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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 11h

This is utterly clueless & why the Lib Dems need a new leader. This is a potentially progressive moment and they should be part of it. Polanski was more positive than Davey, and this reads like chat GPT

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And if the police really 'found no offences had been committed', how should we all feel about that given it signals that if we are staying in a hotel we aren't protected from large mobs trespassing and intimidating us?

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Fun fact: during WWII when Britain was rationing food and wanted to ensure good nutrition for all (which was a big part of the reason for the rationing) - one of the first things they did was decrease beef and lamb production because they knew that high veg diets are a more efficient use of space.

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If Serbia insists on burying Maladić with state honours, that is its sovereign prerogative. However such a move would be entirely inconsistent with being a candidate for EU membership, and the accession process should be formally suspended as a result.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Where you stand", as they say, "is where you sit"!

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/08/2026

I think Abundance tripped over the exact same problem Effective Altruism did: many of the people pushing it got immediately bored with what it actually entails and started talking up whatever gets them invited into Silicon Valley WhatsApp groups.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Sometimes we have to laugh to keep from crying.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

"The fact that the party which is leading in all of the national opinion polls is now using the sort of rhetoric previously reserved for the very fringes of the far-right is deeply alarming – as is the fact that this rhetoric is being publicised and normalised by Reform’s media supporters."

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Nigel Farage’s ‘White Lives Matter’ Speech Is a Sign of Reform’s Growing Desperation

The Reform leader's descent into explicitly far-right rhetoric is the mark of a politician and party which fears its time at the top of British politics may soon come to an end, argues Adam Bienkov

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

That America is now a kleptocracy is beyond dispute. That it's happening in broad daylight without serious pushback is beyond devastating. Where is the rule of law?

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

‘Why did the USSR, with its fantastic scientists and engineers and heavy investment in STEM, nevertheless stagnate?’ Excoriating from @geoffmulgan.bsky.social on the undervaluing of social science and humanities research blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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The myth of STEM only growth holds back the UK

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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Thanks to hosts and all who put in hard work. On tests: Progress towards peace? Strong civil society declaration. Work ongoing on concrete actions from govts. Arms flows? Let's see. Funding? Strong headline pledges. We'll crunch numbers, log money in and support delivered.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Good explanation from @stellacreasy.bsky.social of my analysis of the government/MAC's own data on the fiscal impacts of recent immigration, as featured in today's Guardian.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

According to Federal Reserve economists, without Trump's tariffs, inflation would have dropped to pre-pandemic levels last year. Instead, core goods prices were up 3.1% by February 2026 — and Trump's Iran War will send prices skyrocketing even higher. Tired of winning yet?

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It's literally the first three Commandments, Mike.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Notice how Christian nationalists suddenly believe in the separation of church and state when Bishop Mariann Budde asks the president to be merciful, when the Pope asks the president to be peaceful, and when anyone suggests that the government should take better care of the poor.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It's not as high profile as all the other failings of the last government, but the total collapse of the court system thanks to Chris Grayling is one of the most damning.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The challenges of balancing national economies and global markets, ageing populations and the working population, infrastructure and environment, technology and people, large and small companies, immigration, and so on, remain huge and currently without convincing political platforms.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Inflation is the kiss of death for politicians: “Hungary has also experienced the highest cumulative inflation among countries in the EU since 2020. Overall, prices are up 57 per cent over the period, nearly double the rate for the bloc as a whole (28 per cent).” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Orbánomics has been a disaster for Hungary

The country’s economic model has stoked inflation and weighed on growth

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Victor Orbán’s removal sends a timely signal. Corrupt kleptocratic Christian nationalism was on the ballot in Hungary today — just as it will be on the ballots that Americans will cast in November. It was repudiated abroad — may it be repudiated here in November (and beyond).

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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It's as if diplomacy is actually a skilled profession.

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Many things to say about the demise of Orbanism but the scale of his defeat is impressive. This is surely also a rejection of Trump & Vance. The threatened new era of official US interference in European domestic politics has got off to a satisfyingly calamitous start

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Magyar’s speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: “He’s basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired.”

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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

This is my assessment of why Trump’s war went so badly wrong. Underestimating an enemy and a belief in a quick victory are familiar sources of failure, compounded in this sense by incredible ultimatums and delusional claims. (£/free trial), open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?

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The causes and consequences of Trump’s defeat

The Islamabad negotiations were supposed to conclude the Iran War in such a way that the US and Israel would have something to show for the thousands of lives lost and ruined, the vast quantities of o...

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

2/ "The President shall not suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty ... except by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, provided that two-thirds of the Senators present concur, or pursuant to an Act of Congress."

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Andrew Hodder-Williams @andrewhw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

“Running a database isn’t a core competency for most companies. But managing the freaking company is a core competence, or at least it ought to be. And one of the big messages from management cybernetics is that the distinction between these two things is not as clear as you’d think.” Quite so.

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Ben Edwards @bostonhistory.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Psychologist Dr. John Gartner on Donald Trump: "He has the most severe personality disorder that a human being can have. It's called malignant narcissism. It was originally introduced by Erich Fromm, who escaped the Nazis, to describe the psychology of Hitler and other murderous dictators like him."

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Jonathan Jones @sirjjkc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

They could have cancelled the King’s visit on the grounds of needing to save fuel

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This point from @ldfreedman.bsky.social (who's been in Washington this week) is key. Out of malice and stupidity the Trump administration has destroyed its own decision-making capabilities.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

There is something deeply sad about someone who starts a sentence with the word ”frankly” and then goes on to whinge like a ten year old that life’s unfair … whitewash … sick to death … usual suspects. Has WhingeUK’s leader run out of steam dredging up the most tired of political cliches?

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/03/2026

he forgot the word 'special'

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/03/2026

Chris Murphy: "We're gonna give Iran $14b to fund this war with the US? We're gonna give Russia billions to fund their war with Ukraine? We're literally putting money into the pockets of the nations we're fighting. We've never seen this level of incompetence in war-making in this country's history"

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/03/2026

Barack Obama pays tribute to Robert Mueller, calling him one of the finest FBI directors in history and honoring his unwavering commitment to the rule of law

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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Always nice to think that the person sending young men and women off to war has this view about death.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

a-grade satire from @hugorifkind.bsky.social as always

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Sums things up well - from ‘My Week: Donald Trump*’ by @hugorifkind.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/4188...

"The thing I DON'T get," I say, "is why our NATO ALLIES, who we've spent the PAST YEAR saying we WON'T DEFEND and MIGHT EVEN ATTACK, aren't sacrificing ALL THE DEFENSIVE CAPABILITY we say they DON'T HAVE, to solve a problem they say we SHOULDN'T HAVE CREATED in the FIRST PLACE."

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Thomas Aubrey @thomasaubreycca.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Ten-year gilt yield jumping to 5% highlights the flaw at the heart of the Chancellor's investment strategy using gilts to finance capital investment. www.ft.com/content/1e77... Most advanced economies use self-funded public corporation debt for infrastructure. The UK is an outlier. But the UK used

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UK borrowing costs reach highest level since 2008 as economic hit from war mounts

Ten-year gilt yield jumps to 5% as fears over inflation shock intensify

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It’s genuinely rather sweet how the people who were wrong about austerity, wrong about Brexit, wrong about Trump, and are now wrong about Iran still think everyone should take them seriously.

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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 20/03/2026

Just had this flagged with me. This is disgusting. If Kemi Badenoch had one ounce of leadership in her, she would condemn this. I don’t want any faux sadness from her or Nick Timothy when one of us is hurt or worse. This is how low the Conservative Party have sunk.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A tax season reminder that Intuit TurboTax lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing. Trump then terminated the free IRS Direct File program established under Biden, just a year after the tax prep giant gave his inauguration fund $1M. Do you see how this works?

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Yes. And the bigger question is: why? @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Astonished Home Sec is still using this £10 billion. It is a fiction. This goes beyond a misleading sleight of hand (it i net lifetime cost in 30 years time of the status quo) because government can't claim their reforms save it MPs must insist on the real fiscal numbers (which may be zero/net)

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

2/2. His weakness is something negative, gravitational, so deep that it can draw in a whole country. But only if we fail to see it. Only if we let it.

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