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'To thine own self be true.' U.K.-based academic, wife, mother, carer. Interested in politics, books, history, disability rights, art, music, gardening and plants. ‘Divine hag of the ashes’. Follows and RTs are not endorsements. No DMs.
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The Trump administration is ordering the State Department to label countries with abortion access, LGBTQ+ protections, DEI policies, and even hate-speech safeguards as human rights violators.
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The Trump administration is ordering the State Department to label countries with abortion access, LGBTQ+ protections, DEI policies, and even hate-speech safeguards as human rights violators.
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The BBC has so thoroughly culled its science team that the national broadcaster is now using journalists from other corporations as correspondents on its flagship Inside Science show, rather than the wealth of specialists I was able to draw from. What a sad loss
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The BBC has so thoroughly culled its science team that the national broadcaster is now using journalists from other corporations as correspondents on its flagship Inside Science show, rather than the wealth of specialists I was able to draw from. What a sad loss
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The idea of Trump assisting in a covert operation is like imagining a llama trying to do brain surgery.
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The idea of Trump assisting in a covert operation is like imagining a llama trying to do brain surgery.
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Here's the transcript. When I say ‘we had a convicted reality star’, you can add ‘who now rules as the most openly corrupt president in American history’ in your head.
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Here's the transcript. When I say ‘we had a convicted reality star’, you can add ‘who now rules as the most openly corrupt president in American history’ in your head.
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
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Millions of talented people end up in careers that don’t make the world better. Some even make it worse.
July 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Millions of talented people end up in careers that don’t make the world better. Some even make it worse.
This is disturbing.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This is disturbing.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Pretty sure she wasn’t supposed to say that quiet bit out loud and on an international news channel, but
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Pretty sure she wasn’t supposed to say that quiet bit out loud and on an international news channel, but
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latest sham investigation just dropped
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
latest sham investigation just dropped
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This isn't ancient history either. Farage used the term "globalist" to describe Grant Shapps just three years ago.
These are age-old antisemitic terms, and they tap into racist right-wing conspiracy theories about a one world government.
There's no excuse.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
These are age-old antisemitic terms, and they tap into racist right-wing conspiracy theories about a one world government.
There's no excuse.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage urged to explain conspiracy theories linked to antisemitism he voiced in US media
Exclusive: The Reform UK leader discussed far-right talking points in web TV and radio appearances between 2009 and 2018
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This isn't ancient history either. Farage used the term "globalist" to describe Grant Shapps just three years ago.
These are age-old antisemitic terms, and they tap into racist right-wing conspiracy theories about a one world government.
There's no excuse.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
These are age-old antisemitic terms, and they tap into racist right-wing conspiracy theories about a one world government.
There's no excuse.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The stuff of nightmares.
A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The stuff of nightmares.
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Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
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It's not going away
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
It's not going away
The Isabel Oakeshott of American politics 😜 (not to mention thick as mince)
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The Isabel Oakeshott of American politics 😜 (not to mention thick as mince)
Full marks for this thread. Do read.
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Full marks for this thread. Do read.
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Video shot by astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, shows a stunning display of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station.
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Video shot by astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, shows a stunning display of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station.
WTAF 😱
Trump’s special envoy Witkoff put his hand over his heart when Putin walked in the room. Like he’s reunited with a loved one. That really tells you all you need to know.
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
WTAF 😱
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I suspect this is true - the humanities will go back to being a status marker. Rich kids and the elect get to study Homer, but the middle class must settle for adjunct-taught mega-lectures before STEM classes.
A grim destination, but right now that is the road the voters keep choosing.
A grim destination, but right now that is the road the voters keep choosing.
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I suspect this is true - the humanities will go back to being a status marker. Rich kids and the elect get to study Homer, but the middle class must settle for adjunct-taught mega-lectures before STEM classes.
A grim destination, but right now that is the road the voters keep choosing.
A grim destination, but right now that is the road the voters keep choosing.
This video is like the Lip Sync Umbrella performance - one watches it and shares it. I don’t make the rules. All hail, the god Prince!👑
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This video is like the Lip Sync Umbrella performance - one watches it and shares it. I don’t make the rules. All hail, the god Prince!👑
Fabulous
November 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Fabulous
I’m traveling on the train and a girl sitting next to me is watching an influencer convincing her audience that there’s so much free time after work and it’s time to reclaim the evenings. It turns out she clocks off at 4 pm and leaves the flat in the morning at 8.30 am. 🤷♀️
a woman in a police uniform is sitting at a desk with the words honey you have no idea
ALT: a woman in a police uniform is sitting at a desk with the words honey you have no idea
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I’m traveling on the train and a girl sitting next to me is watching an influencer convincing her audience that there’s so much free time after work and it’s time to reclaim the evenings. It turns out she clocks off at 4 pm and leaves the flat in the morning at 8.30 am. 🤷♀️
In typical autistic fashion, I have now sorted every single Christmas present. In typical ADHD fashion, I will now forget all about them, panic wrap them at the last minute, forget the tags and end up mixing them up, whilst also only posting the presents for family living abroad on the 10 January.
a cartoon of spongebob with a rainbow coming out of his head
Alt: a cartoon of spongebob with a rainbow coming out of his head
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
In typical autistic fashion, I have now sorted every single Christmas present. In typical ADHD fashion, I will now forget all about them, panic wrap them at the last minute, forget the tags and end up mixing them up, whilst also only posting the presents for family living abroad on the 10 January.
Churchill took meetings in his bath.
Boris took four days off.
Boris took four days off.
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Churchill took meetings in his bath.
Boris took four days off.
Boris took four days off.
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🤦@ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social 'Had a lockdown been imposed on or immediately after 16 Mar 2020, modelling has established that the number of deaths in England in the first wave up until 1 Jul 2020 would have been reduced by 48% – equating to around 23,000 fewer deaths.'
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Covid inquiry: UK action was “too little, too late” and led to avoidable deaths, report finds
Boris Johnson’s government repeatedly did “too little, too late” in response to the covid pandemic and could have saved 23 000 lives in England if a lockdown had been imposed a week earlier, the UK Co...
www.bmj.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🤦@ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social 'Had a lockdown been imposed on or immediately after 16 Mar 2020, modelling has established that the number of deaths in England in the first wave up until 1 Jul 2020 would have been reduced by 48% – equating to around 23,000 fewer deaths.'
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...