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What these guys did was bigger than Brexit. They showed how you could produce work of an academic quality and distribute it through the media, to improve the standard of national debate. I wish more organisations would learn from what was accomplished here.

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Managed to forget the audio again. Included now. It alternates between moral outrage and me trying to work out what my dog wants me to do.

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This is a really serious piece of investigative work. Thank god someone is doing it.

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They definitely are gaining huge momentum, towards cult-like conspiracy and electoral oblivion.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Holborn and St Pancras byelection: Polanski is an utter failure and it's time for him to go iandunt.substack.com/p/holborn-an...

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NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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This is absolutely damning. A must-read.

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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast.

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Ayn Rand, one of the most influential political novelists of the 20th Century, is the subject @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social are revisiting this week. Listen ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

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God. We wasted an entire season of Origin Story telling the story of this word, when we could've just checked in with James here.

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"We charge you with genocide." Grim, inane and preposterous. One day these people will realise that words mean something and you shouldn't just string them together randomly to make yourself feel better.

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So true. It's also the exact opposite effect to the Tories' other (more sensible) plan to get rid of stamp duty. Mangling the housing market just after adopting a policy which might help rationalise it.

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Tbh I've never found a tv streamers recommendation engine useful, unlike ie Spotify, which is really quite good. I don't think it's their fault really, just some odd thing to do with preferences

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Dave sounds like an absolute cunt.

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Have they answered this question yet? Or are we to assume that it'll be paid for out of their magic money tree benefit cuts, which somehow serve to fund every other policy they announce.

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There's a reason Radio 4 works and is successful. And some bloke from Google is never going to understand it.

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I loved it. Some broadband company has stiffed Deirdre of twenty quid and won't reply to her emails, so now we're going to horribly fuck them up while being ostensibly polite. The palpable sense of fear when a business finds a BBC crew has suddenly taken an interest. Great fun.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.

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There’s a reason, when writing my first book on the Tories, that I insisted on the importance of “the party in the media” as an integral part of their milieu.

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Banter outcome: it happens at the same time as a US debt crisis and everyone gets to pick their own adventure

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What’s the Matter With France?

Very good and clear-sighted piece about what's going on with French bonds. It ain't great and the potential consequences would be ruinous for pro-Europeans paulkrugman.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

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Is Europe’s #2 economy too big to save?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.

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From the new Private Eye

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Suella is obviously entitled to describe herself in any way that she wants to. But what she's not entitled to do is to tell me I don't belong to the country I was born in" - Daniel Finkelstein. (It is to badly misunderstand this debate to mix these points up) www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-sa...

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Why Suella Braverman’s Englishness Stance Is ‘Offensive’ | Danny Finkelstein

YouTube video by Times Radio

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Polanski is a talented communicator as long as his audience is predisposed to like the message. His authority is solar-powered, activated only when the light of an enthusiastic crowd shines directly on him. If there is a risk of no applause, he powers down" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Zack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael Behr

A toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 07/10/2026

Badenoch speech: The Tory leader is having an argument with herself and she's losing inews.co.uk/opinion/bade...

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Baffling decision by Press Gazette to call these jobs 'journalists'!

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Chris Clarke @lthrn.com · 07/10/2026

Increase the death rate?

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But she is patently cruising towards a middling defeat in the next election. And any Conservative who wanted to be honest with themself would see that clearly, if indeed they chose to look.

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Speech changes nothing. It's telling that Badenoch aimed it at the hall more than the country. Think she'll have done more than enough to keep Tory membership on side - they'll love all the tax cuts and (contradictory) talk of fiscal rectitude.

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Did I miss how she said she was going to pay for the inheritance tax cut?

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

OK speech over now, thank Christ.

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NEW - Kemi Badeoch says there will be no inheritance tax to pay ever on a family home. Interested to know how this affects the housing market. Asset-rich pensioners just got a huge (extra) incentive not to downsize.

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Right, so the money shot is that no-one pays inheritance tax on the family home, plus couples can leave an additional million quid tax-free. We'll want to see the sums on that, this is not my area of expertise, but I presume that's the vast majority of inheritance tax revenue gone.

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Britania Shield is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever heard

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starting to see an inversion of the 2019-24 dynamic.. progressives voters increasingly united on Brexit and happy to air the issues, whereas Conservative ones split and their leaders keen to not "reopen the debate... arguing with ourselves." Badenoch sounding rather like Starmer used to...

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The one thing which will save her is a financial crash It wouldn't strictly be Labour's fault and I don't see that Tory policies would solve it, but that wouldn't matter. I'm sure her message would resonate much more strongly in that context. Outside of it, I think she's fucked.

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Insofar as there is an argument, it is that 80s-era Thatcherism -- strict fiscal and social conservatism - still has all the answers. This is... fine? I much prefer it to the kind of Ribena nativism the Tories have flirted with recently. But it is very tired.

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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Apart from the Reform section, where it really came alive, this is a rambling standard-issue conference speech: a meander through various policy areas, without any core argument or narrative through-line. Confusing given she's supposedly been working on her book all summer.

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If nothing else, I'm grateful to see this. I just hope it holds

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Also strong on the Green party motion: "They are seeking to erase Jewish identity. Shame on the Green party and shame on Zack Polanski."

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