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Samuel Caveen @caveen.com · 27/08/2026

Will the MAGA culture war industrial complex survive the schism ‘GTA VI’ cop killing discourse is about to unleash?

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As ever, obsessed by the euphemism of “Vertical Drinking”. “How can we make standing up, having a pint with your friends, sound bad?” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Council wants pubs in London’s Soho and West End to ban standing

Sadiq Khan criticises Westminster council’s ‘anti-growth policies’ after it recommends stopping ‘vertical drinking’

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Westminster’s Conservatives have come to the correct conclusion that London has too many boroughs and they’re trying to provoke the government into merging them.

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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

UEFA spokesperson Dietmar Fumm said to reporters "This decision effectively signals that Gianni Infantino is an enemy of world football". tl;dr: FIFA "foe" - Fumm

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Samuel Caveen @caveen.com · 30/07/2026

Banger of a statement, tbf. Was afraid they didn’t have it in them, but it’s there.

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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Strongest possible statement from UEFA as they threaten boycott if Infantino presses ahead with his plan

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I don't worry at all about terminator stuff, I worry quite a lot about Augmented authoritarianism, and I worry the most of all about a gigantic metastasizing perpetually low-trust neomedieval pile of shit that AI greatly exacerbates and possibly locks in for good.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I just think it’s neat when we’re all talking about stuff I like

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

this shit was always annoying even in cases where it was maybe technically correct, but now with Trump doing lots of unprecedented bad shit the ‘heh, you rube, you fool, politicians have always been corrupt’ gimmick is both wrong on the merits and much more pernicious.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/07/2026

And given the demands of the attention economy & the dynamics of algorithmic media, those mythologies are now just being continually reinforced, because hearing something that "sounds right" is what causes people to click. No one is learning or following what's actually going on. Just us freaks.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Using Grok to make a film of the original and historically accurate version of the Odyssey as a Turkish epic.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's driving me insane. The govt spends £1.4 trillion a year. Borrowing estimates are often by tens of billions over a year. But we're supposed to imagine money is budgeted to the last penny.

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Not only could they have not done it but the US would instead be enjoying an era-defining boom the likes of which it's not seen since electrification in the 1920s.

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Samuel Caveen @caveen.com · 20/07/2026

PM Burnham’s already putting money in the pockets of regular people.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Future utilitarians living in a solar punk utopia having anguished debates about the credit owed to President Trump for supercharging green transition.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I do think comparing the money you didn't disclose to first a lottery win, then as earnings as a result of hard work, and then actually it was to provide security services does show a lack of faith in any individual line to hold.

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Samuel Caveen @caveen.com · 07/07/2026

Currently on the Overground where almost everyone, myself included, has a watch on.

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Samuel Caveen @caveen.com · 07/07/2026

I’d like to have something more sophisticated to say, but he’s just such a pathetically snivelling piece of shit.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If he's staying, I'm not sure this statement was a good idea...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"social media platforms are surveillance capitalism panopticons run by technofasicsts, any efforts to limit their use or societal importance are also fascism" is a depressingly common worldview

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Samuel Caveen @caveen.com · 23/06/2026

For some reason I still have the newspapers from the day of the Brexit vote, 10 years ago today.

Copies of The Guardian and The Times from 23 June 2016, preserved – as if in amber – at the bottom of my bookshelf.

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Samuel Caveen @caveen.com · 22/06/2026

They’ve halved net migration and yet we’ve got race riots and a Lord Haw-Haw tribute act leading in the polls. These people will not take yes for an answer. We need to move the conversation to something else.

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Samuel Caveen @caveen.com · 19/06/2026

Despite all the changes in British politics over the last two years, the Bakerfield by-election produced an almost identical division of votes between ‘left’ and ‘right’ parties as the constituency did in the 2024 general election. 1/14

Chart comparing 2026 Makerfield by-election to the 2024 general election result in the same constituency:

Headline: Votes in the Makerfield by-election were split between left and right in almost identical proportion to 2024

Subheader: Andy Burnham triumphed by adding the Green and Lib Dem vote to Labour’s 2024 tally, while the Conservative vote ebbed further towards Reform and Restore.

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11/06/2026

Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Clever old Farage. Pivoting to corrupt grifterism to distract from his appalling racism, then pivoting to appalling racism to distract from his corrupt grifterism.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I don’t think it is Red Wall discourse, it is “the government still has the same dreadful strategy of ‘if we get to the end of the parliament without touching the three main taxes and with NHS waiting lists down, we’ll be greeted as liberators, no matter the damage done along the way’.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I'm sure this has nothing to do with Farage promising to deregulate crypto and create a national crypto reserve. Those are just the policies the people of Makerfield want.

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

There was a post here a couple of years ago arguing that the desire for authenticity is fundamentally “the desire to be confronted with a stereotype” and while that was specifically about tourism I think it applies to a lot more than that

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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 15/05/2026

Yeah if you're only counting scandals where there's personal enrichment (Ecclestone and Cash for Peerages for instance both involved payments to the parties and were significantly bigger in size)

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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The defeat of the AV referendum is criminally under-appreciated as a dark day in British history. It was a good idea, and admirably suited to the present situation, where much of the voting public is primarily motivated by loathing of (at least) one party, rather than support for any of the others.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

we only know about the £5m Harborne donation thanks to journalists at the Guardian, but sure trash the MSM for clicks

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

There's many things you can criticise this leadership challenge for, but you can't say it's not a fitting tribute to Starmer's premiership, from the complete absence of a plan for something that was obviously going to happen, to policy as an afterthought, to banal talk of undefined "Labour values".

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Chart showing the lading party by ward % age 50 or older and % with a managerial or professional occupation. Between 2021 and 2024 Labour won wards with a majority of young or working-class voters, in 2026 the Greens won younger wards while Reform UK won older working class wards

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ossie-ace.bsky.social @ossie-ace.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

And frankly the the total farce of locking labour into "no tax increases for working people" and all that bollocks was not created in the ungovernable electorate but in Westminister.

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 13/05/2026

I'm preparing to resign is just a very embarrassing thing to say why is our politics so incredibly cringe

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Civil society is gonna have to start punching back at the far-right bullies in politics and the media, and a big part of that is having a government that gives people confidence that it will side with them as they stand up for social liberalism rather than try to appease its political enemies

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

there is no actual social benefit bestowed to society by professional provocateurs

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I've seen a few people here denying that antisemitic hate crimes are still a major or widespread problem in this country. This denial does no one any favours. We must be rock-solid against all hate and prejudice.

Chart showing recorded hate crimes by perceived religion of victim per 10,000 population in 2024-25. Published in The Guardian

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Samuel Caveen @caveen.com · 22/04/2026

Well at least Gemini came clean.

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Samuel Caveen @caveen.com · 05/04/2026

The worst person in your extended family WhatsApp group is in charge of the most powerful military force in the history of the world.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/02/2026

one thing about the post-Soviet ideological hangover is it obscures that there is a tradition of liberalism-socialism compromise, namely Nordic social democracy, that has a better record than any other society

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I have got over myself and am now quite excited. But one way London has got worse in my lifetime is: not enough stuff can afford to stay open past 23:00.

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Samuel Caveen @caveen.com · 15/02/2026

🌈 Double rainbow fully visible over #Brixton. A rare highlight of the perpetual rain of 2026.

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Samuel Caveen @caveen.com · 29/01/2026

We’re not talking enough about what’s happening in Iran. For obvious reasons (the regime’s oppressive police state), numbers are difficult to verify, but protestor deaths are in the tens of thousands at least, from just a matter of days.

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Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll?

Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters

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Dr Inigo Purcell @inigopurcell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I do wonder if a lot of it is just that bloody hell, some people are really easily led and default to a crowd with a total absence of critical thinking. Which is very depressing.

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