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And from my former government lawyer perspective.
August 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
And from my former government lawyer perspective.
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The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.
January 15, 2026 at 12:56 AM
The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.
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If you ever wondered how much stationary it took to administer a large town in late C18 America, wonder no more! Ink by the pint, pens by the hundred, reams of paper, and red tape aplenty appear in this receipt submitted to Boston’s Selectmen for 1798-1800. Bureaucracy: a literal ‘rule by desk!’ 🗃️
January 15, 2026 at 1:20 AM
If you ever wondered how much stationary it took to administer a large town in late C18 America, wonder no more! Ink by the pint, pens by the hundred, reams of paper, and red tape aplenty appear in this receipt submitted to Boston’s Selectmen for 1798-1800. Bureaucracy: a literal ‘rule by desk!’ 🗃️
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Also lol: religion reporting, 2026.
January 12, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Also lol: religion reporting, 2026.
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This morning on the Hoe I met with Charlotte from Run Like A Girl, a Plymouth women’s running club who campaign on women’s safety.
Labour councillors Jemima Laing and Alison Raynsford and me were there to listen to concerns as part of our efforts to reduce violence against women and girls.
Labour councillors Jemima Laing and Alison Raynsford and me were there to listen to concerns as part of our efforts to reduce violence against women and girls.
January 11, 2026 at 11:59 AM
This morning on the Hoe I met with Charlotte from Run Like A Girl, a Plymouth women’s running club who campaign on women’s safety.
Labour councillors Jemima Laing and Alison Raynsford and me were there to listen to concerns as part of our efforts to reduce violence against women and girls.
Labour councillors Jemima Laing and Alison Raynsford and me were there to listen to concerns as part of our efforts to reduce violence against women and girls.
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11/21 January 1583: In England, they are still trying to piece together what happened in Antwerp the other day from the contradictory information arriving in London. Edward Stafford (pictured), a diplomat who we haven't met before but will see lots more of, tells Walsingham about ... 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
January 11, 2026 at 11:06 AM
11/21 January 1583: In England, they are still trying to piece together what happened in Antwerp the other day from the contradictory information arriving in London. Edward Stafford (pictured), a diplomat who we haven't met before but will see lots more of, tells Walsingham about ... 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
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"The maximum time a prisoner can spend on remand is 182 days (six months). Yet Muraisi and Ahmed were arrested in November 2024, and are not due to be tried until June at the earliest, which means they will be remanded for 20 months."
Shameful.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shameful.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
"The maximum time a prisoner can spend on remand is 182 days (six months). Yet Muraisi and Ahmed were arrested in November 2024, and are not due to be tried until June at the earliest, which means they will be remanded for 20 months."
Shameful.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shameful.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The BBC is doing it again. On both the Radio 3 & Radio 6 news it reported Vance's story about that video of Renee Good's murder and denials of it, without telling us the facts. It should have the same approach to weather forecasting: "some say it'll rain, some say it won't. Who can tell, eh?"
January 10, 2026 at 8:48 AM
The BBC is doing it again. On both the Radio 3 & Radio 6 news it reported Vance's story about that video of Renee Good's murder and denials of it, without telling us the facts. It should have the same approach to weather forecasting: "some say it'll rain, some say it won't. Who can tell, eh?"
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Did a really fun video with the V&A at their cool storehouse location! WAs such a delight to get to see some of really cool objects up close and chat about art ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Js3LV1KZ7M
Rose Schmits Breaks Down Five Iconic (& Bizarre) V&A Ceramics 🏺👀 Unexpected Item
YouTube video by V&A Up Next
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January 9, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Did a really fun video with the V&A at their cool storehouse location! WAs such a delight to get to see some of really cool objects up close and chat about art ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Js3LV1KZ7M
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Worth reminding everyone everywhere that pathological oil addiction starts with every single choice to jump in the car out of convenience rather than necessity.
Prices at the petrol pump are way too low to correct the externality. And they have been for decades.
bsky.app/profile/juli...
Prices at the petrol pump are way too low to correct the externality. And they have been for decades.
bsky.app/profile/juli...
Every time we jump in a car for a journey which can be covered on foot or on public transport, we are feeding the massive machine of oil addiction.
Europe is really hardly less addicted to the car, including the UK.
Europe is really hardly less addicted to the car, including the UK.
January 4, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Worth reminding everyone everywhere that pathological oil addiction starts with every single choice to jump in the car out of convenience rather than necessity.
Prices at the petrol pump are way too low to correct the externality. And they have been for decades.
bsky.app/profile/juli...
Prices at the petrol pump are way too low to correct the externality. And they have been for decades.
bsky.app/profile/juli...
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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More
Though it isn't the kind of thing one hears discussed every day, serious Disney fans do tend to know that Goofy's original name was Dippy Dawg. But how many of the non-obsessive know that Mickey's fai...
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January 1, 2026 at 5:25 PM
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More
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this is a great thread, and is a really good overview of conversations we've been having forever about the positionality of the romance reader to the characters
Thanks to Heated Rivalry, people are asking why so many women are writing and reading m/m romance.
Not only is that a boring question, it's backwards.
Why shouldn't women (and women-adjacent people) be doing this? Also: why aren't men reading and writing more genres that center love and HEAs?
Not only is that a boring question, it's backwards.
Why shouldn't women (and women-adjacent people) be doing this? Also: why aren't men reading and writing more genres that center love and HEAs?
December 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
this is a great thread, and is a really good overview of conversations we've been having forever about the positionality of the romance reader to the characters
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If immigration is high, the government has lost control of our borders. If it's low, it's because the country is in such a mess that nobody wants to be here. Labour is never going to win these people over, and it should stop trying.
An astonishing article in the Daily Mail.
Not only does it admit that some Romanians have left Britain because of growing discrimination after Brexit, but it also talks about the EU grants they've been able to access to start or boost their businesses back home.
archive.md/2025.12.29-1...
Not only does it admit that some Romanians have left Britain because of growing discrimination after Brexit, but it also talks about the EU grants they've been able to access to start or boost their businesses back home.
archive.md/2025.12.29-1...
December 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If immigration is high, the government has lost control of our borders. If it's low, it's because the country is in such a mess that nobody wants to be here. Labour is never going to win these people over, and it should stop trying.
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Many thanks to the amazing @michaelspicer.bsky.social for bringing my @bmj.com paper to life! The actual paper is here:
www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...
www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...
December 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Many thanks to the amazing @michaelspicer.bsky.social for bringing my @bmj.com paper to life! The actual paper is here:
www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...
www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...
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No one in government appears to be curious about how much better people’s lives would be with a relatively modest investment in advice
@wearelapg.bsky.social @legalactiongroup.bsky.social
www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69302
@wearelapg.bsky.social @legalactiongroup.bsky.social
www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69302
December 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
No one in government appears to be curious about how much better people’s lives would be with a relatively modest investment in advice
@wearelapg.bsky.social @legalactiongroup.bsky.social
www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69302
@wearelapg.bsky.social @legalactiongroup.bsky.social
www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69302
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Interpreting the Zodiac: shedkm turns Croydon office block into emergency housing
Interpreting the Zodiac: shedkm turns Croydon office block into emergency housing
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Interpreting the Zodiac: shedkm turns Croydon office block into emergency housing
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1/12
Jane Austen breaks her silence in celebrity interview!
A thread in celebration of #JaneAusten250
Questions posed by The Age: answers from Jane Austen (as told to Claire Harman), illustration by Chris Riddell, from cover of the audiobook, Jane's Fame.
Jane Austen breaks her silence in celebrity interview!
A thread in celebration of #JaneAusten250
Questions posed by The Age: answers from Jane Austen (as told to Claire Harman), illustration by Chris Riddell, from cover of the audiobook, Jane's Fame.
December 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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An 1585 Recipe for Making Pancakes: Make It Your Saturday Morning Breakfast
An 1585 Recipe for Making Pancakes: Make It Your Saturday Morning Breakfast
Earlier this week, Colin Marshall highlighted a trove of 3,000 vintage cookbooks on Archive.org, many of which date back to the 19th century.
Cookbooks, however, first arrived on the scene well befor...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
An 1585 Recipe for Making Pancakes: Make It Your Saturday Morning Breakfast
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NEW
The good, the bad and the ugly of ‘rebalancing’ the ECHR
Human rights law should be kept under review, but that does not mean it should be weakened
My latest post for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
The good, the bad and the ugly of ‘rebalancing’ the ECHR
Human rights law should be kept under review, but that does not mean it should be weakened
My latest post for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
December 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
NEW
The good, the bad and the ugly of ‘rebalancing’ the ECHR
Human rights law should be kept under review, but that does not mean it should be weakened
My latest post for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
The good, the bad and the ugly of ‘rebalancing’ the ECHR
Human rights law should be kept under review, but that does not mean it should be weakened
My latest post for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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Oh sure kids, the Greens SOUND cool, with their "no more war" and "hey everyone, let's smoke a doobie", but they're not living in the REAL world. in the real world, we starve children and ban trans people from Girl Guiding because the Daily Mail told us to. it's called MATURE GOVERNMENT
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Oh sure kids, the Greens SOUND cool, with their "no more war" and "hey everyone, let's smoke a doobie", but they're not living in the REAL world. in the real world, we starve children and ban trans people from Girl Guiding because the Daily Mail told us to. it's called MATURE GOVERNMENT
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Yes, we do talk a lot about his personal failings, often in very ableist terms, I'd say we talk enough about that.
What we don't talk enough about is the concentration of power that enables one person to destroy so many lives; or indeed about the fact the problem is a political machine, not one man
What we don't talk enough about is the concentration of power that enables one person to destroy so many lives; or indeed about the fact the problem is a political machine, not one man
I mean, do we talk enough about how deranged this person is—and how he should be miles away from the levers of power?
December 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Yes, we do talk a lot about his personal failings, often in very ableist terms, I'd say we talk enough about that.
What we don't talk enough about is the concentration of power that enables one person to destroy so many lives; or indeed about the fact the problem is a political machine, not one man
What we don't talk enough about is the concentration of power that enables one person to destroy so many lives; or indeed about the fact the problem is a political machine, not one man
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... England, presumably being given St David's as a consolation prize. He generated further rows there, and was accused (apparently accurately) of bigamy by the puritan Martin Marprelate tracts, later being removed from office and the priesthood, a very rare occurence. 3/
November 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
... England, presumably being given St David's as a consolation prize. He generated further rows there, and was accused (apparently accurately) of bigamy by the puritan Martin Marprelate tracts, later being removed from office and the priesthood, a very rare occurence. 3/
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... warfare with the town corporation and his cathedral's dean, partly over money, but also because he actually tried to impose Protestantism, which didn't seem to go down well. He was solidly backed by Lord Deputy Grey and Walsingham, but in 1581 he seems to have given up and returned to ... 2/
November 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
... warfare with the town corporation and his cathedral's dean, partly over money, but also because he actually tried to impose Protestantism, which didn't seem to go down well. He was solidly backed by Lord Deputy Grey and Walsingham, but in 1581 he seems to have given up and returned to ... 2/
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30 November 1582: St David's has a new bishop, Marmaduke Middleton. As well as having an excellent name (I'm struggling to think of any other Elizabethan Marmadukes), he had a highly chequered career. He was bishop of Waterford from 1579, where he engaged in more-or-less open ... 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
November 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
30 November 1582: St David's has a new bishop, Marmaduke Middleton. As well as having an excellent name (I'm struggling to think of any other Elizabethan Marmadukes), he had a highly chequered career. He was bishop of Waterford from 1579, where he engaged in more-or-less open ... 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
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Christmas at the BBC
![Title panel:
CHRISTMAS… AT THE BBC.
The Traitors Christmas Special:
Who in the BBC Boardroom is trying to bring down the gaff from within?
[Image: The Traitors scene with Claudia Winkleman looking like “ooh-er” while the BBC board sit at a table looking suspiciously at each other]
Apologising To The People Who Want To Destroy Us At Christmas:
A festive extravaganza of self-flagellation before our enemies
[Image: A cozy fireside scene with Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch standing, while at their feet lots of BBC employees are kneeling before them and begging for forgiveness].
Donald's Big Distraction:
Heartwarming Julia Donaldson animation in which a dragon sues the BBC to draw his friends' attention onto something else
[Image: Julia Donaldson’s ‘Zog’ with a Donald Trump wig, holding up a lawyer’s letter to show his dragon friends while trying to block their view of a pile of box files and computer drives some with ‘Epstein’ written on them].
The King's Speech:
We let Nigel Farage tell you the BBC is left wing as if that's some kind of fact
[Image: Nigel Farage as the King delivering his Christmas speech to camera].
A Ghost Story for Christmas:
A venerable British institution is haunted by Boris Johnson's appointees
[Image: A BBC studio with a window, outside in the dark snowy night a spectral apparition in the form of Robbie Gibb taps at the window and wails “I want to destroooy you”]
Christmas Labour Inertia-Time:
Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy present four hours of total silence from under their desks
[Image: Show them both under their desks holding up glasses of sherry]
Rightward Drift Christmas Special:
A bonanza of trust-corrosion with confected immigration panic and Reform coverage
[Image: A computer and a smartphone in a cute snowy scene, both displaying the BBC News website with multiple headlines and LIVE feeds and and BREAKING NEWS stories headlined: “IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS!”]
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November 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Christmas at the BBC