Josy B
@josyb.bsky.social
Politically and geographically lost in uk
Screen time limits for children are no longer enough, new US report finds
Experts say guidance is ‘refreshing’ as it puts more emphasis on responsibility of companies and society
Experts say guidance is ‘refreshing’ as it puts more emphasis on responsibility of companies and society
Screen time limits for children are no longer enough, new US report finds
Experts say guidance is ‘refreshing’ as it puts more emphasis on responsibility of companies and society
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Screen time limits for children are no longer enough, new US report finds
Experts say guidance is ‘refreshing’ as it puts more emphasis on responsibility of companies and society
Experts say guidance is ‘refreshing’ as it puts more emphasis on responsibility of companies and society
‘They’re trying to milk us’: leaseholders tell of soaring charges amid Labour reform delays
Some residents say they are facing financial ruin as government’s long-awaited law changes stall
Some residents say they are facing financial ruin as government’s long-awaited law changes stall
‘They’re trying to milk us’: leaseholders tell of soaring charges amid Labour reform delays
Some residents say they are facing financial ruin as government’s long-awaited law changes stall
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:44 PM
‘They’re trying to milk us’: leaseholders tell of soaring charges amid Labour reform delays
Some residents say they are facing financial ruin as government’s long-awaited law changes stall
Some residents say they are facing financial ruin as government’s long-awaited law changes stall
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SIMAY AZADI TV
@en_simayazadi
🚨 #IranProtests Update:
Heavy Clashes in Rasht | January 2026
Newly obtained footage by Simay Azadi reveals intense confrontations between protesters and security forces.
Amidst the clashes, the crowd is heard chanting:
“Death to the Dictator!”
“Shame on you!”
SIMAY AZADI TV
@en_simayazadi
🚨 #IranProtests Update:
Heavy Clashes in Rasht | January 2026
Newly obtained footage by Simay Azadi reveals intense confrontations between protesters and security forces.
Amidst the clashes, the crowd is heard chanting:
“Death to the Dictator!”
“Shame on you!”
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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SIMAY AZADI TV
@en_simayazadi
🚨 #IranProtests Update:
Heavy Clashes in Rasht | January 2026
Newly obtained footage by Simay Azadi reveals intense confrontations between protesters and security forces.
Amidst the clashes, the crowd is heard chanting:
“Death to the Dictator!”
“Shame on you!”
SIMAY AZADI TV
@en_simayazadi
🚨 #IranProtests Update:
Heavy Clashes in Rasht | January 2026
Newly obtained footage by Simay Azadi reveals intense confrontations between protesters and security forces.
Amidst the clashes, the crowd is heard chanting:
“Death to the Dictator!”
“Shame on you!”
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After the disappointed hopes for a fall of the mullah regime, sheer terror reigns in #Iran
#HumanRights activist Claren reports fear and terror among the population.
The silence in #Europe and the #USA makes her angry.
‼️ www.n-tv.de/politik/Iran...
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#HumanRights activist Claren reports fear and terror among the population.
The silence in #Europe and the #USA makes her angry.
‼️ www.n-tv.de/politik/Iran...
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January 25, 2026 at 2:05 PM
After the disappointed hopes for a fall of the mullah regime, sheer terror reigns in #Iran
#HumanRights activist Claren reports fear and terror among the population.
The silence in #Europe and the #USA makes her angry.
‼️ www.n-tv.de/politik/Iran...
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#HumanRights activist Claren reports fear and terror among the population.
The silence in #Europe and the #USA makes her angry.
‼️ www.n-tv.de/politik/Iran...
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good.
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 AM
good.
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Worse, it is the American administration that is intervening in private enterprises and contracts for regime-consolidation and self-dealing.
Douthat should be thoroughly ignored for the debating society distraction he is.
Douthat should be thoroughly ignored for the debating society distraction he is.
A blinkered piece from Douthat, arguing that the non-US democracies might succumb to the Chinese model of 'illiberal managerialism' if they follow the Carney doctrine, as opposed to America's 'free-wheeling political conditions'. OK, mate
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Opinion | The Binary Logic of the Carney Doctrine
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Worse, it is the American administration that is intervening in private enterprises and contracts for regime-consolidation and self-dealing.
Douthat should be thoroughly ignored for the debating society distraction he is.
Douthat should be thoroughly ignored for the debating society distraction he is.
Rescued Scafell Pike hikers urged to pay hotel bill and return head torches
Wasdale mountain rescue team says ‘we struggle to understand when the rescued take advantage of hospitality’
“Sadly there has been no payment to the hotel of the £130 outstanding room cost or thank you to the bar manager”
Wasdale mountain rescue team says ‘we struggle to understand when the rescued take advantage of hospitality’
“Sadly there has been no payment to the hotel of the £130 outstanding room cost or thank you to the bar manager”
Rescued Scafell Pike hikers urged to pay hotel bill and return head torches
Wasdale mountain rescue team says ‘we struggle to understand when the rescued take advantage of hospitality’
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Rescued Scafell Pike hikers urged to pay hotel bill and return head torches
Wasdale mountain rescue team says ‘we struggle to understand when the rescued take advantage of hospitality’
“Sadly there has been no payment to the hotel of the £130 outstanding room cost or thank you to the bar manager”
Wasdale mountain rescue team says ‘we struggle to understand when the rescued take advantage of hospitality’
“Sadly there has been no payment to the hotel of the £130 outstanding room cost or thank you to the bar manager”
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Let’s.
BOVINO: He was in the scene actively impeding and assaulting law enforceme--
BASH: But he wasn't impeding. He was filming, which is a legal thing to do in the United States
BOVINO: Dana, let's not free frame adjudicate this now
BASH: But he wasn't impeding. He was filming, which is a legal thing to do in the United States
BOVINO: Dana, let's not free frame adjudicate this now
January 25, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Let’s.
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Just Elon Musk perpetuating the lie about Hitler being a socialist. Surprised he doesn't realise that Hitler just included the word in the party name to do exactly what I do - fool the plebs into thinking you give a shit about them.
January 25, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Just Elon Musk perpetuating the lie about Hitler being a socialist. Surprised he doesn't realise that Hitler just included the word in the party name to do exactly what I do - fool the plebs into thinking you give a shit about them.
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‘If you haven’t served, respect those who have’: Nato soldiers on Trump’s slurs
For @guardian, we speak to veterans from allied NATO countries - Poland, UK and Canada - for their reaction to Trump’s comments about them “staying a little back”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
For @guardian, we speak to veterans from allied NATO countries - Poland, UK and Canada - for their reaction to Trump’s comments about them “staying a little back”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘If you haven’t served, respect those who have’: Nato soldiers on Trump’s slurs
For those who fought alongside US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, president’s remarks have cut deep
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:35 PM
‘If you haven’t served, respect those who have’: Nato soldiers on Trump’s slurs
For @guardian, we speak to veterans from allied NATO countries - Poland, UK and Canada - for their reaction to Trump’s comments about them “staying a little back”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
For @guardian, we speak to veterans from allied NATO countries - Poland, UK and Canada - for their reaction to Trump’s comments about them “staying a little back”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Daily Mail
@dailymail.co.uk
Death toll from Iran's brutal crackdown on protesters soars past 33,000, new figures show - double previous estimates, as families are forced to say slain loved ones were pro-regime
Daily Mail
@dailymail.co.uk
Death toll from Iran's brutal crackdown on protesters soars past 33,000, new figures show - double previous estimates, as families are forced to say slain loved ones were pro-regime
Death toll from Iran's brutal crackdown on protesters double to 33,000
The latest figures came as Iran warned it will treat any attack 'as an all-out war' as the US ramps up its military presence in the region.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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Daily Mail
@dailymail.co.uk
Death toll from Iran's brutal crackdown on protesters soars past 33,000, new figures show - double previous estimates, as families are forced to say slain loved ones were pro-regime
Daily Mail
@dailymail.co.uk
Death toll from Iran's brutal crackdown on protesters soars past 33,000, new figures show - double previous estimates, as families are forced to say slain loved ones were pro-regime
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Blocking Andy Burnham from fighting the Gorton by-election is another gift to Reform from a Labour leadership whose entire strategy has so far played directly into their hands
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/morgan-mcs...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/morgan-mcs...
Morgan McSweeney’s 0% Strategy
The plot to block Andy Burnham's return to Westminster tells you everything you need to know about how Keir Starmer's Government got itself into this mess
www.adambienkov.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Blocking Andy Burnham from fighting the Gorton by-election is another gift to Reform from a Labour leadership whose entire strategy has so far played directly into their hands
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/morgan-mcs...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/morgan-mcs...
Teachers in England driving homeless pupils to school and washing clothes, research shows
Survey finds schools referring homeless children to food banks as record numbers live in temporary housing
Survey finds schools referring homeless children to food banks as record numbers live in temporary housing
Teachers in England driving homeless pupils to school and washing clothes, research shows
Survey finds schools referring homeless children to food banks as record numbers live in temporary housing
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Teachers in England driving homeless pupils to school and washing clothes, research shows
Survey finds schools referring homeless children to food banks as record numbers live in temporary housing
Survey finds schools referring homeless children to food banks as record numbers live in temporary housing
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Lies, lies, and damn lies.
January 25, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Lies, lies, and damn lies.
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Who really runs Britain?
Was great to talk to the excellent @samfriedman.bsky.social for the latest D4S
Really struck by his idea of a ‘symbolic marketplace for ordinariness’ - how politicians try to present as ‘ordinary’ when they are anything but
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-really...
Was great to talk to the excellent @samfriedman.bsky.social for the latest D4S
Really struck by his idea of a ‘symbolic marketplace for ordinariness’ - how politicians try to present as ‘ordinary’ when they are anything but
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-really...
Who really rules Britain?
I talked to Sam Friedman about Britain’s elite - and its political power
democracyforsale.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Who really runs Britain?
Was great to talk to the excellent @samfriedman.bsky.social for the latest D4S
Really struck by his idea of a ‘symbolic marketplace for ordinariness’ - how politicians try to present as ‘ordinary’ when they are anything but
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-really...
Was great to talk to the excellent @samfriedman.bsky.social for the latest D4S
Really struck by his idea of a ‘symbolic marketplace for ordinariness’ - how politicians try to present as ‘ordinary’ when they are anything but
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-really...
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The nurses are pissed
January 25, 2026 at 4:48 AM
The nurses are pissed
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Yes it is
They will basically take the Anti-Terrorism section of the Met, rename it, and possibly make it move to new offices but otherwise nothing much will change
They will basically take the Anti-Terrorism section of the Met, rename it, and possibly make it move to new offices but otherwise nothing much will change
January 25, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Yes it is
They will basically take the Anti-Terrorism section of the Met, rename it, and possibly make it move to new offices but otherwise nothing much will change
They will basically take the Anti-Terrorism section of the Met, rename it, and possibly make it move to new offices but otherwise nothing much will change
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Quite honestly, without knowing too much about it, it sounds like change for the sake of change. Do we not have things like the National Crime Agency, Serious Fraud Office? Is this Labour wanting just one big organisation to put their own man in charge like Kash Patel in the US?
January 25, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Quite honestly, without knowing too much about it, it sounds like change for the sake of change. Do we not have things like the National Crime Agency, Serious Fraud Office? Is this Labour wanting just one big organisation to put their own man in charge like Kash Patel in the US?
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I am pretty sure that the UK should not be modelling anything on the USA just at this particular moment in history.
But that's Blue Labour for you - very much into control from the centre.
But that's Blue Labour for you - very much into control from the centre.
A new national police service - dubbed ‘Britain’s FBI’ - is to be set up to tackle terrorism, fraud and gang crime, as part of a major shake-up.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
'British FBI' to tackle terrorism, fraud and gang crime in huge police shake up | LBC
The new service has been dubbed
www.lbc.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 7:55 AM
I am pretty sure that the UK should not be modelling anything on the USA just at this particular moment in history.
But that's Blue Labour for you - very much into control from the centre.
But that's Blue Labour for you - very much into control from the centre.
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The Economist coverage is grim but this is exactly how it should be reported.
economist.com/united-state...
economist.com/united-state...
January 25, 2026 at 10:11 AM
The Economist coverage is grim but this is exactly how it should be reported.
economist.com/united-state...
economist.com/united-state...
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Tonight, on behalf of Minnesota law enforcement, I filed a lawsuit against DHS to prevent the destruction of evidence related to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.
DHS is not above the law, and Alex sure as hell is not beneath it.
DHS is not above the law, and Alex sure as hell is not beneath it.
January 25, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Tonight, on behalf of Minnesota law enforcement, I filed a lawsuit against DHS to prevent the destruction of evidence related to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.
DHS is not above the law, and Alex sure as hell is not beneath it.
DHS is not above the law, and Alex sure as hell is not beneath it.
Here’s how Europe can file for divorce from Trump
Phillip Inman
Amid the tumult of the WEF in Davos this week, some investors are leading the way by ditching US government bonds
It won’t be easy to walk away and it won’t be quick. But a degree of separation is necessary and, crucially, achievable
Phillip Inman
Amid the tumult of the WEF in Davos this week, some investors are leading the way by ditching US government bonds
It won’t be easy to walk away and it won’t be quick. But a degree of separation is necessary and, crucially, achievable
Here’s how Europe can file for divorce from Donald Trump | Phillip Inman
Amid the tumult of the WEF in Davos this week, some investors are leading the way by ditching US government bonds
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Here’s how Europe can file for divorce from Trump
Phillip Inman
Amid the tumult of the WEF in Davos this week, some investors are leading the way by ditching US government bonds
It won’t be easy to walk away and it won’t be quick. But a degree of separation is necessary and, crucially, achievable
Phillip Inman
Amid the tumult of the WEF in Davos this week, some investors are leading the way by ditching US government bonds
It won’t be easy to walk away and it won’t be quick. But a degree of separation is necessary and, crucially, achievable
Trump’s wrecking ball pushes US allies closer to China
Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
In the search for stability, some western nations are turning to a country that many in Washington see as an existential threat
Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
In the search for stability, some western nations are turning to a country that many in Washington see as an existential threat
Trump’s wrecking ball pushes US allies closer to China
In the search for stability, some western nations are turning to a country that many in Washington see as an existential threat
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Trump’s wrecking ball pushes US allies closer to China
Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
In the search for stability, some western nations are turning to a country that many in Washington see as an existential threat
Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
In the search for stability, some western nations are turning to a country that many in Washington see as an existential threat
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President Donald Trump and his administration this week seemed to belatedly come to the realization that their Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minneapolis are going poorly. | Analysis
Another killing by a federal officer deepens Trump’s self-inflicted political nightmare | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump and his administration this week seemed to belatedly come to the realization that their Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minneapolis are going poorly.
cnn.it
January 25, 2026 at 8:02 AM
President Donald Trump and his administration this week seemed to belatedly come to the realization that their Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minneapolis are going poorly. | Analysis
Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’
Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gun
Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gun
Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’
Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gun
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’
Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gun
Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gun