Reposted by DigitalisSoumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 14haaaahhhhhhhh policyexchange.org.uk/publication/... h/t @igmansfield.bsky.social 4227
Reposted by DigitalisJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 18hThere is a point in this video where the viewer is invited to pause and take up to 20 minutes to guess what the guy will say next. I would not have guessed it in that time. 4479
Reposted by DigitalisSoumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 23hIt is *wild* to me that in the humanities there are top universities are still doing take-home exams. Apparently it's a cost-saving thing. I wonder if employers know, or whether they could start requiring disclosure, or whether grads might start saying on their CVs that they had closed book tests... 137511
Reposted by DigitalisSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The idea that this would be a "catastophic burden" on the economy is a real zombie fact. Even on the worst case (and wrong) scenarios dreamt up by anti-migration think-tanks it is not close to "catastrophic". 1423249
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Yes, and it is great. I love being able to buy 3-4 year old cars at a much lower price than I would otherwise be able to, and in much better nick than they otherwise would be. Motability is an example of the government using its power to drive town costs for basically everyone in society. 100
Reposted by DigitalisSophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Sky News journalist thinks that a gov press officer including their pronouns and the generic "why this is important" link in their email signature is a threat to... civil service impartiality?? These people have gone completely mad. 1223037
Reposted by DigitalisSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"“we are all, well many of us, are certainly immigrants to some extent. My name’s an unusual one but I think my ancestors just caught an earlier boat than other people’s. This country’s been built by great immigrants" Robert Jenrick's first national campaign in Newark, 2014 byelection 67522
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 12/10/2026There's no depth to which this guy won't sink in order to further his pathetic career. 010
Reposted by DigitalisStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026We're already at war with Russia, exhibit 2342:ft.comRussia steps up bid to kill European defence chiefs, spy agencies warnCompanies increase personal security for top executives as Kremlin orders expansion of sabotage and ‘hybrid’ operations 11531153
Reposted by DigitalisEuan @euan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I don’t know if anyone remembers former Labour councillor, change UK defector, and regular Twitter main character Frances Weetman, or her creepy reply guy, occasional Twitter main character and arch-transphobe Alex ‘Rubie’ Rubner but they’ve just had a massive falling out over race science. part 1/2 4129741
Reposted by Digitalis🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026this is good and everyone should stop being weird about it 2341531
Reposted by DigitalisElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives. 9857226
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Found myself liking M&S clothes more and more, am I old now? 000
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Realising you can eat kiwi skin is genuinely life changing and always good for getting dirty looks in the office. 000
Reposted by DigitalisHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 07/10/2026If there is no inheritance tax on family homes, does that incentivise old people never to downsize? 22938
Reposted by DigitalisSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There is a local anti-asylum/anti-migration protest in Shettleston, in the east end of Glasgow, involving perhaps a hundred people, with hoodies + masks (not the same kind of balaclava mob ... but a more local group), with some attempts to block roads leading to arrests. 2149
Reposted by DigitalisSarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 05/10/2026It is deeply irresponsible for any politician, let alone a senior Conservative, to peddle the same far-right nonsense about Luton that we see from the likes of Yaxley Lennon and Reform.theguardian.comTory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’Blake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’ 37541143
Reposted by DigitalisPeople's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026incidentally i don't think this is word salad: i think this is tom gann admitting, being as he is an odious prick, that he supports both these positions on /an ideological level/, which is to say he views forcing ukraine to subject itself to russia as a good 5988
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We should have an iron dome for Glasgow, but frankly, the rest of you are less important to my plans. 000
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yeesh, belief in a two state solution is now racist in and of itself? This is hideous stuff 100
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Two parties competing to see who can extinguish a minority from public life the most completely. At least the majority of green electeds in the commons spoke against this, labour MPs (with notable exceptions) are complete cowards 100
Reposted by DigitalisJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/10/2026What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌ 37609159
Reposted by DigitalisJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s absolutely wild that Polanski got away with never saying whether he would or wouldn’t support the Zionism is Racism motion? 7637
Reposted by DigitalisRussell @rdmcl83.bsky.social · 03/10/2026www.celticfc.com/news/2026/oc... Fuck off celticcelticfc.comCeltic Football Club statementCeltic Football Club statement 332
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 03/10/2026respect mogg for attempting to do the work that has to be done on the centre right if it is to survive. 100
Reposted by DigitalisRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is what happens when you start excusing things under the banner of “legitimate concerns” 19360100
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A trainee GP opting out of his workplace pension due to cost of living concerns ... Get a budget and prioritise man. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWhy Gen Z are opting out of workplace pensionsA growing number of people are opting out of these schemes due to cost-of-living pressures. 000
Reposted by DigitalisMark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“Jude Bellingham isn’t English” is one hell of a thing to try to sell to the electorate 3538
Reposted by DigitalisDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is just state barbarism. Nothing less. 28772162
Reposted by DigitalisTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Triple Lock has been a massive success and the two outstanding questions are: 1) When do you stop the ratchet (i.e. maintain it against incomes, not outpace them) 2) What happens with the cohort between the reduction in DB schemes and the start of Autoenrolment? 3142
Reposted by DigitalisMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Polanski’s “tax the rich” is the same as Badenoch’s “cut benefits”, a one-size-fits-all funding source that appeals to their prejudice but would never generate anything like the money they claim, and prevents them ever having to engage with serious politics 1420037
Reposted by DigitalisGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Essential from Alan Lockey on how young people have been failed for nearly two decades and why Burnham must stop the rot. www.arguably.uk/p/the-speech... 13113
Reposted by DigitalisRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’m a dual national. I’m not planing on committing any crimes anytime soon, let alone ones with a sentence of 5+ years, but if I ever did I’m not sure why my second passport should disqualify me from facing the same British justice system as everyone else and instead strip me of my citizenship 1330471
Reposted by DigitalisCage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"why would I deceive you?" 131105562100
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Amazing to see a self lobotomy being performed live on tv 000
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Jensen Huang doesn't think it matters if kids can count, divide, multiply or do square roots because we will be better "systems thinkers". 100
Reposted by DigitalisJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has. 641940446
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Just feel like family punishment isn't something a liberal society does eh? 211
Reposted by DigitalisRobin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 18/09/2026‘Greek finance minister encourages Germany to implement reforms’ www.ft.com/content/7a28...static.klipy.comAntonio Banderas' Satisfied ReactionALT: Antonio Banderas' Satisfied Reaction 1355097
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Man. Above all, Hasan Piker just isn't that smart is he? 030
Reposted by DigitalisEddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is. 2111929739
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I actually just really quite like English people and actively want to be in a political community with them and probably would want to be in a union with them if we were starting from a position of independence. 110
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is horrifying. Even people whose impact has been disastrous don't deserve this 000
Reposted by DigitalisMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/09/2026I'm sorry why was she interviewed as an expert on this lmao, at this stage she's someone who should only ever be mentioned in the press as part of a "people who fell head first off the online deep end" feature 1011414
![In 2014, Jenrick entered parliament as, in the words of one Tory adviser, a ‘parody-level Cameroon blandy’. Or in the words of his former ally and mentor, former arch-Remainer Tory MP Anna Soubry, a ‘full-fat subscriber to David Cameron’. Nickie Aiken, the former Tory MP and leader of Westminster City Council, said: “I was quite surprised how militant he became as immigration minister as he has always been centrist”. He won the Newark by-election in 2014 by urging Labour and Lib Dem supporters to lend him their votes to stop the ‘extreme’ UKIP from winning. In that by-election, he said: “we are all, well many of us, are certainly immigrants to some extent. My name’s an unusual one but I think my ancestors just caught an earlier boat than other people’s. This country’s been built by great immigrants.” His idol Ken Clarke - the Europhile Tory grandee who represented the neighbouring Rushcliffe - was put on his election literature. Commenting on his victory, the young Jenrick said: ‘You win elections at the centre.’ Two years later, in 2016, he campaigned for Remain alongside Clarke. Jenrick even signed a letter ahead of the EU referendum, along with 16 other MPs, denouncing ‘Farage’s Britain’ as ‘angry, intolerant, limited [and] sepia-coloured’.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:refbwihhzcqqfulwhcou44sr/bafkreidwfpjqcojro3q4cjr346z2a2bkfg4nyquiqp4wcq4hs574yiwub4)
