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Bill Hanstock @sundownmotel.bsky.social · 11h

ah must admit, this is certainly an intriguin’ case, mistuh … was it “louvre”

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 19h

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21h

I genuinely find this very worrying, as someone with settled status! sure, Lam probably won't be home secretary tomorrow, but the mood music is changing, you can feel it, and I just don't trust Labour to fight like hell on our behalf, so unclear where this is going to go

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22h

Lam hears "settled status" and "guaranteed by withdrawal treaty" as up for grabs:understood to be temporary "provisional arrangements" which can be transitional and unsettled if and when you want to

That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 1d

People will tell you that the left has lost touch with society, but the expected next tory leader is nostalgic for football hooliganism, and the political editor of the Express is calling for MPs to be deported.

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 1d

A lot that could be said about this but if you look on Twitter it’s noticeable that the replies and quote tweets are *overwhelmingly* telling him he shouldn’t have apologised and even attacking him for doing so. That’s the feedback loop certain users are plugged into now, and it has consequences.

Calgie
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I wish to apologise to Zarah Sultana MP for my inappropriate response to a message on X. It was wrong of me to do so and I am sorry.

Taking a break from X to prioritise my mental health.

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M @captainmeg.bsky.social · 1d

TFW when you call for the deportation of a British Muslim but it’s your mental health that suffers 🤪

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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 1d

What a scumbag

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Key Figure Marjorie Bouvier Simpson KC @jorisbinned.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to the columnists and right wing women calling out Farage like they did when Corbyn "hated women journalists" - here he is responding to *Michal Husain* in language last (barely) tolerated in professional settings since the 80s.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

this is obviously appalling - and he should lose his job - but it's also really quite shocking; I first met Calgie when he was a baby reporter in his early twenties and sure, he was always a Tory, but he was....fine and normal? right-wing radicalisation is out of control in SW1

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 2d

A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Burns in bed saying "Doughnuts? I told you I don't like ethnic food!" to Homer from S7e17, Homer the Smithers

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

Think we’ve crossed a pretty major threshold – and a very bad one – if a journalist working in the lobby for a major newspaper group can tweet like this without professional consequences.

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 2d

A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.

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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 2d

I only learnt the other week that my parents ditched their landline ages ago - the only number I know. They were surprised by my reaction that they’d never told me “what if I lost my phone in an accident or crime! Who would I call!!”

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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 2d

How many Kings prayed publicly with the Pope pre-1500? (Someone’s going to “well ackshually me now…)

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

King Charles to be first reigning English monarch in 500 years to pray publicly with pope

Monarch will join Pope Leo XIV at an ecumenical service in Sistine Chapel during visit to the Vatican next month King Charles will become the first reigning English monarch since Henry VIII split from Rome in 1534 to pray publicly with a pope during his state visit to the Holy See next week. The king will join Pope Leo XIV at an ecumenical service in the Sistine Chapel during his visit with the queen to the Vatican on 22-23 October, a gesture regarded as a “significant moment” in relations between the Catholic church and the Church of England, of which Charles is supreme governor. Continue reading...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

Good thread on the Liberal Democrats picking up a council seat in Surrey Heath (one of the Conservative seats they won last year). I think this is the key observation: when I travel the country, most Tory to Reform switchers are *very happy* with their switch. Most Tory to 'left bloc' ones aren't.

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 2d

Trouble is, no sign that Greggs customers are yet willing to go back to the Tory fold. But all of the party's energies are being put into being counter-cultural to Gail's customers.

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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 2d

Also pleasantly reminded earlier that LBJ’s beagles in the White House were called “Him” and “Her”. Related, a picture of LBJ showing a child a basket full of Him’s puppies 🐶

Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 2d

Best state dinner ever? In an old gymnasium in a Texan village for the German state visit, December 1963

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 3d

It’s always worth remembering that this utterly horrific wave of mass death inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world was for literally nothing. It hasn’t even been for some monstrously cynical benefit to someone, it hasn’t saved money. It is just some of the purest nihilism imaginable

zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 3d

Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero

apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

This feels like it will inevitably end up with scammers hijacking the AI so that the computer empties its owners' bank accounts

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 3d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that the Pentagon had journalists on-site is one of those American things which is just bonkers from the outside

WKRG-TV 5 @wkrg5.bsky.social · 3d

Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules | WKRG.com

Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American milit…

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 4d

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 4d

"Blair, Kennedy, Kennedy, Clegg, Miliband, Corbyn, Berry, Davey/Denyer" is a voter we can all picture a very exasperating conversation with

Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 4d

My take is that "well meaning middle class lefty who hasn't thought about it all that hard but is against Bad Things" is a very well worn British intellectual tradition. They joined Charter 88, supported Charles Kennedy, Agreed with Nick...

Not a bad thing necessarily but definitely a Type of Guy!

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 5d

This is absolutely bizarre. These LTNs, which from the start always had majority local support, & which were paid for by TfL, are now uncontroversial in practice. Removal of £2million OBGR improvements would be an unprecedented act of social vandalism & financial waste. Shameful stuff.

Letter from Lutfur Rahman and Aspire Councillors promising they’re still planning to rip out the LTNs as soon as possible.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 7d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 7d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 7d

They didn’t even do it!

Deaves @deavesm.bsky.social · 7d

Leaving Schengen today on the first day of the new EU biometric ID border control thing and, you guessed it, the pre-registration app doesn’t work. Classic Brussels!

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