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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 2h

“The amount of time and surgeries it’s taken to recover from one Taliban bullet… I can’t imagine the pain Afghan women and girls have suffered.”

Malala Yousafzai on fears becoming reality - the Taliban’s return has seen girls banned from education.

@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 4h

Get your colleagues and friends off it, folks.

Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 5h

must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

news.sky.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20h

Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 1d

This is the fearless journalism Britannia deserves.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 19h

The BBC News website now have a live, minute-by-minute blog on this.

Then, when 100k+ people turn up for Yaxley-Lennon's riot, everyone rings their hands and wails: "HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?"

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Patrick Owens @paddyo53.bsky.social · 17h

Very disappointing- such a wrong move

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 22h

The released prisoner of war, Roman, embraces his children. He had been held in Russian captivity since February 24, 2022.

📹 Serhii Nuzhnenko/X

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Patrick Owens @paddyo53.bsky.social · 18h

Is there ever a “great “ time to try and correct the lie that is haring around aided by dishonest politicians and the client media.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

I habitually check BBC News every morning.
The In Depth political section is "What would a Reform government look like?" They're friggin' obsessed.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?

It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.

Something very dangerous is building here.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 1d

Well, that was a very weird deputy PMQs. James Cartlidge asking the same question five times – could David Lammy guarantee no other jailed asylum seekers have been accidentally released rather than deported – and Lammy each time instead condemning the Tories' record on prisons and justice.

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone remember the media reporting the 672 prisoners released in error between March 2012 and March 2023, because I don't remember hearing anything about this.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 1d

For me, it is objectively ridiculous that the UK left knows and cares a lot more about Zohran Mamdani than it does about Pedro Sánchez - the left-wing Prime Minister of Europe's fastest growing economy.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 1d

Many thanks to Daniel Finkelstein for his excellent RHS Public History Lecture, delivered yesterday evening @greshamcollege.bsky.social: 'Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother'

Daniel's lecture, a study of the Belsen Trial of 1945, is now available to view bit.ly/4oo5oMi

Image of Daniel Finkelstein delivering the 2025 RHS Public History Lecture at Gresham College, 4 November 2025

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Erik Linstrum @eriklinstrum.bsky.social · 1d

What happens when nationalist history meets the horrors of empire? For @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I reviewed a new exhibition on British counterinsurgency at the Imperial War Museum jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...

Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.

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Stuart Hemingway @stu31.bsky.social · 1d

So many disappointing parts to this story of heroism and bravery for those of a far right persuasion. Firstly the attacker wasn’t Muslim or a refugee and secondly the selflessness of the person doing his job who saved so many lives was a Muslim. How will they cope in this difficult time.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 2d

If Labour are willing to bin their manifesto pledges on tax rises, why not on Brexit?

That would win them far, far more votes than raising taxes ever will. Indeed, tax rises are likely to crater their weak support even further.

What's so magical about Brexit that it must remain untouchable?

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Elon Musk’s $1tn Tesla pay deal to be rejected by huge Norway wealth fund

Carmaker’s seventh biggest single investor will vote against package at annual shareholder meeting * Business live – latest updates Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has said it will vote against a $1tn (£765bn) pay package for the Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk. The fund, which is the biggest national wealth fund in the world, said that while it appreciated the “the significant value created under Mr Musk’s visionary role” it would vote against his performance award. Continue reading...

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 2d

If government excuses were included in GDP, our economic woes would be over. But what we really need to hear from the Chancellor is action – especially on Europe.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 2d

A total and utter hero

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Being on X enables Musk and Musk enables the far right. There is no longer any excuse to be there and people need to leave.

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Ned Trifle X @nedtrifle.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone remember the Tories and Reform (and all the other usual suspects) demanding "answers" about this fatal stabbing in Cambridge? Or the wall-to-wall coverage on the news? No? 🤔

Man denies killing Saudi language student in Cambridge - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Man denies killing Saudi language student in Cambridge

Chas Corrigan pleads not guilty to killing Mohammed Algasim near a city railway station.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 2d

It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage gets an easy ride from the media. They give him as much airtime as he wants but never hold him to account for the damage he’s done.

So much of what’s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

Chris Philp opens by gymnastically framing the train attack with relation to asylum seekers, concludes that the reason for knife crime is foreigners in prison, then LOSES HIS RAG when LibDem Home Affairs spox @maxwilkinson.bsky.social pulls him up on it.

"Withdraw! Withdraw!" Utter clown. 🤡 ~AA

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 3d

Also the UAE that pays for genocidal armies in Sudan. bsky.app/profile/snel...

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

The UAE where hugging in public can get you arrested, where human rights barely exist, where foreign workers are routinely abused, where critics of the regime routinely disappear, where an Indian nanny was shot by firing squad in March & where marital rape is not a criminal offence but being gay is.

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 3d

'You don't need me to list the people who could barely conceal their desperate urge for this to be somebody whose identity fit their prejudices...'

James O'Brien asks if the police have 'any choice' on revealing the ethnicity or nationality of suspects now.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 3d

Belarus now claims it's ready to take part in a "peacekeeping mission" in Ukraine, according to a top Belarusian military official, deployment would depend on consent from both sides.

Coming from a regime that enabled Russia’s full-scale invasion, the irony is off the charts.

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