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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺

@sarahcalvert.bsky.social

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British migrant with roots in Yorkshire. Posts about residency in the EU, FoM, politics, culture, Brexit, Italy and the Yorkshire Dales. #ProEU and join, anti-exceptionalism. No unsolicited DMs or calls.

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · Jan 18

Male allies. A woman I follow was called "hysterical" on here today. The only person who stood up for her was another woman. Even when these terms are used by someone on your own side, you need to call it out. These centuries old mysoginist slurs need to stop. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Feisty, flounce and bossy: the words used to put women down

Emine Saner: Do you ever hear men described as ‘hysterical’? Do people say they ‘whine’ or ‘nag’? Thought not. Here are eight sexist words we’d like to never hear from again

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 35m

More Conservatives need to put their head above the parapet and call Jenrick out like this. I very much doubt they will, but hope springs eternal...

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1h

Lord Patten on Robert Jenrick: "Some of the things he says are pretty awful and he knows exactly who he's appealing to with these remarks." ~AA

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 16h

Six of the best: Yorkshire’s cultural highlights

In proud celebration of Yorkshire’s cultural heritage, we reach the grand finale of our current series

By Ian Richardson

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Six of the best: Yorkshire’s cultural highlights

In proud celebration of Yorkshire’s cultural heritage, we reach the grand finale of our current series

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Drew @drewdavies68.bsky.social · 16h

Well said Sophie

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17h

This is simply the EU enforcing its existing border controls by means of a new system, not a "threat to throw out second home owners". Again Brexiters believe that the UK should have border controls as regards the EU, but not the other way around.

Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 3d

Entirely unsurprising that the Holiday Villa 'Ndrangheta have found politcal allies at last in the shape of Reform UK.

Reform really do hypocrisy very well.

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H/T @goodclimate.bsky.social & @rolandmcs.bsky.social

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 17h

Already a miracle that they're saying the B word!

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely outrageous that a flagship BBC political programme's presenter won't interview a political leader. A public service disservice.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Laura Kuenssberg has interviewed all the Party Leaders with more than 10% in the polls.

Except Zack Polanski.

She cancelled his interview and now refuses to do it.

They are scared of Zack, they are scared of you.

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 18h

Great response.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 22h

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 18h

#HopenotHate

Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 1d

Today Leeds followed our forebears who kicked Oswald Moseley and his Facists out of the city at the Battle of Holbeck Moor and stood up to racism, the far right and said loud and clear”Refugees are welcome here”. This is Leeds

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 22h

"Nigel meets tens of thousands of people on an annual basis ultimately, he can't be held accountable for the actions of every single person who he comes in contact with."

-Zia Yusuf, head of Reform UK Department of Government Efficiency.

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 19h

Has any journalist confronted Farage over this?

Euphoric Mess @euphoricmess.bsky.social · 21h

And one of the chief architects of the scam that led to this and all the other Brexit wins is now leading in many poles and gets more airtime than most others combined.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

UK travellers should expect "four-hour queues" as new EU border system comes into force. Brexit really is the gift that keeps giving

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

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🩷🕊 Sara Flacci @saraflacci.bsky.social · 6d

An #angel in #Milan 🖤
#31DaysofGraves 7 • angel

#Cemetery #Cemeteries
#ClassicMono #TombTuesday

Bronze statue of an angel placing a flower on a grave at the Monumental Cemetery in Milan.
In the background are trees, tombs, and a sky with some clouds.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 4d

#31DaysOfGraves day 9 - hand. Knight’s hands holding a sword, grave slab Kildalton, Islay.

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 20h

Had completely forgotten it's #31daysofgraves month! Apologies to all my new followers, but I will be posting some funerary art this month.

🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 3d

Day 9: Hand

I’m not sure why but this one always makes me feel a bit emotional. I think it’s the way she is gazing upwards, her hands to her chest in prayer, the expression on her face.

Highgate cemetery, London

#31daysofgraves

A weathered stone memorial in Highgate Cemetery featuring a life-sized statue of a woman kneeling in prayer. The figure, carved in a classical style, gazes slightly upward with her hands clasped to her chest, her dress draped softly around her form. The plinth beneath her is tall and rectangular, inscribed with names and epitaphs, and has moss and age stains along its surface. At the top of the base, the words “Thy will be done” are engraved. The monument is surrounded by dense greenery and other gravestones.

Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 20h

He's absolutely nailing it at the moment. Just hope he doesn't get dragged into/join the Corbyn/Sultana circus.

Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 22h

Farage wants to stop British pensioners from retiring to the sea!

T-Rexit @t-rexit.bsky.social · 23h

Wonder what a “local” looks like?

Nigel Farage demands homes in beautiful UK seaside towns only be sold to locals

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 22h

It's very "fog in the channel..." English exceptionalism.

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Kathy Love @kathylove.bsky.social · Aug 19

Exactly right. This article, like so many others, is based on two flawed premises. One: the regulatory barriers are attributable to the TCA. They’re not. They are the automatic consequences of the UK leaving the EU. Without the TCA there would even more barriers.

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Kathy Love @kathylove.bsky.social · Aug 19

Two: despite having left the EU the UK should be able to do the same business in the same way as when it was a member and arrangements must be made to enable this. This is just a refusal to accept the reality that non-members are not entitled to, and will not get, the same privileges as members.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 29d

You know what? If you go on a Yaxley-Lennon march and applaud Nazi billionaires calling for the overthrow of the government - yes, I am going to call you far-right and racist.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Iain @8letters.co.uk · 3d

Joanna Lumley killing it as usual.
"I'm an immigrant"
I say this frequently when bigots are complaining about immigration and they immediately stop because they can't say what they are thinking. Except that one Brit in Spain who literally said "but you're white" before realising what he had said.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

After pointing out that she's an immigrant Joanna Lumley asks why we don't fix the problems that create asylum seekers and address climate change

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DePassage 🥖🇫🇷 🤝 💙💛 🗽 @sudetsoleil.bsky.social · 2d

🙏🙏🇪🇺🌐🇪🇺 Grande Europe 🇪🇺🌐🇪🇺🙏🙏
Kit de démarrage par @eupropnet.bsky.social
L'Europe est notre foyer. L'Europe est notre continent.
Nous sommes Européens et fiers de l'être. 🇪🇺
👇👇👇👇

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 2d

As a person who menstruates, I don't have the foggiest, but he is weird and that comment still weirder.

Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 2d

I think this sums it up perfectly.

Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, she blocked me for calling her out on her pro-Brexit stance.

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