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CJ Lemire

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Henry IV being the first native English speaker to wear the crown

Prof Colin Talbot @colintalbot.bsky.social · 22d

MAGNA CARTA

Fun fact: it was originally written in Latin and translated into Norman French. Because they were the two dominant languages of the Church and State for well over 300 years after 1066.

English Nationalists please note😀

December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM

Nick Lowe

@lowesmore.bsky.social

It would only be fair if Arsenal give West Ham another £100m for Declan Rice.

November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM

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Moose Allain

@mooseallain.bsky.social

I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.

November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM

Nick Lowe

@lowesmore.bsky.social

This Labour govt is a disgace. They have gone after the poor, the disabled, asylum seekers and the trans community. Becauss of where I live I have leant my vote for at pretty much every election. Never again. Greens for me from now on. My consience will rule.

November 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM

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Paul Fairie

@paulisci.bsky.social

A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days

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October 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM

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Roland Smith

@rolandmcs.bsky.social

1. Make a recent convict the star guest of your annual conference, despite her conviction being about calling for a group of people to be murdered. 'Just hurty words/free speech'.

2. Then getting [rightly] very upset when someone wants to murder you.

Yes, it's the latest 'Hurty Words Update'.

October 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM

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Adam Bienkov

@adambienkov.bsky.social

"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?

October 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM

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TC Parker/Dr Nat Edwards (she/her)

@tcparker.bsky.social

I did English at undergrad, media & politics at PhD. I run a research agency (when I'm not writing), using linguistics & anthropology/ethnography skills I learned at university. Through this, I pay tax & I pay people. In a very literal sense, my degrees make an economic contribution

BUT... (1/2)

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Oct 8

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

October 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM

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sianushka.bsky.social

@sianushka.bsky.social

“Children are paralysed, children with head injuries … hospitals full of mothers and babies… babies who were in ICU now in corridors… mums having miscarriages as they flee south”*

The horror of this - these tiny babies… the suffering is unbelievable

*described by UNICEF spokesperson

October 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM

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Snigdha

@snig.bsky.social

Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.

From Chloe Denkin

01-734 1717 and 1778

E3 ALBANY

PICCADILLY

WIV ORH

4th June 1981

Dear Master,

I am happy to say that I am not acquainted with N. P. Farage, of ASRY happy, because judging from hereporis i haveter ceived he is not someone with whom I would wish to be acquainted; and becaure I am, therefore, able to write on the ground of no personal prejedice, but on that conceraing p. inciple.

You will recati that at the recent, and longthy, moeting about the selection of prefects, the nomads by a hegy that Sara was "a fascist, but that was no reason why ho would not make a good prefect" invoked considerable reaction from members of the Common Room. Another collesgue, who teaches the boy, des-cribed his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he citod a particular inciler in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This mastor stated his view that that behaviour was precisely why the boy should not he made a prefect. Yet another colleague deseribed how, at a CCE camp organized by the College, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shout-in Hitler-you songs; and when it was suggested by a master thie boys who expressed such views "don't really mean them", the College Chaplain himself commented that, on the contrary, in his experience views of that kind expressed by boys of that age are onted, and are mennt,

At the end of that meeting I had not a scintilla of doubt that after the facts disclosed to you, Farage's nomination would no longer be considered. Nor, I imagine, had my colleagues; other-wise, we would have expressed ourselves even more strongly.

But yesterday I was told by a senior boy, in terms of st that Farage was indeed to be selected; and today, of course, his appointment was announced in Assembly an announcement, I gather, which was met with disbelief and derision. To say that is too late to reverse this decision, or that Farage', acdir 3 will be restricted to particular areas of College te, or that he will be supervised within them, is futile. His appointment will have four immediate consequences.

First, it will vastly increase his own confidence, and sense of self-justification. Secondly, he will have the privilege of listing his appointment as a profect at Dulwich College in his uni-versity and other applications. Thirdly, his peers, according to their own views, will either adopt him as an exemplar, or, as is much more likely, regard his appointment with disillusionment and cynicism when Ley observe that his notorious views and behaviour, well known to poth Master and members of the staff, are, as it would aptent, condoned by them. Fourthly, those members of the Common Room, such as myself, who believed that a firm daca fon had been reached through a democratic process, will be shock, saddened, angered, and disheartened.

You will appreciate that I regard this as a very serious matter. i have often heard you tell our senior boys that they are the nation's future leaders. It is our collective responsibility

to ensure that these lenders are enlightened and compassionate.

As you know, the national and educational press has recently given much prominence to the growing concern at the exploitation of school pupils by extremists of all kinds. A school of the stature and high roputation of Dulwich College which openly con-domned the recent troubles in Brixton, and offered its facilities freely to the foreca of law and order, ought not to be seen laside or outside its confines to be giving its endorsement, expressly or by implication, to budding extremists of the opposite kind.

A school which is proud of its selectiveness, conservatism, and discipline, cught not to allow these characteristics to degen erate into intolerance, political extremism, or bullying of the nastiest kind, in its pupils. The matter of the appointment of Farage as a prefect may be thought by some to be minuscule

against these deep considerations. It is not so.

I am by disposition, tolerant; and in politics, moderate. But as a member of the Common Room, I find it distasteful that a boy such as Farage should have bestowed upon him the prestige of office and authority: wore I a parent or a pupil, I would find it profoundly so.

In view, as I am aware, of the wide concern within the College about this matter, I am sending a copy of this letter to the chairman of the Common Room.

Yours very sincerely,

David Emms, Esq., MA,

The Master of Dulwich College.

October 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM

Nick Lowe

@lowesmore.bsky.social

This. Mone can get in the fucking bin.

Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Oct 1

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

October 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM

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Phil Brickell MP

@philbrickellmp.bsky.social

🧵on Michelle Mone and Covid contracts

1/
Former Tory peer Michelle Mone has called today’s ruling that PPE Medpro must give the taxpayer back £122m for supplying dodgy PPE an ‘establishment cover-up’. Utter nonsense.

Let’s ignore the rhetoric & look at the facts 👇

UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE

Trial heard 25m surgical gowns supplied by PPE Medpro to protect NHS staff were unusable and could ‘seriously harm or kill patients’

www.theguardian.com

October 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM

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Roland Smith

@rolandmcs.bsky.social

Next time Farage or one of his mates is on Question Time getting applause for stopping/reversing immigration, may I suggest the following riposte:

'Everyone who just applauded needs to think hard what they were applauding. Without significant immigration, this country will become a catastrophe.' /1

September 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM

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Matthias Eberl

@eberlmat.bsky.social

"I have worked with Nathan Gill over a period of years and he's been terrific, he's never, ever, let me down. He's as honest as the day is long and, in the leaders' debates that have been taking place in Wales, he's performed very creditably."

- Nigel Farage, 2016

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Sep 29

Really, Reform UK? THIS is what you're going with? That this man, who served as an MEP next to Nigel Farage for years and was made leader of your party in Wales by current deputy, Richard Tice, is just "one of tens of thousands of people Nigel meets on an annual basis"?~AA

September 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM

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Matthias Eberl

@eberlmat.bsky.social

"Nigel meets tens of thousands of people on an annual basis."

Just amazing then how many of them are called Nathan Gill.

September 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM

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missdv

@missdv.bsky.social

Farage shouts “jump”, Labour responds “how high?”

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Sep 29

Migrants already "earn the right to settlement" through extortionate visa costs, which can run into tens of thousands of pounds. They prop up key services, including through the Immigration Health Surcharge.

Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mahmood demands migrants earn right to settlement in UK

New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.

www.bbc.co.uk

September 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM

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Climate News

@climatenews.bsky.social

The fundamental problem with Versailles and Louis XVI was not that he was a stupid asshole with a lot of wealth, like Elon Musk.

But that he didn’t realise how many people didn’t have food to eat and would gladly build guillotines.

September 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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Dan Sohege

@danielsohege.bsky.social

It gets very tedious that any time someone points out the, actually very obvious and evidence based, point that to stop more deaths in the channel you have to provide people with alternative, safer, routes to seek asylum in UK you inevitably get some dickhead saying "oh how many should we take". 1/

September 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM