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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Joining Schengen would be great. Passport free travel around Europe is good. Brits would moan about it in advance but love the reality.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 18/09/2026

I spend my week crossing london on a bike and increasingly that means cycling alongside Wayve/Waymo robotaxis. it’s uncomfortable. they give you so much space, don’t do a close pass while accelerating as lights go red. So unnerving if you cycle on assumption everyone’s mental and wants to kill you.

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

No Tory will win London Mayor until they renounce Brexit

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hate to say it, but it's time to end the "turn up and go" intercity rail service and go reservation only. Consistently farcically busy trains

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Today, the bitters I'd suggest you seek out are (none here is an original suggestion) 1. Timothy Taylor's Landlord 2. Sussex Best 3. London Pride All are excellent /5

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Severe alert from the Government -- interesting!

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When did the Today programme start campaigning journalism? So much 'X's law"

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Nice guy. Commissioned me to report on Scaramucci at the Oxford Union once.

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

this wildfire is sad and important, but it's just weird to say "brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor".

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Fucking called it bsky.app/profile/cjte...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/07/2026

My entire feed right now:

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

How do we keep getting away with this nonsense (touch wood)

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Nothing against the concept of Dear England but it's gauche to make such things whilst the key participants are alive imo

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

OK, so just as I have to yell at my fellow Americans "air conditioners *are* heat pumps!" to combat basic ignorance of what the tech actually is, Europeans need to hear "heat pumps *are* air conditioners" because y'all are making arguments which don't make sense if you see why heat pumps are good.

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's basically only journalists saying nobody in Britain wants to talk about rejoin

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Everything is hard so we should do nothing instead

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

the normies have discovered real time trains

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Don't really understand why people claim this about Wilson. On what basis was his second government not a failure??

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11/06/2026

Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

We should distinguish what we define in Britain as "religious freedom" from laïcité, and have the debate on what our future should look like

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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

No one judges you for cranking up the heating in winter. Why should air con in summer be any different? ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/air-condit...

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Zohran just cited Minneapolis, Austin, and Auckland as cities that lowered housing costs via upzoning certified ball knowledge, Auckland is a deep YIMBY cut

Zohran Mamdani with local councilmember and government officials

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I mean it does exist, in practice. That’s literally their point

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This fails to explain the ban on North Sea oil and gas licences

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Ban-loving Britain. First, effectively ban proper AC. Then, ban the consequences of your own actions.

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The WFA changed were good and necessary. I'll die on this hill

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Cinema during heatwave is definitely the way to go

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Rafferty @rafferty-bs.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I think that AC is de facto banned in new build housing says a lot about how austerity brained Britain has become (or always was?). No, actually we can have nice things if we want them and put the required systems in place.

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Podcasts and podcasters: stop putting other podcasts from your company into my podcast feed. It's rude!

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Simon Pease @simonpease.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

🧵 1/10 There is a lot of "the EU won't want us back" in reaction to the statements made by Streeting and Burnham. As someone who has some experience of working closely with European diplomatic colleagues, and still has friends in Europe, I would say it is quite easy to construct the case for why

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Obviously. Why has it taken so long?

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

There is a tendency to blame Brexit for everything which encourages the savvy to downplay it, but we know that leaving the EU has reduced growth significantly, and hence tax revenue, and public finances are more strained as a result. 1/

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chelseachemist1.bsky.social @chelseachemist1.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

What does “putting Britain at the heart of Europe” even mean if you’re not willing to move on your red lines?

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

In other news, I wrote about banning smoking for some legal adults but not others, and why that's a pretty absurd principle in a democratic society. I don't smoke, I don't work for the tobacco industry, I just think rights should either be for everyone or no one www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

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The smoking ban is a threat to democracy

We are creating two tiers of citizenry

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Simon Jeffrey @simonjeffrey.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

If you were a nationalist trying to subtly implant an irresistible centrifugal force in the constitution of Britain, devolution to national Parliaments making laws and powers without need to raise the money for them, and actually chipping in more via the Barnett formula, would be the way.

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Why are they using WhatsApp at all?? If you tried this at a JPM or a BlackRock you'd be out the building fairly quickly

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

In part, but obviously not in whole, this follows from an attitude that shoplifting or theft is victimless or okay, or excusable due to poverty (poverty mitigates, but does not excuse)

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Astonishing just how many people on this website KEEP repeating the incorrect meme that the Mandelson appointment was about finding a way to manage Trump. It wasn't, and Mandelson's first task (which to be fair he did actually succeed at) was getting Trumpworld to stop going 'wth is with this guy?'

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

WCML overhead wires damaged yesterday morning. How is it not fixed for the following evening? This is Britain's most important railway line by the way. HS2 yesterday.

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Maybe, but there's some serious nonsense in there. Charitable organisations exempt from cooling-off? "Proportionate" refunds for digital services?

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Akshay Bilolikar @akshayb.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Imagine complaining about an optional feature roasting you

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Absolute scenes from the FT

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