Reposted by DigitalisSoumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 14/10/2026aaaahhhhhhhh policyexchange.org.uk/publication/... h/t @igmansfield.bsky.social 4227
Reposted by DigitalisJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/10/2026There 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. 44810
Reposted by DigitalisSoumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 14/10/2026It 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... 137711
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 14/10/2026After the past decade I understand their fears. "Journalism" has so often been laser focused on them, and not always in a balanced way 040
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It's ok I've still got sacks of pasta and tinned tomatoes left over from COVID. Do your worst. 000
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 · 13/10/2026Silly Q. But does this include debt at the state level too or just fed debt? 000
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Motability is best understood as a purchasing cooperative, combining all those individual buyers purchasing power enables welfare to go much further than it otherwise would and the majority of users who don't make insurance claims cross subsidise those who need complex adaptions. 010
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Famously, there's no supply shortage when it comes to cars in Europe right now. Motability ensures that the second hand market in the UK is flooded with well maintained 3/4 year old cars whose price has already been driven down by the huge buying power of motability. 120
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 13/10/2026 Do people really think that we are handing out PIP and thus motability to people with "wheat allergies" and "dyslexia"? Is there not something in their brains that thinks, hmm, that sounds unbelievable, let me check out how the DWP logs these things. Let me check how pip is awarded 000
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
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Good to know there are levels of "online" that I've not yet reached. 000
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The Bible John stuff seems obvious in retrospect, very staunch Presbyterian police get tunnel vision on a scripture quoting bogey man who punishes loose women during their period. Mid century Glasgow summed up 120
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Expecting past players/managers to show contrition. 110
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Not really football is it? On the other hand it is football for me to despise them and their works desire it not being their fault 110
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
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The arc of history is long and nearly always bends towards a Tory government 110
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. 9871231
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Found myself liking M&S clothes more and more, am I old now? 000
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 08/10/2026People really should stop cooking their brains with images of grotesque violence. 2140
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
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 08/10/2026These people are obviously v smart, so why can they see that in ten years time it isn't humiliation rituals it's "give Amazon to Barron, thanks". 020
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Two years into televised self lobotomy and I wonder why they haven't figured out that life was better ten years ago when they didn't have to do this. 140
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
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yeah, it's straight out of modern neo nazism talking points and speaks to swamp the authors are swimming in 030
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 · 05/10/2026Not that I'm any better. I stood in line and voted for Corbyn in 2019 even though I knew in my heart that he had an antipathy (at least) towards Jews. I felt dirty and told myself I'd not do it again. And now I know for a near certainty I will do it again when it comes to trans people. 100
Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 05/10/2026So far it seems like we've just been lucky enough to pick on the minority group that is pathetically powerless and terrified rather than the one that is pretty weak and terrified. Whoopee. 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
![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)
