Alexandra Citron
@alexcitronella.bsky.social
Reader, writer, poet, editor, history addict, old films buff, middle-aged fury, citrusy.
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The NHS could be left with “huge holes” in its medical workforce if foreign doctors leave the health service, according to the medical regulator
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November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The NHS could be left with “huge holes” in its medical workforce if foreign doctors leave the health service, according to the medical regulator
www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
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I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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Can't believe there are conversations about ending the BBC. This is like listening to a family calmly discussing whether to shoot it's dog, or burn down the house.
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Can't believe there are conversations about ending the BBC. This is like listening to a family calmly discussing whether to shoot it's dog, or burn down the house.
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Everyone, apparently, has questions to answer. Except the people responsible for bringing the system to its knees. Too "complex" to go into that.
November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Everyone, apparently, has questions to answer. Except the people responsible for bringing the system to its knees. Too "complex" to go into that.
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The government has recovered £74m from excessive profits made by companies running asylum accommodation, the BBC can reveal.
The Home Office said it had recouped the money following a review of contracts after Labour came to power last year.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Home Office said it had recouped the money following a review of contracts after Labour came to power last year.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government recovers £74m from asylum hotel firms
The amount recouped remains a small percentage of the overall cost of asylum accommodation.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The government has recovered £74m from excessive profits made by companies running asylum accommodation, the BBC can reveal.
The Home Office said it had recouped the money following a review of contracts after Labour came to power last year.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Home Office said it had recouped the money following a review of contracts after Labour came to power last year.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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November 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
Who would have guessed
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
Who would have guessed
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
Who would have guessed
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
Who would have guessed
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
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Another 55mins of Farage carried live by BBC and Sky, in which he rambled for twice as long as briefed, and yet managed to say little of substance.
Why can broadcasters not simply give us 3mins of the low-lights after the event, as they would do with most other politicians? ~AA
Why can broadcasters not simply give us 3mins of the low-lights after the event, as they would do with most other politicians? ~AA
November 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Another 55mins of Farage carried live by BBC and Sky, in which he rambled for twice as long as briefed, and yet managed to say little of substance.
Why can broadcasters not simply give us 3mins of the low-lights after the event, as they would do with most other politicians? ~AA
Why can broadcasters not simply give us 3mins of the low-lights after the event, as they would do with most other politicians? ~AA
Please explain why so much time was spent on the lunchtime news, twice, on Farage saying he doesn't really know what his party might do, depends, aside from sucking up on IHT, and lots might change, and the 'reporter' saying yeah, who knows? Why do they keep getting so much attention when so lame?
November 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Please explain why so much time was spent on the lunchtime news, twice, on Farage saying he doesn't really know what his party might do, depends, aside from sucking up on IHT, and lots might change, and the 'reporter' saying yeah, who knows? Why do they keep getting so much attention when so lame?
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A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
Good pertinent points for the UK too. The misinformation of basic facts is not being effectively countered.
I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?
October 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Good pertinent points for the UK too. The misinformation of basic facts is not being effectively countered.
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Here is the long and short of it.
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Here is the long and short of it.
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That’s uhh insane.
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
That’s uhh insane.
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
In the wonderful 1941 film 'Pimpernel Smith', one of Leslie Howard's disguises as a wartime Pimpernel is Herr Bodenschatz, the supposed liaison between the Party and the Nazi-American Bund, claiming he's taking so much trouble to persuade the Americans to like them. All in plain sight even then.
The current regime isn’t the first to argue that fascism aligns with American values.
Historian Jill Lepore describes the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, an attempt to mainstream Nazism in the U.S.
They failed, and so will Miller + co, who history will remember as villains.
Historian Jill Lepore describes the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, an attempt to mainstream Nazism in the U.S.
They failed, and so will Miller + co, who history will remember as villains.
October 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
In the wonderful 1941 film 'Pimpernel Smith', one of Leslie Howard's disguises as a wartime Pimpernel is Herr Bodenschatz, the supposed liaison between the Party and the Nazi-American Bund, claiming he's taking so much trouble to persuade the Americans to like them. All in plain sight even then.
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Well done, Caerphilly!
In the end, @lsrplaid.bsky.social was closer to the mark on high turnout than @willhaycardiff.bsky.social. It foiled RefUK bc the tactical consolidation behind Plaid was so decisive.
This is a blueprint of what progressive must do everywhere. Read the form. Back one horse.
In the end, @lsrplaid.bsky.social was closer to the mark on high turnout than @willhaycardiff.bsky.social. It foiled RefUK bc the tactical consolidation behind Plaid was so decisive.
This is a blueprint of what progressive must do everywhere. Read the form. Back one horse.
Reform lost by 11% in Caerphilly - because of a surge in turnout, because Reform looked set to win the seat.
This illustrates Reform's vulnerability *because* they are leading the polls (in a 6 party system) while being an *unpopular* party. A much bigger problem under FPTP 2029 than PR 2026
This illustrates Reform's vulnerability *because* they are leading the polls (in a 6 party system) while being an *unpopular* party. A much bigger problem under FPTP 2029 than PR 2026
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Well done, Caerphilly!
In the end, @lsrplaid.bsky.social was closer to the mark on high turnout than @willhaycardiff.bsky.social. It foiled RefUK bc the tactical consolidation behind Plaid was so decisive.
This is a blueprint of what progressive must do everywhere. Read the form. Back one horse.
In the end, @lsrplaid.bsky.social was closer to the mark on high turnout than @willhaycardiff.bsky.social. It foiled RefUK bc the tactical consolidation behind Plaid was so decisive.
This is a blueprint of what progressive must do everywhere. Read the form. Back one horse.
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Possibly unpopular opinion - Farage’s ‘listen love’ moment should have been a much bigger deal, if not career ending. Especially as he’s spent all summer lecturing us about cultures which have a ‘medieval attitude towards women’.
October 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Possibly unpopular opinion - Farage’s ‘listen love’ moment should have been a much bigger deal, if not career ending. Especially as he’s spent all summer lecturing us about cultures which have a ‘medieval attitude towards women’.
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Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.
This is his Ceaucescu move. If you don't care about demolishing individual lives, you're sure not going to care about a house, regardless of its status as national park and monument owned by the people. L'etat c'est moi.
October 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is his Ceaucescu move. If you don't care about demolishing individual lives, you're sure not going to care about a house, regardless of its status as national park and monument owned by the people. L'etat c'est moi.
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My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.
October 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
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If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.
October 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.
❤️❤️ Kermit rules.
ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
October 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
❤️❤️ Kermit rules.
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A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
n.pr
October 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.