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Charlie Clover

@charlie-clover.bsky.social
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Partial to burgers & slow cooked meats. Dont like cricket or reggae. I love them. One time wonk champion & discotheque connoisseur. Former user of the other place.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
stood for nothing. meant nothing. a sales gimmick wrapped in the clothes of revolution, a shrine to self-interest, disruption for disruption's sake. on the end of the stokes/mccullum era. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
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Bazball ends with a whimper to expose emptiness of English men’s cricket | Jonathan Liew
Trent Bridge was not just the end of Ben Stokes’ career, it was further confirmation that Bazball stood for nothing
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steve the skeptic @policyskeptic.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Fix the machinery, be clear about the key goals. But absolutely don't spend the time courting short term popularity as that is a recipe for neglecting those two key principles.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
To be fair it’s going to be very funny when these clowns invent AGI and the super intelligent machine tells everyone to get offline, avoid processed food, stroll in the woods, seek community, eschew racism, pay high marginal rates of tax and ignore the ravings of deranged billionaires.
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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Brilliant piece on what our children will and won't thank us for in the era of AI. Naomi is SO GOOD on all of this: naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...
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preparing for the working world in the age of AI
or: seven things to tell your kids when they ask what they should study now, or what the point of studying is
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share. Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Well done, and thank you, everyone at @officialbha.bsky.social.
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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
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Spreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Credit where it’s due: Scott Galloway cooked here
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
One day politicians will have to treat the public like grown ups and force them to grapple with reality. Until then, this is the trap we are stuck in.
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Richard Barfield @richardbarfield.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
@rshereme.bsky.social replays a great explanation from Tim Salmon about the yawning gap between what Trumpists think #tariffs will do and what they are actually likely to do. (Screen-grabs from @linkedin.com)
Screen-grab of Linkedin post from Roman Sheremeta about the likely effects of US tariffs compared with the claims of what they will do.
(1 of 2)Screen-grab of Linkedin post from Roman Sheremeta about the likely effects of US tariffs compared with the claims of what they will do.
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Daniel Reynolds @danielreynolds.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This is very good from @hsjeditor.bsky.social on the government's #NHS reorganisation U-turn, going back to the aims of the Lansley reforms and on to what Streeting is attempting now. So many parallels between the two, with some key lessons having not been learned. www.hsj.co.uk/comment/stre...
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Streeting is Lansley reborn
The government's abandonment of its stricture against a top-down reorganisation would be breathtaking if it was not so tragic.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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steve the skeptic @policyskeptic.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This is one of the sharpest prices of analysis and commentary the Kings Fund have produced for some time...
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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
There is within the NHS a cascading system where people in positions of leadership are asked to do impossible things, and so spend their time constructing ways of keeping responsibility at arms length. It got worse under her watch.
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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I think that totality of problems needed consistent and clear leadership that could prioritise effectively and create an improvement system.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This is a beautiful tribute.
kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met.
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone.
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
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A little bit of hope after a terrible week
A survival guide to the next four years.
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