 3d

The outsize cars make him look very small

Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 3d

I have a lot of pictures of leaves, I picked this one because it's a bit unusual #SundayPixLeaves

A photograph of Acer leaves, backlit against a blue sky

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⛧ fuckleberry jam ⚢ @ifuckedyr.mom · 19d

look at this frog butt

frog butt. it’s cute as hell. you probably wanna poke it or something weird like that. it’s ok. it’s just a picture. go ahead. poke your screen

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 3d

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
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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.

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 3d

Tory: We looked at the US and we want to bring ICE to Britain!
Labour: They won't deliver on this promise!

I suspect there's a pretty large majority in Britain for "Are you both fucking insane?"!

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3d

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 3d

Batshit.

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