Chloe Hardy
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Travelling and making plans. Campaigner by trade. All views my own. It will include
#DoctorWho
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Age UK London
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We welcome the announcement but believe the Freedom Pass will remain under scrutiny. We continue to campaign against any changes to the Freedom Pass. Join our campaign subscribe here
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Freedom Pass saved! Labour councils block threat to free travel for older Londoners
The sensational development comes a week after The Standard revealed that a review of the scheme had been requested
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/freedom-pass-saved-labour-councils-block-review-travel-london-tfl-b1266528.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1768416561-1
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So Harriet, with her legal training and as author of psychological thrillers, decided to go with the Traitors version of the Chewbacca Defence. It makes. No. Sense.
#Traitors
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Think it's time to do this again
@feelinglistless.bsky.social
- the world needs it! Also, being reminded I met Nichelle Nichols is a good way to end 2025. Thank you.
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#DoctorWho
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#Politics
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@lizbethmyles.bsky.social
- and thereās 30% off pre-orders at this link. If thereās a chapter on classic Christmas movies too, Iāll have a full house.
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Book news! Where We Stand, Where We Fall Available to Pre-Order
The beautiful cover has been created by artist Daryl Joyce Iāve been working on this for rather a while now, and my book, Where We Stand, Where We Fall, is up for pre-order. I mentioned it onā¦
https://lmmyles.com/2025/11/26/book-news-where-we-stand-where-we-fall-available-to-pre-order/?utm_source=pauls-newsletter-2914ab.beehiiv.com
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Love this. Lee Durrant of Lake District Radio is playing 24 hours of no 2s to protest pollution by water companies. Listen now for solidarity, toilet puns, and to hear that Girls Just Wanna Have Fun was only ever no 2. Injustice wherever you turn!
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Lake District Radio | Lake District Radio Broadcasting
https://lakedistrictradio.org/?internal=true
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Aliette de Bodard
3 months ago
I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
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Marie Le Conte
3 months ago
(if anyone would like to maybe start some sort of campaigning or pressure group of and on behalf of immigrants with ILR and settled status in Britain then I would be interested in helping, or indeed trying to get it off the ground myself, email in bio, etc)
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This might be a new low for the health of our civic space - targeting of people's personal bank accounts. If we can't speak out, within the law, for fear of personal reprisal by private institutions delivering essential services it damages our democracy.
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Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation
John Nicholson and Norma Turnerās joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/15/palestine-activist-couple-bank-account-closed-yorkshire-building-society
3 months ago
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Yes, I went to see
#BjornAgain
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Rhianna Pratchett
4 months ago
Dadās books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending itās their own fault. So I hope Kemiās taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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People often laugh that medieval artists couldn't 'do' cats - but my cat often does that with his tongue. Bang on, as far as I'm concerned.
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Guy Shrubsole
4 months ago
I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism. From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved:
guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...
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Ten things you can do to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism
Iām mad as hell, and Iām not going to take it anymore.
https://guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things-you-can-do-to-help-defeat
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HOPE not hate
4 months ago
āRather than getting despondent - which is easy, at the moment - weāve got to mobilise, weāve got to get active." ā HOPE not hate CEO
@nicklowles.bsky.social
, speaking to
@theguardian.com
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Doctor Who Production News
4 months ago
Bad Wolf is celebrating a decade of producing high-end television in wales with an afternoon of free panels and discussions at Wolf Studios on October 16 for anyone in Wales who is eager to break into television or take the next step in their career.
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10 Years of Bad Wolf
Bad Wolf invites you to an afternoon of panels and discussions to mark a decade of producing high-end television in Wales
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/10-years-of-bad-wolf-tickets-1682768248129?aff=oddtdtcreator
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An entire Clapham Grand full of
#DoctorWho
nerds for
@gallycab.bsky.social
Who Knows? Quiz. Can we reach critical mass and create a wormhole powered by our sheer geekery?
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Steve Peers
5 months ago
Timeline cleanse
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Is that the last of the safe routes closed now?
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Home secretary suspends refugee family reunion applications until new, tighter rules are put in place ā as it happened
Yvette Cooper says rules were designed years ago to help families separated by war but are being used in a different way now
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/01/women-children-home-office-refugee-family-reunions-uk-politics-live-latest-updates-news?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
5 months ago
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Tony Yates
5 months ago
Presumably to deter refugees from coming, which would then lead to their separation from their families, who would be left to fend for themselves. Why would we try to deter genuine refugees from coming? Cruel and neglectful of our duties as a liberal state.
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SJ Groenewegen
5 months ago
Terror of the Zygons is among my favourite Dr Who stories. Today at 5.45pm (BST) marks the 50th anniversary of the first part going out for the first time. Iāve written a monograph about the story and am publishing a chapter a week, starting today.
ko-fi.com/post/Terror-...
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Terror of the Zygons Part One: The Scottish Monster from Outer Space
SJ Groenewegen published a post on Ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/post/Terror-of-the-Zygons-Part-One-The-Scottish-Monste-Z8Z21KBZGO
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Scott Gray
5 months ago
A little reminder for everyone, particularly our friends in the Labour government:
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Dave Andress
5 months ago
The British media class has gone stark, raving mad. This is fascism. And theyāre strolling into it, whistling.
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dag
5 months ago
As some of you know, I am an absolute, unapologetic Janeite. She is the master. The worst Austen would do to any adversary would put them in an excruciating 10-page conversation, with a spirited but clumsy younger sister playing on a musical instrument, before a final cutting, devastating silence.
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Sometimes your nerdery is brought home to you by an involuntary impulse. In this morning's case I turned on the radio to hear
@nataliehaynes.bsky.social
say 'today I am standing up for the goddess Hestia' and I went 'ooooooh!'
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
5 months ago
Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!) Epping: 100-150 London: 20 Birmingham: 30 Stevenage: 30-50 Norwich: ? anything of any scale Manchester: ? anything of any scale Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
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Marcus š³ļøāšš§š§
5 months ago
Have you tried not driving into the kerb?
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Impact on Urban Health
5 months ago
Major air pollution alert across the UK. When air pollution increases, so do hospitalisations for asthma and heart attacks. If youāre able, you can help by avoiding driving or idling your engine and refraining from burning wood or garden waste.
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I Am Incorrigible
6 months ago
Remember when UK beaches were cleaned-up, and raw sewage wasn't pumped into the sea where we bathed, because of the EUs Bathing Water Directive? That's why we had a record number of blue flag clean beaches in 2016. Not anymore. Good times.
#BrexitReality
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Don't they realise that the threat to safety that most potential tourists to the US now see comes FROM THE US GOVERNMENT?
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6 months ago
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Allie from the 'burbs
6 months ago
āChatGPT admittedā, āChatGPT agreesā ChatGPT put a bunch of words in a sentence that makes semantic sense to the reader but has no thought or consciousness behind it. It cannot admit or agree to anything, because itās just spitting out a string of data.
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Peter Geoghegan
6 months ago
PS: You may have read this story already. The BBC ran a version of it yesterday We shared our FOI docs with their reporter and press office. Their response? To publish the story - our story - without even notifying us. A Ā£6bn public broadcaster selling out a tiny investigative newsletter. Nice. š
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Angela Liu
6 months ago
š¤šš» (and yesss, late pledges are still possible, so people can still support Uncannyās kickstarter!)
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An absolute cracker of a newsletter this week.
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The Secret Barrister
6 months ago
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
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Edwin Hayward
6 months ago
There are a lot of idiots enraged by this misleading Times headline. The article itself - yes, the exact same one - points out that: A) In any typical year, about 50 independent schools close B) More independent schools opened than shut, so the overall number went up. But that's far too nuanced.
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Evan Backlog
6 months ago
Just build more houses man I'm so tired
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Sam Freedman
6 months ago
The headline here should say: "Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded". (The increase is mentioned way down the article.)
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More than fifty private schools shut since Labour put VAT on fees
Department for Education defends ending tax breaks for independent institutions, after parents lost a legal battle at the High Court this year ā view map
https://www.thetimes.com/article/19ef1b08-929d-4962-b30e-449000a66a1f?shareToken=85622c130e9775221aad3f85aa4a3f10
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Jonn Elledge
6 months ago
Someone asked me to take this out from behind the pay wall and I - unlike the British housing market - am nothing if not accommodating. So: no, empty homes won't solve the housing crisis
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No, empty homes canāt solve the housing crisis
It may be a vote winner. That doesnāt make it right.
https://jonn.substack.com/p/no-empty-homes-cant-solve-the-housing
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Next time someone says 'but we've got more than enough homes standing empty, there's no need to build more', please direct them to this excellent explanation of why that simply doesn't work.
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Woodrow Peel šš
6 months ago
Go for it. I don't even care any more.
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Lisa Catara (official)š
6 months ago
COSIGNED!! LLMs are NOT TOYs. We can't just recycle water. The need to transfer the heat (to cool) always involves an evaporative system that requires water that's being replenished from the evaporation process.
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Cannot tell you how much I've enjoyed previous years of this superb short form SF/fantasy writing magazine. Subscribe. You can thank yourself a year from now!
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Jonn Elledge
6 months ago
Thereās a concept in transport planning called āinduced trafficā, which is essentially the evil twin of āif you build it, they will comeā. What cars did to your city, AI will do to your brain.
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What cars did to your city, AI will do to your brain
Once again, I rage against the dying of the light. Also this week: some maps to show that England is not concreting the countryside; and the longest conveyor belt in the world.
https://jonn.substack.com/p/what-cars-did-to-your-city-ai-will
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Anand Menon
6 months ago
For the love of God, Radio 4, the EU will NOT pay a 15% tax. US consumers will.
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We'll be FINE here in Europe. We use these things called BATTERIES. Had to Google this Thiessen guy - he's held some well paid jobs. This clip shows: a) the self confidence a private education buys will get you a long, long way b) the quality of TV news analysis in the US is in the toilet.
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Alex Andreou
6 months ago
Today, we remember and celebrate Janey Godley.
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Scrutiny, health and safety, transparency, and future controls on chemicals all likely to be torn up in a desperate bid to appease business. I'm lost for words.
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Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead | George Monbiot
Jacob Rees-Moggās Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/23/britain-toxic-chemicals-labour-tory-brexit-regulations?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
6 months ago
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Big Green Books
6 months ago
This
#buyastrangerabook
offer from
@catphoto.bsky.social
keeps on rolling. No takers last week. No takers so far this week. A free book to anyone who works in the service industry etc, up to £20. Check the offer out and if you'd like a book, do get in touch. UK only
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Josiah Mortimer
6 months ago
A fundraiser called āRuin Trump's UK visit with this Epstein photoā, is close to raising Ā£20,000 to plaster the image across the country during Trumpās visit. Trump is set to visit his Scotland golf courses this weekend and has his state visit in September...
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