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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 2d

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d

'Our University would do well to stop neglecting the threats to humanities education, and start publicly taking up the banner of the humanities.'

Could (and should) be said of so many universities, across the globe.

Harvard Can’t Afford to Neglect the Humanities | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard exists to promote the highest intellectual pursuit in every discipline — it can’t leave the humanities behind.

www.thecrimson.com

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3d

"A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation"
#antifa #StGeorge #racism #flags
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right

A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation

www.theguardian.com

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4d

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

Tommy Robinson has endorsed Robert Jenrick's decision to turn up in person to offer support and solidarity to the asylum seeker Hamit Coskun, who shouted, “Koran is burning”, “Fuck Islam” and “Islam is the religion of terrorism" while burning the Quran.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 7d

Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 8d

Hadn't realised lots of trusts were no longer prescribing gluten-free food for coeliac kids.

My son is coeliac and his food is so much more expensive. We don't get on prescription because we can afford it but for a family in poverty that's a massive issue.

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

NHS suggests coeliac children use food banks as doctors blast ‘cruel’ cuts

Clinicians warn of ‘shocking levels of ignorance’ over ‘cruel and risky’ decision to cut gluten-free prescriptions

www.independent.co.uk

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 8d

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Ben Fulford @benmfulford.bsky.social · 8d

Robust critical response to Jenrick from Bp Michael Volland.

(NB bishops have been saying robust things to politicians about their words & actions for a very long time: it’s quite trad)

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Ben Fulford @benmfulford.bsky.social · 10d

Less, frankly.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 10d

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants.

Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 10d

It is quite remarkable to consider that when Justin Welby was appointed Archbishop, women couldn’t be bishops in the Church of England, but he will be succeeded by a woman. It took the C of E a very long time to get to the point of consecrating women, but change has been very rapid thereafter.

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 10d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 11d

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 11d

Batshit.

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Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 12d

Gunton Prize details announced.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 12d

I went to the protest this morning at ICE facility in Broadview. Some photos if you wanna follow along. My guess is that at its height there were 300-400 people there, all protesting the inhumane treatment & illegal kidnapping of our neighbors. #broadview #iceprotest #abolishice #broadviewprotest

A protest with several hundred people at the ice facility in Broadview Illinois.

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Ben Fulford @benmfulford.bsky.social · 12d

Good to see all these people - including the Bishop of Norwich - condemning such an irresponsible abandonment of a critical political consensus.

Sustainable Us @havantenviro.bsky.social · 13d

"Theresa May, Alok Sharma, business and church leaders say plan would harm UK and not even Margaret Thatcher would have countenanced it"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Senior Tories dismayed at Badenoch’s ‘catastrophic’ vow to repeal Climate Change Act

Theresa May, Alok Sharma, business and church leaders say plan would harm UK and not even Margaret Thatcher would have countenanced it

www.theguardian.com

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 15d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 13d

An important thread of solidarity following today's antisemitic terror attack in #Manchester.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13d

Terrible news that two people were killed in Manchester attending their place of worship at the synagogue in Manchester, with others seriously injured.

Community Security Trust @cstuk.bsky.social who do so much to keep Jewish people safe at faith and community spaces have issued this advice.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13d

Reform UK council in Nottinghamshire ends ban on local journalists

Ban on Nottingham Post and its website reversed after threat of legal action over damaging freedom of expression A Reform UK council has ended its ban on journalists from the area’s biggest local newspaper after being threatened with legal action over damaging the outlet’s freedom of expression. Nottinghamshire county council, which has been led by Reform since the local elections earlier this year, said it was “committed to the principles of openness” after lifting the sanctions it had placed on journalists from the Nottingham Post and its website, Nottinghamshire Live. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 13d

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14d

Labour to launch 'Send the Frackers Packing' campaign against pro-fracking Reform UK in shale gas areas

This is bloody excellent. Well done Ed Miliband.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14d

A lot of pieces and people who visibly have forgotten that the quarter of people in England and Wales who are not white British or white English are also people, with electoral concerns and interests.

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 14d

We won’t forget the Tory Covid scandals.
We are getting taxpayers’ money back.
We are putting it where it belongs: in our schools, our NHS and our communities.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules

The government wins its case against PPE Medpro - part of a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband - after it supplied non-compliant gowns in 2020.

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Sep 9

I went to the American embassy today to get a passport card that I could carry in my wallet to show my citizenship in case masked men try to kidnap me when I’m in the US. Seriously.

A modern, architecturally intricate building with a unique geometric facade is seen against a clear blue sky. In the foreground, a red emergency vehicle is parked near landscaped greenery and a small structure.

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