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The poison of hope is all we have
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Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
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What actually happened is the opposite of "woke". There is a turkey shortage because of bird flu.
You know the sort of thing animal welfare regulations and consumer protections might have prevented if not for decades of deregulation.
You know the sort of thing animal welfare regulations and consumer protections might have prevented if not for decades of deregulation.
November 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
What actually happened is the opposite of "woke". There is a turkey shortage because of bird flu.
You know the sort of thing animal welfare regulations and consumer protections might have prevented if not for decades of deregulation.
You know the sort of thing animal welfare regulations and consumer protections might have prevented if not for decades of deregulation.
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
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To understand what's happened at the BBC in the last few days, it helps to look at how it's run. Latest video - produced by Katerina Karelli. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Ros Atkins on... how the BBC is run
The BBC's analysis editor looks at how the organisation works - to understand why two bosses quit over the weekend.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
To understand what's happened at the BBC in the last few days, it helps to look at how it's run. Latest video - produced by Katerina Karelli. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
November 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
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The Budget is due on 26 November.
If you have sometimes thought that you could do a better job than the Chancellor, now is your chance to find out if you are right.
99-percent.org/if-you-were-...
If you have sometimes thought that you could do a better job than the Chancellor, now is your chance to find out if you are right.
99-percent.org/if-you-were-...
If You Were Chancellor… - 99%
Now is your chance to see if you would deliver national renewal The Budget is due on November 26. Like all Budgets it will enable the Treasury to set the […]
99-percent.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Budget is due on 26 November.
If you have sometimes thought that you could do a better job than the Chancellor, now is your chance to find out if you are right.
99-percent.org/if-you-were-...
If you have sometimes thought that you could do a better job than the Chancellor, now is your chance to find out if you are right.
99-percent.org/if-you-were-...
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Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Chicago
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just took the bench. She's expected to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction governing the use of force by federal agents in Chicago.
Good morning. Back in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who is expected to rule in 20 minutes on the use of force by federal agents against protesters and journalists in Chicago.
'It's a disgrace': Chicagoans describe jarring encounters with feds as judge prepares to rule on 'blitz'
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just took the bench. She's expected to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction governing the use of force by federal agents in Chicago.
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This FT account of pure thuggishness of Trump representatives posing as diplomats has not appeared in US media anywhere, but is being widely circulated and reported in media in Europe, the UK and the Asia Pacific area. Be sure to read it all.
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This FT account of pure thuggishness of Trump representatives posing as diplomats has not appeared in US media anywhere, but is being widely circulated and reported in media in Europe, the UK and the Asia Pacific area. Be sure to read it all.
There wasn’t, isn’t, and will never be a “generic British accent”. Next time you visit go to Brighton, Leicester, Manchester, and Newcastle. Then talk to me about the British accent.
November 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
There wasn’t, isn’t, and will never be a “generic British accent”. Next time you visit go to Brighton, Leicester, Manchester, and Newcastle. Then talk to me about the British accent.
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Kind of R&B thing today. A little woolly on the articulation. It’s good to look for things to improve without being too negative, which is part of the point of doing this.
October 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Kind of R&B thing today. A little woolly on the articulation. It’s good to look for things to improve without being too negative, which is part of the point of doing this.
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Here's Nick Griffin - British National Party leader in 2009 - complaining that the BBC Question Time audience he faced was "dominated by ethnic minorities."
He was criticised at the time by just about everyone.
Nowadays they'd be discussing what he meant on #R4today
He was criticised at the time by just about everyone.
Nowadays they'd be discussing what he meant on #R4today
![He went on: "That audience was taken from a
city that is no longer British ... That was not
my country any more. Why not come down
and do it in Thurrock, do it in Stoke, do it in
Burnley?
"Do it somewhere where there are still
significant numbers of English and British
people [living], and they haven't been
ethnically cleansed from their own country.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mqpgxjffcckasqv7h6g7itu/bafkreiao5ksznkdgvtgha2b2jqxw4s3ijlyhjtiywh5l5eg6oto5hexdli@jpeg)
![He added: "There is not much support for me
there [in London], because the place is
dominated by ethnic minorities. There is an
ethnic minority that supports me: the
English. But there's not many of them left."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mqpgxjffcckasqv7h6g7itu/bafkreiaowjfelhblesb53lk2nvkj6vmotsdtg3wl3auxeuzjukrq5tz7ni@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Here's Nick Griffin - British National Party leader in 2009 - complaining that the BBC Question Time audience he faced was "dominated by ethnic minorities."
He was criticised at the time by just about everyone.
Nowadays they'd be discussing what he meant on #R4today
He was criticised at the time by just about everyone.
Nowadays they'd be discussing what he meant on #R4today
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?
‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?
In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon Musk branding it ‘Wokipedia’ and AI looming large, can it survive?
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:39 AM
‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
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your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
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your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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I am always being told that Labour is doing nothing progressive, that it doesn't care about people, has abandoned its roots. I disagree with some of what it's doing. But this is a radical step in supporting vulnerable women & children. It matters.
www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/long-overdue...
www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/long-overdue...
Long overdue: Government repeals presumption of parental involvement | End Violence Against Women
Last night (21st October 2025), the government announced plans to repeal the presumption of parental involvement from the Children Act 1989, to protect children from abusive parents. Responding to thi...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I am always being told that Labour is doing nothing progressive, that it doesn't care about people, has abandoned its roots. I disagree with some of what it's doing. But this is a radical step in supporting vulnerable women & children. It matters.
www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/long-overdue...
www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/long-overdue...
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Boris’s Children: my SKETCH of Today in subjects he loves to forget.
Boris’s children | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
“My memory is now contaminated.” It was one of the more accurate statements we heard from Boris Johnson on Tuesday morning, though this is never a high bar. He was speaking, again…
thecritic.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Boris’s Children: my SKETCH of Today in subjects he loves to forget.
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Some have drawn a parallel between current VI polling and that in mid-2019, with the implication the traditional duopoly will inevitably reassert itself, again. I've looked at whether the evidence supports this.
(I've speedily written it up, as I felt a thread would see parts get selectively RTed)
(I've speedily written it up, as I felt a thread would see parts get selectively RTed)
2019 again?
Is current polling just a repeat of that summer’s surges?
dylandifford.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Some have drawn a parallel between current VI polling and that in mid-2019, with the implication the traditional duopoly will inevitably reassert itself, again. I've looked at whether the evidence supports this.
(I've speedily written it up, as I felt a thread would see parts get selectively RTed)
(I've speedily written it up, as I felt a thread would see parts get selectively RTed)
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Everybody: please stop mentioning that Farage was regularly on Russia Today, a channel now banned for its Russian propaganda content, blamed the EU for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2014, had a Russian spy running his Welsh operation, and built his whole career on a policy Putin supports.
Farage is doing a big media push to deny he has any links with Putin and Russia.
It’s obviously starting to hurt.
It’s obviously starting to hurt.
October 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Everybody: please stop mentioning that Farage was regularly on Russia Today, a channel now banned for its Russian propaganda content, blamed the EU for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2014, had a Russian spy running his Welsh operation, and built his whole career on a policy Putin supports.
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MI5 issues guidance on countering espionage and interference
We have seen previous cases of political interference, including most recently the case of the former Member of the European Parliament, Nathan Gill
www.gov.uk/government/n...
We have seen previous cases of political interference, including most recently the case of the former Member of the European Parliament, Nathan Gill
www.gov.uk/government/n...
MI5 issues guidance on countering espionage and interference
MI5's National Protective Security Authority issues new security guidance to protect democratic institutions from espionage and foreign interference
www.gov.uk
October 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
MI5 issues guidance on countering espionage and interference
We have seen previous cases of political interference, including most recently the case of the former Member of the European Parliament, Nathan Gill
www.gov.uk/government/n...
We have seen previous cases of political interference, including most recently the case of the former Member of the European Parliament, Nathan Gill
www.gov.uk/government/n...
I’m not an expert on these matters but iirc Biden wasn’t president on January 6…
October 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I’m not an expert on these matters but iirc Biden wasn’t president on January 6…