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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 1d

Maureen's been placed in her wooden overcoat. Ralph struggles as he makes a dinner for one. The drawers are filled with memories. Reluctantly, he peels a square of tin foil big enough for one potato. Maureen's ethereal voice echoes, "Bake me a potato! Make me a full, metal jacket!" #NewAlanBennetts

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 1d

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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social · 1d

Wild that the "disquieting" scenario in MacIntyre's After Virtue is actually happening right now, to popular acclaim

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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 1d

“How far does one have to fall before one starts to think that the crucified and forsaken God is not enough? Where do we go when the broken God dies?”

– @revrachelmann.bsky.social

www.christiancentury.org/voices/silen...

The silent, suffering God

I’ve spent weeks in the hospital this year. I keep waiting for God to...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 4d

“This new data confirms what we already knew: there is a trans+ healthcare crisis in the UK. But the actual numbers are stark. The system of NHS gender clinics, which is failing to give people an appointment in their entire lifetime, is limiting the number of people who can transition.”

Appalling.

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 2d

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 1d

The PM’s use of the phrase ‘un-British’ is certainly striking.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 2d

Robert Jenrick is another person who has cooked his brain on Twitter (“Activist judges” is a very American-brained phrase, and I’m also sceptical that 30 judges and mags are really in favour of “open borders”, as opposed to a slightly more liberal regime, or just helping immigrants get their rights)

Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 2d

More in the breathless, breaking stop-the-presses, and not at all confected story, that judges, before they were judges, were involved in practising law. Take 5 seconds to appreciate just how hard into "swivel-eyed loon" Robert Jenrick is being allowed to lean:

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 2d

'Actually last time I checked, Britain was spelled correctly... '

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch". Photo: Natasha Clark

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 2d

What an actor. Loved him in Edge of Darkness too. #RIP

Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 2d

Rest in peace, John Woodvine!

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 2d

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

We're pleased that the loathsome comments carried by GB News, which equated being LGBT+ with being a paedophile, have been found in breach of the Ofcom code, following 71,000 complaints collected by @goodlawproject.bsky.social. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including 'paedos' in breach of Ofcom code

A GB News presenter saying “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom said.

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

RIP wonderful Jilly. 🐎❤️ I learnt about sex from reading my mum's copies. Disappointing that more men don't wear jodhpurs...

Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 2d

Knickers at half mast today everyone, for Jilly Cooper x

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 3d

A major new peer-reviewed Australian report warns that the UK’s Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide care for trans young people — and should not be adopted as a benchmark in Australia www.starobserver.com.au/news/new-rep...

New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia - Star Observer

A major new peer-reviewed report warns that the Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide Australia's care for trans young people.

www.starobserver.com.au

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 3d

USN officers applauding as a President calls his party political enemies insects to be eliminated. A new low every day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Leigh Jackson @oystermonkey.bsky.social · 7d

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 6d

The biggest misunderstanding people make about the humanities is that they’re unscientific. The fact is that we have a good understanding of how an early medieval language sounded when spoken, and that’s because of philologists following what can only be described as scientific methods.

British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 6d

Hwæt! 🐉

Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English?

#NationalPoetryDay

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 4d

Get out of here… really?!?

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 4d

Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds

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

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 4d

Well worth a read

Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social · 4d

So here’s a thread 🧵 while I wait for Benjamin Netanyahu to make his live statement.

1. The actions of ‘Palestine Action’ at RAF Brize Norton were illegal, but they also exposed poor security on the part of the MOD and the stupidity of the group.

The aircraft damaged were and are physically…

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 4d

Exclusive: Nigel Farage has not updated his register since May, despite continuing to present his GB News show, record Cameo videos and being a verified X user

Qus are now being asked about the non-registration of his shareholding in GB parent co All Perspectives

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni...

Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 4d

If you possibly can, please do also contribute to the @translucent.org.uk fundraiser, so they can help defend the Hampstead Ponds in the legal case against them and stand up for trans inclusion.

translucent.org.uk/keep-hampste...

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