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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 1d

WOW! This Mail column about diversity in adverts is wild.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3h

Israelis are hostages. But Palestinians are prisoners.

Language matters. But, two years on, apparently it still doesn’t to many mainstream media outlets.

What a failure it has been.

A news alert text from Sky News. It says:
Lists of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be released under swap deal have been exchanged, Hamas says.

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 29m

Officials in Downing Street have blocked publication of a report warning that the collapse of tropical rainforests could push up food prices in British supermarkets.

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www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 6h

Especially as it's not even on a map. I've looked and looked and looked.

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 6h

Just performing my civic duty.

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Nezza @nezza.net · 6h

Wow those guys are even better at satire than you are.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 6h

We should bring in a thing where you can go to Oxbridge, but you’re not allowed to tell anyone afterwards

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 6h

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 6h

He's got his finger on the nub of youth

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 6h

Poe's law in action...

Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 7h

Pleased to see that the @newsagents.bsky.social picked up on this article about diversity in adverts too.

The utterly unrepresentative Tango Man really does typify where we've got to on this.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 6h

Reminds me of one of my favourite jokes on Frasier, where he has agreed to give a lecture to the Poe Society, but is feeling under the weather. Niles reassures him: "Oh, don't worry. Po' folk don't 'spect much."

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 7h

It's deranged

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 7h

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 22h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Clive B @clivebagley.bsky.social · 7h

Brass eye!

Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 7h

Pleased to see that the @newsagents.bsky.social picked up on this article about diversity in adverts too.

The utterly unrepresentative Tango Man really does typify where we've got to on this.

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 7h

Pleased to see that the @newsagents.bsky.social picked up on this article about diversity in adverts too.

The utterly unrepresentative Tango Man really does typify where we've got to on this.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 9h

We've finally made it to #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🛖

Here's a reconstruction of Buckspool coastal promontory fort in south Pembrokeshire, a craggy limestone headland defended by a set of intermittent banks & packed with house platforms 😮

Excavations in 2025 revealed a wealth of Roman finds 🏺

📷 My own