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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 1d

A weird time to be a historian of multiculturalism, who grew up in Birmingham as one of a handful of white kids at school, who has also written a book on Handsworth. My thoughts on Robert Jenrick’s unabashed racism in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

www.thenewworld.co.uk/kieran-conne...

What Robert Jenrick doesn’t understand about Birmingham

I was one of a handful of white kids at my school in the city. It enriched my life and worldview

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 2d

If you live near Hampstead Heath or use the bathing ponds you can now respond to the consultation on future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds. Respond to the consultation and have your say!

You can respond to the consultation here: hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

Text reads: Do you live near Hampstead Heath? Do you use the bathing ponds?

There is an image that shows the consultation website with a picture of the ponds in the background and the text: Consultation on future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds
The City of London Corporation has launched a public consultation to help inform future access arrangements at Hampstead Heath’s Bathing Ponds.

The consultation invites feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

The consultation is open until 12:00 on Tuesday 25th November 2025.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 2d

Some of the Irish on the #Sumud flotilla illegally seized by Israeli forces will touch down at Dublin Airport at around 11.00pm this evening

- RTÉ News

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 4d

“So I leant over, tapped her on the cleavage with a pastry fork, I said my mother gave birth to twins in an unheated wash house and then got straight back up and finished the mangling, so think on.” RIP, Patricia Routledge.

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Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social · 2d

"We honestly feel the whole institution could crash. You can’t cut and cut and then bring in extra students and even more pressure.”

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d

Finally, an article that at least touches on teaching quality and staff workload issues. Not that it suggests any viable alternatives to the current state of play. (And for 'colleges' in the headline, read 'universities', a telling choice of nomenclature.

Grade deflation, overcrowding and ‘chaos’ as colleges scr...

Russell group hoovers up international students to stave off budget deficit fears

observer.co.uk

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 2d

Also even if there is Top Secret material justifying a ban, it’s very difficult I think to argue that retired GPs and Quaker students holding up a cardboard sign are party to that information or responsible for it

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 2d

When Yvette Cooper was Home Sec she hinted the govt had further material justifying a ban that they couldn’t reveal because of the legal process. If so, better to get that out in daylight ASAP. Because as things stand they have clearly not made the case for proscription to the public’s satisfaction.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s not kid ourselves there isn’t something very sinister about allowing city centres to be covered by tricolours erected by the Far Right in Ireland and few moves to take them down. The national flag is not the problem but how it’s being used as an intimidatory and exclusionary symbol.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 4d

Sweden's Greta Thunberg is dehydrated, under-fed and being held in poor conditions ans subjected to intimidation by the Israelis after being illegally kidnapped in international waters - and her government is saying nothing.
As pathetic as they are spineless.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell infested with bedbugs

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 4d

Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?"

Older veteran: “87.”

Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”

Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”

🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥

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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
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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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 4d

It’s happening. They’re firing on civilians in Chicago.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition.

A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 4d

'Spanish police were investigating Bridge and seven other Brits alleged to have scammed hotels in Magaluf between 2016 and 2017. The group is suspected of helping British tourists to make bogus compensation claims for food poisoning via a WhatsApp group called UK Holiday Claims'

The Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social · 4d

Ryan Bridge has become a familiar face in Stirchley lately. He's one of two "company directors" of raisetheflags.org, where he collects donations from £10-£500 for flags.

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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 4d

Our friend, poet and activist @sarahmaintains.bsky.social has been illegally detained by the IDF and is being held in an Israeli jail. There are reports of mistreatment and human rights violations. Please keep pressure on the Irish government and embassy to secure the release of Sarah and others. 🇵🇸🇮🇪

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage

Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

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Brian Woolfinder @brianwoolfinder.bsky.social · 5d

Two tier policing when the police are basically escorting flag shaggers as they put up flags without permission using a cherry picker.

Kings Heath United Against Racism @khuar.bsky.social · 5d

Flags went up in Stirchley a few days ago & were taken down by local residents the same evening.

The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.

Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 8d

As the Global Sumud Flotilla near Gaza, my thoughts are with all those on board but especially my brilliant friend the activist and poet Sarah Clancy. This poem sums up her spirit, her bravery, her empathy. As she says on her video updates: Free Palestine. Free us all. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social · 6d

Thinking of Sarah. @simonharrisireland.bsky.social must intervene.

The Clare Champion @clarechampion.ie · 6d

Update: Clare Champion columnist Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained by Israeli forces

Update at 23:35 GMT: Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained In the last few moments the Irish media contact for the Global Sumud Flotilla has confirmed that Sarah Clancy as well as Sinn Féin Senator Chris Andrew,…

Update: Clare Champion columnist Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained by Israeli forces

Update at 23:35 GMT: Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained In the last few moments the Irish media contact for the Global Sumud Flotilla has confirmed that Sarah Clancy as well as Sinn Féin Senator Chris Andrew, Louise Heaney and Tadhg Hickey have all be confirmed as detailed. Sarah Clancy and Senator Andrew were both aboard The Spectre, and both gave interviews to The Clare Champion from the deck of that vessel a few hours ago.

clarechampion.ie

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Isabel Monje @isabelmonje.bsky.social · 6d

🚩Es muy fácil. Acabo de hacerlo. Hazlo tú también

«Actúa por la Flotilla Global Sumud

Insta a los gobiernos y ministerios de relaciones exteriores a proteger a sus ciudadanos y a exigir un tránsito seguro para la Global Sumud Flotilla a Gaza.»

👉🏽 www.newscord.org/action/gsf-f...

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Beds_Babe @bedsbabe.bsky.social · Sep 4

'ITV’s Long Lost Family: The Mother and Baby Home Scandal features the searches of people – including mixed-race & disabled adoptees – affected by forced adoptions, which the UK government has refused to formally apologise for.'
No return to those times.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Ministers urged to digitise adoption records to help reunite families

As ITV’s Long Lost Family airs, campaigners say retaining archives is crucial for those separated by forced adoptions at unmarried mothers’ homes

www.theguardian.com

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Mike McGrath-Bryan @mikemcgb.bsky.social · 8d

Ex-leader of a historic imperial entity stands ready to "govern" colonised, famine-stricken land. Well, holy god.

Kieran @eslsys.bsky.social · 8d

Here's Johnny ....
#FreePalestine

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Tony Blair, former British prime minister, is prepared to lead Gaza

Blair, whose consulting firm is working on a development plan for the Gaza Strip, reportedly offered to head a provisional government for the enclave in the event of a peace agreement, according to se...

www.lemonde.fr

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 8d

TEN YEARS for settled status. Labour really do seem to have gone collectively insane. Just don’t play Farage’s game. Refuse. Try thinking about what you’re actually saying. And stop.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9d

Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?"

Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country"

Labour have gone utterly bonkers

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 9d

Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 9d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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