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Brian Mcleish @bmcleish.bsky.social · 21h

BTJ catches a clean throw in the end zone. Referee team look around in dismay, realising they have nothing to chuck a flag over.........

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"

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Brian Mcleish @bmcleish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Simon doing the Lords work here, ripping Restore's phony stats designed to make people hate immigrants a new one. These numbers are BS and I would encourage everyone to read this to see why. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/how-a-bad-...

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How a Bad Number Becomes Common Knowledge

Restore Britain’s latest crime graphic looks brutally simple. The statistics underneath it are anything but.

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Brian Mcleish @bmcleish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have an idea. Why don't European nations (including the UK and Turkey) get together in Poland and agree a new defensive alliance, building new c&c capability absent the US? They could call it the Warsaw Pact and really troll Russia!

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I honestly suspect that the recent QAA podcast on the state department under Trump is a better overview for European governments than whatever briefings they’ve been getting. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/g...

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Great Replacement Theory at the State Department feat. Josef Burton (E390)

Podcast Episode · QAA Podcast · 25 September · 1hr 26min

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In 1975, three men in a grotty London flat started a games company. It brought D&D to the UK, then redefined wargaming. This week on Untitled History Podcast, it's the history of Games Workshop with @jordansorcery.bsky.social. On Youtube or your pod app of choice! open.spotify.com/episode/3iSn...

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Episode 24: How Games Workshop changed the world with Jordan Sorcery

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Brian Mcleish @bmcleish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Mirror "UK weather map turns volcano red as heatwave comes again" *shows map of England* 🙄

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Brian Mcleish @bmcleish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Life reflects art - Microsoft has published an AI development code of conduct including that AI should not imitate consciousness. The OC Bible in Dune -> Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

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Brian Mcleish @bmcleish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hell to the yes! The UKG finally taking socioeconomic inequality seriously! Time to end class squeamishness: first government unit to improve life chances for working class - GOV.UK share.google/7kg6zTsDwZhj...

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Time to end class squeamishness: first government unit to improve life chances for working class

New Class Unit to focus on improving lives of low-income families, disadvantaged communities and rooting out child poverty.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Facebook is awash with exploitative scam adverts using AI videos to drive empathy purchases. They set up the idea that an individual is hand-making the products and has faced criticism or abuse. In reality they are just drop-shipping cheap crap from China (and probably skimming card details). Scary.

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Brian Mcleish @bmcleish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hundreds of men, all dressed in black and with face coverings - a 'spontaneous' protest? Are Kent Police incompetent or complicit? Which side of Hanlon's razor are they falling on here?

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Brian Mcleish @bmcleish.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And they said this of the Persians, that fathers teach their sons 3 things - how to ride, how to shoot, and how to tell the truth.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When I was a teenager and my dad learned that my aunt was tracking my cousins’ movements on an app I remember him saying “what’s the point? You could be doing crystal meth at home!”

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k.

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Brian Mcleish @bmcleish.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Inevitable is the right word. People brought this up at the time.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“Lanyard class” simply means women who have told a man that he needs to follow the rules, right? At least in America they went for “HR lady politics” to make the misogyny clear.

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

As far as I can gather, 'lanyard class' lumps together e.g a corporate solicitor, a Russell Group professor, a Whitehall SPAD, a council economic development officer in Durham, and an NHS manager. Not sure it has all that much explanatory power.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Starmer's historic reputation, I think, will end up being a fascinating answer to 'how would Churchill be assessed if he had *only* been prime minister from 1951 to 1955, when he mostly couldn't really do the job anymore'

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Working in Starmer’s Number 10 was ‘unbearable’, says Sue Gray

Former chief of staff to previous PM describes onslaught of negative briefings and says Starmer ‘lacked vision’

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Brian Mcleish @bmcleish.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Lots of news reports go on about how Khamenei hasn't been seen in public since March. Gee, I wonder why that is? Remind me, what happened to the last Supreme Leader, his dad?

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This reply just fully encapsulates the gender critical journalist mindset. The perceived monopoly on victimhood, the unbridled rage that they might be seen for what they truly are, and the mountainous, gravity defying hypocrisy. How very dare you, don't you know who I am?

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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Literally yes

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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It remains the case that most councils are run well by decent people who want to do the right thing.

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Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · 13/08/2026

Dunno if people have noticed but the discrimination module of the Scottish Social Attitudes survey was released last month:

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Brian Mcleish @bmcleish.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Looking at my outfit this morning I realise that I have evolved into my final form, that of the middle aged academic I would have been in a slightly different version of my life. Jeans, check shirt and blazer, trainers, greying beard and glasses that slip down my nose on the regular.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Good example of how, for good and for ill, TUs represent the interest of their current membership at the expense of their future one. True that you are unlikely to learn much about this 23 year old. You might learn however that their boss has never hired outside of the University of Oxford, tho.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Think this whole thing is a good example of a real challenge for AI design is that frankly the AI *ought* to say in this case “you’re burnt out. Catch up on sleep and get back into reading with something you loved as a child, like Betsy Byars or Judy Blume”, not “you’re right! This book IS hard!”

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Brian Mcleish @bmcleish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"There is a blue dot essentially in the Twin Cities"........."(where all the people are)"

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Obviously the post below applies to Phillips bsky.app/profile/jdpo...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Non-ironically, yes. Lowers the value and makes it easier, therefore, to demolish and rebuild at density, which is the one of the two available secret sauces to “have a thriving high street”. (The other is “be v rich”.)

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Brian Mcleish @bmcleish.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Carnegie "The man who dies thus rich, dies disgraced". Musk "what a NERD, amarite?"

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The original clip posted on X excludes the woman saying “it’s a range of things that is also rape” and Manivannan saying “none of which is less or more worse” - and instead just includes them saying “it’s a spectrum”. Extremely misleading. Misinformation really.

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 10/08/2026

Same argument always, and always wrong. The private sector is *never* in a better position to buy and operate not-for-profit assets because its cost of capital and, therefore, required returns are always—always—higher than the state's. Which means higher user costs and/or lower service quality.

"Britain has only a handful of for-profit universities and Senhaji said the scepticism towards the model in the sector was “a hurdle to overcome” in much of Europe. But he argued that private capital was better placed to invest than a financially stretched public sector."

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Brian Mcleish @bmcleish.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The End of Oak Street feels like an adjunct to an Eric Flint novel. Another one of the Assiti Shards?

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is an extraordinary story, centred on a group of remarkable women, but it just makes me mourn for the millions of women and girls trapped in Afghanistan, denied not only the freedom to play sports, but to speak, learn and live as they choose. We must not forget them.

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Banned from football at home, Afghan women's team reunite 8,000 miles away

Women in the team, which is recognised by Fifa, say football has given them freedom and independence.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Typically good take from Pete. Literary devices or tropes (“this murder mystery exists to explore the world I’ve created”/“this fantastical concept is an allegory”) are interesting. Genres are just a marketing tool, and not a very interesting one.

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John Tweedie @johntweedie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It's not my local library, but I'm really looking forward to hearing about the refurbished B-listed Langside Library, including a brand new fully accessible entrance, reopening in winter 2026-27. www.glasgowlife.org.uk/about-us/col...

Exterior of sandstone Langside Libary from Sinclair Drive before its refurbishment began.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’m so furious that we’re in a situation where now everybody in the world has to check their own behaviour, be on their guard in public and be suspicious of anyone wearing glasses, in case they’re being filmed by a pervert. All because Mark Zuckerberg is a greedy creep

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. You’re only diminishing yourself with comments like this.

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

When highly unpleasant people die, it is polite not to remark upon their great unpleasantness. But we do not have to pretend to think that they were a decent person.

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 02/08/2026

It is quite strange how little the actual public inquiry we're having into the UK's Covid response - the one that's publishing in-depth reports every few months - factors into the "you're not even allowed to ask these questions" complaints. We are, in fact, officially asking these questions!

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's made me think more about the non-academic purposes of schools...

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