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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've been talking to quite a few Conservatives for a piece ahead of their conference, and it's striking how many proactively brought up a reason why they think this year's event will be more positive than last: the fact Robert Jenrick won't be there. Such unananimity of dislike is rare.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rey Skywalker teams up with Jar-Jar Binks, Watto, 2 slapstick, comic-relief Ewoks, and droid Scrap-E-Doo to stop the Empire constructing yet another secret weapon (codenamed 'Defo Not a Moon #4') that has a built-in, easily accessible fatal flaw.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My girlfriend has started to notice that I'm on my phone in the middle of the night and I'm taking it into the bath with me. She probably thinks im having an affair but in reality I'm trying to hide all the expensive warhammer 40k stuff I'm buying for my new Ork army.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”

Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 25/09/2026

⚽ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📜 Manchester City have been found guilty of all but one of 115 Premier League charges they face for breaching financial regulations, the Athletic reported on Friday ➡️ u.afp.com/S9pF

File photo shows an empty Etihad Stadium, home of Manchester City, ahead of the Premier League game in Manchester, north west England, on April 1, 2023

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do

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Andrew McGettigan @amcgettigan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

for nominative determinism fans: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Mo... Iranian teenage chess grandmaster

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Sina Movahed - Wikipedia

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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh, Viz.

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MOWNO @mownocom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Angine de Poitrine est passé au Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon pour y jouer l'inédit 'Zugzegk'. La vidéo : buff.ly/P69sN2D #anginedepoitrine #liveonfallon

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Probably Liberal Democrats" is, to be sure, a far more accurate description of the Liberal Democrats than "Liberal Democrats"

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Lydia Chantler-Hicks @lydiach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

School finance leads have known about changes to LGPS contribution rates since April, and say there had been no suggestion that the gov might claw back the headroom this created. "Additional costs or savings (regarding LGPS) have historically been for schools to bear or benefit," said one.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Guy on the tube the other day was playing music loudly from his phone. I tried to adopt a different technique, asking him what he was listening to, and he told me it was stuff he made (using AI) and he wanted to see how the public would react. Now he keeps sending me the worst songs I’ve ever heard

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18/09/2026

Turkey has drafted in two of the country’s biggest banks to liquidate 131 investment funds involved in the collapse of a speculative bubble that has shaken its capital markets and put billions of dollars of investments at risk. ft.trib.al/Jw0vEP0

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 18/09/2026

The University of Edinburgh is a world-class institution and our members are determined to protect it. With an estimated 1,800 jobs at risk, staff are ready to strike for 25 days to defend jobs and the future of the university. Management can end this dispute: rule out compulsory redundancies.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"When the Doctor loses control of the Tardis, he finds himself transported to #Scarfolk, a town forever timed-locked in the 1970s. There he faces dangerous foes including a telekinetic child-owl called Roy; an overhead projector possessed by a demon, and a group of tutting pensioners"

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Europe Échecs @europe-echecs.com · 18/09/2026

😮 Pour son entrée dans l’Olympiade, Sindarov a fait le spectacle, sacrifiant sa dame pour mater ! 31... Rf7!! 32. Dxf1 Th3! La pointe. Le mat par 33... h6 est imparable. 👉 www.europe-echecs.com/art/olympiad... 📸 Lennart Ootes

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As @nadinebh.bsky.social this is just pathetic, self-serving BS. The Treasury doesn't keep some secret set of books the public can't see! Especially since the OBR, the UK has a remarkably transparent approach to the public finances. The dogs in the street knew what the fiscal position was...

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Healey discovered he would become chancellor just days before he entered the Treasury, giving him no time for the customary meetings with officials to see the state of the government’s books ahead of taking power.

“I don’t think John Healey knew; I don’t think Andy knew,” says a senior Labour official. “Until you get the proper briefings you can only know so much. John was not in access talks with the Treasury until it was way too late.”

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hallucinating AI robots wrote an article in one of the largest English papers in the world saying I quit writing to become a gardener. I did not! Instead, I wrote about them. Read on: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...

A fake AI generated article about me in the July 2026 Times of India. No i did not quit writing to become a gardener, as they claim!

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Hugging Face episode was not "a textbook case of what AI safety researchers have long warned about: AI systems pursuing goals single-mindedly in ways that are misaligned with human interests." It was a textbook case of AI engineers messing up. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

NEW on Wonkhe: Someone has to make housing a condition of recruiting students wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is literally a plot point in “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. Written in 1935, it predicts the rise of a fascist populist who promises each family $5,000 per year if he’s elected.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As I keep pointing out, does no one understand Ricardian comparative advantage anymore. FACT: China produces over 1 million engineering graduates per year FACT: To date, China has not produced a single internationally marketable game show format Where does it look like our advantage lies?

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?

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History Today @historytoday.com · 09/09/2026

#WilliamtheConqueror died #OnThisDay in 1087. The Norman Conquest brought French kings, language and culture across the Channel. What did that mean for medieval England? 🔓 This article is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/head...

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How French Was Medieval England?

The Norman Conquest brought French kings, language and culture across the Channel. What did that mean for medieval England?

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’d like to know who is on the Anthropic comms team

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Europe Échecs @europe-echecs.com · 09/09/2026

🗓 9 septembre 2010 : mort de Bent Larsen. Il fut longtemps le meilleur joueur non-soviétique au monde, avec Bobby Fischer. ♟️ Découvrez son chef d'œuvre face à Lubomir Kavalek, à revivre sur europe-echecs.com/art/larsen-k...

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Europe Échecs @europe-echecs.com · 31/08/2026

🗓 31 août 1795 : mort de François-André Danican Philidor. ♟️ Rendez-vous dès le 1er septembre pour découvrir notre numéro spécial consacré à ce visionnaire !

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No company (and even more so, no public sector organisation) should ever get into a position like this with any vendor, come on, this is basic

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sorry, this is dumb/ahistorical. UK sanctions against South Africa 1985/86 were also largely "symbolic". But Thatcher had to be dragged kicking and screaming, and the apartheid regime devoted huge resources to stopping them - just as the Israeli govt is now. Symbols *really* matter here..

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Rob O'Mhantain @mhantain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Current Pope Leo, formerly Robert Prevost, sent out 300 dead rats, after sealing each one in a bag filled with formaldehyde, to DJs around the US as a publicity stunt for the first US release by the Boomtown Rats. He had a summer job in the record company where his aunt worked.

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Alastair @as-j.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm generally happy to give someone like Burnham a bit of time to get things in order but I'm already pretty impatient for an explanation why an octogenarian holding a small protest placard gets a criminal record but 200 people dressed as paramilitaries blockading Dover can just get the train home.

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Sasha Talebi @sashat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

her follow-up post

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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"It is considered rude to speak ill of the dead. But is it rude to speak ill of the undead?

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

there are now no fewer than five separate financial scandals engulfing Reform UK www.ft.com/content/0426...

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The five financing scandals facing Reform

Nigel Farage and his party are facing growing scrutiny over transparency and the source of donations

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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

NEW on Wonkhe: As Andy Burnham rails against the privatisations of the past, Jim Dickinson reviews the corporate takeover of a 164 year old university in Lincolnshire buff.ly/NRF5oDO

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

An under-appreciated line in that Channel 4 expose of Reform is Orr saying "We just don't have British resident donors...that would support us" (10'35" in). Reform's policies are not in the interest of huge sections of UK capitalism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...

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Going undercover to expose Reform's secret donations plot

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/09/2026

Reform UK's policy head James Orr is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’ ft.trib.al/nzOENtR

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Andrew McGettigan @amcgettigan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

becoming a bit cranky about modern maps being used for 1066 landing: 1287 storm changed the sussex/Kent coastline significantly! By Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent. - Own work, CC BY 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

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Mike Ratcliffe @mike-rat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Higher education mergers and acquisitions are in the news, but here I look at how they are represented at the OfS. This is based on a provider’s entry on the register; changing that causes some glitches. moremeansbetter.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/r...

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Representing mergers on the OfS Register

The representation of merged HE providers on the OfS register is complex. The news about Lincoln Bishop and LASEUG prompts thinking how these will be shown. The removal of Regent’s University…

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/08/2026

A university is not a commodity. Lincoln Bishop University is set to be effectively privatised following its takeover by Global University Systems. Staff did not create this crisis and must not pay for it. UCU will fight to protect jobs, conditions and the university’s educational mission.

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UCU response to takeover of Lincoln Bishop University by Global University Systems

The University and College Union (UCU) has today responded to the takeover of Lincoln Bishop University by Global University Systems (GUS).

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

NEW on Wonkhe: A bad Q2 for student visas buff.ly/ET3Uwrx

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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Every incentive rewards debt, and the Treasury has refused to release the forecasts and comparability assessments behind each nation’s cover, even under FOI. Every funding review now underway should put the machinery in scope before recommending a single fee rise.

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