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Daily Mail Headline: Pupils' drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic law, Labour councils tell schools - while music and dance classes may go against the teachings of Islam

Oh boy! What a headline...

Ask yourself:

"What am I being asked to believe?"

"Who am I being told to blame?"

Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on.

Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵

1/21

Wimborne Against Hopkins is up to 340 signatures if you could take a moment to lend it some support I'm sure it would be worthwhile.

Thank you

Sun headline about £500k compensation for migrants, discussing human rights, and public outcry over payouts.

Did you see this headline?

Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you?

Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷‍♀️

Would you like to know the reality behind the headline?

Course you would!😜

Let's take a look

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1/25

OK, the Gorton and Denton by-election, I have some thoughts!

Let's take a look at some of the FACTS and burst a few of the more ridiculous takes doing the rounds

But first up, can we acknowledge just what bad losers Reform are?!🤣

Right, let's get started...

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"Books bring us together" 🩵

We're proud to share our new short film Stories That Connect Us, based on real conversations with children in adoption, foster care or kinship care.

Thank you so much to all the children and families who took part, and to the wonderful Lemn Sissay for the voiceover!

Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!

The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.

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1/19

Wow.

Did you see all the “Countryside is too white”, “countryside is racist” hoo ha last week?

If you were anywhere near RW media or the hell site, you can’t have missed it!

Want to know where it all came from? Why there were over 30 “news” pieces about it in just 4 days?

Let’s take a look!👀

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🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is now closing on 80,000 signatures!

Let’s get it to the 100,000 needed today!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Absolutely beautiful ❤️

Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...

🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

Hi library friends & colleagues in the UK! Check out @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social on BBC 4 Storyville: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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The Hostile Takeover of Venezuela This weekend marked the quiet death of sovereignty and the rise of corporate rule.

I genuinely didn’t think the first piece I was going to write this year was discussing the invasion of Venezuela by the United States and the country’s apparent handover to oil companies, but I suppose we are where we are.

Welcome to 2026, I suspect it’s going to be… interesting.

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2025: The Year We Got Used To It A final long read for 2025, charting how we got used to cruelty, incompetence and farce - and how 2026 will need us all to be much noisier.

I’ve been quieter than usual this week due to a weird mix of work commitments and falling asleep on the sofa at every opportunity.

In my defence, I may have overcorrected by writing the mother of all year-end posts.

This is fair warning, it is long - but, then again, so was 2025.

Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

The Violence Isn’t Imported. It’s Domestic. Kemi Badenoch’s attempt to blame violence against women on migrants doesn’t just collapse under scrutiny - it actively distracts us from where the harm really happens, and who is actually responsible.

The idea of “imported” violence against women and girls is a deeply comforting fiction - one that allows people to avoid looking at where it actually happens: within our homes and behind closed doors.

My wren design- a tiny wren I've sculpted in recycled silver, with plumage detail hanging on a sterling minibelcher chain

An intricate cast of a real snowdrop I've made in recycled silver, hanging from a sterling minibelcher chain

An intricate cast of a lily of the valley flower I've made in recycled silver hanging from a sterling minibelcher chain

An intricate cast of a jay feather I've made in recycled silver, hanging from a sterling minibelcher chain

I'll be closing my jewellery order book tmrw at 10pm-
LAST CHANCE to order my individually handmade silver casts of real flowers & tiny wearable sculptures of birds in time for🌲(I ship to the US too)
Designs include blackbird, snowdrop,wild carrot, bluebell, jay feather:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

It would be so helpful if you could RT my post above about last🌲orders for my casts of real flowers & tiny bird jewellery in my etsy shop. The algorithm isn't so kind to small businesses here & a RT will help me put my Etsy shop in front of more eyes. I'd appreciate it so much, thankyou 🌿

My snowdrop necklace made by casting a real snowdrop in recycled silver

My lily of the valley necklace made by casting a real lily of the valley flower in recycled silver

My wren necklace, individually handmade like all my jewellery designs, made by sculpting a tiny wren in recycled silver

My bluebell necklace made by casting a real English bluebell from a friend's garden in recycled silver

I make each of my flower necklaces by casting real flowers in silver incl snowdrop & bluebells.
I also hand-sculpt much-loved bird species to make wearable versions incl wrens & blackbirds
20% off my jewellery atm with code TINYOWL20
Cut off day for🌲orders is Tue 25 Nov: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

Let’s have a look at a crazy Twitter to newspaper pipeline story and debunk as we go! 🔎👍🏼

16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”

With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees

2.2Million views to date🙄

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Trumplethinskin Goes After the BBC - Because Facts Keep Hurting His Feelings The man who demanded people "fight like hell" now insists the real injury was a slightly compressed quote on Panorama.

Sometimes the only thing left to say is “fuck right off.”

I think we as a country have reached that point when it comes to the MAGA influence operations that have wormed their way over the Atlantic.

I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄

Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque?

It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage

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1/26

FFS Daily Mail

No - the school classrooms were NOT used to teach “adult migrants”

Your own article explains this TWICE - and yet your headline…?🙄

I covered this yesterday in a thread when it was just RW accounts lying on Twitter

Now the DM are on it, let’s go again!

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It's #Halloween 🎃

But together, we can give this scary story a happy ending.

Read our strategy to find out how 👇

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/our-organisation/our-strategy/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=strategy-2025&utm_content=bluesky-post-311025

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.

This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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Farage: epic grifter