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Simon Cox
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migration & equality, law & politics | lawyer | cis | he/him | @DoughtyStImm.bsky.social | trustee Right To Remain | ex-OSF | my views obvs, not doughty st | large photo Paul Trevor, 1978, Brick Lane
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really, on main, Wimbledon? *boink boink*
photograph of a shop front with a poster saying “SIZE Matters. We’ve moved to a bigger office” Photo of shop called “Big O’s”
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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sure, why not
Screenshot of newspaper article by Suzanne Moore headlined “It’s time to ban all dogs”, standfirst “Until owners can learn to look after their pets properly, keeping a canine should be outlawed”, photograph by Ekaterina Savyolova of a spaniel, with caption “Too many dogs are poorly trained and get too little exercise”
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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#Halloween One year a local lad made this scary rabbit head that fitted over his own head.

But he’d made it of steel.

So his neck wasn’t strong enough to hold his head up for long.

His mum had to stand behind him to hold his head up lol
A person wears a boxy head like robot rabbit with light bulb eyes. The person is wearing an “Among Us” sweatshirt.
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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A much missed man.
A sign, outdoors, reading “Seething Wells” (black text on white background) and above that “Kingston University” (white text on blue background). Behind the sign is brick wall or building.
October 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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it me
screenshot of a post on the subreddit me_irl by user Past_Yam9507 of a poster reading “How Long Am I To Be An Involuntary Test Subject For Cruel Technologies”
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Polish resistance satirical poster - "New European Order" (german: Die Neuordnung Europas) - polish reaction on Hitler`s plans to establish a "new order" in Europe, under domination of nazi Germany. In the middle: Adolf Hitler, background: imprisoned european nations (France, Bulgaria, Holland, Yugoslavia, Belgium, Greece, Poland, Hungary etc.)
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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help me out here: did you grow up calling these “wallies” and if so, when and where?
Two small green pickled cucumbers - or gherkins - in a bowl
October 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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those eyes have seen too much
October 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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how did I never notice that Uncle Bulgaria has a hookah
Photograph of Uncle Bulgaria, a Womble (a soft toy creature with a furry humanoid body and a long snout tipped by a black nose), relaxing in a rough wooden rocking chair. He is in a seemingly small, cluttered room with worn wooden furniture. He has grey hair and beard and is wearing a soft hat, a scarf and slippers in matching dark blue tartan. In his left hand is a rolled newspaper. In his right hand, he hold the pipe of a hookah. The hookah is out of shot.
October 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Legacy journalists call drivers “snitches” for reporting dangerous driving. So all drivers are a criminal conspiracy now, and they need to stay quiet?

Dangerous driving kills 4 people every day in UK. That’s 3 times as many as regular murderers.

Let’s all use new tech to make roads safe.
Screenshot of Reddit post with Sky News article reading ‘Dashcam snitches’ send driver fines rocketing’ Other motorists are behind a spike in driver fines, research shared with Sky News reveals. Followed by redditors comment Dashcam snitches This is an absolutly vile way to frame dashcam users. The police force are struggling due to lack of funding, and the public can step in and help out, and theyre being branded as snitches and vigilantes by sky news. Outrageous behavour from a news outlet. What do others think about this?
October 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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International student “abused by teenagers in Exeter”. From Reddit.
Just 12 days in Exeter, already felt unwelcome!! Hi everyone, I moved to Exeter just 12 days ago as an international student. The city is beautiful, and the university community has been welcoming. But last night something unpleasant happened. A group of teenage girls walked past me and started shouting “nasty” at me, over and over. I didn’t know how to respond. I just kept walking, but inside it felt horrible. It was honestly shocking and a bit humiliating. I don’t want this one experience to define how I see Exeter, because I’ve also met kind and welcoming people. But being targeted like that, so soon after arriving, has left me feeling a bit anxious and out of place. I’m trying to understand whether this kind of random verbal hostility is common here, especially in smaller cities like Exeter, or if it was just an unfortunate encounter with a group of rude teenagers. I’d also be interested to hear from locals how you personally feel about the way immigration is being discussed in UK politics right now, and whether that rhetoric actually influences how people treat newcomers in their communities. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
October 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I was quoting the Prime Minister. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Screen shot of Guardian headline “Starmer says government will introduce digital IDs to ensure Britain’s ‘borders are more secure’ – as it happened” Screen shot of text “Starmer admitted Labour has previously shied away from addressing concerns over immigration said it is now “essential” to tackle “every aspect of the problem of illegal immigration” in an article for The Telegraph.”
September 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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that’s the stuff
A shop front with pictures and the text POLISH STUFF KOREAN STUFF
September 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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4/ So most of the “immigration control” issues raised by “Labour Together” wouldn’t be affected by requiring every adult to carry ID.
Screenshot of Guardian article “The idea came from a Labour Together paper given to the No 10 policy unit proposing a Brit Card, which it claimed could help avoid another Windrush scandal. The thinktank also said it would help reduce vast numbers of visa overstayers, saying half of those whose asylum claims were turned down over the past 14 years were probably still in the UK. It proposed a free, secure digital ID, stored on a person’s smartphone using a planned gov.uk Wallet app, rebranded as the Brit Card app. That could then be verified by employers, immigration, banks and landlords using free software.”
September 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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What IS the Society of Conservative Lawyers doing, standing by while Jenrick makes *unprecedented* claims that judges are partial if they were involved in charities that provide free legal representation. Here he attacks Immigration Judge Beach because she was a trustee of @biddetention.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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feeling a little
picture of a bottle of vinegar
September 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Today is Mocking Jane Austen day, when people dress up in Regency outfits to celebrate the sleazy pushy Bath she hated.
People in Regency outfits walking in Bath
September 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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How Stone Age users of Sweet Track may have looked.
A coloured paintingof how Iron Age users of Sweet Track may have looked. Three figures wearing brown clothes are on the track in daylight, surrounded by tall reeds with ducks flying overhead, and a hawk hovering. In front, a man walking. He is bearded, with hair braided & in a ponytail, ear plugs (large piercings), tattoos on arms. He is wearing a sleeveless, belted hide jerkin, necklace of coloured stones and teeth/bones, stitched hide trousers & shoes, and a stitched hide armband; holding a long bow & with a quiver of feathered arrows slung over his back. Behind him a child lies on the track, wearing similar hide clothes & holding a toy wooden ax. Behind the child stands a woman, with braided hair, ear-plugs. She is wearing a sleeved, stitched hide jacket, fastened by toggles and with a basket on her back held by straps over her shoulders. In her arms she holds a bundle of reeds.
September 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Built 5,381 years ago - over a few days - in the heart of Somerset, the elevated Sweet Track walkway ran 2 km across marsh, connecting two Stone Age communities for 10-15 years.
Photo of reconstruction of the Sweet Track, oak or ash planks lying along the V of an X-shaped pair of staves fixed in the earth
September 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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and a pigeon in a pear tree 🎶
Photograph of a smallish pear tree with a pigeon on it, pecking at a bird feeder. The backdrop is a fence and beyond that the neighbouring house. It looks suburban.
September 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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But then David Cameron, who Vernon Bogdanor assessed as one of his ablest students on Oxford’s PPE, didn’t know what the EU was until long after he became Prime Minister.
www.politico.eu/article/why-...
September 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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For context, USA’s homicide rate is 7 (seven!) times that of Germany en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
September 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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thanks for that! Can’t claim that fiver. Not sure I can unsee this
a field in which a ginger-bearded crew-cut man is looking intensely at the backsides of a row of sheep
September 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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similar vibe
Picture of a shop called “LET’S FILL THIS TOWN WITH ARTISTS”
September 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.
Picture of Dr Feelgood, after prescribing Milk and Alcohol. A pub rock band of four grumpy looking white English blokes aged around 30s wearing, respectively: Mao jacket; shades & sideburns; jacket, unbuttoned collar and tie; leather jacket with droopy moustache.
September 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM