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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 1d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 20h

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18h

Indeed.

The government has chosen to prioritise reducing (skilled, legal, for work) migration over growth and hence over improving public services.

No economic rationale - but even worse, no political rationale either.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

One mistake Labour made in their first year is loading quite a few new costs onto business all at once. They are risking doing something similar on immigration, I think.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d

Really great @stephenkb.bsky.social column today.

on.ft.com/3KOUh07

Key para.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 1d

"Language has been verbing for as long as it has languaged." New post on Agatha Christie – as a verb stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/t...

to Agatha Christie (v.tr.)

The conversion of nouns to verbs (to impact, to medal, to leverage, to architect) is a continual object of criticism and word rage. But language has been verbing for as long as it has languaged. In…

stancarey.wordpress.com

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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 1d

The trees are turning golden brown signalling that Autumn is now with us....the ideal time to plan for next summer! Our popular residential summer course is back for 15-19 June 2026.

#VEMS #history #scotland #culture

www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨"If the Tory party wants to be once more in the 21st century the party it was in the 20th — a natural home for successful people — it must again become a place in which pro-Europeans are not only welcome but can hold high office. " @stephenkb.bsky.social on #brexit & the Tory party:

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Consequence free political heckling is a business model. People can build careers and even personal fortunes out of it.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences.

So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 1d

This brings to mind Mussolini’s declaration that the Mafia had been defeated.

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Trump says 'war is over' in Gaza as he flies to Israel for release of hostages

The US president tells reporters on board Air Force One the ceasefire

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dave Madden @davemadden.bsky.social · 1d

So you expect Honest Bob to have eyes in the back of his head?

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

Calling the police every time I see a skeleton in somebody’s front garden

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Dave Madden @davemadden.bsky.social · 1d

How can world leaders stand behind this deranged mobster- let alone clap?

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1d

Shlobolobbleov…or something like that

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "You have Canada. That's so great to have, in fact. The president called and he wanted to know if it's worth -- well he knew exactly what it is. He knew the importance. Where's Canada, by the way? Where are you? He knew the importance of this."

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Linda Marie @lindam174.bsky.social · 1d

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

The Middle East is being conned just like America has been conned.

None of what Trump is saying about the Israel-Gaza war being over is true.

None of the agreements he claims have been made have been made, besides a single hostage deal.

He’s lying to the world, and much of the world believes him.

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 4d

In any normally functioning democracy, Farage’s political career would now be over. You would have to invoke unbelievable levels of naivety and stupidity for Farage to dodge this one - and sadly for him such qualities are not on the person specification for the job of Prime Minister.
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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 2d

It's pretty bonkers that the British press would bring up Jeremy Corbyn appearing on Russia Today a couple of times in the early 2000s at every opportunity, yet the Welsh leader of Reform literally pled guilty to taking money directly from the Kremlin and... Farage gets to shrug it away.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

And Netanyahu needs war. He’ll find it.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 1d

Incredibly moving to see the hostages reunited with their families, but Trump's pronouncement of a new era is naive and bombastic. Hamas isn't giving up its stranglehold over Gaza any time soon

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

The October updates include, for example, 162 titles about the history of Wales, 229 records re histories of African nations, 359 publications re Scottish history, 448 records discuss the histories of the Americas and Atlantic Ocean, 468 publications focusing on Irish history, and much more.

Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 2d

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has recently been updated with 5000+ new references. Discover further details about this update in this On History blog blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/bibl... @brepols.net

Bibliography of British and Irish History October 2025 update - On History

What’s new in BBIH?  The October 2025 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds over 5,000 new publications. The new update includes books, journal articles, book chapters and…

blog.history.ac.uk

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Stuart Hoddinott @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social · 1d

Crazy stat of the day: the NHS now publishes the cost of delayed discharge from hospital. They estimate that it was ~£220m in September

If that's a typical month, it means ~£2.6bn per year

For comparison, the govt spent £2.8bn on the entire courts and tribunal system in 2024/25

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