Diane Purkiss
@janetanderson.bsky.social
I love books, reading, eating, cooking, and my French bulldog Bunty. I write history and I teach English at Oxford University.
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Wes Streeting the guy everyone hates from left to right with a 528 majority
I'd be quite happy to see Starmer go, but when you have Streeting and Mahmood being presented as the most viable alternatives it doesn't exactly bode well for the future. Seems guaranteed that the attacks on marginalised communities we have seen already will be ramped up.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Prime Minister will fight any attempt to replace him, friends say
Allies of the prime minister are worried his job might be under immediate threat.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Wes Streeting the guy everyone hates from left to right with a 528 majority
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What a coincidence!
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What a coincidence!
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the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
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I have the shutters bolted against the wind and rain. The old house creaks like a galleon at sea.
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I have the shutters bolted against the wind and rain. The old house creaks like a galleon at sea.
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From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"
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Today is Remembrance Day in many countries – the red poppy is its symbol.
Maybe you didn’t know that in Ukraine,
May 8 is Remembrance Day, honoring the victims of World War II.
Ukraine also uses the red poppy, designed by Serhiy Mishakin in 2014
(the words in the picture say ‘Never again’)
Maybe you didn’t know that in Ukraine,
May 8 is Remembrance Day, honoring the victims of World War II.
Ukraine also uses the red poppy, designed by Serhiy Mishakin in 2014
(the words in the picture say ‘Never again’)
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Today is Remembrance Day in many countries – the red poppy is its symbol.
Maybe you didn’t know that in Ukraine,
May 8 is Remembrance Day, honoring the victims of World War II.
Ukraine also uses the red poppy, designed by Serhiy Mishakin in 2014
(the words in the picture say ‘Never again’)
Maybe you didn’t know that in Ukraine,
May 8 is Remembrance Day, honoring the victims of World War II.
Ukraine also uses the red poppy, designed by Serhiy Mishakin in 2014
(the words in the picture say ‘Never again’)
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From czech.hunter.schafer on IG
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
From czech.hunter.schafer on IG
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“.. Mamdani demonstrated an extraordinary, if not magical, ability to change the character and composition of the electorate ..”
“.. The turnout rate of voters age 18 to 29 rose to 41.3 percent this year from 11.1 percent in .. 2021 ..”
@tomedsall.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
“.. The turnout rate of voters age 18 to 29 rose to 41.3 percent this year from 11.1 percent in .. 2021 ..”
@tomedsall.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“.. Mamdani demonstrated an extraordinary, if not magical, ability to change the character and composition of the electorate ..”
“.. The turnout rate of voters age 18 to 29 rose to 41.3 percent this year from 11.1 percent in .. 2021 ..”
@tomedsall.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
“.. The turnout rate of voters age 18 to 29 rose to 41.3 percent this year from 11.1 percent in .. 2021 ..”
@tomedsall.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
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AIDS activists included many trans women and supporters of trans rights. Many are sadly passing away in recent years, after fighting AIDS for decades.
Even still, one activist in hospice care became animated when pleading for trans people to take to the streets and fight for our healthcare again.
Even still, one activist in hospice care became animated when pleading for trans people to take to the streets and fight for our healthcare again.
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
AIDS activists included many trans women and supporters of trans rights. Many are sadly passing away in recent years, after fighting AIDS for decades.
Even still, one activist in hospice care became animated when pleading for trans people to take to the streets and fight for our healthcare again.
Even still, one activist in hospice care became animated when pleading for trans people to take to the streets and fight for our healthcare again.
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Almost a year on and Nigel Farage has still not given any explanation as to what was going on here bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/n...
Nigel Farage Pictured With Far-Right Activists Who Posted 'Pride Swastikas' and Racist Rants
EXCLUSIVE: The Reform UK leader posed for pictures with the group of prominent far-right activists known for their extreme, racist and Islamophobic posts
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Almost a year on and Nigel Farage has still not given any explanation as to what was going on here bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/n...
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Esther Ghey's actions are the reason I just had a conversation with my siblings and fiancee, instructing them to ban my parents from any future funeral or memorial in my honour, along with anyone else using any kind of rationalisation to deadname me.
Brianna Ghey was not murdered for being Esther Ghey's daughter, and Esther locating the problem of her daughter being murdered by radicalised cis kids in her daughter being trans is a result of her class loyalty. She simply wants to prevent kids from being trans. She gets no more grace from me.
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Esther Ghey's actions are the reason I just had a conversation with my siblings and fiancee, instructing them to ban my parents from any future funeral or memorial in my honour, along with anyone else using any kind of rationalisation to deadname me.
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In her heart, she knew that he didn't have much going for him apart from that shell collection. Neptune & Amphitrite, 1583, by Cornelis van Haarlem whose day is today.
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
In her heart, she knew that he didn't have much going for him apart from that shell collection. Neptune & Amphitrite, 1583, by Cornelis van Haarlem whose day is today.
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
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Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
🔥🧵
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
🔥🧵
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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Obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobic ex-BBC journalist Cath Leng, goes running to obsessive transphobic ex-DM journalist, Sanchez Manning, now working at obsessive trans-hostile newspaper, The Times, to get her soft-focus closeup and ‘woe is me, I woz silenced’ propaganda piece! 🙄😣
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobic ex-BBC journalist Cath Leng, goes running to obsessive transphobic ex-DM journalist, Sanchez Manning, now working at obsessive trans-hostile newspaper, The Times, to get her soft-focus closeup and ‘woe is me, I woz silenced’ propaganda piece! 🙄😣
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Please, would SOMEONE from the U.K. "Labour" party explain this to me like I'm 12.
Please explain how controls on social media and cell phones would have prevented these two 15-year-old killers from murdering Brianna Ghey in cold blood with knives.
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Please, would SOMEONE from the U.K. "Labour" party explain this to me like I'm 12.
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Minding her own business was free.
Kim Davis who tried to get the #SupremeCourt to overturn same sex marriage now owes a gay couple $360k — Fabulous 🏳️🌈
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Minding her own business was free.
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Just published: my new book "Forgotten Times" (Amberley Publishing). 180 photographs taken by me in the 1950s and 1960s with street scenes of the UK, Ireland and the outer islands and depicting a world largely unknown to the present day. #up1111
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Just published: my new book "Forgotten Times" (Amberley Publishing). 180 photographs taken by me in the 1950s and 1960s with street scenes of the UK, Ireland and the outer islands and depicting a world largely unknown to the present day. #up1111
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Re-upping this, with thanks to everyone who’s helped so far! 🫶🏻
I've a favour to ask of my cisgender UK followers. It'll take you 5 minutes!
Please use this template to write to your MP.
I know, I know... AGAIN. But this is to counter the letter-writing campaign undertaken by Sex Matters, who want the awful EHRC trans-exclusionary Code to be rushed through.
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Please use this template to write to your MP.
I know, I know... AGAIN. But this is to counter the letter-writing campaign undertaken by Sex Matters, who want the awful EHRC trans-exclusionary Code to be rushed through.
🙏🏻
Scrap the Bathroom Ban
🚨This is urgent🚨
Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...
actionnetwork.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Re-upping this, with thanks to everyone who’s helped so far! 🫶🏻
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A wonderful little bundle of fluff and always a pure pleasure to photograph ~ the Long-Tailed Tit ~ this photo taken at Westhay Moor NR on the Somerset levels a few weeks ago 😍😎 🪶 🦉 #ukbirding #birds #ukwildlife #naturephotography #birdwatching #naturetherapy #titmouse #birdsofbluesky #bluesky
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A wonderful little bundle of fluff and always a pure pleasure to photograph ~ the Long-Tailed Tit ~ this photo taken at Westhay Moor NR on the Somerset levels a few weeks ago 😍😎 🪶 🦉 #ukbirding #birds #ukwildlife #naturephotography #birdwatching #naturetherapy #titmouse #birdsofbluesky #bluesky
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The Great Carnivore https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-great-carnivore-1969
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The Great Carnivore https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-great-carnivore-1969
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