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thehistoryguy.bsky.social
There was a very active critic of the history syllabus in the 90s. Very wise people scoffed at how much time kids were forced to spend learning about the Nazis and democratic decay in the 30s.

Turns out we should have gone much harder.
September 6, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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spignal.bsky.social
If Serbia insists on burying Maladić with state honours, that is its sovereign prerogative. However such a move would be entirely inconsistent with being a candidate for EU membership, and the accession process should be formally suspended as a result.
tvpworld.bsky.social TVP World @tvpworld.bsky.social · 19d
Serbia’s Justice Minister has announced that former Bosnian-Serb military commander and convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić will be buried with state honors.
August 28, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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anthonyzach.be
How are things in Belfast? Are the people with Legitimate Concerns about paedophilia attacking unionist politicians’ homes in response to the Donaldson verdict?

They aren’t?

How strange. Their Concerns seemed so Legitimate when they were burning foreigners out of their homes a few weeks back.
June 22, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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goodclimate.bsky.social
Journalists abroad use obvious words that UK journalists don't dare to or which, thanks to exceptionalism, don't occur to them.
May 14, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.

Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Yes is winning on 58%
April 14, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
This should always have been the end of it.
April 7, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
Keep thinking about this whenever there's a new entry in this story.

Musa absolutely right - a few years ago someone would have gone 'wait, he has said some vile things' and also someone would have said 'he's visibly not well, what next, are we putting on a badger-baiting?' Alarming regression.
April 6, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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rolandmcs.bsky.social
Tommy Robinson accidentally posting on the wrong account.
April 2, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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adampayne26.bsky.social
An essential dissection of the Gorton & Denton contest by perhaps the best-placed observer on Earth, @robfordmancs.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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lauraphillips.bsky.social
“But the enjoyable thing about #Jenrick has always been that he was totally transparent. That enjoyment is only increased by his apparent conviction that his manoeuvrings are completely invisible to the rest of us..Like so many MPs, he thinks he’s Francis Urquhart, when in fact he’s Baldrick.” 👏🏻👏🏻
roberthutton.co.uk Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · Jan 15
Robert Jenrick: an apology. thecritic.co.uk/fran...
Ishould begin with an apology. Last month, I described Robert Jenrick as “the most shameless man in parliament”. His office complained at the time, but I was stubborn and refused to back down. Well, it’s never too late to say you were wrong. Robert Jenrick is not simply the most shameless man in parliament. He is the most shameless man in Britain, the most shameless man on Earth. Quite possibly the most shameless man in history. It is not simply that Jenrick has no shame. He is like a black hole for shame, sucking in the embarrassment of people around him. Which will be quite handy in his new party, Reform. Nothing became Jenrick’s time in the Conservative Party so much as the leaving of it. For years he had eased his way up the greasy pole, switching positions when necessary, a heating-seeking missile for whichever pose could help him advance, poster boy for the importance of self-belief over ability or integrity. And finally he was undone because he forgot to pick something up off a
January 15, 2026 at 9:29 PM
lbd123.bsky.social
Sunder Katwala is a national treasure. Love the guy
October 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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sundersays.bsky.social
On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
I knew this would be happening, but today is the first time I've got an email from someone going 'I asked Gemini to factcheck your newsletter and it says it is wrong' (It wasn't. Gemini was wrong.) Depressing.
Labour can’t turn voters against Nigel Farage if it doesn’t attack him
If government won’t call out the dangers of the Reform leader’s policies now, when will it?
www.ft.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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casmudde.bsky.social
THIS! Every. Damn. Time!!! 👇
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Aug 23
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit
bestforbritain.org Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Aug 21
🚨An important reminder of the trauma faced by asylum seekers.

Not just in fleeing persecution abroad.

Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores.

But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.
August 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
This is a disgrace - the United States spitting on its own soldiers because they come from a minority the ruling clique holds in contempt. The people who made this decision have a special circle of hell waiting for them; liberals should fight to the bitter end to give these soldiers their due.
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Aug 7
WASHINGTON (AP) - US Air Force says it will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service.
August 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
Marvellous piece by @kenanmalik.bsky.social:
Modern racism has become loud and proud | The Observer
The response to a photo of a class in London shows how ethnic notions of national identity have seeped into mainstream conservatism
observer.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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tanjabueltmann.net
My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration
Slightly amended so I can fit this here: I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame! I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one. I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country. This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong. Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues. I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean? Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens. This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way. You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position. Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces. What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly. The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy. Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed. Tanja Bueltmann
May 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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elpais.com
El presidente de Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi, hja revelado que José Pepe Mujica, su padre político, está “delicado de salud y no puede moverse”
El presidente de Uruguay revela que José ‘Pepe’ Mujica está grave
El símbolo de la izquierda latinoamericana, de 89 años, pelea contra un cáncer
elpais.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
oh good god, turns out the play I'm going to see next week is two hours WITHOUT INTERVAL, how has Keir Starmer not banned this yet, what's this government even FOR
March 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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pippacrerar.bsky.social
Looks like not a single one of Reform UK's five MPs made it into the Commons for David Lammy's update on a momentous week for Ukraine.

(Two of them were present for the UQ on electric cars minutes before, but then left the chamber).
February 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
February 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
Donald Trump calls Zelensky a "dictator" and suggests Ukraine may cease to exist soon.

Any European leader still believing his administration is anything but fundamentally hostile to our interests is kidding themselves
February 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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maksymeristavi.com
i would love you all to rage donate to this or any other frontline fundraising — so nobody dares to rob us of our agency, and nobody tries to decide our fates for us. Ukraine represent the future where all of this has no place anymore. where we all are entitled to dignity
maksymeristavi.com maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · Feb 18
dear Ukraine friends,
i am just 100 EUR away from closing and sending this birthday fundraiser to our 🇺🇦⚔️🏳️‍🌈 heroes. these things save actual lives and i’d love to send something before it is too late and we lose another 🦄 friend

linktr.ee/maksym.erist...
maksymeristavi.com maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · Feb 5
this is my birthday month. can you power up my fundraiser for Ukrainian queer soldiers, pretty please? my target is just $2,400 — we can easily do it by flexing our 💙💛 superpowers, right?
send.monobank.ua/jar/VSBq6Eiqs
February 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM