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Angela Kail

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Charity sector and education mainly

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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 24/09/2026
Russia’s state oil giant is a key pillar in the Kremlin’s industrial money-laundering system —- and uses it itself to get its own cash back inside Russia.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 21/09/2026
A big new story from us: a big new leak means that we can put numbers on the scale of A7 -- the Kremlin's huge money-laundering machine. $6.9bn laundered through the international banking system via SWIFT, with $1.1bn sent to StanChart alone. www.ft.com/content/3848...
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Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks
FT finds thousands of Russian payments handled by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Palace choosing half time at this match to launch it’s new mental health service for supporters is too on the nose
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Why Andy Burnham doesn’t realise not having a cap on political donations is a threat to Labour is beyond me.
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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 08/09/2026
They'll be a lot of chatter about England's PISA results this morning, but we need to talk just as much about Wales. They rejected phonics and knowledge-rich curricula in favour of 'areas of learning', 'skills suites' and barely any testing. Wales is now 40 points below England in every domain.
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Kinda love that the Imagination Library website is being overwhelmed by people donating to it.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Okay Clacton. Let’s go.
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Rain! It’s a glorious glorious thing!
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/08/2026
How to save the British high street ft.trib.al/Gep6DvU | opinion
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How to save the British high street
Communities need help to tackle the blight of delinquent landlords who let empty properties decay
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This headline really sets up some RyanAir hating, but really RyanAir were following the law, and this couple apparently paid no attention to how the biggest constitutional change in decades might affect them? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘It was a big shock’: new border rules left couple stuck in Kraków after living in UK for 80 years
Maria and Czeslaw Krupa, who arrived in 1947 and 1948 as dependants of displaced Polish service members, were told they did not have post-Brexit rights to return to UK
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Why don’t they give up on this match and just show last night’s match again?
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Were the muppets part of the half time show as a nod to Cucurella’s hair?
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Should have been two seven year olds each from Spain and Argentina trying to score goals against the mascots. That’s the only half time show I’m interested in
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Can we go back to talking about the refereeing mistakes?
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Bet the BBC is now wishing it hadn’t gone to the US for the final. Should have stayed in Salford where there was less background noise.
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I don’t know if we’re all allowed to just tweet unevidenced things and get it written up by The Times, but in my opinion this is very unlikely. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
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Amnesty ‘would not survive’ legal action by JK Rowling
The author has offered to fund defamation cases against the charity after it released a report describing her sexual violence support service as ‘anti-rights’
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I remain unconvinced that someone who has expressed no previous interest in fiscal policy, has no obvious economic policy expertise and whose views on the topic are unknown is an ideal candidate for Chancellor.
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If Burnham appoints Mahmood with her anti growth immigration policies over Miliband, who is much more qualified for the difficult job of Chancellor, I will never believe he is brave enough to be Prime Minister. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Ed Miliband trails Shabana Mahmood in race to become Andy Burnham’s chancellor
Home secretary emerges as favourite for role amid criticism of energy secretary’s radical net zero policies
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
There needs to be more focus on the pathologist shortage. It doesn’t take big numbers to fix it. I remember a coroner telling me ‘you probably know about the national pathologist shortage’ and me thinking ‘how was I supposed to know about that’. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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‘We endured 10-month post mortem delay after son’s Eton collapse’
Raphaël Pryor’s parents are campaigning to end the shortage of paediatric pathologists that left them in ‘agony’ waiting for answers over his death aged 17
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 08/07/2026
Please stop whatever you're doing and read Alphaville LLC's first research report on SpaceX, with an initial price target of ∞. www.ft.com/content/1344...
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Alphaville LLC initiates coverage of SpaceX with Buy recommendation
Good heavens
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This should be high up on Burnham’s agenda. If you want the Northern angle: lots of the local authorities spending a fortune on sub standard for profit care homes are Northern www.ft.com/content/7567...
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Children’s minister calls for ‘moral outrage’ as he vows to end profit-driven care
Josh MacAlister urges Andy Burnham to make children in care his personal mission
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Because of the Scott Mills having to leave the Breakfast show and Sara Cox having a break before she takes over; Trevor Nelson being ill; and others being on holiday every single daytime show on Radio 2 today is being manned by a sub. You’ve got to feel sorry for whoever does the rota.
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is so undeserved
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
One of the lessons of the last two years is that Labour urgently needs to stop being afraid of its own shadow. Burnham should appoint whoever he thinks would be the best Chancellor and throw his authority behind them. The Daily Mail will try to kill them anyway. So just govern.
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
When James Purnell was at DCMS, a charity sector bod wrote a poem about him that started ‘James, James, James Purnell/ I love him so much it makes me unwell’ and for years that’s gone round in my head whenever I read his name. So I’m really pleased he’s returning to prominence.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Details in this piece about what is driving the violence in Belfast are so sad. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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The consequences of online race hatred are playing out on Belfast’s streets
Malign social media automates division — I saw the effects in our city this week
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Enjoyed this article on the fact that the Irish Football Association is one of the five organisations that decide the rules of football. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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How Northern Ireland still shapes the rules of football
Once home to the inventor of the penalty kick, the tiny region is part of an elite club that tweaked the game’s Laws before the World Cup
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/06/2026
If you’ve chosen to live in the centre of the greatest city in the world, expect the nightlife to match.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Really pleased about how the FT has been highlighting this shameful issue. I was doing some work on this in the autumn and asked people why it wasn’t a bigger issue when the problems and solutions are known, and everyone said there’s not enough pressure to do something about it.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 31/05/2026
England’s treatment of vulnerable children is a scandal ft.trib.al/a15L6j2
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England’s treatment of vulnerable children is a scandal
Care system is warped by incentives that put helpless young people at greater risk
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 31/05/2026
The UK health department’s top official was a shareholder at a private equity-owned children’s care home business, which imposed sharp fee increases on local authorities. Read more here: ft.trib.al/BQiQeYW
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Nice read on the pothole campaigners. I might become a pothole vigilante. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘One day I thought, that’s enough’: the people fighting back against pothole-riddled roads
The dire state of roads has provoked pothole vigilantes and become a political flashpoint from Manchester to Manhattan. How did we get here?
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This story of how we’ve allowed profit to become the driving force in children’s care homes makes me sick. Children only allowed outside for 15 minutes a day. 15 year olds discouraged from going to school because it doesn’t suit ‘carers’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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How England’s vulnerable children became a gold mine for investors
Booming sector is attracting plumbers, hairdressers and Airbnb landlords with no experience in care
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Stopping this scheme in order to keep ‘Peckham’s historic village core’ while so many people in Peckham live in unsuitable housing is not a decision I will ever understand. And presumably until it does get developed we’ve got to put up with an emptying shopping centre. www.ft.com/content/8ef6...
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The Peckham shopping centre in the middle of Britain’s fight to build new homes
Developer Berkeley Group says rejected Aylesham plan is example of why housebuilders can “no longer invest” in the UK capital
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Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
God, this is BS is just one of the many reasons in which I detest Andy Burnham. 1) Half my family has lived in Liverpool for 40 years. It is transformationally better than it was in 1986. Manchester, even more so. Leeds, Newcastle, ditto.
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The chant at Palace is ‘If Adam scores, we’re on the pitch’
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I hadn’t realised how late all the World Cup matches are on. Is that because of the heat, or is it optimised for a US tv audience?
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I’m worried that the changeable weather is reflecting the changeable mood in the Labour Party and it won’t settle until the Labour Party decides what it is doing
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This story about a nurse who had never parachuted before being strapped to a paratrooper to do a ‘fucking difficult jump’ to help remote hantavirus patients is amazing. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
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Timing is everything in daring jump to aid patient on hantavirus-hit island
Paratroopers and medics made a perilous 8,000ft jump to reach an infected islander on Tristan da Cunha. A tiny misjudgment could have been disastrous
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I think there’s a problem here of how many charities and state organisations like the NHS or the BBC don’t understand social media. They think people will find out information by Googling, but actually that’s not how it works anymore. You need to be actively working on Instagram/Tiktok get reach
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The Nike ads shaming walkers are also weird because if you listen to any of the Nike Running Club guided runs they frequently tell you that if you need to walk, you should walk. It’s a marketing department that doesn’t know what the actual company does. www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...
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Nike accused of shaming Parkrun walkers with ad campaign
The charity said the sportswear company’s adverts in London parks undermine its message that everyone is welcome, whatever their pace
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
i wrote about the $95 bus ticket www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Ticket to ride? Fifa premium makes this the World Cup that actively hates you | Jonathan Liew
The $95 bus trip to Foxborough highlights a tournament unique in modern times – one that ultimately makes no secret of its disdain for the paying public
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Mark Elliott @thatmarkelliott.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“You know what’s a war crime? Having a nuclear weapon.” says man whose country has many nuclear weapons, as an argument for attacking a country that has none.
From the Guardian:

Donald Trump said he was “not at all” concerned about committing possible war crimes as he again threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants if Tehran does not meet his Tuesday 8pm ET deadline to reopen the strait of Hormuz.

“I’m not worried about it,” the US president said. “You know what’s a war crime? Having a nuclear weapon.”
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Plus there is widespread jumping of red lights in London now. I don’t understand why every light doesn’t have a camera and there should just be automatic prosecution.
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I know it’s Easter but I’ve done two big car journeys this week and there’s noticeably less traffic on the road, so I think petrol prices are already causing people to drive less. Prices doing their thing without needing a government intervention.
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Angela Kail @angelakail.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
There is an absolutely horrific story in this piece, which isn’t even about the main guy. It’s so bad that I’m not going to screenshot. But funeral directors need to be regulated now. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
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Debts, no oversight and horrified families: the unlawful burial firm
Robert Bush, the owner of Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, has admitted 30 counts of preventing lawful burial and one of theft
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 18/03/2026
the Norwegian campaign against enshittification is pretty great tbf vimeo.com/1168468796
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The Ensh*ttificator
Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Fantastic interview. Everyone should read it:
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John Davidson Gives First Interview and Explains Tourette’s Tics After Shouting N-Word and Other Slurs at BAFTAs: ‘I Felt a Wave of Shame’ (EXCLUSIVE)
John Davidson's explains Tourette's tics and the BAFTA N-word incident in his first exclusive interview with Variety.
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