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Parody Nigel Farage

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Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.

December 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM

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Appeal for former Gloster Aircraft Company workers to join trail

Organisers of a heritage trail want to hear from people who worked at the Gloster Aircraft Company.

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December 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)

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this is some aryan nation neo-Nazi white supremacist bullsh*t

Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · Oct 26

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

October 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM

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shauna

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we lost a queen 👑

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · Oct 5

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

October 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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Bylines Network

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Discover the Folk of Gloucester
The Folk of Gloucester is a significant cultural site in Gloucester, blending Tudor architecture, Civil War history, and local heritage

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Discover the Folk of Gloucester

The Folk of Gloucester is a significant cultural site in Gloucester, blending Tudor architecture, Civil War history, and local heritage

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September 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM

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🌺🌺 Cynbad 🌺🌺

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September 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM

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BladeoftheSun

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The Police are now searching for this idiot.

Do you know this incredibly stupid man?

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · Sep 13

"Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated, someone needs to shoot Keir Starmer."

I think this might be incitement to violence rather than Free Speech.

September 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM

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jen sometimes aph 🌻

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“Calling people a fascist is dangerous, violent rhetoric.” ...

Here's a compilation of Trump doing precisely that:

ht: @micaherfan.com

September 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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Wendy

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Can we just keep hoping that he is actually "dying"? thistleandmoss.com/p/i-keep-say...

I Keep Saying It: Donald "Diapers" Trump is Going To Collapse Into a Pile of Gooey Shit

You know what keeps me up at night: What happens when an empire built entirely on fear and opportunism finally meets the inevitable moment when even the vultures realize the corpse is too toxic to fee...

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July 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM

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Dominic Manchee

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Retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

He says he witnessed tank shells, mortar rounds, and bullets being fired at Palestinians.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC

A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.

www.bbc.co.uk

July 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM

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William Dalrymple

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If you want to understand the background to the conflict in Iran, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on the history of Iran & the Iranian Revolution.

From the rise of Cyrus...
podcasts.apple.com/az/podcast/9...

... to the Fall of the Shah:

podcasts.apple.com/az/podcast/1...

June 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM

Phil Seyers

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Starmer's words were appalling today. Clearly pandering to the far right. Shame on him.

Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · May 12

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

Slightly amended so I can fit this here:

I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame!

I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one.

I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country.

This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong.

Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues.

I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean?

Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens.

This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way.

You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position.

Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces.

What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly.

The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy.

Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed.

Tanja Bueltmann

May 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM

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Martin Lewis

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How to call your bank by dialling just 3 numbers… simply dial 1-5-9! Then you know it’s legit, watch the video for more info.

Please share, the more people know, the fewer will be scammed.

April 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM

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Gareth L. Powell

@garethlpowell.bsky.social

A reminder that tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day, so make plans to visit your local indie bookseller and keep the money in the community, rather than being used to fire rich women into space for a lark.

April 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM

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Election Maps UK

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🚨 | The deadline to register to vote in time for the 2025 Local Elections is midnight TONIGHT.
www.gov.uk/register-to-...

Register to vote

Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.

www.gov.uk

April 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance

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With the sun shining and more people out and about enjoying the weather, you might spot us responding by air or road. But what should you do if you see us trying to land or take-off in the helicopter? Watch our video for top tips from our pilots. 🚁

April 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM

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William Dalrymple

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Never has Yeats' work been more prophetic:
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

March 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM

Phil Seyers

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Fantastic result by Gloucester-Hartpury #PWR #RugbyUnion

March 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM

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Timothy Snyder

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From the good news department: Thanks to the support of thousands of Poles, Slawek Sierakowski and I have reached the goal of funding one armored ambulance for Ukrainian medics — in one day. Today starting the drive for a second. Please help.
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Timothy Snyder and Sławomir Sierakowski Are Raising Funds Towards an Armored Evacuation Vehicle | UNITED24 (Ukraine House DC Foundation) (Powered by Donorbox)

Timothy Snyder, Sławomir Sierakowski, and UNITED24 Are Raising Funds Towards an Armored Evacuation Vehicle for UkraineAmerican historian Timothy Snyder, Polish journalist Sławomir Sierakowski, and UNI...

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March 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM

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Just Jack

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As diligently as Trump is implementing every facet of Project 2025, there's some fine print he might have glossed over.

Once it's all in place, they don't need him anymore.

A compliant Vance waits in the wings, prepped by Musk/Thiel and ready to complete the transition to an oligarchy.

March 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM

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News Eye

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NEW: Multiple reports of Russian missiles pouring into Ukraine tonight, targeting civilians.

The US has shut off the intelligence Ukraine needs to protect itself.

This hotel in the southern city of Kryvyi Rih took a direct hit.

Trump has the blood on his hands of every Ukrainian casualty tonight.